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The purpose of this website is to share our photographic record of many species of Tanzanian birds. When available, multiple images of the same species are included in order to show the birds in ways that are not possible in the standard field guides, including activities such as feeding, drinking, and nest building. There are images of males, females, juveniles, immatures, chicks and nests. Each image is accompanied by date and location. The comments on the species pages are personal or brief points of interest. More complete information can be found in the field guides.
All of the unattributed images were taken by David Peterson, Ingrid Eggert or Ron Eggert.
We encourage anyone to submit images of Tanzanian birds for inclusion on this site. Photographers are acknowledged adjacent to their images and on this page. For more information about image submission, click here.
Photographers whose images are on this website (pass your cursor over the list to see related links):
Dr. Emily Abernathy
Michael Atzeni
Royi Avital
Dr. James Bangsund
Brent Beach
Melissa Brand
Nik Burrow
Steve Brynes
Mary Caisley
Caterina Casalini
Marcell Claassen
Tim Davenport
Daryl Dell
Steve Dolberg
Dr. Steve Dunlop
Dr. Christoph Eggert
Owen 'Squack' Evans
Ralph Gallay
Aadje Geertsma
Bernd Gerlach
Dr. Ken Goodman
Dr. Louis A. Hansen
Anabel Harries
Geoff Harries
Dr. George & Karen Hilton
Dr. Maren Hilton
Dr. Bjarne Jensen
Paul Joynson-Hicks
Adam Kennedy
Ethan Kinsey
Dorothy Kirkpatrick
Henrik Kisbye
Mike Kramer
Steve Kraus
David Lloyd-Jones
Sean & Kim Lues/Maanapix
Peter MacKenzie
Riaan Marais
Michael Lund Markussen
Mladen Mates
Christopher Moses
David C. Moyer
Stein Ø. Nilsen
Tom Nicholls
Donna Novotny
Miles Paul
Andy Perkin
Mike Peterson
Michael Poulsen
Dave Richards
Andy Roberts |
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Contributing Photographers (cont.)
Skyler Russell
Dr. Kurt Rusterholz
Gian Schachenmann
Ernst Schauerte
Chris & Nani Schmeling
Sophie Simonson
Keith Smith
Frank Snykers
Gretchen Stratton
Lara Tranter
Jan van den Hombergh
Karine Van der Vurst
Munir Virani/The Peregrine Fund
Dr. Peter Wyckoff
Dr. Angela Ziebarth
Fain & Roger Zimmerman
The Macaulay Library and xeno-canto Africa provide online archives of bird sounds. Most of the links to these websites on our species pages are to audio recordings, a few to video recordings. To listen to these recordings, click on the bird icon on the lower right section of our webpages.
Dr. Louis A. Hansen has contributed photographs and recordings from a large number of uncommonly seen species in the Udzungwa Mountains.
The Tanzania Bird Atlas provides thousands of records of sightings of many species by many birders tabulated on Tanzania maps. To view the Bird Atlas maps for many of our species, click on the Tanzania map button on the lower right section of our webpages. These maps are used with permission of Neil and Liz Baker.
The Copenhagen Database at the Zoological Museum of the University of Copenhagen provides maps of most sub-saharan
bird species. These maps are used with permission of the authors: Louis A. Hansen, Neil D. Burgess, Jon Fjeldså and Carsten Rahbek.
Field guides we use:
Zimmerman et al., Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, ISBN 0-691-01022
Stevenson & Fanshawe, Field Guide to the Birds of East Africa, T&A D Poyser, Ltd., London, ISBN 0-85661-079-8
Sinclair & Ryan, Birds of Africa South of the Sahara, Struik Publ., Cape Town, ISBN 1-86872-857-9
References:
Hockey et al., Robert's Birds of Southern Africa, Published by the Trustees of the John Voelcker Bird Book Fund, Cape Town, ISBN 0-620-34053-3
Oberprieler & Cillié, The Raptor Guide of Southern Africa, Game Parks Publishing, Pretoria, 2009, ISBN 978-0-6204-3223-8
Click here for a checklist of Tanzanian birds.
Links:
Fatbirder-World Bird Index
African Bird Club
The Macaulay Library at Cornell University
Tanzania Bird Atlas
Xeno-Canto - African Bird Calls
The Copenhagen Database
Global Raptor Information Network
Invasive Species
Threatened Species
Satellite Bird Tracking
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