This dataset for birds in Nigeria, is obtained from the Nigeria Bird Atlas Project (NiBAP), a member of the continent-wide project - the African Bird Atlas Project (ABAP). The NiBAP aims to map all of Nigeria’s bird species and describe their status with the help of valued input from Citizen Scientists – volunteer members of the public who are keen to contribute through going birding and submitting their observations to the project. The project has now been running since the end of 2015. The dataset published here covers from the beginning of the project in 2015-05-22 to 2022-01-23. To collect/digitize the data, a number of citizen scientists across the country were involved. This was possible with the aid of a digital data collection mobile application (Birdlasser: https://www.birdlasser.com/) and following an established bird atlas protocol for the Bird Map Africa. The submitted data are usually pipelined into a central database for the ABAP and displayed on the BirdMap Africa portal (http://www.birdmap.africa) after a thorough vetting process.