Cameroon
What is recorded in Cameroon
- Species
- 1,865
- Grid cells
- 5,410
- Records
- 67,498
- Years covered
- 1980-2026
- Insects 861
- Birds 536
- Bony fish 196
- Amphibians 129
- Mammals 72
- Reptiles 54
- Sharks and rays 17
These are species with at least one recorded territory in Cameroon, not a national checklist: a bird list from eBird or Avibase is more complete. The counts follow recording effort as much as wildlife, so a country with more visitors and more naturalists will show more of both.
Most recorded here
The species with the most open occurrence records in Cameroon, among those a photograph exists for. Most recorded is not most numerous: it rewards animals that are common, conspicuous and live where people go.
Black-crowned Waxbill
Estrilda nonnula
African Thrush
Turdus pelios
Northern Grey-headed Sparrow
Passer griseus
Vieillot's Black Weaver
Ploceus nigerrimus
African Blue Flycatcher
Elminia longicauda
Brown-throated Wattle-eye
Platysteira cyanea
Grey-headed Nigrita
Nigrita canicapillus
Yellow-billed Turaco
Tauraco macrorhynchus
Olive-bellied Sunbird
Cinnyris chloropygius
Grey Parrot
Psittacus erithacus
African Pied Hornbill
Lophoceros fasciatus
Chattering Cisticola
Cisticola anonymus
No regions recorded yet
The reference database has no regions filed under Cameroon.
Nothing written up here yet
The field guide covers Cameroon on the map, but none of its species have an entry written for them yet.