Birds in Sudan
Our list for Sudan has 32 bird species recorded regularly there: 3 winter visitors, 17 passage migrants and 12 scarce visitors
The list comes from 3,957 birdwatchers' records from 2019–2024, shared through the eBird Observation Dataset on GBIF. A bird is listed when it was recorded in at least 3 of the 6 years and has a Birdfact species guide, so more species occur here than are listed; the months show when it is recorded most years.
- Species on our list
- 32
- In October
- 14
- Common
- 32
- Busiest month
- Oct
This month: October
GBIF · OctMost likely
Arriving now
Share of all bird records in Sudan in October, 2019–2024. “Arriving now” are the birds whose share rises most from last month. Each month links to that month’s page.
The bird calendar for Sudan
Month by monthWhen each bird is around, through the year. The darker the square, the closer that month is to the bird’s busiest. Filter by summer or winter visitors to see the seasons turn over.
| Bird | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| House Sparrow | ||||||||||||
| Cattle Egret | ||||||||||||
| Little Egret | ||||||||||||
| Blue-naped Mousebird | ||||||||||||
| Rock Dove | ||||||||||||
| Great White Egret | ||||||||||||
| Grey Heron | ||||||||||||
| Squacco Heron | ||||||||||||
| Yellow Wagtail | ||||||||||||
| Common Sandpiper | ||||||||||||
| Pied Wagtail | ||||||||||||
| Hoopoe | ||||||||||||
| Common Swift | ||||||||||||
| Little Stint | ||||||||||||
| White-winged Tern | ||||||||||||
| Gull-billed Tern | ||||||||||||
| Rose-ringed Parakeet | ||||||||||||
| Glossy Ibis | ||||||||||||
| Great Grey Shrike | ||||||||||||
| Pied Crow | ||||||||||||
| Green Sandpiper | ||||||||||||
| Black-crowned Night-heron | ||||||||||||
| Lesser Whitethroat | ||||||||||||
| Little Grebe | ||||||||||||
| Wood Sandpiper | ||||||||||||
| Purple Heron | ||||||||||||
| Great Cormorant | ||||||||||||
| Greenshank | ||||||||||||
| Egyptian Vulture | ||||||||||||
| Barn Swallow |
The year in Sudan
Records by month| January | 601 |
|---|---|
| February | 343 |
| March | 423 |
| April | 91 |
| May | 250 |
| June | 22 |
| July | 180 |
| August | 248 |
| September | 393 |
| October | 879 |
| November | 211 |
| December | 316 |
October has the most records (879). Records follow birdwatchers as well as birds: a busy month means more people out looking, as well as more birds passing through.
By family
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All 32 birds, A to Z
- Barn Swallow
- Black-crowned Night-heron
- Blue-naped Mousebird
- Cattle Egret
- Common Sandpiper
- Common Swift
- Egyptian Vulture
- Glossy Ibis
- Great Cormorant
- Great Grey Shrike
- Great White Egret
- Green Sandpiper
- Greenshank
- Grey Heron
- Gull-billed Tern
- Hoopoe
- House Sparrow
- Kentish Plover
- Lesser Whitethroat
- Little Egret
- Little Grebe
- Little Stint
- Pied Crow
- Pied Wagtail
Questions
3How many birds are on Birdfact's list for Sudan?
32 species, each recorded regularly in Sudan (in at least 3 of the 6 years 2019–2024): 3 winter visitors, 17 passage migrants and 12 scarce visitors. The list includes only birds with a Birdfact species guide, so more species occur in Sudan, and rarer vagrants are not listed.
What birds can I see in Sudan in October?
14 species on our list for Sudan are recorded regularly in October. Of these, the most often recorded are House Sparrow, Cattle Egret, Little Egret, Blue-naped Mousebird and Great White Egret.
What are the most common birds in Sudan?
Of the birds on our list, the ones birdwatchers record most often in Sudan are House Sparrow, Little Egret, Blue-naped Mousebird, Cattle Egret and Senegal Thick-knee.
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