The key list of birds reported by BirdLife International is: garganey ("Anas querquedula"), great white pelican ("Pelecanus onocrotalus"), fox kestrel ("Falco alopex"), pallid harrier ("Circus macrourus"), Savile's bustard ("Eupodotis savilei"), black crowned-crane ("Balearica pavonina"), African collared-dove ("Streptopelia roseogrisea"), Senegal parrot ("Poicephalus senegalus"), red-throated bee-eater ("Merops bulocki"), Sahelian woodpecker ("Dendropicos elachus"), piapiac ("Ptilostomus afer"), Sennar penduline-tit ("Anthoscopus punctifrons"), red-pate cisticola ("Cisticola ruficeps"), river prinia ("Prinia fluviatilis"), Senegal eremomela ("Eremomela pusilla"), purple glossy-starling ("Lamprotornis purpureus"), chestnut-bellied starling ("Lamprotornis pulcher"), black scrub-robin ("Cercotrichas podobe"), chestnut-crowned sparrow-weaver ("Plocepasser superciliosus"), Sudan golden sparrow ("Passer luteus"), bush petronia ("Petronia dentata"), black-rumped waxbill ("Estrilda troglodytes"), and waterbirds