Discover Wildlife Wonders at Lake Manyara: Mammals & Birds

MAMMALS OF LAKE MANYARA NATIONAL PARK
• 1. Black-backed jackal
• 2. Olive Baboon
• 3. Sykes’ Monkey
• 4. Black-faced vervet Monkey
• 5. Bush Baby
• 6. Greater Galago
• 7. White-bellied Free-tailed bat
• 8. Angola Free-tailed Bat
• 9. Yellow-bellied Bat
• 10. Banana Bat or African pipistrelle
• 11. Lesser Leaf-nosed Bat
• 12. Lander’s Horseshoe Bat
• 13. Yellow-winged Bat
• 14. False vampire Bat
• 15. Hollow-faced Bat
• 16. White-bellied Tomb Bat
• 17. Epauletted Fruit Bat
• 18. Straw-coloured Fruit Bat
• 19. Giant white-toothed shrew
• 20. Spectacled Elephant shrew
• 21. Side-striped Jackal
• 22. Bat-eared Fox
• 23. Zorilla
• 24. Ratel/Honey Badger
• 25. Clawless Otter
• 26. African civet
• 27. Small-spotted Genet
• 28. Large-spotted Genet
• 29. African Palm civet
• 30. Marsh Mongoose
• 31. Dwarf Mongoose
• 32. Black-tipped Mongoose
• 33. Banded Mongoose
• 34. Spotted Hyaena
• 35. Lion
• 36. Leopard
• 37. Ant Bear/Aardvark
• 38. Tree Hyrax
• 39. Rock Hyrax
• 40. African Elephant/ Bush Elephant/ Savannah Elephant
• 41. Common Zebra (Grant’s Zebra race)
• 42. Common Hippopotamus
• 43. Common Warthog
• 44. Masai Giraffe/ Kilimanjaro Giraffe/ Kenyan Girrafe
• 45. Coke’s Hartebeest
• 46. Red Duiker (Harvey Red Duiker subspecies)
• 47. Bush Duiker
• 48. Klipspringer
• 49. Suni
• 50. Kirk’s Dik-dik
• 51. Common waterbuck
• 52. Bohor Reedbuck
• 53. Impala
• 54. Bushbuck
• 55. African Buffalo
• 56. African Hare
• 57. Cane Rat
• 58. Porcupine
• 59. Striped Ground squirrel
• 60. Bush squirrel
• 61. African Dormouse

BIRDS OF LAKE MANYARA NATIONAL PARK(TANZANIA);

Over 380 species of birds have been recorded in Lake Manyara National Park to date, some of these only occurring seasonally. Many waterflows and flamingos can be seen in the lake. Flamingos breed and stay in the lake in hundreds of thousands.

1. Little Egret
2. Black Heron
3. Yellow-billed Egret
4. Great –white Egret
5. Purple Heron
6. Goliath Heron
7. Black-headed Heron
8. Grey Heron
9. Pink-backed pelican
10. White pelican/Great white pelican
11. Long-tailed cormorant
12. Little-Grebe
13. Great-crested Grebe
14. Masai ostrich
15. Buff-backed Heron or Cattle Egret
16. Squacco Heron
17. Green-backed Heron
18. Night Heron
19. Dwarf Bittern
20. Hamerkop
21. White stork
22. European Black stork (Rare Visitor)
23. Abdim’s Stork
24. Open-bill stork
25. Saddle –bill stork
26. Marabou stork
27. Wood Ibis /Yellow-billed stork
28. Sacred Ibis
29. Hadada Ibis
30. Glossy Ibis
31. African spoonbill
32. Greater Flamingo
33. Lesser Flamingo
34. Maccoa Duck
35. White-backed Duck
36. African Pochard
37. European Shoveler
38. Yellow –billed Duck
39. African Black Duck (on streams)
40. Garganey Teal
41. Cape Wigeon
42. Hottentot Teal
43. Red-billed Duck
44. European pintail
45. Pygmy Goose
46. Knob-billed Duck
47. Egyptian Goose
48. Spur-winged Goose
49. Secretary Bird
50. Ruppell’s vulture
51. White-backed vulture
52. Nubian/Lappet-faced vulture
53. White-headed vulture
54. Egyptian vulture
55. Hooded vulture
56. Lanner
57. European Hobby
58. African Hobby
59. European Kestrel
60. Lesser Kestrel
61. Pygmy Falcon
62. Cuckoo Falcon (Rare)
63. European Black Kite
64. African Black Kite
65. Black-shouldered Kite
66. Steppe Eagle (uncommon winter visitor)
67. Tawny Eagle
68. Wahlberg’s Eagle
69. Ayres’ Hawk Eagle
70. Martial Eagle
71. Crowned Hawk Eagle
72. Long-crested Eagle
73. Lizard Buzzard
74. Black-chested Harrier Eagle
75. Bateleur
76. African Fish Eagle
77. Palm-nut vulture
78. Steppe Buzzard
79. Augur Buzzard
80. Little –sparrow Hawk
81. Ovampo sparrow Hawk (Rare)
82. Great sparrow Hawk
83. Shikra
84. African Goshawk
85. Gabar Goshawk
86. Pale chanting Goshawk
87. Montagu’s Harrier
88. Pallid Harrier
89. European Marsh Harrier
90. African Marsh Harrier
91. Harrier Hawk
92. Osprey
93. Crested Francolin
94. Hildebrandt’s Francolin
95. Red-necked spurfowl
96. Yellow-necked spurfowl
97. Cape quail
98. Harlequin quail
99. Helmeted Guinea-fowl
100. Crested Guinea-fowl
101. African crake
102. Black crake
103. Purple Gallinule
104. Moorhen
105. Lesser Moorhen
106. Red-knobbed coot
107. Crowned crane
108. Black-bellied Bustard
109. Hartlaub’s Bustard
110. Spotted stone curlew
111. Water Dikkop
112. African Jacana
113. Ringed Plover
114. Little Ringed Plover
115. White-fronted sand plover
116. Chestnut-banded sand plover
117. Kittlitz’s plover
118. Three-banded Plover
119. Caspian plover
120. Crowned Plover
121. Black smith Plover
122. Long-toed Lapwing
123. Avocet
124. Black-winged stilt
125. Painted snipe
126. European common snipe
127. Great snipe
128. African snipe
129. Curlew Sandpiper
130. Little stint
131. Sanderling (Rare visitor)
132. Ruff
133. Terek sandpiper (uncommon)
134. Common sandpiper
135. Green sandpiper
136. Wood sandpiper
137. Redshank (Rare visitor)
138. Spotted Redshank (Rare visitor)
139. Marsh Sandpiper
140. Green shank
141. Black tailed Godwit (uncommon visitor)
142. Curlew
143. Whimbrel
144. Temminck’s courser
145. Two-banded courser
146. Pratincole
147. Lesser black-headed gull
148. Grey-headed gull
149. Gull-billed Tern
150. White-winged black Tern
151. Whiskered Tern
152. African skimmer
153. Button quail
154. Yellow-throated sandgrouse
155. Speckled pigeon
156. Olive pigeon
157. Bronze-naped pigeon
158. Red-eyed Dove
159. Mourning Dove
160. Ring-necked Dove
161. Laughing Dove
162. Namaqua Dove
163. Tambourine Dove
164. Emerald –spotted wood Dove
165. Lemon Dove
166. Green pigeon
167. European cuckoo
168. African cuckoo
169. Red-chested cuckoo
170. Black cuckoo
171. Great spotted cuckoo
172. Levaillant’s cuckoo
173. Black and white cuckoo
174. Emerald cuckoo
175. Didric cuckoo
176. Black coucal
177. White-browed coucal
178. Schalow’s Turaco
179. Violet – crested Turaco
180. Bare-faced Go-away-bird
181. Brown parrot
182. Fischer’s Lovebird
183. Yellow-collared Lovebird
184. European Roller
185. Lilac-breasted Roller
186. Rufous-crowned Roller
187. Broad-billed Roller
188. Pied Kingfisher
189. Giant Kingfisher
190. Malachite Kingfisher
191. Pygmy Kingfisher
192. Woodland Kingfisher
193. Brown-hooded Kingfisher
194. Grey-headed Kingfisher
195. Striped kingfisher
196. European Bee-eater
197. Madagascar Bee-eater
198. Cinnamon –chested Bee-eater
199. Little Bee-eater
200. White-fronted Bee-eater
201. Silvery-cheeked Hornbill
202. Grey Hornbill
203. Red-billed Hornbill
204. Von der Decken’s Hornbill
205. Crowned Hornbill
206. Ground Hornbill
207. African Hoopoe
208. Green Wood Hoopoe
209. Scimitar –bill
210. Cape Grass owl
211. African marsh owl
212. Pearl-spotted owlet
213. Spotted Eagle owl
214. Verreaux’s Eagle owl
215. European Nightjar
216. Plain Nightjar
217. Speckled mousebird
218. Blue-naped mousebird
219. Narina`s Trogon
220. White-headed Barbet
221. Spotted-flanked Barbet
222. Red-fronted Barbet
223. Red-fronted Tinkerbird
224. Levaillant’s Barbet
225. Red and Yellow Barbet
226. D’Arnaud’s Barbet
227. Greater Honey guide
228. Scaly-throated Honey guide
229. Lesser Honey guide
230. Zambezi Honey guide
231. Nubian woodpecker
232. Cardinal woodpecker
232. Bearded woodpecker
233. Grey woodpecker
234. Little swift
235. Palm swift
236. African Pitta
237. Redwing Bush Lark
238. Flappet Lark
239. Fischer’s sparrow Lark
240. Red-capped Lark
241. African pied wagtail
242. Mountain wagtail
243. Wells’ wagtail
244. Blue-headed Wagtail and races
245. Sandy plain- backed pipit
246. Richard’s pipit
247. Pangani Longclaw
248. Rosy-breasted Longclaw
249. Arrrow-marked Babbler
250. Yellow-vented Bulbul
251. Northern pied Babbler
252. Grey Tit-Flycatcher
253. Ashy Flycatcher
254. Dusky Flycatcher
255. European spotted Flycatcher
256. Yellow-bellied Greenbul
257. Fischer’s Greenbul
258. Chin-spot Flycatcher
259. Paradise Flycatcher
260. European Rock Thrush
261. European Common wheatear
262. Pied wheatear
263. Capped wheatear
264. Cliff chat
265. White-browed Robin chat
266. Red-capped Robin chat
267. Spotted Morning warbler
268. Red-backed scrub Robin
269. Sprosser
270. Black cap Warbler
271. Lesser swamp warbler
272. Black-breasted Apalis
273. Red-faced crombec
274. Grey Tit-warbler
275. Grey-backed camaroptera
276. Rattling cisticola
277. Winding cisticola
278. Croaking cisticola
279. Tawny-flanked Prinia
280. European swallow
281. Wire-tailed swallow
282. Mosque swallow
283. Striped swallow
284. African sand Martin
285. White-naped Raven
286. Pied crow
287. Black-headed Oriole
288. European Golden Oriole
289. African Golden Oriole
290. White-breasted Tit
291. Sulphur-breasted Bush shrike
292. Brown-headed Tchagra
293. Black-backed puff-back
294. Slate –coloured Boubou
295. Magpie shrike
296. Red-tailed shrike
297. Red-backed shrike
298. Grey-backed Fiscal
299. Long-tailed Fiscal
300. Lesser Grey shrike
301. White-crowned shrike
302. Straight-crested Helmet shrike
303. Banded Martin
304. African Rock Martin
305. Black Rough-wing swallow
306. Black cuckoo shrike
307. Drongo
308. Wattled starling
309. Violet-backed starling
310. Blue-eared Glossy starling
311. Red-wing starling
312. Hildebrandt’s starling
313. Superb starling.
314. Yellow billed oxpecker.
315. Red – billed oxpecker
316. Yellow white-eye
317. Bronzy sunbird
318. Beautiful sunbird (black bellied race)
319. Golden-winged sunbird
320. Variable sunbird
321. Amethyst sunbird
322. Scarlet-chested sunbird
323. Collared sunbird
324. Kenya violet-backed sunbird
325. Buffalo weaver
326. White-headed Buffalo weaver
327. Rufous-tailed weaver
328. Grey-headed sparrow
329. Yellow-spotted petronia
330. Masked weaver
331. Vitelline masked weaver
332. Golden-backed weaver
333. Chestnut weaver
334. Spectacled weaver
335. Grosbeak weaver
336. Red-headed weaver
337. Red-billed quelea
338. Cardinal quelea
339. Red Bishop
340. Black Bishop
341. Fan-tailed widow bird
342. Red-collared widow –bird
343. Rufous-backed Mannikin
344. Peters’ Twin-spot
345. Green-winged pytilia
346. Jameson’s Fire Finch
347. Red-billed Fire Finch
348. Waxbill
349. Crimson-rumped waxbill
350. Red cheeked cordon-blue
351. Indigo-bird
352. Pin-tailed whydah
353. Steel-blue whydah
354. Fischer’s straw-tailed whydah
355. Paradise whydah
356. Streaky seed-eater

Lake Manyara Mammals and Birds