Birds to See in Ethiopia in August
38 species listed for August · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
38 bird species on our list for Ethiopia are recorded regularly in August. Of these, the most often recorded are Egyptian Goose, Pied Crow, Common Sandpiper, Fork-tailed Drongo and Barn Swallow. New this month: European Bee-eater, Greenshank, Ruff and White-winged Tern and 3 more.
New in August7
Leaving after last month3
Residents
(21)Recorded all year
Egyptian Goose
Alopochen aegyptiacaLC
Recorded all year
Pied Crow
Corvus albusLC
Recorded all year
Fork-tailed Drongo
Dicrurus adsimilisLC
Recorded all year
Great Cormorant
Phalacrocorax carboLC
Recorded all year
African Jacana
Actophilornis africanusLC
Recorded all year
Thekla's Lark
Galerida theklaeLC
Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year
Helmeted Guineafowl
Numida meleagrisLC
Recorded all year
Lanner Falcon
Falco biarmicusLC
Recorded all year
Hoopoe
Upupa epopsLC
Recorded all year
Blue-naped Mousebird
Urocolius macrourusLC
Regularly Oct–Aug
Spur-winged Goose
Plectropterus gambensisLC
Recorded all year
Little Grebe
Tachybaptus ruficollisLC
Recorded all year
Little Weaver
Ploceus luteolusLC
Recorded all year
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
Senegal Thick-knee
Burhinus senegalensisLC
Recorded all year
Fulvous Whistling-Duck
Dendrocygna bicolorLC
Regularly Oct–Aug
Moorhen
Gallinula chloropusLC
Recorded all year
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Recorded all year
Little Egret
Egretta garzettaLC
Recorded all year
Kestrel
Falco tinnunculusLC
Regularly Oct–Aug
Winter visitors
(15)Present outside the breeding season
Common Sandpiper
Actitis hypoleucosLC
Regularly Jul–Apr
Barn Swallow
Hirundo rusticaLC
Recorded all year
Green Sandpiper
Tringa ochropusLC
Regularly Jul–Mar
White-winged Tern
Chlidonias leucopterusLC
Regularly Aug–May
Greenshank
Tringa nebulariaLC
Regularly Aug–Apr
Grey Heron
Ardea cinereaLC
Regularly Jul–May
Wood Sandpiper
Tringa glareolaLC
Regularly Jul–Apr
Ruff
Calidris pugnaxLC
Regularly Aug–Mar
Peregrine Falcon
Falco peregrinusLC
Regularly Apr–Feb
Somali Ostrich
Struthio molybdophanesVU
Regularly Jul–May
Ruddy Shelduck
Tadorna ferrugineaLC
Regularly Jun–Mar
African Pygmy-falcon
Polihierax semitorquatusLC
Regularly Jun–Apr
Purple Grenadier
Granatina ianthinogasterLC
Regularly Jul–Apr
Alpine Swift
Tachymarptis melbaLC
Regularly Aug–Jun
Lesser Striped Swallow
Cecropis abyssinicaLC
Regularly Aug–Jun
Passage migrants
(2)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
Data: EOD – eBird Observation Dataset (Cornell Lab of Ornithology), accessed via GBIF.org, CC BY 4.0. Records from 2019–2024, aggregated and filtered by Birdfact. How these lists are made