Your login:
Password:
Enter your login name or your email address and click on Send reminder to receive a reminder by email.
Avibase - Bird Checklists of the World
Comoros
This checklist includes all bird species found in Comoros , 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 Clements, version 2019. 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).
Bird Checklists of the World is part of Avibase and Bird links to the World, which are designed and maintained by Denis Lepage, and hosted by Bird Studies Canada, which is a co-partner of Birdlife International.
© Denis Lepage 2019
Go back to Bird Checklists of the World
Go back to Bird Links to the World
Listen to random bird songs from Xeno-Canto for this region:
Recordings not starting automatically? Try enabling autoplay in your browser, or click the play button below.
Country or region: Comoros [map]
Description: includes Anjouan and Mohéli
Number of endemics: 19
Number of globally threatened species: 18
Number of introduced species: 12
Date last reviewed: 2016-07-01
Last modified: 2019-10-20
See also: https://www.africanbirdclub.org/countries/checklists/download
| ||
| White-faced Whistling-Duck | Dendrocygna viduata | Rare/Accidental |
| Knob-billed Duck | Sarkidiornis melanotos | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| Helmeted Guineafowl | Numida meleagris | Introduced species |
| ||
| Common Quail | Coturnix coturnix | |
| Harlequin Quail | Coturnix delegorguei | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| Greater Flamingo | Phoenicopterus roseus | Rare/Accidental |
| Lesser Flamingo | Phoeniconaias minor | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| ||
| Little Grebe | Tachybaptus ruficollis | |
| ||
| Rock Pigeon | Columba livia | Introduced species |
| Comoro Pigeon | Columba pollenii | Endemic (country/region) Near-threatened |
| European Turtle-Dove | Streptopelia turtur | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Ring-necked Dove | Streptopelia capicola | Introduced species |
| Madagascar Turtle-Dove | Streptopelia picturata | Introduced species |
| Tambourine Dove | Turtur tympanistria | Introduced species |
| Comoros Green-Pigeon | Treron griveaudi | Endemic Endangered |
| Comoro Blue-Pigeon | Alectroenas sganzini | Endemic (country/region) Near-threatened |
| ||
| Madagascar Coucal | Centropus toulou | |
| Madagascar Cuckoo | Cuculus rochii | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Cuckoo | Cuculus canorus | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| Malagasy Spinetail | Zoonavena grandidieri | |
| Mottled Spinetail | Telacanthura ussheri | |
| Common Swift | Apus apus | Rare/Accidental |
| African Swift | Apus barbatus | |
| Madagascar Swift | Apus balstoni | |
| African Palm-Swift | Cypsiurus parvus | |
| ||
| Eurasian Moorhen | Gallinula chloropus | |
| Allen's Gallinule | Porphyrio alleni | Rare/Accidental |
| Striped Crake | Amaurornis marginalis | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| Black-bellied Plover | Pluvialis squatarola | |
| Pacific Golden-Plover | Pluvialis fulva | Rare/Accidental |
| Senegal Lapwing | Vanellus lugubris | Rare/Accidental |
| Lesser Sand-Plover | Charadrius mongolus | |
| Greater Sand-Plover | Charadrius leschenaultii | |
| Common Ringed Plover | Charadrius hiaticula | |
| Three-banded Plover | Charadrius tricollaris | Rare/Accidental |
| White-fronted Plover | Charadrius marginatus | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| Whimbrel | Numenius phaeopus | |
| Slender-billed Curlew | Numenius tenuirostris | Rare/Accidental Critically endangered |
| Eurasian Curlew | Numenius arquata | Near-threatened |
| Bar-tailed Godwit | Limosa lapponica | Near-threatened |
| Black-tailed Godwit | Limosa limosa | Near-threatened |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Arenaria interpres | |
| Ruff | Calidris pugnax | |
| Curlew Sandpiper | Calidris ferruginea | Near-threatened |
| Sanderling | Calidris alba | |
| Little Stint | Calidris minuta | |
| Pin-tailed Snipe | Gallinago stenura | Rare/Accidental |
| Terek Sandpiper | Xenus cinereus | |
| Common Sandpiper | Actitis hypoleucos | |
| Common Greenshank | Tringa nebularia | |
| Marsh Sandpiper | Tringa stagnatilis | Rare/Accidental |
| Wood Sandpiper | Tringa glareola | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| Crab-Plover | Dromas ardeola | |
| ||
| Madagascar Pratincole | Glareola ocularis | Vulnerable |
| ||
| South Polar Skua | Stercorarius maccormicki | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| Gray-hooded Gull | Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus | Rare/Accidental |
| Lesser Black-backed Gull | Larus fuscus | |
| Brown Noddy | Anous stolidus | |
| Lesser Noddy | Anous tenuirostris | Rare/Accidental |
| White Tern | Gygis alba | |
| Sooty Tern | Onychoprion fuscatus | |
| Bridled Tern | Onychoprion anaethetus | |
| Little Tern | Sternula albifrons | |
| Saunders's Tern | Sternula saundersi | Rare/Accidental |
| Gull-billed Tern | Gelochelidon nilotica | Rare/Accidental |
| Caspian Tern | Hydroprogne caspia | |
| Roseate Tern | Sterna dougallii | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-naped Tern | Sterna sumatrana | |
| Common Tern | Sterna hirundo | |
| Great Crested Tern | Thalasseus bergii | |
| Lesser Crested Tern | Thalasseus bengalensis | |
| ||
| White-tailed Tropicbird | Phaethon lepturus | |
| Red-tailed Tropicbird | Phaethon rubricauda | |
| ||
| Wedge-tailed Shearwater | Ardenna pacifica | Rare/Accidental |
| Tropical Shearwater | Puffinus bailloni | |
| Persian Shearwater | Puffinus persicus | |
| ||
| Lesser Frigatebird | Fregata ariel | |
| Great Frigatebird | Fregata minor | |
| ||
| Masked Booby | Sula dactylatra | |
| Brown Booby | Sula leucogaster | |
| Red-footed Booby | Sula sula | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| African Darter | Anhinga rufa | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| Long-tailed Cormorant | Microcarbo africanus | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| Gray Heron | Ardea cinerea | |
| Humblot's Heron | Ardea humbloti | Endangered |
| Great Egret | Ardea alba | |
| Little Egret | Egretta garzetta | Rare/Accidental |
| Western Reef-Heron | Egretta gularis | |
| Cattle Egret | Bubulcus ibis | |
| Squacco Heron | Ardeola ralloides | |
| Madagascar Pond-Heron | Ardeola idae | Endangered |
| Striated Heron | Butorides striata | |
| Black-crowned Night-Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| African Sacred Ibis | Threskiornis aethiopicus | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| Osprey | Pandion haliaetus | |
| ||
| Bat Hawk | Macheiramphus alcinus | Rare/Accidental |
| Madagascar Harrier | Circus macrosceles | Endangered |
| Frances's Sparrowhawk | Accipiter francesiae | |
| Black Kite | Milvus migrans | |
| Common Buzzard | Buteo buteo | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| Barn Owl | Tyto alba | |
| ||
| Moheli Scops-Owl | Otus moheliensis | Endemic Endangered |
| Comoro Scops-Owl | Otus pauliani | Endemic Endangered |
| Anjouan Scops-Owl | Otus capnodes | Endemic Endangered |
| Mayotte Scops-Owl | Otus mayottensis | |
| ||
| Cuckoo-roller | Leptosomus discolor | |
| ||
| Malagasy Kingfisher | Corythornis vintsioides | |
| ||
| Blue-cheeked Bee-eater | Merops persicus | Rare/Accidental |
| Madagascar Bee-eater | Merops superciliosus | |
| ||
| European Roller | Coracias garrulus | Rare/Accidental |
| Broad-billed Roller | Eurystomus glaucurus | |
| ||
| Lesser Kestrel | Falco naumanni | Rare/Accidental |
| Madagascar Kestrel | Falco newtoni | Rare/Accidental |
| Eleonora's Falcon | Falco eleonorae | |
| Peregrine Falcon | Falco peregrinus | |
| ||
| Greater Vasa Parrot | Coracopsis vasa | |
| Lesser Vasa Parrot | Coracopsis nigra | |
| Rose-ringed Parakeet | Psittacula krameri | Introduced species |
| Gray-headed Lovebird | Agapornis canus | Introduced species |
| ||
| Comoros Cuckooshrike | Coracina cucullata | Vulnerable |
| ||
| Eurasian Golden Oriole | Oriolus oriolus | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| Blue Vanga | Cyanolanius madagascarinus | |
| ||
| Comoro Drongo | Dicrurus fuscipennis | Endemic Endangered |
| Crested Drongo | Dicrurus forficatus | |
| Mayotte Drongo | Dicrurus waldenii | Vulnerable |
| ||
| Madagascar Paradise-Flycatcher | Terpsiphone mutata | |
| ||
| Lesser Gray Shrike | Lanius minor | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| Pied Crow | Corvus albus | |
| ||
| Madagascar Cisticola | Cisticola cherina | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| Anjouan Brush-Warbler | Nesillas longicaudata | Endemic |
| Madagascar Brush-Warbler | Nesillas typica | |
| Grand Comoro Brush-Warbler | Nesillas brevicaudata | Endemic |
| Moheli Brush-Warbler | Nesillas mariae | Endemic |
| ||
| Bank Swallow | Riparia riparia | |
| Mascarene Martin | Phedina borbonica | Rare/Accidental |
| Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | |
| Common House-Martin | Delichon urbicum | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| Madagascar Bulbul | Hypsipetes madagascariensis | |
| Grand Comoro Bulbul | Hypsipetes parvirostris | Endemic Vulnerable |
| Moheli Bulbul | Hypsipetes moheliensis | Endemic Endangered |
| ||
| Wood Warbler | Phylloscopus sibilatrix | |
| Willow Warbler | Phylloscopus trochilus | |
| ||
| Comoro White-eye | Zosterops mouroniensis | Endemic Vulnerable |
| Moheli White-eye | Zosterops comorensis | Endemic |
| Madagascar White-eye | Zosterops maderaspatanus | |
| Kirk's White-eye | Zosterops kirki | Endemic |
| Mayotte White-eye | Zosterops mayottensis | Endemic |
| Anjouan White-eye | Zosterops anjuanensis | Endemic |
| ||
| Common Myna | Acridotheres tristis | Introduced species |
| ||
| Comoro Thrush | Turdus bewsheri | Endemic |
| ||
| Spotted Flycatcher | Muscicapa striata | Rare/Accidental |
| Grand Comoro Flycatcher | Humblotia flavirostris | Endemic Endangered |
| African Stonechat | Saxicola torquatus | |
| Northern Wheatear | Oenanthe oenanthe | |
| ||
| Madagascar Sunbird | Cinnyris notatus | |
| Humblot's Sunbird | Cinnyris humbloti | Endemic |
| Anjouan Sunbird | Cinnyris comorensis | Endemic |
| Mayotte Sunbird | Cinnyris coquerellii | |
| ||
| Red Fody | Foudia madagascariensis | Introduced species |
| Red-headed Fody | Foudia eminentissima | |
| ||
| Red Avadavat | Amandava amandava | Introduced species |
| Bronze Mannikin | Spermestes cucullata | Introduced species |
| Java Sparrow | Lonchura oryzivora | Extirpated Endangered |
| ||
| Pin-tailed Whydah | Vidua macroura | Extirpated |
| ||
| House Sparrow | Passer domesticus | Introduced species |
| ||
| Western Yellow Wagtail | Motacilla flava | Rare/Accidental |
| White Wagtail | Motacilla alba | |
| Tree Pipit | Anthus trivialis | Rare/Accidental |
Avibase has been visited 291,481,852 times since 24 June 2003. © Denis Lepage | Privacy policy
