RUAHA NATIONAL PARK Ducks, Geese: Anatidae BIRD LIST Hottentot Teal (UPDATED March 2008 by Rob White-faced Whistling Duck Savory) Fulvous Whistling Duck Knob-billed Duck Egyptian Goose Ostrich (Struthionidae) Spurwinged Goose Common Ostrich Pygmy Goose Grebes: Podicipidea Northern Pintail Little Grebe White Backed Duck Comorants: Phalacrocoracidae Secretary bird: Sagittariidae Long-tailed Cormorant Secretary bird Great Cormorant Vultures: Aegypiidae Darter: Anhingidae Ruppell’s Vulture African Darter White-backed Vulture Pelicans: Pelecanidae Nubian vulture White Pelican White-headed Vulture Pink-backed Pelican Egyptian Vulture Herons: Ardeidae Hooded Vulture Grey Heron Eagles, Hawks: Aquilidae Black-headed Heron Little Sparrowhawk Goliath Heron Ovambo Sparrowhawk Purple Heron Great Sparrowhawk Great White Egret Shikra Yellow-billed Egret African Goshawk Black Heron Gabar Goshawk Little Egret Pale Chanting Goshawk Cattle Egret Dark Chanting Goshawk Squacco Heron Bat Hawk Green-backed Heron Verreaux’s Eagle Rufous-bellied Heron Imperil Eagle Night Heron Tawny Eagle White-backed Night Heron Lesser Spotted Eagle Dwarf Bittern Wahlberg’s Eagle Hamerkop: Scopidea African Hawk Eagle Hamerkop Martial Eagle Storks: Ciconiidae Long-crested Eagle European-white Stork Lizard Buzzard European-black Stork Brown Harrier Eagle Woolly-necked Stork Short-toed Eagle Abdim’s Stork Southern-banded Harrier Eagle Openbill Stork Banded Harrier Eagle Saddlebilled Stork Grasshopper Buzzard Marabou Stork Bateleur Yellow-billed Stork African Fish Eagle Ibises, Spoonbills: Threskionithidae Palmnut Vulture Sacred Ibis Steppe Buzzard Hadada Ibis Augur Buzzard Glossy Ibis Black Kite African Spoonbill Black-shouldered Kite Montagu’s Harrier Crowned Plover Pallid Harrier Senegal Plover European Marsh Harrier Blacksmith Plover Harrier Hawk White-headed Plover Falcons: Falconidae Stilts, Avocets: Recurvirostridae Peregrine Black-winged Stilt Lanner Falcon Pied Avocet European Hobby Painted Snipes: Rostratulidae Eleonora’s Falcon Greater Painted Snipe Sooty Falcon Sandpipers etc: Scolopacidae Eastern Red-footed Falcon (Amur) Ruff Red-necked Falcon Common Sandpiper Grey Kestrel Green Sandpiper Pygmy Falcon Wood Sandpiper Dickinson’s Kestrel Marsh Sandpiper Saker Falcon Greenshank Osprey: Pandionidae African Snipe Osprey Little Stint Fancolins, Quails: Phasianidae Thicknees (Dikkops): Burhinidae Coqui Francolin Spotted Thicknee Crested Francolin Water Thicknee Shelley’s Francolin Coursers, Pratincoles: Glareolidae Hildebrandt’s Francolin Temminck’s Courser Red-necked Spurfowl Two-banded Courser Harlequin Quail Heuglin’s Courser Blue Quail Violet-tipped Courser Guineafowls: Numididae Black-winged Pratincole Helmeted Guineafowl Common Pratincole Crested Guineafowl Gulls: Laridae Button-quails: Turnicdae Greyheaded Gull Crakes, Rails: Rallidae Terns: Sternidae African Crake White-winged Black Tern Black Crake Whiskered Tern Moorhen Lesser Crested Tern Cranes: Gruidae Skimmers: Rhynchopidae Grey Crowned Crane African Skimmer Finfoot: Heliornithidae Sandgrouse: Pteroclidae African Finfoot Black-faced Sandgrouse Bustards: Otidae Yellow-throated Sandgrouse Denham’s Bustard Pigeons and Doves: Columbidae White-bellied Bustard Speckled Pigeon Buff-crested Bustard Red-eyed Dove Black-bellied Bustard Olive Dove Jacana: Jacanidae Ring-necked Dove African Jacana Laughing Dove Plovers: Charadriidae Namaqua Dove Little Ringed Plover African Mourning Dove Kittlitz’s Plover Dusky Turtle Dove Three-banded Plover Blue-spotted Wood Dove Forbes’s Plover Emerald-spotted Wood Dove Tambourine Dove Mousebirds: Collidae African Green Pigeon Speckled mousebird Turacos: Musophagidae Blue-naped Mousebird Violet-crested Truaco Trogons: Trogonidae White-bellied go-away-bird Narina Trogon Bare-faced go-away-bird Kingfishers: Alcedinidae Parrots: Psittacidae Pied Kingfisher Brown-necked Parrot Giant Kingfisher Brown Parrot Half-collard Kingfisher Yellow-collared Lovebird Malachite Kingfisher Cuckoos, Coucals: Cuculidae Pygmy Kingfisher European Cuckoo Woodland Kingfisher African Cuckoo Brown-hooded Kingfisher Lesser Cuckoo Grey-headed Kingfisher Red-chested Cuckoo Striped Kingfisher Black Cuckoo Bee-eaters: Meropidae Great Spotted Cuckoo European Bee-eater Levaillant’s Cuckoo Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Black & White Cuckoo White-throated Bee-eater Emerald Cuckoo Little Bee-eater Diderik Cuckoo Swallow-tailed Bee-eater Klaas’s Cuckoo Carmine Bee-eater Black Coucal Madagascar Bee-eater Senegal Coucal Rollers: Coraciae White-browed Coucal European Roller Barn Owl: Tytonidae Racquet-tailed Roller Barn Owl Lilac-breasted Roller True Owls: Strigidae Rufous Crowned Roller African Marsh Owl Broad-billed Roller African Scops Owl Hoopoes: Upupidae Pearlspotted Owlet African Hoopoe Barred Owlet Wood Hoopoe: Phoeniculidae Spotted Eagle Owl Green Wood Hoopoe Verraux’s Eagle Owl African Scimitarbill Nightjars: Caprimulgidae Abyssinian Scimitarbill Dusky Nightjar Hornbills: Bucerotidae Freckled Nightjar Grey Hornbill Gabon Nightjar Red-billed Hornbill Pennant-winged Nightjar Von der Decken’s Hornbill Slender Tailed Nightjar Crowned Hornbill Eurasian Nightjar Trumpeter Hornbill Swifts: Micropodidae Pale Billed Hornbill Mottled Swift Southern Ground Hornbill Little Swift Barbets: Capitonidae Eurasian Swift Spotted-flanked Barbet White-Rumped Swift Black-collared Barbet Alpine Swift Black-backed Barbet African Palm Swift Red-fronted Tinker bird Bohm’s Spinetail D’Arnaud’s Barbet Mottled Spinetail Red and yellow Barbet Crested (Levalliant’s) Barbet Babblers: Timaliidae Honey Guides: Indicatoridae African Hill Babbler Greater Honeyguide Scaly Chatterer Lesser Honeyguide Arrow-marked Babbler Eastern (Wahlberg’s) Honeyguide Black-lored Babbler Woodpeckers: Picidae Cuckoo-Shrikes: Campephagidae Golden-tailed Woodpecker Black Cuckoo Shrike Bennett’s Woodpecker White-breasted Cuckoo Shrike Green-backed Woodpecker Bulbuls: Pycnonotidae Nubian Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Greenbul Cardinal Woodpecker Eastern Nicator Bearded Woodpecker Grey-olive Greenbul Broadbills: Eurylaemidae Common Bulbul African Broadbill Brownbul Thrushes: Turdidae PASSERINES Red-tailed (Familiar) Chat Larks: Alaudidae White-browed Scrub Robin Fischer’s Sparrow lark Eastern Bearded Scrub Robin Rufous-naped Lark Morning Thrush Dusky bush Lark Spotted Morning Thrush Flappet Lark White-browed Robin Chat Swallows: Hirundinidae Red-capped Robin Chat Common House Martin Irania Striped Swallow Sprosser Larger-striped Swallow Nightingale (African) Rock Martin Miombo Rock Thrush Grey-rumped Swallow Common Rock Thrush Barn (Eurasian)Swallow Northern Wheatear Mosque Swallow Capped Wheatear Wire-tailed Swallow Arnot’s (white-headed Black) chat White-headed Saw-wing White-shouldered Cliff Chat Black Saw-wing Kurrichane Thrush Banded Martin Groundscraper Thrush African Sand Martin Bare-eyed Thrush Sand Martin Warblers: Sylyiidae Drongos: Dicruridae Great Reed Warbler Common Drongo Yellow-breasted Apalis Orioles: Oriolidae Grey-backed Camcaroptera African Golden Oriole Miombo Wren Warbler Back-headed Oriole Wing-snapping Cisticola Eurasian Oriole Rattling Cisticola Crows: Corvidae Winding Cisticola Pied Crow Zitting Cisticola White-naped Raven Yellow-bellied Eremomela Tits: Paridae Green-capped Eremomela White-bellied Tit Icterine Warbler Penduline Tits: Remizidae Olivaceous Warbler African Penduline Tit Yellow-bellied Hyliota Spotted Creeper: Salpornithidae Banded Parisoma Spotted Creeper Willow Warbler Tawny-flanked Prinia Superb Starling Balckcap Yellow-billed Oxpecker Garden Warbler Red-billed Oxpecker Red-faced Crombec Sunbirds: Nectrariniidae Flycatchers: Muscicapidae Collared Sunbird African Grey Flycatcher Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird Pale Flycatcher Amethyst Sunbird Semi-collared Flycatcher Little Purple-banded Sunbird Southern Black Flycatcher Copper Sunbird Ashy Flycatcher Miombo Double-collared Sunbird Spotted Flycatcher Mariqua Sunbird Lead-coloured Flycatcher Oliver Sunbird Batises etc: Platysteiridae Beautiful Sunbird Chinspot Batis Scarlet-chested Sunbird Monarch Flycatchers: Monarchidae Sheely’s Double-collared Sunbird African Paradise Flycatcher Variable Sunbird White-tailed Crested Flycatcher White-eyes: Zosteropidae Wagtails, Pipits: Motacillidae Yellow White-eye Plain-backed Pipit Weavers: Ploceidae Grassland (Richard’s) Pipit Grosbeak Weaver Tree Pipit Red-headed Weaver African Pied Wagtail Yellow-crowned Bishop Yellow Wagtail White-winged Widowbird Golden Pipit Red-naped Widowbird Bush-Shrikes: Malaconotidae Fan-tailed Widowbird Black-backed Puffback Hartlaub’s Marsh Widowbird Tropical Boubou Black-winged Red Bishop Slate Coloured Boubou Yellow-mantled Widowbird Grey-headed Bush Shrike Southern Red Bishop Sulphur-breasted Bush Shrike Black-headed Weaver Brubru Masked Weaver Brown-crowned Tchagra Golden-backed Weaver Marsh Tchagra Black-necked Weaver Shrikes: Laniidae Spectacled Weaver Magpie Shrike Chestnut Weaver Red-backed Shrike Holub’s Golden Weaver Red-tailed Shrike Cardinal Quelea Lesser Grey Shrike Red-headed Quelea Northern White-crowned Shrike Red-billed Quelea Helmet-Shrikes: Prionopidae Red-billed Buffalo Weaver White-crested Helmet-Shrike White-headed Buffalo Weaver Retz’s Helmet-Shrike White-browed Sparow Weaver Starlings and Oxpeckers: Sturnidae Grey-headed Social Weaver Violet-backed Starling Sparrows: Passerinidae Ashy Starling Chestnut Sparrow Wattled Starling Grey-headed Sparrow Greater Blue-eared Glossy Starling Swahili Sparrow Lesser Blue-eared Glossy Starling Speckled-fronted Weaver White-winged Starling Whydahs: Viduinidae Red-winged Starling African Firefinch Indigobird Jameson’s Firefinch Indigobird Straw-tailed Whydah Steel-blued Whydah Pin-tailed Whydah Broad-tailed Paradise Whydah Paradise Whydah Waxbills: Estrildidae Waxbill Black-cheeked Waxbill Crimson-rumped Waxbill Jameson’s Firefinch African Firefinch Red-billed Firefinch Orange-winged Pytilia Green-winged Pytilia Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu Blue-capped Cordon-bleu Cut-throat Finch Bronze Mannikin Grey-headed Silver-bill Buntings:Emberizidae Cabanis’s Bunting Golden-breasted Bunting Cinnamon-breasted Rock Bunting Finches: Fringillidae Black-throated Seed-eater Yellow-crowned Canary White-bellied Canary Yellow-fronted Canary Striped-breasted Seed-eater