Bird List

common ostrich

White-faced Whistling-Duck

Fulvous Whistling-Duck

White-backed Duck

Knob-billed Duck

Egyptian Goose

* South African Shelduck

African Pygmy-Goose

* Garganey

Spur-winged Goose

Blue-billed Teal

Cape Shoveler

* Northern Shoveler

African Black Duck

Yellow-billed Duck

Cape Teal

Red-billed Duck

Southern Pochard

Maccoa Duck

Helmeted Guineafowl

Southern Crested Guineafowl

Crested Francolin

Coqui Francolin

Red-winged Francolin

** Gray-winged Francolin

Orange River Francolin

Shelley’s Francolin

* Blue Quail

Common Quail

Harlequin Quail

Natal Spurfowl
Red-necked Spurfowl

Swainson’s Spurfowl

Greater Flamingo

Lesser Flamingo

Little Grebe

Great Crested Grebe

Eared Grebe

Rock Pigeon

Speckled Pigeon

Lemon Dove

Red-eyed Dove

Rameron Pigeon

* European Turtle-Dove

Ringneck Dove

Laughing Dove

Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove

Namaqua Dove

Mourning Collared-Dove

Blue-spotted Wood-Dove

Tambourine Dove

African Green-Pigeon

Yellow-throated Sandgrouse

Double-banded Sandgrouse

Denham's Bustard
Kori Bustard

White-bellied Bustard

Ludwig's Bustard
Black-bellied Bustard

** Blue Bustard

Red-crested Bustard

White-quilled Bustard

Purple-crested Turaco

Knysna Turaco

Livingstone’s Turaco

Grey Go-away-bird

Burchell's Coucal

* Senegal Coucal

Black Coucal

Green Malkoha

Great Spotted Cuckoo

Levaillant’s Cuckoo

Pied Cuckoo

Thick-billed Cuckoo

Dideric Cuckoo

Klaas’s Cuckoo

African Emerald Cuckoo

* Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo

Black Cuckoo

African Cuckoo

Red-chested Cuckoo

* Madagascar Cuckoo

Common Cuckoo

Pennant-winged Nightjar

Eurasian Nightjar

Rufous-cheeked Nightjar

Fiery-necked Nightjar

* Swamp Nightjar

Freckled Nightjar

Square-tailed Nightjar

Mottled Spinetail

Bat-like Spinetail

Alpine Swift

Common Swift

African Swift

Little Swift

Horus Swift

White-rumped Swift

African Palm Swift

Buff-spotted Flufftail

Red-chested Flufftail

* Streaky-breasted Flufftail

African Rail

Corn Crake

African Crake

* Spotted Crake

Lesser Moorhen

Eurasian Moorhen

Red-knobbed Coot

Allen’s Gallinule

African Purple Swamphen

* Striped Crake

Black Crake

Baillon’s Crake

African Finfoot

* Gray Crowned-Crane

Blue Crane

Wattled Crane

Spotted Thick-knee

Water Thick-knee

Black-winged Stilt
Avocet

Blacksmith Lapwing

Three-banded Plover

* Black-bellied Plover

Chestnut-banded Plover

Common Ringed Plover

White-crowned Lapwing

Senegal Lapwing

Black-winged Lapwing

Crowned Lapwing

Wattled Lapwing

Caspian Plover

Kittlitz’s Plover

White-fronted Plover

Greater Painted-Snipe

African Jacana

* Lesser Jacana

* Common Whimbrel

African Snipe

* Red Phalarope

Common Sandpiper

Green Sandpiper

Wood Sandpiper

Marsh Sandpiper

* Common Redshank

* Lesser Yellowlegs

Common Greenshank

* Ruddy Turnstone

Ruff

Curlew Sandpiper

* Sanderling

* Dunlin

* Baird’s Sandpiper

Little Stint

* Pectoral Sandpiper

Small Buttonquail

Black-rumped Buttonquail

** Fynbos Buttonquail

Bronze-winged Courser

* Three-banded Courser

Burchell’s Courser

Temminck’s Courser

Black-winged Pratincole

Collared Pratincole

Gray-headed Gull

* Lesser Black-backed Gull

* African Skimmer

White-winged Tern

Whiskered Tern

African Openbill

Black Stork

Abdim’s Stork

White Stork

African Woolly-necked Stork

Saddle-billed Stork

Marabou Stork

Yellow-billed Stork

African Darter

Long-tailed Cormorant

Great Cormorant

Great White Pelican

Pink-backed Pelican

Hamerkop

Glossy Ibis

African Sacred Ibis

Southern Bald Ibis

Hadeda Ibis

African Spoonbill

Dwarf Bittern

Little Bittern

* Great Bittern

* Slaty Egret

Little Egret

Black Heron

White-backed Night Heron

Black-crowned Night Heron

Striated Heron (Green-backed Heron)

Rufous-bellied Heron

Squacco Heron

Western Cattle Egret

Great Egret

Yellow-billed Egret

Grey Heron

Purple Heron

Black-headed Heron

Goliath Heron

Osprey

Secretary bird

Black-winged Kite

African Harrier-Hawk

Palm-nut Vulture

Egyptian Vulture

European Honey-Buzzard

African Cuckoo-Hawk

White-headed Vulture

Lappet-faced Vulture 

Hooded Vulture

White-backed Vulture

Cape Griffon

Bateleur

Black-chested Snake-Eagle

Brown Snake-Eagle

Bat Hawk

Crowned Eagle

Martial Eagle

Long-crested Eagle

Lesser Spotted Eagle

Wahlberg’s Eagle

Booted Eagle

Ayres’s Hawk-Eagle

Tawny Eagle

Steppe Eagle

Verreaux’s Eagle

African Hawk-Eagle

Lizard Buzzard

Dark Chanting-Goshawk

Pale Chanting-Goshawk

Gabar Goshawk

* Western Marsh Harrier

African Marsh Harrier

Black Harrier

Pallid Harrier

Montagu’s Harrier

African Goshawk

Shikra

Little Sparrowhawk

Ovambo Sparrowhawk

Rufous-breasted Sparrowhawk

Black Goshawk

Black Kite

African Fish-Eagle

Common Buzzard

** Forest Buzzard

* Long-legged Buzzard

* Augur Buzzard

Jackal Buzzard

African Grass-Owl

Barn Owl

African Scops-Owl

Southern White-faced Owl

Spotted Eagle-Owl

Cape Eagle-Owl

Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl

Pel’s Fishing-Owl

Pearl-spotted Owlet

African Barred Owlet

African Wood-Owl

Marsh Owl

Speckled Mousebird

White-backed Mousebird

Red-faced Mousebird

Narina Trogon

Eurasian Hoopoe

Green Woodhoopoe

Common Scimitarbill

Southern Ground Hornbill

Trumpeter Hornbill

Crowned Hornbill
African Gray Hornbill
Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill
Southern Red-billed Hornbill
Half-collared Kingfisher

Malachite Kingfisher

Woodland Kingfisher

African Pygmy Kingfisher

Gray-headed Kingfisher

Striped Kingfisher

Brown-hooded Kingfisher

Pied Kingfisher

Giant Kingfisher

White-fronted Bee-eater
Little Bee-eater
Swallow-tailed Bee-eater

* White-throated Bee-eater

Blue-cheeked Bee-eater

European Bee-eater

Southern Carmine Bee-eater

European Roller

Lilac-breasted Roller

Racket-tailed Roller

Broad-billed Roller

Rufous-crowned Roller

Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird

Red-fronted Tinkerbird

Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird

Black-collared Barbet

Pied Barbet

Crested Barbet

Wahlberg’s Honeyguide

Lesser Honeyguide

Scaly-throated Honeyguide

Greater Honeyguide

Rufous-necked Wryneck

Bearded Woodpecker

Cardinal Woodpecker

Olive Woodpecker

* Ground Woodpecker

Bennett’s Woodpecker

Golden-tailed Woodpecker

* Pygmy Falcon

Lesser Kestrel

Rock Kestrel

Greater Kestrel

Dickinson’s Kestrel

* Red-necked Falcon

Red-footed Falcon

Amur Falcon

* Sooty Falcon

Eurasian Hobby

Peregrine Falcon

* African Hobby

Lanner Falcon

Rosy-faced Lovebird

Brown-necked Parrot

Cape Parrot

Meyer’s Parrot

Brown-headed Parrot

African Broadbill

* African Pitta

Gray Cuckooshrike

White-breasted Cuckooshrike

Black Cuckooshrike

Eurasian Golden Oriole

African Golden Oriole

African Black-headed Oriole

Black-throated Wattle-eye

Cape Batis

* Woodwards’ Batis

Chinspot Batis

White Helmetshrike

Retz’s Helmetshrike

* Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher

Brubru

Black-backed Puffback

Black-crowned Tchagra

Brown-crowned Tchagra

* Southern Tchagra

Tropical Boubou

Southern Boubou Shrike

* Crimson-breasted Gonolek

* Bokmakierie

Sulphur-breasted Bushshrike

Olive Bushshrike

* Black-fronted Bushshrike

Four-colored Bushshrike

Gray-headed Bushshrike

Square-tailed Drongo

Fork-tailed Drongo

African Crested Flycatcher

African Paradise-Flycatcher

Red-backed Shrike

Magpie Shrike

Southern Fiscal

Southern White-crowned Shrike

Lesser Gray Shrike

White-necked Raven

* Cape Crow

Pied Crow

Southern Hyliota

Fairy Flycatcher

Southern Black-Tit

Ashy Tit

African Penduline-Tit

Southern Penduline-Tit

Spike-heeled Lark

Short-clawed Lark

** Eastern Long-billed Lark

Dusky Lark

Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark

Grey-backed Sparrow-Lark

Sabota Lark

Fawn-colored Lark

* Eastern Clapper Lark

Rufous-naped Lark

Flappet Lark

Monotonous Lark

Red-capped Lark

* Pink-billed Lark

** Botha’s Lark

Eastern Nicator

Cape Crombec

Cape Grassbird

Yellow-bellied Eremomela

Greencap Eremomela

Burnt-neck Eremomela

Stierling’s Wren-Warbler

* Barred Wren-Warbler

Green-backed Camaroptera

Bar-throated Apalis

Yellow-breasted Apalis

Rudd’s Apalis

Tawny-flanked Prinia

Black-chested Prinia

* Drakensberg Prinia

Red-faced Cisticola

Rock-loving Cisticola

Rattling Cisticola

Tinkling Cisticola

Wailing Cisticola

Rufous-winged Cisticola

Levaillant’s Cisticola

Croaking Cisticola

Piping Cisticola

Zitting Cisticola

Desert Cisticola

Cloud Cisticola

Pale-crowned Cisticola

* Wing-snapping Cisticola

African Yellow-Warbler

Olive-tree Warbler

Icterine Warbler

Sedge Warbler

Marsh Warbler

Common Reed Warbler

Lesser Swamp Warbler

Great Reed Warbler

* River Warbler

* Fan-tailed Grassbird

Barratt’s Warbler

Little Rush Warbler

Blue Martin

Plain Martin

Rock Martin

Western House-Martin

Black Sawwing

Barn Swallow

Gray-rumped Swallow

Pearl-breasted Swallow

Bank Swallow

Wire-tailed Swallow

Greater Striped Swallow

White-throated Swallow

* South African Swallow

Rufous-chested Swallow

Mosque Swallow

Lesser Striped Swallow

Sombre Greenbul

Yellow-bellied Greenbul

Terrestrial Brownbul

* Yellow-streaked Greenbul

Black-fronted Bulbul

Common Bulbul

* Yellow-throated Woodland-Warbler

Willow Warbler

Garden Warbler

Bush Blackcap

Greater Whitethroat

Chestnut-vented Warbler

Cape White-eye

* Southern Yellow White-eye

Arrow-marked Babbler

Southern Pied-Babbler

Red-billed Oxpecker

Yellow-billed Oxpecker

*# European Starling

Wattled Starling

*# Common Myna

Violet-backed Starling

Red-winged Starling

Black-bellied Starling

Burchell’s Starling

Meves’s Starling

African Pied Starling

Greater Blue-eared Starling

Cape Starling

Orange Ground-Thrush

Groundscraper Thrush

Kurrichane Thrush

Olive Thrush

Karoo Thrush

African Dusky Flycatcher

Spotted Flycatcher

Marico Flycatcher

Pale Flycatcher

Gray Tit-Flycatcher

Ashy Flycatcher

Fiscal Flycatcher

Southern Black-Flycatcher

Brown Scrub-Robin

Bearded Scrub-Robin

Kalahari Scrub-Robin

Red-backed Scrub-Robin

* Cape Robin-Chat

White-throated Robin-Chat

White-browed Robin-Chat

Red-capped Robin-Chat

Chorister Robin-Chat

* White-starred Robin

* Thrush Nightingale

* Collared Flycatcher

* Collared Palm-Thrush

** Cape Rock-Thrush

African Stonechat

Buff-streaked Chat

* Sentinel Rock-Thrush

Southern Anteater-Chat

Arnot’s Chat

* Mountain Wheatear

Mocking Cliff-Chat

Capped Wheatear

Familiar Chat

* Northern Wheatear

Gurney’s Sugarbird

Plain-backed Sunbird

Collared Sunbird

Olive Sunbird

Amethyst Sunbird

Scarlet-chested Sunbird

Malachite Sunbird

Mouse-colored Sunbird

* Greater Double-collared Sunbird

* Southern Double-collared Sunbird

Marico Sunbird

Orange-breasted Sunbird

Purple-banded Sunbird

White-breasted Sunbird

* Variable Sunbird

Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver

* White-browed Sparrow-Weaver

Red-headed Weaver

* Cape Weaver

* African Golden-Weaver

Scaly Weaver

Spectacled Weaver

Holub’s Golden-Weaver

Southern Brown-throated Weaver

Lesser Masked-Weaver

Lesser Masked-Weaver

Southern Masked-Weaver

Spotted-backed Weaver

Red-billed Quelea

Southern Red Bishop

Yellow-crowned Bishop

Yellow Bishop

White-winged Widowbird

Red-collared Widowbird

Fan-tailed Widowbird

Long-tailed Widowbird

Grosbeak Weaver

Bronze Mannikin

Magpie Mannikin

Black-and-white Mannikin

Swee Waxbill

Green-backed Twinspot

Black-faced Waxbill

* Black-tailed Waxbill

Common Waxbill

Quailfinch

Cut-throat

Red-headed Finch

Zebra Waxbill

Violet-eared Waxbill

Southern Cordonbleu

Green-winged Pytilia

* Orange-winged Pytilia

Pink-throated Twinspot

Red-billed Firefinch

African Firefinch

Jameson’s Firefinch

Pin-tailed Whydah

Broad-tailed Paradise-Whydah

Eastern Paradise-Whydah

Shaft-tailed Whydah

Village Indigobird

Variable Indigobird

Purple Indigobird

* Parasitic Weaver

*# House Sparrow

Great Rufous Sparrow

* Cape Sparrow

Southern Gray-headed Sparrow

Yellow-throated Bush Sparrow

Cape Wagtail

Mountain Wagtail

Western Yellow Wagtail

* Grey Wagtail

African Pied Wagtail
African Pipit

* Nicholson’s Pipit

Plain-backed Pipit

Buffy Pipit

Striped Pipit

* Tree Pipit

* Red-throated Pipit

* Short-tailed Pipit

Bush Pipit

* Golden Pipit

Orange-throated Longclaw

Yellow-throated Longclaw

** Forest Canary

Yellow-fronted Canary

Black-throated Canary

Lemon-breasted Seedeater

* Brimstone Canary

Yellow Canary

Streaky-headed Seedeater

Cape Canary

Golden-breasted Bunting
Cape Bunting
Cinnamon-breasted Bunting
* Lark-like Bunting