BIRD LIST
OSTRICH
African Grey Hornbill
Diderick Cuckoo
Cape Turtle Dove
Ostrich
Red-billed Hornbill
Black Coucal
Laughing Dove
FRANCOLINS & QUAILS
Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill
Burchell’s Coucal
Namaqua Dove
Coqui Francolin
Crowned Hornbill
PARROTS & LOVEBIRDS
Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove
Crested Francolin
Southern Ground-Hornbill
Grey-headed Parrot
Tambourine Dove
Shelley’s Francolin
HOOPOES
Meyer’s Parrot
African Green-Pigeon
Natal Francolin
African Hoopoe
Brown-headed Parrot
BUSTARDS & KORHAANS
Swainson’s Spurfowl
Green (Red-billed) Wood-Hoopoe
SWIFTS
Kori Bustard
Harlequin Quail
Common (Greater) Scimitarbill
Common (European) Swift
Common Quail
TROGONS
African Black Swift
Red-crested Korhaan
GUINEAFOWLS
Narina Trogon
White-rumped Swift
Helmeted Guineafowl
ROLLERS
Horus Swift
Crested Guineafowl
European Roller
Little Swift
DUCKS & GEESE
Lilac-breasted Roller
Alpine Swift
FLUFFTAILS, RAILS, CRAKES,
GALLINULES & COOT
White-faced Duck
Racket-tailed Roller
African Palm Swift
African Rail
Fulvous Duck
Purple Roller
Mottled Spinetail
Corncrake
White-backed Duck
Broad-billed Roller
Böhm’s Spinetail
African Crake
Egyptian Goose
KINGFISHERS
TURACOS
Black Crake
African Black Duck
Pied Kingfisher
Purple-crested Turaco
Hottentot Teal
Giant Kingfisher
Grey Go-away Bird
Baillon’s Crake
Red-billed Teal
Half-collared Kingfisher
OWLS
Yellow-billed Duck
Malachite Kingfisher
Barn Owl
Southern Pochard
African Pygmy Kingfisher
African Grass-Owl
African Pygmy-Goose
Woodland Kingfisher
African Wood-Owl
Comb (Knob-billed) Duck
Brown-hooded Kingfisher
Marsh Owl
Spur-winged Goose
Grey-headed Kingfisher
African Scops-Owl
BUTTONQUAILS
Striped Kingfisher
Small (Kurrichane) Buttonquail
BEE-EATERS
Southern White-faced
Scops-Owl
HONEYGUIDES
European Bee-eater
Greater Honeyguide
Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
Scaly-throated Honeyguide
Southern Carmine Bee-eater
Lesser Honeyguide
White-fronted Bee-eater
Brown-backed Honeybird
Little Bee-eater
WOODPECKERS
MOUSEBIRDS
Bennett’s Woodpecker
Speckled Mousebird
Golden-tailed Woodpecker
Red-faced Mousebird
Cardinal Woodpecker
Pearl-spotted Owlet
African Barred Owlet
Spotted Eagle-Owl
Verreaux’s (Giant) Eagle-Owl
Black-bellied Bustard
FINFOOT
African Finfoot
Red-chested Flufftail
Buff-spotted Flufftail
Allen’s (Lesser) Gallinule
African Purple Swamphen
Common Moorhen
Lesser Moorhen
Red-knobbed Coot
SANDGROUSE
Double-banded Sandgrouse
SANDPIPERS & SNIPES
Common Sandpiper
Green Sandpiper
Pel’s Fishing-Owl
Wood Sandpiper
NIGHTJARS
Marsh Sandpiper
European Nightjar
Common Greenshank
Fiery-necked Nightjar
Curlew Sandpiper
CUCKOOS & COUCALS
Rufous-cheeked Nightjar
Little Stint
Common (European) Cuckoo
Freckled Nightjar
Ruff
BARBETS
African Cuckoo
Square-tailed Nightjar
African (Ethiopian) Snipe
Black-collared Barbet
Red-chested Cuckoo
Pennant-winged Nightjar
Greater Painted Snipe
Acacia Pied Barbet
Black Cuckoo
DOVES & PIGEONS
JACANAS
Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird
Great Spotted Cuckoo
Rock Dove (Feral Pigeon)
African Jacana
Levaillant’s (Striped) Cuckoo
Speckled (Rock) Pigeon
Lesser Jacana
Crested Barbet
Jacobin Cuckoo
African Olive (Rameron) Pigeon
THICK-KNEES
HORNBILLS
Thick-billed Cuckoo
Red-eyed Dove
Spotted Thick-knee
Trumpeter Hornbill
Klaas’s Cuckoo
African Mourning Dove
Water Thick-knee
Bearded Woodpecker
Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird
STILTS & AVOCETS
Steppe Eagle
PELICANS
TITS
Black-winged Stilt
Tawny Eagle
Great (Eastern) White Pelican
Southern Black Tit
Pied Avocet
Lesser Spotted Eagle
Pink-backed Pelican
Grey Penduline Tit
PLOVERS & LAPWINGS
Verreaux’s Eagle
STORKS
MARTINS & SWALLOWS
Common Ringed Plover
African Hawk Eagle
White Stork
Barn (European) Swallow
White-fronted Plover
Ayres’ Eagle
Abdim’s Stork
White-throated Swallow
Kittlitz’s Plover
Booted Eagle
Black Stork
Wire-tailed Swallow
Three-banded Plover
Wahlberg’s Eagle
Woolly-necked Stork
Pearl-breasted Swallow
Caspian Plover
Martial Eagle
African Openbill
Mosque Swallow
Crowned Lapwing
Long-crested Eagle
Saddle-billed Stork
Red-breasted Swallow
Senegal Lapwing
African Crowned Eagle
Marabou Stork
Lesser Striped Swallow
Blacksmith Lapwing
SECRETARYBIRD
Yellow-billed Stork
Rock Martin
White-crowned Lapwing
Secretarybird
ORIOLES
House Martin
African Wattled Lapwing
FALCONS
Eurasian Golden Oriole
Grey-rumped Swallow
COURSERS & PRATINCOLES
Lesser Kestrel
African Golden Oriole
Sand Martin
Temminck’s Courser
Rock Kestrel
Black-headed Oriole
Brown-throated Martin
Three-banded Courser
Dickinson’s Kestrel
DRONGOES
Black Saw-wing
Bronze-winged Courser
(Western) Red-footed Falcon
Fork-tailed Drongo
BULBULS
Collared (Red-winged)
Pratincole
Amur (Eastern Red-footed)
Falcon
CRESTED- & PARADISEFLYCATCHERS
Dark-capped (Black-eyed) Bulbul
GULLS & TERNS
Eurasian Hobby
Blue-mantled Flycatcher
Grey-headed Gull
Lanner Falcon
African Paradise Flycatcher
Sombre Greenbul
Whiskered Tern
Peregrine Falcon
White-winged Tern
GREBES
TYPICAL RAPTORS,
VULTURES & OSPREY
Little Grebe (Dabchick)
TCHAGRAS, BOUBOUS,
BUSH-SHRIKES, HELMETSHRIKES & BATISES
Osprey
White-breasted Cormorant
African Cuckoo Hawk
European Honey Buzzard
Bat Hawk
Black-shouldered Kite
Black Kite
African Fish Eagle
Hooded Vulture
Cape Vulture
(African) White-backed Vulture
DARTERS & CORMORANTS
Reed Cormorant
African Darter
EGRETS, HERONS & BITTERNS
Grey Heron
Black-headed Heron
Goliath Heron
Purple Heron
Great (White) Egret
Yellow-billed Egret
Brubru
Black-backed Puffback
Black-crowned Tchagra
Brown-crowned Tchagra
Tropical Boubou
Southern Boubou
Crimson-breasted Shrike
Gorgeous Bush-Shrike
Orange-breasted Bush-Shrike
Eastern (Yellow-spotted)
Nicator
LEAF-WARBLERS,
BABBLERS & WARBLERS
Fairy Flycatcher
Long-billed Crombec
Yellow-bellied Eremomela
Green-capped Eremomela
Burnt-necked Eremomela
Broad-tailed Warbler
River Warbler
Little Rush (African Sedge)
Warbler
White-crested Helmet-Shrike
(European) Sedge Warbler
Retz’s (Red-billed) HelmetShrike
African Reed-Warbler
Cape Batis
Great Reed Warbler
Little Egret
White-headed Vulture
Black Heron
Black-breasted Snake Eagle
Cattle Egret
Brown Snake Eagle
(Common) Squacco Heron
Bateleur
Rufous-bellied Heron
African Marsh-Harrier
Green-backed Heron
Pallid Harrier
Black-crowned Night Heron
Montagu’s Harrier
White-backed Night Heron
African Harrier-Hawk/
Gymnogene
Dwarf Bittern
Lizard Buzzard
HAMERKOP
Red-backed Shrike Lanius
collurio
Hamerkop
Gabar Goshawk
Lesser Grey Shrike
FLAMINGOES
Common Fiscal (Fiscal Shrike)
African Goshawk
Greater Flamingo
Shikra (Little Banded Goshawk)
Lesser Flamingo
Magpie (African Long-tailed)
Shrike
Little Sparrowhawk
IBISES & SPOONBILLS
Dark Chanting Goshawk
Yellow-bellied Greenbul
Grey-headed Bush-Shrike
Lappet-faced Vulture
Little Bittern
Terrestrial Brownbul
Chinspot Batis
(European) Marsh Warbler
Black-throated Wattle-eye
Lesser Swamp (Cape Reed)
Warbler
CROWS & RAVENS
Olivetree Warbler
Cape (Black) Crow
Icterine Warbler
Pied Crow
Dark-capped Yellow warbler
White-necked Raven
Willow Warbler
TYPICAL SHRIKES
Southern (Mashona) Hyliota
Arrow-marked Babbler
Chestnut-vented Tit-babbler
Garden Warbler
Common Whitethroat
WHITE-EYES
Southern White-crowned Shrike
Cape White-eye
African Sacred Ibis
CUCKOOSHRIKES
African Yellow White-eye
Black Sparrowhawk
Glossy Ibis
Black Cuckooshrike
AFRICAN WARBLERS
Steppe Buzzard
Hadeda Ibis
White-breasted Cuckooshrike
Red-faced Cisticola
Jackal Buzzard
African Spoonbill
Grey Cuckooshrike
Lazy Cisticola
Ovambo Sparrowhawk
Rattling Cisticola
Grey Tit-Flycatcher (Fan-tailed)
Collared Sunbird
Jameson’s Firefinch
Rufous-winged (Black-backed)
Cisticola
Thrush Nightingale
Bronze Mannikin
Croaking Cisticola
White-throated Robin-Chat
WEAVERS, QUELEAS &
WIDOWBIRDS
Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver
Neddicky
White-browed (Heuglin’s)
Robin-Chat
White-browed Sparrow-Weaver
WHYDAHS, INDIGOBIRDS
& CUCKOOFINCH
Zitting (Fan-tailed) Cisticola
Red-capped (Natal) Robin-Chat
Lesser Masked-Weaver
Pin-tailed Whydah
Desert Cisticola
Collared Palm-Thrush
Spectacled Weaver
Shaft-tailed Whydah
Tawny-flanked Prinia
Brown Scrub-Robin
Golden Weaver
Long-tailed Paradise-Whydah
Yellow-breasted Apalis
White-browed Scrub-Robin
Southern Masked-Weaver
Dusky (Black) Indigobird
Rudd’s Apalis
Eastern) Bearded Scrub-Robin
African (Common) Stonechat
Village (Spotted-backed)
Weaver
Purple Indigobird
Bar-throated Apalis
Green-backed Camaroptera
Mountain Wheatear
Red-headed Weaver
Cuckoo Finch
Grey-backed Camaroptera
Capped Wheatear
Stierling’s (Barred)
Wren-Warbler
Arnott’s Chat
Yellow-crowned (Golden) Bishop
Southern Red Bishop
Familiar Chat
LARKS
Red-billed Quelea
Red-backed Mannikin
Village (Steelblue) Indigobird
SPARROWS & PETRONIAS
House Sparrow
Southern Grey-headed Sparrow
Mocking Cliff-Chat
Fan-tailed Widowbird
White-winged Widowbird
Rufous-naped Lark
STARLINGS, MYNAS
& OXPECKERS
Red-collared Widowbird
WAGTAILS, PIPITS
& LONGCLAWS
Flappet Lark
Wattled Starling
Thick-billed Weaver
African Pied Wagtail
Fawn-coloured Lark
Violet-backed Starling
Cape Wagtail
Sabota Lark
Burchell’s Starling
WAXBILLS, FIREFINCHES
& TWINSPOTS
Dusky Lark
Meves’ (Long-tailed) Starling
African Quailfinch
Mountain (Long-tailed) Wagtail
Red-capped Lark
Cape Glossy Starling
Orange-breasted Waxbill
Yellow-throated Longclaw
Chestnut-backed Finchlark
Greater Blue-eared Starling
Red-headed Finch
African (Grassveld) Pipit
THRUSHES, ROBINS, CHATS &
OLD WORLD FLYCATCHERS
Miombo Blue-eared Starling
Cut-throat Finch
Long-billed Pipit
Green Twinspot
Plain-backed Pipit
Black-faced Waxbill
Buffy Pipit
Common Waxbill
Striped Pipit
Violet-eared Waxbill
Bushveld Pipit
Blue Waxbill
Tree Pipit
Pink-throated Twinspot
CANARIES & BUNTINGS
Green-winged Pytilia (Melba)
Yellow-fronted Canary
Scarlet-chested Sunbird
Orange-winged Pytilia
Black-throated Canary
Amethyst (African Black)
Sunbird
Red-billed Firefinch
Lemon-breasted Canary
African (Blue-billed) Firefinch
Brimstone (Bully) Canary
Monotonous Lark
Groundscraper Thrush
Black-bellied Starling
Red-winged Starling
Kurrichane Thrush
Yellow-billed Oxpecker
Pale (Pallid) Flycatcher
Red-billed Oxpecker
Marico Flycatcher
Southern Black Flycatcher
Fiscal Flycatcher
SUNBIRDS
Marico Sunbird
White-bellied Sunbird
Spotted Flycatcher
African Dusky Flycatcher
Ashy (Bluegrey) Flycatcher
Yellow-throated Petronia
Yellow Wagtail
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