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Trails of Africa Safaris Birds Checklist No Trails of Africa Safaris Birds Checklist No. Bird Species Tick No. Bird Species Tick No. Bird Species Tick 1. Anseriformes: Anatidae 2. Phoenicopteriformes: 3. Caprimulgiformes: Phoenicopteridae Apodidae 4. White-Faced Whistling Duck 5. Greater Flamingo 6. Mottled Spinetailed Swift 7. Fulvous Whistling Duck 8. Lesser Flamingo 9. Sabine's Spinetailed Swift 10. Maccoa Duck 11. Phoenicopteriformes: 12. Böhm's Spinetailed Swift Podicipedidae 13. Egyptian Goose 14. Little Grebe 15. Scarce Swift 16. Ruddy Shelduck 17. Great Crested Grebe 18. African Palm Swift 19. Southern Pochard 20. Black-necked Grebe 21. Alpine Swift 22. Common Pochard 23. Columbiformes: Columbidae 24. Mottled Swift 25. Ferruginous Duck 26. Rock Dove 27. White-rumped Swift 28. Tufted Duck 29. Speckled Pigeon 30. Horus Swift 31. Garganey 32. African Olive Pigeon 33. Little Swift 34. Hottentot Teal 35. Eastern Bronze-naped Pigeon 36. Nyanza Swift 37. Northern Shoveler 38. Lemon Dove 39. African Swift 40. Gadwall 41. European Turtle Dove 42. Forbes-Watson's Swift 43. Eurasian Wigeon 44. Dusky Turtle Dove 45. Common Swift 46. African Black Duck 47. White-winged Collared Dove 48. Cuculiformes: Cuculidae 49. Yellow-Billed Duck 50. Mourning Collared Dove 51. Senegal Coucal 52. Mallard 53. Red-eyed Dove 54. Blue-headed Coucal 55. Cape Teal 56. Ring-necked Dove 57. White-browed Coucal 58. Red-Billed Teal 59. Laughing Dove 60. African Black Coucal 61. Northern Pintail 62. Bruce's Green Pigeon 63. Yellowbill 64. Common Teal 65. African Green Pigeon 66. Jacobin Cuckoo 67. White-Backed Duck 68. Emerald-spotted Wood Dove 69. Levaillant's Cuckoo 70. Spur-Winged Goose 71. Blue-spotted Wood Dove 72. Great Spotted Cuckoo 73. Comb Duck 74. Tambourine Dove 75. Thick-billed Cuckoo 76. African Pygmy Goose 77. Namaqua Dove 78. Klaas's Cuckoo 79. Galliformes: Numididae 80. Pterocliformes: Pteroclidae 81. African Emerald Cuckoo 82. Helmeted Guineafowl 83. Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse 84. Diederick Cuckoo 85. Vulturine Guineafowl 86. Yellow-throated Sandgrouse 87. Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo 88. Crested Guineafowl 89. Black-faced Sandgrouse 90. Red-chested Cuckoo 91. Galliformes: Odontophoridae 92. Lichtenstein's Sandgrouse 93. Black Cuckoo 94. Stone Partridge 95. Four-banded Sandgrouse 96. Common Cuckoo 97. Galliformes: Phasianidae 98. Phaethontiformes: 99. African Cuckoo Phaethontidae 100. Common Quail 101. White-tailed Tropicbird 102. Lesser Cuckoo 103. Harlequin Quail 104. CAPRIMULGIFORMES: 105. Madagascar Cuckoo Caprimulgidae 106. Blue Quail 107. European Nightjar 108. Gruiformes: Rallidae 109. Hildebrandt's Francolin 110. Sombre Nightjar 111. African Rail 112. Scaly Francolin 113. Nubian Nightjar 114. African Crake 115. Yellow-Necked Spurfowl 116. Donaldson Smith's Nightjar 117. Corncrake 118. Red-Necked Spurfowl 119. Fiery-necked Nightjar 120. Spotted Crake 121. Jackson's Francolin 122. Montane Nightjar 123. Black Crake 124. Chestnut-Naped Francolin 125. Swamp Nightjar 126. Baillon's Crake 127. Crested Francolin 128. Plain Nightjar 129. Striped Crake 130. Coqui Francolin 131. Star-spotted Nightjar 132. Purple Swamphen 133. Ring-Necked Francolin 134. Freckled Nightjar 135. Allen's Gallinule 136. Red-Winged Francolin 137. Long-tailed Nightjar 138. Common Moorhen 139. Moorland Francolin 140. Slender-tailed Nightjar 141. Lesser Moorhen 142. Shelley's Francolin 143. Mozambique Nightjar 144. Red-knobbed Coot 145. Orange River Francolin 146. Standard-winged Nightjar 147. Gruiformes: Sarothruridae 148. 149. Pennant-winged Nightjar 150. White-spotted Flufftail Gruiformes: Heliornithidae 151. African Finfoot 152. Pelecaniformes: Ciconiidae 153. Buff-spotted Flufftail 154. Gruiformes: Gruidae 155. Marabou 156. Red-chested Flufftail 157. Grey Crowned Crane 158. Yellow-billed Stork 159. Streaky-breasted Flufftail 160. Black Crowned Crane 161. African Openbill 162. Striped Flufftail 163. Demoiselle Crane 164. Black Stork 165. Pelecaniformes: Threskiornithidae 166. Common Crane 167. Abdim's Stork 168. African Sacred Ibis 169. 170. Woolly-necked Stork 171. African Spoonbill Otidiformes: Otididae 172. Black-bellied Bustard 173. European White Stork 174. Eurasian Spoonbill 175. Hartlaub's Bustard 176. Saddle-bill Stork 177. Olive Ibis 178. Arabian Bustard 179. Marabou 180. Hadada Ibis 181. Kori Bustard 182. Yellow-billed Stork 183. Glossy Ibis 184. Denham's Bustard 185. African Openbill 186. Pelecaniformes: Fregatidae 187. Heuglin's Bustard 188. Pelecaniformes: 189. Lesser Frigatebird Pelecanidae 190. Buff-crested Bustard 191. Great White Pelican 192. Great Frigatebird 193. White-bellied Bustard 194. Pink-backed Pelican 195. Pelecaniformes: Sulidae 196. Musophagiformes: 197. Pelecaniformes: Scopidae 198. Red-footed Booby Musophagidae 199. Great Blue Turaco 200. Hamerkop 201. Brown Booby 202. White-bellied Go-away-bird 203. Pelecaniformes: 204. Masked Booby Balaenicipitidae 205. Eastern Grey Plantain-eater 206. Shoebill 207. Coraciiformes: Alcedinidae 208. Bare-faced Go-away-bird 209. Pelecaniformes: Ardeidae 210. African Pygmy Kingfisher 211. Purple-crested Turaco 212. Little Bittern 213. African Malachite Kingfisher 214. Schalow's Turaco 215. Dwarf Bittern 216. Shining-blue Kingfisher 217. Hartlaub's Turaco 218. White-backed Night Heron 219. Half-collared Kingfisher 220. Black-billed Turaco 221. Black-crowned Night Heron 222. Giant Kingfisher 223. Fischer's Turaco 224. Striated Heron 225. Pied Kingfisher 226. White-crested Turaco 227. Squacco Heron 228. Grey-headed Kingfisher 229. Ross's Turaco 230. Madagascar Pond Heron 231. Brown-hooded Kingfisher 232. Procellariiformes: 233. Rufous-bellied Heron 234. Striped Kingfisher Oceanitidae 235. Wilson's Storm-petrel 236. Cattle Egret 237. Blue-breasted Kingfisher 238. Black-bellied Storm-petrel 239. Grey Heron 240. Woodland Kingfisher 241. Procellariiformes: 242. Black-headed Heron 243. Mangrove Kingfisher Diomedeidae 244. Black-browed Albatross 245. Goliath Heron 246. Collared Kingfisher 247. White-capped Albatross 248. Purple Heron 249. Falconiformes: Falconidae 250. Procellariiformes: 251. Great Egret 252. African Pygmy Falcon Hydrobatidae 253. Matsudaira's Storm-petrel 254. Intermediate Egret 255. Lesser Kestrel 256. Leach's Storm-petrel 257. Black Heron 258. Common Kestrel 259. Procellariiformes: 260. Little Egret 261. Greater Kestrel Procellariidae 262. Cape Petrel 263. Western Reef Egret 264. Fox Kestrel 265. Antarctic Prion 266. Little Bittern 267. Grey Kestrel 268. Slender-billed Prion 269. Dwarf Bittern 270. Dickinson's Kestrel 271. White-chinned Petrel 272. White-backed Night Heron 273. Red-necked Falcon 274. Wedge-tailed Shearwater 275. Charadriiformes: 276. Red-footed Falcon Burhinidae 277. Sooty Shearwater 278. Eurasian Thick-knee 279. Amur Falcon 280. Tropical Shearwater 281. Senegal Thick-knee 282. Eleonora's Falcon 283. Jouanin's Petrel 284. Water Thick-knee 285. Sooty Falcon 286. Accipitriformes: Accipitridae 287. Spotted Thick-knee 288. Eurasian Hobby 289. Black-winged Kite 290. Charadriiformes: 291. African Hobby Pluvianidae 292. Scissor-tailed Kite 293. Egyptian Plover 294. Lanner Falcon 295. European Honey Buzzard 296. Charadriiformes: 297. Saker Falcon Haematopodidae 298. African Cuckoo Hawk 299. Eurasian Oystercatcher 300. Peregrine Falcon 301. African Harrier Hawk 302. Charadriiformes: 303. Taita Falcon Recurvirostridae 304. Palm-nut Vulture 305. Pied Avocet 306. Psittaciformes: Psittacidae 307. Bearded Vulture 308. Black-winged Stilt 309. Grey Parrot 310. Egyptian Vulture 311. Charadriiformes: 312. Red-fronted Parrot Charadriidae 313. Bateleur 314. Grey Plover 315. Brown Parrot 316. Short-toed Eagle 317. Pacific Golden Plover 318. Brown-headed Parrot 319. Beaudouin's Snake Eagle 320. Common Ringed Plover 321. Red-bellied Parrot 322. Black-chested Snake Eagle 323. Little Ringed Plover 324. Grey Parrot 325. Brown Snake Eagle 326. Kittlitz's Plover 327. Psittaciformes: Psittaculidae 328. Southern Banded Snake Eagle 329. Three-banded Plover 330. Red-headed Lovebird 331. Western Banded Snake Eagle 332. White-fronted Plover 333. Fischer's Lovebird 334. White-headed Vulture 335. Kentish Plover 336. Yellow-collared Lovebird 337. Hooded Vulture 338. Chestnut-banded Plover 339. Red-headed Lovebird 340. White-backed Vulture 341. Lesser Sand Plover 342. Fischer's Lovebird 343. Rüppell's Vulture 344. Greater Sand Plover 345. Passeriformes: Pittidae 346. Griffon Vulture 347. Caspian Plover 348. African Pitta 349. Lappet-faced Vulture 350. Northern Lapwing 351. Passeriformes: Calyptomenidae 352. Bat Hawk 353. Long-toed Lapwing 354. African Broadbill 355. Crowned Eagle 356. Blacksmith Lapwing 357. Piciformes: Ramphastidae 358. Martial Eagle 359. Spur-winged Lapwing 360. Red-and-yellow Barbet 361. Long-crested Eagle 362. Black-headed Lapwing 363. D'Arnaud's Barbet 364. Lesser Spotted Eagle 365. Senegal Lapwing 366. Yellow-spotted Barbet 367. Greater Spotted Eagle 368. Black-winged Lapwing 369. Green Barbet 370. Tawny Eagle 371. Crowned Lapwing 372. Grey-throated Barbet 373. Steppe Eagle 374. African Wattled Lapwing 375. White-eared Barbet 376. Eastern Imperial Eagle 377. Brown-chested Lapwing 378. Eastern Green Tinkerbird 379. Verreaux's Eagle 380. Strigiformes: Strigidae 381. Moustached Green Tinkerbird 382. African Hawk Eagle 383. Pearl-spotted Owlet 384. Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird 385. Cassin's Hawk Eagle 386. Red-chested Owlet 387. Red-fronted Tinkerbird 388. Wahlberg's Eagle 389. African Barred Owlet 390. Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird 391. Booted Eagle 392. Sokoke Scops Owl 393. Hairy-breasted Barbet 394. Ayres's Eagle 395. Eurasian Scops
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