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Bird List Please Inform Us of Any Confirmed Sightings of Birds Not Listed Here to Help Us Expand Our List! Bird List Please inform us of any confirmed sightings of birds not listed here to help us expand our list! Apalis, Bar-throated Crombec, Long-billed Goshawk, Dark Chanting Apalis, Yellow-breasted Crow, Cape Grassbird, Cape Babbler, Arrow-marked Crow, Pied Grebe, Little Barbet, Acacia Pied Cuckoo, African Greenbul, Sombre Barbet, Black-collared Cuckoo, Black Greenbul, Yellow-bellied Barbet, Crested Cuckoo, Diederick Guineafowl, Helmeted Batis, Cape Cuckoo, Jacobin Hamerkop Batis, Chinspot Cuckoo, Klaas’s Harrier, Montagu’s Bee-eater, European Cuckoo, Levaillant’s Hawk, African Harrier- Bee-eater, Little Cuckoo, Red-chested Hawk, Bat Bee-eater, White-fronted Cuckoo, Great Spotted Helmet-shrike, Retz’s Bishop, Southern Red Cuckooshrike, Black Helmet-Shrike, White- Bishop, Yellow Darter, African crested Boubou, Southern Dove, Laughing Heron, Black-headed Brownbul, Terrestrial Dove, Lemon Heron, Grey Brubru Dove, Namaqua Heron, Goliath Bulbul, Dark-capped Dove, Red-eyed Heron, Green-backed Bunting, Cinnamon-breasted Dove, Ring-necked (Cape Heron, Purple Bunting, Golden-breasted Turtle) Hobby, Eurasian Bush-Shrike, Gorgeous Dove, Tambourine Honeybird, Brown- Bush-Shrike, Grey-headed Drongo, Fork-tailed backed Bush-shrike, Olive Drongo, Square-tailed Honeyguide, Greater Bush-Shrike, Orange- Duck, African Black Honeyguide, Lesser breasted Duck, White-faced Whistling Honeyguide, Scaly- Bustard, Black-bellied Eagle, African Crowned throated Buttonquail, Kurrichane Eagle, African Fish Hoopoe, African Buzzard, Common Eagle, Bateleur Hornbill, African Grey Buzzard, Jackal Eagle, Booted Hornbill, Crowned Buzzard, Lizard Eagle, Brown Snake Hornbill, Southern Yellow- Buzzard, Steppe Eagle, Long-crested billed Camaroptera, Green- Eagle, Martial Hornbill, Trumpeter backed Eagle, Verreaux’s Ibis, Hadeda Canary, Brimstone Eagle, Whalberg’s Indigobird, Dusky Canary, Cape Egret, Cattle Indigobird, Purple Canary, Yellow-fronted Egret, Yellow-billed Jacana, African Chat, Familiar Falcon, Amur Kestrel, Rock Chat, Mocking Cliff Finch, Cut-throat Kingfisher, African Pygmy Coot, Red-knobbed Firefinch, African Kingfisher, Brown-hooded Cormorant, Reed Firefinch, Jamieson Kingfisher, Giant Cormorant, White-breasted Fiscal, Comman (Southern) Kingfisher, Malachite Coucal, Burchell’s Flycatcher, African Dusky Kingfisher, Pied Crake, Black Flycatcher, Ashy Kingfisher, Striped Cisticola, Levaillant’s Flycatcher, Southern Black Kingfisher, Woodlands Cisticola, Croaking Flycatcher, Spotted Kite, Black-shouldered Cisticola, Lazy Francolin, Shelley’s Kite, Yellow-billed Cisticola, Red-faced Goose, Egyptian Korhaan, Red-crested Cisticola, Zitting Goose, Spur-winged Lapwing, African Wattled Crake, Black Goshawk, African Lapwing, Blacksmith Bird List Please inform us of any confirmed sightings of birds not listed here to help us expand our list! Lapwing, Crowned Rush Warbler, Little Thrush, Olive Lark, Rufous-naped Saw-wing, Black Tinkerbird, Yellow-fronted Longclaw, Yellow- Scimitarbill, Common Tinkerbird, Yellow-rumped throated Scrub-Robin, White-browed Tit-Flycather, Great Mannikin, Bronze Seedeater, Streaky-headed Tit, Grey Penduline Mannikin, Red-backed Shrike, Lesser Grey Tit, Southern Black Martin, Brown-throated Shrike, Magpie Trogon, Narina Martin, Common House Shrike, Red-backed Turaco, Purple-crested Martin, Rock Shrike, Southern White- Turtle-Dove, Cape Mousebird, Red-faced crowned Twinspot, Green Mousebird, Speckled Sparrow, House Wagtail, African Pied Neddicky (Piping Cisticola) Sparrow, Southern Grey- Wagtail, Cape Nicator, Eastern headed Wagtail, Mountain Nightjar, European Sparrowhawk, Black Warbler, Broad-tailed Nightjar, Fiery-necked Sparrowhawk, Little Warbler, Dark-capped Nightjar, Freckled Spurfowl, Natal Yellow Oriole, Black-headed Spurfowl, Swainson’s Warbler, Icterine Oriole, Eurasian Golden Starling, Cape Glossy Warbler, Marsh Osprey, Western Starling, Red-winged Warbler, Sedge Ostrich, Common Starling, Violet-backed Warbler, Willow Owl, African Wood Stonechat, African Waxbill, Blue Owl, Southern White-faced Stork, Abdim’s Waxbill, Common Owl, Spotted Eagle Stork, Saddle-billed Weaver, African Golden Owl, Verreaux’s Eagle Sunbird, Amethyst Weaver, Cape Owl, Western Barn Sunbird, Collared Weaver, Lesser Masked Owlet, Pearl-spotted Sunbird, Greater Double- Weaver, Red-headed Oxpecker, Red-billed collared Weaver, Southern Paradise-Flycatcher, African Sunbird, Scarlet-chested Masked Parrot, Brown-headed Sunbird, White-bellied Weaver, Spectacled Petronia, Yellow-throated Swallow, Barn Weaver, Thick-billed Pigeon, African Green Swallow, Grey-rumped Weaver, Village Pigeon, African Olive Swallow, Lesser Striped Wheatear, Mountain Pigeon, Common Swallow, Red-breasted White-eye, Cape Pigeon, Speckled Swallow, White-throated Whydah, Long-tailed Pipit, African Swallow, Wire-tailed Paradise Pipit, Striped Swamp-Warbler, Lesser Whydah, Pin-tailed Plover, Three-banded Swift, African Black Widowbird, Fan-tailed Prinia, Black-chested Swift, African Palm Widowbird, Long-tailed Prinia, Tawny-flanked Swift, Alpine Widowbird, Red-collared Puffback, Black-backed Swift, Little Wood-dove, Emerald- Quelea, Red-billed Swift, White-rumped spotted Reed-Warbler, African Tchagra, Black-crowned Wood-hoopoe, Green Robin, Bearded Scrub Tchagra, Brown-crowned Woodpecker, Bearded Robin-Chat, Cape Tchagra, Southern Woodpecker, Cardinal Robin-chat, Red-capped Thick-knee, Spotted Woodpecker, Golden- Robin-Chat, White-browed Thick-knee, Wattled tailed Robin-Chat, White-throated Thrush, Groundscraper Woodpecker, Olive Roller, European Thrush, Kurrichane Wryneck, Red-throated .
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