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148 species found for “secretive” in Africa
White-backed Duck
Thalassornis leuconotus
Bates's Nightjar
Caprimulgus batesi
Jack Snipe
Lymnocryptes minimus
Small Buttonquail
Turnix sylvaticus
Pemba Green-Pigeon
Treron pembaensis
Rufous-headed Ground-Roller
Atelornis crossleyi
Pitta-like Ground-Roller
Atelornis pittoides
Scaly Ground Roller
Geobiastes squamiger
Gabon Coucal
Centropus anselli
Black-throated Coucal
Centropus leucogaster
Madagascar Coucal
Centropus toulou
Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo
Cercococcyx mechowi
Blue Malkoha
Ceuthmochares aereus

Giant Coua
Coua gigas
Red-chested Cuckoo
Cuculus cafer
Csarnotan Cuckoo
Cuculus csarnotanus
Madagascar Cuckoo
Cuculus madagascariensis
Black Cuckoo
Cuculus niger
Cuculus persa
Cuculus persa
Cursoricoccyx geraldinae
Cursoricoccyx geraldinae

Taita Falcon
Falco fasciinucha
Common Quail
Coturnix coturnix
Orange River Francolin
Scleroptila gutturalis

African Finfoot
Podica senegalensis
Striped Crake
Aenigmatolimnas marginalis

Red Rail
Apterornis bonasia
Tsingy Wood-Rail
Canirallus beankaensis
Gray-throated Rail
Canirallus oculeus
Corn Crake
Crex crex

African Crake
Crex egregia
Nkulengu Rail
Himantornis haematopus
Christy's Rail
Rallus christyi
Porzana lacustris
Porzana lacustris
Allen's Gallinule
Porphyrio alleni
Reunion Gallinule
Porphyrio caerulescens
Little Crake
Porzana parva

Spotted Crake
Porzana porzana
Baillon's Crake
Porzana pusilla
Quercyrallus Ludianus
Quercyrallus ludianus
Rallus arenarius
Rallus arenarius
Water Rail
Rallus aquaticus

African Rail
Rallus caerulescens
Madagascar Rail
Rallus madagascariensis
Dwarf Rail
Rallus nanus
Rouget's Rail
Rougetius rougetii
Striped Flufftail
Sarothrura affinis

White-winged Flufftail
Sarothrura ayresi
Streaky-breasted Flufftail
Sarothrura boehmi
Buff-spotted Flufftail
Sarothrura elegans
Madagascar Flufftail
Sarothrura insularis

Chestnut-headed Flufftail
Sarothrura lugens
White-spotted Flufftail
Sarothrura pulchra
Red-chested Flufftail
Sarothrura rufa
Slender-billed Flufftail
Sarothrura watersi
Tsingy Forest Rail
Mentocrex beankaensis
Brown Mesite
Mesitornis unicolor
Moustached Warbler
Acrocephalus melanopogon

Greater Swamp Warbler
Acrocephalus rufescens
Dupont's Lark
Chersophilus duponti

Rudd's Lark
Heteromirafra ruddi
Blue Cuckooshrike
Coracina azurea
Cetti's Warbler
Cettia cetti
Carruthers's Cisticola
Cisticola carruthersi

Whistling Cisticola
Cisticola lateralis

Red-pate Cisticola
Cisticola ruficeps
White-tailed Warbler
Poliolais lopezi
Red-faced Crimsonwing
Cryptospiza reichenovii

Abyssinian Crimsonwing
Cryptospiza salvadorii
Shelley's Crimsonwing
Cryptospiza shelleyi
Red-headed Bluebill
Spermophaga ruficapilla
African Broadbill
Smithornis capensis
Rufous-sided Broadbill
Smithornis rufolateralis
Gray-headed Broadbill
Smithornis sharpei
Bamboo Warbler
Bradypterus alfredi

Little Rush-Warbler
Bradypterus baboecala
Barratt's Warbler
Bradypterus barratti
Brown Emutail
Bradypterus brunneus
White-winged Swamp Warbler
Bradypterus carpalis
Highland Rush Warbler
Bradypterus centralis
Dja River Swamp Warbler
Bradypterus grandis
Grauer's Swamp Warbler
Bradypterus graueri
Bradypterus lopesi
Bradypterus lopesi
Knysna Warbler
Bradypterus sylvaticus

Eurasian River Warbler
Locustella fluviatilis
Moustached Grass-Warbler
Melocichla mentalis
Cape Grassbird
Sphenoeacus afer
Mount Kupe Bushshrike
Chlorophoneus kupeensis
Black-headed Gonolek
Laniarius erythrogaster
Coastal Boubou
Laniarius nigerrimus
Willard's Sooty Boubou
Laniarius willardi
Uluguru Bushshrike
Malaconotus alius

Short-tailed Pipit
Anthus brachyurus
Grimwood's Longclaw
Macronyx grimwoodi
Red-throated Alethe
Chamaetylas poliophrys

Archer's Robin-Chat
Cossypha archeri

White-headed Robin-Chat
Cossypha heinrichi

White-throated Robin-Chat
Cossypha humeralis
Mountain Robin-Chat
Cossypha isabellae

Brown-backed Scrub Robin
Erythropygia hartlaubi

Brown Scrub Robin
Erythropygia signata
Yellow-footed Flycatcher
Muscicapa sethsmithi
Equatorial Akalat
Sheppardia aequatorialis
Bocage's Akalat
Sheppardia bocagei
Lowland Akalat
Sheppardia cyornithopsis
Gabela Akalat
Sheppardia gabela
East Coast Akalat
Sheppardia gunningi
Sharpe's Akalat
Sheppardia sharpei
Scaly-breasted Illadopsis
Illadopsis albipectus
Brown Illadopsis
Illadopsis fulvescens
Puvel's Illadopsis
Illadopsis puveli
Mountain Illadopsis
Illadopsis pyrrhoptera
Rufous-winged Illadopsis
Illadopsis rufescens
Pale-breasted Illadopsis
Illadopsis rufipennis
Uganda Woodland-Warbler
Phylloscopus budongoensis

Yellow-throated Woodland-Warbler
Phylloscopus ruficapilla
African Pitta
Pitta angolensis
Green-breasted Pitta
Pitta reichenowi
Batis mystica
Batis mystica
Little Greenbul
Eurillas virens
Forest Penduline-Tit
Anthoscopus flavifrons
Subalpine Warbler
Curruca cantillans
Sardinian Warbler
Curruca melanocephala
Curved-billed Cisticola
Drymoica curvirostris
Dohrn's Thrush-Babbler
Horizorhinus dohrni
Pseudoalcippe abyssinica
Pseudoalcippe abyssinica
Short-tailed Warbler
Sylvia brachyura
Eastern Orphean Warbler
Sylvia crassirostris
Lesser Whitethroat
Sylvia curruca

Barred Warbler
Sylvia nisoria
Sagittate Warbler
Sylvia sagittata

Rufous-vented Warbler
Sylvia subcaerulea
Nightingale Island Finch
Nesospiza questi
Rubeho Forest Partridge
Xenoperdix obscuratus
Green-breasted Bushshrike
Malaconotus gladiator
Malaconotus rubiginosus
Malaconotus rubiginosus
Spotted Ground-Thrush
Geokichla guttata
Red-tailed Ant-Thrush
Neocossyphus rufus
Sickle-billed Vanga
Falculea palliata
White-backed Night-Heron
Gorsachius leuconotus
Little Bittern
Ixobrychus minutus
Dwarf Bittern
Ixobrychus sturmii

Scaly-throated Honeyguide
Indicator variegatus

Yellow-footed Honeyguide
Melignomon eisentrauti

Akun Eagle-Owl
Bubo leucostictus
Sjöstedt's Owlet
Glaucidium sjostedti
Socotra Scops-Owl
Otus socotranus
Madagascar Red Owl
Tyto soumagnei

Bar-tailed Trogon
Apaloderma vittatum