The Birds

 

 

Ostrich

Coqui Francolin

Crested Francolin

Grey-winged Francolin

 

Cape Francolin

Natal Francolin

Red-necked Spurfowl

Swainson's Spurfowl

Helmeted Guineafowl

White-faced Whistling-Duck

Maccoa Duck

Egyptian Goose

South African Shelduck

 

Spur-winged Goose

Cape Teal

 

Mallard

 

Yellow-billed Duck

Cape Shoveler

Red-billed Teal

Southern Pochard

Scaly-throated Honeyguide

 

Greater Honeyguide

 

Lesser Honeyguide

 

Brown-backed Honeybird

 

Bennett's Woodpecker

 

Golden-tailed Woodpecker

 

Cardinal Woodpecker

 

Bearded Woodpecker

Olive Woodpecker

Acacia Pied Barbet

 

Black-collared Barbet

 

Crested Barbet

 

Red-billed Hornbill

Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill

 

Crowned Hornbill

African Grey Hornbill

Southern Ground-Hornbill

 

African Hoopoe

Green (Redbilled) Woodhoopoe

Common (Greater) Scimitar-bill

European Roller

 

Lilac-breasted Roller

Purple Roller

 

Broad-billed Roller

Malachite Kingfisher

 

African Pygmy-Kingfisher

Brown-hooded Kingfisher

Striped Kingfisher

Giant Kingfisher

 

Pied Kingfisher

White-fronted Bee-eater

Little Bee-eater

European Bee-eater

Speckled Mousebird

 

White-backed Mousebird

 

Red-faced Mousebird

 

Red-chested Cuckoo

 

Klaas's Cuckoo

Burchell's Coucal

Brown-headed Parrot

African Palm Swift

 

Alpine Swift

 

African Black Swift

 

Little Swift

 

Horus Swift

 

White-rumped Swift

 

Knysna Turaco

 

Purple-crested Turaco

Grey Go-away-bird

African Scops-Owl

 

Southern White-faced Scops-Owl

 

Spotted Eagle-Owl

    

Pearl-spotted Owlet

 

Fiery-necked Nightjar

 

Square-tailed (Mozambique) Nightjar

Pennant-winged Nightjar

Speckled Pigeon

African Olive Pigeon (Rameron Pigeon)

Lemon Dove

 

Laughing Dove

African Mourning Dove

Cape Turtle Dove

 

Red-eyed Dove

 

Emerald-spotted Wood Dove

Tambourine Dove

 

Namaqua Dove

African Green-Pigeon

 

Kori Bustard

 

Red-crested Korhaan

Southern Black Korhaan

 

Black-bellied Bustard

 

Blue Crane

 

Black Crake

 

African Purple Swamphen

Moorhen

 

Red-knobbed Coot

Double-banded Sandgrouse

 

Bar-tailed Godwit

 

Whimbrel

 

Marsh Sandpiper

 

Greenshank

 

Wood Sandpiper

 

Common Sandpiper

 

Turnstone

 

Knot

 

Sanderling

 

Little Stint

 

Curlew Sandpiper

 

Ruff

 

Painted Snipe

 

African Jacana

 

Water Thick-knee (Dikkop)

 

Spotted Thick-knee (Dikkop)

African Black Oystercatcher

 

Black-winged Stilt

Avocet

 

Grey Plover

 

Ringed Plover

 

Kittlitz's Plover

 

Three-banded Plover

Chestnut-banded Plover

 

White-fronted Plover

 

Blacksmith Plover (Lapwing)

White-crowned Plover (Lapwing)

Senegal Lapwing (Black-winged Plover)

 

Crowned Plover (Lapwing)

Bronze-winged Courser

 

Collared Pratincole

Subantarctic Skua

Arctic Skua

 

Kelp Gull

Grey-headed Gull

 

Hartlaub's Gull

 

Sabine's Gull

 

Caspian Tern

 

Swift (Great Crested) Tern

Sandwich Tern

 

Common Tern

 

Arctic Tern

 

Little Tern

 

Damara Tern

 

Osprey

 

Bat Hawk

 

Black-winged Kite

 

Yellow-billed Kite

 

African Fish Eagle

Hooded Vulture

 

White-backed Vulture (African)

Cape Vulture

Lappet-faced Vulture

 

White-headed Vulture

Black-chested Snake Eagle

 

Brown Snake Eagle

 

Bateleur

African Marsh Harrier

Black Harrier

 

African Harrier Hawk (Gymnogene)

 

Lizard Buzzard

African Goshawk

Shikra

Black Sparrowhawk

 

Steppe Buzzard

 

Forest Buzzard

 

Jackal Buzzard

Tawny Eagle

Steppe Eagle

Verreaux's Eagle

 

Wahlberg's Eagle

 

African Hawk Eagle

Booted Eagle

 

Martial Eagle

Secretarybird

 

Rock Kestrel

 

Peregrine Falcon

 

Little Grebe

Great Crested Grebe

 

Black-necked Grebe

Cape Gannet

 

African Darter

 

Reed Cormorant (Long-tailed)

Crowned Cormorant

Bank Cormorant

White-breasted Cormorant

Cape Cormorant

Black Heron (Egret)

 

Little Egret

 

Grey Heron

Black-headed Heron

 

Goliath Heron

 

Purple Heron

Great White Egret

 

Yellow-billed Egret (Intermediate)

 

Cattle Egret

Squacco Heron

 

Striated (Green-backed) Heron

Black-crowned Night Heron

 

Hamerkop

Greater Flamingo

Lesser Flamingo

 

Glossy Ibis

 

Hadeda Ibis

African Sacred Ibis

African Spoonbill

 

Great White Pelican

 

Yellow-billed Stork

African Openbill Stork

Woolly-necked Stork

 

Saddlebilled Stork

Marabou Stork

African Penguin

 

Northern Giant-Petrel

Pintado Petrel

White-chinned Petrel

Great Shearwater

Sooty Shearwater

 

Black-browed Albatross

Shy Albatross

 

Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross

 

Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross

  

Fiscal Shrike

Magpie Shrike

Southern White-crowned Shrike

Indian House Crow

 

Cape (Black) Crow

 

Pied Crow

White-necked Raven

(Eastern) Black-headed Oriole

Grey Cuckooshrike

Black Cuckooshrike

 

Square-tailed Drongo

 

Fork-tailed Drongo

Blue-mantled Crested Flycatcher

 

African Paradise-Flycatcher

Brubru

 

Black-backed Puffback

Black-crowned Tchagra

 

Brown-crowned Tchagra

Tropical Boubou

 

Southern Boubou

Bokmakierie

Orange-breasted Bushshrike

Olive Bushshrike

 

Grey-headed Bushshrike

White-crested Helmetshrike

 

Retz's Helmetshrike

Cape Batis

Chinspot Batis

 

Black-throated Wattle-eye

Cape Rock-Thrush

Groundscraper Thrush

Kurrichane Thrush

 

Olive Thrush

Karoo Thrush

Southern Black-Flycatcher

Fiscal Flycatcher

African Dusky Flycatcher

Ashy Flycatcher

Grey Tit-Flycatcher

 

White-starred Robin

 

Cape Robin-Chat

White-throated Robin-Chat

White-browed Robin Chat

 

Chorister Robin Chat

Bearded Scrub Robin (Eastern)

White-browed Scrub Robin

 

Karoo Scrub Robin

African Stonechat

 

Capped Wheatear

 

Familiar Chat

Mocking Cliff-Chat

Red-winged Starling

 

Black-bellied Starling

 

Cape Glossy Starling

Greater Blue-eared Starling

Burchell's Starling

Meves's Starling

Violet-backed Starling

(African) Pied Starling

Wattled Starling

Starling

 

Common Myna* (Indian)

Yellow-billed Oxpecker

Red-billed Oxpecker

Cape Penduline-Tit

Southern Black Tit

Brown-throated Martin

 

Banded Martin

 

Grey-rumped Swallow

 

Rock Martin

Swallow

 

White-throated Swallow

Wire-tailed Swallow

 

Pearl-breasted Swallow

 

Greater Striped-Swallow

 

Lesser Striped-Swallow

Red-breasted Swallow

Mosque Swallow

 

South African Cliff Swallow

 

House Martin

 

Black Saw-wing

Dark-capped Bulbul (Black-eyed)

 

Cape Bulbul

Sombre Greenbul

(African)Yellow-bellied Greenbul

Terrestrial Brownbul

 

Eastern Nicator

 

Red-faced Cisticola

 

Rattling Cisticola

Grey-backed Cisticola

Levaillant's Cicticola

Neddicky

 

Cloud Cisticola

 

Tawny-flanked Prinia

 

Karoo Prinia

Bar-throated Apalis

Yellow-breasted Apalis

 

Grey-backed Camaroptera

 

Green-backed Camaroptera

 

Cape White-eye

Little Rush Warbler*

 

Cape Grassbird

African Reed Warbler

 

Great Reed Warbler

 

Lesser Swamp-Warbler (Cape Reed)

 

Dark-capped Yellow Warbler

 

Long-billed Crombec

Yellow-throated Woodland Warbler

 

Willow Warbler

 

Arrow-marked Babbler

Blackcap

 

Rufous-naped Lark

 

Sabota Lark

Karoo Lark

 

Red-capped Lark

 

Large-billed Lark

 

Cape Sugarbird

 

Collared Sunbird

Orange-breasted Sunbird

Amethyst Sunbird (Black)

 

Scarlet-chested Sunbird

 

White-bellied Sunbird

Southern Double-collared Sunbird

 

Greater Double-collared Sunbird

Malachite Sunbird

 

Marico Sunbird

House Sparrow

 

Cape Sparrow

Southern Grey-headed Sparrow

Yellow-throated Petronia

African Pied Wagtail

Cape Wagtail

Yellow-throated Longclaw

 

Cape Longclaw

African (Grassveld) Pipit

 

Red-billed Buffalo Weaver

Lesser Masked Weaver

 

Spectacled Weaver

Cape Weaver

Southern Masked Weaver

 

Village Weaver

Red-headed Weaver

Red-billed Quelea

 

Southern Red Bishop

Yellow Bishop (Yellow-rumped Widow)

White-winged Widowbird

 

Thick-billed Weaver

 

Green-winged Pytilia (Melba Finch)

 

Red-billed Firefinch

African Firefinch

Jameson's Firefinch

Blue Waxbill

Violet-eared Waxbill

 

Swee Waxbill

Common Waxbill

Bronze Mannikin

 

Cut-throat Finch

Pin-tailed Whydah

 

Chaffinch

 

Cape Canary

 

Forest Canary

Yellow-fronted Canary

Yellow Canary

Brimstone (Bully) Canary

Streaky-headed Seed-eater

Cape Siskin

Lark-like Bunting

Cape Bunting

Golden-breasted Bunting