Birds to See in Mozambique in May
47 species listed for May · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
47 bird species on our list for Mozambique are recorded regularly in May. Of these, the most often recorded are Fork-tailed Drongo, Cattle Egret, Grey Heron, Pied Crow and House Sparrow. New this month: Crowned Eagle and Lanner Falcon.
Residents
(27)Recorded all year
Fork-tailed Drongo
Dicrurus adsimilisLC
Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year
Grey Heron
Ardea cinereaLC
Recorded all year
Pied Crow
Corvus albusLC
Recorded all year
House Sparrow
Passer domesticusLC
Recorded all year
Little Egret
Egretta garzettaLC
Recorded all year
African Jacana
Actophilornis africanusLC
Recorded all year
Spur-winged Goose
Plectropterus gambensisLC
Recorded all year
Purple Heron
Ardea purpureaLC
Recorded all year
Squacco Heron
Ardeola ralloidesLC
Recorded all year
Glossy Ibis
Plegadis falcinellusLC
Recorded all year
Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopusLC
Recorded all year
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
African Marsh Harrier
Circus ranivorusLC
Recorded all year
Great Cormorant
Phalacrocorax carboLC
Recorded all year
Lesser Striped Swallow
Cecropis abyssinicaLC
Recorded all year
Egyptian Goose
Alopochen aegyptiacaLC
Recorded all year
Greater Flamingo
Phoenicopterus roseusLC
Recorded all year
Hoopoe
Upupa epopsLC
Recorded all year
Avocet
Recurvirostra avosettaLC
Recorded all year
Helmeted Guineafowl
Numida meleagrisLC
Recorded all year
Moorhen
Gallinula chloropusLC
Recorded all year
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Recorded all year
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Recorded all year
Little Grebe
Tachybaptus ruficollisLC
Recorded all year
Greenshank
Tringa nebulariaLC
Recorded all year
Common Reed-warbler
Acrocephalus scirpaceusLC
Recorded all year
Summer visitors
(12)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Common Tern
Sterna hirundoLC
Regularly Aug–Jun
Curlew Sandpiper
Calidris ferrugineaNT
Recorded all year
Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Regularly Sep–May
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Recorded all year
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Regularly Aug–Jun
Southern Masked Weaver
Ploceus velatusLC
Regularly Aug–Jun
Little Stint
Calidris minutaLC
Regularly Aug–May
Wood Sandpiper
Tringa glareolaLC
Regularly Aug–May
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Regularly Sep–May
Spotted Flycatcher
Muscicapa striataLC
Regularly Oct–May
Ruff
Calidris pugnaxLC
Regularly Aug–May
Little Tern
Sternula albifronsLC
Regularly Sep–May
Passage migrants
(8)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
Fulvous Whistling-Duck
Dendrocygna bicolorLC
Regularly Dec–Aug
Cape Starling
Lamprotornis nitensLC
Regularly Feb–Nov
Little Bittern
Ixobrychus minutusLC
Regularly Dec–May
Peregrine Falcon
Falco peregrinusLC
Regularly Aug–May
Crowned Eagle
Stephanoaetus coronatusNT
Regularly Nov–Jun
Barn Owl
Tyto albaLC
Regularly Nov–Jun
Lanner Falcon
Falco biarmicusLC
Regularly May–Nov
Sandwich Tern
Thalasseus sandvicensisLC
Regularly Sep–Jun
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