Birds to See in Malawi in May
21 species listed for May · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
21 bird species on our list for Malawi are recorded regularly in May. Of these, the most often recorded are Pied Crow, Fork-tailed Drongo, House Sparrow, Cattle Egret and Egyptian Goose. New this month: Glossy Ibis, Black-crowned Night-heron, African Marsh Harrier and Purple Heron and 2 more.
Residents
(13)Recorded all year
Pied Crow
Corvus albusLC
Recorded all year
Fork-tailed Drongo
Dicrurus adsimilisLC
Recorded all year
House Sparrow
Passer domesticusLC
Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year
Egyptian Goose
Alopochen aegyptiacaLC
Recorded all year
Grey Heron
Ardea cinereaLC
Recorded all year
African Jacana
Actophilornis africanusLC
Recorded all year
Helmeted Guineafowl
Numida meleagrisLC
Recorded all year
Spur-winged Goose
Plectropterus gambensisLC
Regularly Apr–Feb
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
Squacco Heron
Ardeola ralloidesLC
Regularly Apr–Feb
Hoopoe
Upupa epopsLC
Recorded all year
Little Egret
Egretta garzettaLC
Recorded all year
Summer visitors
(1)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Winter visitors
(2)Present outside the breeding season
Passage migrants
(5)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
Fulvous Whistling-Duck
Dendrocygna bicolorLC
Regularly May–Jan
Moorhen
Gallinula chloropusLC
Regularly Oct–May
African Marsh Harrier
Circus ranivorusLC
Regularly May–Jan
Purple Heron
Ardea purpureaLC
Regularly Oct–May
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Regularly May–Jan
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