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Sal
This checklist includes all bird species found in Sal , 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 .
The taxonomic order and nomenclature follows Howard and Moore 4th edition (incl. corrigenda vol.1-2). If you prefer to view the list based on a different authority, click on one of the list available below. Globally threatened species (status in red) were identified by Birdlife International in Birdlife Data Zone (species).
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Country or region: Sal [map]
Other names: Sal Municipality
Number of breeding endemics: 2
Number of globally threatened species: 4
Number of introduced species: 4
Last modified: 2022-12-24
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| Bufflehead | Bucephala albeola | Rare/Accidental |
| Tufted Duck | Aythya fuligula | Rare/Accidental |
| Garganey | Spatula querquedula | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Shoveler | Spatula clypeata | Rare/Accidental |
| Blue-winged Teal | Spatula discors | Rare/Accidental |
| Gadwall | Mareca strepera | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Wigeon | Mareca penelope | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Pintail | Anas acuta | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Teal | Anas crecca | Rare/Accidental |
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| Helmeted Guineafowl | Numida meleagris | Introduced species |
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| Common Quail | Coturnix coturnix | |
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| Rock Dove | Columba livia | |
| Wood Pigeon | Columba palumbus | Rare/Accidental |
| European Turtle Dove | Streptopelia turtur | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Collared Dove | Streptopelia decaocto | Introduced species |
| Laughing Dove | Streptopelia senegalensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Namaqua Dove | Oena capensis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Red-billed Tropicbird | Phaethon aethereus | |
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| Alpine Swift | Tachymarptis melba | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Swift | Apus affinis | Rare/Accidental |
| African Swift | Apus barbatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Plain Swift | Apus unicolor | Rare/Accidental |
| Alexander's Swift | Apus alexandri | Endemic (country/region) |
| Pallid Swift | Apus pallidus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Swift | Apus apus | |
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| Great Spotted Cuckoo | Clamator glandarius | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Cuckoo | Cuculus canorus | Rare/Accidental |
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| African Crake | Crex egregia | Rare/Accidental |
| Spotted Crake | Porzana porzana | Rare/Accidental |
| Allen's Gallinule | Porphyrio alleni | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Moorhen | Gallinula chloropus | Rare/Accidental |
| Lesser Moorhen | Gallinula angulata | Rare/Accidental |
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| Wilson's Storm-petrel | Oceanites oceanicus | |
| White-faced Storm-petrel | Pelagodroma marina | |
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| European Storm-petrel | Hydrobates pelagicus | Rare/Accidental |
| Madeiran Storm-petrel | Hydrobates castro | |
| Leach's Storm-petrel | Hydrobates leucorhous | |
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| Herald Petrel | Pterodroma arminjoniana | Rare/Accidental |
| Cape Verde Petrel | Pterodroma feae | Breeding endemic |
| Sooty Shearwater | Ardenna grisea | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Shearwater | Ardenna gravis | |
| Scopoli's Shearwater | Calonectris diomedea | |
| Cory's Shearwater | Calonectris borealis | |
| Cape Verde Shearwater | Calonectris edwardsii | Breeding endemic |
| Tropical Shearwater | Puffinus bailloni | |
| Manx Shearwater | Puffinus puffinus | Rare/Accidental |
| Audubon's Shearwater | Puffinus lherminieri | |
| Bulwer's Petrel | Bulweria bulwerii | |
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| Eurasian Bittern | Botaurus stellaris | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Bittern | Ixobrychus minutus | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-crowned Night Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax | |
| Squacco Heron | Ardeola ralloides | Rare/Accidental |
| Cattle Egret | Bubulcus ibis | |
| Grey Heron | Ardea cinerea | |
| Purple Heron | Ardea purpurea | |
| Great Egret | Ardea alba | Rare/Accidental |
| Intermediate Egret | Ardea intermedia | |
| Little Egret | Egretta garzetta | |
| Western Reef Egret | Egretta gularis | |
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| Eurasian Spoonbill | Platalea leucorodia | |
| Glossy Ibis | Plegadis falcinellus | |
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| Magnificent Frigatebird | Fregata magnificens | |
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| Red-footed Booby | Sula sula | Rare/Accidental |
| Brown Booby | Sula leucogaster | |
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| Great Cormorant | Phalacrocorax carbo | Rare/Accidental |
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| Eurasian Oystercatcher | Haematopus ostralegus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Pied Avocet | Recurvirostra avosetta | |
| Black-winged Stilt | Himantopus himantopus | |
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| Grey Plover | Pluvialis squatarola | |
| Eurasian Golden Plover | Pluvialis apricaria | Rare/Accidental |
| Pacific Golden Plover | Pluvialis fulva | Rare/Accidental |
| American Golden Plover | Pluvialis dominica | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Dotterel | Eudromias morinellus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Ringed Plover | Charadrius hiaticula | |
| Semipalmated Plover | Charadrius semipalmatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Ringed Plover | Charadrius dubius | Rare/Accidental |
| Kentish Plover | Charadrius alexandrinus | |
| Northern Lapwing | Vanellus vanellus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Whimbrel | Numenius phaeopus | |
| Bar-tailed Godwit | Limosa lapponica | |
| Black-tailed Godwit | Limosa limosa | |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Arenaria interpres | |
| Red Knot | Calidris canutus | |
| Ruff | Calidris pugnax | |
| Curlew Sandpiper | Calidris ferruginea | |
| Sanderling | Calidris alba | |
| Dunlin | Calidris alpina | |
| Little Stint | Calidris minuta | |
| Least Sandpiper | Calidris minutilla | Rare/Accidental |
| White-rumped Sandpiper | Calidris fuscicollis | Rare/Accidental |
| Buff-breasted Sandpiper | Calidris subruficollis | Rare/Accidental |
| Pectoral Sandpiper | Calidris melanotos | Rare/Accidental |
| Semipalmated Sandpiper | Calidris pusilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Snipe | Gallinago gallinago | |
| Jack Snipe | Lymnocryptes minimus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Sandpiper | Actitis hypoleucos | |
| Green Sandpiper | Tringa ochropus | |
| Solitary Sandpiper | Tringa solitaria | Rare/Accidental |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | Tringa flavipes | Rare/Accidental |
| Spotted Redshank | Tringa erythropus | |
| Common Greenshank | Tringa nebularia | |
| Greater Yellowlegs | Tringa melanoleuca | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Redshank | Tringa totanus | |
| Wood Sandpiper | Tringa glareola | |
| Grey Phalarope | Phalaropus fulicarius | |
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| Cream-coloured Courser | Cursorius cursor | |
| Collared Pratincole | Glareola pratincola | |
| Black-winged Pratincole | Glareola nordmanni | Rare/Accidental |
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| Pomarine Skua | Stercorarius pomarinus | |
| Great Skua | Stercorarius skua | |
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| Black-legged Kittiwake | Rissa tridactyla | |
| Black-headed Gull | Chroicocephalus ridibundus | |
| Mediterranean Gull | Ichthyaetus melanocephalus | Rare/Accidental |
| Audouin's Gull | Ichthyaetus audouinii | Rare/Accidental |
| Lesser Black-backed Gull | Larus fuscus | |
| Yellow-legged Gull | Larus michahellis | |
| Little Tern | Sternula albifrons | Rare/Accidental |
| Gull-billed Tern | Gelochelidon nilotica | Rare/Accidental |
| Caspian Tern | Hydroprogne caspia | |
| White-winged Tern | Chlidonias leucopterus | Rare/Accidental |
| Roseate Tern | Sterna dougallii | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Tern | Sterna hirundo | |
| Arctic Tern | Sterna paradisaea | Rare/Accidental |
| Sandwich Tern | Thalasseus sandvicensis | |
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| Osprey | Pandion haliaetus | |
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| Egyptian Vulture | Neophron percnopterus | |
| Western Marsh Harrier | Circus aeruginosus | |
| Montagu's Harrier | Circus pygargus | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Sparrowhawk | Accipiter nisus | Rare/Accidental |
| Black Kite | Milvus migrans | |
| Long-legged Buzzard | Buteo rufinus | |
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| Short-eared Owl | Asio flammeus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Common Hoopoe | Upupa epops | Rare/Accidental |
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| Northern Wryneck | Jynx torquilla | Rare/Accidental |
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| Blue-cheeked Bee-eater | Merops persicus | Rare/Accidental |
| European Bee-eater | Merops apiaster | Rare/Accidental |
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| European Roller | Coracias garrulus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Grey-headed Kingfisher | Halcyon leucocephala | |
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| Common Kestrel | Falco tinnunculus | |
| Amur Falcon | Falco amurensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Lanner Falcon | Falco biarmicus | Rare/Accidental |
| Peregrine Falcon | Falco peregrinus | |
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| Eurasian Golden Oriole | Oriolus oriolus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Red-backed Shrike | Lanius collurio | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Grey Shrike | Lanius excubitor | Rare/Accidental |
| Woodchat Shrike | Lanius senator | Rare/Accidental |
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| Brown-necked Raven | Corvus ruficollis | |
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| Common Waxbill | Estrilda astrild | Introduced species |
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| House Sparrow | Passer domesticus | Introduced species |
| Spanish Sparrow | Passer hispaniolensis | |
| Cape Verde Sparrow | Passer iagoensis | Endemic (country/region) |
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| Tree Pipit | Anthus trivialis | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-throated Pipit | Anthus cervinus | |
| Meadow Pipit | Anthus pratensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Tawny Pipit | Anthus campestris | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow Wagtail | Motacilla flava | Rare/Accidental |
| Grey Wagtail | Motacilla cinerea | Rare/Accidental |
| Citrine Wagtail | Motacilla citreola | Rare/Accidental |
| White Wagtail | Motacilla alba | |
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| Striated Bunting | Fringillaria striolata | Rare/Accidental |
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| Greater Hoopoe Lark | Alaemon alaudipes | |
| Thick-billed Lark | Ramphocoris clotbey | Rare/Accidental |
| Bar-tailed Lark | Ammomanes cinctura | |
| Black-crowned Sparrow Lark | Eremopterix nigriceps | |
| Greater Short-toed Lark | Calandrella brachydactyla | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Sky Lark | Alauda arvensis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Grasshopper Warbler | Locustella naevia | Rare/Accidental |
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| Olivaceous Warbler | Iduna pallida | Rare/Accidental |
| Isabelline Warbler | Iduna opaca | Rare/Accidental |
| Melodious Warbler | Hippolais polyglotta | Rare/Accidental |
| Icterine Warbler | Hippolais icterina | Rare/Accidental |
| Sedge Warbler | Acrocephalus schoenobaenus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Northern House Martin | Delichon urbicum | Rare/Accidental |
| Preuss's Swallow | Petrochelidon preussi | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-rumped Swallow | Cecropis daurica | Rare/Accidental |
| Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | |
| Plain Martin | Riparia paludicola | Rare/Accidental |
| Sand Martin | Riparia riparia | |
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| Western Bonelli's Warbler | Rhadina bonelli | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow-browed Warbler | Abrornis inornatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Willow Warbler | Phylloscopus trochilus | |
| Common Chiffchaff | Phylloscopus collybita | Rare/Accidental |
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| Eurasian Blackcap | Sylvia atricapilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Garden Warbler | Sylvia borin | Rare/Accidental |
| African Desert Warbler | Curruca deserti | Rare/Accidental |
| Lesser Whitethroat | Curruca curruca | Rare/Accidental |
| Western Subalpine Warbler | Curruca inornata | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Whitethroat | Curruca communis | Rare/Accidental |
| Spectacled Warbler | Curruca conspicillata | |
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| Common Starling | Sturnus vulgaris | Rare/Accidental |
| Rosy Starling | Pastor roseus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Spotted Flycatcher | Muscicapa striata | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Nightingale | Luscinia megarhynchos | Rare/Accidental |
| Bluethroat | Luscinia svecica | Rare/Accidental |
| European Pied Flycatcher | Ficedula hypoleuca | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Redstart | Phoenicurus phoenicurus | Rare/Accidental |
| Whinchat | Saxicola rubetra | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Wheatear | Oenanthe oenanthe | Rare/Accidental |
| Isabelline Wheatear | Oenanthe isabellina | Rare/Accidental |
| Desert Wheatear | Oenanthe deserti | Rare/Accidental |
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| Song Thrush | Turdus philomelos | Rare/Accidental |
| Redwing | Turdus iliacus | Rare/Accidental |
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