Birds to See in Ethiopia in July
34 species listed for July · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
34 bird species on our list for Ethiopia are recorded regularly in July. Of these, the most often recorded are Pied Crow, Egyptian Goose, Fork-tailed Drongo, Common Sandpiper and Blue-naped Mousebird. New this month: Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Grey Heron and Wood Sandpiper and 3 more.
Residents
(23)Recorded all year
Pied Crow
Corvus albusLC
Recorded all year
Egyptian Goose
Alopochen aegyptiacaLC
Recorded all year
Fork-tailed Drongo
Dicrurus adsimilisLC
Recorded all year
Blue-naped Mousebird
Urocolius macrourusLC
Regularly Oct–Aug
Helmeted Guineafowl
Numida meleagrisLC
Recorded all year
Hoopoe
Upupa epopsLC
Recorded all year
Great Cormorant
Phalacrocorax carboLC
Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
Little Grebe
Tachybaptus ruficollisLC
Recorded all year
Thekla's Lark
Galerida theklaeLC
Recorded all year
African Jacana
Actophilornis africanusLC
Recorded all year
Little Weaver
Ploceus luteolusLC
Recorded all year
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Recorded all year
Spur-winged Goose
Plectropterus gambensisLC
Recorded all year
Fulvous Whistling-Duck
Dendrocygna bicolorLC
Regularly Oct–Aug
Lanner Falcon
Falco biarmicusLC
Recorded all year
Kestrel
Falco tinnunculusLC
Regularly Oct–Aug
Little Egret
Egretta garzettaLC
Recorded all year
Moorhen
Gallinula chloropusLC
Recorded all year
Senegal Thick-knee
Burhinus senegalensisLC
Recorded all year
Squacco Heron
Ardeola ralloidesLC
Regularly Sep–Jul
Greater Flamingo
Phoenicopterus roseusLC
Regularly Sep–Jul
Winter visitors
(10)Present outside the breeding season
Common Sandpiper
Actitis hypoleucosLC
Regularly Jul–Apr
Barn Swallow
Hirundo rusticaLC
Recorded all year
White-bellied Bustard
Eupodotis senegalensisLC
Regularly Jun–Mar
Wood Sandpiper
Tringa glareolaLC
Regularly Jul–Apr
Grey Heron
Ardea cinereaLC
Regularly Jul–May
Green Sandpiper
Tringa ochropusLC
Regularly Jul–Mar
Purple Grenadier
Granatina ianthinogasterLC
Regularly Jul–Apr
African Pygmy-falcon
Polihierax semitorquatusLC
Regularly Jun–Apr
Peregrine Falcon
Falco peregrinusLC
Regularly Apr–Feb
Somali Ostrich
Struthio molybdophanesVU
Regularly Jul–May
Passage migrants
(1)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