Birds
Home Up Flora 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

                                                                  
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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












 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 


         
                                                              
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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)










                                

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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

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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)

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