Birds of Burundi

Burundi is the poorest and unhappiest country on earth. Over the past 3 decades, Burundi has lost nearly 40% of its forest cover, severely reducing wildlife habitats. The country lies essentially on a high plateau with a tropical climate with two rainy seasons. The highest elevation is Mount Heha at 2684 m. According to BirdLife International, the country shares an EBA (Endemic Bird Area) with its neighboring countries, the mountains of the Albertine Rift. Numerous bird species with small ranges occur in this western branch of the East African Rift Valley. In fact, Burundi still boasts 5 IBAs (Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas), including three national parks: Kibira, Rusizi and Ruvubu NP. Located on the Congo-Nile Divide, Kibira National Park contains Burundi's only montane rainforest. Rusizi National Park contains a permanent inland delta, is considered a bird paradise and is protected under the Ramasar Convention. Ruvubu National Park is dominated by the bird-rich grasslands on either side of the Rububu River. Despite all the difficulties, Burundi's tropical bird life makes this country an attractive travel destination.

This E-book bird guide for "Burundi" has been built at 23.02.2025, based upon our data base and our image archive using our default settings, and saved in two formats. Thereby it is made sure that the e-book can be displayed on virtually all devices and if applicable be printed out with a compact page size.
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Cover image Regal Sunbird, Drawing: A.Luetke

Primary language English, secondary languages German, French, Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese.
All 736 species are illustrated. In addition, links to HD videos of 156 bird species (1h 30m 3s) and audios of 51 bird species (27m 47s) are included. The assessment of the global conservation status of bird species uses the criteria of the Red List (IUCN) 2012.
The scientific system follows Clements et al. 2017.
An index, name registers in all selected languages and a scientific name register, all completely linked.
PDF E-book in page-based format A5: 268 pages, 36.27 MiB.
ePub E-book in flowable format for all devices with ePub reader: 30.97 MiB.

A paperback version of this bird guide is available from Amazon (ISBN: B09VYH6CY3).
Also you can obtain a Kindle edition from Amazon (ASIN: 9798435474022).
© Wolfgang J. Daunicht 2025