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Kruger National Park – Birding Checklist Kruger National Park – Birding Checklist Apalises Martins Bar-Throated Apalis Banded Martin Rudd's Apalis Brown-Throated Martin Yellow-Breasted Apalis Rock Martin Avocets Sand Martin Pied Avocet Moorhens Babblers Common Moorhen Arrow-Marked Babbler Lesser Moorhen Southern Pied Babbler Mousebirds Barbets Red-Faced Mousebird Acacia 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 (Mozambique) Nightjar Southern Carmine Bee-Eater Oriole Swallow-Tailed Bee-Eater (Eastern) Black-Headed Oriole White-Fronted Bee-Eater African Golden Oriole Bishops Eurasian (European) Golden Oriole Southern Red Bishop 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 Queleas Grey (Southern) Crowned Crane Red-Billed Quelea Crombecs Rails Long-Billed Crombec African Rail Crows Ravens Cape (Black) Crow White-Necked Raven Pied Crow Robin-Chats Cuckoo 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) Cuckoos 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 Cuckooshrikes Sandpipers Black Cuckooshrike 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 Sunbirds Black-And-White (Vanga) Flycatcher Amethyst (African Black) Sunbird 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 Swallows Grey-Winged Francolin Barn (European) Swallow Natal Francolin Greater Striped Swallow Shelley's Francolin Grey-Rumped Swallow Kruger National Park – Birding Checklist Gallinules Lesser Striped Swallow African Purple Swamphen Mosque Swallow 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 (Angola) Pitta Grey Heron Narina Trogon Purple Heron Turacos Rufous-Bellied Heron Grey Go-Away Bird (Lourie) White-Backed Night-Heron Knysna Turaco (Lourie) Honeybirds Purple-Crested Turaco (Lourie) Brown-Backed Honeybird
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