Birds of the Klein Karoo a revised checklist of known species

This checklist is updated from Martin’s 2005 Recorded from the Klein Karoo, 2nd Edition, and expanded with additional species recorded through other open sources, such as eBird and iNaturalist. Those species with an asterisk have been observed and recorded within in the Klein Karoo Biosphere Reserves. Species with a (R) after their name are “rare” species to the Klein Karoo, either as vagrants, accidental & extralimital occurrences, older records of species likely extirpated from the region, or possible range expansions into the region. Those species with and (I) are ones introduced to the area. More species are expected to occur in the Klein Karoo (Little Karoo), so please note any of your new observation records in eBird and iNaturalist, or contact us.

Please cite this checklist as: Long, D.J. (2020) Birds of the Klein Karoo, a revised checklist of known species, Klein Karoo Biosphere Reserves, 3pp.

Tropicbirds Ibises & Spoonbills ❑ African Fish-eagle* ❑ Red-billed Tropicbird (R) ❑ African Sacred Ibis* ❑ Wahlberg’s Eagle (R) Ostrich ❑ Glossy Ibis ❑ Black-chested Snake Eagle (R) ❑ Crowned Eagle (R) ❑ Southern (Common) Ostrich* ❑ Hadada Ibis* ❑ Steppe Buzzard* Grebes ❑ African Spoonbill* ❑ Jackal Buzzard* ❑ Great Crested Grebe Ducks & Geese ❑ Forest Buzzard (R) ❑ Eared (Black-necked) Grebe (R) ❑ White-faced Whistling Duck ❑ Rufous-breasted Sparrowhawk ❑ Little Grebe* ❑ South African Shelduck* ❑ Little Sparrowhawk (R) ❑ Yellow-billed Duck* Cormorants & Darters ❑ Black (Sparrowhawk) Goshawk ❑ African Black Duck* ❑ Great (White-breasted) Cormorant* ❑ African Goshawk (R) ❑ Cape Teal* ❑ Long-tailed (Reed) Cormorant* ❑ Gabar Goshawk (R)* ❑ Red-billed Teal ❑ African Darter* ❑ Southern Pale Chanting Goshawk* ❑ White-backed Duck Pelicans ❑ African Marsh Harrier (R) ❑ Red-billed Teal ❑ Great White Pelican (R) ❑ Black Harrier* ❑ Hottentot Teal (R) ❑ African Harrier-Hawk (Gymnogene) Flamingos ❑ Maccoa Duck (R) ❑ Amur Falcon (R)* ❑ Greater Flamingo (R) ❑ Cape Shoveler ❑ Peregrine Falcon (R) Herons & Egrets ❑ Southern Pochard ❑ Lanner Falcon* ❑ Gray Heron* ❑ Egyptian Goose* ❑ Rock Kestrel* ❑ Black-headed Heron* ❑ Spur-winged Goose* ❑ Lesser Kestrel (R)* ❑ Goliath Heron (R) ❑ Mallard (I) ❑ Purple Heron (R) ❑ Muscovy Duck (I) Quail, Spurfowl, & Guineafowl ❑ Great Egret* Secretarybird ❑ Grey-winged Spurfowl (Francolin) (R) ❑ Red-winged Spurfowl (Francolin) (R) ❑ Yellow-billed (Intermediate) Egret* ❑ Secretarybird* ❑ Cape Spurfowl (Francolin)* ❑ Cattle Egret* Vultures & Raptors ❑ Little Egret* ❑ Common Quail* ❑ Osprey ❑ Black-crowned Night Heron (R) ❑ Hottentot Buttonquail ❑ Cape Vulture (R) ❑ Little Bittern* ❑ Helmeted Guineafowl ❑ Yellow-billed Kite ❑ Indian Peafowl (I) Hamerkop ❑ Black Kite Flufftails ❑ Hamerkop* ❑ Black-winged Kite* ❑ Red-chested Flufftail (R) Storks ❑ European Honey (Common) Buzzard (R) ❑ White Stork (R) ❑ Verreaux’s Eagle Cranes ❑ Black Stork (R)* ❑ Booted Eagle* ❑ Blue Crane* ❑ Abdim’s Stork (R) ❑ Martial Eagle (R)

Rails Turacos Woodpeckers ❑ Black Crake ❑ Knysna Turaco (R) ❑ Ground Woodpecker* ❑ Common (Eurasian) Moorhen* Cuckoos ❑ Knysna Woodpecker (R) ❑ Red-knobbed Coot ❑ Red-chested Cuckoo (R) ❑ Cardinal Woodpecker Bustards ❑ Jacobin (Pied) Cuckoo ❑ Olive Woodpecker (R) ❑ Denham’s Bustard (R) ❑ Black Cuckoo (R)* ❑ Rufous-necked Wryneck (R) ❑ Ludwig’s Bustard (R)* ❑ Klaas’ Cuckoo* Larks ❑ Kori Bustard (R) ❑ Diderick Cuckoo* ❑ Cape Clapper Lark* ❑ Karoo (Bustard) Korhaan * ❑ Great-spotted Cuckoo (R) ❑ Eastern Clapper Lark (R) ❑ Southern Black (Bustard) Korhaan (R) Owls ❑ Karoo Lark* Plovers ❑ Barn Owl* ❑ Karoo Long-billed Lark* ❑ Kittlitz’s Plover (R) ❑ Cape Eagle-owl* ❑ Spike-heeled Lark* ❑ White-fronted Plover (R) ❑ Spotted Eagle-owl ❑ Red-capped Lark* ❑ Common Ringed Plover (R) ❑ African Wood Owl (R) ❑ Large-billed Lark* ❑ Three-banded Plover* Nightjars ❑ Black-eared Sparrow-lark (R)* ❑ Gray-backed Sparrow-lark* Lapwings ❑ Fiery-necked Nightjar* ❑ Crowned Lapwing ❑ Rufous-cheeked Nightjar (R)* Swallows ❑ Blacksmith Lapwing* ❑ Freckled Nightjar (R)* ❑ Barn Swallow* Sandipers ❑ European Nightjar (R) ❑ White-throated Swallow* ❑ Pearl-breasted Swallow* ❑ Common Sandpiper (R) Swifts ❑ Greater-striped Swallow* ❑ Marsh Sandpiper (R) ❑ Common Swift* ❑ Lesser-striped Swallow (R)* ❑ Wood Sandpiper (R) ❑ African Black Swift* ❑ Rock Martin* ❑ Ruff (R) ❑ White-rumped Swift* ❑ Common House Martin* ❑ Common Greenshank (R) ❑ Horus Swift ❑ Banded Martin ❑ Curlew Sandpiper (R)* ❑ Little Swift* ❑ Brown-throated (Plain) Martin* ❑ Little Stint (R) ❑ Alpine Swift* ❑ Sand Martin (Bank Swallow) (R)* ❑ African Snipe (R) ❑ African Palm Swift (R) ❑ Black Saw-wing (R) Stilts & Avocets Mousebirds Drongos ❑ Pied Avocet* ❑ Speckled Mousebird* ❑ Fork-tailed Drongo* ❑ Black-winged Stilt* ❑ White-backed Mousebird* Cuckooshrikes Terns ❑ Red-faced Mousebird* ❑ Black Cuckooshrike (R) ❑ Whiskered Tern (R) Kingfishers ❑ Grey Cuckooshrike (R) Thick-Knees ❑ Pied Kingfisher* Old-World Orioles ❑ Spotted Thick-Knee (Dikkop)* ❑ Giant Kingfisher* ❑ African Black-headed Oriole (R)* ❑ Water Thick-knee (Dikkop) (R) ❑ Half-collared Kingfisher* ❑ Crows & Ravens Coursers Malachite Kingfisher* ❑ Brown-hooded Kingfisher* ❑ Cape Crow* ❑ Double-banded Courser (R) ❑ Pied Crow* ❑ Burchell’s Courser (R) Bee-eaters ❑ White-necked Raven* Sandgrouse ❑ European Bee-eater* ❑ White-fronted Bee-eater (R)* Tits ❑ Namaqua Sandgrouse* ❑ Gray Tit* Pigeons & Doves Hoopoes ❑ African Hoopoe* ❑ Southern (Cape) Penduline Tit* ❑ Rock Pigeon* ❑ Green (Red-Billed) Woodhoopoe Bulbuls & Greenbuls ❑ Speckled Pigeon* ❑ Common (Greater) Scimitarbill (R) ❑ Cape Bulbul* ❑ Africa Olive (Rameron) Pigeon* ❑ Black-fronted (Red-Eyed) Bulbul (R)* ❑ Red-eye Dove* Barbets ❑ Sombre Greenbul* ❑ Cape Turtle (Ringneck) Dove ❑ Pied (Acacia) Barbet* ❑ Terrestrial Brownbul (R)* ❑ Laughing Dove* Honeyguides ❑ Lemon Dove (R)* ❑ Greater Honeyguide* Thrushes ❑ Namaqua Dove* ❑ Lesser Honeyguide* ❑ Olive Thrush ❑ Tambourine Dove (R)* ❑ Karoo Thrush*

❑ Cape Rock-thrush ❑ Green-backed Camaroptera* ❑ Common Myna ❑ Sentinel Rock-thrush (R) ❑ Kopje (Cinnamon-breasted) Warbler * Sugarbirds & Sunbirds Scrub-Robins ❑ Cape Sugarbird ❑ Karoo Scrub Robin* Apalises ❑ Malachite Sunbird* ❑ Red-backed (White-Browed) ❑ Bar-throated Apalis* ❑ Orange-breasted Sunbird Scrub Robin (R)* Flycatchers ❑ Southern Double-collared Sunbird* ❑ Greater Double-collared Sunbird* Chats ❑ Spotted Flycatcher ❑ Dusky Sunbird* ❑ Cape Rockjumper* ❑ African Dusky Flycatcher* ❑ Amethyst Sunbird ❑ Mocking Cliff- (R) ❑ Fiscal Flycatcher* ❑ * ❑ Fairy Flycatcher* Sparrows, Weavers, & Whydahs ❑ Capped Wheatear ❑ Chat Flycatcher* ❑ House Sparrow* ❑ Familiar Chat* ❑ Southern Black Flycatcher ❑ Cape Sparrow* ❑ Karoo Chat* ❑ African Paradise Flycatcher ❑ Southern Grey-headed Sparrow* ❑ * ❑ African (Blue-mantled) Crested ❑ Cape Weaver* ❑ Sickle-winged Chat* Flycatcher (R) ❑ Southern Masked Weaver* ❑ Southern Ant-eating Chat (R)* Batises ❑ Village Weaver ❑ African Stonechat* ❑ Southern Red Bishop* ❑ Cape Batis ❑ Yellow Bishop Robin Chats ❑ Pririt Batis* ❑ Red-billed Quelea* ❑ Cape Robin Chat* White-Eyes ❑ Pin-tailed Whydah* Macrosphenid Warblers ❑ Cape White-Eye* ❑ Dusky Indigobird (R) ❑ Cape Grassbird* Wagtails ❑ Victorin’s Warbler Finches ❑ Cape Wagtail* ❑ Common Waxbill* Crombecs ❑ Gray Wagtail (R) ❑ Swee Waxbill* ❑ Long-billed Crombec* ❑ African Pied Wagtail (R)* ❑ African Firefinch (R) Eremomelas ❑ Western Yellow Wagtail (R) ❑ Red-billed Firefinch (R) ❑ Yellow-bellied Eremomela* Pipits ❑ Red-headed Finch ❑ Yellow-rumped (Karoo) Eremomela* ❑ African Pipit* Canaries Warblers ❑ Long-billed Pipit* ❑ Cape Siskin ❑ Garden Warbler ❑ Plain-backed Pipit* ❑ Cape Canary* ❑ Chestnut-vented (Tit-babbler) Warbler* ❑ Yellow-tufted (African Rock) Pipit* ❑ Black-headed Canary* ❑ Layard’s (Tit-babbler) Warbler* Longclaws ❑ Brimstone Canary* ❑ African Reed Warbler* ❑ Orange-throated (Cape) Longclaw ❑ Yellow Canary* ❑ Lesser Swamp Warbler* Shrikes & Bushshrikes ❑ White-throated Canary* ❑ Little Rush Warbler* ❑ Southern (Fiscal) Shrike* ❑ Black-throated Canary (R) ❑ Willow Warbler* ❑ Red-backed Shrike* ❑ Protea Canary* ❑ Knysna Warbler ❑ Southern Boubou* ❑ Forest Canary (R) ❑ Yellow-throated Woodland Warbler ❑ Black-backed Puffback (R) ❑ Streaky-headed Seedeater* Cisticolas ❑ Southern Tchagra Buntings ❑ Zitting Cisticola* ❑ Bokmakierie* ❑ Cape Bunting* ❑ Cloud Cisticola* ❑ Olive Bushshrike (R) ❑ Golden-breasted Bunting (R) ❑ Gray-backed (Red-headed) Cisticola* Starlings ❑ Cinnamon-breasted Bunting (R) ❑ Levaillant’s Cisticola* ❑ Common (European) Starling* ❑ Lark-like Bunting* ❑ Piping Cisticola (Neddicky)* ❑ Wattled Starling Prinias ❑ Black-bellied Starling (R)* Updated 22 April 2020 ❑ Karoo Prinia* ❑ African Pied Starling* ❑ Namaqua Warbler* ❑ Red-winged Starling* ❑ Rufous-eared Warbler* ❑ Pale-winged Starling