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Burkina Faso wildlife

201 species in the Burkina Faso dex: 59 Common, 74 Uncommon, 59 Rare, 9 Legendary. Tiers come from how often people record each species here; Legendary ones and protected species are never shown at their real location.

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Legendary

The rarest finds here: 150 points each. Their locations are always protected.

#040 🐦 White-rumped Swift

#074 🐦 Plain Nightjar

#075 🐦 Standard-winged Nightjar

#077 🐦 Red-breasted Swallow

#131 🐦 West African Seedeater

#157 🐦 Yellow-bellied Eremomela

#254 🐦 Northern Carmine Bee-eater

#267 🐦 Spotted Flycatcher

#327 🐦 Northern White-faced Owl

Rare

#002 🦌 Green Monkey

#006 🦌 Gambian Sun Squirrel

#018 🦌 Egyptian Rousette

#027 🐦 Cut-throat Finch

#037 🐦 Tree pipit

#039 🐦 Common Swift

#044 🐦 Great Egret

#047 🐦 Black-Headed Heron

#052 🐦 Senegal Batis

#054 🐦 Pale Flycatcher

#061 🐦 Spotted Thick-knee

#062 🐦 Senegal Thick-knee

#073 🐦 Long-tailed Nightjar

#094 🐦 Violet-backed Starling

#113 🐦 Jacobin Cuckoo

#140 🐦 Common house martin

#141 🐦 White-faced Whistling-Duck

#151 🐦 Black-winged Kite

#154 🐦 Golden-breasted Bunting

#174 🐦 Red-necked Falcon

#178 🐦 Common Kestrel

#180 🐦 European Pied Flycatcher

#182 🐦 Sun Lark

#185 🐦 Common Moorhen

#187 🐦 Pearl-spotted Owlet

#193 🐦 Striped Kingfisher

#194 🐦 Grey-headed Kingfisher

#196 🐦 Woodland Kingfisher

#201 🐦 Booted Eagle

#202 🐦 Wahlberg's Eagle

#209 🐦 Barn Swallow

#214 🐦 Western Olivaceous Warbler

#215 🐦 Greater Honeyguide

#216 🐦 Lesser Honeyguide

#217 🐦 African Pygmy-kingfisher

#233 🐦 Woodchat Shrike

#245 🐦 Grey-headed Bushshrike

#250 🐦 White-throated Bee-eater

#265 🐦 Western Yellow Wagtail

#274 🐦 Helmeted Guineafowl

#275 🐦 Black-crowned night heron

#279 🐦 Northern Wheatear

#284 🐦 Osprey

#297 🐦 Willow Warbler

#303 🐦 Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver

#306 🐦 Heuglin's Masked Weaver

#310 🐦 Egyptian Plover

#315 🐦 Allen's Gallinule

#331 🐦 Green-winged Pytilia

#335 🐦 Black Scimitarbill

#357 🐦 Common Whitethroat

#358 🐦 Northern Crombec

#361 🐦 Mottled Spinetail

#362 🐦 Bateleur

#370 🐦 Bruce's Green Pigeon

#373 🐦 Wood Sandpiper

#374 🐦 Common Greenshank

#375 🐦 Green sandpiper

#379 🐦 Blackcap Babbler

Uncommon

#001 🦌 Seychelles Free-tailed Bat

#004 🦌 African Straw-colored Fruit Bat

#007 🦌 Common Hippopotamus

#010 🦌 Waterbuck

#014 🦌 Oribi

#024 🐦 Common Sandpiper

#025 🐦 African Jacana

#028 🐦 Black Crake

#048 🐦 Purple Heron

#055 🐦 White-billed Buffalo Weaver

#060 🐦 Yellow-billed Oxpecker

#063 🐦 Grasshopper Buzzard

#064 🐦 Red-necked Buzzard

#080 🐦 Black Scrub Robin

#089 🐦 Klaas's Cuckoo

#106 🐦 Singing Cisticola

#109 🐦 Zitting Cisticola

#114 🐦 Levaillant's Cuckoo

#115 🐦 Speckled Pigeon

#116 🐦 Rock Dove

#125 🐦 Malachite Kingfisher

#127 🐦 Snowy-crowned Robin-chat

#132 🐦 White-rumped Seedeater

#147 🐦 Northern Puffback

#148 🐦 Little Egret

#150 🐦 Intermediate egret

#155 🐦 Gosling's Bunting

#159 🐦 Chestnut-backed Sparrow-lark

#161 🐦 Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin

#162 🐦 Lavender waxbill

#164 🐦 Black-rumped waxbill

#167 🐦 Northern Red Bishop

#170 🐦 Broad-billed Roller

#172 🐦 Grey Kestrel

#173 🐦 Lanner Falcon

#189 🐦 Bush Petronia

#199 🐦 Pygmy Sunbird

#208 🐦 Red-chested Swallow

#219 🐦 Lizard Buzzard

#226 🐦 Greater Blue-eared Starling

#227 🐦 Lesser Blue-eared Starling

#236 🐦 Bronze mannikin

#242 🐦 Bearded Barbet

#243 🐦 Vieillot's Barbet

#247 🐦 Northern Black Flycatcher

#248 🐦 Dark Chanting-goshawk

#252 🐦 Red-throated Bee-eater

#256 🐦 Little Bee-eater

#258 🐦 Long-tailed Cormorant

#259 🐦 Gabar Goshawk

#268 🐦 Violet Turaco

#276 🐦 Namaqua Dove

#281 🐦 African Golden Oriole

#292 🐦 Green Woodhoopoe

#293 🐦 Common Redstart

#296 🐦 Wood Warbler

#309 🐦 Vitelline Masked Weaver

#319 🐦 White-crested Helmetshrike

#325 🐦 Four-banded Sandgrouse

#326 🐦 Stone Partridge

#328 🐦 Piapiac

#334 🐦 Red-billed Quelea

#352 🐦 Red-eyed Dove

#360 🐦 Black-crowned Tchagra

#385 🐦 Eurasian Hoopoe

#388 🐦 African Wattled Lapwing

#389 🐦 Spur-winged Lapwing

#393 🐦 Pin-tailed Whydah

#394 🐦 Sahel paradise whydah

#395 🐦 African Yellow White-eye

#397 🦎 West African crocodile

#400 🐸 Crowned Bullfrog

#401 🦎 Black-necked Spitting Cobra

#403 🦎 Nile Monitor

Common

#009 🦌 Roan antelope

#011 🦌 Kob

#015 🦌 Olive Baboon

#038 🐦 Little Swift

#045 🐦 Grey Heron

#049 🐦 Squacco Heron

#058 🐦 Cattle Egret

#066 🐦 Striated Heron

#070 🐦 Green-backed camaroptera

#079 🐦 Senegal Coucal

#081 🐦 Pied Kingfisher

#082 🐦 Scarlet-chested Sunbird

#087 🐦 Diederik Cuckoo

#097 🐦 Beautiful Sunbird

#102 🐦 Western Marsh Harrier

#104 🐦 Montagu's Harrier

#117 🐦 Abyssinian Roller

#120 🐦 Purple Roller

#122 🐦 Yellow-billed Shrike

#123 🐦 Pied Crow

#130 🐦 Western Plantain-eater

#133 🐦 Yellow-fronted Canary

#139 🐦 African Palm Swift

#143 🐦 African Grey Woodpecker

#145 🐦 Fork-tailed Drongo

#158 🐦 Senegal Eremomela

#165 🐦 African Silverbill

#223 🐦 Red-billed Firefinch

#224 🐦 Long-tailed Glossy Starling

#228 🐦 Chestnut-bellied Starling

#229 🐦 Purple Starling

#230 🐦 Yellow-crowned Gonolek

#239 🐦 African Grey Hornbill

#257 🐦 African Green Bee-eater

#261 🐦 Black Kite

#270 🐦 Hooded Vulture

#286 🐦 Northern Grey-headed Sparrow

#305 🐦 Village Weaver

#307 🐦 Little Weaver

#308 🐦 Black-headed weaver

#311 🐦 Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird

#312 🐦 Senegal Parrot

#317 🐦 Tawny-flanked Prinia

#322 🐦 Rose-ringed Parakeet

#323 🐦 Double-spurred Francolin

#330 🐦 Common Bulbul

#344 🐦 Hamerkop

#347 🐦 Laughing Dove

#349 🐦 Speckle-fronted Weaver

#350 🐦 Mourning Collared Dove

#354 🐦 Vinaceous Dove

#364 🐦 African Paradise Flycatcher

#367 🐦 Red-billed Hornbill

#378 🐦 Brown Babbler

#380 🐦 African Thrush

#382 🐦 Black-billed Wood Dove

#386 🐦 Red-cheeked Cordonbleu

#390 🐦 Black-headed Lapwing

#391 🐦 Village Indigobird

Vagrants

202

Rare visitors from elsewhere. Listed, but outside the completion count.

#003 🦌 African Sheath-tailed Bat

#005 🦌 Fire-footed Rope Squirrel

#008 🦌 Jones's Roundleaf Bat

#012 🦌 Rufous Mouse-eared Bat

#013 🦌 Tiny Serotine

#016 🦌 Rüppell's Horseshoe Bat

#017 🦌 Lander's Horseshoe Bat

#019 🦌 Light-winged Lesser House Bat

#020 🐦 Ovambo Sparrowhawk

#021 🐦 Great Reed Warbler

#022 🐦 Sedge Warbler

#023 🐦 Eurasian Reed Warbler

#026 🐦 Shining-blue Kingfisher

#029 🐦 Desert Lark

#030 🐦 Red-headed Weaver

#031 🐦 African Openbill

#032 🐦 African Darter

#033 🐦 Cuckoo Weaver

#034 🐦 Yellow Penduline Tit

#035 🐦 Western Violet-backed Sunbird

#036 🐦 Tawny Pipit

#041 🐦 Pallid Swift

#042 🐦 Tawny Eagle

#043 🐦 African Hawk-Eagle

#046 🐦 Goliath Heron

#050 🐦 Arabian Bustard

#051 🐦 Yellow-throated Greenbul

#053 🐦 Hadada Ibis

#056 🐦 Greyish Eagle-owl

#057 🐦 Verreaux's Eagle-owl

#059 🐦 Abyssinian Ground-Hornbill

#065 🐦 Long-Legged Buzzard

#067 🐦 Greater Short-toed Lark

#068 🐦 Little Stint

#069 🐦 Ruff

#071 🐦 Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike

#072 🐦 Fine-spotted Woodpecker

#076 🐦 Lesser Striped Swallow

#078 🐦 Mosque Swallow

#083 🐦 Common Ringed Plover

#084 🐦 Scissor-tailed Kite

#085 🐦 White-winged Tern

#086 🐦 Orange-breasted Bushshrike

#088 🐦 African Emerald Cuckoo

#090 🐦 Abdim's Stork

#091 🐦 White stork

#092 🐦 African Woolly-necked Stork

#093 🐦 Black Stork

#095 🐦 Splendid Sunbird

#096 🐦 Copper Sunbird

#098 🐦 Beaudouin's Snake Eagle

#099 🐦 Western Banded Snake Eagle

#100 🐦 Brown Snake Eagle

#101 🐦 Short-toed Eagle

#103 🐦 Pallid Harrier

#105 🐦 Short-winged Cisticola

#107 🐦 Red-faced Cisticola

#108 🐦 Dorst's Cisticola

#110 🐦 Croaking Cisticola

#111 🐦 Rufous Cisticola

#112 🐦 Great Spotted Cuckoo

#118 🐦 Blue-bellied Roller

#119 🐦 European Roller

#121 🐦 White-breasted Cuckooshrike

#124 🐦 Brown-necked Raven

#126 🐦 White-crowned Robin-Chat

#128 🐦 Common Quail

#129 🐦 African Crake

#134 🐦 African Cuckoo

#135 🐦 Western Subalpine Warbler

#136 🐦 Temminck's Courser

#137 🐦 Olive Sunbird

#138 🐦 Green-headed Sunbird

#142 🐦 Cardinal Woodpecker

#144 🐦 Brown-backed Woodpecker

#146 🐦 Sharpe's Drongo

#149 🐦 Western reef heron

#152 🐦 African Blue Flycatcher

#153 🐦 Brown-rumped Bunting

#156 🐦 Saddle-billed Stork

#160 🐦 Black-crowned Sparrow-lark

#163 🐦 Orange-cheeked waxbill

#166 🐦 Yellow-crowned Bishop

#168 🐦 Black-winged Red Bishop

#169 🐦 Yellow-mantled Widowbird

#171 🐦 Fox Kestrel

#175 🐦 African Hobby

#176 🐦 Lesser Kestrel

#177 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#179 🐦 Red-footed Falcon

#181 🐦 Crested lark

#183 🐦 Common snipe

#184 🐦 Lesser Moorhen

#186 🐦 Collared Pratincole

#188 🐦 White-backed Night Heron

#190 🐦 Yellow-spotted Petronia

#191 🐦 Palm-nut Vulture

#192 🐦 White-backed Vulture

#195 🐦 Blue-breasted Kingfisher

#197 🐦 African Fish Eagle

#198 🐦 Collared Sunbird

#200 🐦 Red-winged Warbler

#203 🐦 Black-winged Stilt

#204 🐦 Icterine Warbler

#205 🐦 Melodious Warbler

#206 🐦 Ethiopian Swallow

#207 🐦 Pied-winged Swallow

#210 🐦 Wire-tailed Swallow

#211 🐦 Caspian Tern

#212 🐦 Yellow-bellied Hyliota

#213 🐦 Oriole Warbler

#218 🐦 Eurasian Wryneck

#220 🐦 Black-faced Firefinch

#221 🐦 Black-bellied Firefinch

#222 🐦 Bar-breasted Firefinch

#225 🐦 Bronze-tailed Starling

#231 🐦 Great Grey Shrike

#232 🐦 Northern Fiscal

#234 🐦 Marabou Stork

#235 🐦 Black-tailed Godwit

#237 🐦 Long-crested Eagle

#238 🐦 Congo Pied Hornbill

#240 🐦 Savile's Bustard

#241 🐦 Common Nightingale

#244 🐦 Bat Hawk

#246 🐦 Giant Kingfisher

#249 🐦 Moustached Grass Warbler

#251 🐦 European Bee-eater

#253 🐦 Swallow-tailed Bee-eater

#255 🐦 Blue-cheeked Bee-eater

#260 🐦 Lesser Jacana

#262 🐦 Singing Bush Lark

#263 🐦 Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush

#264 🐦 White Wagtail

#266 🐦 Swamp Flycatcher

#269 🐦 Grey Tit-Flycatcher

#271 🐦 Denham's Bustard

#272 🐦 African Pygmy-goose

#273 🐦 Brubru

#277 🐦 Heuglin's Wheatear

#278 🐦 Black-eared Wheatear

#280 🐦 Neumann's Starling

#282 🐦 Eurasian Golden Oriole

#283 🐦 African Scops Owl

#285 🐦 White-shouldered Black Tit

#287 🐦 Sudan Golden Sparrow

#288 🐦 Indian Peafowl

#289 🐦 White-fronted Black Chat

#290 🐦 European Honey Buzzard

#291 🐦 Preuss's Swallow

#294 🐦 Western Bonelli's Warbler

#295 🐦 Common Chiffchaff

#298 🐦 Rufous-rumped Lark

#299 🐦 African Spoonbill

#300 🐦 Brown-throated Wattle-eye

#301 🐦 Spur-winged Goose

#302 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#304 🐦 Olive-naped Weaver

#313 🐦 Martial Eagle

#314 🐦 African Harrier-hawk

#316 🐦 Purple Swamphen

#318 🐦 Red-billed Helmetshrike

#320 🐦 Brown-backed Honeybird

#321 🐦 Fanti Saw-wing

#324 🐦 Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse

#329 🐦 Rock Martin

#332 🐦 Red-winged Pytilia

#333 🐦 Red-headed Quelea

#336 🐦 Bronze-winged Courser

#337 🐦 Banded Martin

#338 🐦 Brown-throated martin

#339 🐦 Sand Martin

#340 🐦 Greater Painted-snipe

#341 🐦 African Skimmer

#342 🐦 Knob-billed Duck

#343 🐦 Whinchat

#345 🐦 Pel's Fishing Owl

#346 🐦 Garganey

#348 🐦 Cricket Warbler

#351 🐦 African Collared Dove

#353 🐦 European Turtle Dove

#355 🐦 Eurasian Blackcap

#356 🐦 Garden Warbler

#359 🐦 Guinea Turaco

#363 🐦 Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher

#365 🐦 Mocking Cliff Chat

#366 🐦 Sacred Ibis

#368 🐦 Lappet-faced Vulture

#369 🐦 African Green Pigeon

#371 🐦 White-headed Vulture

#372 🐦 Spotted Redshank

#376 🐦 Marsh Sandpiper

#377 🐦 Fulvous Babbler

#381 🐦 Common Buttonquail

#383 🐦 Blue-spotted Wood Dove

#384 🐦 Barn Owl

#387 🐦 Blue-naped Mousebird

#392 🐦 Exclamatory Paradise Whydah

#396 🦎 Dorr's Racer

#398 🦎 Müller’s Sand Boa

#399 🦎 Smith's African Water Snake

#402 🦎 Elegant Sand Racer