Lower Zambezi List This list was compiled by Pete Leonard for BirdWatch For a more detailed list go to: https://www.birdwatchzambia.org/

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Little Grebe African Cuckoo Hawk Dickinson’s Kestrel White-breasted Cormorant Honey Buzzard Eastern Red-footed (Amur) Reed Cormorant Bat Hawk Falcon African Darter Black-shouldered Kite Red-necked Falcon White Pelican Eurasian Black/Yellow-billed Lanner Falcon Pink-backed Pelican Kite Peregrine Falcon Little Bittern African Fish Eagle Crested Francolin Dwarf Bittern Palm-nut Vulture Shelley’s Francolin Black-crowned Night Heron Hooded Vulture Natal Francolin White-backed Night Heron African White-backed Vulture Swainson’s Francolin Common Squacco Heron Lappet-faced Vulture Red-necked Francolin Rufous-bellied Heron White-headed Vulture Harlequin Quail Cattle Egret Black-breasted Snake Eagle Blue Quail Green-backed Heron Brown Snake Eagle Crested Guineafowl Black Egret Western Banded Snake Eagle Helmeted Guineafowl Slaty Egret Bateleur Kurrichane Buttonquail Little Egret Gymnogene (African Harrier- Buff-spotted Flufftail Hawk) Yellow-billed Egret African Crake African Marsh Harrier Great White Egret Black Crake Pallid Harrier Purple Heron Striped Crake Dark Chanting Goshawk Grey Heron Purple Gallinule Gabar Goshawk Black-headed Heron Lesser (Allen's) Gallinule Black Goshawk Goliath Heron Common Moorhen Ovambo Sparrowhawk Hamerkop Black-bellied Bustard Little Sparrowhawk Yellow-billed Stork African Jacana African Goshawk Openbill Stork Painted Snipe Shikra (Little Banded Black-winged Stilt Black Stork Goshawk) Water Dikkop Abdim’s Stork Lizard Buzzard Three-banded Courser Woolly-necked Stork Common (Steppe) Buzzard Bronze-winged Courser White Stork Augur Buzzard Temminck’s Courser Saddlebill Wahlberg’s Eagle Marabou Stork Common (Red-winged) Lesser Spotted Eagle Pratincole Sacred Ibis Tawny Eagle Rock Pratincole Glossy Ibis Steppe Eagle Ringed Plover Hadada Ibis Black (Verreaux's) Eagle Kittlitz’s Plover African Spoonbill African Hawk Eagle Three-banded Plover Greater Flamingo Booted Eagle White-fronted Sand Plover Fulvous Tree Duck Ayres’s Hawk Eagle Caspian Plover White-faced Tree Duck Long-crested Eagle Wattled Plover Egyptian Goose Crowned Eagle White-crowned Plover Spur-winged Goose Martial Eagle Blacksmith Plover Knob-billed (Comb) Duck Osprey Lesser Black-winged Plover Pygmy Goose Secretary Bird Crowned Plover Southern Pochard Lesser Kestrel Long-toed Plover Wood Owl Crested Barbet Ethiopian Snipe Marsh Owl Green-backed Honeyguide Marsh Sandpiper Eurasian Nightjar Greater Honeyguide Greenshank Fiery-necked Nightjar Lesser Honeyguide Wood Sandpiper Freckled Rock Nightjar Bennett’s Woodpecker Common Sandpiper Gaboon (/ Golden-tailed Woodpecker Little Stint Square-tailed) Nightjar Cardinal Woodpecker Curlew Sandpiper Pennant-winged Nightjar Bearded Woodpecker Ruff Mottled Spinetail African Broadbill Grey-headed Gull Bat-like Spinetail African Pitta Caspian Tern African Palm Flappet Lark White-winged Black Tern Mottled Swift Dusky Lark African Skimmer Eurasian Swift Red-capped Lark Double-banded Sandgrouse Little Swift Chestnut-backed Sparrow- Laughing Dove Horus Swift Lark African Mourning Dove Red-faced Mousebird Black Saw-wing Cape Turtle Dove Narina Trogon Eurasian Sand Martin Red-eyed Dove Half-collared Kingfi sher African Sand (Brown-throated) Martin Emerald-spotted Wood Dove Malachite Kingfi sher Grey-rumped Swallow Tambourine Dove Pygmy Kingfi sher Mosque Swallow Namaqua Dove Brown-hooded Kingfi sher Lesser Striped Swallow African Green Pigeon Chestnut-bellied (Grey- headed) Kingfi sher African Rock Martin Brown-necked (Cape) Parrot Senegal (Woodland) Wire-tailed Swallow Meyer’s Parrot Kingfi sher Barn Swallow Lilian’s Lovebird Striped Kingfi sher House Martin Schalow’s Turaco Giant Kingfi sher Yellow Wagtail Purple-crested Turaco Pied Kingfi sher Long-tailed (Mountain) Wagtail Grey Lourie Little Bee-eater African Pied Wagtail Great Spotted Cuckoo Swallow-tailed Bee-eater Richard’s (Grassveld/African) Jacobin Cuckoo White-fronted Bee-eater Pipit Striped Crested (Levaillant's) Madagascar (Olive) Bee-eater Long-billed (inc. Wood) Pipit Cuckoo Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Buffy Pipit Thick-billed Cuckoo Eurasian Bee-eater Striped Pipit Red-chested Cuckoo Southern Carmine Bee-eater Black Cuckoo-shrike Black Cuckoo Eurasian Roller White-breasted Cuckoo-shrike Eurasian Grey Cuckoo Lilac-breasted Roller Sombre Bulbul African Grey Cuckoo Racket-tailed Roller Yellow-bellied Bulbul Emerald Cuckoo Purple Roller Terrestrial Bulbul Klaas’s Cuckoo Broad-billed Roller Black-eyed (Common) Bulbul Didric Cuckoo Red-billed (Green) Wood White-throated (Eastern/ African Black Coucal Hoopoe Yellow-spotted) Nicator Senegal Coucal Scimitarbill Kurrichane Thrush Burchell's (White-browed) Hoopoe Thrush Nightingale Coucal Red-billed Hornbill Heuglin’s (White-browed) Barn Owl Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill Robin African Scops Owl Crowned Hornbill Red-capped Robin White-faced Owl Pale-billed Hornbill Collared Palm Thrush Spotted Eagle Owl African Grey Hornbill Giant (Verreaux's) Eagle Owl Trumpeter Hornbill Pel's Fishing Owl Southern Ground Hornbill Pearl-spotted Owlet Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird Barred Owlet Black-collared Barbet Central Bearded (Miombo) Spotted Creeper Red-billed Quelea Scrub Robin (Western) Violet-backed Red Bishop Eastern Bearded Scrub Robin Sunbird Yellow-rumped (Yellow) White-browed Scrub Robin Collared Sunbird Bishop Capped Wheatear Black (Amethyst) Sunbird White-winged Whydah Familiar Chat Scarlet-chested Sunbird Red-collared Whydah Arnot's Chat Yellow-bellied (Variable) Green-winged Pytilia (Melba Mocking Chat Sunbird Finch) Little Rush Warbler (Southern) White-bellied Orange-winged Pytilia Sunbird River Warbler Red-throated Twinspot Shelley’s Sunbird Sedge Warbler Red-billed Firefi nch Purple-banded Sunbird Marsh Warbler Jameson’s Firefi nch Coppery Sunbird Great Reed Warbler Common Waxbill Yellow White-eye Lesser Swamp Warbler Blue Waxbill Eurasian Golden Oriole African (Dark-capped) Yellow Bronze Mannikin Warbler African Golden Oriole Red-backed Mannikin Green-capped Eremomela Eastern Black-headed Oriole Cut-throat Finch Burnt-necked Eremomela Red-backed Shrike Village Indigobird Yellow-bellied Eremomela Lesser Grey Shrike Dusky Indigobird Red-capped Crombec Brubru Pin-tailed Widow Long-billed Crombec Southern Puffback Long-tailed Paradise Widow Willow Warbler Brown-headed Tchagra Broad-tailed Paradise Widow Yellow-bellied Hyliota Black-crowned Tchagra Parasitic Weaver Southern Hyliota Tropical Boubou Yellow-fronted (Yellow-eyed) Garden Warbler Orange-breasted Bush Shrike Canary Common Whitethroat Grey-headed Bush Shrike Bully (Brimstone) Canary Fan-tailed (Zitting) Cisticola White Helmet Shrike Black-eared Seed-eater Desert Cisticola Retz’s Red-billed Helmet Stripe-breasted Seed-eater Shrike Croaking Cisticola Cinnamon-breasted Rock Fork-tailed Drongo Bunting Rattling Cisticola Pied Crow Golden-breasted Bunting Short-winged Cisticola African Red-winged Starling Neddicky Greater Blue-eared Starling Red-faced Cisticola Southern (Meve's) Long-tailed Tawny-fl anked Prinia Starling Yellow-breasted Apalis Amethst (Plum-coloured/ Bleating Bush Warbler Violet-backed) Starling Miombo (Stierling's) Barred Wattled Starling Warbler Yellow-billed Oxpecker Pallid (Pale) Flycatcher Red-billed Oxpecker Southern Black Flycatcher House Sparrow Spotted Flycatcher Southern Grey-headed Ashy Flycatcher Sparrow Lead-coloured (Grey Tit-) Yellow-throated Petronia Flycatcher White-browed Sparrow- Chinspot Batis weaver Black-throated Wattle-eye Spectacled Weaver Livingstone’s Flycatcher Large (Holub's) Golden Weaver African Paradise Flycatcher Lesser Masked Weaver Arrow-marked Babbler African Masked Weaver Miombo Grey Tit Spotted-backed (Village) Southern Black Tit Weaver Rufous-bellied Tit Red-headed Weaver Grey