Birds to See in Malawi in August
21 species listed for August · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
21 bird species on our list for Malawi are recorded regularly in August. Of these, the most often recorded are Pied Crow, Fork-tailed Drongo, Hoopoe, Great White Egret and House Sparrow. New this month: African Marsh Harrier.
New in August1
Leaving after last month2
Residents
(14)Recorded all year
Pied Crow
Corvus albusLC
Recorded all year
Fork-tailed Drongo
Dicrurus adsimilisLC
Recorded all year
Hoopoe
Upupa epopsLC
Recorded all year
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
House Sparrow
Passer domesticusLC
Recorded all year
Egyptian Goose
Alopochen aegyptiacaLC
Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year
Grey Heron
Ardea cinereaLC
Recorded all year
Helmeted Guineafowl
Numida meleagrisLC
Recorded all year
African Jacana
Actophilornis africanusLC
Recorded all year
Spur-winged Goose
Plectropterus gambensisLC
Regularly Apr–Feb
Little Egret
Egretta garzettaLC
Recorded all year
Squacco Heron
Ardeola ralloidesLC
Regularly Apr–Feb
Lesser Striped Swallow
Cecropis abyssinicaLC
Regularly Jun–Mar
Summer visitors
(2)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Winter visitors
(2)Present outside the breeding season
Passage migrants
(3)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