Namibia: Species List

Birds

Specie Seen Location Common Ostrich Common Quail Harlequin Quail Helmeted Guineafowl Fulvous Whistling-Duck White-faced Whistling-Duck White-backed Duck Maccoa Duck Egyptian Goose South African Shelduck Spur-winged Goose Comb Duck African Pygmy-Goose Cape Teal African Black Duck Yellow-billed Duck Cape Shoveler Northern Shoveler Red-billed Duck Hottentot Teal Southern Pochard Small Buttonquail Greater Honeyguide Lesser Honeyguide Green-backed Honeyguide Wahlberg's Honeyguide Bennett's Woodpecker Golden-tailed Woodpecker Cardinal Woodpecker Bearded Woodpecker Olive Woodpecker Naked-faced Barbet Grey-throated Barbet Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird Pied Barbet White-headed Barbet Chaplin's Barbet Black-collared Barbet Black-backed Barbet Double-toothed Barbet Crested Barbet Monteiro's Hornbill

Red-billed Hornbill Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill Crowned Hornbill Bradfield's Hornbill African Grey Hornbill Trumpeter Hornbill Southern Ground-Hornbill Eurasian Hoopoe Green Woodhoopoe Violet Woodhoopoe Common Scimitar-bill Narina Trogon European Roller Lilac-breasted Roller Rufous-crowned Roller Broad-billed Roller Half-collared Kingfisher Malachite Kingfisher Grey-headed Kingfisher Woodland Kingfisher Brown-hooded Kingfisher Striped Kingfisher Giant Kingfisher Pied Kingfisher White-fronted Bee-eater Little Bee-eater Swallow-tailed Bee-eater Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Madagascar Bee-eater European Bee-eater Southern Carmine Bee-eater White-backed Mousebird Red-faced Mousebird Great Spotted Cuckoo Red-chested Cuckoo Black Cuckoo Common Cuckoo African Cuckoo Lesser Cuckoo Madagascar Cuckoo Klaas's Cuckoo African Emerald Cuckoo Dideric Cuckoo Black Coucal Coppery-tailed Coucal Senegal Coucal White-browed Coucal Burchell's Coucal Brown-necked Parrot Meyer's Parrot Rueppell's Parrot

Rosy-faced Lovebird Black-cheeked Lovebird Rose-ringed Parakeet Bat-like Spinetail African Palm-Swift Alpine Swift Common Swift African Swift Bradfield's Swift Little Swift Horus Swift White-rumped Swift Schalow's Turaco Grey Go-away-bird Barn Owl African Grass-Owl White-faced Scops-Owl Cape Eagle-Owl Spotted Eagle-Owl Verreaux's Eagle-Owl Pel's Fishing-Owl African Wood-Owl Pearl-spotted Owlet African Barred Owlet Marsh Owl Eurasian Nightjar Rufous-cheeked Nightjar Fiery-necked Nightjar Swamp Nightjar Freckled Nightjar Square-tailed Nightjar Pennant-winged Nightjar Rock Dove Speckled Pigeon African Olive-Pigeon European Turtle-Dove Laughing Dove Mourning Collared-Dove Ring-necked Dove Red-eyed Dove Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove Namaqua Dove African Green-Pigeon Stanley Bustard Ludwig's Bustard Kori Bustard Red-crested Bustard White-quilled Bustard Rueppell's Bustard Karoo Bustard White-bellied Bustard

Black-bellied Bustard Grey Crowned-Crane Blue Crane Wattled Crane African Finfoot Red-chested Flufftail Striped Flufftail Kaffir Rail African Crake Corn Crake Black Crake Baillon's Crake Spotted Crake Striped Crake Purple Swamphen Allen's Gallinule Purple Gallinule Common Moorhen Lesser Moorhen Red-knobbed Coot Namaqua Sandgrouse Yellow-throated Sandgrouse Double-bandedF Sandgrouse Burchell's Sandgrouse Great Snipe African Snipe Jack Snipe Black-tailed Godwit Bar-tailed Godwit Whimbrel Eurasian Curlew Common Redshank Marsh Sandpiper Common Greenshank Wood Sandpiper Terek Sandpiper Common Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Red Knot Sanderling Little Stint Temminck's Stint White-rumped Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Curlew Sandpiper Buff-breasted Sandpiper Broad-billed Sandpiper Ruff Red-necked Phalarope

Red Phalarope Greater Painted-snipe African Jacana Lesser Jacana Water Thick-knee Spotted Thick-knee Eurasian Oystercatcher African Oystercatcher Black-winged Stilt Pied Avocet Pacific Golden-Plover American Golden-Plover Grey Plover Common Ringed Plover Kittlitz's Plover Three-banded Plover Chestnut-banded Plover Kentish Plover White-fronted Plover Mongolian Plover Greater Sand Plover Caspian Plover Long-toed Lapwing Blacksmith Lapwing White-headed Lapwing Wattled Lapwing Crowned Lapwing Crab Plover Double-banded Courser Bronze-winged Courser Three-banded Courser Burchell's Courser Temminck's Courser Collared Pratincole Black-winged Pratincole Rock Pratincole Pomarine Jaeger Parasitic Jaeger Long-tailed Jaeger African Skimmer Sooty Gull Kelp Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Grey-headed Gull King Gull Laughing Gull Franklin's Gull Sabine's Gull Caspian Tern Royal Tern Great Crested-Tern

Sandwich Tern Roseate Tern Common Tern Arctic Tern Little Tern Damara Tern White-cheeked Tern Whiskered Tern White-winged Tern Black Tern Osprey African Baza European Honey-buzzard Bat Hawk Black-winged Kite Black Kite African Fish-Eagle Palm-nut Vulture Lammergeier Egyptian Vulture Hooded Vulture White-backed Vulture Cape Griffon Lappet-faced Vulture White-headed Vulture Short-toed Snake-Eagle Black-chested Snake-Eagle Brown Snake-Eagle Banded Snake-Eagle Bateleur African Marsh-Harrier Black Harrier Pallid Harrier Montagu's Harrier African Harrier-Hawk Lizard Buzzard Dark Chanting-Goshawk Pale Chanting-Goshawk African Goshawk Shikra Little Sparrowhawk Ovambo Sparrowhawk Black Goshawk Common Buzzard Mountain Buzzard Long-legged Buzzard Augur Buzzard Jackal Buzzard Lesser Spotted Eagle Tawny Eagle Steppe Eagle

Verreaux's Eagle Wahlberg's Eagle African Hawk-Eagle Booted Eagle Ayres's Hawk-Eagle Martial Eagle Long-crested Eagle Crowned Hawk-Eagle Secretarybird Pygmy Falcon Lesser Kestrel Common Kestrel Greater Kestrel Grey Kestrel Dickinson's Kestrel Red-necked Falcon Red-footed Falcon Amur Falcon Eleonora's Falcon Sooty Falcon Eurasian Hobby African Hobby Lanner Falcon Peregrine Falcon Barbary Falcon Little Grebe Great Crested Grebe Black-necked Grebe Red-tailed Tropicbird White-tailed Tropicbird Cape Gannet African Darter Oriental Darter Long-tailed Cormorant Crowned Cormorant Bank Cormorant Great Cormorant Cape Cormorant Slaty Egret Black Heron Little Egret Grey Heron Black-headed Heron Goliath Heron Purple Heron Cattle Egret Squacco Heron Rufous-bellied Heron Striated Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron White-backed Night-Heron

Little Bittern Dwarf Bittern Great Bittern Hamerkop Greater Flamingo Lesser Flamingo Glossy Ibis Hadada Ibis Sacred Ibis African Spoonbill Great White Pelican Pink-backed Pelican Yellow-billed Stork African Openbill Black Stork Abdim's Stork Woolly-necked Stork White Stork Saddle-billed Stork Marabou Stork Ascension Frigatebird Great Frigatebird Jackass Penguin Antarctic Giant-Petrel Southern Fulmar Cape Petrel Great-winged Petrel Soft-plumaged Petrel Blue Petrel Broad-billed Prion Antarctic Prion Slender-billed Prion Fairy Prion White-chinned Petrel Cory's Shearwater Great Shearwater Sooty Shearwater Manx Shearwater Wandering Albatross Royal Albatross Wilson's Storm-Petrel White-vented Storm-Petrel Black-bellied Storm-Petrel European Storm-Petrel Leach's Storm-Petrel Matsudaira's Storm-Petrel African Broadbill Red-backed Shrike Sousa's Shrike Lesser Grey Shrike Common Fiscal

Langstertlaksman White-crowned Shrike House Crow Cape Crow Pied Crow White-necked Raven Eurasian Golden-Oriole African Golden-Oriole African Black-headed Oriole White-breasted Cuckooshrike Grey Cuckooshrike Black Cuckooshrike Square-tailed Drongo Fork-tailed Drongo African Paradise-Flycatcher Chatshrike Brubru Black-backed Puffback Marsh Tchagra Black-crowned Tchagra Brown-crowned Tchagra Tropical Boubou Gabon Boubou Crimson-breasted Gonolek Bokmakierie Sulphur-breasted Bushshrike Grey-headed Bushshrike White Helmetshrike Retz's Helmetshrike Chinspot Batis Pririt Batis Angola Batis White-fronted Wattle-eye Short-toed Rock-Thrush Groundscraper Thrush Kurrichane Thrush Olive Thrush Pale Flycatcher Chat Flycatcher Mariqua Flycatcher Southern Black-Flycatcher Fiscal Flycatcher Spotted Flycatcher Ashy Flycatcher Grey Tit-Flycatcher Collared Flycatcher White-starred Robin Gabela Akalat Thrush Nightingale Cape Robin-Chat White-browed Robin-Chat

Red-capped Robin-Chat Chorister Robin-Chat Rufous-tailed Palm-Thrush Bearded Scrub-Robin Red-backed Scrub-Robin Kalahari Scrub-Robin Karoo Scrub-Robin Herero Chat Common Redstart Whinchat Common Stonechat Mountain Wheatear Northern Wheatear Capped Wheatear Sicklewing Chat Karoo Chat Tractrac Chat Familiar Chat Congo Moor-Chat Southern Anteater-Chat Sooty Chat White-headed Black-Chat Pale-winged Starling Red-shouldered Glossy-Starling Greater Blue-eared Glossy-Starling Lesser Blue-eared Glossy-Starling Sharp-tailed Glossy-Starling Splendid Glossy-Starling Burchell's Glossy-Starling Meves's Glossy-Starling Violet-backed Starling African Pied Starling Wattled Starling Yellow-billed Oxpecker Red-billed Oxpecker African Penduline-Tit Southern Penduline-Tit White-winged Tit Black Tit Rufous-bellied Tit Miombo Tit Ashy Tit Sand Martin Plain Martin Banded Martin Rock Martin Barn Swallow Angola Swallow White-throated Swallow Wire-tailed Swallow White-throated Blue Swallow

Black-and-rufous Swallow Pearl-breasted Swallow Greater Striped-Swallow Lesser Striped-Swallow Rufous-chested Swallow Mosque Swallow South African Swallow Northern House-Martin Blue Sawwing Black Sawwing Garden Bulbul Black-fronted Bulbul Sombre Greenbul Yellow-bellied Greenbul Terrestrial Brownbul Yellow-streaked Greenbul Black-collared Bulbul Red-faced Cisticola Rattling Cisticola Grey Cisticola Red-headed Cisticola Winding Cisticola Chirping Cisticola Croaking Cisticola Piping Cisticola Zitting Cisticola Desert Cisticola Tawny-flanked Prinia Black-chested Prinia Karoo Prinia Namaqua Warbler Rufous-eared Warbler Yellow-breasted Apalis Green-backed Camaroptera Barred Wren-Warbler Kopje Warbler African Yellow White-eye Pale White-eye African Bush-Warbler Damara Rock-jumper Sedge Warbler Eurasian Reed-Warbler African Reed-Warbler Marsh Warbler Great Reed-Warbler Greater Swamp-Warbler Lesser Swamp-Warbler Icterine Warbler Fairy Flycatcher Yellow-bellied Eremomela Greencap Eremomela

Yellow-rumped Eremomela Burnt-neck Eremomela Cape Crombec Willow Warbler Wood Warbler Black-lored Babbler Angola Babbler Southern Pied-Babbler Arrow-marked Babbler Bare-cheeked Babbler Layard's Warbler Rufous-vented Warbler Garden Warbler Common Whitethroat Monotonous Lark Rufous-naped Lark Angola Lark Flappet Lark Clapper Lark Fawn-colored Lark Sabota Lark Dusky Lark Rudd's Lark Long-billed Lark Dune Lark Spike-heeled Lark Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark Black-eared Sparrow-Lark Grey-backed Sparrow-Lark Gray's Lark Bimaculated Lark Red-capped Lark Pink-billed Lark Sclater's Lark Botha's Lark Stark's Lark Large-billed Lark Collared Sunbird Reichenbach's Sunbird Amethyst Sunbird Scarlet-chested Sunbird Variable Sunbird White-breasted Sunbird Miombo Double-collared Sunbird Southern Double-collared Sunbird Copper Sunbird Dusky Sunbird Bocage's Sunbird Malachite Sunbird Shelley's Sunbird Marico Sunbird

Purple-banded Sunbird Superb Sunbird House Sparrow Southern Rufous-Sparrow Cape Sparrow Grey-headed Sparrow Southern Grey-headed Sparrow Yellow-throated Petronia African Pied Wagtail Cape Wagtail Yellow Wagtail Grey Wagtail Mountain Wagtail Fuelleborn's Longclaw Rosy-throated Longclaw African Pipit Mountain Pipit Australasian Pipit Plain-backed Pipit Buffy Pipit Long-billed Pipit Woodland Pipit Tree Pipit Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver Scaly Weaver White-browed Sparrow-Weaver Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Weaver Social Weaver Lesser Masked Weaver Spectacled Weaver Bocage's Weaver Cape Weaver Holub's Golden-Weaver Southern Brown-throated Weaver Southern Masked-Weaver Village Weaver Chestnut Weaver Red-headed Weaver Red-billed Quelea Yellow-crowned Bishop Black-winged Bishop Red Bishop Yellow Bishop Fan-tailed Widowbird Yellow-shouldered Widowbird White-winged Widowbird Red-collared Widowbird Long-tailed Widowbird Parasitic Weaver Grosbeak Weaver Green-winged Pytilia

Peters's Twinspot Brown Firefinch Red-billed Firefinch African Firefinch Jameson's Firefinch Blue-breasted Cordonbleu Common Grenadier Black-tailed Waxbill Cinderella Waxbill Swee Waxbill Fawn-breasted Waxbill Common Waxbill Black-headed Waxbill Black-cheeked Waxbill Zebra Waxbill African Quailfinch Locustfinch Cut-throat Red-headed Finch Village Indigobird Variable Indigobird Dusky Indigobird Queen Whydah Pin-tailed Whydah Eastern Paradise-Whydah Broad-tailed Paradise-Whydah Cape Canary East African Citril Black-throated Canary Yellow-fronted Canary Yellow Canary Brimstone Canary White-throated Canary Streaky-headed Seedeater Black-headed Canary Lark-like Bunting Cinnamon-breasted Bunting Cape Bunting African Golden-breasted Bunting Cabanis's Bunting Coqui Francolin Crested Francolin Orange River Francolin Hartlaub's Francolin Red-billed Francolin Cape Francolin Red-necked Spurfowl Swainson's Spurfowl Pied Cuckoo Levaillant's Cuckoo African Scops-Owl

Wilson's Phalarope Great Skua South Polar Skua Gabar Goshawk Great Egret Intermediate Egret Black-browed Albatross Shy Albatross Grey-headed Albatross Yellow-nosed Albatross Carp's Tit Grey-rumped Swallow Pale Wren-Warbler Bronze Munia Black-shouldered Nightjar Benguela Long-billed Lark Karoo Long-billed Lark

Mammals

Specie Seen Location Grant's Golden Mole Southern African Hedgehog Tom Thumb Shrew Ansell's Shrew Simien Shrew Bates' Forest Shrew Bottego's Pygmy Shrew Tricolored Pygmy Shrew Bttikofer's Forest Shrew Cinderella's Shrew Congo White-toothed Shrew Jumping Shrew Crosse's Musk Shrew Reddish-grey Musk Shrew Desperate Shrew African Long-tailed Shrew Doucet's Musk Shrew Eisentraut's Shrew Mount Elgon Shrew Fischer's Shrew South African Giant Shrew Flower's Shrew Savanna Shrew Bicolored Shrew Giant Forest Shrew Large-headed Forest Shrew Grasse's Shrew Harenna Shrew Hildegarde's Shrew Lesser Red Musk Shrew

Jackson's Shrew Kivu Shrew Lamotte's Shrew Long-haired Kivu Shrew Long-footed Shrew Lucy's Shrew Moonlight Shrew Lusitanian Shrew Manenguba Shrew Maquassi Musk Shrew Swamp Musk (Maruci) Shrew West African Long-tailed Shrew Nigerian Shrew Nimba Shrew Obscure Pygmy Shrew African Giant Shrew Short-legged Savanna Shrew Tiny Sahel Shrew Egyptian Pygmy Shrew Roosevelt's Shrew Lesser Grey-brown Musk Shrew Solmali White-toothed Shrew Kahuzi Swamp Shrew Tanzanian Shrew Sahara Shrew Telford's Shrew Thalia's Shrew San Thom‚ Island Shrew Usambara Shrew Savanna Path Shrew Lesser Maghreb Shrew Wimmer's Shrew Yankari Shrew Straw-colored Fruit Bat Angolian Epauletted Fruit Bat Greater Slit-faced Bat Lesser Slit-faced Bat Greater Slit-faced Bat Hollow-faced Bat Blasius's Horseshoe Bat Cape Horseshoe Bat Horseshoe Bat Dent's Horseshoe Bat Mediterranean Horseshoe Bat Greater Horseshoe Bat Hildebrandt's Horseshoe Bat Lesser Horseshoe Bat Maclaud's Bat Mehely's Horseshoe Bat Old World Leaf-nosed Bat Commerson's Leaf-nosed Bat Damara Woolly Bat Botta's Serotine

Serotine Bat Serotine Bat Namibian Tropical Long-eared Bat Tropical Long-eared Bat Lesser Mouse-eared Bat Rufous Mouse-eared Bat Long-fingered Bat Geoffroy's Bat Whiskered Bat Natterer's Bat Little Brown Bat Egyptian Pipistrelle Bat Kuhl's Pipistrelle Banana Bat Pipistrelle Rueppel's Pipistrelle Bat Savi's Pipistrelle Evening Bat Evening Bat Yellow House Bat House Bat House Bat Long-winged Bat Long-winged Bat Schreiber's Long-fingered Bat Black-backed Jackal Bat-eared Fox Cape Fox Cheetah Caracal Common Wild Cat Lion Leopard Marsh (African Water) Mongoose Yellow Mongoose Striped (Banded) Mongoose Gray Meerkat, Suricate Spotted Hyaena Brown Hyaena Aardwolf Honey Badger, Ratel Striped Polecat, Zorilla Common Genet Mountain (Hartmann's) Zebra Black Rhinoceros Common Rock Hyrax (Dassie) Aardvark Common Warthog Common Hippopotamus Impala Blue Wildebeest, Brindled Gnu Springbok Klipspringer

Steenbok Common Eland Greater Kudu Roan Antilope Gemsbok, Beisa Cape Pouched Rat African Climbing Mouse African Climbing Mouse Brants' Climbing Mouse Chestnut Climbing Mouse Gerbil (Large-eared) Mouse Jackson's Fat Mouse Fat Mouse Fat Mouse Namaqua Gerbil Sand Rat Southern Pygmy Gerbil Hairy-footed Gerbil Hairy-footed Gerbil Large Naked-soled Gerbil Highveld Gerbil Bushveld Gerbil Bush Rat Red Veld Rat Rock Rat North African Striped Grass Mouse Zebra Mouse Single-striped Grass Mouse Single-striped Grass Rat Striped Grass Mouse Multimammate Rat African Pygmy Mouse Algerian Mouse Four-striped Grass Mouse Acacia Rat Tree Mouse Whistling Rat Karroo Rat Pygmy Rock Mouse Pygmy Rock Mouse Spring Hare, Springhaas African Dormouse African Dormouse Angolan Mole-rat Botswanan Mole-rat Southern African Porcupine Rock Rat, Dassie Rat, Noki Cape Hare Scrub Hare Jameson's Red Rock Hare Short-snouted Elephant Shrew Cape Elephant Shrew Ugandan Elephant Shrew

Zambesi Elephant Shrew Bushvel Elephant Shrew Rock Elephant Shrew Somali Elephant Shrew North African Elephant Shrew Rufous (Spectacled) Elephant Shrew Smith's Rock Elephant Shrew