Dar es Salaam
This list pulled information for all of Tanzania, so it isn't specific to Dar.
Hippolais icterina
The Icterine Warbler (Hippolais icterina) is an Old World warbler in the tree warbler genus Hippolais . It breeds in mainland Europe except the southwest, where it is replaced by its western counterpart, Melodious Warbler. It is migratory, wintering in sub-Saharan Africa. The term icterine refers to its yellowish colouration.
Hippolais languida
The Upcher's Warbler, (Hippolais languida), is an Old World warbler in the tree warbler genus Hippolais. It breeds in an area from Turkey south and east to Pakistan. It is migratory, wintering in eastern Africa, from Eritrea and Somalia south to Tanzania.
Hippolais olivetorum
The Olive-tree Warbler (Hippolais olivetorum) is an Old World warbler in the tree warbler genus Hippolais. It breeds in southeast Europe and the near east. It is migratory, wintering in eastern and southern Africa, from Kenya south to South Africa.
Hippolais pallida
Olivaceous Warbler can refer to one of two bird species, formerly regarded as conspecific:
Hyliota flavigaster
The Yellow-Bellied Hyliota (Hyliota flavigaster) is a species of Old World warbler in the Sylviidae family. It is found in Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, ...more ↓
Locustella fluviatilis
The River Warbler, Locustella fluviatilis, is an Old World warbler in the grass warbler genus Locustella. It breeds in east and central Europe into western Asia. It is migratory, wintering in east Africa.
Double-toothed Barbet
The Double-toothed Barbet (Lybius bidentatus) is a species of bird in the Ramphastidae family. It is found in Angola, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan, ...more ↓
Black-billed Barbet
The Black-billed Barbet (Lybius guifsobalito) is a species of bird in the Ramphastidae family. It is found in Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.
White-headed Barbet
The White-headed Barbet (Lybius leucocephalus) is a species of bird in the Ramphastidae family. It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Nigeria, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Brown-breasted Barbet
The Brown-breasted Barbet (Lybius melanopterus) is a species of bird in the Ramphastidae family. It is found in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia, and Tanzania.
Black-backed Barbet
The Black-backed Barbet (Lybius minor) is a species of bird in the Ramphastidae family. It is found in Angola, Burundi, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia.
Black-collared Barbet
The Black-collared Barbet (Lybius torquatus) is a species of bird in the Ramphastidae family. It is found in sub-Saharan Africa through Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Western Nicator
The Western Nicator (Nicator chloris) is a species of songbird in the Pycnonotidae family.
Eastern Nicator
The Eastern Nicator (Nicator gularis) is a species of songbird in the Pycnonotidae family. It is found in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, dry savanna, and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland. One recent record from Satara Camp, Kruger National ...more ↓
Osprey
The Osprey (Pandion haliaetus), sometimes known as the sea hawk, fish eagle or fish hawk, is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey. It is a large raptor, reaching more than 60 cm (24 in) in length and 180 cm (71 in) across the wings. It is brown on the upperparts and predominantly greyish on the head and underparts, with a black eye patch and wings. In 1994, ...more ↓
Phylloscopus laurae
The Laura's Woodland-warbler (Phylloscopus laurae) is a species of Old World warbler in the Phylloscopidae family. It is found in Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, and Zambia.
Phylloscopus ruficapilla
The Yellow-Throated Woodland-Warbler (Phylloscopus ruficapilla) is a species of Old World warbler (the Phylloscopidae family). It is found in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Wood Warbler
The Wood Warbler (Phylloscopus sibilatrix) is a common and widespread leaf warbler which breeds throughout northern and temperate Europe, and just into the extreme west of Asia in the southern Ural Mountains. This warbler is strongly migratory and the entire population winters in tropical Africa.
Willow Warbler
The Willow Warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus) is a very common and widespread leaf warbler which breeds throughout northern and temperate Europe and Asia, from Ireland east to the Anadyr River basin in eastern Siberia. It is strongly migratory, with almost all of the population wintering in sub-Saharan Africa.
Phylloscopus umbrovirens
The Brown Woodland-Warbler (Phylloscopus umbrovirens) is a species of Old World warbler in the Phylloscopidae family.
Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird
The Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus bilineatus) is a bird species in the family Lybiidae. It used to be placed in the family Bucconidae which has been split up; alternatively, it may be included in a vastly expanded Ramphastidae.
Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird
The Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird, Pogoniulus chrysoconus, is a small African barbet formerly known as Yellow-fronted Tinker Barbet. Barbets are near passerine birds bristles around the base of the bill and a world-wide tropical distribution.
Moustached Tinkerbird
The Moustached Green-tinkerbird (Pogoniulus leucomystax) is a species of bird in the Lybiidae family. It is found in Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.
Red-fronted Tinkerbird
The Red-fronted Tinkerbird, Pogoniulus pusillus formerly known as Red-fronted Tinker Barbet is a small African barbet. Barbets are near passerine birds with bristles around the base of the bill. They have a world-wide tropical distribution.
Green Tinkerbird
The African Green-tinkerbird (Pogoniulus simplex) is a species of bird in the Ramphastidae family. It is found in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania.
White-crested Helmetshrike
The White-crested Helmetshrike (Prionops plumatus), also known as the White Helmetshrike, is a species of passerine bird in the helmetshrike family Prionopidae, formerly usually included in the Malaconotidae.
Retz's Helmetshrike
The Retz's Helmetshrike (Prionops retzii) is a species of bird in the helmetshrike family Prionopidae, formerly usually included in the Malaconotidae.
Chestnut-fronted Helmetshrike
The Chestnut-fronted Helmetshrike (Prionops scopifrons) is a species of bird in the helmetshrike family Prionopidae, formerly usually included in the Malaconotidae.
Black-faced Sandgrouse
The Black-faced Sandgrouse (Pterocles decoratus) is a species of bird in the Pteroclididae family. It is found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse
The Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse, Pterocles exustus, is a species of sandgrouse. They are found in sparse, bushy, arid land which is common in central and northern Africa, and southern Asia. Though they live in hot, arid climates, they are highly reliant on water. They have been known to travel up to 50 miles in one day in search of water. All species of sandgrouse that have been ...more ↓
Yellow-throated Sandgrouse
The Yellow-throated Sandgrouse (Pterocles gutturalis) is a species of bird in the Pteroclididae family. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Schoenicola brevirostris
The Fan-tailed Grassbird or Broad-tailed Warbler (Schoenicola brevirostris) is a species of Old World warbler in the Megaluridae family. It is found in Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, ...more ↓
White-eared Barbet
The White-eared Barbet (Stactolaema leucotis) is a species of bird in the Ramphastidae family. It is found in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe.
Green Barbet
The Green Barbet (Stactolaema olivacea) is a species of bird in the Ramphastidae family. It is found in Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa.
Whyte's Barbet
The Whyte's Barbet (Stactolaema whytii) is a species of bird in the Ramphastidae family. It is found in Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
D'Arnaud's Barbet
D'Arnaud's Barbet (Trachyphonus darnaudii) is an African barbet. Barbets and toucans are a group of near passerine birds with a worldwide tropical distribution. The barbets get their name from the bristles which fringe their heavy bills. Four geographical races (darnaudii, böhmi, emini and usambiro) have been recorded.
Red-and-yellow Barbet
The Red-and-yellow Barbet (Trachyphonus erythrocephalus) is a species of African barbet found in eastern Africa. The males of the species have distinctive black (spotted white), red and yellow plumage, while youngsters and females are similar, but a little more dull. The species lives in broken terrain and both nests and roosts in burrows. Omnivores, the species is ...more ↓
Usambiro Barbet
The Usambiro Barbet (Trachyphonus usambiro) is a species of bird in the Lybiidae family.
Crested Barbet
The Crested Barbet (Trachyphonus vaillantii) is a species of bird in the Lybiidae family.
Red-fronted Barbet
The Red-fronted Barbet (Tricholaema diademata) is a species of bird in the Ramphastidae family. It is found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Miombo Pied Barbet
The Miombo Barbet (Tricholaema frontata) is a species of bird in the Ramphastidae family. It is found in Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia.
Hairy-breasted Barbet
The Hairy-breasted Barbet (Tricholaema hirsuta) is a species of bird in the Ramphastidae family. It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda.
Spot-flanked Barbet
The Spot-flanked Barbet (Tricholaema lacrymosa) is a species of bird in the Ramphastidae family. It is found in Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.
Black-throated Barbet
The Black-throated Barbet (Tricholaema melanocephala) is a species of bird in the Ramphastidae family. It is found in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Red-faced Barbet
The Red-faced Barbet (Lybius rubrifacies) is a species of bird in the African barbet family Lybiidae. It is found in Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, moist savanna, and arable land. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Prionops poliolophus
The Grey-crested Helmet-shrike (Prionops poliolophus) is a species of bird in the helmetshrike family Prionopidae, formerly usually included in the Malaconotidae.
Chloropeta gracilirostris
The Papyrus Yellow Warbler (Chloropeta gracilirostris) is a species of Acrocephalidae warblers; formerly, these were placed in the paraphyletic "Old World warblers". It is found in Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. Its natural habitat is swamps. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Secretary Bird
The Secretarybird or Secretary Bird (Sagittarius serpentarius) is a large, mostly terrestrial bird of prey. Endemic to Africa, it is usually found in the open grasslands and savannah of the sub-Sahara. Although a member of the order Accipitriformes, which also includes many other diurnal raptors such as kites, buzzards, vultures, and harriers, it is given its own ...more ↓
Afrixalus brachycnemis
The Lesser Banana Frog (Afrixalus brachycnemis) is a species of frog in the Hyperoliidae family. It is found in Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and possibly Zambia. Its natural habitats are moist savanna, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, swamps, intermittent freshwater marshes, arable land, ...more ↓
Hyperolius orkarkarri
Hyperolius orkarkarri is a species of frog in the Hyperoliidae family. It is endemic to Tanzania. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, intermittent freshwater marshes, and rocky areas.
African Luna Moth
The African moon moth (Argema mimosae) is a giant silk moth of the Family Saturniidae. Similar in appearance to the Giant Madagascan Moon Moth (Argema mittrei), but smaller, this moth can be found near the east coast of South Africa. An adult can measure 10-12 centimetres across its wingspan, and 12-14 centimetres from head to the tip of its elongated 'tail-like' second pair of ...more ↓
Purple Hermit Crab
Coenobita brevimanus is a species of land hermit crab native to the east coast of Africa and the south west Pacific Ocean. Adults of this species can be larger than any other species from the genus Coenobita, weighing up to 0.5 pounds (230 g).
Strawberry Hermit Crab
Coenobita perlatus, is a species of terrestrial hermit crab. It is known as the strawberry hermit crab because of its reddish orange colours. It is a widespread scavenger across the Indo-Pacific, and is also traded to hobby aquarists.
Tawny Hermit Crab
Coenobita rugosus is a species of land hermit crab native to Australia and the east African coast to the south west Pacific.
Afrixalus stuhlmanni
Afrixalus stuhlmanni is a species of frog in the Hyperoliidae family. It is endemic to Tanzania.
Kivu Reed Frog
Hyperolius kivuensis is a frog species of in the family Hyperoliidae. It is found in Angola, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, possibly Mozambique, and possibly Sudan.
Hyperolius marginatus
Hyperolius marginatus is a species of frog in the Hyperoliidae family. It is found in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, possibly Botswana, possibly Burundi, and possibly Rwanda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or ...more ↓
Common Reed Frog
The Common Reed Frog (Hyperolius viridiflavus) is a species of frog in the Hyperoliidae family.
Hyperolius tanneri
Hyperolius tannerorum is a species of frog in the Hyperoliidae family. It is endemic to Tanzania. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, rivers, and swamps. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Striated Swallow
The Red-rumped Swallow (Cecropis daurica) is a small passerine bird in the swallow family. It breeds in open hilly country of temperate southern Europe and Asia from Portugal and Spain to Japan, India and tropical Africa. The Indian and African birds are resident, but European and other Asian birds are migratory. They winter in Africa or India and are vagrants to Christmas ...more ↓
Great Egret
The Great Egret (Ardea alba), also known as Great White Egret, Common Egret, Large Egret or Great White Heron, is a large, widely-distributed egret. Distributed across most of the tropical and warmer temperate regions of the world, in southern Europe it is rather localized. In North America it is more widely distributed, and it is ubiquitous across ...more ↓
Grey-hooded Gull
The Grey-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus) is a small gull which breeds patchily in South America and Africa south of the Sahara. It is not truly migratory, but is more widespread in winter. This species has occurred as a rare vagrant to North America and Spain. It is also known as the Grey-hooded Gull. As is the case with many gulls, it has traditionally been ...more ↓
Black-headed Gull
The Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) is a small gull which breeds in much of Europe and Asia, and also in coastal eastern Canada. Most of the population is migratory, wintering further south, but some birds in the milder westernmost areas of Europe are resident. Some birds will also spend the winter in northeastern North America, where it was formerly known as the ...more ↓
Sooty Tern
The Sooty Tern (Onychoprion fuscatus) (formerly Sterna fuscata), is a seabird of the tern family (Sternidae). It is a bird of the tropical oceans, breeding on islands throughout the equatorial zone. Colloquially, it is known as the Wideawake Tern or just wideawake. This refers to the incessant calls produced by a colony of these birds, as does the Hawaiian ...more ↓
Gull-billed Tern
The Gull-billed Tern (Gelochelidon nilotica) formerly Sterna nilotica (Bridge et al., 2005), is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. It is now considered to be in its own genus.
Caspian Tern
The Caspian Tern (Hydroprogne caspia, formerly Sterna caspia;syn. Hydroprogne tschegrava, Helopus caspius) is a species of tern, with a subcosmopolitan but scattered distribution. Despite its extensive range, it is monotypic of its genus, and has no subspecies accepted either. In New Zealand it is also known by the Maori name Taranui.
Crested Tern
The Greater Crested Tern (Thalasseus bergii), also called Crested Tern or Swift Tern, is a seabird in the tern family which nests in dense colonies on coastlines and islands in the tropical and subtropical Old World. Its five subspecies breed in the area from South Africa around the Indian Ocean to the central Pacific and Australia, all populations dispersing ...more ↓
Sandwich Tern
The Sandwich Tern (Thalasseus sandvicensis, syn. Sterna sandvicensis) is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. It is very closely related to the Lesser Crested Tern T. bengalensis, Chinese Crested Tern T. bernsteini, and Elegant Tern T. elegans, and has been known to interbreed with Lesser Crested.
Lesser Crested Tern
The Lesser Crested Tern (Thalasseus bengalensis, syn. Sterna bengalensis - see Bridge et al., 2005) is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. It breeds in subtropical coastal parts of the world mainly from the Red Sea across the Indian Ocean to the western Pacific, and Australia, with a significant population on the southern coast of the Mediterranean on two ...more ↓
Laughing Turtle-Dove
The Laughing Dove (Spilopelia senegalensis) is a small pigeon that is a resident breeder in Sub-Saharan tropical Africa, the Middle East and eastwards to the Indian Subcontinent. In India it is also known as the Little Brown Dove. Probably as the result of stowaways from Africa or India, the bird is also found in a localised area of Western Australia—in and around Perth ...more ↓
Grey Woodpecker
The Grey Woodpecker, Mesopicos goertae, is a widespread and frequently common resident breeder in much of Sub-Saharan and equatorial Africa. It is a species associated with forest and bush which nests in a tree hole, often in an Oil Palm, laying two to four eggs.
Red-throated Tit
The Red-throated Tit (Parus fringillinus) is a species of bird in the Paridae family. It is found in Kenya and Tanzania. Its natural habitat is dry savanna.
Domed Mauritius Giant Tortoise
The Aldabra giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea), from the islands of the Aldabra Atoll in the Seychelles, is one of the largest tortoises in the world. This species is widely referred to as Aldabrachelys gigantea but has also been placed in the genus Dipsochelys as Dipsochelys dussumieri.
African Clouded Yellow
Colias electo, the African Clouded Yellow or Lucerne Butterfly, is a butterfly of the Lycaenidae family. It is found in eastern and southern Africa, as well as Arabia. The habitat consists of temperate and montane grasslands.
Eastern Scarlet
The Eastern Scarlet, Commom Scarlet or Scarlet Butterfly (Axiocerses tjoane) is a butterfly of the Lycaenidae family. It is found in southern and eastern Africa. It is not present on the Eastern Cape.
African trident bat
Triaenops persicus, also known as the Persian Trident Bat or Triple Nose-leaf Bat, is a species of bat in the genus Triaenops. It occurs in southwestern Pakistan, southern Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Yemen. In the last country, it occurs together with the much smaller Triaenops parvus. Populations from Madagascar and mainland Africa have ...more ↓
African sheath-tailed bat
The African sheath-tailed bat (Coleura afra) is a species of sac-winged bat in the family Emballonuridae. It is found in Angola, Benin, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, and ...more ↓
Angolan collared fruit bat
The Angolan fruit bat or Angolan rousette (Lissonycteris angolensis) is a species of megabat in the Pteropodidae family. It is found in Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, ...more ↓
African Babul Blue
The African Babul Blue or Topaz-spotted Blue (Azanus jesous) is a small butterfly found in India and Africa that belongs to the Lycaenids or Blues family.
