Mozambique
What is recorded in Mozambique
- Species
- 1,993
- Grid cells
- 7,274
- Records
- 578,468
- Years covered
- 1980-2026
- Bony fish 670
- Insects 586
- Birds 516
- Reptiles 70
- Mammals 62
- Sharks and rays 49
- Amphibians 40
These are species with at least one recorded territory in Mozambique, 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 Mozambique, among those a photograph exists for. Most recorded is not most numerous: it rewards animals that are common, conspicuous and live where people go.
Common Bulbul
Pycnonotus barbatus
African Fish Eagle
Icthyophaga vocifer
Rattling Cisticola
Cisticola chiniana
Lilac-breasted Roller
Coracias caudatus
Blue Waxbill
Uraeginthus angolensis
Emerald-spotted Wood Dove
Turtur chalcospilos
Black-backed Puffback
Dryoscopus cubla
Brown-hooded Kingfisher
Halcyon albiventris
Bateleur
Terathopius ecaudatus
Fork-tailed Drongo
Dicrurus adsimilis
Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill
Tockus leucomelas
Tawny-flanked Prinia
Prinia subflava
No regions recorded yet
The reference database has no regions filed under Mozambique.
Nothing written up here yet
The field guide covers Mozambique on the map, but none of its species have an entry written for them yet.