– Birding Checklist

Apalises Martins Bar-Throated Apalis Rudd's Apalis Brown-Throated Martin Yellow-Breasted Apalis Avocets Pied Avocet Moorhens Babblers Common Moorhen Arrow-Marked Babbler Lesser Moorhen Southern Pied Babbler Mousebirds Barbets Red-Faced Mousebird Pied Barbet Speckled Mousebird Black-Collared Barbet Nicators Crested Barbet Eastern (Yellow-Spotted) Nicator Bat Hawks Nightingales Bat Hawk Thrush Nightingale Batises Nightjars Cape Batis European Nightjar Chinspot Batis Fiery-Necked Nightjar Bee-Eaters Freckled Nightjar Blue-Cheeked Bee-Eater Pennant-Winged Nightjar European Bee-Eater Rufous-Cheeked Nightjar Little Bee-Eater Square-Tailed () Nightjar Southern Carmine Bee-Eater Oriole -Tailed Bee-Eater (Eastern) Black-Headed Oriole White-Fronted Bee-Eater African Golden Oriole Bishops Eurasian (European) Golden Oriole Ospreys Yellow Bishop Osprey Yellow-Crowned Bishop Ostriches Bitterns Common Ostrich Dwarf Bittern Owls Little Bittern African Barred Owlet Boubous African Grass-Owl Southern Boubou African Scops-Owl Tropical Boubou African Wood-Owl Bulbuls Barn Owl Dark-Capped (Black-Eyed) Bulbul Cape-Eagle Owl Terrestrial Brownbul (Bulbul) Marsh Owl Buntings Pearl-Spotted Owlet Cape Bunting Pel's Fishing-Owl Cinnamon-Breasted (Rock) Bunting Southern White-Faced Scops-Owl Golden-Breasted Bunting Spotted Eagle-Owl

Kruger National Park – Birding Checklist

Bustards Verreaux's (Giant) Eagle-Owl Denham's (Stanley's) Bustard Oxpeckers Kori Bustard Red-Billed Oxpecker Buttonquails Yellow-Billed Oxpecker Small (Kurrichane) Buttonquail Painted-Snipes Buzzards Greater Painted-Snipe Augur Buzzard Palm-Thrushes European Honey-Buzzard Collared Palm-Thrush Forest Buzzard Paradise-Flycatcher Jackal Buzzard African Paradise-Flycatcher Steppe Buzzard Parrots Canaries Brown-Headed Parrot Brimstone (Bully) Canary Grey-Headed Parrot Cape Canary Pelicans Forest Canary Great (Eastern) White Pelican Lemon-Breasted Canary Pink-Backed Pelican Yellow-Fronted (Yellow-Eyed) Canary Penduline-Tits Chanting Goshawks Grey Penduline-Tit Dark Chanting Goshawk Pigeons Chats African Green-Pigeon African (Common) Stonechat African Olive-Pigeon (Rameron Pigeon) Arnott's Chat Rock Dove (Feral Pigeon) Buff-Streaked Chat Speckled (Rock) Pigeon Familiar Chat Pipits Whinchat African (Grassveld) Pipit Cisticolas Buffy Pipit Croaking Cisticola Bushveld Pipit Desert Cisticola Golden Pipit Lazy Cisticola Long-Billed Pipit Levaillant's Cisticola Plain-Backed Pipit Neddicky Striped Pipit Rattling Cisticola Tree Pipit Red-Faced Cisticola Plovers Rufous-Winged (Black-Backed) Cisticola Caspian Plover Short-Winged Cisticola Common Ringed Plover Wailing Cisticola Grey Plover Zitting (Fantailed) Cisticola Kittlitz's Plover Cliff-Chats Three-Banded Plover Mocking Cliff-Chat White-Fronted Plover Coots Pochards Red-Knobbed Coot Southern Pochard Cormorants Black-Winged Pratincole Reed Cormorant Collared (Red-Winged) Pratincole White-Breasted Cormorant Rock Pratincole

Kruger National Park – Birding Checklist

Coucals Prinias Black Coucal Tawny-Flanked Prinia Burchell's Coucal Pygmy-Geese Coursers African Pygmy-Goose Bronze-Winged Courser Pytilias Temminck's Courser African Quailfinch Crakes Green-Winged Pytilia (Melba Finch) African Crake Orange-Breasted Waxbill Baillon's Crake Orange-Winged (Golden-Backed) Pytilia Black Crake Quails Corn Crake Common Quail Cranes Harlequin Quail Blue Crane Grey (Southern) Crowned Crane Red-Billed Crombecs Rails Long-Billed Crombec African Rail Crows Ravens Cape (Black) Crow White-Necked Raven Pied Crow Robin-Chats Finches (African) White-Throated Robin-Chat (Robin) Cuckoo Finch Cape Robin-Chat (Robin) Cuckoo Hawks Red-Capped Robin-Chat (Natal Robbin) African Cuckoo Hawks White-Browed Robin-Chat (Heuglin's Robin) Robins African Cuckoo White-Starred (Starred) Robin African Emerald Cuckoo Rollers Black Cuckoo Broad-Billed Roller Common (European) Cuckoo European Roller Diderick (Diederik) Cuckoo Lilac-Breasted Roller Great Spotted Cuckoo Purple Roller Jacobin Cuckoo Racket-Tailed Roller Klaas's Cuckoo Ruffs Levaillant's (Striped) Cuckoo Ruff Madagascar Cuckoo Sandgrouse Red-Chested Cuckoo Burchell's Sandgrouse Thick-Billed Cuckoo Double-Banded Sandgrouse Sandpipers Black Common Sandpiper Grey Cuckooshrike Curlew Sandpiper White-Breasted Cuckooshrike Dunlin Darters Green Sandpiper African Darter Sanderling Doves Wood Sandpiper African Mourning Dove Saw-Wings

Kruger National Park – Birding Checklist

Cape Turtle-Dove Black Saw-Wing (Swallow) Emerald-Spotted Dove White-Headed Saw-Wing (Swallow) Laughing Dove Scimitarbill Lemon (Cinnamon) Dove Common (Greater) Scimitarbill Namaqua Dove Scrub-Robins Red-Eyed Dove (Eastern) Bearded Scrub-Robin (Robin) Tambourine Dove Brown Scrub-Robin (Robin) Drongos Kalahari Scrub-Robin (Robin) Fork-Tailed Drongo White-Browed Scrub-Robin (Robin) Sqaure-Tailed Drongo Secretarybirds Ducks Secretarybird African Black Duck Seed-Eaters Cape Teal Streaky-Headed Seed-Eater (Canary) Comb (Knob-Billed) Duck Shrikes Fulvous Duck Black-Backed Puffback Hottentot Teal Brubru Red-Billed Teal Common Fiscal (Fiscal Shrike) White-Backed Duck Crimson-Breasted Shrike White-Faced Duck Lesser Grey Shrike Yellow-Billed Duck Magpie (African Long-Tailed) Shrike Eagles Red-Backed Shrike African Crowned Eagle Southern White-Crowned Shrike African Fish-Eagle Snake-Eagles African Hawk-Eagle Black-Chested (Black-Breasted) Snake-Eagle Ayres's Hawk-Eagle Brown Snake-Eagle Bateleur Western Banded Snake-Eagle Booted Eagle Snipes Lesser Spotted Eagle African (Ethiopian) Snipe Long-Crested Eagle Sparrowhawks Martial Eagle Black Sparrowhawk Steppe Eagle Little Sparrowhawk Tawny Eagle Ovambo Sparrowhawk Rufous-Chested (Red-Breasted) Verreaux's Eagle Sparrowhawk Wahlberg's Eagle Sparrowlarks Egrets Chestnut-Backed Sparrowlark (Finchlark) Black Heron (Egret) Sparrows Cattle Egret (African) Yellow-Throated Petronia (Sparrow) Great (White) Egret House Sparrow Little Egret Southern Grey-Headed Sparrow Yellow-Billed Egret Spinetails Eremomelas Böhm's Spinetail Burnt-Necked Eremomela Mottled Spinetail Green-Capped Eremomela Spoonbills

Kruger National Park – Birding Checklist

Yellow-Bellied Eremomela African Spoonbill Falcons Spurfowls (Western) Red-Footed Falcon Swainson's Spurfowl (Francolin) African Hobby Starlings Amur (Eastern Red-Footed) Falcon Black-Bellied Starling Eurasian (European) Hobby Burchell's Starling Lanner Falcon Cape Glossy Starling Peregrine Falcon Greater Blue-Eared Starling Red-Necked Falcon Meves's (Long-Tailed) Starling Miombo (Southern Lesser) Blue-Eared Sooty Falcon Starling Finches Red-Winged Starling Cut-Throat Finch Violet-Backed (Plum-Coloured) Starling Scaly-Feathered Finch Wattled Starling Finfoots Stilts African Finfoot Black-Winged Stilt Firefinches Stints African (Blue-Billed) Firefinch Little Stint Jameson's Firefinch Storks Red-Billed Firefinch Abdim's Stork Flamingos African Openbill (Open-Billed Stork) Greater Flamingo Black Stork Lesser Flamingo Marabou Stork Flufftails Saddle-Billed Stork Buff-Spotted Flufftail White Stork Red-Chested Flufftail Woolly-Necked Stork White-Winged Flufftail Yellow-Billed Stork Flycatchers Sugarbirds African Dusky Flycatcher Gurney's Sugarbird Ashy (Blue-Grey) Flycatcher Black-And-White (Vanga) Flycatcher Amethyst (African Black) Blue-Mantled Crested Flycatcher Collared Sunbird Fairy Flycatcher Greater Double-Collared Sunbird Fiscal Flycatcher Malachite Sunbird Marico Flycatcher Marico Sunbird Pale (Mouse-Coloured) Flycatcher Purple-Banded Sunbird Southern Black Flycatcher Scarlet-Chested Sunbird Spotted Flycatcher Southern (Lesser) Double-Collared Sunbird Francolins Variable (Yellow-Bellied) Sunbird Coqui Francolin White-Bellied Sunbird Crested Francolin Grey-Winged Francolin Barn (European) Swallow Natal Francolin Greater Striped Swallow Shelley's Francolin Grey-Rumped Swallow

Kruger National Park – Birding Checklist

Gallinules African Purple Swamphen Allen's (Lesser) Gallinule Pearl-Breasted Swallow Geese Red-Breasted Swallow Egyptian Goose Wire-Tailed Swallow Spur-Winged Goose Swifts Goshawks African Black Swift African Goshawk African Palm-Swift Gabar Goshawk Alpine Swift Shikra (Little Banded Goshawk) Common (European) Swift Grebes Horus Swift Little Grebe (Dabchick) Little Swift Greenbuls White-Rumped Swift (African) Yellow-Billed Greenbul (Bulbul) Tchagras Sombre Greenbul (Bulbul) Black-Crowned Tchagra Guineafowls Brown-Crowned (Three-Streaked) Tchagra Crested Guineafowl Southern Tchagra Helmeted Guineafowl Terns Gulls Sooty Tern Grey-Headed Gull Whiskered Tern Hamerkops White-Winged Tern Hamerkop Thick-Knees Harrier-Hawks Spotted Thick-Knee (Dikkop) African Harrier-Hawk (Gymnogene) Water Thick-Knee (Dikkop) Harriers Thrushes Montagu's Harrier Groundscraper Thrush Pallid Harrier Kurrichane Thrush Helmet-Shrikes Tinkerbirds Retz's (Red-Billed) Helmet-Shrike Yellow-Fronted Tinkerbird (Tinker Barbet) White-Crested (White) Helmet-Shrike Tit-Flycatcher Herons Grey Tit-Flycatcher (Fantailed Flycatcher) (Common) Squacco Heron Tits Black-Crowned Night-Heron Ashy Tit Black-Headed Heron Southern Black Tit Goliath Heron Trogon Green-Backed Heron African () Pitta Grey Heron Narina Trogon Purple Heron Turacos Rufous-Bellied Heron Grey Go-Away (Lourie) White-Backed Night-Heron Knysna Turaco (Lourie) Honeybirds Purple-Crested Turaco (Lourie) Brown-Backed Honeybird Turnstones Honeyguides Ruddy Turnstone

Kruger National Park – Birding Checklist

Greater Honeyguide Twinspots Lesser Honeyguide Green Twinspot Scaly-Throated Honeyguide Pink-Throated Twinspot Hoopoes Red-Throated Twinspot African Hoopoe Vultures Hornbills African White-Backed Vulture African Grey Hornbill Cape Vulture Crowned Hornbill Egyptian Vulture Red-Billed Hornbill Hooded Vulture Silvery-Cheeked Hornbill Lappet-Faced Vulture Southern Ground-Hornbill Palm-Nut Vulture Southern Yellow-Billed Hornbill White-Headed Vulture Trumpeter Hornbill Wagtails House-Martins African Pied Wagtail Common House-Martin Cape Wagtail Hyliotas Grey Wagtail Southern (Mashona) Hyliota Mountain (Long-Tailed) Wagtail Ibises Yellow Wagtail African Sacred Ibis Warblers Glossy Ibis (African Sedge) Little Rush-Warbler Hadeda Ibis (African) Barred Wren-Warbler Southern Bald Ibis (Cape Reed) Lesser Swamp-Warbler Indigobirds (European) Marsh-Warbler Dusky Indigobird (Black Widowfinch) (European) Sedge Warbler Purple Indigobird (Widowfinch) African (Marsh) Reed-Warbler Village Indigobird (Steel-Blue Widowfinch) Basra Reed-Warbler Jacanas Broad-Tailed Warbler African Jacana Cape Grassbird Kestrels Common Whitethroat Dickinson's Kestrel Dark-Capped (African) Yellow Warbler Greater Kestrel Garden Warbler Lesser Kestrel Great Reed-Warbler Green-Backed Camaroptera (Bleating Rock Kestrel Warbler) Kingfishers Grey-Backed Camaroptera (Bleating Warbler) African Pygmy-Kingfisher Icterine Warbler Brown-Hooded Kingfisher Olive-Tree Warbler Giant Kingfisher River Warbler Grey-Headed (Grey-Hooded) Kingfisher Stierling's (Barred) Wren-Warbler Half-Collared Kingfisher Willow Warbler Malachite Kingfisher Yellow-Throated Woodland-Warbler Mangrove Kingfisher Waxbills Pied Kingfisher Black-Faced (Black-Cheeked) Waxbill

Kruger National Park – Birding Checklist

Striped Kingfisher Blue Waxbill Woodland Kingfisher Common Waxbill Kites Swee Waxbill Black Kite Violet-Eared Waxbill Black-Shouldered Kite Weavers Yellow-Billed Kite Korhaans Golden Weaver Black-Bellied Bustard (Korhaan) Lesser Masked-Weaver Red-Crested Korhaan Red-Billed Buffalo-Weaver Lapwings Red-Headed Weaver African Wattled Lapwing (Plover) Southern Masked-Weaver Blacksmith Lapwing (Plover) Crowned Lapwing (Plover) Thick-Billed Weaver Lapwing Village (Spotted-Backed) Weaver White-Crowned Lapwing (Plover) Wheaters Large Sandpipers Capped Wheatear Common Greenshank White-Eyes Marsh Sandpiper African Yellow White-Eye Larks Cape White-Eye Dusky Lark Whydahs Fawn-Coloured Lark Long-Tailed (Eastern) Paradise-Whydah Flappet Lark Pin-Tailed Whydah Monotonous Lark Shaft-Tailed Whydah Red-Capped Lark Widowbirds Fan-Tailed Widowbird (Red-Shouldered Rufous-Naped Lark Widow) Sabota Lark Long-Tailed Widowbird (Widow) Lizard Buzzards Red-Collared Widowbird (Widow) Lizard Buzzard White-Winged Widowbird (Widow) Longclaws Wood-Hoopoes Yellow-Throated Longclaw Green (Red-Billed) Wood-Hoopoe Mannikins Woodpeckers Bronze Mannikin Bearded Woodpecker Magpie (Pied) Mannikin Bennett's Woodpecker Red-Backed Mannikin Cardinal Woodpecker Marsh-Harriers Golden-Tailed Woodpecker African Marsh-Harrier Ground Woodpecker Western Marsh-Harrier