Bunting Cape Drongo Fork-tailed Greenshank Common Cinnamon-breasted Square-tailed Golden-breasted Guineafowl Crested Duck African Black Helmeted Bustard Black-bellied Comb Denham's/Stanley's Fulvous Hamerkop Hamerkop Maccoa Buttonquail Black-rumped White-backed Harrier African Marsh- Kurrichane White-faced Black Yellow-billed Buzzard Forest Harrier-Hawk African (Gymnogene) Jackal Eagle African Crowned Lizard African Fish- Hawk African Cuckoo Steppe African Hawk- Black Chested Snake- Helmet- White-crested Canary Black-throated Brown Snake- Brimstone Lesser Spotted Heron Black crowned night- Cape Long-crested Black-headed Forest Martial Goliath Yellow-fronted Southern Banded Snake- Green-backed This list of Zimanga's 440 species was complied using 25 years worth Tawny Grey of observation, from amateur enthusiasts to professional ornithologists Chat African Stone Verreaux's Purple and, of course, reserve staff and their daily observations. Ant-eating Wahlberg's Squacco Buff-streaked Black Some migratory species are not around all-year, and some species only Familiar Egret Cattle pass by occasionally but there is most likely in excess of 300 species Mocking Cliff Great Honeybird Brown-backed present in the reserve throughout any given time of the year. Little Cisticola Croaking Yellow-billed Honeyguide Greater This list makes use of the latest universally standardized nomenclature. Rattling Lesser Rufous-winged Eremomela Burnt-necked Scaly-throated Good luck and happy birding Zitting Yellow-bellied Hoopoe African Coot Red-knobbed Falcon Amur Apalis Bar-throated Eleonora's Hornbill Crowned Rudd's Cormorant Cape Eurasion Hobby African Grey Yellow-breasted Reed Lanner Southern Ground White-breasted Peregrine Red-billed Babbler Arrowmarked Red-footed Trumpeter Coucal Black Sooty Southern Yellow-billed Barbet Black-collared Burchell's Crested Finch Red-headed Ibis African Sacred White-eared Courser Bronze-winged Glossy Whyte's Temminck's Finfoot African Hadeda

Bateleur Bateleur Crake Baillon's Firefinch African Indigobird Dusky Black Red-billed Batis Cape Corn Jacana African Chinspot Flamingo Greater Lesser Woodwards' Crane Blue Grey Crowned Flufftail Buff-spotted Kestrel Lesser Bee-Eater Blue-cheeked Wattled Red-chested Rock European Little Crombec Long-billed Flycatcher African Paradise- Kingfisher African Pygmy White Fronted Ashy Brown-hooded Crow Cape Fiscal Giant Bishop Southern red Pied Grey Tit- Grey-headed Yellow-crowned Southern Black Half-collared Cuckoo African Spotted Malachite Bittern Dwarf African Emerald Mangrove Little Black Francolin Coqui Pied Common Crested Striped Blackcap Bush Diderick's Red-winged Woodland Great Spotted Shelley's Bokmakierie Bokmakierie Jacobin Kite Black Klaas's Go-Away Bird Grey Black-shouldered Boubou Southern Red-chested Yellow-billed Goose Egyptian Broadbill African Cuckooshrike Black African Pygmy Korhaan Red-crested Grey Spurwinged White-bellied Brownbul Terrestrial Curlew Eurasian Goshawk African Lapwing African Wattled Brubru Brubru Gabar Blacksmith Darter African Little-banded/Shikra Black-winged Dark-capped Crowned Dove Cape Turtle Grassbird Cape Bush-Shrike Gorgeous Laughing Grey-headed Lemon Grebe Great Crested Lark Flappet Olive Namaqua Little/Dabchick Karoo Long-billed Orange-breasted Red-eyed Melodious Rock Greenbul Sombre Pink-billed Tambourine Yellow-bellied Red-capped Lark Rufous-naped Plover Common Ringed Spurfowl Swainson's Twinspot Green Sabota Grey Pink-throated Spike-heeled Kittlitz's Starling Cape Glossy Sand Pied Vulture Cape Longclaw Cape Three-banded Red-winged Lappet-faced Yellow-throated Violet-backed White-backed Prinia Karoo Wattled White-headed Turaco Knysna Tawny-flanked Hooded Purple-crested Stilt Black-winged Palm-nut Pytilia Green-winged Malkoha Green Stint Little Wagtail African Pied Puffback Black-backed Cape Mannikin Bronze Stork Black Mountain Red-backed Quail Common Marabou Harlequin Saddle-billed Warbler African Reed Martin Banded White Barratt's Brown-throated Quailfinch African Woolly-necked Bleating Common House Yellow-billed Broad-tailed Rock Quelea Red-headed Garden Sand Sunbird Amethyst Great Reed Rail African Collared Icterine Moorhen Common Greater double collared Lesser Swamp- Lesser Raven White-necked Marico Little Rush Olive Marsh Myna Common Robin White-starred Scarlet-chested Sedge Southern double collared Willow Mousebird Red-faced Robin-Chat Cape White-bellied Speckled Chorister Waxbill Blue Red-capped Swallow Barn Common Neddicky Neddicky White-browed Black saw wing Orange Breasted White-throated Greater Striped Swee Nicator Eastern Lesser Striped Roller European Red-breasted Weaver Cape Nightjar European Lilac-breasted White-throated Lesser Masked Freckled Purple Wire-tailed Southern Masked Fiery-necked Spectacled Square-tailed Ruff Ruff Swamphen African Purple Thick-billed Swamp Village Sandpiper Common Swift Alpine Yellow Openbill African Curlew African Black Wood African Palm Wheatear Mountain Oriole African Golden Common Black-headed Scimitarbill Common Horus White-eye Cape Little Osprey Osprey Scops-Owl African White-rumped Widowbird Long Tailed Southern White-faced Red Collared Ostrich Common Tchagra Black-crowned Fan-tailed Scrub-Robin Bearded Brown-crowned White Winged Owl African Grass Brown Southern Yellow Mantled African Wood White-browed Barn Teal Cape Whydah Long-tailed Paradise Cape Eagle- Secretarybird Secretarybird Hottentot Pin Tailed Marsh Red-billed Spotted Eagle- Seed-Eater Streaky Headed Wood-Dove Emerald Spotted Verraux's (Giant) Eagle- Tern Whiskered Shoveler Cape White-winged Wood-Hoopoe Green Owlet Pearl-Spotted Caspian Shrike Common Fiscal Woodpecker Bearded Oxpecker Red-billed Lesser grey Thick-knee Spotted Cardinal Magpie Water Golden-tailed Parrot Cape Red-backed Brown-headed Thrush Cape Rock Wryneck Red-throated Shelduck South African Groundscraper Pelican Great White Kurrichane Pink-backed Snipe African Olive Greater Painted Spotted Ground Petronia Yellow-throated Sparrow Cape Tinkerbird Acacia Pied Pigeon Eastern bronze-naped House Red-fronted African olive Southern greyheaded Yellow-fronted Speckled (Rock) Yellow-rumped African Green Spoonbill African Tit Grey Penduline Pipit Bushveld Sparrowhawk Black Southern Black Buffy Little Long-billed Rufous-chested Tit-Babbler Chestnut-vented Plain-backed Striped Sparrowlark Chestnut-backed Trogon Narina Yellow-breasted Spurfowl Natal Turaco Knysna Red-necked Purple-crested