Zambia
What is recorded in Zambia
- Species
- 1,749
- Grid cells
- 9,438
- Records
- 753,325
- Years covered
- 1980-2026
- Insects 735
- Birds 607
- Bony fish 238
- Mammals 73
- Amphibians 49
- Reptiles 47
These are species with at least one recorded territory in Zambia, 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 Zambia, 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
Blue Waxbill
Uraeginthus angolensis
White-browed Robin-Chat
Cossypha heuglini
Emerald-spotted Wood Dove
Turtur chalcospilos
Tropical Boubou
Laniarius major
Ring-necked Dove
Streptopelia capicola
White-fronted Bee-eater
Merops bullockoides
African Pied Wagtail
Motacilla aguimp
Black-backed Puffback
Dryoscopus cubla
Fork-tailed Drongo
Dicrurus adsimilis
African Jacana
Actophilornis africanus
White-crowned Lapwing
Vanellus albiceps
No regions recorded yet
The reference database has no regions filed under Zambia.
Nothing written up here yet
The field guide covers Zambia on the map, but none of its species have an entry written for them yet.