Number of species: 1078 Number of endemics: 1 Number of globally threatened species: 35 Number of introduced species: 1 Number of rare/hard see, species: 71 Last modified: December 21, 2018 STRUTHIONIFORMES: Struthionidae, (OSTRICHES) Common Ostrich ANSERIFORMES: Anatidae, (DUCKS) White-faced Whistling-Duck Fulvous Whistling-Duck White-backed Duck Comb Duck Hartlaub’s Duck Egyptian Goose Spur-winged Goose African Pygmy-Goose Garganey | www.widewildsafaris.com Hottentot Teal Northern Shoveler Eurasian Wigeon Rare African Black Duck Yellow-billed Duck Red-billed Duck Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Southern Pochard Common Pochard Vulnerable Ferruginous Duck Rare and Near-threatened Tufted Duck Maccoa Duck Rare GALLIFORMES: Numididae, (GUINEAFOWLS) Helmeted Guineafowl Crested Guineafowl GALLIFORMES: Odontophoridae, (PARTRIAGE,FRANCOLINS) Stone Partridge Nahan’s Francolin Vulnerable | www.widewildsafaris.com GALLIFORMES: Phasianidae, (QUAILS, FRANCOLINS) Blue Quail Common Quail Harlequin Quail Handsome Francolin Heuglin’s Francolin Scaly Francolin Hildebrandt’s Francolin Jackson’s Francolin Clapperton’s Francolin Yellow-necked Francolin Red-necked Francolin Crested Francolin Coqui Francolin Latham’s Francolin Red-winged Francolin Ring-necked Francolin Near-threatened Orange River Francolin Moorland Francolin | www.widewildsafaris.com Shelley’s Francolin PODICIPEDIFORMES: Podicipedidae, (GREBES) Little Grebe Great Crested Grebe Eared Grebe Rare PHOENICOPTERIFORMES: Phoenicopteridae, (FLAMINGOS) Greater Flamingo Lesser Flamingo Near-threatened PROCELLARIIFORMES: Procellariidae, (PETRELS) Southern Giant-Petrel Rare CICONIIFORMES: Ciconiidae, (STORKS) African Openbill Black Stork Abdim’s Stork Woolly-necked Stork White Stork Saddle-billed Stork | www.widewildsafaris.com Marabou Stork Yellow-billed Stork SULIFORMES: Phalacrocoracidae, (CORMORANTS) Long-tailed Cormorant Great Cormorant SULIFORMES: Anhingidae, (DARTERS) African Darter PELECANIFORMES: Pelecanidae, (PELICANS) Great White Pelican Pink-backed Pelican PELECANIFORMES: Balaenicipitidae, (SHOEBILL) Shoebill Vulnerable PELECANIFORMES: Scopidae, (HAMERHEAD) Hamerkop PELECANIFORMES: Ardeidae, (BETERNS, HERONS, EGRETS) | www.widewildsafaris.com Great Bittern Rare Little Bittern Dwarf Bittern White-crested Bittern Rare Gray Heron Black-headed Heron Goliath Heron Purple Heron Great Egret Intermediate Egret Little Egret Western Reef-Heron Rare Black Heron Cattle Egret Squacco Heron Madagascar Pond-Heron Rare and Endangered Rufous-bellied Heron Striated Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron White-backed Night-Heron | www.widewildsafaris.com PELECANIFORMES: Threskiornithidae, (IBISES, SPOONBILLS) Glossy Ibis Sacred Ibis Olive Ibis Spot-breasted Ibis Hadada Ibis Eurasian Spoonbill African Spoonbill ACCIPITRIFORMES: Sagittariidae, (SECRETARYBIRD, “RAPTOR”) Secretarybird Vulnerable ACCIPITRIFORMES: Pandionidae, (OSPREY, “RAPTOR”) Osprey ACCIPITRIFORMES: Accipitridae, (RAPTORS) Black-shouldered Kite Scissor-tailed Kite African Harrier-Hawk Palm-nut Vulture | www.widewildsafaris.com Bearded Vulture Near-threatened Egyptian Vulture Endangered European Honey-buzzard African Cuckoo-Hawk White-headed Vulture Critically endangered Lappet-faced Vulture Endangered Hooded Vulture Critically endangered White-backed Vulture Critically endangered Rüppell’s Griffon Critically endangered Bateleur Near-threatened Congo Serpent-Eagle Short-toed Snake-Eagle Rare Beaudouin’s Snake-Eagle Vulnerable Black-breasted Snake-Eagle Brown Snake-Eagle Banded Snake-Eagle Bat Hawk Crowned Eagle Near-threatened Martial Eagle Vulnerable Long-crested Eagle | www.widewildsafaris.com Lesser Spotted Eagle Greater Spotted Eagle Vulnerable Wahlberg’s Eagle Booted Eagle Ayres’s Hawk-Eagle Tawny Eagle Steppe Eagle Endangered Cassin’s Hawk-Eagle Verreaux’s Eagle African Hawk-Eagle Lizard Buzzard Dark Chanting-Goshawk Eastern Chanting-Goshawk Gabar Goshawk Grasshopper Buzzard Eurasian Marsh-Harrier African Marsh-Harrier Pallid Harrier Near-threatened Montagu’s Harrier Red-chested Goshawk | www.widewildsafaris.com African Goshawk Chestnut-flanked Sparrowhawk Shikra Levant Sparrowhawk Rare Red-thighed Sparrowhawk Little Sparrowhawk Ovambo Sparrowhawk Rufous-chested Sparrowhawk Black Goshawk Long-tailed Hawk Black Kite African Fish-Eagle Common Buzzard Mountain Buzzard Near-threatened Long-legged Buzzard Red-necked Buzzard Augur Buzzard OTIDIFORMES: Otididae, (BUSTARDS) Kori Bustard Near-threatened | www.widewildsafaris.com Denham’s Bustard Near-threatened White-bellied Bustard Buff-crested Bustard Black-bellied Bustard Hartlaub’s Bustard GRUIFORMES: Rallidae, (HENS, CRAKES) Nkulengu Rail Corn Crake African Rail African Crake Striped Crake Rare Spotted Crake Rare Black Crake Little Crake Rare Baillon’s Crake Rare Allen’s Gallinule African Swamphen Eurasian Moorhen Lesser Moorhen | www.widewildsafaris.com Red-knobbed Coot GRUIFORMES: Sarothruridae, (FLUFFTAILS) Gray-throated Rail White-spotted Flufftail Buff-spotted Flufftail Red-chested Flufftail GRUIFORMES: Heliornithidae, (FINFOOT) African Finfoot GRUIFORMES: Gruidae, (CRANES) Gray Crowned-Crane Endangered Black Crowned-Crane Rare and Vulnerable CHARADRIIFORMES: Burhinidae, (THICK-KNEES) Water Thick-knee Eurasian Thick-knee Rare Indian Thick-knee Senegal Thick-knee Spotted Thick-knee | www.widewildsafaris.com CHARADRIIFORMES: Pluvianidae, (EGYPTIAN PLOVER) Egyptian Plover Rare CHARADRIIFORMES: Recurvirostridae, (STILT, AVOCETS) Black-winged Stilt Pied Avocet CHARADRIIFORMES: Haematopodidae, (OYSTERCATCHER) Eurasian Oystercatcher CHARADRIIFORMES: Charadriidae, (LAPWINGS, PLOVERS) Black-bellied Plover Pacific Golden-Plover Rare Long-toed Lapwing Spur-winged Lapwing Black-headed Lapwing White-headed Lapwing Rare Senegal Lapwing Crowned Lapwing Wattled Lapwing | www.widewildsafaris.com Brown-chested Lapwing Lesser Sand-Plover Rare Greater Sand-Plover Rare Caspian Plover Kittlitz’s Plover Kentish Plover Common Ringed Plover Little Ringed Plover Three-banded Plover Forbes’s Plover Rare White-fronted Plover CHARADRIIFORMES: Rostratulidae, (SNIPE) Greater Painted-Snipe CHARADRIIFORMES: Jacanidae, (JACANAS) Lesser Jacana African Jacana CHARADRIIFORMES: Scolopacidae,(GODWITS, STINTS, SHANKS, SANDPIPERS, SNIPS) Whimbrel | www.widewildsafaris.com Eurasian Curlew Near-threatened Bar-tailed Godwit Rare and Near-threatened Black-tailed Godwit Near-threatened Ruddy Turnstone Ruff Broad-billed Sandpiper Rare Curlew Sandpiper Near-threatened Temminck’s Stint Sanderling Dunlin Rare Little Stint Jack Snipe Great Snipe Near-threatened Common Snipe African Snipe Terek Sandpiper Red-necked Phalarope Rare Common Sandpiper Green Sandpiper Spotted Redshank | www.widewildsafaris.com Common Greenshank Lesser Yellowlegs Rare Marsh Sandpiper Wood Sandpiper Common Redshank CHARADRIIFORMES: Turnicidae, (BUTTONQUAILS) Small Buttonquail Hottentot Buttonquail Quail-plover Rare CHARADRIIFORMES: Glareolidae, (COURSERS, PRATICOLES) Temminck’s Courser Three-banded Courser Bronze-winged Courser Collared Pratincole Black-winged Pratincole Near-threatened Madagascar Pratincole Rare and Vulnerable Rock Pratincole Gray Pratincole Rare | www.widewildsafaris.com CHARADRIIFORMES: Laridae, (GULLS, TERNS, SKIMMERS) Slender-billed Gull Rare Gray-hooded Gull Black-headed Gull Pallas’s Gull Rare Caspian Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Gull-billed Tern Caspian Tern Rare Black Tern White-winged Tern Whiskered Tern Common Tern Rare Lesser Crested Tern Rare African Skimmer Near-threatened PTEROCLIFORMES: Pteroclidae, (SANDGROUSES) Lichtenstein’s Sandgrouse Rare Four-banded Sandgrouse COLUMBIFORMES: Columbidae, (PIGEONS, DOVES) | www.widewildsafaris.com Rock Pigeon Introduced species Speckled Pigeon Afep Pigeon Rameron Pigeon Delegorgue’s Pigeon Bronze-naped Pigeon Lemon Dove White-naped Pigeon Near-threatened European Turtle-Dove Vulnerable Dusky Turtle-Dove Mourning Collared-Dove Red-eyed Dove Ring-necked Dove Vinaceous Dove Laughing Dove Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove Black-billed Wood-Dove Blue-spotted Wood-Dove Tambourine Dove Namaqua Dove | www.widewildsafaris.com Bruce’s Green-Pigeon African Green-Pigeon CUCULIFORMES: Musophagidae, (TURACOS, GO-AWAY-BIRDS, PLANTAIN-EATERS) Great Blue Turaco Black-billed Turaco White-crested Turaco Hartlaub’s Turaco Purple-crested Turaco Ruwenzori Turaco Ross’s Turaco Bare-faced Go-away-bird White-bellied Go-away-bird Eastern Plantain-eater CUCULIFORMES: Cuculidae, (COUCALS, CUCKOOS, MALKOHA) Black-throated Coucal Senegal Coucal Blue-headed Coucal White-browed Coucal Black Coucal | www.widewildsafaris.com Blue Malkoha Great Spotted Cuckoo Levaillant’s Cuckoo Pied Cuckoo Thick-billed Cuckoo Rare Dideric Cuckoo Klaas’s Cuckoo Yellow-throated Cuckoo African Emerald Cuckoo Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo Black Cuckoo Red-chested Cuckoo Lesser Cuckoo African Cuckoo Madagascar Cuckoo Rare Common Cuckoo STRIGIFORMES: Tytonidae, (GRASS-OWL, BARN OWL) | www.widewildsafaris.com African Grass-Owl Barn Owl STRIGIFORMES: Strigidae, (OWLS) European Scops-Owl African Scops-Owl Northern White-faced Owl Southern White-faced Owl Cape Eagle-Owl Spotted Eagle-Owl Grayish Eagle-Owl Fraser’s Eagle-Owl Shelley’s Eagle-Owl Near-threatened Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl Pel’s Fishing-Owl Pearl-spotted Owlet Red-chested Owlet Chestnut Owlet Rare African Wood-Owl Short-eared Owl | www.widewildsafaris.com Marsh Owl CAPRIMULGIFORMES: Caprimulgidae, (NIGHTJARS) Pennant-winged Nightjar Standard-winged Nightjar Eurasian Nightjar Sombre Nightjar Rare Nubian Nightjar Black-shouldered Nightjar Fiery-necked