Bird checklist
FAMILY COMMON NAME CHECK BOX Arrowmarked Babbler Babblers Titbabbler Blackcollared Barbet Barbets Pied Barbet Crested Barbet European Bee-eater Carmine Bee-eater Bee-eaters Whitefronted Bee-eater Little Bee-eater Bishops Red Bishop Blackeyed Bulbul Bulbuls Terrestrial Bulbul Sombre Bulbul Goldenbreasted Bunting Buntings Rock Bunting Bustards Kori Bustard Buttonquails Kurichane Buttonquail Steppe Buzzard Buzzards Lizard Buzzard Canaries Yelloweyed Canary Mocking Chats Chats Stonechat
1 Fantailed Cisticola Redfaced Cisticola Rattling Cisticola Cisticolas Desert Cisticola Neddicky Croaking Cisticola Reed Cormorant Cormorants Whitebreasted Cormorant Temminck's Courser Coursers Bronzewinged Courser African Crake Crakes Black Crake Crows Pied Crow African Cuckoo Lesser Cuckoo Redchested Cuckoo Black Cuckoo Greatspotted Cuckoo Cuckoos and Coucals Striped Cuckoo Thickbilled Cuckoo Jacobin Cuckoo Klaa’s Cuckoo Diederik Cuckoo Burchell’s Coucal Black Cuckooshrike Cuckooshrikes Whitebreasted Cuckooshrike Darter Darter Spotted Dikkop Dikkops Water Dikkop Redeyed Dove Cape Turtle Dove Doves and Pigeons Laughing Dove Namaqua Dove
2 Greenspotted Dove Doves and Pigeons continued Tambourine Dove Green Pigeon Drongos Forktailed Drongo Whitefaced Duck African Black Duck Redbilled Teal Ducks and Geese Southern Pochard Knobbilled Duck Egyptian Goose Spurwinged Goose Tawny Eagle Steppe Eagle Lesser Spotted Eagle Wahlberg’s Eagle African Hawk Eagle Eagles and Snake Eagles Martial Eagle African Fish Eagle Brown Snake Eagle Blackbreasted Snake Eagle Crowned Eagle Bateleur Melba Finch Bluebilled Firefinch Redbilled Firefinch Jameson’s Firefinch Finches Orangebreasted Waxbill Blue Waxbill Common Waxbill Violeteared Waxbill Bronze Mannikin Black Widowfinch Widowfinches Steelblue Widowfinch
3 Finfoot African Finfoot Spotted Flycatcher Fantailed Flycatcher Flycatchers Bluegrey Flycatcher Dusky Flycatcher Black Flycatcher Pallid Flycatcher Chinspot Batis Flycatchers Paradise Flycatcher Fiscal Flycatcher Coqui Francolin Crested Francolin Francolins Shelley’s Francolin Natal Francolin Swainson’s Francolin Gallinules Purple Gallinule Grebes Dabchick Guineafowls Helmeted Guineafowl Gymnogene Gymnogene, Hobby Falcon Falcons, and Kestrels Lesser Kestral Eastern Redfooted Kestrel Hamerkop Hamerkop Cuckoo Hawk Hawks Bat Hawk Grey Heron Blackheaded Heron Goliath Heron Purple Heron Herons and Egrets Squacco Heron Greenbacked Heron Whitebacked Night Heron Dwarf Bittern
4 Great White Egret Cattle Egret Herons and Egrets continued Little Egret Black Egret Honeyguides Greater Honeyguide Hoopoes Hoopoe Redbilled Woodhoopoe Hoopoes continued Scimitarbilled Woodhoopoe Trumpeter Hornbill Grey Hornbill Redbilled Hornbill Hornbills Yellowbilled Hornbill Crowned Hornbill Ground Hornbill Ibises Hadeda Ibis Jacanas African Jacana Pied Kingfisher Giant Kingfisher Halfcollared Kingfisher Malachite Kingfisher Kingfishers Pygmy Kingfisher Woodland Kingfisher Brownhooded Kingfisher Greyhooded Kingfisher Striped Kingfisher Yellowbilled Kite Kites Blackshouldered Kite Redcrested Korhaan Korhaans Blackbellied Korhaan Monotonous Lark Redcapped lark Larks Rufousnaped lark Flappet lark
5 Dusky lark Larks continued Sabota Lark Chestnutbacked Finchlark Purplecrested Lourie Louries Grey Lourie Longclaws Yellowthroated Longclaw Moorhens Lesser Moorhen Redfaced Mousebird Mousebirds Speckled Mousebird European Nightjar Fierynecked Nightjar Nightjars Freckled Nightjar Mozambique Nightjar Pennantwinged Nightjar Blackheaded Oriole Orioles European Golden Oriole Ostrich Ostrich Marsh Owl Wood Owl Barn Owl Scops Owl Owls Whitefaced owl Pearlspotted Owl Barred Owl Spotted Eagle Owl Giant Eagle Owl Redbilled Oxpecker Oxpeckers Yellowbilled Oxpecker Parrots Brownheaded Parrot Richard’s Pipit Pipits Bushveld Pipit Threebanded Plover Plovers Crowned Plover
6 Lesser Blackwinged Plover Plovers continued Blacksmith Plover Wattled Plover Prinias Tawnyflanked Prinia Quails Harlequin Quail Queleas Redbilled Quelea Heuglin’s Robin Natal Robin Whitethroated Robin Robins Whitebrowed Robin Bearded Robin Cape Robin Lilacbreasted Roller Broadbilled Roller Rollers Purple Roller European Roller Sandgrouse Doublebanded Sandgrouse Secretary Bird Secretary Bird Redbacked Shrike Longtailed Shrike Southern Boubou Puffback Shrike Brubru Threestreaked Tchagra Shrikes Blackcrowned Tchagra Gorgeous Bush Shrike Orangebreasted Bush Shrike Lesser Grey Shrike White Helmetshrike Redbilled Helmetshrike Whitecrowned Shrike Snipes Painted Snipe Sparrowhawks and Goshawks Little Sparrowhawk
7 Black Sparrowhawk Little Banded Goshawk Sparrowhawks African Goshawk and Goshawks continued Gabar Goshawk Dark Chanting Goshawk House Sparrow Sparrows Greyheaded Sparrow Yellowthroated Sparrow Spoonbills African Spoonbill Wattled Starling Plumcoloured Starling Starlings Burchell’s Starling Glossy Starling Greater Blue-eared Glossy Starling Yellowbilled Stork White stork Black Stork Storks Woollynecked Stork Saddlebilled Stork Marabou Stork Openbilled Stork Marico Sunbird Whitebellied Sunbird Sunbirds Scarletchested Sunbird Collared Sunbird Redbreasted Swallow Mosque swallow European Swallow Swallows and Martins Wiretailed Swallow Lesserstriped Swallow Whitethroated Swallow Black Swift Swifts Whiterumped Swift
8 Little Swift Alpine Swift Swifts continued Palm Swift Horus Swift Groundscaper Thrush Thrushes Kurrichane Thrush Southern Black Tit Tits Grey Penduline Tit Trogons Narina Trogon Hooded Vulture Cape Vulture Vultures Whitebacked Vulture Lappetfaced Vulture Whiteheaded Vulture Common Sandpiper Wood Sandpiper Waders Greenshank Green Sandpiper African Pied Wagtail Wagtails Cape Wagtail European Marsh Warbler African Marsh Warbler Cape Reed Warbler African Sedge warbler Willow Warbler Warblers Yellowbreasted Apalis Longbilled Crombec Yellowbellied Eremomela Burntnecked Eremomela Bleating Warbler Stierling’s Barred Warbler Redheaded weaver Weavers Red Billed Buffaloweaver
9 Spottedbacked Weaver Masked Weaver Weavers continued Lesser Masked Weaver Spectacled Weaver Thickbilled Weaver White-eyes Cape White-eye Whitewinged Widow Redcollared Widow Widows and Wydahs Pintailed Wydah Paradise Wydah Bennett’s Woodpecker Goldentailed Woodpecker Woodpeckers Cardinal Woodpecker Bearded Woodpecker
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