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Madagascar
This checklist includes all bird species found in Madagascar , based on the best information available at this time. It is based on a wide variety of sources that I collated over many years. I am pleased to offer these checklists as a service to birdwatchers. If you find any error, please do not hesitate to .
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Country or region: Madagascar [map]
Other names: Republic of Madagascar
Date last reviewed: 2016-07-01
Last modified: 2023-05-21
See also: https://www.africanbirdclub.org/countries/checklists/download
Last modified: 2023-05-21
See also: https://www.africanbirdclub.org/countries/checklists/download
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| White-faced Whistling Duck | Dendrocygna viduata | |
| Fulvous Whistling Duck | Dendrocygna bicolor | |
| White-backed Duck | Thalassornis leuconotus | |
| Knob-billed Duck | Sarkidiornis melanotos | |
| African Pygmy Goose | Nettapus auritus | |
| Blue-billed Teal | Spatula hottentota | |
| Meller's Duck | Anas melleri | Endemic |
| Mallard | Anas platyrhynchos | Introduced species |
| Red-billed Teal | Anas erythrorhyncha | |
| Bernier's Teal | Anas bernieri | Endemic |
| Madagascar Pochard | Aythya innotata | Endemic |
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| Helmeted Guineafowl | Numida meleagris | Introduced species |
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| Madagascar Partridge | Margaroperdix madagarensis | Endemic |
| Common Quail | Coturnix coturnix | |
| Harlequin Quail | Coturnix delegorguei | |
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| Collared Nightjar | Gactornis enarratus | Endemic |
| Madagascar Nightjar | Caprimulgus madagascariensis | |
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| Madagascar Spinetail | Zoonavena grandidieri | |
| Malagasy Palm Swift | Cypsiurus gracilis | |
| Alpine Swift | Tachymarptis melba | |
| African Black Swift | Apus barbatus | |
| Malagasy Black Swift | Apus balstoni | |
| Little Swift | Apus affinis | |
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| Malagasy Coucal | Centropus toulou | |
| Snail-eating Coua | Coua delalandei | Endemic |
| Crested Coua | Coua cristata | Endemic |
| Verreaux's Coua | Coua verreauxi | Endemic |
| Blue Coua | Coua caerulea | Endemic |
| Red-capped Coua | Coua ruficeps | Endemic |
| Red-fronted Coua | Coua reynaudii | Endemic |
| Coquerel's Coua | Coua coquereli | Endemic |
| Running Coua | Coua cursor | Endemic |
| Giant Coua | Coua gigas | Endemic |
| Red-breasted Coua | Coua serriana | Endemic |
| Thick-billed Cuckoo | Pachycoccyx audeberti | |
| Madagascar Cuckoo | Cuculus rochii | Breeding endemic |
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| White-breasted Mesite | Mesitornis variegatus | Endemic |
| Brown Mesite | Mesitornis unicolor | Endemic |
| Subdesert Mesite | Monias benschi | Endemic |
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| Madagascar Sandgrouse | Pterocles personatus | Endemic |
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| Rock Dove | Columba livia | Introduced species |
| Malagasy Turtle Dove | Nesoenas picturatus | |
| Namaqua Dove | Oena capensis | |
| Zebra Dove | Geopelia striata | Introduced species |
| Madagascar Green Pigeon | Treron australis | Endemic |
| Madagascar Blue Pigeon | Alectroenas madagascariensis | Endemic |
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| Madagascar Forest Rail | Mentocrex kioloides | Endemic |
| Tsingy Forest Rail | Mentocrex beankaensis | Endemic |
| Madagascar Flufftail | Sarothrura insularis | Endemic |
| Slender-billed Flufftail | Sarothrura watersi | Endemic |
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| Madagascar Rail | Rallus madagascariensis | Endemic |
| White-throated Rail | Dryolimnas cuvieri | |
| Corn Crake | Crex crex | Rare/Accidental |
| Spotted Crake | Porzana porzana | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Moorhen | Gallinula chloropus | |
| Red-knobbed Coot | Fulica cristata | |
| Allen's Gallinule | Porphyrio alleni | |
| African Swamphen | Porphyrio madagascariensis | |
| Sakalava Rail | Zapornia olivieri | Endemic |
| Baillon's Crake | Zapornia pusilla | |
| Little Crake | Zapornia parva | Rare/Accidental |
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| Alaotra Grebe | Tachybaptus rufolavatus | Endemic |
| Little Grebe | Tachybaptus ruficollis | |
| Madagascar Grebe | Tachybaptus pelzelnii | Endemic |
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| Greater Flamingo | Phoenicopterus roseus | |
| Lesser Flamingo | Phoeniconaias minor | |
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| Madagascar Buttonquail | Turnix nigricollis | Endemic |
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| Black-winged Stilt | Himantopus himantopus | |
| Pied Avocet | Recurvirostra avosetta | Rare/Accidental |
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| Pacific Golden Plover | Pluvialis fulva | Rare/Accidental |
| Grey Plover | Pluvialis squatarola | |
| Common Ringed Plover | Charadrius hiaticula | |
| Little Ringed Plover | Charadrius dubius | Rare/Accidental |
| Madagascar Plover | Charadrius thoracicus | Endemic |
| Kittlitz's Plover | Charadrius pecuarius | |
| Three-banded Plover | Charadrius tricollaris | |
| White-fronted Plover | Charadrius marginatus | |
| Greater Sand Plover | Charadrius leschenaultii | |
| Tibetan Sand Plover | Charadrius atrifrons | |
| Oriental Plover | Charadrius veredus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Greater Painted-snipe | Rostratula benghalensis | |
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| Madagascar Jacana | Actophilornis albinucha | Endemic |
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| Eurasian Whimbrel | Numenius phaeopus | |
| Eurasian Curlew | Numenius arquata | |
| Bar-tailed Godwit | Limosa lapponica | |
| Black-tailed Godwit | Limosa limosa | Rare/Accidental |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Arenaria interpres | |
| Ruff | Calidris pugnax | |
| Sharp-tailed Sandpiper | Calidris acuminata | Rare/Accidental |
| Curlew Sandpiper | Calidris ferruginea | |
| Sanderling | Calidris alba | |
| Little Stint | Calidris minuta | |
| Buff-breasted Sandpiper | Calidris subruficollis | Rare/Accidental |
| Pectoral Sandpiper | Calidris melanotos | Rare/Accidental |
| Madagascar Snipe | Gallinago macrodactyla | Endemic |
| Terek Sandpiper | Xenus cinereus | |
| Red-necked Phalarope | Phalaropus lobatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Sandpiper | Actitis hypoleucos | |
| Green Sandpiper | Tringa ochropus | Rare/Accidental |
| Marsh Sandpiper | Tringa stagnatilis | |
| Wood Sandpiper | Tringa glareola | |
| Common Greenshank | Tringa nebularia | |
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| Crab-plover | Dromas ardeola | |
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| Oriental Pratincole | Glareola maldivarum | Rare/Accidental |
| Madagascar Pratincole | Glareola ocularis | Breeding endemic |
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| Brown Noddy | Anous stolidus | |
| Lesser Noddy | Anous tenuirostris | |
| Grey-headed Gull | Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus | |
| Sooty Gull | Ichthyaetus hemprichii | Rare/Accidental |
| Kelp Gull | Larus dominicanus | |
| Gull-billed Tern | Gelochelidon nilotica | Rare/Accidental |
| Caspian Tern | Hydroprogne caspia | |
| Greater Crested Tern | Thalasseus bergii | |
| Lesser Crested Tern | Thalasseus bengalensis | |
| Sandwich Tern | Thalasseus sandvicensis | |
| Little Tern | Sternula albifrons | Rare/Accidental |
| Saunders's Tern | Sternula saundersi | |
| Bridled Tern | Onychoprion anaethetus | |
| Sooty Tern | Onychoprion fuscatus | |
| Roseate Tern | Sterna dougallii | |
| Black-naped Tern | Sterna sumatrana | |
| Common Tern | Sterna hirundo | |
| Whiskered Tern | Chlidonias hybrida | |
| White-winged Tern | Chlidonias leucopterus | |
| Black Tern | Chlidonias niger | Rare/Accidental |
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| South Polar Skua | Stercorarius maccormicki | Rare/Accidental |
| Brown Skua | Stercorarius antarcticus | Rare/Accidental |
| Pomarine Jaeger | Stercorarius pomarinus | Rare/Accidental |
| Long-tailed Jaeger | Stercorarius longicaudus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Red-billed Tropicbird | Phaethon aethereus | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-tailed Tropicbird | Phaethon rubricauda | |
| White-tailed Tropicbird | Phaethon lepturus | |
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| Northern Rockhopper Penguin | Eudyptes moseleyi | Rare/Accidental |
| Southern Rockhopper Penguin | Eudyptes chrysocome | Rare/Accidental |
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| Wilson's Storm Petrel | Oceanites oceanicus | |
| White-faced Storm Petrel | Pelagodroma marina | Rare/Accidental |
| White-bellied Storm Petrel | Fregetta grallaria | |
| Black-bellied Storm Petrel | Fregetta tropica | |
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| Wandering Albatross | Diomedea exulans | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-browed Albatross | Thalassarche melanophris | Rare/Accidental |
| Salvin's Albatross | Thalassarche salvini | |
| Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross | Thalassarche carteri | |
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| Southern Giant Petrel | Macronectes giganteus | |
| Cape Petrel | Daption capense | Rare/Accidental |
| Broad-billed Prion | Pachyptila vittata | Rare/Accidental |
| Salvin's Prion | Pachyptila salvini | Rare/Accidental |
| Great-winged Petrel | Pterodroma macroptera | |
| Soft-plumaged Petrel | Pterodroma mollis | |
| Barau's Petrel | Pterodroma baraui | |
| Scopoli's Shearwater | Calonectris diomedea | |
| Cory's Shearwater | Calonectris borealis | |
| Wedge-tailed Shearwater | Ardenna pacifica | |
| Flesh-footed Shearwater | Ardenna carneipes | |
| Tropical Shearwater | Puffinus bailloni | |
| Bulwer's Petrel | Bulweria bulwerii | |
| Jouanin's Petrel | Bulweria fallax | Rare/Accidental |
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| African Openbill | Anastomus lamelligerus | |
| Yellow-billed Stork | Mycteria ibis | |
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| Great Frigatebird | Fregata minor | |
| Lesser Frigatebird | Fregata ariel | |
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| Masked Booby | Sula dactylatra | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-footed Booby | Sula sula | |
| Brown Booby | Sula leucogaster | |
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| African Darter | Anhinga rufa | |
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| Reed Cormorant | Microcarbo africanus | |
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| African Sacred Ibis | Threskiornis aethiopicus | Rare/Accidental |
| Malagasy Sacred Ibis | Threskiornis bernieri | |
| Glossy Ibis | Plegadis falcinellus | |
| Madagascar Ibis | Lophotibis cristata | Endemic |
| African Spoonbill | Platalea alba | |
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| Little Bittern | Ixobrychus minutus | |
| Black-crowned Night Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax | |
| Striated Heron | Butorides striata | |
| Squacco Heron | Ardeola ralloides | |
| Malagasy Pond Heron | Ardeola idae | |
| Western Cattle Egret | Bubulcus ibis | |
| Grey Heron | Ardea cinerea | |
| Black-headed Heron | Ardea melanocephala | Rare/Accidental |
| Humblot's Heron | Ardea humbloti | Endemic |
| Purple Heron | Ardea purpurea | |
| Great Egret | Ardea alba | |
| Black Heron | Egretta ardesiaca | |
| Western Reef Heron | Egretta gularis | Rare/Accidental |
| Dimorphic Egret | Egretta dimorpha | |
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| Hamerkop | Scopus umbretta | |
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| Pink-backed Pelican | Pelecanus rufescens | Rare/Accidental |
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| Osprey | Pandion haliaetus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Black-winged Kite | Elanus caeruleus | Rare/Accidental |
| African Harrier-Hawk | Polyboroides typus | |
| Madagascar Harrier-Hawk | Polyboroides radiatus | Endemic |
| Madagascar Serpent Eagle | Eutriorchis astur | Endemic |
| Madagascar Cuckoo-Hawk | Aviceda madagascariensis | Endemic |
| Bat Hawk | Macheiramphus alcinus | |
| Long-crested Eagle | Lophaetus occipitalis | Rare/Accidental |
| Frances's Sparrowhawk | Accipiter francesiae | |
| Madagascar Sparrowhawk | Accipiter madagascariensis | Endemic |
| Henst's Goshawk | Accipiter henstii | Endemic |
| Western Marsh Harrier | Circus aeruginosus | Rare/Accidental |
| Malagasy Harrier | Circus macrosceles | |
| Pallid Harrier | Circus macrourus | Rare/Accidental |
| Black Kite | Milvus migrans | |
| Yellow-billed Kite | Milvus aegyptius | |
| Madagascar Fish Eagle | Icthyophaga vociferoides | Endemic |
| Madagascar Buzzard | Buteo brachypterus | Endemic |
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| Red Owl | Tyto soumagnei | Endemic |
| Western Barn Owl | Tyto alba | |
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| White-browed Owl | Athene superciliaris | Endemic |
| Torotoroka Scops Owl | Otus madagascariensis | Endemic |
| Rainforest Scops Owl | Otus rutilus | Endemic |
| Madagascar Owl | Asio madagascariensis | Endemic |
| Marsh Owl | Asio capensis | |
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| Cuckoo-roller | Leptosomus discolor | |
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| Madagascar Hoopoe | Upupa marginata | Endemic |
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| Broad-billed Roller | Eurystomus glaucurus | |
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| Short-legged Ground Roller | Brachypteracias leptosomus | Endemic |
| Scaly Ground Roller | Geobiastes squamiger | Endemic |
| Pitta-like Ground Roller | Atelornis pittoides | Endemic |
| Rufous-headed Ground Roller | Atelornis crossleyi | Endemic |
| Long-tailed Ground Roller | Uratelornis chimaera | Endemic |
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| Madagascar Pygmy Kingfisher | Corythornis madagascariensis | Endemic |
| Malachite Kingfisher | Corythornis cristatus | |
| Malagasy Kingfisher | Corythornis vintsioides | |
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| Olive Bee-eater | Merops superciliosus | |
| European Bee-eater | Merops apiaster | Rare/Accidental |
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| Malagasy Kestrel | Falco newtoni | |
| Banded Kestrel | Falco zoniventris | Endemic |
| Eleonora's Falcon | Falco eleonorae | |
| Sooty Falcon | Falco concolor | |
| Peregrine Falcon | Falco peregrinus | |
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| Greater Vasa Parrot | Coracopsis vasa | |
| Lesser Vasa Parrot | Coracopsis nigra | |
| Grey-headed Lovebird | Agapornis canus | Endemic |
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| Schlegel's Asity | Philepitta schlegeli | Endemic |
| Velvet Asity | Philepitta castanea | Endemic |
| Common Sunbird-Asity | Neodrepanis coruscans | Endemic |
| Yellow-bellied Sunbird-Asity | Neodrepanis hypoxantha | Endemic |
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| Red-tailed Vanga | Calicalicus madagascariensis | Endemic |
| Red-shouldered Vanga | Calicalicus rufocarpalis | Endemic |
| Hook-billed Vanga | Vanga curvirostris | Endemic |
| Bernier's Vanga | Oriolia bernieri | Endemic |
| Lafresnaye's Vanga | Xenopirostris xenopirostris | Endemic |
| Van Dam's Vanga | Xenopirostris damii | Endemic |
| Pollen's Vanga | Xenopirostris polleni | Endemic |
| Sickle-billed Vanga | Falculea palliata | Endemic |
| White-headed Vanga | Artamella viridis | Endemic |
| Chabert Vanga | Leptopterus chabert | Endemic |
| Madagascar Blue Vanga | Cyanolanius madagascarinus | Endemic |
| Rufous Vanga | Schetba rufa | Endemic |
| Helmet Vanga | Euryceros prevostii | Endemic |
| Tylas Vanga | Tylas eduardi | Endemic |
| Nuthatch Vanga | Hypositta corallirostris | Endemic |
| Dark Newtonia | Newtonia amphichroa | Endemic |
| Common Newtonia | Newtonia brunneicauda | Endemic |
| Archbold's Newtonia | Newtonia archboldi | Endemic |
| Red-tailed Newtonia | Newtonia fanovanae | Endemic |
| Ward's Flycatcher | Pseudobias wardi | Endemic |
| Crossley's Vanga | Mystacornis crossleyi | Endemic |
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| Madagascar Cuckooshrike | Ceblepyris cinereus | Endemic |
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| Eurasian Golden Oriole | Oriolus oriolus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Crested Drongo | Dicrurus forficatus | |
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| Malagasy Paradise Flycatcher | Terpsiphone mutata | |
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| House Crow | Corvus splendens | Rare/Accidental |
| Pied Crow | Corvus albus | |
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| Madagascar Lark | Eremopterix hova | Endemic |
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| Malagasy Bulbul | Hypsipetes madagascariensis | |
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| Mascarene Martin | Phedina borbonica | |
| Sand Martin | Riparia riparia | Rare/Accidental |
| Brown-throated Martin | Riparia paludicola | |
| Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | Rare/Accidental |
| Western House Martin | Delichon urbicum | Rare/Accidental |
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| Malagasy Brush Warbler | Nesillas typica | |
| Subdesert Brush Warbler | Nesillas lantzii | Endemic |
| Madagascar Swamp Warbler | Acrocephalus newtoni | Endemic |
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| Grey Emutail | Bradypterus seebohmi | Endemic |
| Brown Emutail | Bradypterus brunneus | Endemic |
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| White-throated Oxylabes | Oxylabes madagascariensis | Endemic |
| Long-billed Bernieria | Bernieria madagascariensis | Endemic |
| Cryptic Warbler | Cryptosylvicola randrianasoloi | Endemic |
| Wedge-tailed Jery | Hartertula flavoviridis | Endemic |
| Thamnornis | Thamnornis chloropetoides | Endemic |
| Spectacled Tetraka | Xanthomixis zosterops | Endemic |
| Appert's Tetraka | Xanthomixis apperti | Endemic |
| Dusky Tetraka | Xanthomixis tenebrosa | Endemic |
| Grey-crowned Tetraka | Xanthomixis cinereiceps | |
| Madagascar Yellowbrow | Crossleyia xanthophrys | Endemic |
| Rand's Warbler | Randia pseudozosterops | Endemic |
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| Common Jery | Neomixis tenella | Endemic |
| Green Jery | Neomixis viridis | Endemic |
| Stripe-throated Jery | Neomixis striatigula | Endemic |
| Madagascar Cisticola | Cisticola cherina | |
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| Aldabra White-eye | Zosterops aldabrensis | |
| Malagasy White-eye | Zosterops maderaspatanus | |
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| Common Myna | Acridotheres tristis | Introduced species |
| Wattled Starling | Creatophora cinerea | Rare/Accidental |
| Madagascar Starling | Hartlaubius auratus | Endemic |
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| Madagascar Magpie-Robin | Copsychus albospecularis | Endemic |
| Amber Mountain Rock Thrush | Monticola erythronotus | Endemic |
| Forest Rock Thrush | Monticola sharpei | |
| Littoral Rock Thrush | Monticola imerina | Endemic |
| Madagascar Stonechat | Saxicola sibilla | |
| Northern Wheatear | Oenanthe oenanthe | Rare/Accidental |
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| Souimanga Sunbird | Cinnyris sovimanga | |
| Malagasy Green Sunbird | Cinnyris notatus | |
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| House Sparrow | Passer domesticus | Introduced species |
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| Nelicourvi Weaver | Ploceus nelicourvi | Endemic |
| Sakalava Weaver | Ploceus sakalava | Endemic |
| Red Fody | Foudia madagascariensis | Endemic |
| Forest Fody | Foudia omissa | Endemic |
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| Madagascar Mannikin | Lepidopygia nana | Endemic |
| Common Waxbill | Estrilda astrild | Introduced species |
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| Madagascar Wagtail | Motacilla flaviventris | Endemic |
| White Wagtail | Motacilla alba | Rare/Accidental |
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