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HWANGE NATIONAL PARK CHECKLIST As at June 2013 R=Rare, V=Vagrant, ?=Confirmation Required HWANGE NATIONAL PARK CHECKLIST as at June 2013 R=rare, V=vagrant, ?=confirmation required Common Ostrich Egyptian Vulture V Crested Francolin Black-necked Grebe V Hooded Vulture Shelley's Francolin Little Grebe Cape Vulture Red-billed Spurfowl Great White Pelican White-backed Vulture Natal Spurfowl Pink-backed Pelican Lappet-faced Vulture Swainson's Spurfowl Reed Cormorant White-headed Vulture Harlequin Quail African Darter Black Kite Helmeted Guineafowl Grey Heron Black-shouldered Kite Crested Guineafowl Black-headed Heron V African Cuckoo Hawk Kurrichane Buttonquail Goliath Heron Bat Hawk Wattled Crane Purple Heron V European Honey-buzzard Grey Crowned Crane Great Egret Verreaux's Eagle Corn Crake Little Egret Tawny Eagle African Crake Yellow-billed Egret Steppe Eagle Black Crake Black Heron V Lesser Spotted Eagle Spotted Crake Slaty Egret V Wahlberg's Eagle Baillon's Crake Cattle Egret African Hawk-eagle Striped Crake Squacco Heron V Ayres's Hawk-eagle African Purple Swamphen Green-backed Heron Martial Eagle Allen's Gallinule Rufous-bellied Heron V African Crowned Eagle Common Moorhen Black-crowned Night-heron Brown Snake-eagle Lesser Moorhen White-backed Night-heron Black-chested Snake-eagle Red-knobbed Coot Little Bittern Western Banded Snake-eagle African Finfoot Dwarf Bittern Bateleur Kori Bustard Hamerkop Palm-nut Vulture R Denham's Bustard White Stork African Fish-eagle Red-crested Korhaan Black Stork Steppe Buzzard Black-bellied Bustard Abdim's Stork Lizard Buzzard African Jacana Woolly-necked Stork Ovambo Sparrowhawk Lesser Jacana African Openbill Little Sparrowhawk Greater Painted-snipe Saddle-billed Stork Black Sparrowhawk Common Ringed Plover Marabou Stork Shikra Little Ringed Plover V Yellow-billed Stork African Goshawk White-fronted Plover African Sacred Ibis Gabar Goshawk Chestnut-banded Plover Glossy Ibis Southern Pale Chanting-goshawk Kittlitz's Plover African Spoonbill Dark Chanting-goshawk Three-banded Plover Greater Flamingo Western Marsh-harrier Greater Sand Plover R Lesser Flamingo African Marsh-harrier Caspian Plover White-faced Duck Montagu's Harrier Pacific Golden Plover Fulvous Duck Pallid Harrier Crowned Lapwing White-backed Duck African Harrier-hawk Blacksmith Lapwing Egyptian Goose Osprey Spur-winged Lapwing V Yellow-billed Duck Peregrine Falcon African Wattled Lapwing African Black Duck Lanner Falcon Ruddy Turnstone Cape Teal Eurasian Hobby Common Sandpiper Hottentot Teal African Hobby Green Sandpiper Red-billed Teal Red-necked Falcon Wood Sandpiper Cape Shoveler V Red-footed Falcon Common Redshank R Southern Pochard Amur Falcon Marsh Sandpiper African Pygmy-goose Rock Kestrel Common Greenshank Comb Duck Greater Kestrel Curlew Sandpiper Spur-winged Goose Lesser Kestrel Little Stint Maccoa Duck Dickinson's Kestrel Ruff Secretarybird Coqui Francolin Great Snipe V African Snipe European Nightjar Sabota Lark Black-tailed Godwit Fiery-necked Nightjar Dusky Lark Eurasian Curlew R Rufous-cheeked Nightjar Red-capped Lark Common Whimbrel Freckled Nightjar Chestnut-backed Sparrowlark Pied Avocet Square-tailed Nightjar Grey-backed Sparrowlark Black-winged Stilt Pennant-winged Nightjar Barn Swallow Spotted Thick-knee Common Swift White-throated Swallow Water Thick-knee African Black Swift Wire-tailed Swallow Temminck's Courser White-rumped Swift Red-breasted Swallow Double-banded Courser Horus Swift V Red-rumped Swallow V Three-banded Courser Little Swift Mosque Swallow Bronze-winged Courser African Palm-swift Greater Striped Swallow Collared Pratincole Red-faced Mousebird Lesser Striped Swallow Black-winged Pratincole Pied Kingfisher Common House-martin Grey-headed Gull Giant Kingfisher V Grey-rumped Swallow Gull-billed Tern V Malachite Kingfisher Sand Martin Caspian Tern African Pygmy-kingfisher Brown-throated Martin Whiskered Tern Woodland Kingfisher Banded Martin White-winged Tern Brown-hooded Kingfisher Black Cuckooshrike African Skimmer Grey-headed Kingfisher White-breasted Cuckooshrike Namaqua Sandgrouse Striped Kingfisher Fork-tailed Drongo Burchell's Sandgrouse European Bee-eater Eurasian Golden Oriole Yellow-throated Sandgrouse Madagascar Bee-eater African Golden Oriole Double-banded Sandgrouse Southern Carmine Bee-eater Black-headed Oriole Speckled Pigeon V White-fronted Bee-eater V Cape Crow V Red-eyed Dove Little Bee-eater Pied Crow Cape Turtle-dove Swallow-tailed Bee-eater Ashy Tit Laughing Dove European Roller Southern Black Tit Namaqua Dove Lilac-breasted Roller Cape Penduline-tit Emerald-spotted Wood-dove Racquet-tailed Roller Grey Penduline-tit African Green-pigeon Purple Roller Arrow-marked Babbler Grey-headed Parrot Broad-billed Roller Southern Pied Babbler Meyer's Parrot African Hoopoe African Red-eyed Bulbul Grey Go-away-bird Green Wood-hoopoe Dark-capped Bulbul Common Cuckoo Common Scimitarbill Terrestrial Brownbul African Cuckoo African Grey Hornbill Yellow-bellied Greenbul Red-chested Cuckoo Red-billed Hornbill Eastern Nicator Black Cuckoo Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill Kurrichane Thrush Great Spotted Cuckoo Crowned Hornbill Groundscraper Thrush Levaillant's Cuckoo Bradfield's Hornbill Miombo Rock-thrush V Jacobin Cuckoo Southern Ground-hornbill Capped Wheatear African Emerald Cuckoo Black-collared Barbet Familiar Chat Klaas's Cuckoo Acacia Pied Barbet Arnot's Chat Diderick Cuckoo Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird Ant-eating Chat Black Coucal Crested Barbet African Stonechat V Senegal Coucal Greater Honeyguide White-browed Robin-chat White-browed Coucal V Lesser Honeyguide Thrush Nightingale Barn Owl Brown-backed Honeybird White-browed Scrub-robin African Wood-owl V Green-backed Honeybird Kalahari Scrub-robin Marsh Owl Bennett's Woodpecker Bearded Scrub-robin African Scops-owl Golden-tailed Woodpecker Common Whitethroat Southern White-faced Scops-owl Cardinal Woodpecker Chestnut-vented Tit-babbler Pearl-spotted Owlet Bearded Woodpecker Icterine Warbler African Barred Owlet Monotonous Lark Great Reed-warbler Spotted Eagle-owl Rufous-naped Lark Sedge Warbler Verreaux's Eagle-owl Flappet Lark Lesser Swamp-warbler Pel's Fishing-owl V Fawn-coloured Lark Willow Warbler Red-faced Crombec Orange-breasted Bush-shrike Red-billed Firefinch Long-billed Crombec Grey-headed Bush-shrike Blue Waxbill Yellow-bellied Eremomela White-crested Helmet-shrike Violet-eared Waxbill Green-capped Eremomela Retz's Helmet-shrike Common Waxbill Burnt-necked Eremomela Southern White-crowned Shrike Black-faced Waxbill Grey-backed Camaroptera Wattled Starling African Quailfinch Barred Wren-warbler Violet-backed Starling Orange-breasted Waxbill Zitting Cisticola Burchell's Starling R Cut-throat Finch Desert Cisticola Meves's Starling Bronze Mannikin R Tinkling Cisticola Cape Glossy Starling Pin-tailed Whydah Rattling Cisticola Greater Blue-eared Starling Shaft-tailed Whydah Croaking Cisticola Miombo Blue-eared Starling Long-tailed Paradise-whydah Neddicky Red-winged Starling Broad-tailed Paradise-whydah Tawny-flanked Prinia Yellow-billed Oxpecker Purple Widowfinch Black-chested Prinia Red-billed Oxpecker Steel-blue Widowfinch Spotted Flycatcher Copper Sunbird V Yellow-fronted Canary Ashy Flycatcher Marico Sunbird Black-throated Canary Grey Tit-flycatcher Purple-banded Sunbird Streaky-headed Seedeater R Southern Black Flycatcher Miombo Double-collared Sunbird R Black-eared Seedeater Marico Flycatcher White-bellied Sunbird Golden-breasted Bunting Pale Flycatcher Scarlet-chested Sunbird Cinnamon-breasted Bunting Fiscal Flycatcher V Amethyst Sunbird Lark-like Bunting Chin-spot Batis African Yellow White-eye African Paradise-flycatcher Red-billed Buffalo-weaver African Pied Wagtail White-browed Sparrow-weaver Yellow Wagtail House Sparrow African Pipit Southern Grey-headed Sparrow Buffy Pipit Yellow-throated Petronia Tree Pipit Scaly-feathered Finch Golden Pipit V Village Weaver Lesser Grey Shrike Southern Masked-weaver Red-backed Shrike Golden Weaver Magpie Shrike Red-headed Weaver Tropical Boubou Red-billed Quelea Crimson-breasted Shrike Yellow-crowned Bishop Black-backed Puffback White-winged Widowbird Brubru Orange-winged Pytilia Brown-crowned Tchagra Green-winged Pytilia Black-crowned Tchagra Jameson's Firefinch .
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