Zimbabwe
What is recorded in Zimbabwe
- Species
- 1,494
- Grid cells
- 7,493
- Records
- 1,019,699
- Years covered
- 1980-2026
- Insects 791
- Birds 533
- Reptiles 58
- Mammals 45
- Amphibians 35
- Bony fish 32
These are species with at least one recorded territory in Zimbabwe, 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 Zimbabwe, among those a photograph exists for. Most recorded is not most numerous: it rewards animals that are common, conspicuous and live where people go.
Red-billed Quelea
Quelea quelea
Common Bulbul
Pycnonotus barbatus
Ring-necked Dove
Streptopelia capicola
Blue Waxbill
Uraeginthus angolensis
Meves's Starling
Lamprotornis mevesii
Fork-tailed Drongo
Dicrurus adsimilis
White-browed Robin-Chat
Cossypha heuglini
Black-backed Puffback
Dryoscopus cubla
Grey Go-away-bird
Crinifer concolor
Egyptian Goose
Alopochen aegyptiaca
African Fish Eagle
Icthyophaga vocifer
Red-eyed Dove
Streptopelia semitorquata
No regions recorded yet
The reference database has no regions filed under Zimbabwe.
Nothing written up here yet
The field guide covers Zimbabwe on the map, but none of its species have an entry written for them yet.