Birding Factoids

658 species
in 66 families

1 endemic species
10 speciality species
6 endangered species
2 week trip expectation -
about 160 species

Mali
Hotspots

Mali Specialities Little Bee-eater - Photo copyright Peter Miller

Photo copyright Peter Miller

Bearded Barbet - Photo copyright Anke Poggel

Photo copyright Anke Poggel

Squacco Heron - Photo copyright Erik Kleyheeg

Photo copyright Erik Kleyheeg

....Mali - Directory of Wetlands of International Importance - includes

information on all Mali's Ramsar designated sites, including:

Walado Debo/Lac Debo
Séri
Lac Horo

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....Mali Trip Report - Winter 2001, 20-29 November. By Anton- Louis

Olivier. Like many others I tried to fit in a bit of birding during a business trip to Mali. I also tried to fit in a bit of sight seeing and managed to stretch a 5 day working visit into a 10 day trip, which took me beyond Bamako to Mopti, Djenne and the Dogon country.

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....Trip Report: MALI: 15-27 October 2000 - by Dale Herter and Jim

Thomason. This report summarizes the birds we observed and includes some notes on birding locations found during a business/tourism trip to Mali in fall 2000. We were assigned to scout the popular tourist routes within the country for upcoming general natural history/cultural tours to the region.

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....Report of Trip to Mali, West Africa - December 1998 - January 1999.

Bernie Cullen. The following is a description of the birds I saw while visiting my sister Anne Cullen who is a volunteer in the Peace Corps in the country of Mali in West Africa. I am a novice birdwatcher and I identified about 60 species during my month there.

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....Trip Report: Mali, April 19 - May 8, 1998. by Tom Harrison. Next time

you're in or around Timbuktu, be sure to do some birding. I had a quick business trip to Mali, West Africa, at the end of April (1998), and while I would have little free time for birding, I brought my binoculars and an out-of-date West Africa field guide and hoped for the best. I figured, what the heck, when you bird a country for the first time, even the most common birds will turn out to be lifers.

Factoids taken from Where to Watch Birds in Africa - by Nigel Wheatley.

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Endemics and Specialities

in Mali

Information on endemics and specialities is derived from Sibley & Monroe checklists and bird distribution lists in Thayer's Birder's Diary - Version 2.05, supplemented by material found in Where to Watch Birds in Africa - by Nigel Wheatley. African speciality birds, while not endemic, are those that can only be found in three or less countries of Africa. Information on endangered birds is derived from the IUCN Red List, Birdlife International. The endemic, endangered and speciality birds may be uncommon, extremely rare vagrants, may be extirpated in the country now or may only be present in migration. However, documented sightings of each species noted below have been made in Mali.

Endemics in Mali
___ Mali Firefinch

Endangered Birds in Mali (endemics are printed in *bold italic*)
Breeding Birds	Non-Breeding Birds
___ River Prinia ___ Yellow-bearded Bulbul	___ Aquatic Warbler ___ Ferruginous Pochard	___ Lesser Kestrel ___ Marbled Teal

Other Speciality and Spectacular Birds in Mali (adapted from *Where to Watch Birds in Africa* - by Nigel Wheatley.)
___ Abyssinian Roller ___ Blue-bellied Roller ___ Cricket Longtail ___ Egyptian Plover	___ Grey Pratincole ___ Nubian Bustard ___ Red-throated Bee-eater	___ Rock-loving Cisticola ___ Scissor-Tailed Kite ___ Sudan Golden-Sparrow