Birds

Birds

The following Bird Species can be found in the area:

They are in tables and are ordered under the following:
Common, Fairly Common, Vagrant, Summer Visitor, Rare

Common 8 Dabchick 58 Reed Cormorant 62 Grey Heron 63 Blackheaded Heron 66 Great White Egret (summer visitor) 71 Cattle Egret 81 Hamerkop 83 White Stork 95 African Spoonbill 99 Whitefaced Duck 102 Egyptian Goose 103 South African Shelduck 104 Yellowbilled Duck 108 Redbilled Teal 112 Cape Shoveler 116 Spurwinged Goose 127 Blackshouldered Kite 149 Steppe Buzzard (summer visitor) 162 Pale Chanting Goshawk 166 Mantagu's Harrier (summer visitor) 180 Amur Falcon (summer visitor) 183 Lesser Kestrel (summer visitor) 193 Orange River Francolin 199 Swainson's Francolin 200 Common Quail 203 Helmeted Guineafowl 208 Blue Crane 228 Redknobbed Coot 234 Blue Korhaan 239 Northern Black Korhaan 248 Kittlitz's Plover 249 Threebanded Plover 255 Crowned Plover 258 Blacksmith Plover 266 Wood Sandpiper (summer visitor) 269 Marsh Sandpiper (summer visitor) 270 Greenshank (summer visitor) 272 Curlew Sandpiper (summer visitor) 274 Little Stint (summer visitor) 284 Ruff (summer visitor) 286 Ethiopian Snipe (vagrant) 297 Spotted Dikkop 301 Doublebanded Courser 349 Rock Pigeon 354 Cape Turtle Dove 355 Laughing Dove 356 Namaqua Dove 386 Diederik Cuckoo (summer visitor) 392 Barn Owl 401 Spotted Eagle Owl 406 Rufouscheeked Nightjar (summer visitor) 411 European Swift (summer visitor) 415 Whiterumped Swift (summer visitor) 417 Little Swift (summer visitor) 418 Alpine Swift (summer visitor) 424 Speckled Mousebird 425 Whitebacked Mousebird 426 Redfaced Mousebird 438 European Bee-Eater (summer visitor) 465 Pied Barbet 476 Crested Barbet 492 Melodious Lark 495 Clapper Lark 506 Spikedheeled Lark 507 Redcapped Lark 512 Thickbilled Lark 518 European Swallow (summer visitor) 520 Whitethroated Swallow (summer visitor) 524 Redbreasted Swallow (summer visitor) 526 Greater Striped Swallow (summer visitor) 528 South African Cliff Swallow (summer visitor) 533 Brownthroated Martin 577 Olive Thrush 586 Mountain Chat 589 Familiar Chat 595 Anteating Chat 596 Stone Chat 601 Cape Robin 614 Karoo Robin 621 Titbabbler 631 African Marsh Warbler (summer visitor) 635 Cape Reed Warbler 664 Fantainled Cisticola 665 Desert Cisticola 666 Cloud Cisticola 669 Greybacked Cisticola 677 Levaillant's Cisticola 685 Blackchested Prinia 688 Rufouseared Warbler 698 Fiscal Flycatcher 713 Cape Wagtail 716 Richard's Pipit 717 Longbilled Pipit 727 Orangethroated Longclaw 731 Lesser Grey Shrike (summer visitor) 732 Fiscal Shrike 733 Redbacked Shrike (summer visitor) 746 Bokmakierie 759 Pied Starling 760 Wattled Starling 769 Redwinged Starling 775 Malachite Sunbird 796 Cape White-eye 801 House Sparrow 803 Cape Sparrow 804 Greyheaded Sparrow 806 Scalyfeathered Finch 814 Masked Weaver 821 Redbilled Quelea 824 Red Bishop 826 Golden Bishop 832 Longtailed Widow 846 Common Waxbill 860 Pintailed Whydah 870 Blackthroated Canary 878 Yellow Canary 879 Whitethroated Canary 886 Rock Bunting 887 Larklike Bunting [Back To Top]	Fairly Common 1 Ostrich 55 Whitebreasted Cormorant 60 Darter 67 Little Egret 68 Yellowbilled Egret 76 Blackcrowned Night Heron 84 Black Stork 91 Sacred Ibis 93 Glossy Ibis 94 Hadeda Ibis 96 Greater Flamingo 105 African Black Duck 106 Cape Teal 113 Southern Pochard 118 Secretary Bird 148 Fish Eagle 152 Jackal Buzzard 167 Pallid Harrier (summer visitor) 181 Rock Kestrel 182 Greater Kestrel 205 Kurrichane Buttonquail 213 Black Crake 226 Moorhen 232 Ludwig's Bustard 294 Avocet 295 Blackwinged Stilt 299 Burchell's Courser 339 Whitewinged Tern 344 Namaqua Sandgrouse 352 Redeyed Dove 395 Marsh Owl 428 Pied Kingfisher 429 Giant Kingfisher 431 Malachite Kingfisher 435 Brownhooded Kingfisher 451 African Hoopoe 476 Lesser Honeyguide 486 Cardinal Woodpecker 494 Rufousnaped Lark 498 Sabota Lark 508 Pinkbilled Lark 516 Greybacked Finchlark (vagrant) 529 Rock Martin 548 Pied Crow 557 Cape Penduline Tit 567 Redeyed Bulbul 587 Capped Wheatear 590 Tractrac Chat 591 Sicklewing Chat 622 Layard's Titbabbler 638 African Sedge Warbler 651 Longbilled Crombec 653 Yellowbellied Eremomela 667 Ayres' Cisticola 687 Namaqua Prinia 689 Spotted Flycatcher (summer visitor) 703 Pririt Batis 706 Fairy Flycatcher 710 Paradise Flycatcher (summer visitor) 719 Buffy Pipit 721 Rock Pipit 764 Glossy Starling 770 Palewinged Starling 788 Dusky Sunbird 799 Whitebrowed Sparrow-weaver 842 Redbilled Firefinch 852 Quail Finch 856 Redheaded Finch 876 Blackheaded Canary 885 Cape Bunting [Back To Top]
Vagrant 6 Great Crested Grebe 7 Blacknecked Grebe 64 Goliath Heron 100 Fulvous Duck (common) 116 Spurwinged Goose (common) 179 Redfooted Falcon 242 Painted Snipe (rare) 286 Ethiopian Snipe (common) 315 Greyheaded Gull (rare) 516 Greybacked Finchlark (fairly common) [Back To Top]	Rare 65 Purple Heron 69 Great White Egret 90 Yellowbilled Stork (summer visitor) 101 Whitebacked Duck 123 Whitebacked Vulture 131 Black Eagle 140 Martial Eagle 143 Blackbreasted Snake Eagle 161 Gabar Goshawk 168 Black Harrier 169 Gymnogene 170 Osprey 171 Peregrine Falcon 172 Lanner Falcon 201 Harlequin Quail 242 Painted Snipe (vagrant) 300 Temminck's Courser 305 Blackwinged Prantincole (summer visitor) 315 Greyheaded Gull (vagrant) 338 Whiskered Tern 412 Black Swift (summer visitor) 489 Redthroated Wryneck 633 European Marsh Warbler (summer visitor) 711 African Pied Wagtail [Back To Top]
Summer Visitor 66 Great White Egret (common) 83 White Stork (common) 85 Abdim's Stork 90 Yellowbilled Stork (rare) 136 Booted Eagle 149 Steppe Buzzard (common) 165 African Marsh Harrier 166 Montagu's Harrier (common) 167 Pallid Harrier (fairly common) 180 Amur Falcon (common) 183 Lesser Kestrel (common) 264 Common Sandpiper 266 Wood Sandpiper (common) 269 Marsh Sandpiper (common) 270 Greenshank (common) 272 Curlew Sandpiper (common) 274 Little Stint (common) 284 Ruff (common) 305 Blackwinged Pranticole (rare) 386 Diederik Cuckoo (common) 406 Rufouscheeked Nightjar (common) 411 European Swift (common) 412 Black Swift (rare) 415 Whiterumped Swift (common) 417 Little Swift (common) 418 Alpine Swift (common) 438 European Bee-eater (common) 446 European Roller 517 Blackeared Finchlark 518 European Swallow (common) 520 Whitethroated Swallow (common) 523 Pearlbreasted Swallow 524 Redbreasted Swallow (common) 526 Greater Striped Swallow (common) 528 South African Cliff Swallow (common) 631 African Marsh Warbler (common) 633 European Marsh Warbler (rare) 643 Willow Warbler 689 Spotted Flycatcher (fairly common) 710 Paradise Flycatcher (fairly common) 731 Lesser Grey Shrike (common) 733 Redbacked Shrike (common) [Back To Top]

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