- LC
Red-billed Quelea
Quelea quelea
- LC
Common Whitethroat
Curruca communis
- LC
Tambourine Dove
Turtur tympanistria
- LC
Yellow Wagtail
Motacilla flava
- LC
Red-billed Quelea
Quelea quelea
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APLORI's species-by-species account of Nigerian birds
Nigeria is home to over 900 bird species (residential, intra-african and palearctic migrants) spread across its huge ecological sphere. A brief description of the various bird species is presented alongside a distribution map as revealed by the Nigerian Bird Atlas Project (NiBAP).
Common Whitethroat
Curruca communis
LC
Tambourine Dove
Turtur tympanistria
LCYellow Wagtail
Motacilla flava
LCRed-billed Quelea
Quelea quelea
LC
Violet Turaco
Musophaga violacea
LCRed-bellied Paradise Flycatcher
Terpsiphone rufiventer
LCPiping Hornbill
Bycanistes fistulator
LC
Little Egret
Egretta garzetta
LC
Reed Cormorant
Microcarbo africanus
LC
Grey-headed Kingfisher
Halcyon leucocephala
LC
Black-rumped Waxbill
Estrilda troglodytes
LC
Spur-winged Lapwing
Vanellus spinosus
LC
White- faced Whistling duck
Dendrocygna viduata
LC
Winding Cisticola
Cisticola marginatus
LC
Northern Puffback
Dryoscopus gambensis
LC
Zitting Cisticola
Cisticola juncidis
LC
Lanner Falcon
Falco biarmicus
LC
Mourning Dove
Zenaida macroura
LC
White-rumped Seedeater
Crithagra leucopygia
LC
Pygmy Sunbird
Hedydipna platura
LC
Greater Blue-eared Starling
Lamprotornis chalybaeus
LC
Sun Lark
Galerida modesta
LC
Whinchat
Saxicola rubetra
LC
White-throated Bee-eater
Merops albicollis
LC
Yellow-throated Leaflove
Atimastillas flavicollis
LC
Bruce’s Green Pigeon
Treron waalia
LC
African Grey Woodpecker
Chloropicus goertae
LC
African Green Pigeon
Treron calvus
LC
Striated Heron
Butorides striata
LC
Black Heron
Egretta ardesiaca
LC
