South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

 is a large country, ranked 25th by size in the world, and is situated in the temperate latitudes and subtropics

Subtropics

The subtropics are the geographical and climatical zone of the Earth immediately north and south of the tropical zone, which is bounded by the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, at latitudes 23.5°N and 23.5°S...

. Due to a range of climate types

Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems. It was first published by Crimea German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1884, with several later modifications by Köppen himself, notably in 1918 and 1936...

 present, a patchwork of unique habitat types occur, which contribute to its biodiversity

Biodiversity

Biodiversity is the degree of variation of life forms within a given ecosystem, biome, or an entire planet. Biodiversity is a measure of the health of ecosystems. Biodiversity is in part a function of climate. In terrestrial habitats, tropical regions are typically rich whereas polar regions...

 and level of endemism. Offshore, South Africa's territory includes the Prince Edward Islands

Prince Edward Islands

The Prince Edward Islands are two small islands in the sub-antarctic Indian Ocean that are part of South Africa. The islands, named Marion Island and Prince Edward Island, are located at ....

 in the sub-antarctic Indian Ocean

Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface. It is bounded on the north by the Indian Subcontinent and Arabian Peninsula ; on the west by eastern Africa; on the east by Indochina, the Sunda Islands, and...

, while the submerged though ecologically important Agulhas Bank

Agulhas Bank

The Agulhas Bank is a broad, shallow part of the southern African continental shelf which extends south of Cape Agulhas before falling away steeply away to the abyssal plain....

 is for most part inside its territorial waters

Territorial waters

Territorial waters, or a territorial sea, as defined by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is a belt of coastal waters extending at most from the baseline of a coastal state...

.

858 species have been recorded including 31 endemics and nine species introduced by man.

The taxonomy

Taxonomy

Taxonomy is the science of identifying and naming species, and arranging them into a classification. The field of taxonomy, sometimes referred to as "biological taxonomy", revolves around the description and use of taxonomic units, known as taxa...

 of this list adheres to James Clements

James Clements

Dr. James Franklin Clements was an ornithologist, author and very successful businessman. He was born in New York....

' Birds of the World: A Checklist, and reflects all changes to that work until January, 2006. Taxonomic changes are on-going. As more research is gathered from studies of distribution, behavior and DNA

DNA

Deoxyribonucleic acid is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms . The DNA segments that carry this genetic information are called genes, but other DNA sequences have structural purposes, or are involved in...

, the order and number of families and species may change. Furthermore, different approaches to ornithological

Ornithology

Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the study of birds. Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and the aesthetic appeal of birds...

 nomenclature have led to concurrent systems of classification (see Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy

Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy

The Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy is a bird taxonomy proposed by Charles Sibley and Jon Edward Ahlquist. It is based on DNA-DNA hybridization studies conducted in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s....

).

Mainland and its territorial waters

Struthionidae

Ostrich

The Ostrich is one or two species of large flightless birds native to Africa, the only living member of the genus Struthio. Some analyses indicate that the Somali Ostrich may be better considered a full species apart from the Common Ostrich, but most taxonomists consider it to be a...

• Ostrich
  Ostrich
  The Ostrich is one or two species of large flightless birds native to Africa, the only living member of the genus Struthio. Some analyses indicate that the Somali Ostrich may be better considered a full species apart from the Common Ostrich, but most taxonomists consider it to be a...
  
  , Struthio camelus

Spheniscidae

Penguin

Penguins are a group of aquatic, flightless birds living almost exclusively in the southern hemisphere, especially in Antarctica. Highly adapted for life in the water, penguins have countershaded dark and white plumage, and their wings have become flippers...

• King Penguin
  King Penguin
  The King Penguin is the second largest species of penguin at about , second only to the Emperor Penguin. There are two subspecies—A. p. patagonicus and A. p...
  
  , Aptenodytes patagonicus Rare/Accidental
• Rockhopper Penguin
  Rockhopper penguin
  The rockhopper penguins are three closely related taxa of crested penguins that have been traditionally treated as a single species and are sometimes split into two or three species. Not all experts agree on the classification of these penguins...
  
  , Eudyptes chrysocome Rare/Accidental Vulnerable
• Macaroni Penguin
  Macaroni Penguin
  The Macaroni Penguin is a species of penguin found from the Subantarctic to the Antarctic Peninsula. One of six species of crested penguin, it is very closely related to the Royal Penguin, and some authorities consider the two to be a single species...
  
  , Eudyptes chrysolophus Rare/Accidental Vulnerable
• African Penguin
  African Penguin
  The African Penguin , also known as the Black-footed Penguin is a species of penguin, confined to southern African waters. It is known as Brilpikkewyn in Afrikaans, Inguza or Unombombiya in Xhosa, Manchot Du Cap in French and Pingüino Del Cabo in Spanish...
  
  , Spheniscus demersus Vulnerable

Podicipedidae

Grebe

A grebe is a member of the Podicipediformes order, a widely distributed order of freshwater diving birds, some of which visit the sea when migrating and in winter...

• Little Grebe
  Little Grebe
  The Little Grebe , also known as Dabchick, member of the grebe family of water birds. At 23 to 29 cm in length it is the smallest European member of its family. It is commonly found in open bodies of water across most of its range.-Description:The Little Grebe is a small water bird with a pointed...
  
  , Tachybaptus ruficollis
• Great Crested Grebe
  Great Crested Grebe
  The Great Crested Grebe is a member of the grebe family of water birds.- Description :The Great Crested Grebe is long with a wingspan. It is an excellent swimmer and diver, and pursues its fish prey underwater. The adults are unmistakable in summer with head and neck decorations...
  
  , Podiceps cristatus
• Black-necked Grebe
  Black-necked Grebe
  The Black-necked Grebe, Podiceps nigricollis, known in North America as the Eared Grebe, is a member of the grebe family of water birds. It occurs on every continent except Australia and Antarctica.-Taxonomy:There are three subspecies:*P. n...
  
  , Podiceps nigricollis

Diomedeidae

• Wandering Albatross
  Wandering Albatross
  The Wandering Albatross, Snowy Albatross or White-winged Albatross, Diomedea exulans, is a large seabird from the family Diomedeidae, which has a circumpolar range in the Southern Ocean. It was the first species of albatross to be described, and was long considered the same species as the Tristan...
  
  , Diomedea exulans
• Royal Albatross
  Southern Royal Albatross
  The Southern Royal Albatross, Diomedea epomophora, is a large seabird from the albatross family. At an average wingspan of around , it is the second largest albatross, behind the Wandering Albatross.-Taxonomy:...
  
  , Diomedea epomophora
• Laysan Albatross
  Laysan Albatross
  The Laysan Albatross, Phoebastria immutabilis, is a large seabird that ranges across the North Pacific. This small two-tone gull-like albatross is the second most common seabird in the Hawaiian Islands, with an estimated population of 2.5 million birds, and is currently expanding its range to new...
  
  , Phoebastria immutabilis Rare/Accidental
• Grey-headed Albatross
  Grey-headed Albatross
  The Grey-headed Albatross, Thalassarche chrysostoma, also known as the Grey-headed Mollymawk, is a large seabird from the albatross family. It has a circumpolar distribution, nesting on isolated islands in the Southern Ocean and feeding at high latitudes, further south than any of the other...
  
  , Thalassarche chrysostoma Vulnerable
• Black-browed Albatross
  Black-browed Albatross
  The Black-browed Albatross or Black-browed Mollymawk, Thalassarche melanophrys, is a large seabird of the albatross family Diomedeidae, and it is the most widespread and common albatross.-Taxonomy:...
  
  , Thalassarche melanophris
• Buller's Albatross
  Buller's Albatross
  Buller's Albatross or Buller's Mollymawk, Thalassarche bulleri, is a small mollymawk in the albatross family. It breeds on islands around New Zealand, and feeds in the seas off Australia and the South Pacific.-Taxonomy:...
  
  , Thalassarche bulleri Rare/Accidental Vulnerable
• Shy Albatross
  Shy Albatross
  The Shy Albatross or Shy Mollymawk, Thalassarche cauta, is a medium sized albatross that breeds off Australia and New Zealand's sub-Antarctic islands and ranges extensively across the Southern Ocean...
  
  , Thalassarche cauta Near-threatened
• Yellow-nosed Albatross
  Yellow-nosed Albatross
  Yellow-nosed Albatross may refer to:Birds of genus Thalassarche:* Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross, T. chlororhynchos* Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross, T. carteri...
  
  , Thalassarche chlororhynchos
• Sooty Albatross
  Sooty Albatross
  The Sooty Albatross, Dark-mantled Sooty Albatross or Dark-mantled Albatross, Phoebetria fusca, is a species of bird in the albatross family...
  
  , Phoebetria fusca Rare/Accidental Vulnerable
• Light-mantled Albatross
  Light-mantled Albatross
  The Light-mantled Albatross, Phoebetria palpebrata, also known as the Grey-mantled Albatross or the Light-mantled Sooty Albatross, is a small albatross in the genus Phoebetria, which it shares with the Sooty Albatross...
  
  , Phoebetria palpebrata Rare/Accidental Near-threatened

Procellariidae

Procellariidae

The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels.The procellariids are...

• Southern Giant Petrel
  Southern Giant Petrel
  The Southern Giant Petrel , also known as the Antarctic Giant Petrel, Giant Fulmar, Stinker, and Stinkpot, is a large seabird of the southern oceans. Its distribution overlaps broadly with the similar Northern Giant Petrel, though it overall is centered slightly further south...
  
  , Macronectes giganteus Vulnerable
• Northern Giant Petrel
  Northern Giant Petrel
  The Northern Giant Petrel , also known as the Hall's Giant Petrel, is a large seabird of the southern oceans. Its distribution overlaps broadly with the similar Southern Giant Petrel, though it overall is centered slightly further north.-Taxonomy:The Northern Giant Petrel along with its...
  
  , Macronectes halli Near-threatened
• Southern Fulmar
  Southern Fulmar
  The Southern Fulmar, Fulmarus glacialoides, is a seabird of the Southern Hemisphere. Along with the Northern Fulmar, F. glacialis, it belongs to the fulmar genus Fulmarus in the family Procellariidae, the true petrels...
  
  , Fulmarus glacialoides
• Antarctic Petrel
  Antarctic Petrel
  The Antarctic Petrel is a boldly marked dark brown and white petrel, found in Antarctica, most commonly in the Ross and Weddell seas. They eat Antarctic krill, fish, and small squid...
  
  , Thalassoica antarctica Rare/Accidental
• Cape Petrel
  Cape Petrel
  The Cape Petrel also called Cape Pigeon or Pintado Petrel, is a common seabird of the Southern Ocean from the family Procellariidae. It is the only member of the genus Daption, and is allied to the fulmarine petrels, and the Giant Petrels. It is also sometimes known as the Cape Fulmar...
  
  , Daption capense
• Great-winged Petrel
  Great-winged Petrel
  The Great-winged Petrel or Grey-faced Petrel, Pterodroma macroptera, is a petrel. In New Zealand it is also known by its Māori name oi and as a muttonbird.- Taxonomy :...
  
  , Pterodroma macroptera
• White-headed Petrel
  White-headed Petrel
  The White-headed Petrel , also known as the White-headed Fulmar is a species of seabird in the petrel family, or Procellariidae. Its length is about 400 mm....
  
  , Pterodroma lessonii
• Atlantic Petrel
  Atlantic Petrel
  The Atlantic Petrel is a gadfly petrel endemic to the South Atlantic Ocean. It breeds in enormous colonies on Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island, and ranges at sea from Brazil to Namibia, with most records at sea being to the west of the breeding islands, and along the subtropical convergence.The...
  
  , Pterodroma incerta Rare/Accidental Vulnerable
• Soft-plumaged Petrel
  Soft-plumaged Petrel
  The Soft-plumaged Petrel is a species of seabird in the Procellariidae family.-Distribution:It breeds on islands in the Southern Hemisphere, nesting on Tristan da Cunha, Gough Island, the Prince Edward Islands, Crozet Islands, Macquarie Island, and on the Antipodes Islands of New Zealand. Small...
  
  , Pterodroma mollis
• Blue Petrel
  Blue Petrel
  The Blue Petrel is a small seabird in the family Procellariidae. This small petrel is the only member of the genus Halobaena but is closely allied to the prions.-Taxonomy:...
  
  , Halobaena caerulea
• Broad-billed Prion
  Broad-billed Prion
  The Broad-billed Prion, Pachyptila vittata, is a small seabird, but the largest Prion, with grey upperparts plumage, and white underparts. It has many other names that have been used such as Blue-billed Dove-petrel, Broad-billed Dove-petrel, Long-billed Prion, Common Prion, Icebird, and...
  
  , Pachyptila vittata
• Salvin's Prion, Pachyptila salvini
• Antarctic Prion
  Antarctic Prion
  The Antarctic Prion, Pachyptila desolata, also known as the Dove Prion, or Totorore in Maori, is the largest of the prions, a genus of small petrels of the Southern Ocean.-Taxonomy:...
  
  , Pachyptila desolata
• Slender-billed Prion
  Slender-billed Prion
  The Slender-billed Prion or Thin-billed Prion, Pachyptila belcheri, is a species of seabird in the Procellariidae family.It is found in the southern oceans.-Taxonomy:...
  
  , Pachyptila belcheri Rare/Accidental
• Fulmar Prion
  Fulmar Prion
  The Fulmar Prion, Pachyptila crassirostris, is a species of seabird in the Procellariidae family, found in the southern oceans-Taxonomy:...
  
  , Pachyptila crassirostris
• Fairy Prion
  Fairy Prion
  The Fairy Prion is a small seabird with the standard prion plumage of black upperparts and white underneath with an "M" wing marking.-Taxonomy:...
  
  , Pachyptila turtur
• Bulwer's Petrel
  Bulwer's Petrel
  The Bulwer's Petrel is a small petrel in the family Procellariidae, and is one of two species in the genus Bulweria . This bird is named after the Scottish naturalist James Bulwer.- Description :...
  
  , Bulweria bulwerii Rare/Accidental
• Grey Petrel
  Grey Petrel
  The Grey Petrel , also called the Brown Petrel, Pediunker or Grey Shearwater is a species of seabird in the Procellariidae, or petrel family...
  
  , Procellaria cinerea Near-threatened
• White-chinned Petrel
  White-chinned Petrel
  The White-chinned Petrel or Cape Hen, Procellaria aequinoctialis, is a large shearwater in the family Procellariidae. It ranges around the Southern Oceans as far north as South Australia, Peru and Namibia, and breeds colonially on scattered islands....
  
  , Procellaria aequinoctialis
• Kerguelen Petrel
  Kerguelen Petrel
  The Kerguelen Petrel is a small slate-grey seabird in the family Procellariidae. The species has been described as a "taxonomic oddball", being placed for a long time in Pterodroma before being split out in 1942 into its own genus Lugensa...
  
  , Lugensa brevirostris
• Streaked Shearwater
  Streaked Shearwater
  The Streaked Shearwater, Calonectris leucomelas is a species of seabird. The bird is 48 cm in size, with a 122 cm wingspan. This species is pelagic, but also occurs in inshore waters. It occurs in the Pacific Ocean, nesting in Japan and many of its offshore islands. After breeding, the Streaked...
  
  , Calonectris leucomelas Rare/Accidental
• Cory's Shearwater
  Cory's Shearwater
  The Cory's Shearwater is a large shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae.This species breeds on islands and cliffs in the Mediterranean, with the odd outpost on the Atlantic coast of Iberia. The nest is on open ground or among rocks or less often in a burrow where one white egg is laid,...
  
  , Calonectris diomedea
• Flesh-footed Shearwater
  Flesh-footed Shearwater
  The Flesh-footed Shearwater, Puffinus carneipes, is a small shearwater. Its plumage is black. It has pale pinkish feet, and a pale bill with a black tip. Together with the equally light-billed Pink-footed Shearwater, it forms the Hemipuffinus group, a superspecies which may or may not have an...
  
  , Puffinus carneipes
• Greater Shearwater, Puffinus gravis
• Wedge-tailed Shearwater
  Wedge-tailed Shearwater
  The Wedge-tailed Shearwater, Puffinus pacificus is a medium-large shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae. It is one of the shearwater species that is sometimes referred to as a Muttonbird, like the Sooty Shearwater of New Zealand and the Short-tailed Shearwater of Australia...
  
  , Puffinus pacificus
• Sooty Shearwater
  Sooty Shearwater
  The Sooty Shearwater is a medium-large shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae. In New Zealand it is also known by its Māori name tītī and as "muttonbird", like its relatives the Wedge-tailed Shearwater and the Australian Short-tailed Shearwater The Sooty Shearwater (Puffinus griseus) is...
  
  , Puffinus griseus
• Manx Shearwater
  Manx Shearwater
  The Manx Shearwater is a medium-sized shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae. The scientific name of this species records a name shift: Manx Shearwaters were called Manks Puffins in the 17th century. Puffin is an Anglo-Norman word for the cured carcasses of nestling shearwaters...
  
  , Puffinus puffinus
• Balearic Shearwater
  Balearic Shearwater
  The Balearic Shearwater is a medium-sized shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae. It was long regarded a subspecies of the Manx Shearwater; see there for more on the Puffinus puffinus superspecies; following an initial split it was held to be a subspecies of the "Mediterranean Shearwater"...
  
  , Puffinus mauretanicus Rare/Accidental Near-threatened
• Little Shearwater
  Little Shearwater
  The Little Shearwater is a small shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae.mtDNA cytochrome b sequence data indicates that the former North Atlantic Little Shearwater group is closer to Audubon's Shearwater , and myrtae being closer to the Newell's and possibly Townsend's Shearwater...
  
  , Puffinus assimilis
• Audubon's Shearwater
  Audubon's Shearwater
  Audubon's Shearwater, Puffinus lherminieri, is a common tropical seabird from the family Procellariidae. Sometimes called Dusky-backed Shearwater, the scientific name of this species commemorates the French naturalist Félix Louis L'Herminier....
  
  , Puffinus lherminieri Rare/Accidental

Hydrobatidae

• Grey-backed Storm-petrel
  Grey-backed Storm-petrel
  The Grey-backed Storm Petrel is a species of seabird in the Hydrobatidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Garrodia which was named by William Alexander Forbes in 1881 after Alfred Henry Garrod, while the specific descriptor is an allusion to the Nereids, the sea nymphs of Greek...
  
  , Garrodia nereis Rare/Accidental Data deficient
• Wilson's Storm-petrel
  Wilson's Storm-petrel
  Wilson's Storm Petrel , also known as Wilson's Petrel, is a small seabird of the storm-petrel family. It is one of the most abundant bird species in the world and has a circumpolar distribution mainly in the seas of the southern hemisphere but extending northwards during the summer of the northern...
  
  , Oceanites oceanicus
• White-faced Storm-petrel
  White-faced Storm-petrel
  The White-faced Storm Petrel , also known as White-faced Petrel is a small seabird of the storm-petrel family. It is the only member of the monotypic genus Pelagodroma....
  
  , Pelagodroma marina Rare/Accidental
• Black-bellied Storm-petrel
  Black-bellied Storm-petrel
  The Black-bellied Storm Petrel is a species of seabird in the Hydrobatidae family.It is found in Antarctica, Argentina, Australia, Bouvet Island, Brazil, Chile, Falkland Islands, French Polynesia, French Southern Territories, Madagascar, Mozambique, New Zealand, Oman, Peru, Saint Helena, São Tomé...
  
  , Fregetta tropica
• White-bellied Storm-petrel
  White-bellied Storm-petrel
  The White-bellied Storm Petrel is a species of seabird in the Hydrobatidae family.It is found in Angola, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, French Polynesia, French Southern Territories, Maldives, Namibia, New Zealand, Saint Helena, South Africa, and South Georgia and the South Sandwich...
  
  , Fregetta grallaria Rare/Accidental
• European Storm-petrel
  European Storm-petrel
  The European Storm Petrel or Storm Petrel is a small bird of the storm-petrel family, Hydrobatidae, part of the seabird order Procellariiformes. It is the only member of the genus Hydrobates.-Description:...
  
  , Hydrobates pelagicus
• Leach's Storm-petrel
  Leach's Storm-petrel
  The Leach's Storm Petrel or Leach's Petrel is a small seabird of the tubenose family. It is named after the British zoologist William Elford Leach....
  
  , Oceanodroma leucorhoa
• Matsudaira's Storm-petrel
  Matsudaira's Storm-petrel
  Matsudaira's Storm Petrel is a species of seabird in the Hydrobatidae family.It breeds solely in the Volcano Islands in the north-west Pacific Ocean, and winters in the Indian Ocean. Its status is insufficiently known....
  
  , Oceanodroma matsudairae Rare/Accidental Data deficient

Phaethontidae

• Red-billed Tropicbird
  Red-billed Tropicbird
  The Red-billed Tropicbird, Phaethon aethereus, also known as the Boatswain Bird is a tropicbird, one of three closely related seabirds of tropical oceans.-Distribution and habitat:...
  
  , Phaethon aethereus Rare/Accidental
• Red-tailed Tropicbird
  Red-tailed Tropicbird
  The Red-tailed Tropicbird, Phaethon rubricauda, is a seabird that nests across the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the rarest of the tropicbirds, yet is still a widespread bird that is not considered threatened. It nests in colonies on oceanic islands....
  
  , Phaethon rubricauda
• White-tailed Tropicbird
  White-tailed Tropicbird
  The White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus, is a tropicbird, smallest of three closely related seabirds of the tropical oceans and smallest member of the order Phaethontiformes. It occurs in the tropical Atlantic, western Pacific and Indian Oceans...
  
  , Phaethon lepturus Rare/Accidental

Pelecanidae

• Great White Pelican, Pelecanus onocrotalus
• Pink-backed Pelican
  Pink-backed Pelican
  The Pink-backed Pelican is a member of the pelican family of birds. It is a resident breeder in Africa, southern Arabia and apparently extinct in Madagascar in swamps and shallow lakes.-Description:...
  
  , Pelecanus rufescens

Sulidae

Sulidae

The bird family Sulidae comprises the gannets and boobies. Collectively called sulidas, they are medium-large coastal seabirds that plunge-dive for fish and similar prey. The ten species in this family are often considered congeneric in older sources, placing all in the genus Sula...

• Cape Gannet
  Cape Gannet
  The Cape Gannet, Morus capensis, originally Sula capensis, is a large seabird of the gannet family, Sulidae.They are easily identified by their large size, black and white plumage and distinctive yellow crown and hindneck...
  
  , Morus capensis Vulnerable
• Australian Gannet
  Australian Gannet
  The Australasian Gannet is a large seabird of the gannet family Sulidae....
  
  , Morus serrator Rare/Accidental
• Masked Booby
  Masked Booby
  The Masked Booby, Sula dactylatra, is a large seabird of the booby family, Sulidae. This species breeds on islands in tropical oceans, except in the eastern Atlantic; in the eastern Pacific it is replaced by the Nazca Booby, Sula granti, which was formerly regarded as a subspecies of Masked Booby...
  
  , Sula dactylatra
• Red-footed Booby
  Red-footed Booby
  The Red-footed Booby, Sula sula, is a large seabird of the booby family, Sulidae. As suggested by the name, adults always have red feet, but the colour of the plumage varies. They are powerful and agile fliers, but they are clumsy in takeoffs and landings...
  
  , Sula sula Rare/Accidental
• Brown Booby
  Brown Booby
  The Brown Booby is a large seabird of the booby family, Sulidae. The adult brown booby reaches about in length. Its head and upper body are covered in dark brown, with the remainder being a contrasting white. The juvenile form is gray-brown with darkening on the head, wings and tail...
  
  , Sula leucogaster Rare/Accidental

Phalacrocoracidae

• White-breasted Cormorant
  White-breasted Cormorant
  The White-breasted Cormorant is a member of the cormorant family Phalacrocoracidae. It is sometimes treated as a subspecies of the Great Cormorant, in which case it is referred to as Phalacrocorax carbo lucidus. However some authorities The White-breasted Cormorant (Phalacrocorax lucidus) is a...
  
  , Phalacrocorax lucidus
• Cape Cormorant
  Cape Cormorant
  The Cape Cormorant or Cape Shag, Phalacrocorax capensis, is a bird endemic to the southwestern coasts of Africa.It breeds from Namibia south to southern Cape Province. In the nonbreeding season, it may be found as far north as the mouth of the Congo, and also extends up the east coast of South...
  
  , Phalacrocorax capensis Endemic Near-threatened
• Bank Cormorant
  Bank Cormorant
  The Bank Cormorant, Phalacrocorax neglectus, also known as Wahlberg's Cormorant is a medium-sized cormorant that is endemic to Namibia and the western seaboard of South Africa, living in and around coastal waters; it is rarely recorded more than 15 km offshore.The Bank Cormorant is a...
  
  , Phalacrocorax neglectus Vulnerable
• Reed Cormorant
  Long-tailed Cormorant
  The Reed Cormorant , also known as the Long-tailed Cormorant, is a bird in the cormorant family Phalacrocoracidae. It breeds in much of Africa south of the Sahara, and Madagascar. It is resident but undertakes some seasonal movements.This is a common and widespread species, and is not considered to...
  
  , Phalacrocorax africanus
• Crowned Cormorant
  Crowned Cormorant
  The Crowned Cormorant, Microcarbo coronatus, is a small cormorant that is endemic to the waters of the cold Benguela Current of southern Africa. It is an exclusively coastal species and is always found at least 10 km away from land...
  
  , Phalacrocorax coronatus Near-threatened

Anhingidae

• African Darter
  African Darter
  The African Darter , sometimes called the Snakebird, is a water bird of sub-Saharan Africa.-Taxonomy:The African Darter is a member of the darter family, Anhingidae, and is closely related to American , Oriental , and Australian Darters.-Description:The male is mainly glossy...
  
  , Anhinga rufa

Fregatidae

• Great Frigatebird
  Great Frigatebird
  The Great Frigatebird is a large dispersive seabird in the frigatebird family. Major nesting populations are found in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, as well as a population in the South Atlantic....
  
  , Fregata minor

Ardeidae

• Grey Heron
  Grey Heron
  The Grey Heron , is a wading bird of the heron family Ardeidae, native throughout temperate Europe and Asia and also parts of Africa. It is resident in the milder south and west, but many birds retreat in winter from the ice in colder regions...
  
  , Ardea cinerea
• Black-headed Heron
  Black-headed Heron
  The Black-headed Heron is a wading bird of the heron family Ardeidae, common throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar. It is mainly resident but some west African birds move further north in the rainy season....
  
  , Ardea melanocephala
• Goliath Heron
  Goliath Heron
  The Goliath Heron is a very large wading bird of the heron family Ardeidae. It is found in sub-Saharan Africa, with smaller numbers in Southwest and South Asia.-Description:This is the world's largest heron...
  
  , Ardea goliath
• Purple Heron
  Purple Heron
  The Purple Heron is a wading bird in the heron family Ardeidae, breeding in Africa, central and southern Europe, and southern and eastern Asia. The European populations are migratory, wintering in tropical Africa; the more northerly Asian populations also migrate further south within Asia...
  
  , Ardea purpurea
• Great Egret
  Great Egret
  The Great Egret , also known as the Great White Egret or Common Egret, White Heron, or Great White Heron, is a large, widely-distributed egret. Distributed across most of the tropical and warmer temperate regions of the world, in southern Europe it is rather localized...
  
  , Ardea alba
• Slaty Egret
  Slaty Egret
  The Slaty Egret, Egretta vinaceigula, is a small, dark egret. It breeds in Zambia, Botswana, Namibia and Mozambique. It is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds applies...
  
  , Egretta vinaceigula Rare/Accidental Vulnerable
• Black Heron
  Black Heron
  The Black Heron also known as the Black Egret, is an African heron. It is a medium-sized , black-plumaged heron with yellow legs and feet. It is found south of the Sahara Desert, including Madagascar, and prefers shallow open waters, such as the edges of freshwater lakes and ponds...
  
  , Egretta ardesiaca
• Intermediate Egret
  Intermediate Egret
  The Intermediate Egret, Median Egret, or Yellow-billed Egret is a medium-sized heron. It is a resident breeder from east Africa across tropical southern Asia to Australia. It often nests in colonies with other herons, usually on platforms of sticks in trees or shrubs...
  
  , Egretta intermedia
• Little Blue Heron
  Little Blue Heron
  The Little Blue Heron, Egretta caerulea, is a small heron. It breeds from the Gulf states of the USA through Central America and the Caribbean south to Peru and Uruguay. It is a resident breeder in most of its range, but some northern breeders migrate to the southeastern USA or beyond in winter...
  
  , Egretta caerulea Rare/Accidental
• Western Reef Heron
  Western Reef Heron
  The Western Reef Heron, Egretta gularis, also known as the Western Reef Egret, is a medium-sized heron. It occurs mainly on the coasts in tropical west Africa, the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf and east to India...
  
  , Egretta gularis Rare/Accidental
• Snowy Egret
  Snowy Egret
  The Snowy Egret is a small white heron. It is the American counterpart to the very similar Old World Little Egret, which has established a foothold in the Bahamas....
  
  , Egretta thula Rare/Accidental
• Little Egret
  Little Egret
  The Little Egret is a small white heron. It is the Old World counterpart to the very similar New World Snowy Egret.-Subspecies:Depending on authority, two or three subspecies of Little Egret are currently accepted....
  
  , Egretta garzetta
• Squacco Heron
  Squacco Heron
  The Squacco Heron, Ardeola ralloides, is a small heron, long, of which the body is , with wingspan. It is of Old World origins, breeding in southern Europe and the Greater Middle East.-Behaviour:...
  
  , Ardeola ralloides
• Rufous-bellied Heron
  Rufous-bellied Heron
  The Rufous-bellied Heron is a species of heron in the Ardeidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe....
  
  , Ardeola rufiventris
• Cattle Egret
  Cattle Egret
  The Cattle Egret is a cosmopolitan species of heron found in the tropics, subtropics and warm temperate zones. It is the only member of the monotypic genus Bubulcus, although some authorities regard its two subspecies as full species, the Western Cattle Egret and the Eastern Cattle Egret...
  
  , Bubulcus ibis
• Striated Heron
  Striated Heron
  The Striated Heron, Butorides striata, also known as Mangrove Heron, Little Heron or Green-backed Heron, is a small heron. Striated Herons are mostly non-migratory and noted for some interesting behavioral traits. Their breeding habitat is small wetlands in the Old World tropics from west Africa to...
  
  , Butorides striata
• Black-crowned Night Heron
  Black-crowned Night Heron
  The Black-crowned Night Heron commonly abbreviated to just Night Heron in Eurasia, is a medium-sized heron found throughout a large part of the world, except in the coldest regions and Australasia .-Description:Adults are...
  
  , Nycticorax nycticorax
• White-backed Night Heron, Gorsachius leuconotus
• Little Bittern
  Little Bittern
  The Little Bittern is a wading bird in the heron family Ardeidae, native to the Old World, breeding in Africa, central and southern Europe, western and southern Asia, and Madagascar. Birds from temperate regions in Europe and western Asia are migratory, wintering in Africa and further south in...
  
  , Ixobrychus minutus
• Dwarf Bittern
  Dwarf Bittern
  The Dwarf Bittern is a species of heron in the Ardeidae family.It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea,...
  
  , Ixobrychus sturmii
• Great Bittern
  Great Bittern
  The Eurasian Bittern or Great Bittern is a wading bird of the heron family Ardeidae. It is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds applies.-Etymology:...
  
  , Botaurus stellaris

Scopidae

• Hamerkop, Scopus umbretta

Ciconiidae

• Yellow-billed Stork
  Yellow-billed Stork
  The Yellow-billed Stork, Mycteria ibis, is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. It occurs in Africa south of the Sahara and in Madagascar....
  
  , Mycteria ibis
• African Openbill, Anastomus lamelligerus
• Black Stork
  Black Stork
  The Black Stork Ciconia nigra is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. It is a widespread, but rare, species that breeds in the warmer parts of Europe, predominantly in central and eastern regions. This is a shy and wary species, unlike the closely related White Stork. It is seen in...
  
  , Ciconia nigra
• Abdim's Stork
  Abdim's Stork
  The Abdim's Stork, also known as White-bellied Stork, is a black stork with grey legs, red knees and feet, grey bill and white underparts. It has red facial skin in front of eye and blue skin near the bill in breeding season...
  
  , Ciconia abdimii
• Woolly-necked Stork
  Woolly-necked Stork
  The Woolly-necked Stork or White necked stork , Ciconia episcopus, is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. It can also be known as the Espiscopos....
  
  , Ciconia episcopus
• White Stork
  White Stork
  The White Stork is a large bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. Its plumage is mainly white, with black on its wings. Adults have long red legs and long pointed red beaks, and measure on average from beak tip to end of tail, with a wingspan...
  
  , Ciconia ciconia
• Saddle-billed Stork
  Saddle-billed Stork
  The Saddle-billed Stork is a large wading bird in the stork family, Ciconiidae. It is a widespread species which is a resident breeder in sub-Saharan Africa from Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya south to South Africa, and in The Gambia, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire and Chad in west Africa.This is a close...
  
  , Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis
• Marabou Stork
  Marabou Stork
  The Marabou Stork, Leptoptilos crumeniferus, is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. It breeds in Africa south of the Sahara, occurring in both wet and arid habitats, often near human habitation, especially waste tips...
  
  , Leptoptilos crumeniferus

Threskiornithidae

Threskiornithidae

The family Threskiornithidae includes 34 species of large terrestrial and wading birds, falling into two subfamilies, the ibises and the spoonbills. It was formerly known as Plataleidae. The spoonbills and ibises were once thought to be related to other groups of long-legged wading birds in the...

• Sacred Ibis
  Sacred Ibis
  The African Sacred Ibis is a species of ibis.-Description:An adult individual is 68 cm long with all-white body plumage apart from dark plumes on the rump. The bald head and neck, thick curved bill and legs are black. The white wings show a black rear border in flight...
  
  , Threskiornis aethiopicus
• Southern Bald Ibis
  Southern Bald Ibis
  The Southern Bald Ibis is a large bird found in open grassland or semi-desert in the mountains of southern Africa.This large, glossy, blue-black ibis has an unfeathered red face and head, and a long, decurved red bill. It breeds colonially on and amongst rocks and on cliffs, laying 2-3 eggs which...
  
  , Geronticus calvus Endemic Vulnerable
• Hadada Ibis, Bostrychia hagedash
• Glossy Ibis
  Glossy Ibis
  The Glossy Ibis is a wading bird in the ibis family Threskiornithidae.This is the most widespread ibis species, breeding in scattered sites in warm regions of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Atlantic and Caribbean region of the Americas...
  
  , Plegadis falcinellus
• African Spoonbill
  African Spoonbill
  The African Spoonbill is a long-legged wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family Threskiornithidae. The species is widespread across Africa and Madagascar, including Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. It lives in marshy wetlands with some open shallow water and...
  
  , Platalea alba

Phoenicopteridae

• Greater Flamingo
  Greater Flamingo
  The Greater Flamingo is the most widespread species of the flamingo family. It is found in parts of Africa, southern Asia , and southern Europe...
  
  , Phoenicopterus roseus
• Lesser Flamingo
  Lesser Flamingo
  The Lesser Flamingo is a species in the flamingo family of birds that resides in Africa and in southern Asia...
  
  , Phoenicopterus minor Near-threatened

Anatidae

Anatidae

Anatidae is the biological family of birds that includes ducks, geese and swans. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on all the world's continents except Antarctica and on most of the world's islands and island groups...

• Fulvous Whistling Duck
  Fulvous Whistling Duck
  The Fulvous Whistling Duck, Dendrocygna bicolor, is a whistling duck which breeds across the world's tropical regions in much of Central and South America, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Indian subcontinent, and the Gulf Coast of the United States....
  
  , Dendrocygna bicolor
• White-faced Whistling Duck
  White-faced Whistling Duck
  The White-faced Whistling Duck, Dendrocygna viduata, is a whistling duck which breeds in sub-Saharan Africa and much of South America.This species is gregarious, and at favoured sites, the flocks of a thousand or more birds arriving at dawn are an impressive sight...
  
  , Dendrocygna viduata
• White-backed Duck
  White-backed Duck
  The White-backed Duck is a waterbird of the family Anatidae. It is distinct from all other ducks, but most closely related to the whistling ducks in the subfamily Dendrocygninae, though also showing some similarities to the stiff-tailed ducks in the subfamily Oxyurinae...
  
  , Thalassornis leuconotus
• Mute Swan
  Mute Swan
  The Mute Swan is a species of swan, and thus a member of the duck, goose and swan family Anatidae. It is native to much of Europe and Asia, and the far north of Africa. It is also an introduced species in North America, Australasia and southern Africa. The name 'mute' derives from it being less...
  
  , Cygnus olor Introduced
• Egyptian Goose
  Egyptian Goose
  The Egyptian Goose is a member of the duck, goose and swan family Anatidae. It is in the shelduck subfamily Tadorninae, and is the only extant member of the genus Alopochen...
  
  , Alopochen aegyptiacus
• Cape Shelduck
  Cape Shelduck
  The South African Shelduck or Cape Shelduck, Tadorna cana, is a species of shelduck, a group of large goose-like birds which are part of the bird family Anatidae, which also includes the swans, geese and ducks...
  
  , Tadorna cana
• Spur-winged Goose
  Spur-winged Goose
  The Spur-winged Goose is a large bird in the family Anatidae, related to the geese and the shelducks, but distinct from both of these in a number of anatomical features, and therefore treated in its own subfamily, the Plectropterinae...
  
  , Plectropterus gambensis
• Comb Duck
  Comb Duck
  The Knob-billed Duck , or Comb Duck, is an unusual, pan-tropical duck, found in tropical wetlands in sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar and south Asia from Pakistan to Laos and extreme southern China...
  
  , Sarkidiornis melanotos
• African Pygmy-goose, Nettapus auritus
• African Black Duck
  African Black Duck
  The African Black Duck is a species of duck of the genus Anas. It is genetically closest to the mallard group , but shows some peculiarities in its behavior and plumage; it is accordingly placed in the subgenus Melananas pending further research.The African Black Duck is an...
  
  , Anas sparsa
• Cape Teal
  Cape Teal
  The Cape Teal is a 44-46 cm long dabbling duck of open wetlands in sub-Saharan Africa.This species is essentially non-migratory, although it moves opportunistically with the rains. Like many southern ducks, the sexes are similar. It is very pale and mainly grey, with a browner back and pink...
  
  , Anas capensis
• Yellow-billed Duck
  Yellow-billed Duck
  The Yellow-billed Duck, Anas undulata, is a 51–58 cm long dabbling duck which is an abundant resident breeder in southern and eastern Africa.This duck is not migratory, but will wander in the dry season to find suitable waters...
  
  , Anas undulata
• Northern Pintail
  Northern Pintail
  The Pintail or Northern Pintail is a widely occurring duck which breeds in the northern areas of Europe, Asia and North America. It is strongly migratory and winters south of its breeding range to the equator...
  
  , Anas acuta Rare/Accidental
• Red-billed Teal
  Red-billed Teal
  The Red-billed Teal, Anas erythrorhyncha, is a dabbling duck which is an abundant resident breeder in southern and eastern Africa typically south of 10° S. This duck is not migratory, but will fly great distances to find suitable waters...
  
  , Anas erythrorhyncha
• Hottentot Teal
  Hottentot Teal
  The Hottentot Teal is a species of dabbling duck of the genus Anas. It is migratory resident in eastern and southern Africa, from Sudan and Ethiopia west to Niger and Nigeria and south to South Africa and Namibia. In west Africa and Madagascar it is sedentary.The Hottentot Teal breed year round,...
  
  , Anas hottentota
• Garganey
  Garganey
  The Garganey is a small dabbling duck. It breeds in much of Europe and western Asia, but is strictly migratory, with the entire population moving to southern Africa, India Santragachi and Australasia in winter, where large flocks can occur. This species was first described by Linnaeus in 1758...
  
  , Anas querquedula Rare/Accidental
• Cape Shoveler
  Cape Shoveler
  The Cape Shoveler Anas smithii formerly known as Cape Shoveller is a species of dabbling duck of the genus Anas. It is resident in South Africa, and uncommon further north in Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, southern Angola, Lesotho, Mozambique, and Zambia.This 51–53 cm long duck is non-migratory,...
  
  , Anas smithii
• Northern Shoveler
  Northern Shoveler
  The Northern Shoveler , Northern Shoveller in British English, sometimes known simply as the Shoveler, is a common and widespread duck. It breeds in northern areas of Europe and Asia and across most of North America, and is a rare vagrant to Australia...
  
  , Anas clypeata Rare/Accidental
• Southern Pochard
  Southern Pochard
  The Southern Pochard is a duck.There are two subspecies, the South American Pochard N. e. erythrophthalma and the African Pochard N. e...
  
  , Netta erythrophthalma
• Maccoa Duck
  Maccoa Duck
  The Maccoa Duck is a small long African stiff-tailed duck.Adult males have a chestnut body, a blue bill and a black head...
  
  , Oxyura maccoa

Pandionidae

• Osprey
  Osprey
  The Osprey , sometimes known as the sea hawk or fish eagle, is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey. It is a large raptor, reaching more than in length and across the wings...
  
  , Pandion haliaetus

Accipitridae

Accipitridae

The Accipitridae, one of the two major families within the order Accipitriformes , are a family of small to large birds with strongly hooked bills and variable morphology based on diet. They feed on a range of prey items from insects to medium-sized mammals, with a number feeding on carrion and a...

• African Cuckoo-hawk
  African Cuckoo-Hawk
  The African Cuckoo-Hawk is a medium-sized raptor in the family Accipitridae resembling a Common Cuckoo, found in sub-Saharan Africa and along the eastern parts of Southern Africa...
  
  , Aviceda cuculoides
• European Honey Buzzard, Pernis apivorus
• Bat Hawk
  Bat Hawk
  The Bat Hawk is a raptor found in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia to New Guinea. It is named for its diet, which consists mainly of bats. It requires open space in which to hunt, but will live anywhere from dense rainforest to semi-arid veld.-Description:The Bat Hawk is a slender, medium-sized...
  
  , Macheiramphus alcinus
• Black-shouldered Kite
  Black-shouldered Kite
  The Black-shouldered Kite or Australian Black-shouldered Kite is a small raptor found in open habitat throughout Australia and resembles similar species found in Eurasia and North America, which have in the past also been named as Black-shouldered Kites...
  
  , Elanus caeruleus
• Black Kite
  Black Kite
  The Black Kite is a medium-sized bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which also includes many other diurnal raptors. Unlike others of the group, they are opportunistic hunters and are more likely to scavenge. They spend a lot of time soaring and gliding in thermals in search of food. Their...
  
  , Milvus migrans
• Yellow-billed Kite
  Yellow-billed Kite
  The Yellow-billed Kite is the Afrotropic counterpart of the Black Kite , of which it is most often considered a subspecies. However, recent DNA studies suggest that the Yellow-billed Kite differs significantly from Black Kites in the Eurasian clade, and should be considered as a separate,...
  
  , Milvus aegyptius (race parasitus)
• African Fish Eagle
  African Fish Eagle
  The African Fish Eagle or – to distinguish it from the true fish eagles , the African Sea Eagle – is a large species of eagle that is found throughout sub-Saharan Africa wherever large bodies of open water occur that have an abundant food supply. As a result of its large range, it is known in many...
  
  , Haliaeetus vocifer
• Palm-nut Vulture
  Palm-nut Vulture
  The Palm-nut Vulture or Vulturine Fish Eagle, is a very large bird of prey in the family Accipitridae which also includes many other diurnal raptors such as kites, buzzards and harriers, vultures, and eagles. It is the only member of the genus Gypohierax...
  
  , Gypohierax angolensis
• Hooded Vulture
  Hooded Vulture
  The Hooded Vulture is an Old World vulture in the order Accipitriformes, which also includes eagles, kites, buzzards and hawks. It is the only member of the genus Necrosyrtes....
  
  , Necrosyrtes monachus
• Bearded Vulture
  Lammergeier
  The Lammergeier, Lammergeyer, or Bearded Vulture, Gypaetus barbatus , is the only member of the genus Gypaetus. Traditionally considered an Old World vulture, it actually forms a minor lineage of Accipitridae together with the Egyptian Vulture , its closest living relative...
  
  , Gypaetus barbatus
• Egyptian Vulture
  Egyptian Vulture
  The Egyptian Vulture is a small Old World vulture, found widely distributed from southwestern Europe and northern Africa to southern Asia. It is the only living member of the genus Neophron. It has sometimes also been known as the White Scavenger Vulture or Pharaoh's Chicken...
  
  , Neophron percnopterus Rare/Accidental
• White-backed Vulture
  White-backed Vulture
  The White-backed Vulture is an Old World vulture in the family Accipitridae, which also includes eagles, kites, buzzards and hawks. It is closely related to the European Griffon Vulture, G. fulvus...
  
  , Gyps africanus
• Rüppell's Vulture
  Rüppell's Vulture
  Rüppell's Vulture is a large vulture that occurs throughout the Sahel region of central Africa. The current population of 30,000 is in decline due to ongoing loss of habitat and other pressures...
  
  , Gyps rueppellii Rare/Accidental
• Cape Vulture, Gyps coprotheres Vulnerable
• Lappet-faced Vulture
  Lappet-faced Vulture
  The Lappet-faced Vulture or Nubian Vulture is a mostly African Old World vulture belonging to the bird order Accipitriformes, which also includes eagles, kites, buzzards and hawks. It is the only member of the genus Torgos. A distinct subspecies T. t. negevensis occurs in the Sinai, the Negev...
  
  , Torgos tracheliotus Vulnerable
• White-headed Vulture
  White-headed Vulture
  The White-headed Vulture is an Old World vulture endemic to Africa. It has a pink beak and a white crest, and the featherless areas on its head are pale. Its has dark brown upper parts and black tail feathers. The feathers on its lower parts and legs are white. It has a wing span of 2 m and spends...
  
  , Trigonoceps occipitalis
• Black-breasted Snake Eagle, Circaetus pectoralis
• Brown Snake Eagle, Circaetus cinereus
• Southern Banded Snake Eagle, Circaetus fasciolatus Near-threatened
• Bateleur
  Bateleur
  The Bateleur is a medium-sized eagle in the bird family Accipitridae which also includes many other diurnal raptors such as buzzards, kites and harriers...
  
  , Terathopius ecaudatus
• Western Marsh Harrier
  Western Marsh Harrier
  The Western Marsh-harrier is a mid-sized harrier, a bird of prey from temperate and subtropical western Eurasia and adjacent Africa. It is also known as the Eurasian Marsh-harrier....
  
  , Circus aeruginosus
• African Marsh Harrier
  African Marsh Harrier
  The African Marsh Harrier is a bird of prey belonging to the harrier genus Circus. It is found in southern, central and eastern Africa from South Africa north to Sudan with a vagrant record from Nigeria. It is particularly common in the Okavango Delta in Botswana...
  
  , Circus ranivorus
• Black Harrier
  Black Harrier
  The Black Harrier, Circus maurus, is a medium-sized African harrier of South Africa, Botswana and Namibia.When perched, this bird appears all black. However, in flight a white rump and flight feathers become visible. Its morphology is comparable to that of other harriers, with a slim body, narrow...
  
  , Circus maurus Vulnerable
• Pallid Harrier
  Pallid Harrier
  The Pale or Pallid Harrier is a migratory bird of prey of the harrier family. It breeds in southern parts of eastern Europe and central Asia and winters mainly in India and southeast Asia...
  
  , Circus macrourus Near-threatened
• Montagu's Harrier
  Montagu's Harrier
  The Montagu's Harrier is a migratory bird of prey of the harrier family. Its common name commemorates the British naturalist George Montagu.-Plumage:...
  
  , Circus pygargus
• African Harrier-hawk, Polyboroides typus
• Lizard Buzzard
  Lizard Buzzard
  The Lizard Buzzard is a bird of prey. It belongs to the family Accipitridae. Despite its name, it may be more closely related to the Accipiter hawks than the Buteo buzzards....
  
  , Kaupifalco monogrammicus
• Dark Chanting Goshawk
  Dark Chanting Goshawk
  The Dark Chanting Goshawk is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. The Accipitridae also include many other diurnal raptors such as kites, eagles and harriers....
  
  , Melierax metabates
• Pale Chanting Goshawk
  Pale Chanting Goshawk
  The Pale Chanting Goshawk is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae.This hawk breeds in southern Africa. It is a resident species of dry, open semi-desert with 75 cm or less annual rainfall. It is commonly seen perched on roadside telephone poles.This species is 56–65 cm long. The...
  
  , Melierax canorus
• Gabar Goshawk
  Gabar Goshawk
  The Gabar Goshawk is a species of bird of prey in the Accipitridae family.It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana,...
  
  , Micronisus gabar
• African Goshawk
  African Goshawk
  The African Goshawk is a species of bird of prey in the Accipitridae family.As defined here following the Handbook of the Birds of the World, it is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique,...
  
  , Accipiter tachiro
• Shikra
  Shikra
  The Shikra is a small bird of prey in the family Accipitridae found widely distributed in Asia and Africa where it is also called the Little Banded Goshawk. The African forms may represent a separate species but have usually been considered as subspecies of the Shikra...
  
  , Accipiter badius
• Little Sparrowhawk
  Little Sparrowhawk
  The Little Sparrowhawk is a species of bird of prey in the Accipitridae family. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda,...
  
  , Accipiter minullus
• Ovambo Sparrowhawk
  Ovampo Sparrowhawk
  The Ovambo or Ovampo Sparrowhawk is a species of bird of prey in the Accipitridae family.It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia,...
  
  , Accipiter ovampensis
• Rufous-chested Sparrowhawk
  Rufous-chested Sparrowhawk
  The Rufous-breasted Sparrowhawk , also known as the Rufous-chested Sparrowhawk, is a species of bird of prey in the Accipitridae family...
  
  , Accipiter rufiventris
• Black Sparrowhawk
  Black Goshawk
  The Black Sparrowhawk , sometimes known as the Black Goshawk or Great Sparrowhawk, is the largest African member of the genus Accipiter . Downloaded on 06 October 2011....
  
  , Accipiter melanoleucus
• Steppe Buzzard
  Common Buzzard
  The Common Buzzard is a medium to large bird of prey, whose range covers most of Europe and extends into Asia. It is usually resident all year, except in the coldest parts of its range, and in the case of one subspecies.-Description:...
  
  , Buteo buteo
• Mountain Buzzard
  Mountain Buzzard
  The Mountain Buzzard is a bird of prey that lives in montane forests in East Africa and forests and plantations in South Africa. The latter population is sometimes considered a separate species, the Forest Buzzard The Mountain Buzzard (Buteo oreophilus) is a bird of prey that lives in montane...
  
  , Buteo oreophilus (race trizonatus)
• Long-legged Buzzard
  Long-legged Buzzard
  The Long-legged Buzzard is a bird of prey.-Description:It is similar in appearance to the Rough-legged Buzzard , but larger and more robust. There are many different colour forms, but usually Long-leggeds have a clear orange tint to the plumage, red or orange tail, pale head and largely white...
  
  , Buteo rufinus Rare/Accidental
• Augur Buzzard
  Jackal Buzzard
  The Jackal Buzzard is a 45–55 cm long African bird of prey. The taxonomy on this species is confusing, with some taxonomists considering this species, the Archer's Buzzard, and the Augur Buzzard to be the same superspecies. Many taxonomists consider them all to be distinct, having different...
  
  , Buteo augur Rare/Accidental
• Jackal Buzzard
  Jackal Buzzard
  The Jackal Buzzard is a 45–55 cm long African bird of prey. The taxonomy on this species is confusing, with some taxonomists considering this species, the Archer's Buzzard, and the Augur Buzzard to be the same superspecies. Many taxonomists consider them all to be distinct, having different...
  
  , Buteo rufofuscus
• Lesser Spotted Eagle
  Lesser Spotted Eagle
  The Lesser Spotted Eagle is a large Eastern European bird of prey. Like all typical eagles, it belongs to the family Accipitridae...
  
  , Aquila pomarina
• Tawny Eagle
  Tawny Eagle
  The Tawny Eagle is a large bird of prey. Like all eagles, it belongs to the family Accipitridae. It was once considered to be closely related to the migratory Steppe Eagle, Aquila nipalensis, and the two forms have previously been treated as conspecific...
  
  , Aquila rapax
• Steppe Eagle
  Steppe Eagle
  The Steppe Eagle is a bird of prey. It is about in length and has a wingspan of . Females, weighing 2.3–4.9 kg , are slightly larger than males, at 2–3.5 kg . Like all eagles, it belongs to the family Accipitridae...
  
  , Aquila nipalensis
• Wahlberg's Eagle
  Wahlberg's Eagle
  The Wahlberg's Eagle is a bird of prey. It is about 55–60 cm in length and has a wingspan of 130–160 cm. Body mass is 1.04 kg for males and 1.3 kg for females on average. Like all eagles, it belongs to the family Accipitridae.Wahlberg's Eagle breeds in most of Africa south of...
  
  , Aquila wahlbergi
• Verreaux's Eagle
  Verreaux's Eagle
  Verreaux's Eagle , alternatively known as the Black Eagle , is a large bird of prey. This eagle lives in hilly and mountaineous regions of southern and eastern Africa , and very locally in Western Asia.- Description :It is long. Males weigh and females weigh...
  
  , Aquila verreauxii
• African Hawk-Eagle, Aquila spilogaster
• Booted Eagle
  Booted Eagle
  The Booted Eagle is a medium-sized bird of prey. It is about in length and has a wingspan of . Like all eagles, it belongs to the family Accipitridae....
  
  , Aquila pennatus
• Ayres's Hawk-Eagle
  Ayres's Hawk-eagle
  Ayres's Hawk-Eagle is a species of bird of prey in the Accipitridae family. It is found throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. Its name honours South African ornithologist Thomas Ayres.-References:...
  
  , Aquila ayresii
• Martial Eagle
  Martial Eagle
  The Martial Eagle , is a very large eagle found in open and semi-open habitats of sub-Saharan Africa. It is the only member of the genus Polemaetus.-Description:...
  
  , Polemaetus bellicosus
• Long-crested Eagle
  Long-crested Eagle
  The Long-crested Eagle is a bird of prey. Like all eagles, it is in the family Accipitridae. It is currently placed in a monotypic genus Lophaetus....
  
  , Lophaetus occipitalis
• Crowned Eagle
  Crowned Eagle
  The Crowned Eagle or Crowned Hawk-eagle , is a very large, powerful, crested bird of prey found in sub-Saharan Africa; in Southern Africa it is restricted to suitable habitat in the eastern areas. It is the only extant member of the genus Stephanoaetus...
  
  , Stephanoaetus coronatus

Sagittariidae

• Secretary-bird, Sagittarius serpentarius

Falconidae

Falconidae

The falcons and caracaras are around 60 species of diurnal birds of prey that make up the family Falconidae. The family is divided into two subfamiles, Polyborinae, which includes the caracaras and forest falcons, and Falconinae, the falcons, kestrels and falconets.-Description:Falcons and...

• Pygmy Falcon, Polihierax semitorquatus
• Lesser Kestrel
  Lesser Kestrel
  The Lesser Kestrel is a small falcon. This species breeds from the Mediterranean across southern central Asia to China and Mongolia. It is a summer migrant, wintering in Africa and Pakistan and sometimes even to India and Iraq. It is rare north of its breeding range, and declining in its European...
  
  , Falco naumanni Vulnerable
• Eurasian Kestrel, Falco tinnunculus (race rupicolus)
• Greater Kestrel
  Greater Kestrel
  The Greater Kestrel or White-eyed Kestrel is a bird of prey belonging to the falcon family Falconidae. It is one of the largest kestrels and is found in open country in southern and eastern Africa.-Description:...
  
  , Falco rupicoloides
• Dickinson's Kestrel
  Dickinson's Kestrel
  Dickinson's Kestrel is a bird of prey of southern and eastern Africa belonging to the falcon family Falconidae. It is named after John Dickinson, an English physician and missionary who collected the type specimen. It is also known as the White-rumped Kestrel...
  
  , Falco dickinsoni
• Red-necked Falcon
  Red-necked Falcon
  The Red-necked Falcon or Red-headed Merlin is a bird of prey in the falcon family. This bird is a widespread resident in India and adjacent regions as well as sub-Saharan Africa. It is sometimes called Turumti locally....
  
  , Falco chicquera
• Red-footed Falcon
  Red-footed Falcon
  The Red-footed Falcon , formerly Western Red-footed Falcon, is a bird of prey. It belongs to the family Falconidae, the falcons. This bird is found in eastern Europe and Asia although its numbers are dwindling rapidly due to habitat loss and hunting. It is migratory, wintering in Africa...
  
  , Falco vespertinus
• Amur Falcon
  Amur Falcon
  The Amur Falcon , formerly Eastern Red-footed Falcon, is a small raptor of the falcon family. It breeds in south-eastern Siberia and Northern China, wintering in Southern Africa...
  
  , Falco amurensis
• Eleonora's Falcon
  Eleonora's Falcon
  Eleonora's Falcon is a medium-sized falcon. It belongs to the hobby group, a rather close-knit number of similar falcons often considered a subgenus Hypotriorchis. The Sooty Falcon is sometimes considered its closest relative, but while they certainly belong to the same lineage, they do not seem...
  
  , Falco eleonorae Rare/Accidental
• Sooty Falcon
  Sooty Falcon
  The Sooty Falcon is a medium-sized falcon breeding from northeastern Africa to the southern Persian Gulf region. It belongs to the hobby group, a rather close-knit number of similar falcons often considered a subgenus Hypotriorchis...
  
  , Falco concolor
• Eurasian Hobby
  Eurasian Hobby
  The Eurasian Hobby , or just simply Hobby, is a small slim falcon. It belongs to a rather close-knit group of similar falcons often considered a subgenus Hypotriorchis.-Description:...
  
  , Falco subbuteo
• African Hobby
  African Hobby
  The African Hobby is a species of bird of prey in the Falconidae family.It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea,...
  
  , Falco cuvierii
• Lanner Falcon
  Lanner Falcon
  The Lanner Falcon is a large bird of prey that breeds in Africa, southeast Europe and just into Asia. It is mainly resident, but some birds disperse more widely after the breeding season.-Description:...
  
  , Falco biarmicus
• Taita Falcon
  Taita Falcon
  The Taita Falcon is one of the smallest falcons in the Southern African Sub-region. It was first described from the Taita Hills of Kenya from which it derives its name. It is spread throughout the eastern portion of subsaharan Africa but is mostly found in Kenya...
  
  , Falco fasciinucha Near-threatened
• Peregrine Falcon
  Peregrine Falcon
  The Peregrine Falcon , also known as the Peregrine, and historically as the Duck Hawk in North America, is a widespread bird of prey in the family Falconidae. A large, crow-sized falcon, it has a blue-gray back, barred white underparts, and a black head and "moustache"...
  
  , Falco peregrinus

Phasianidae

Phasianidae

The Phasianidae is a family of birds which consists of the pheasants and partridges, including the junglefowl , Old World Quail, francolins, monals and peafowl. The family is a large one, and is occasionally broken up into two subfamilies, the Phasianinae, and the Perdicinae...

• Chukar
  Chukar
  The Chukar Partridge or Chukar is a Eurasian upland gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae. It has been considered to form a superspecies complex along with the Rock Partridge, Philby's Partridge and Przevalski's Partridge and treated in the past as conspecific particularly with the first...
  
  , Alectoris chukar Introduced
• Coqui Francolin
  Coqui Francolin
  The Coqui Francolin is a species of bird in the Phasianidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania,...
  
  , Francolinus coqui
• Crested Francolin
  Crested Francolin
  The Crested Francolin is a species of bird in the Phasianidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe...
  
  , Francolinus sephaena
• Red-winged Francolin
  Red-winged Francolin
  The Red-winged Francolin is a species of bird in the Phasianidae family. It is found in Angola, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.Elgon Francolin may be a hybrid between the Red-winged Francolin and...
  
  , Francolinus levaillantii
• Grey-winged Francolin
  Grey-winged Francolin
  The Grey-winged Francolin is a species of bird in the Phasianidae family.It is found in Lesotho and South Africa.-References:* BirdLife International 2004. . Downloaded on 10 July 2007....
  
  , Francolinus africanus Near-endemic
• Shelley's Francolin
  Shelley's Francolin
  Shelley's Francolin is a species of bird in the Phasianidae family. The species is named after Sir Edward Shelley, cousin of George Ernest Shelley.-Distribution and habitat:...
  
  , Francolinus shelleyi
• Orange River Francolin
  Orange River Francolin
  The Orange River Francolin is a species of bird in the Phasianidae family found in grassland and woodland in Africa. In the taxa from the northern part of its distribution , the neck-line does not reach the eye and the belly is whitish...
  
  , Francolinus levaillantoides
• Red-billed Francolin
  Red-billed Francolin
  The Red-billed Spurfowl , also known as the Red-billed Francolin, is a species of bird in the Phasianidae family. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.-References:...
  
  , Francolinus adspersus
• Cape Francolin
  Cape Francolin
  The Cape Spurfowl, or Cape Francolin, Pternistis capensis is a gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae. This francolin is endemic to the southwestern Cape of South Africa....
  
  , Francolinus capensis Endemic
• Natal Francolin
  Natal Francolin
  The Natal Spurfowl or Natal Francolin is a species of bird in the Phasianidae family.It is found in Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.-References:...
  
  , Francolinus natalensis
• Red-necked Francolin
  Red-necked Francolin
  The Red-necked Spurfowl or Red-necked Francolin , is a gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds....
  
  , Francolinus afer
• Swainson's Francolin
  Swainson's Francolin
  The Swainson's Spurfowl or Swainson's Francolin is a species of bird in the Phasianidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.-References:...
  
  , Francolinus swainsonii
• Common Quail
  Common Quail
  The Common Quail, Coturnix coturnix, is a small bird in the pheasant family Phasianidae. It is widespread and is found in parts of Europe, .- Description :It is a small rotund bird, essentially streaked brown with...
  
  , Coturnix coturnix
• Harlequin Quail
  Harlequin Quail
  The Harlequin Quail is a species of bird in the Phasianidae family.It is found in Africa.-References:* BirdLife International 2004. . Downloaded on 10 July 2007....
  
  , Coturnix delegorguei
• Blue Quail
  Blue Quail
  The Blue Quail or African Blue Quail, is a species of bird in the Phasianidae family.-Geographic Range:The species ranges from Sierra Leone to Ethiopia, and south to Zambia, and eastward to Kenya, and is migratory...
  
  , Coturnix adansonii
• Indian Peafowl
  Indian Peafowl
  The Indian Peafowl or Blue Peafowl is a large and brightly coloured bird of the pheasant family native to South Asia, but introduced and semi-feral in many other parts of the world...
  
  , Pavo cristatus Introduced

Numididae

• Helmeted Guineafowl
  Helmeted Guineafowl
  The Helmeted Guineafowl is the best known of the guineafowl bird family, Numididae, and the only member of the genus Numida...
  
  , Numida meleagris
• Crested Guineafowl
  Crested Guineafowl
  The Crested Guineafowl is a member of the Numididae, the guineafowl bird family. It is found in open forest, woodland and forest-savanna mosaics in sub-Saharan Africa. It has a total length of approximately 50 cm and weighs . The plumage is overall blackish with dense white spots...
  
  , Guttera edouardi

Turnicidae

• Kurrichane Buttonquail
  Small Buttonquail
  The Kurrichane Buttonquail, Small Buttonquail, Common Buttonquail, or Andalusian Hemipode, Turnix sylvaticus, is a buttonquail, one of a small family of birds which resemble, but are unrelated to, the true quails...
  
  , Turnix sylvaticus
• Black-rumped Buttonquail, Turnix hottentotta

Gruidae

• Grey Crowned Crane
  Grey Crowned Crane
  The Grey Crowned Crane is a bird in the crane family Gruidae. It occurs in dry savannah in Africa south of the Sahara, although it nests in somewhat wetter habitats. This animal does not migrate....
  
  , Balearica regulorum
• Blue Crane
  Blue Crane
  The Blue Crane , also known as the Stanley Crane and the Paradise Crane, is the national bird of South Africa. It is a tall, ground-dwelling bird, but is fairly small by the standards of the crane family. It is 100–120 cm tall and weighs 4.0–6.2 kg...
  
  , Grus paradisea Vulnerable
• Wattled Crane
  Wattled Crane
  The Wattled Crane, Bugeranus carunculatus is a large bird found in Africa south of the Sahara Desert. It is monotypical for its genus.At a height of up to , it is the largest crane in Africa and is the second tallest species of crane, after the Sarus Crane. The wingspan is , the length is...
  
  , Bugeranus carunculatus Vulnerable

Rallidae

Rallidae

The rails, or Rallidae, are a large cosmopolitan family of small to medium-sized birds. The family exhibits considerable diversity and the family also includes the crakes, coots, and gallinules...

• Buff-spotted Flufftail
  Buff-spotted Flufftail
  The Buff-spotted Flufftail is a species of bird in the Rallidae family.It is found in Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone,...
  
  , Sarothrura elegans
• Red-chested Flufftail
  Red-chested Flufftail
  The Red-chested Flufftail is a species of bird in the Rallidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone,...
  
  , Sarothrura rufa
• Chestnut-headed Flufftail
  Chestnut-headed Flufftail
  The Chestnut-headed Flufftail is a species of bird in the Rallidae family.It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zambia.-References:...
  
  , Sarothrura lugens
• Streaky-breasted Flufftail
  Streaky-breasted Flufftail
  The Streaky-breasted Flufftail is a species of bird in the Rallidae family.It is found in Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.-References:*...
  
  , Sarothrura boehmi Rare/Accidental
• Striped Flufftail
  Striped Flufftail
  The Striped Flufftail is a species of bird in the Rallidae family.It is found in Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.-References:...
  
  , Sarothrura affinis
• White-winged Flufftail
  White-winged Flufftail
  The White-winged Flufftail is a very rare African bird in the Rallidae family. Its scientific name honours South African ornithologist Thomas Ayres.-Description:...
  
  , Sarothrura ayresi Rare/Accidental Endangered
• African Rail
  African Rail
  The African Rail is a small wetland bird of the rail family.Its breeding habitat is marshes and reedbeds across eastern and southern Africa from Ethiopia to South Africa...
  
  , Rallus caerulescens
• African Crake
  African Crake
  The African Crake is a bird in the rail family that breeds in most of sub-Saharan Africa away from the arid south and southwest. It is seasonally common in most of its range other than the rainforests and areas that have low annual rainfall...
  
  , Crecopsis egregia
• Corn Crake
  Corn Crake
  The Corn Crake, Corncrake or Landrail is a bird in the rail family. It breeds in Europe and Asia as far east as western China, and migrates to Africa for the winter...
  
  , Crex crex Vulnerable
• Black Crake
  Black Crake
  The Black Crake, Amaurornis flavirostra, is a waterbird in the rail and crake family Rallidae. It breeds in most of sub-Saharan Africa except in very arid areas. It undertakes some seasonal movements in those parts of its range which are subject to drought...
  
  , Amaurornis flavirostris
• Baillon's Crake
  Baillon's Crake
  The Baillon's Crake is a very small waterbird of the family Rallidae.-Distribution:Their breeding habitat is sedge beds in Europe, mainly in the east, and across Asia. They used to breed in Great Britain up to the mid-19th century, but the western European population declined through drainage....
  
  , Porzana pusilla
• Spotted Crake
  Spotted Crake
  The Spotted Crake is a small waterbird, of the family Rallidae.Their breeding habitat is marshes and sedge beds across temperate Europe into western Asia. They nest in a dry location in marsh vegetation, laying 6-15 eggs...
  
  , Porzana porzana
• Striped Crake
  Striped Crake
  The Striped Crake is a species of bird in the Rallidae family. It is the only species in the genus Aenigmatolimnas....
  
  , Aenigmatolimnas marginalis
• Purple Swamphen
  Purple Swamphen
  The Purple Swamphen , also known as the African Purple Swamphen, Purple Moorhen, Purple Gallinule, Pūkeko or Purple Coot, is a large bird in the family Rallidae . From its name in French, talève sultane, it is also known as the Sultana Bird...
  
  , Porphyrio porphyrio (race madagascariensis)
• Allen's Gallinule
  Allen's Gallinule
  The Allen's Gallinule , formerly known as the Lesser Gallinule is a small waterbird of the family Rallidae. Its former binomial name is Porphyrula alleni....
  
  , Porphyrio alleni
• American Purple Gallinule
  American Purple Gallinule
  The American Purple Gallinule is a "swamp hen" in the rail family Rallidae.A medium-sized rail with big yellow feet, purple-blue plumage with a green back, and red and yellow bill. It has a pale blue forehead shield and white undertail.Juveniles are brown overall with a brownish olive back...
  
  , Porphyrio martinica Rare/Accidental
• Common Moorhen
  Common Moorhen
  The Common Moorhen is a bird in the Rallidae family with an almost worldwide distribution. The North and South American Committees of the AOU and the IOC have voted on or before July 2011 to split the American forms into a new species Common Gallinule, however, no other committee has voted to...
  
  , Gallinula chloropus
• Lesser Moorhen
  Lesser Moorhen
  The Lesser Moorhen is a species of bird in the Rallidae family.It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana,...
  
  , Gallinula angulata
• Red-knobbed Coot
  Red-knobbed Coot
  The Red-knobbed Coot or Crested Coot, , is a member of the rail and crake bird family, the Rallidae.It is a resident breeder across much of Africa and in southernmost Spain on freshwater lakes and ponds. It builds a nest of dead reeds near the water's edge or more commonly afloat, laying about 8...
  
  , Fulica cristata

Heliornithidae

Heliornithidae

The Heliornithidae are a small family of tropical birds with webbed lobes on their feet like those of grebes and coots. The family overall are known as finfoots, although one species is known as a Sungrebe. The family is composed of three species in three genera.-Description:Finfoots resemble...

• African Finfoot
  African Finfoot
  The African Finfoot is an aquatic bird inhabiting the rivers and lakes of western, central, and southern Africa.-Description:...
  
  , Podica senegalensis

Otididae

• Kori Bustard
  Kori Bustard
  The Kori Bustard is a large bird native to Africa. It is a member of the bustard family. It may be the heaviest bird capable of flight....
  
  , Ardeotis kori (nom. race)
• Ludwig's Bustard
  Ludwig's Bustard
  The Ludwig's Bustard is a species of bird in the bustard family. It is a mid-to-large sized species. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, and South Africa. Its habitats include semi-arid grasslands....
  
  , Neotis ludwigii
• Stanley Bustard
  Stanley Bustard
  Denham's Bustard, Stanley Bustard or Stanley's Bustard, Neotis denhami, is a large bird in the bustard family. It breeds in much of sub-Saharan Africa. It is a species of open ground, including agricultural land, grassland, flood-plains and burnt fynbos...
  
  , Neotis denhami Near-threatened
• White-bellied Bustard
  White-bellied Bustard
  The White-bellied Bustard or White-bellied Korhaan is an African species of bustard.-Range and habitat:...
  
  , Eupodotis senegalensis (race barrowii)
• Blue Bustard
  Blue Bustard
  The Blue Bustard or Blue Korhaan is a species of bird in the Otididae family, found in Lesotho and South Africa. Its call is a series of frog-like croaks, usually uttered in flight. Its natural habitat is plateau grassland, dry shrubland, arable land and pastureland. It is threatened by habitat...
  
  , Eupodotis caerulescens Endemic Near-threatened
• Karoo Bustard
  Karoo Bustard
  The Karoo Bustard , also known as Karoo Korhaan, is a species of bird in the Otididae family.It is found in Lesotho, Namibia, and South Africa.-References:* BirdLife International 2004. . Downloaded on 24 July 2007....
  
  , Eupodotis vigorsii
• Rüppell's Bustard
  Rüppell's Bustard
  The Rüppell's Bustard is a species of bird in the family Otididae. It is native to southwestern Africa in Angola and Namibia, occurring in semi-desert habitats.It is a small bustard, only 60 cm long...
  
  , Eupodotis rueppellii Rare/Accidental
• Red-crested Bustard
  Red-crested Bustard
  The Red-crested Bustard or Red-crested Korhaan is a species of bird in the Otididae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.-References:...
  
  , Eupodotis ruficrista
• Black Bustard
  Black Bustard
  The Southern Black Korhaan or Black Bustard is a species of bird in the bustard family Otididae.It is endemic to South Africa.-References:* BirdLife International 2004. . Downloaded on 24 July 2007....
  
  , Eupodotis afra Endemic
• White-quilled Bustard
  White-quilled Bustard
  The Northern Black Korhaan or White-quilled Bustard is a species of bird in the bustard family Otididae.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, and South Africa. Its habitat is primarily open grassland and scrub....
  
  , Eupodotis afraoides
• Black-bellied Bustard
  Black-bellied Bustard
  The Black-bellied Bustard is an African ground-dwelling bird in the bustard family. Some authorities place it in the genus Eupodotis.-Description:...
  
  , Lissotis melanogaster

Jacanidae

• Lesser Jacana
  Lesser Jacana
  The Lesser Jacana is a species of bird in the Jacanidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Microparra....
  
  , Microparra capensis
• African Jacana
  African Jacana
  The African Jacana is a jacana. The jacanas are a group of waders in the family Jacanidae, which are identifiable by their huge feet and claws which enable them to walk on floating vegetation in the shallow lakes that are their preferred habitat. They are found worldwide within the tropical...
  
  , Actophilornis africanus

Rostratulidae

• Greater Painted-snipe, Rostratula benghalensis

Dromadidae

• Crab Plover
  Crab Plover
  The Crab-plover or Crab Plover is a bird related to the waders, but sufficiently distinctive to merit its own family Dromadidae. Its relationship within the Charadriiformes is unclear, some have considered it to be closely related to the thick-knees, or the pratincoles, while others have...
  
  , Dromas ardeola

Haematopodidae

• African Oystercatcher, Haematopus moquini Near-threatened
• Eurasian Oystercatcher
  Eurasian Oystercatcher
  The Eurasian Oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus, also known as the Common Pied Oystercatcher, or just Oystercatcher, is a wader in the oystercatcher bird family Haematopodidae. It is the most widespread of the oystercatchers, with three races breeding in western Europe, central Eurasia,...
  
  , Haematopus ostralegus

Recurvirostridae

Recurvirostridae

Recurvirostridae is a family of birds in the wader suborder Charadrii. It contains two distinct groups of birds, the avocets and the stilts .-Description and diet:...

• Black-winged Stilt
  Black-winged Stilt
  The Black-winged Stilt or Common Stilt is a widely distributed very long-legged wader in the avocet and stilt family . Opinions differ as to whether the birds treated under the scientific name H. himantopus ought to be treated as a single species and if not, how many species to recognize...
  
  , Himantopus himantopus
• Pied Avocet
  Pied Avocet
  The Pied Avocet, Recurvirostra avosetta, is a large black and white wader in the avocet and stilt family, Recurvirostridae. They breed in temperate Europe and western and Central Asia. It is a migratory species and most winter in Africa or southern Asia...
  
  , Recurvirostra avosetta

Burhinidae

• Water Thick-knee
  Water Thick-knee
  The Water Thick-knee is a species of bird in the Burhinidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia,...
  
  , Burhinus vermiculatus
• Spotted Thick-knee
  Spotted Thick-knee
  The Spotted Thick-knee, Burhinus capensis, also known as the Spotted Dikkop or Cape Thick-knee, is a stone-curlew in the family Burhinidae.- Description :...
  
  , Burhinus capensis

Glareolidae

Glareolidae

Glareolidae is a family of birds in the wader suborder Charadri. It contains two distinct groups, the pratincoles and the coursers. The coursers include the atypical Egyptian Plover, Pluvianus aegyptius, which has sometimes been placed in its own family...

• Burchell's Courser
  Burchell's Courser
  The Burchell's Courser Cursorius rufus is a wader in the pratincole and courser family, Glareolidae.Although classed as waders, these are birds of dry open country, preferably semi-desert, where they typically hunt their insect prey by running on the ground.This is a small bird that lives in the...
  
  , Cursorius rufus
• Temminck's Courser
  Temminck's Courser
  Temminck's Courser, Cursorius temminckii, is a bird in the pratincole and courser family, Glareolidae. It is a wader which lives in sub-Saharan Africa....
  
  , Cursorius temminckii
• Double-banded Courser
  Double-banded Courser
  The Double-banded Courser is a species of bird in the Glareolidae family.It is sometimes classified as the sole member of the genus Smutsornis as Smutsornis africanus....
  
  , Smutsornis africanus
• Three-banded Courser
  Three-banded Courser
  The Three-banded Courser is a species of bird in the Glareolidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.-References:...
  
  , Rhinoptilus cinctus Rare/Accidental
• Bronze-winged Courser
  Bronze-winged Courser
  The Bronze-winged Courser or Violet-tipped Courser is a species of bird in the Glareolidae family. It is found throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.-References:...
  
  , Rhinoptilus chalcopterus
• Collared Pratincole
  Collared Pratincole
  The Collared Pratincole or Common Pratincole, Glareola pratincola, is a wader in the pratincole family, Glareolidae.Pratincoles are unusual among waders in that they typically hunt their insect prey on the wing like swallows, although they can also feed on the ground.The Collared Pratincole is a...
  
  , Glareola pratincola
• Black-winged Pratincole
  Black-winged Pratincole
  The Black-winged Pratincole, Glareola nordmanni, is a wader in the pratincole bird family, Glareolidae.Their most unusual feature of the pratincoles is that although classed as waders they typically hunt their insect prey on the wing like swallows, although they can also feed on the...
  
  , Glareola nordmanni Data deficient
• Rock Pratincole
  Rock Pratincole
  The Rock Pratincole is a species of bird in the Glareolidae family.-Distribution and habitat:It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea,...
  
  , Glareola nuchalis Rare/Accidental

Charadriidae

Charadriidae

The bird family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings, about 64 to 66 species in all.- Morphology :They are small to medium-sized birds with compact bodies, short, thick necks and long, usually pointed, wings, but most species of lapwing may have more rounded wings...

• Long-toed Lapwing
  Long-toed Lapwing
  The Long-toed Lapwing is a species of bird in the Charadriidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.-References:*...
  
  , Vanellus crassirostris Rare/Accidental
• Blacksmith Lapwing
  Blacksmith Lapwing
  The Blacksmith Lapwing or Blacksmith Plover occurs commonly from Kenya through central Tanzania to southern and southwestern Africa...
  
  , Vanellus armatus
• White-headed Lapwing, Vanellus albiceps
• Senegal Lapwing
  Senegal Lapwing
  The Senegal Lapwing or Lesser Black-winged Lapwing is a species of bird in the Charadriidae family.It is found in Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria,...
  
  , Vanellus lugubris
• Black-winged Lapwing
  Black-winged Lapwing
  The Black-winged Lapwing is an east African species that is found from the Ethiopian highlands in the north to central Kenya , and again at middle to coastal elevations in eastern South Africa . It is a habitat specialist of short grass in well-watered temperate grasslands...
  
  , Vanellus melanopterus
• Crowned Lapwing
  Crowned Lapwing
  The Crowned Lapwing , also known as the Crowned Plover, is a bird of the lapwing subfamily that occurs contiguously from the Red Sea coast of Somalia to southern and southwestern Africa. It is an adaptable and numerous species, with bold and noisy habits...
  
  , Vanellus coronatus
• African Wattled Lapwing, Vanellus senegallus
• Pacific Golden Plover
  Pacific Golden Plover
  The Pacific Golden Plover is a medium-sized plover.The 23–26 cm long breeding adult is spotted gold and black on the crown, back and wings. Its face and neck are black with a white border and it has a black breast and a dark rump. The legs are black...
  
  , Pluvialis fulva Rare/Accidental
• American Golden Plover
  American Golden Plover
  The American Golden Plover is a medium-sized plover.Adults are spotted gold and black on the crown, back and wings. Their face and neck are black with a white border; they have a black breast and a dark rump. The legs are black....
  
  , Pluvialis dominica Rare/Accidental
• Grey Plover
  Grey Plover
  The Grey Plover , known as the Black-bellied Plover in North America, is a medium-sized plover breeding in arctic regions. It is a long-distance migrant, with a nearly worldwide coastal distribution when not breeding....
  
  , Pluvialis squatarola
• Ringed Plover
  Ringed Plover
  The Common Ringed Plover or Ringed Plover is a small plover.Adults are 17-19.5 cm in length with a 35–41 cm wingspan. They have a grey-brown back and wings, a white belly, and a white breast with one black neckband. They have a brown cap, a white forehead, a black mask around the eyes...
  
  , Charadrius hiaticula
• Kittlitz's Plover
  Kittlitz's Plover
  The Kittlitz’s Plover is a small plover found in much of Sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, and the Nile delta. Some birds, especially in coastal areas, are resident, other populations are migratory or nomadic.-Description:...
  
  , Charadrius pecuarius
• Three-banded Plover
  Three-banded Plover
  The Three-banded Plover or Three-banded Sandplover, Charadrius tricollaris, is a small wader. This plover is resident in much of eastern and southern Africa and Madagascar, mainly on inland rivers, pools and lakes. Its nest is a bare scrape on shingle.The adult Three-banded Plover is 18 cm in...
  
  , Charadrius tricollaris
• White-fronted Plover
  White-fronted Plover
  The White-fronted Plover or White-fronted Sandplover, Charadrius marginatus, is a small wader. This plover is resident in much of Africa south of the Sahara on rocky, sandy or muddy coasts and large inland rivers and lakes....
  
  , Charadrius marginatus
• Chestnut-banded Plover
  Chestnut-banded Plover
  The Chestnut-banded Plover is a species of bird in the Charadriidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe....
  
  , Charadrius pallidus
• Kentish Plover
  Kentish Plover
  The Kentish Plover, Charadrius alexandrinus, is a small wader in the plover bird family. Despite its name, this species no longer breeds in Kent, or even Great Britain...
  
  , Charadrius alexandrinus Rare/Accidental
• Lesser Sand Plover
  Lesser Sand Plover
  The Lesser Sand Plover, Charadrius mongolus, is a small wader in the plover family of birds. The spelling is commonly given as Lesser Sandplover, but the official British Ornithologists' Union spelling is Lesser Sand Plover....
  
  , Charadrius mongolus
• Greater Sand Plover
  Greater Sand Plover
  The Greater Sand Plover, Charadrius leschenaultii, is a small wader in the plover family of birds. The spelling is commonly given as "Greater sandplover", but the official British Ornithologists' Union spelling is "Greater sand plover"....
  
  , Charadrius leschenaultii
• Caspian Plover
  Caspian Plover
  The Caspian Plover is a wader in the plover family of birds.It breeds on open grassland in central Asia, mainly to the north and east of the Caspian Sea. This bird breeds in loose colonies, with three eggs being laid in a ground nest. These birds migrate south in winter to east Africa, usually...
  
  , Charadrius asiaticus

Scolopacidae

Scolopacidae

The sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders or shorebirds. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil...

• African Snipe
  African Snipe
  The African Snipe, Gallinago nigripennis, also known as the Ethiopian Snipe, is a small stocky wader. It breeds in eastern and southern Africa in wet mountain moorland and swamps at altitudes of 1700 - 4000m. When not breeding it disperses widely, including into coastal lowlands.-Description:This...
  
  , Gallinago nigripennis
• Great Snipe
  Great Snipe
  The Great Snipe, Gallinago media is a small stocky wader in the genus Gallinago.This bird's breeding habitat is marshes and wet meadows with short vegetation in north-eastern Europe including north-western Russia. Great Snipes are migratory, wintering in Africa...
  
  , Gallinago media Rare/Accidental Near-threatened
• Black-tailed Godwit
  Black-tailed Godwit
  The Black-tailed Godwit, Limosa limosa, is a large, long-legged, long-billed shorebird first described by Carolus Linnaeus in 1758. It is a member of the Limosa genus, the godwits...
  
  , Limosa limosa
• Hudsonian Godwit
  Hudsonian Godwit
  The Hudsonian Godwit, Limosa haemastica, is a large shorebird.-Identification:Adults have long dark legs and a long pink bill with a slight upward curve and dark at the tip. The upper parts are mottled brown and the underparts are chestnut. The tail is black and the rump is white...
  
  , Limosa haemastica Rare/Accidental
• Bar-tailed Godwit
  Bar-tailed Godwit
  The Bar-tailed Godwit is a large wader in the family Scolopacidae, which breeds on Arctic coasts and tundra mainly in the Old World, and winters on coasts in temperate and tropical regions of the Old World...
  
  , Limosa lapponica
• Whimbrel
  Whimbrel
  The Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus, is a wader in the large family Scolopacidae. It is one of the mostwidespread of the curlews, breeding across much of subarctic North America, Europe and Asia as far south as Scotland....
  
  , Numenius phaeopus
• Eurasian Curlew
  Eurasian Curlew
  The Eurasian Curlew, Numenius arquata, is a wader in the large family Scolopacidae. It is one of the most widespread of the curlews, breeding across temperate Europe and Asia...
  
  , Numenius arquata
• Spotted Redshank
  Spotted Redshank
  The Spotted Redshank, Tringa erythropus, is a wader in the large bird family Scolopacidae. It breeds across northern Scandinavia and northern Asia and migrates south to the Mediterranean, the southern British Isles, France, tropical Africa, and tropical Asia for the winter...
  
  , Tringa erythropus Rare/Accidental
• Common Redshank
  Common Redshank
  The Common Redshank or simply Redshank is an Eurasian wader in the large family Scolopacidae.- Description and systematics :...
  
  , Tringa totanus Rare/Accidental
• Marsh Sandpiper
  Marsh Sandpiper
  The Marsh Sandpiper, Tringa stagnatilis, is a small wader. It is a rather small shank, and breeds in open grassy steppe and taiga wetlands from easternmost Europe to central Asia....
  
  , Tringa stagnatilis
• Common Greenshank, Tringa nebularia
• Greater Yellowlegs
  Greater Yellowlegs
  The Greater Yellowlegs, Tringa melanoleuca, is a large North American shorebird, similar in appearance to the smaller Lesser Yellowlegs. Its closest relative, however, is the Greenshank, which together with the Spotted Redshank form a close-knit group...
  
  , Tringa melanoleuca Rare/Accidental
• Lesser Yellowlegs
  Lesser Yellowlegs
  The Lesser Yellowlegs is a medium-sized shorebird similar in appearance to the larger Greater Yellowlegs. It is not closely related to this bird, however, but instead to the much larger and quite dissimilar Willet; merely the fine, clear and dense pattern of the neck shown in breeding plumage...
  
  , Tringa flavipes Rare/Accidental
• Green Sandpiper
  Green Sandpiper
  The Green Sandpiper is a small wader of the Old World. It represents an ancient lineage of the genus Tringa; its only close living relative is the Solitary Sandpiper . They both have brown wings with little light dots and a delicate but contrasting neck and chest pattern...
  
  , Tringa ochropus
• Wood Sandpiper
  Wood Sandpiper
  The Wood Sandpiper, Tringa glareola, is a small wader. This Eurasian species is the smallest of the shanks, which are mid-sized long-legged waders of the family Scolopacidae.- Description and systematics :...
  
  , Tringa glareola
• Terek Sandpiper
  Terek Sandpiper
  The Terek Sandpiper is a small migratory Palearctic wader species, the only member of the genus Xenus.- Description and systematics :...
  
  , Xenus cinereus
• Common Sandpiper
  Common Sandpiper
  The Common Sandpiper is a small Palearctic wader. This bird and its American sister species, the Spotted Sandpiper , make up the genus Actitis. They are parapatric and replace each other geographically; stray birds of either species may settle down with breeders of the other and hybridize...
  
  , Actitis hypoleucos
• Ruddy Turnstone
  Ruddy Turnstone
  The Ruddy Turnstone is a small wading bird, one of two species of turnstone in the genus Arenaria. It is now classified in the sandpiper family Scolopacidae but was formerly sometimes placed in the plover family Charadriidae...
  
  , Arenaria interpres
• Great Knot
  Great Knot
  The Great Knot, Calidris tenuirostris, is a small wader. It is the largest of the calidrid species.Their breeding habitat is tundra in northeast Siberia. They nest on the ground laying about four eggs in a ground scrape. They are strongly migratory wintering on coasts in southern Asia through to...
  
  , Calidris tenuirostris Rare/Accidental
• Red Knot
  Red Knot
  The Red Knot, Calidris canutus , is a medium sized shorebird which breeds in tundra and the Arctic Cordillera in the far north of Canada, Europe, and Russia. It is a large member of the Calidris sandpipers, second only to the Great Knot...
  
  , Calidris canutus
• Sanderling
  Sanderling
  The Sanderling is a small wader. It is a circumpolar Arctic breeder, and is a long-distance migrant, wintering south to South America, South Europe, Africa, and Australia...
  
  , Calidris alba
• Red-necked Stint
  Red-necked Stint
  The Red-necked Stint is a small migratory wader.- Description :These birds are among the smallest of waders, very similar to the Little Stint, Calidris minuta, with which they were once considered conspecific...
  
  , Calidris ruficollis Rare/Accidental
• Little Stint
  Little Stint
  The Little Stint, Calidris minuta , is a very small wader. It breeds in arctic Europe and Asia, and is a long-distance migrant, wintering south to Africa and south Asia...
  
  , Calidris minuta
• Temminck's Stint
  Temminck's Stint
  Temminck's Stint, Calidris or Erolia temminckii, is a small wader.This stint's breeding habitat is bogs and marshes in the taiga of Arctic northern Europe and Asia. It will breed in southern Scandinavia and occasionally Scotland. It has a distinctive hovering display flight. It nests in a scrape...
  
  , Calidris temminckii Rare/Accidental
• Long-toed Stint
  Long-toed Stint
  The Long-toed Stint, Calidris or Erolia subminuta, is a small wader bird. It breeds across northern Asia and is strongly migratory, wintering in south and south east Asia and Australasia...
  
  , Calidris subminuta Rare/Accidental
• White-rumped Sandpiper
  White-rumped Sandpiper
  The White-rumped Sandpiper is a small shorebird.Adults have black legs and a small thin dark bill. The body is dark brown on top and mainly white underneath, with brown streaks on the breast and a white rump. They have a white stripe over their eyes. This bird shows long wings in flight. In winter...
  
  , Calidris fuscicollis Rare/Accidental
• Baird's Sandpiper
  Baird's Sandpiper
  The Baird's Sandpiper is a small shorebird. It is among those calidrids sometimes separated in Erolia.Adults have black legs and a short thin dark bill. They are dark brown on top and mainly white underneath with a black patch on the rump. The head and breast are light brown with dark streaks. In...
  
  , Calidris bairdii Rare/Accidental
• Pectoral Sandpiper
  Pectoral Sandpiper
  The Pectoral Sandpiper, Calidris melanotos, is a small wader. It is sometimes separated with the "stint" sandpipers in Erolia. This may or may not represent a good monophyletic group, depending on the placement of the phylogenetically enigmatic Curlew Sandpiper , the type species of Erolia...
  
  , Calidris melanotos Rare/Accidental
• Curlew Sandpiper
  Curlew Sandpiper
  The Curlew Sandpiper is a small wader that breeds on the tundra of Arctic Siberia. It is strongly migratory, wintering mainly in Africa, but also in south and southeast Asia and in Australasia...
  
  , Calidris ferruginea
• Dunlin
  Dunlin
  The Dunlin, Calidris alpina, is a small wader, sometimes separated with the other "stints" in Erolia. It is a circumpolar breeder in Arctic or subarctic regions. Birds that breed in northern Europe and Asia are long-distance migrants, wintering south to Africa, southeast Asia and the Middle East...
  
  , Calidris alpina Rare/Accidental
• Broad-billed Sandpiper
  Broad-billed Sandpiper
  The Broad-billed Sandpiper is a small wading bird. It is the only member of the genus Limicola; some have proposed that it should be placed in the genus Erolia with the "stint" sandpipers, but more recent research suggests that it is should rather go into the genus Philomachus with the ruff and...
  
  , Limicola falcinellus Rare/Accidental
• Buff-breasted Sandpiper
  Buff-breasted Sandpiper
  The Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Tryngites subruficollis, is a small shorebird. It is a calidrid sandpipers and currently considered to be the only member of the genus Tryngites. Indeed, it probably belongs in the genus Calidris itself, or more precisely with the small species thereof which should be...
  
  , Tryngites subruficollis Rare/Accidental Near-threatened
• Ruff, Philomachus pugnax
• Wilson's Phalarope
  Wilson's Phalarope
  The Wilson's Phalarope, Phalaropus tricolor, is a small wader. This bird, the largest of the phalaropes, breeds in the prairies of North America in western Canada and the western United States. It is migratory, wintering around the central Andes in South America. They are passage migrants through...
  
  , Phalaropus tricolor Rare/Accidental
• Red-necked Phalarope
  Red-necked Phalarope
  The Red-necked Phalarope, Phalaropus lobatus, is a small wader. This phalarope breeds in the Arctic regions of North America and Eurasia. It is migratory, and, unusually for a wader, winters at sea on tropical oceans....
  
  , Phalaropus lobatus
• Red Phalarope
  Red Phalarope
  The Red Phalarope , Phalaropus fulicarius, is a small wader. This phalarope breeds in the Arctic regions of North America and Eurasia...
  
  , Phalaropus fulicarius

Chionididae

• Snowy Sheathbill
  Snowy Sheathbill
  The Snowy Sheathbill also known as a Pale-faced sheathbill or Paddy is one of two species of sheathbill. It is usually found on the ground. It is Antarctica's only permanently land-based bird.- Description :...
  
  , Chionis alba Rare/Accidental

Stercorariidae

• South Polar Skua
  South Polar Skua
  The South Polar Skua, Stercorarius maccormicki, is a large seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. An older name for the bird is MacCormick’s Skua, after explorer and naval surgeon Robert McCormick, who first collected the type specimen...
  
  , Stercorarius maccormicki Rare/Accidental
• Brown Skua
  Brown Skua
  The Brown Skua , also known as the Antarctic Skua, Southern Great Skua, Southern Skua, or Hākoakoa , is a large seabird that breeds in the subantarctic and Antarctic zones and moves further north when not breeding...
  
  , Stercorarius antarctica
• Pomarine Skua
  Pomarine Skua
  The Pomarine Skua, Stercorarius pomarinus, known as Pomarine Jaeger in North America, is a seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. It is a migrant, wintering at sea in the tropical oceans.- Taxonomy :...
  
  , Stercorarius pomarinus
• Arctic Skua
  Arctic Skua
  The Parasitic Jaeger, also known as the Arctic Skua or Parasitic Skua, is a seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae....
  
  , Stercorarius parasiticus
• Long-tailed Skua
  Long-tailed Skua
  The Long-tailed Skua, Stercorarius longicaudus is a seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae....
  
  , Stercorarius longicaudus

Laridae

• Kelp Gull
  Kelp Gull
  The Kelp Gull , also known as the Dominican Gull, breeds on coasts and islands through much of the southern hemisphere. The race L. d. vetula occurs around southern Africa, and nominate L. d...
  
  , Larus dominicanus (race vetula)
• Herring Gull, Larus argentatus
• Lesser Black-backed Gull
  Lesser Black-backed Gull
  The Lesser Black-backed Gull is a large gull that breeds on the Atlantic coasts of Europe. It is migratory, wintering from the British Isles south to West Africa...
  
  , Larus fuscus
• Heuglin's Gull
  Heuglin's Gull
  Heuglin's Gull or Siberian Gull, Larus heuglini, is a seabird in the genus Larus. It is closely related to the Lesser Black-backed Gull, Larus fuscus, and is often classified as a subspecies of it...
  
  , Larus heuglini Rare/Accidental
• Caspian Gull
  Caspian Gull
  Caspian Gull is a name applied to the gull taxon Larus cachinnans, a member of the Herring Gull/Lesser Black-backed Gull complex.- Description :...
  
  , Larus cachinnans Rare/Accidental
• Grey-headed Gull
  Grey-headed Gull
  The Grey-headed Gull is a small gull which breeds patchily in South America and Africa south of the Sahara. It is not truly migratory, but is more widespread in winter. This species has occurred as a rare vagrant to North America and Spain. It is also known as the Grey-hooded Gull...
  
  , Larus cirrocephalus
• Hartlaub's Gull
  Hartlaub's Gull
  The Hartlaub's Gull or King Gull, is a small gull, which is a non-migratory breeding resident endemic to the Atlantic Ocean coastline of South Africa and Namibia. Although it is predominantly coastal or estuarine, it is not a pelagic species, and is rarely seen at sea far from land...
  
  , Larus hartlaubii
• Black-headed Gull
  Black-headed Gull
  The Black-headed Gull is a small gull which breeds in much of Europe and Asia, and also in coastal eastern Canada. Most of the population is migratory, wintering further south, but some birds in the milder westernmost areas of Europe are resident...
  
  , Larus ridibundus Rare/Accidental
• Franklin's Gull
  Franklin's Gull
  The Franklin's Gull is a small gull.-Description:It breeds in central provinces of Canada and adjacent states of the northern United States...
  
  , Larus pipixcan Rare/Accidental
• Sabine's Gull
  Sabine's Gull
  The Sabine's Gull is a small gull. Its generic placement is disputed; some authors treat it as the sole species in the genus Xema as Xema sabini, while others retain it in the genus Larus as Larus sabini. It breeds in the arctic and has a circumpolar distribution through northernmost North America...
  
  , Larus sabini
• Black-legged Kittiwake
  Black-legged Kittiwake
  The Black-legged Kittiwake is a seabird species in the gull family Laridae.This species was first described by Linnaeus in his Systema naturae in 1758 as Larus tridactylus....
  
  , Rissa tridactyla Rare/Accidental

Sternidae

• Gull-billed Tern
  Gull-billed Tern
  The Gull-billed Tern formerly Sterna nilotica , is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae...
  
  , Gelochelidon nilotica Rare/Accidental
• Caspian Tern
  Caspian Tern
  The Caspian Tern is a species of tern, with a subcosmopolitan but scattered distribution. Despite its extensive range, it is monotypic of its genus, and has no subspecies accepted either...
  
  , Hydroprogne caspia
• Lesser Crested Tern
  Lesser Crested Tern
  The Lesser Crested Tern is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae...
  
  , Sterna bengalensis
• Sandwich Tern, Sterna sandvicensis
• Great Crested Tern, Sterna bergii
• Roseate Tern
  Roseate Tern
  The Roseate Tern is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. This bird has a number of geographical races, differing mainly in bill colour and minor plumage details....
  
  , Sterna dougallii
• Black-naped Tern
  Black-naped Tern
  The Black-naped Tern is an oceanic tern mostly found in tropical and subtropical areas of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. It is rarely found inland....
  
  , Sterna sumatrana Rare/Accidental
• Common Tern
  Common Tern
  The Common Tern is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. This bird has a circumpolar distribution, breeding in temperate and sub-Arctic regions of Europe, Asia and east and central North America. It is strongly migratory, wintering in coastal tropical and subtropical regions. It is sometimes...
  
  , Sterna hirundo
• Arctic Tern
  Arctic Tern
  The Arctic Tern is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. This bird has a circumpolar breeding distribution covering the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of Europe, Asia, and North America...
  
  , Sterna paradisaea
• Antarctic Tern
  Antarctic Tern
  The Antarctic Tern is a typical tern. It ranges throughout the southern oceans. It is very similar in appearance to the closely related Arctic Tern, but is stockier, and the wing tips are grey instead of blackish in flight...
  
  , Sterna vittata
• White-cheeked Tern
  White-cheeked Tern
  The White-cheeked Tern is a species of tern in the Sternidae family.It is found in Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Maldives, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, United Arab Emirates, and...
  
  , Sterna repressa Rare/Accidental
• Little Tern
  Little Tern
  The Little Tern, Sternula albifrons or Sterna albifrons, is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. It was formerly placed into the genus Sterna, which now is restricted to the large white terns . The former North American and Red Sea S. a...
  
  , Sternula albifrons
• Damara Tern
  Damara Tern
  The Damara Tern is a species of tern in the Sternidae family.It breeds in western South Africa, Namibia and Angola...
  
  , Sternula balaenarum Near-threatened
• Bridled Tern
  Bridled Tern
  The Bridled Tern is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. It is a bird of the tropical oceans.-Description:...
  
  , Onychoprion anaethetus Rare/Accidental
• Sooty Tern
  Sooty Tern
  The Sooty Tern, Onychoprion fuscatus , is a seabird of the tern family . It is a bird of the tropical oceans, breeding on islands throughout the equatorial zone. Colloquially, it is known as the Wideawake Tern or just wideawake...
  
  , Onychoprion fuscata
• Whiskered Tern
  Whiskered Tern
  The Whiskered Tern is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. This bird has a number of geographical races, differing mainly in size and minor plumage details....
  
  , Chlidonias hybridus
• White-winged Tern
  White-winged Tern
  The White-winged Tern, or White-winged Black Tern, Chlidonias leucopterus, is a small tern generally found in or near bodies of fresh water across from Southeastern Europe east to Australia....
  
  , Chlidonias leucopterus
• Black Tern
  Black Tern
  The Black Tern, Chlidonias niger, is a small tern generally found in or near inland water in Europe and North America. As its name suggests, it has predominantly dark plumage.- Description :...
  
  , Chlidonias niger
• Lesser Noddy
  Lesser Noddy
  The Lesser Noddy , also known as the Sooty Noddy, is a species of tern in the Sternidae family.It is found in Comoros, Kenya, Liberia, Mauritius, Seychelles, South Africa, and United Arab Emirates.- References :...
  
  , Anous tenuirostris Rare/Accidental
• Brown Noddy
  Brown Noddy
  The Brown Noddy or Common Noddy is a seabird from the tern family. The largest of the noddies, it can be told from the closely related Black Noddy by its larger size and plumage, which is dark brown rather than black...
  
  , Anous stolidus Rare/Accidental

Rynchopidae

• African Skimmer
  African Skimmer
  The African Skimmer is a skimmer that lives in Senegal to northern Congo River and southern Nile Valley, southern Tanzania to the Zambezi Valley, and then to Natal and Angola.- Appearance :...
  
  , Rynchops flavirostris Near-threatened

Pteroclidae

• Namaqua Sandgrouse
  Namaqua Sandgrouse
  The Namaqua Sandgrouse is a species of bird in the Pteroclididae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.-References:* BirdLife International 2004. . Downloaded on 24 July 2007....
  
  , Pterocles namaqua
• Yellow-throated Sandgrouse
  Yellow-throated Sandgrouse
  The Yellow-throated Sandgrouse is a species of bird in the Pteroclididae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.-References:...
  
  , Pterocles gutturalis
• Double-banded Sandgrouse
  Double-banded Sandgrouse
  The Double-banded Sandgrouse is a species of bird in the Pteroclididae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.-References:...
  
  , Pterocles bicinctus
• Burchell's Sandgrouse
  Burchell's Sandgrouse
  The Burchell's Sandgrouse is a species of bird in the Pteroclididae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe....
  
  , Pterocles burchelli

Columbidae

• Rock Pigeon
  Rock Pigeon
  The Rock Dove or Rock Pigeon, is a member of the bird family Columbidae . In common usage, this bird is often simply referred to as the "pigeon"....
  
  , Columba livia Introduced
• Speckled Pigeon
  Speckled Pigeon
  The Speckled Pigeon or Rock Pigeon is a pigeon which is a resident breeding bird in much of Africa south of the Sahara. It is a common and widespread species in open habitats over a good deal of its range, although there are sizeable gaps in its distribution.This species builds a large stick nest...
  
  , Columba guinea
• African Olive Pigeon, Columba arquatrix
• Delegorgue's Pigeon, Columba delegorguei
• Lemon Dove, Columba larvata
• Eurasian Turtle Dove, Streptopelia turtur Rare/Accidental
• Mourning Collared Dove, Streptopelia decipiens
• Red-eyed Dove
  Red-eyed Dove
  The Red-eyed Dove is a pigeon which is a widespread resident breeding bird in Africa south of the Sahara. It is a common, if not abundant, species in most habitats other than desert....
  
  , Streptopelia semitorquata
• Ring-necked Dove
  Ring-necked Dove
  The Ring-necked Dove , also known as the Cape Turtle Dove and the Half-Collared Dove, is a widespread and abundant bird in the bush, savannah, farmlands, and woodlands of southern and eastern Africa. Their name comes from a black patch of feathers on the back of their necks...
  
  , Streptopelia capicola
• Laughing Dove
  Laughing Dove
  The Laughing Dove is a small pigeon which is a resident breeding bird in the tropics in Africa south of the Sahara, the Middle East and southern Asia east to India. In India it is also known as the Little Brown Dove...
  
  , Streptopelia senegalensis
• Emerald-spotted Wood Dove
  Emerald-spotted Wood Dove
  The Emerald-spotted Wood Dove, Turtur chalcospilos, is a pigeon which is a widespread and often abundant resident breeding bird in eastern Africa from Ethiopia to South Africa. It also occurs in a belt from northern Botswana west to northern Namibia, and in a narrow coastal strip through Angola to...
  
  , Turtur chalcospilos
• Blue-spotted Wood Dove, Turtur afer
• Tambourine Dove
  Tambourine Dove
  The Tambourine Dove is a pigeon which is a widespread resident breeding bird in woodlands and other thick vegetation in Africa south of the Sahara Desert. Its range extends from Senegal east to Ethiopia and Kenya and southwards through eastern Africa to south-eastern South Africa, but it is absent...
  
  , Turtur tympanistria
• Namaqua Dove
  Namaqua Dove
  The Namaqua Dove is a small pigeon. It is the only species in the genus Oena. .-Description:The Namaqua Dove is a tiny sparrow-sized pigeon, typically 22 cm in length with a 28–33 cm wingspan, and weighing 40g. It has a very long black tapered tail, and the size and shape have led to...
  
  , Oena capensis
• African Green Pigeon, Treron calva

Psittacidae

• Rose-ringed Parakeet
  Rose-ringed Parakeet
  The Rose-ringed Parakeet , also known as the Ringnecked Parakeet, is a gregarious tropical parakeet species that has an extremely large range. Since the trend of the population appears to be increasing, the species has been evaluated as Least Concern by IUCN in 2009.Rose-ringed parakeets are...
  
  , Psittacula krameri Introduced
• Peach-faced Lovebird, Agapornis roseicollis
• Brown-necked Parrot, Poicephalus fuscicollis
• Cape Parrot
  Cape Parrot
  The Cape Parrot or Levaillant's Parrot is a large, temperate forest dwelling Poicephalus parrot endemic to South Africa. It has 2 subspecies which may be considered distinct species, the savanna dwelling Brown-necked Parrot and Grey-headed Parrot The Cape Parrot (Poicephalus robustus) or...
  
  , Poicephalus robustus
• Meyer's Parrot
  Meyer's Parrot
  The Meyer's Parrot is a small , stocky African parrot. Meyer's parrots display a dull brown head, back and tail, green or blue-green abdomen, blue rump and bright yellow markings on the carpal joint of the wings. Most subspecies have some yellow on the top of the head as well. Forshaw recognizes...
  
  , Poicephalus meyeri
• Brown-headed Parrot
  Brown-headed Parrot
  The Brown-headed Parrot is a mostly green African parrot with a greyish-brown head and yellow under its wings. The adult birds have yellow irises and juvenile birds have brown irises....
  
  , Poicephalus cryptoxanthus

Musophagidae

• Livingstone's Turaco
  Livingstone's Turaco
  The Livingstone's Turaco is a species of bird in the Musophagidae family, which was named for Charles Livingstone, the brother of David Livingstone.It is distributed through the subtropical lowlands of southeastern Africa....
  
  , Tauraco livingstonii
• Knysna Turaco
  Knysna Turaco
  The Knysna Turaco , or, in South Africa, Knysna Lourie, is a large turaco, one of a group of African near-passerine birds. It is a resident breeder in the mature evergreen forests of southern and eastern South Africa, and Swaziland. It was formerly sometimes considered to be a subspecies of the...
  
  , Tauraco corythaix
• Purple-crested Turaco
  Purple-crested Turaco
  The Purple-crested Turaco is a species of bird in the Musophagidae family.It is found in Burundi, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe....
  
  , Tauraco porphyreolophus
• Grey Go-away-bird
  Grey Go-away-bird
  The Grey Go-away-bird , also known as Grey Lourie, Grey Loerie, or Kwêvoël, is a southern African bird of uniform grey with black beak and strikingly pink gape. It is widespread in savanna woodland, a clumsy flier though extremely agile in clambering through tree crowns. It has a distinctive loud...
  
  , Corythaixoides concolor

Cuculidae

• Pied Cuckoo
  Pied Cuckoo
  The Jacobin Cuckoo, Pied Cuckoo, or Pied Crested Cuckoo is a member of the cuckoo order of birds that is found in Africa and Asia. It is partially migratory and in India, it has been considered a harbinger of the Monsoon rains due to the timing of its arrival...
  
  , Clamator jacobinus
• Levaillant's Cuckoo
  Levaillant's Cuckoo
  Levaillant's Cuckoo, Clamator levaillantii is a cuckoo which is a resident breeding species in Africa south of the Sahara. It is found in bushy habitats. It is a brood parasite, using the nests of bulbuls and babblers...
  
  , Clamator levaillantii
• Great Spotted Cuckoo
  Great Spotted Cuckoo
  The Great Spotted Cuckoo is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes, which also includes the roadrunners, the anis and the coucals....
  
  , Clamator glandarius
• Thick-billed Cuckoo
  Thick-billed Cuckoo
  The Thick-billed Cuckoo is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Pachycoccyx....
  
  , Pachycoccyx audeberti
• Red-chested Cuckoo
  Red-chested Cuckoo
  The Red-chested Cuckoo is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family. It is a medium-sized bird , found in Africa south of the Sahara.-Distribution and habitat:...
  
  , Cuculus solitarius
• Black Cuckoo
  Black Cuckoo
  The Black Cuckoo is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family. The species is distributed widely across sub-Saharan Africa...
  
  , Cuculus clamosus
• Common Cuckoo
  Common Cuckoo
  The Common Cuckoo is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, Cuculiformes, which includes the roadrunners, the anis and the coucals....
  
  , Cuculus canorus
• African Cuckoo
  African Cuckoo
  The African Cuckoo is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family.It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana,...
  
  , Cuculus gularis
• Lesser Cuckoo
  Lesser Cuckoo
  The Lesser Cuckoo is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family.It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Kenya, North Korea, South Korea, Laos, Malawi, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka,...
  
  , Cuculus poliocephalus Rare/Accidental
• Madagascar Cuckoo
  Madagascar Cuckoo
  The Madagascar Cuckoo , also known as the Madagascar Lesser Cuckoo, is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family. Though it breeds only in Madagascar, it spends the non-breeding season in a number of East African countries: Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Madagascar, Malawi, Rwanda,...
  
  , Cuculus rochii Rare/Accidental
• Klaas's Cuckoo
  Klaas's Cuckoo
  The Klaas's Cuckoo is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family.It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia,...
  
  , Chrysococcyx klaas
• African Emerald Cuckoo
  African Emerald Cuckoo
  The African Emerald Cuckoo is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea,...
  
  , Chrysococcyx cupreus
• Dideric Cuckoo
  Dideric Cuckoo
  The Diederik Cuckoo , formerly Dideric Cuckoo or Didric Cuckoo, is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes, which also includes the roadrunners, the anis, and the Hoatzin....
  
  , Chrysococcyx caprius
• Yellowbill
  Yellowbill
  The Yellowbill is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family. The species is sometimes known as the Green Malkoha. It is monotypic within the genus Ceuthmochares. There are three subspecies that display some differences in plumage colouration; all subspecies have a greyish belly, head and throat...
  
  , Ceuthmochares aereus
• Black Coucal
  Black Coucal
  The Black Coucal is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family.It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau,...
  
  , Centropus grillii
• Senegal Coucal
  Senegal Coucal
  The Senegal Coucal, Centropus senegalensis, is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes, which also includes the roadrunners, the anis, and the Hoatzin....
  
  , Centropus senegalensis
• White-browed Coucal
  White-browed Coucal
  The White-browed Coucal is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family.It is found in sub-Saharan Africa.The southern subspecies is sometimes split as Burchell's Coucal, Centropus burchelli...
  
  , Centropus superciliosus

Tytonidae

Tytonidae

Barn-owls are one of the two families of owls, the other being the true owls, Strigidae. They are medium to large sized owls with large heads and characteristic heart-shaped faces. They have long, strong legs with powerful talons...

• African Grass Owl, Tyto capensis
• Barn Owl
  Barn Owl
  The Barn Owl is the most widely distributed species of owl, and one of the most widespread of all birds. It is also referred to as Common Barn Owl, to distinguish it from other species in the barn-owl family Tytonidae. These form one of two main lineages of living owls, the other being the typical...
  
  , Tyto alba

Strigidae

• African Scops Owl
  African Scops Owl
  The African Scops Owl is a small owl endemic to sub-Saharan Africa.-Identification:The African Scops Owl has a distinctive "prrrp" call which occurs around every 5 seconds:-External links:...
  
  , Otus senegalensis
• Southern White-faced Owl
  Southern White-faced Owl
  The Southern White-faced Owl is a fairly small owl in the family Strigidae. It is native to the southern half of Africa. It was formerly regarded as a subspecies of the Northern White-faced Owl but the two are now commonly treated as separate species.It is 22-28 centimetres long and weighs...
  
  , Ptilopsis granti
• Cape Eagle-owl
  Cape Eagle-owl
  The Cape Eagle-Owl is a species of owl in the Strigidae family.It is found in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe....
  
  , Bubo capensis
• Spotted Eagle-owl, Bubo africanus
• Verreaux's Eagle-owl, Bubo lacteus
• Pel's Fishing-owl
  Pel's Fishing-owl
  The Pel's Fishing Owl is a large species of owl in the Strigidae family. It feeds nocturnally on fish and frogs snatched from the surface of lakes and rivers. The species prefers slow moving rivers with large overhanging trees to roost and forage from. It nests in hollows and the forks of large...
  
  , Scotopelia peli
• African Wood Owl, Strix woodfordii
• Pearl-spotted Owlet
  Pearl-spotted Owlet
  The Pearl-spotted Owlet is an owl which breeds in Africa south of the Sahara. This species is a part of the larger grouping of owls known as typical owls, Strigidae, which contains most species of owl. The other grouping is the barn owls, Tytonidae.Pearl-spotted Owlet is a common and easily seen...
  
  , Glaucidium perlatum
• African Barred Owlet
  African Barred Owlet
  The African Barred Owlet is a species of owl in the Strigidae family. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and...
  
  , Glaucidium capense
• Marsh Owl
  Marsh Owl
  The Marsh Owl, Asio capensis, is a species of owl which is a mainly resident breeder in Africa and Madagascar.This species is a part of the larger grouping of owls known as typical owls, Strigidae, which contains most species of owl...
  
  , Asio capensis

Caprimulgidae

• Eurasian Nightjar, Caprimulgus europaeus
• Rufous-cheeked Nightjar
  Rufous-cheeked Nightjar
  The Rufous-cheeked Nightjar is a species of nightjar in the Caprimulgidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.-References:* BirdLife International...
  
  , Caprimulgus rufigena
• Fiery-necked Nightjar
  Fiery-necked Nightjar
  The Fiery-necked Nightjar is a species of nightjar in the Caprimulgidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.-References:* BirdLife International 2004. . ...
  
  , Caprimulgus pectoralis
• Swamp Nightjar
  Swamp Nightjar
  The Swamp Nightjar is a species of nightjar in the Caprimulgidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone,...
  
  , Caprimulgus natalensis
• Freckled Nightjar
  Freckled Nightjar
  The Freckled Nightjar is a species of nightjar in the Caprimulgidae family.It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia,...
  
  , Caprimulgus tristigma
• Square-tailed Nightjar
  Square-tailed Nightjar
  The Square-tailed Nightjar is a species of nightjar in the Caprimulgidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania,...
  
  , Caprimulgus fossii
• Pennant-winged Nightjar
  Pennant-winged Nightjar
  The Pennant-winged Nightjar, Macrodipteryx vexillarius, is an intra-African migrant that occurs from Nigeria to northern South Africa. The male is characteristic in having a broad white band over the otherwise black primaries. In addition the males acquire a striking 9th primary feather during the...
  
  , Macrodipteryx vexillarius

Apodidae

• Mottled Spinetail
  Mottled Spinetail
  The Mottled Spinetail is a species of swift in the Apodidae family.It is found in Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia,...
  
  , Telacanthura ussheri
• Bat-like Spinetail
  Bat-like Spinetail
  The Böhm's Spinetail or Bat-like Spinetail is a species of swift in the Apodidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.-References:* BirdLife International 2004. . ...
  
  , Neafrapus boehmi
• African Palm Swift
  African Palm Swift
  The African Palm Swift is a small swift. It is very similar to the Asian Palm Swift, Cypsiurus balasiensis, and was formerly considered to be the same species....
  
  , Cypsiurus parvus
• Alpine Swift
  Alpine Swift
  The Alpine Swift syn. is a species of Swift. The bird is superficially similar to a large Barn Swallow or House Martin. It is, however, completely unrelated to those passerine species, since swifts are in the order Apodiformes...
  
  , Tachymarptis melba
• Mottled Swift
  Mottled Swift
  The Mottled Swift is a species of bird in the swift family, Apodidae. It is one of two species in the genus Tachymarptis together with the Alpine Swift . It occurs widely in eastern Africa and locally in western Africa...
  
  , Tachymarptis aequatorialis
• Common Swift
  Common Swift
  The Common Swift is a small bird, superficially similar to the Barn Swallow or House Martin. It is, however, completely unrelated to those passerine species, since swifts are in the separate order Apodiformes...
  
  , Apus apus
• Pallid Swift
  Pallid Swift
  The Pallid Swift is a small bird, superficially similar to a Barn Swallow or House Martin. It is, however, completely unrelated to those passerine species, since the swifts are in the order Apodiformes...
  
  , Apus pallidus Rare/Accidental
• African Swift
  African Swift
  The African Black Swift or African Swift, Apus barbatus, is a small bird in the swift family. It breeds in Africa discontinuously from Liberia, Cameroon, Zaire, Uganda and Kenya south to South Africa, and on Madagascar. The breeding habitat is damp mountains, typically between 1,600 - 2,400 m,...
  
  , Apus barbatus
• Bradfield's Swift
  Bradfield's Swift
  The Bradfield's Swift is a species of swift in the Apodidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa.-References:* BirdLife International 2004. . Downloaded on 24 July 2007....
  
  , Apus bradfieldi
• Little Swift
  Little Swift
  The Little Swift , is a small bird, superficially similar to a Barn Swallow or House Martin. It is, however, completely unrelated to those passerine species, since swifts are in the order Apodiformes. The resemblances between the groups are due to convergent evolution reflecting similar life styles...
  
  , Apus affinis
• Horus Swift
  Horus Swift
  The Horus Swift, Apus horus, is a small bird in the swift family. It breeds in sub-Saharan Africa. It has an extensive continuous distribution from eastern and southern South Africa north to southern Zambia and central Mozambique, and has recently colonised the De Hoop Nature Reserve area of the...
  
  , Apus horus
• White-rumped Swift
  White-rumped Swift
  The White-rumped Swift is a small swift. Although this bird is superficially similar to a House Martin, it is completely unrelated to that passerine species. The resemblances between the swallows and swifts are due to convergent evolution reflecting similar life styles.Swifts have very short legs...
  
  , Apus caffer

Coliidae

• Speckled Mousebird
  Speckled Mousebird
  The Speckled Mousebird is the largest species of mousebird, as well as one of the most common.- Description :This bird is about 35 cm long, with the tail comprising approximately half the length, and weighs about 57 grams...
  
  , Colius striatus
• White-backed Mousebird
  White-backed Mousebird
  The White-backed Mousebird is a large species of mousebird. It is distributed in western and central regions of southern Africa from Namibia and southern Botswana eastwards to Central Transvaal and the eastern Cape....
  
  , Colius colius
• Red-faced Mousebird
  Red-faced Mousebird
  The Red-faced Mousebird is a species of mousebird or coly. It is a common in southern Africa from Zaire, Zambia and Tanzania south to the Cape. Its habitat is savanna with thickets, fynbos scrub, other open woodland, gardens and orchards.This bird is about 34 cm long, with the tail...
  
  , Urocolius indicus

Trogonidae

• Narina Trogon
  Narina Trogon
  The Narina Trogon, Apaloderma narina, is a medium-sized , largely green forest bird in the Trogonidae family, the most widespread and catholic in habitat choice of three Apaloderma trogons...
  
  , Apaloderma narina

Alcedinidae

• Half-collared Kingfisher
  Half-collared Kingfisher
  The Half-collared Kingfisher Alcedo semitorquata is a species of kingfisher that feeds almost exclusively on fish and can be found near water at all times. It can be found on shores and around larger bodies of water in southern and eastern Africa....
  
  , Alcedo semitorquata
• Malachite Kingfisher
  Malachite Kingfisher
  The Malachite Kingfisher is a river kingfisher which is widely distributed in Africa south of the Sahara. It is largely resident except for seasonal climate related movements....
  
  , Alcedo cristata
• African Pygmy Kingfisher, Ispidina picta

Halcyonidae

• Grey-headed Kingfisher
  Grey-headed Kingfisher
  The Grey-headed Kingfisher has a wide distribution from the Cape Verde Islands off the north-west coast of Africa to Mauritania, Senegal and Gambia, east to Ethiopia, Somalia and southern Arabia and south to South Africa....
  
  , Halcyon leucocephala
• Woodland Kingfisher
  Woodland Kingfisher
  The Woodland Kingfisher is a tree kingfisher.-Description:This is a medium-sized kingfisher, 20–23 cm in length. The adult has a bright blue back, wing panel and tail. Its head, neck and underparts are white, and its shoulders are black. The flight of the Woodland Kingfisher is rapid and direct...
  
  , Halcyon senegalensis
• Mangrove Kingfisher
  Mangrove Kingfisher
  The Mangrove Kingfisher is a kingfisher in the genus Halcyon. It has a large global range and is not threatened....
  
  , Halcyon senegaloides
• Brown-hooded Kingfisher
  Brown-hooded Kingfisher
  The Brown-hooded Kingfisher is a species of bird in the Halcyonidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.-References:* BirdLife...
  
  , Halcyon albiventris
• Striped Kingfisher
  Striped Kingfisher
  The Striped Kingfisher is a species of bird in the tree kingfisher family. It was first described by Edward, Lord Stanley, in Salt's Voyage to Abyssinia in 1814 as "Chelicut Kingfisher" Alaudo Chelicuti....
  
  , Halcyon chelicuti

Cerylidae

• Giant Kingfisher
  Giant Kingfisher
  The Giant Kingfisher is the largest kingfisher in Africa, where it is a resident breeding bird over most of the continent south of the Sahara Desert other than the arid southwest....
  
  , Megaceryle maximus
• Pied Kingfisher
  Pied Kingfisher
  The Pied Kingfisher is a water kingfisher and is found widely distributed across Africa and Asia. Their black and white plumage, crest and the habit of hovering over clear lakes and rivers before diving for fish makes it distinctive. Males have a double band across the breast while females have a...
  
  , Ceryle rudis

Meropidae

• White-fronted Bee-eater
  White-fronted Bee-eater
  The White-fronted Bee-eater, Merops bullockoides, is a species of bee-eater widely distributed in sub-equatorial Africa.They have a distinctive white forehead, a square tail and a bright red patch on their throat...
  
  , Merops bullockoides
• Little Bee-eater
  Little Bee-eater
  The little Bee-eater, Merops pusillus is a near passerine bird in the bee-eater family Meropidae. It is resident in much of sub-Saharan Africa. It should not be confused with the Little Green Bee-eater, Merops orientalis. Migration is limited to seasonal movements depending on rainfall...
  
  , Merops pusillus
• Swallow-tailed Bee-eater
  Swallow-tailed Bee-eater
  The Swallow-tailed Bee-eater is a near passerine bird in the bee-eater family Meropidae. It breeds in savannah woodlands of sub-Saharan Africa. It is partially migratory, moving in response to rainfall patterns....
  
  , Merops hirundineus
• White-throated Bee-eater
  White-throated Bee-eater
  The White-throated Bee-eater, Merops albicollis is a near passerine bird in the bee-eater family Meropidae. It breeds in semi-desert along the southern edge of the Sahara, Africa...
  
  , Merops albicollis Rare/Accidental
• Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
  Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
  The Blue-cheeked Bee-eater, Merops persicus, is a near passerine bird in the bee-eater family, Meropidae. It breeds in Northern Africa, and the Middle East from eastern Turkey to Kazakhstan and India. It is generally strongly migratory, wintering in tropical Africa, although some populations breed...
  
  , Merops persicus
• Madagascar Bee-eater
  Madagascar Bee-eater
  The Olive Bee-eater, is a near passerine bee-eater species in the genus Merops.-References: Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern...
  
  , Merops superciliosus Rare/Accidental
• European Bee-eater
  European Bee-eater
  The European Bee-eater, Merops apiaster, is a near passerine bird in the bee-eater family Meropidae. It breeds in southern Europe and in parts of north Africa and western Asia. It is strongly migratory, wintering in tropical Africa, India and Sri Lanka...
  
  , Merops apiaster
• Southern Carmine Bee-eater
  Southern Carmine Bee-eater
  The Southern Carmine Bee-eater occurs across sub-equatorial Africa, ranging from KwaZulu-Natal and Namibia to Gabon, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and Kenya....
  
  , Merops nubicoides

Coraciidae

• European Roller
  European Roller
  The European Roller, Coracias garrulus, is the only member of the roller family of birds to breed in Europe. Its overall range extends into the Middle East and Central Asia and Morocco....
  
  , Coracias garrulus
• Lilac-breasted Roller
  Lilac-breasted Roller
  The Lilac-breasted Roller is a member of the roller family of birds. It is widely distributed in sub-Saharan Africa and the southern Arabian Peninsula, preferring open woodland and savanna; it is largely absent from treeless places...
  
  , Coracias caudata
• Racket-tailed Roller
  Racket-tailed Roller
  The Racket-tailed Roller is a species of bird in the Coraciidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe....
  
  , Coracias spatulata Rare/Accidental
• Rufous-crowned Roller
  Rufous-crowned Roller
  The Purple Roller , also called the Rufous-crowned Roller, is found over sub-Saharan Africa to as far south as Namibia and the Transvaal. Compared with other rollers its colours are rather dull and its voice rather harsh and grating...
  
  , Coracias naevia
• Broad-billed Roller
  Broad-billed Roller
  The Broad-billed Roller, Eurystomus glaucurus, is a member of the roller family of birds which breeds across tropical Africa and Madagascar in all but the driest regions. It is a wet season breeder, which migrates from the northern and southern areas of its range towards the moister equatorial...
  
  , Eurystomus glaucurus

Upupidae

• Hoopoe
  Hoopoe
  The Hoopoe is a colourful bird that is found across Afro-Eurasia, notable for its distinctive 'crown' of feathers. It is the only extant species in the family Upupidae. One insular species, the Giant Hoopoe of Saint Helena, is extinct, and the Madagascar subspecies of the Hoopoe is sometimes...
  
  , Upupa epops

Phoeniculidae

• Green Woodhoopoe, Phoeniculus purpureus
• Common Scimitar-bill, Rhinopomastus cyanomelas

Bucerotidae

• Red-billed Hornbill
  Red-billed Hornbill
  Red-billed Hornbill is a relatively small species of hornbill found in savanna and woodland of sub-Saharan Africa. It is sometimes split into five species, the Northern Red-billed Hornbill , Western Red-billed Hornbill , Tanzania Red-billed Hornbill , Southern Red-billed Hornbill Red-billed...
  
  , Tockus erythrorhynchus
• Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill
  Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill
  The Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill is a Hornbill found in southern Africa. It is a medium sized bird, with length between 48 to 60 cm, characterized by a long yellow beak with a casque . The skin around the eyes and in the malar stripe is pinkish...
  
  , Tockus leucomelas
• Crowned Hornbill
  Crowned Hornbill
  The Crowned Hornbill, Tockus alboterminatus, is an African hornbill. It is a medium-sized bird, with a length between 50 and 54 cm, and it is characterized by its white belly and black back and wings. The tips of the long tail feathers are white. The eyes are yellow; the beak is red and...
  
  , Tockus alboterminatus
• African Grey Hornbill
  African Grey Hornbill
  The African Grey Hornbill, Tockus nasutus, is a hornbill. Hornbills are a family of tropical near-passerine birds found in the Old World.The African Grey Hornbill is a widespread and common resident breeder in much of sub-Saharan Africa and into Arabia....
  
  , Tockus nasutus
• Trumpeter Hornbill
  Trumpeter Hornbill
  The Trumpeter Hornbill, Bycanistes bucinator, is a medium-sized hornbill, with length between , characterized by a large grey casque on the bill, smaller in females. The eyes are brown or red, with pink surrounding skin. Body mass is reported between . They are similar to Silvery-cheeked Hornbill...
  
  , Ceratogymna bucinator
• Silvery-cheeked Hornbill
  Silvery-cheeked Hornbill
  The Silvery-cheeked Hornbill is a large bird at in length with a very large creamy casque on the beak. The female has a smaller casque and reddish skin around the eyes. The head is silver-grey and the rest of the plumage is iridescent black, except for the white rump, lower back, thighs, vent and...
  
  , Ceratogymna brevis Rare/Accidental
• Southern Ground Hornbill, Bucorvus leadbeateri

Capitonidae

• White-eared Barbet
  White-eared Barbet
  The White-eared Barbet is a species of bird in the Lybiidae family.It is found in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe.-References:...
  
  , Stactolaema leucotis
• Green Barbet
  Green Barbet
  The Green Barbet is a species of bird in the Lybiidae family. It is found in Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa....
  
  , Stactolaema olivacea
• Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird
  Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird
  The Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird is a bird species in the family Lybiidae. It used to be placed in the family Bucconidae which has been split up; alternatively, it may be included in a vastly expanded Ramphastidae....
  
  , Pogoniulus bilineatus
• Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird
  Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird
  The Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird, Pogoniulus chrysoconus, is a small African barbet formerly known as Yellow-fronted Tinker Barbet. Barbets are near passerine birds with bristles around the base of the bill and a world-wide tropical distribution....
  
  , Pogoniulus chrysoconus
• Red-fronted Tinkerbird
  Red-fronted Tinkerbird
  The Red-fronted Tinkerbird, Pogoniulus pusillus formerly known as Red-fronted Tinker Barbet is a small African barbet. Barbets are near passerine birds with bristles around the base of the bill...
  
  , Pogoniulus pusillus
• Pied Barbet
  Pied Barbet
  The Acacia Pied Barbet or Pied Barbet is a species of bird in the Lybiidae family. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.-References:...
  
  , Tricholaema leucomelas
• Black-collared Barbet
  Black-collared Barbet
  The Black-collared Barbet is a species of bird in the Lybiidae family.It is found in sub-Saharan Africa through Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.Readily...
  
  , Lybius torquatus
• Crested Barbet
  Crested Barbet
  The Crested Barbet is a species of bird in the Lybiidae family.-Appearance:With its thick bill and very colourful plumage the Crested Barbet is unmistakable. This small bird has a speckled yellow and red face with a small black crest. The belly is yellow with red speckles, wings are black with...
  
  , Trachyphonus vaillantii

Indicatoridae

• Scaly-throated Honeyguide
  Scaly-throated Honeyguide
  The Scaly-throated Honeyguide is a species of bird in the Indicatoridae family.It is found in Angola, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.-References:* BirdLife...
  
  , Indicator variegatus
• Greater Honeyguide
  Greater Honeyguide
  The Greater Honeyguide is a bird in the family Indicatoridae, paleotropical near passerine birds related to the woodpeckers. Its English and scientific names refer to its habit of guiding people to bee colonies....
  
  , Indicator indicator
• Lesser Honeyguide
  Lesser Honeyguide
  The Lesser Honeyguide is a species of bird in the Indicatoridae family.It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia,...
  
  , Indicator minor
• Wahlberg's Honeyguide
  Wahlberg's Honeyguide
  The Brown-backed Honeybird , also known as the Wahlberg's Honeybird or Wahlberg's Honeyguide, is a species of bird in the Indicatoridae family....
  
  , Prodotiscus regulus

Picidae

Picidae

The woodpeckers, piculets and wrynecks are a family, Picidae, of near-passerine birds. Members of this family are found worldwide, except for Australia and New Zealand, Madagascar, and the extreme polar regions...

• Rufous-necked Wryneck
  Rufous-necked Wryneck
  The Red-throated Wryneck, Jynx ruficollis, is a species of wryneck in the woodpecker family. It is also known as the Rufous-necked Wryneck, Red-breasted Wryneck, African Wryneck or Rufous-throated Wryneck....
  
  , Jynx ruficollis
• Bennett's Woodpecker
  Bennett's Woodpecker
  The Bennett's Woodpecker is a species of bird in the Picidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.-References:* BirdLife International 2004. . Downloaded...
  
  , Campethera bennettii
• Golden-tailed Woodpecker
  Golden-tailed Woodpecker
  The Golden-tailed Woodpecker is a species of bird in the Picidae family.It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Canada, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Malawi, Mali,...
  
  , Campethera abingoni
• Knysna Woodpecker
  Knysna Woodpecker
  The Knysna Woodpecker is a species of bird in the Picidae family.It is endemic to South Africa.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, moist savanna, and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland....
  
  , Campethera notata Endemic Near-threatened
• Ground Woodpecker
  Ground Woodpecker
  The Ground Woodpecker is one of only three ground-dwelling woodpeckers in the world . It inhabits rather barren, steep, boulder-strewn slopes in relatively cool hilly and mountainous areas of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland and has yet to be recorded outside of Southern Africa...
  
  , Geocolaptes olivaceus Endemic
• Cardinal Woodpecker
  Cardinal Woodpecker
  The Cardinal Woodpecker, Dendropicos fuscescens, is a widespread and common resident breeder in much of sub-Saharan Africa. It is a species found in a wide range of habitats from dense forest to thornbush...
  
  , Dendropicos fuscescens
• Bearded Woodpecker
  Bearded Woodpecker
  The Bearded Woodpecker is a species of bird in the Picidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and...
  
  , Dendropicos namaquus
• Olive Woodpecker
  Olive Woodpecker
  The Olive Woodpecker is a species of bird in the Picidae family.It is found in Angola, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.-References:* BirdLife International 2004. . Downloaded on 27...
  
  , Dendropicos griseocephalus (nom. race)

Eurylaimidae

• African Broadbill
  African Broadbill
  The African Broadbill, Smithornis capensis, is a species of bird in the Eurylaimidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria,...
  
  , Smithornis capensis

Pittidae

• African Pitta
  African Pitta
  The African Pitta, Pitta angolensis, is a species of bird in the Pittidae family.It is found in Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique,...
  
  , Pitta angolensis

Alaudidae

• Monotonous Lark
  Monotonous Lark
  The Monotonous Lark is a species of lark in the Alaudidae family.- Range :The range of M. Passerina is quite broad, extending over six countries in Africa; Angola, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe...
  
  , Mirafra passerina
• Melodious Lark
  Latakoo Lark
  The Latakoo Lark or Melodious Lark is a species of lark in the Alaudidae family, that is currently threatened by habitat loss.- Range and population :...
  
  , Mirafra cheniana Near-threatened
• Rufous-naped Lark
  Rufous-naped Lark
  The Rufous-naped Lark is a species of lark in the Alaudidae family.- Range :The Rufous-naped lark's range is very large, with an estimated global Extent of Occurrence of 5,600,000 square km...
  
  , Mirafra africana
• Flappet Lark
  Flappet Lark
  The Flappet Lark is a species of lark in the Alaudidae family.- Range and population :Mirafra rufocinnamomea has a large range covering much of the African continent with an estimated global Extent of Occurrence of 10,000,000 square km...
  
  , Mirafra rufocinnamomea
• Cape Clapper Lark, Mirafra apiata
• Eastern Clapper Lark, Mirafra fasciolata
• Sabota Lark
  Sabota Lark
  The Sabota Lark is a species of lark in the Alaudidae family.- Range :M. sabota has a vast range spanning the countries of Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe...
  
  , Calendulauda sabota
• Fawn-colored Lark, Calendulauda africanoides
• Red Lark
  Red Lark
  The Red Lark , also known as the Ferruginous Lark, is a species of lark in the Alaudidae family.It is found in South Africa and possibly Namibia....
  
  , Calendulauda burra Endemic Vulnerable
• Karoo Lark
  Karoo Lark
  The Karoo Lark is a species of lark in the Alaudidae family.It is endemic to South Africa.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.-References:...
  
  , Calendulauda albescens Endemic
• Barlow's Lark
  Barlow's Lark
  The Barlow's Lark is a species of lark in the Alaudidae family.It is found in Namibia and South Africa.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.It is threatened by habitat loss.-References:...
  
  , Calendulauda barlowi
• Dune Lark
  Dune Lark
  The Dune Lark is a species of lark in the Alaudidae family.It is endemic to Namibia.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland.-References:...
  
  , Calendulauda erythrochlamys
• Dusky Lark
  Dusky Lark
  The Dusky Lark is a species of lark in the Alaudidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe....
  
  , Pinarocorys nigricans
• Rudd's Lark
  Rudd's Lark
  The Rudd's Lark is a species of lark in the Alaudidae family. It is endemic to South Africa.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss.-References:...
  
  , Heteromirafra ruddi Endemic Vulnerable
• Cape Long-billed Lark, Certhilauda curvirostris Endemic
• Algulhas Long-billed Lark, Certhilauda brevirostris Endemic Near-threatened
• Eastern Long-billed Lark
  Eastern Long-billed Lark
  The Eastern Long-billed Lark is a species of lark in the Alaudidae family.It is found in Lesotho, South Africa, and Swaziland.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland.-References:...
  
  , Certhilauda semitorquata Endemic
• Karoo Long-billed Lark
  Karoo Long-billed Lark
  The Karoo Long-billed Lark is a species of lark in the Alaudidae family.It is found in Namibia and South Africa.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.-References:...
  
  , Certhilauda subcoronata
• Short-clawed Lark
  Short-clawed Lark
  The Short-clawed Lark is a species of lark in the Alaudidae family.It is found in Botswana and South Africa.Its natural habitat is dry savanna....
  
  , Certhilauda chuana
• Spike-heeled Lark
  Spike-heeled Lark
  The Spike-heeled Lark is a species of lark in the Alaudidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Chersomanes....
  
  , Chersomanes albofasciata
• Black-eared Sparrow-lark
  Black-eared Sparrow-lark
  The Black-eared Sparrow-lark is a species of lark in the Alaudidae family.It is found in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa....
  
  , Eremopterix australis
• Chestnut-backed Sparrow-lark
  Chestnut-backed Sparrow-lark
  The Chestnut-backed Sparrow-lark, Eremopterix leucotis, is a passerine bird which is a resident breeder in Africa south of the Sahara Desert.This lark is a bird of open dry habitats. It nests on the ground and lays one egg. The food is insects and seeds....
  
  , Eremopterix leucotis
• Grey-backed Sparrow-lark
  Grey-backed Sparrow-lark
  The Grey-backed Sparrow-lark is a species of lark in the Alaudidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe....
  
  , Eremopterix verticalis
• Red-capped Lark
  Red-capped Lark
  The Red-capped Lark, Calandrella cinerea, is a small passerine bird. This lark breeds in the highlands of eastern Africa southwards from Ethiopia and northern Somalia. In the south, its range stretches across the continent to Angola and south to the Cape in South Africa.This is a species of short...
  
  , Calandrella cinerea
• Pink-billed Lark
  Pink-billed Lark
  The Pink-billed Lark is a species of lark in the Alaudidae family.It is found in Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, and Zambia.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland.-References:...
  
  , Spizocorys conirostris
• Botha's Lark
  Botha's Lark
  The Botha's Lark is a species of lark in the Alaudidae family.It is endemic to South Africa.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland and pastureland.It is threatened by habitat loss....
  
  , Spizocorys fringillaris Endemic Endangered
• Sclater's Lark
  Sclater's Lark
  The Sclater's Lark is a species of lark in the Alaudidae family.It is found in Namibia and South Africa.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.It is threatened by habitat loss.-Source:...
  
  , Spizocorys sclateri Near-threatened
• Stark's Lark
  Stark's Lark
  The Stark's Lark is a species of lark in the Alaudidae family. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa. Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. Captain George Shelley named the species in honor of Arthur Stark.-References:* BirdLife...
  
  , Spizocorys starki
• Large-billed Lark
  Large-billed Lark
  The Large-billed Lark or Southern Thick-billed Lark, Galerida magnirostris is a small passerine bird. It is a resident breeder in southern South Africa, Lesotho and southernmost Namibia.-Habitat and breeding:...
  
  , Galerida magnirostris

Hirundinidae

Swallow

The swallows and martins are a group of passerine birds in the family Hirundinidae which are characterised by their adaptation to aerial feeding...

• Sand Martin
  Sand Martin
  The Sand Martin is a migratory passerine bird in the swallow family. It has a wide range in summer, embracing practically the whole of Europe and the Mediterranean countries, part of northern Asia and also North America. It winters in eastern and southern Africa, South America and South Asia...
  
  , Riparia riparia
• Brown-throated Sand Martin
  Brown-throated Sand Martin
  The Brown-throated Sand Martin, Brown-throated Martin or Plain Martin, Riparia paludicola, is a small passerine bird in the swallow family...
  
  , Riparia paludicola
• Banded Martin
  Banded Martin
  The Banded Martin or Banded Sand Martin, Riparia cincta, is a small passerine bird in the swallow family.The Banded Martin is found in open habitats such as farmland, grassland and savannah, usually near water...
  
  , Riparia cincta
• Grey-rumped Swallow
  Grey-rumped Swallow
  The Grey-rumped Swallow is a species of bird in the Hirundinidae family.It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana,...
  
  , Pseudhirundo griseopyga
• Rock Martin, Ptyonoprogne fuligula
• Barn Swallow
  Barn Swallow
  The Barn Swallow is the most widespread species of swallow in the world. It is a distinctive passerine bird with blue upperparts, a long, deeply forked tail and curved, pointed wings. It is found in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas...
  
  , Hirundo rustica
• White-throated Swallow
  White-throated Swallow
  The White-throated Swallow is a small bird in the swallow family. It is a common species, found in southern Africa, which has benefited from the increased nesting opportunities presented by the construction of bridges and dams....
  
  , Hirundo albigularis
• Wire-tailed Swallow
  Wire-tailed Swallow
  The Wire-tailed Swallow is a small passerine bird in the swallow family. Swallows are somewhat similar in habits and appearance to other aerial insectivores, such as the related martins and the unrelated swifts ....
  
  , Hirundo smithii
• Blue Swallow
  Blue Swallow (bird)
  The Blue Swallow is a small passerine bird in the swallow family. Swallows are somewhat similar in habits and appearance to other aerial insectivores, such as the related martins and the unrelated swifts...
  
  , Hirundo atrocaerulea Vulnerable
• Pearl-breasted Swallow
  Pearl-breasted Swallow
  The Pearl-breasted Swallow is a small swallow. It breeds in southern Africa from Angola, southern Zaire and Tanzania southwards. It is partially migratory with many birds from the south west of South Africa wintering further north....
  
  , Hirundo dimidiata
• Greater Striped Swallow
  Greater Striped Swallow
  The Greater Striped Swallow is a large swallow. It breeds in southern Africa, mainly in South Africa, Namibia and southern Zimbabwe. It is migratory wintering further north in Angola, Tanzania and southern Zaire.This is a bird of dry open country, such as grassland, and has a preference for hills...
  
  , Cecropis cucullata
• Lesser Striped Swallow
  Lesser Striped Swallow
  The Lesser Striped Swallow is a large swallow. It breeds in sub-Saharan Africa from Sierra Leone and southern Sudan south into eastern South Africa. It is partially migratory with South African birds wintering further north...
  
  , Cecropis abyssinica
• Rufous-chested Swallow
  Rufous-chested Swallow
  The Rufous-chested Swallow , also known as the Red-breasted Swallow, is a large swallow. It breeds in equatorial Africa, although most common in the east. It is partially migratory, following the rains beyond the breeding range in the wet season.This is a bird of dry open country...
  
  , Cecropis semirufa
• Mosque Swallow
  Mosque Swallow
  The Mosque Swallow is a large swallow. It is a resident breeder in much of sub-Saharan Africa, although most common in the west. It does not migrate, but will follow the rains to some extent....
  
  , Cecropis senegalensis
• South African Swallow
  South African Swallow
  The South African Cliff Swallow , also known as the South African Swallow, is a species of bird in the Hirundinidae family...
  
  , Petrochelidon spilodera
• House Martin
  House Martin
  The Common House Martin , sometimes called the Northern House Martin or, particularly in Europe, just House Martin, is a migratory passerine bird of the swallow family which breeds in Europe, north Africa and temperate Asia; and winters in sub-Saharan Africa and tropical Asia...
  
  , Delichon urbica
• Black Saw-wing, Psalidoprocne pristoptera

Motacillidae

Motacillidae

The Motacillidae are a family of small passerine birds with medium to long tails. There are around 65 species in 6 genera and they include the wagtails, longclaws and pipits. The longclaws are entirely restricted to the Afrotropics, and the wagtails are predominately found in Europe, Africa and...

• African Pied Wagtail
  African Pied Wagtail
  The African Pied Wagtail is a species of bird in the Motacillidae family.-Habitat and distribution:It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Equatorial...
  
  , Motacilla aguimp
• Cape Wagtail
  Cape Wagtail
  The Cape Wagtail is a small passerine bird in the family Motacillidae, which includes the wagtails, pipits and longclaws....
  
  , Motacilla capensis
• Yellow Wagtail, Motacilla flava
• Grey Wagtail
  Grey Wagtail
  The Grey Wagtail is a small member of the wagtail family, Motacillidae. The species looks similar to the Yellow Wagtail but has the yellow on its underside restricted to the throat and vent. Breeding males have a black throat...
  
  , Motacilla cinerea Rare/Accidental
• Mountain Wagtail
  Mountain Wagtail
  The Mountain Wagtail , also known as the Long-tailed Wagtail, is a species of bird in the Motacillidae family....
  
  , Motacilla clara
• Golden Pipit
  Golden Pipit
  The Golden Pipit is a distinctive pipit of dry country grassland, savanna and shrubland in eastern Africa. It is native to Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda, and has occurred as a vagrant to Oman, South Africa and Zimbabwe.The adult male, unlike most pipits, is very easy to...
  
  , Tmetothylacus tenellus Rare/Accidental
• Yellow-throated Longclaw
  Yellow-throated Longclaw
  The Yellow-throated Longclaw is a species of bird in the Motacillidae family.It is found in Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya,...
  
  , Macronyx croceus
• Orange-throated Longclaw
  Cape Longclaw
  The Cape Longclaw or Orange-throated Longclaw, Macronyx capensis, is a passerine bird in the family Motacillidae, which comprises the longclaws, pipits and wagtails. It occurs in Southern Africa in Zimbabwe and southern and eastern South Africa. This species is found in coastal and mountain...
  
  , Macronyx capensis
• Rosy-throated Longclaw
  Rosy-throated Longclaw
  The Rosy-throated Longclaw, also known as the Rosy-breasted Longclaw, Macronyx ameliae, is a species of bird in the Motacillidae family....
  
  , Macronyx ameliae
• Yellow-breasted Pipit
  Yellow-breasted Pipit
  The Yellow-breasted Pipit is a species of bird in the Motacillidae family.It is found in Lesotho and South Africa.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland, arable land, and pastureland....
  
  , Hemimacronyx chloris Endemic Vulnerable
• Striped Pipit
  Striped Pipit
  The Striped Pipit is a species of bird in the Motacillidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.Its natural habitat is dry savanna.-References:* BirdLife...
  
  , Anthus lineiventris
• Yellow-tufted Pipit
  Yellow-tufted Pipit
  The Yellow-tufted Pipit , also known as the African Rock Pipit, is a species of bird in the Motacillidae family.It is found in Lesotho and South Africa.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland....
  
  , Anthus crenatus Endemic
• Mountain Pipit
  Mountain Pipit
  The Mountain Pipit is a species of bird in the Motacillidae family.It is found in Lesotho, South Africa, possibly Botswana, possibly Democratic Republic of the Congo, possibly Namibia, and possibly Zambia....
  
  , Anthus hoeschi
• Plain-backed Pipit, Anthus leucophrys
• Long-tailed Pipit
  Long-tailed Pipit
  The Long-tailed Pipit is a species of bird in the Motacillidae family.It is found in Botswana, South Africa and Zambia.-References:* BirdLife International 2004. . Downloaded on 25 July 2007....
  
  , Anthus longicaudatus Endemic Data deficient
• Buffy Pipit
  Buffy Pipit
  The Buffy Pipit is a species of bird in the Motacillidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe....
  
  , Anthus vaalensis
• African Pipit
  African Pipit
  The African Pipit is a fairly small passerine bird belonging to the pipit genus Anthus in the family Motacillidae. It is also known as the Grassveld Pipit or Grassland Pipit...
  
  , Anthus cinnamomeus
• Long-billed Pipit
  Long-billed Pipit
  The Long-billed Pipit or Brown Rock Pipit is a passerine bird which has a wide distribution. A number of subspecies have been created for the populations in Africa, through the Arabian peninsula and South Asia. The systematics of this complex is yet to be clarified...
  
  , Anthus similis
• Short-tailed Pipit
  Short-tailed Pipit
  The Short-tailed Pipit is a species of bird in the Motacillidae family.It is found in Angola, Burundi, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical...
  
  , Anthus brachyurus
• Bushveld Pipit
  Bush Pipit
  The Bush Pipit or Bushveld Pipit is a species of bird in the pipit and wagtail family Motacillidae. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and dry...
  
  , Anthus caffer
• Tree Pipit
  Tree Pipit
  Tree Pipit, Anthus trivialis, is a small passerine bird which breeds across most of Europe and temperate western and central Asia. It is a long-distance migrant moving in winter to Africa and southern Asia....
  
  , Anthus trivialis
• Red-throated Pipit
  Red-throated Pipit
  The Red-throated Pipit is a small passerine bird which breeds in the far north of Europe and Asia, with a foothold in northern Alaska. It is a long-distance migrant moving in winter to Africa, south and east Asia and west coast USA...
  
  , Anthus cervinus Rare/Accidental
• Kimberley Pipit
  Kimberley Pipit
  The Kimberly Pipit, Anthus pseudosimilis, is a small bird found in savanna grasslands in South Africa and Namibia.This recently described pipit is 18 cms long and weighs around 32 gms. Its plumage is mainly brown....
  
  , Anthus pseudosimilis

Campephagidae

• White-breasted Cuckoo-shrike
  White-breasted Cuckoo-shrike
  The White-breasted Cuckooshrike is a species of bird in the Campephagidae family.It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Malawi, Mali,...
  
  , Coracina pectoralis
• Grey Cuckoo-shrike
  Grey Cuckoo-shrike
  The Grey Cuckooshrike is a species of bird in the Campephagidae family. It is found in Burundi, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.Its natural habitats...
  
  , Coracina caesia
• Black Cuckoo-shrike
  Black Cuckoo-shrike
  The Black Cuckooshrike is a species of bird in the Campephagidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.Its natural...
  
  , Campephaga flava

Pycnonotidae

Bulbul

Bulbuls are a family, Pycnonotidae, of medium-sized passerine songbirds. Many forest species are known as greenbuls. The family is distributed across most of Africa and into the Middle East, tropical Asia to Indonesia, and north as far as Japan. A few insular species occur on the tropical islands...

• Common Bulbul
  Common Bulbul
  The Common Bulbul is a member of the bulbul family of passerine birds. It is a ubiquitous resident breeder throughout Africa...
  
  , Pycnonotus barbatus
• Black-fronted Bulbul
  Black-fronted Bulbul
  The Black-fronted Bulbul is a species of songbird in the Pycnonotidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe....
  
  , Pycnonotus nigricans
• Cape Bulbul
  Cape Bulbul
  The Cape Bulbul, Pycnonotus capensis, is a member of the bulbul family of passerine birds. It is an endemic resident breeder in coastal bush, open forest, gardens and fynbos in southern South Africa. This species nests mainly in the southern spring from September to November...
  
  , Pycnonotus capensis Endemic
• Sombre Greenbul
  Sombre Greenbul
  The Sombre Greenbul, Andropadus importunus, is a member of the bulbul family of passerine birds. It is a resident breeder in coastal bush, evergreen forest and dry shrub land in eastern Africa from Ethiopia to the Cape in South Africa.-Identification:...
  
  , Andropadus importunus
• Yellow-bellied Greenbul
  Yellow-bellied Greenbul
  The Yellow-bellied Greenbul is a species of songbird in the Pycnonotidae family. It is found in Africa south from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Kenya to South Africa...
  
  , Chlorocichla flaviventris
• Terrestrial Brownbul
  Terrestrial Brownbul
  The Terrestrial Brownbul is a species of songbird in the Pycnonotidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry...
  
  , Phyllastrephus terrestris
• Yellow-streaked Bulbul
  Yellow-streaked Bulbul
  The Yellow-streaked Greenbul or Yellow-streaked Bulbul is a species of songbird in the Pycnonotidae family. It is found in Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe...
  
  , Phyllastrephus flavostriatus
• Eastern Nicator
  Eastern Nicator
  The Eastern Nicator is a species of songbird in the Pycnonotidae family.It is found in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe....
  
  , Nicator gularis

Turdidae

• Cape Rock Thrush, Monticola rupestris Endemic
• Sentinel Rock Thrush, Monticola explorator
• Short-toed Rock Thrush, Monticola brevipes
• Orange Ground Thrush, Zoothera gurneyi
• Spotted Ground Thrush, Zoothera guttata (nom. race) Endangered
• Groundscraper Thrush
  Groundscraper Thrush
  The Groundscraper Thrush is a passerine bird of southern and eastern Africa belonging to the thrush family Turdidae. It is the only member of the genus Psophocichla....
  
  , Psophocichla litsipsirupa
• Olive Thrush
  Olive Thrush
  The Olive Thrush is, in its range, one of the most common members of the thrush family . It occurs in east African highlands from Eritrea and Ethiopia in north to the Cape of Good Hope in south...
  
  , Turdus olivaceus
• Kurrichane Thrush
  Kurrichane Thrush
  The Kurrichane Thrush is a species of bird in the Turdidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe....
  
  , Turdus libonyanus

Cisticolidae

Cisticolidae

The Cisticolidae family of small passerine birds is a group of about 110 warblers found mainly in warmer southern regions of the Old World. They are often included within the Old World warbler family Sylviidae....

• Red-faced Cisticola
  Red-faced Cisticola
  The Red-faced Cisticola is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia,...
  
  , Cisticola erythrops
• Lazy Cisticola
  Lazy Cisticola
  The Lazy Cisticola or Rock-loving Cisticola is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family.It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania,...
  
  , Cisticola aberrans (nom. race)
• Rattling Cisticola
  Rattling Cisticola
  The Rattling Cisticola is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and...
  
  , Cisticola chiniana
• Tinkling Cisticola
  Grey Cisticola
  The Grey Cisticola or Tinkling Cisticola is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitat is dry savanna.-References:* BirdLife...
  
  , Cisticola rufilatus
• Red-headed Cisticola
  Red-headed Cisticola
  The Red-headed Cisticola or Grey-backed Cisticola is a small passerine bird. This cisticola is a resident breeder in southernmost Angola, Namibia and western South Africa....
  
  , Cisticola subruficapillus
• Wailing Cisticola
  Wailing Cisticola
  The Wailing Cisticola is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. It is found in Angola, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland.The northern subspecies C. l...
  
  , Cisticola lais
• Winding Cisticola
  Winding Cisticola
  The Winding Cisticola is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. It has a scattered distribution across Africa south of the Sahara.-Taxonomy:...
  
  , Cisticola galactotes
• Tinkling Cisticola
  Tinkling Cisticola
  Tinkling Cisticola can refer to two species of bird in the Cisticola genus.* Levaillant's Cisticola or Tinkling Cisticola, Cisticola tinniens* Grey Cisticola or Tinkling Cisticola, Cisticola rufilatus...
  
  , Cisticola tinniens
• Croaking Cisticola
  Croaking Cisticola
  The Croaking Cisticola, Cisticola natalensis, is an Old World warbler in the genus Cisticola. This genus is sometimes split off with various other southern warbler genera and given family status as the Cisticolidae....
  
  , Cisticola natalensis
• Piping Cisticola
  Piping Cisticola
  The Piping Cisticola, Cisticola fulvicapillus, is a small passerine bird. In South Africa it is known as the Neddicky from the Afrikaans name for the species....
  
  , Cisticola fulvicapillus
• Zitting Cisticola
  Zitting Cisticola
  The Zitting Cisticola or Streaked Fantail Warbler , is widely distributed Old World warbler whose breeding range includes southern Europe, Africa outside the deserts and rainforest, and southern Asia down to northern Australia...
  
  , Cisticola juncidis
• Desert Cisticola
  Desert Cisticola
  The Desert Cisticola is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.Its...
  
  , Cisticola aridulus
• Cloud Cisticola, Cisticola textrix
• Pectoral-patch Cisticola
  Pectoral-patch Cisticola
  The Pectoral-patch Cisticola is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. It is found in Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Somalia and Tanzania. Its natural habitats are damp or wet areas in upland grassland.-Description:At 9-10cm...
  
  , Cisticola brunnescens
• Pale-crowned Cisticola
  Pale-crowned Cisticola
  The Pale-crowned Cisticola is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Gabon, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.Its natural habitats are damp or marshy areas in upland...
  
  , Cisticola cinnamomeus (race egregius)
• Wing-snapping Cisticola
  Wing-snapping Cisticola
  The Wing-snapping Cisticola , also known as Ayres' Cisticola, is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. Its scientific name honours South African ornithologist Thomas Ayres.-Distribution and habitat:...
  
  , Cisticola ayresii
• Tawny-flanked Prinia
  Tawny-flanked Prinia
  The Tawny-flanked Prinia is a small passerine bird belonging to the genus Prinia in the family Cisticolidae, a family of Old World warblers. It is widespread and common in most parts of Africa south of the Sahara. The Plain Prinia The Tawny-flanked Prinia (Prinia subflava) is a small passerine...
  
  , Prinia subflava
• Black-chested Prinia
  Black-chested Prinia
  The Black-chested Prinia is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.Its natural habitat is dry savanna.-References:...
  
  , Prinia flavicans
• Karoo Prinia
  Karoo Prinia
  The Karoo Prinia or Spotted Prinia, Prinia maculosa, is a small passerine bird. This prinia is a southern African endemic resident breeder in Namibia, South Africa, Lesotho, and Swaziland....
  
  , Prinia maculosa
• Drakensberg Prinia
  Drakensberg Prinia
  The Drakensberg Prinia or Saffron-breasted Prinia, Prinia hypoxantha, is a small passerine bird. This prinia is an endemic resident breeder South Africa....
  
  , Prinia hypoxantha
• Namaqua Prinia
  Namaqua Prinia
  The Namaqua Prinia , also known as the Namaqua Warbler or White-breasted Prinia, is a small passerine bird, a cisticolid warbler and the sole member of the genus Phragmacia...
  
  , Prinia substriata
• Red-winged Prinia, Prinia erythroptera
• Rufous-eared Warbler
  Rufous-eared Warbler
  The Rufous-eared Warbler is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. It is found in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa. It is the only species in the genus Malcorus....
  
  , Malcorus pectoralis
• Bar-throated Apalis
  Bar-throated Apalis
  The Bar-throated Apalis is a small African passerine bird belonging to the genus Apalis of the family Cisticolidae.It inhabits forest and scrub in Southern and East Africa from southern and eastern parts of South Africa north as far as the Chyulu Hills in Kenya...
  
  , Apalis thoracica
• Yellow-breasted Apalis
  Yellow-breasted Apalis
  The Yellow-breasted Apalis is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family.It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea,...
  
  , Apalis flavida
• Rudd's Apalis
  Rudd's Apalis
  The Rudd's Apalis is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family.It is found in Malawi, Mozambique, and South Africa.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland....
  
  , Apalis ruddi
• Green-backed Camaroptera, Camaroptera brachyura
• Miombo Camaroptera, Calamonastes undosus
• Barred Camaroptera, Calamonastes fasciolatus
• Cinnamon-breasted Warbler
  Kopje Warbler
  The Kopje Warbler or Cinnamon-breasted Warbler is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Euryptila. It is found in Namibia and South Africa. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.-Source:* BirdLife International 2004....
  
  , Euryptila subcinnamomea

Sylviidae

Sylviidae

Sylviidae is a family of passerine birds that was part of an assemblage known as the Old World warblers. The family was formerly a wastebin taxon with over 400 species of bird in over 70 genera. The family was poorly defined with many characteristics shared with other families...

• Little Rush-Warbler, Bradypterus baboecala
• Knysna Scrub Warbler
  Knysna Scrub Warbler
  The Knysna Scrub Warbler Bradypterus sylvaticus is a very cryptic warbler, endemic to South Africa. Population small and probably declining. Has a distinctive call which can be used to call it into sight with. A small population of about 40 pairs exists on the eastern slopes of Table Mountain, Cape...
  
  , Bradypterus sylvaticus Endemic Vulnerable
• African Scrub Warbler, Bradypterus barratti
• Victorin's Warbler, Cryptillas victorini Endemic
• Cape Grassbird
  Cape Grassbird
  The Cape Grassbird or Cape Grass Warbler is an African warbler found in southern Africa.-Taxonomy:It was formerly placed in the Sylviidae family and is the only member of the genus Sphenoeacus...
  
  , Sphenoeacus afer
• River Warbler
  River Warbler
  The River Warbler, Locustella fluviatilis, is an Old World warbler in the grass warbler genus Locustella. It breeds in east and central Europe into western Asia. It is migratory, wintering in east Africa....
  
  , Locustella fluviatilis
• Sedge Warbler
  Sedge Warbler
  The Sedge Warbler is an Old World warbler in the genus Acrocephalus. It is a medium-sized warbler with a brown, streaked back and wings and a distinct pale supercilium. Sedge Warblers are migratory, crossing the Sahara to get from their European and Asian breeding grounds to spend winter in Africa...
  
  , Acrocephalus schoenobaenus
• Reed Warbler
  Reed Warbler
  The Eurasian Reed Warbler, or just Reed Warbler, Acrocephalus scirpaceus, is an Old World warbler in the genus Acrocephalus. It breeds across Europe into temperate western Asia. It is migratory, wintering in sub-Saharan Africa....
  
  , Acrocephalus scirpaceus
• African Reed Warbler, Acrocephalus baeticatus
• Marsh Warbler
  Marsh Warbler
  The Marsh Warbler, Acrocephalus palustris, is an Old World warbler currently classified in the family Acrocephalidae. It breeds in temperate Europe and western Asia and winters mainly in south east Africa...
  
  , Acrocephalus palustris
• Great Reed Warbler
  Great Reed Warbler
  The Great Reed Warbler, Acrocephalus arundinaceus, is an Eurasiaan songbird in the genus Acrocephalus. It used to be placed in the "Old World warbler" assemblage, but nowadays is recognized to be part of the marsh- and tree-warbler family .-Description:This is a large thrush-sized warbler,...
  
  , Acrocephalus arundinaceus
• Basra Reed Warbler, Acrocephalus griseldis Rare/Accidental Near-threatened
• Lesser Swamp Warbler, Acrocephalus gracilirostris
• Olive-tree Warbler
  Olive-tree Warbler
  The Olive-tree Warbler is an Old World warbler in the tree warbler genus Hippolais. It breeds in southeast Europe and the near east. It is migratory, wintering in eastern and southern Africa, from Kenya south to South Africa.This small passerine bird is a species found in open-canopy oakwoods,...
  
  , Hippolais olivetorum
• Icterine Warbler
  Icterine Warbler
  The Icterine Warbler is an Old World warbler in the tree warbler genus Hippolais . It breeds in mainland Europe except the southwest, where it is replaced by its western counterpart, Melodious Warbler. It is migratory, wintering in sub-Saharan Africa...
  
  , Hippolais icterina
• African Yellow Warbler, Chloropeta natalensis
• Yellow-bellied Eremomela
  Yellow-bellied Eremomela
  The Yellow-bellied Eremomela is an Old World warbler. However, the taxonomy of the "African warblers", an assemblage of usually species-poor and apparently rather ancient "odd warblers" from Africa is currently in a state of flux.The Yellow-bellied Eremomela is a common breeding species in Africa...
  
  , Eremomela icteropygialis
• Green-capped Eremomela
  Greencap Eremomela
  The Greencap Eremomela is a species of Old World warbler in the Sylviidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.Its...
  
  , Eremomela scotops
• Yellow-rumped Eremomela
  Yellow-rumped Eremomela
  The Yellow-rumped Eremomela , also known as the Karoo Eremomela, is a species of Old World warbler in the Sylviidae family.It is found in Namibia and South Africa....
  
  , Eremomela gregalis
• Burnt-necked Eremomela
  Burnt-neck Eremomela
  The Burnt-necked Eremomela is a species of Old World warbler in the Sylviidae family. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, dry savanna, and subtropical or tropical...
  
  , Eremomela usticollis
• Cape Crombec
  Cape Crombec
  The Cape Crombec or Long-billed Crombec, Sylvietta rufescens, is an African warbler.The Cape Crombec breeds in southern Africa from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia and Tanzania southwards to South Africa....
  
  , Sylvietta rufescens
• Yellow-throated Wood Warbler, Phylloscopus ruficapillus
• Willow Warbler
  Willow Warbler
  The Willow Warbler is a very common and widespread leaf warbler which breeds throughout northern and temperate Europe and Asia, from Ireland east to the Anadyr River basin in eastern Siberia...
  
  , Phylloscopus trochilus
• Southern Hyliota
  Southern Hyliota
  The Southern Hyliota is a species of Old World warbler in the Sylviidae family.It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe....
  
  , Hyliota australis
• Fan-tailed Grassbird
  Fan-tailed Grassbird
  The Fan-tailed Grassbird or Broad-tailed Warbler is a species of Old World warbler in the Locustellidae family....
  
  , Schoenicola brevirostris
• Blackcap
  Blackcap
  The Blackcap is a common and widespread sylviid warbler which breeds throughout temperate Europe, western Asia and northwestern Africa, and winters from northwestern Europe south to tropical Africa...
  
  , Sylvia atricapilla Rare/Accidental
• Garden Warbler
  Garden Warbler
  The Garden Warbler, Sylvia borin, is a common and widespread typical warbler which breeds throughout northern and temperate Europe into western Asia. This small passerine bird is strongly migratory, and winters in central and southern Africa...
  
  , Sylvia borin
• Greater Whitethroat, Sylvia communis
• Layard's Tit-Babbler
  Layard's Warbler
  The Layard's Warbler or Layard's Tit-Babbler is a species of Old World warbler in the Sylviidae family. It is found in Lesotho, Namibia, and South Africa. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland....
  
  , Parisoma layardi
• Rufous-vented Tit-Babbler
  Rufous-vented Warbler
  The Chestnut-vented Warbler , Parisoma subcaeruleum, is an Old World warbler...
  
  , Parisoma subcaeruleum

Muscicapidae

• Pale Flycatcher
  Pale Flycatcher
  The Pale Flycatcher is a bird species of the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae, found in Africa.- Range :It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Eritrea,...
  
  , Bradornis pallidus
• Chat Flycatcher
  Chat Flycatcher
  The Chat Flycatcher is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family.-See also:*African Grey Flycatcher, Bradornis microrhynchus*Chat Flycatcher, Bradornis infuscatus*Mariqua Flycatcher, Bradornis mariquensis...
  
  , Bradornis infuscatus
• Marico Flycatcher
  Mariqua Flycatcher
  The Mariqua Flycatcher or Marico Flycatcher is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family.- Range :It is found in Angola, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe.-References:...
  
  , Bradornis mariquensis
• Southern Black Flycatcher
  Southern Black Flycatcher
  The Southern Black Flycatcher, Melaenornis pammelaina, is a small passerine bird of the genus Melaenornis in the flycatcher family Muscicapidae native to Africa....
  
  , Melaenornis pammelaina
• Fiscal Flycatcher
  Fiscal Flycatcher
  The Fiscal Flycatcher, Sigelus silens, is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family. It is a resident breeder in Botswana, South Africa, Lesotho, Mozambique and Swaziland, and a vagrant to Namibia...
  
  , Sigelus silens
• Spotted Flycatcher
  Spotted Flycatcher
  The Spotted Flycatcher, Muscicapa striata, is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family. It breeds in most of Europe and western Asia, and is migratory, wintering in Africa and south western Asia. It is declining in parts of its range....
  
  , Muscicapa striata
• African Dusky Flycatcher
  African Dusky Flycatcher
  The African Dusky Flycatcher or Dusky Alseonax, Muscicapa adusta, is a small passerine bird of the Old World flycatcher family, Muscicapidae. It is a resident breeder in Africa from Nigeria, the Central African Republic, Sudan and Ethiopia south to South Africa...
  
  , Muscicapa adusta
• Ashy Flycatcher
  Ashy Flycatcher
  The Ashy Flycatcher or Ashy Alseonax is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family.It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea,...
  
  , Muscicapa caerulescens
• Grey Tit-flycatcher
  Grey Tit-flycatcher
  The Grey Tit-flycatcher is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family.It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau,...
  
  , Myioparus plumbeus
• Fairy Flycatcher, Stenostira scita
• Collared Flycatcher
  Collared Flycatcher
  The Collared Flycatcher, Ficedula albicollis, is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family, one of the four species of Western Palearctic black-and-white flycatchers. It breeds in southeast Europe and southwest Asia and is migratory, wintering in sub Sahara Africa...
  
  , Ficedula albicollis
• White-starred Robin
  White-starred Robin
  The White-starred Robin is a species of bird in the Old World flycatcher and chat family Muscicapidae. It is also sometimes more simply called the Starred Robin. It is monotypic within the genus Pogonocichla. There are around twelve subspecies. The species is found in East and Southern Africa...
  
  , Pogonocichla stellata
• Thrush Nightingale
  Thrush Nightingale
  The Thrush Nightingale, Luscinia luscinia , is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher, Muscicapidae...
  
  , Luscinia luscinia Rare/Accidental
• Cape Robin-chat
  Cape Robin-Chat
  The Cape Robin-Chat, Cossypha caffra, is a small passerine bird of the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.It is a mainly resident breeder in southern and eastern Africa from Kenya south to Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Lesotho, and Swaziland...
  
  , Cossypha caffra
• White-throated Robin-chat
  White-throated Robin-chat
  The White-throated Robin-chat is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family.It is found in Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe....
  
  , Cossypha humeralis
• White-browed Robin-chat
  White-browed Robin-chat
  The White-browed Robin-chat is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South...
  
  , Cossypha heuglini
• Red-capped Robin-chat
  Red-capped Robin-chat
  The Red-capped Robin-chat is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Somalia, South...
  
  , Cossypha natalensis
• Chorister Robin-chat
  Chorister Robin-chat
  The Chorister Robin-chat is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family.It is found in South Africa and Swaziland...
  
  , Cossypha dichroa
• Collared Palm Thrush, Cichladusa arquata
• Bearded Scrub-robin
  Bearded Scrub-robin
  The Bearded Scrub-robin is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family.It is found in Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe....
  
  , Cercotrichas quadrivirgata
• Brown Scrub-robin
  Brown Scrub-robin
  The Brown Scrub-robin is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family.It is found in Mozambique, South Africa, and Swaziland.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.-References:...
  
  , Cercotrichas signata
• Red-backed Scrub-robin
  Red-backed Scrub-robin
  The White-browed Scrub Robin , also known as the Red-backed Scrub-robin, is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family...
  
  , Cercotrichas leucophrys
• Kalahari Scrub-robin
  Kalahari Scrub-robin
  The Kalahari Scrub-robin is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family. It is sometimes known as the Sandy Scrub-robin....
  
  , Cercotrichas paena
• Karoo Scrub-robin
  Karoo Scrub-robin
  The Karoo Scrub-robin or Karoo Robin is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family. It is found in Lesotho, Namibia, and South Africa. Its natural habitats are dry shrubland and Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation....
  
  , Cercotrichas coryphaeus
• Common Redstart
  Common Redstart
  The Common Redstart , or often simply Redstart, is a small passerine bird in the redstart genus Phoenicurus...
  
  , Phoenicurus phoenicurus Rare/Accidental
• Whinchat
  Whinchat
  The Whinchat Saxicola rubetra is a small migratory passerine bird breeding in Europe and western Asia and wintering in Africa.Its scientific name means "small rock-dweller", in reference to its habitat...
  
  , Saxicola rubetra
• African Stonechat
  African Stonechat
  The African Stonechat is a species of the Old World flycatcher family , inhabiting sub-Saharan Africa and adjacent regions. Like the other chats, it was long assigned to the thrush family , to which the chats are convergent...
  
  , Saxicola torquata
• Buff-streaked Bushchat, Saxicola bifasciata
• Mountain Wheatear
  Mountain Wheatear
  The Mountain Wheatear or Mountain Chat, Oenanthe monticola, is a small insectivorous passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher, Muscicapidae....
  
  , Oenanthe monticola
• Northern Wheatear
  Northern Wheatear
  The Northern Wheatear or Wheatear is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher, Muscicapidae...
  
  , Oenanthe oenanthe Rare/Accidental
• Pied Wheatear
  Pied Wheatear
  The Pied Wheatear, Oenanthe pleschanka, is a wheatear, a small insectivorous passerine that was formerly classed as a member of the Thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher, Muscicapidae....
  
  , Oenanthe pleschanka Rare/Accidental
• Capped Wheatear
  Capped Wheatear
  The Capped Wheatear, Oenanthe pileata, is a small insectivorous passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher, Muscicapidae....
  
  , Oenanthe pileata
• Sickle-winged Chat
  Sickle-winged Chat
  The Sickle-winged Chat, Cercomela sinuata, is a small passerine bird of the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae endemic to southern Africa. It is a common resident breeder in South Africa and Lesotho, and is also found in southernmost areas of Botswana and Namibia. Its habitat is Karoo...
  
  , Cercomela sinuata
• Karoo Chat
  Karoo Chat
  The Karoo Chat, Cercomela schlegelii, is a small passerine bird of the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. It is a common resident breeder in southwesternmost Angola, western Namibia and western South Africa...
  
  , Cercomela schlegelii
• Tractrac Chat
  Tractrac Chat
  The Tractrac Chat, Cercomela tractrac, is a small passerine bird of the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. It is a common resident breeder in southernmost Angola, western Namibia and western South Africa....
  
  , Cercomela tractrac
• Familiar Chat
  Familiar Chat
  The Familiar Chat, Cercomela familiaris, is a small passerine bird of the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. It is a common resident breeder in Africa south of the Sahara in rocky and mountainous habitat and around human habitation.-Description:...
  
  , Cercomela familiaris
• Southern Anteater Chat, Myrmecocichla formicivora
• White-headed Black-chat
  White-headed Black-chat
  Arnot's Chat, also called the White-headed Black-chat, is a species of bird in the chat and flycatcher family Muscicapidae.The species is found in southern Africa from Tanzania and Angola to South Africa.-Taxonomy:...
  
  , Myrmecocichla arnotti
• Mocking Cliff-chat
  Mocking Cliff-chat
  The Mocking Cliff Chat is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family.It is found in Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania,...
  
  , Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris

Platysteiridae

• Black-throated Wattle-eye
  Black-throated Wattle-eye
  The Black-throated Wattle-eye is a species of bird in the Platysteiridae family.It is found in Angola, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.-References:* BirdLife International 2004. . ...
  
  , Platysteira peltata
• Cape Batis
  Cape Batis
  The Cape Batis, Batis capensis, is a small passerine bird in the wattle-eye family. It is resident in the highlands of southern and eastern South Africa and Zimbabwe....
  
  , Batis capensis
• Woodward's Batis, Batis fratrum
• Chinspot Batis
  Chinspot Batis
  The chinspot batis is a species of bird in the Platysteiridae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and...
  
  , Batis molitor
• Pririt Batis
  Pririt Batis
  The Pririt Batis also known as the Pririt Puff-back Flycatcher or Pririt Puffback, is a small passerine bird in the wattle-eye family. It is resident in western and central southern Africa....
  
  , Batis pririt

Monarchidae

• Blue-mantled Crested Flycatcher, Trochocercus cyanomelas
• African Paradise Flycatcher
  African Paradise Flycatcher
  The African Paradise Flycatcher is a medium-sized passerine bird.The African Paradise Flycatcher is a common resident breeder in Africa south of the Sahara Desert. This species is usually found in open forests and savannah habitats...
  
  , Terpsiphone viridis

Timaliidae

• Southern Pied Babbler, Turdoides bicolor
• Arrow-marked Babbler
  Arrow-marked Babbler
  The Arrow-marked Babbler is a species of bird in the babbler family Timaliidae.-Distribution and habitat:It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda,...
  
  , Turdoides jardineii
• Bush Blackcap
  Bush Blackcap
  The Bush Blackcap is a species of bird in the Timaliidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Lioptilus.It is found in South Africa and Swaziland....
  
  , Lioptilus nigricapillus Near-threatened

Chaetopidae

Rock-jumper

The Rock-jumpers are medium-sized insectivorous or omnivorous birds in the genus Chaetops, which constitutes the entire family Chaetopidae. The two species, the Rufous Rock-jumper, Chaetops frenatus, and the Drakensberg Rockjumper, Chaetops aurantius, are endemic residents of southern Africa...

• Cape Rock-jumper
  Rufous Rock-jumper
  The Rufous Rock-jumper or Cape Rock-jumper, Chaetops frenatus is a medium-sized insectivorous passerine bird endemic to the mountain fynbos of southernmost South Africa....
  
  , Chaetops frenatus Endemic
• Drakensberg Rockjumper, Chaetops aurantius Endemic

Paridae

• Southern Black Tit, Melaniparus niger
• Ashy Tit
  Ashy Tit
  The Ashy Tit is a species of bird in the Paridae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and dry savanna.-References:...
  
  , Melaniparus cinerascens
• Grey Tit
  Grey Tit
  The Grey Tit is a species of bird in the Paridae family.It is found in Lesotho and South Africa.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation.-References:...
  
  , Melaniparus afer

Remizidae

• African Penduline Tit, Anthoscopus caroli
• Southern Penduline Tit, Anthoscopus minutus

Nectariniidae

Sunbird

The sunbirds and spiderhunters are a family, Nectariniidae, of very small passerine birds. There are 132 species in 15 genera. The family is distributed throughout Africa, southern Asia and just reaches northern Australia. Most sunbirds feed largely on nectar, but also take insects and spiders,...

• Plain-backed Sunbird
  Plain-backed Sunbird
  The Plain-backed Sunbird, Anthreptes reichenowi, is a sunbird. The sunbirds are a group of very small Old World passerine birds which feed largely on nectar, although they will also take insects, especially when feeding young. Flight is fast and direct on their short wings...
  
  , Anthreptes reichenowi Rare/Accidental Near-threatened
• Collared Sunbird
  Collared Sunbird
  The Collared Sunbird, Hedydipna collaris , is a sunbird. The sunbirds are a group of very small Old World passerine birds which feed largely on nectar, although they will also take insects, especially when feeding young. Collared Sunbird is in fact mainly insectivorous.Sunbird flight is fast and...
  
  , Hedydipna collaris
• Orange-breasted Sunbird
  Orange-breasted Sunbird
  The Orange-breasted Sunbird, Anthobaphes violacea, is the only member of the bird genus Anthobaphes although it is sometimes placed in the genus Nectarinia...
  
  , Anthobaphes violacea Endemic
• Olive Sunbird
  Olive Sunbird
  The Olive Sunbird is a species of sunbird found in a large part of Africa south of the Sahel. It prefers forested regions, and is absent from drier, more open regions such as the Horn of Africa and most of south-central and south-western Africa...
  
  , Cyanomitra olivacea
• Mouse-colored Sunbird, Cyanomitra veroxii
• Amethyst Sunbird
  Amethyst Sunbird
  The Amethyst Sunbird is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and...
  
  , Chalcomitra amethystina
• Scarlet-chested Sunbird
  Scarlet-chested Sunbird
  The Scarlet-chested Sunbird is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family. It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya,...
  
  , Chalcomitra senegalensis
• Malachite Sunbird
  Malachite Sunbird
  The Malachite Sunbird, Nectarinia famosa is a small nectivorous bird found in the southern part of the Southern African region.- Taxonomy :...
  
  , Nectarinia famosa
• Southern Double-collared Sunbird
  Southern Double-collared Sunbird
  The Southern Double-collared Sunbird or Lesser Double-collared Sunbird, Cinnyris chalybeus , is a small passerine bird which breeds in southern South Africa. It is mainly resident, but partially migratory in the north-east of its range.-Habitat:This sunbird is common in gardens, fynbos, forests and...
  
  , Cinnyris chalybeus
• Neergaard's Sunbird
  Neergaard's Sunbird
  The Neergaard's Sunbird is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family.It is found in Mozambique and South Africa.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.It is threatened by habitat loss.-Source:...
  
  , Cinnyris neergaardi Near-threatened
• Greater Double-collared Sunbird
  Greater Double-collared Sunbird
  The Greater Double-collared Sunbird , is a small bird in the sunbird family.-Taxonomy:The subspecies C. a. stuhlmanni and C. a...
  
  , Cinnyris afer
• Marico Sunbird
  Mariqua Sunbird
  The Mariqua Sunbird or Marico Sunbird is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.-References:* BirdLife...
  
  , Cinnyris mariquensis
• Purple-banded Sunbird
  Purple-banded Sunbird
  The Purple-banded Sunbird is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family....
  
  , Cinnyris bifasciatus
• White-breasted Sunbird
  White-breasted Sunbird
  The White-breasted Sunbird , also known as the White-bellied Sunbird, is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family....
  
  , Cinnyris talatala
• Variable Sunbird
  Variable Sunbird
  The Variable Sunbird, Cinnyris venustus , is a sunbird. The sunbirds are a group of very small Old World passerine birds which feed largely on nectar, although they will also take insects, especially when feeding young. Flight is fast and direct on their short wings...
  
  , Cinnyris venustus Rare/Accidental
• Dusky Sunbird
  Dusky Sunbird
  The Dusky Sunbird is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family. This relatively dull sunbird is found in arid savanna, thickets and shrubland in Angola, Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa.-References:...
  
  , Cinnyris fuscus

Zosteropidae

White-eye

White-eye can refer to:*White-eye , a large family of birds.*White-eye , a species of fish.*White-eye mutation, a mutation in Drosophila melanogaster linked to the X chromosome, found by reciprocal cross breeding experiments in 1906.*A lioness member of the Marsh Pride of lions that have featured...

• African Yellow White-eye
  African Yellow White-eye
  The African Yellow White-eye is a species of bird in the Zosteropidae family.-Taxonomy:The taxa stenocricotus from Central Africa and kirki from the Comoros, by most authorities considered subspecies of the African Yellow White-eye, are occasionally considered separate species, the Cameroon Green...
  
  , Zosterops senegalensis
• Cape White-eye
  Cape White-eye
  The Cape White-eye, Zosterops pallidus, is a small passerine bird in the white-eye family. It is native to southern Africa.-Taxonomy:There are six subspecies. Traditionally, the western nominate group and the eastern capensis group have been treated as separate species; the Orange River White-eye ...
  
  , Zosterops pallidus

Promeropidae

• Gurney's Sugarbird
  Gurney's Sugarbird
  The Gurney's Sugarbird is a species of bird in the Promeropidae family.It is found in Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe....
  
  , Promerops gurneyi
• Cape Sugarbird
  Cape Sugarbird
  The Cape Sugarbird, Promerops cafer, is one of the six bird species endemic to the Fynbos biome of the Western Cape and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa.-Description:...
  
  , Promerops cafer Endemic

Oriolidae

• Eurasian Golden Oriole, Oriolus oriolus
• African Golden Oriole
  African Golden Oriole
  The African Golden Oriole is a member of the oriole family of passerine birds which is a resident breeder in Africa south of the Sahara....
  
  , Oriolus auratus
• African Black-headed Oriole, Oriolus larvatus

Laniidae

• Red-backed Shrike
  Red-backed Shrike
  The Red-backed Shrike is a carnivorous passerine bird and member of the shrike family Laniidae.English common names include 'Wariangle' and 'worrier'.-Description:...
  
  , Lanius collurio
• Lesser Grey Shrike
  Lesser Grey Shrike
  The Lesser Grey Shrike is a member of the shrike family Laniidae.It is similar in appearance to the Great Grey Shrike Lanius excubitor and the Southern Grey Shrike L. meridionalis...
  
  , Lanius minor
• Common Fiscal
  Common Fiscal
  The Common Fiscal is a member of the shrike family found through most of Sub-Saharan Africa. It is also sometimes named Fiscal Shrike, as well as Jackie Hangman or Butcher Bird due to its habit of impaling its prey on acacia thorns to store the food for later consumption. It is sometimes split...
  
  , Lanius collaris
• Magpie Shrike
  Magpie Shrike
  The Magpie Shrike , also known as the African Long-tailed Shrike, is a species of bird in the Laniidae family...
  
  , Corvinella melanoleuca
• White-crowned Shrike, Eurocephalus anguitimens

Malaconotidae

• Brubru
  Brubru
  The Brubru is a member of the bushshrike family found in much of sub-Saharan Africa apart from the western rainforests and southern South Africa. It is the only member of the genus Nilaus.-Distribution and habitat:...
  
  , Nilaus afer
• Black-backed Puffback
  Black-backed Puffback
  The Black-backed Puffback is a species of bird in the Malaconotidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.Its natural habitats are...
  
  , Dryoscopus cubla
• Black-crowned Tchagra
  Black-crowned Tchagra
  The Black-crowned Tchagra is a bushshrike. This family of passerine birds is closely related to the true shrikes in the family Laniidae, and was once included in that group....
  
  , Tchagra senegala
• Brown-crowned Tchagra
  Brown-crowned Tchagra
  The Brown-crowned Tchagra is a species of bird in the Malaconotidae family.It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique,...
  
  , Tchagra australis
• Southern Tchagra
  Southern Tchagra
  The Southern Tchagra is a passerine bird found in dense scrub and coastal bush in southern and south-eastern South Africa and Swaziland....
  
  , Tchagra tchagra
• Tropical Boubou
  Tropical Boubou
  The Tropical Boubou or Bell Shrike is a medium-sized passerine bird of sub-Saharan Africa. This very diverse "species" with its numerous subspecies and morphs has since long posed a taxonomic problem, and recent research suggests it is a cryptic species complex that ought to be split into several...
  
  , Laniarius aethiopicus
• Southern Boubou
  Southern Boubou
  The Southern Boubou is a bushshrike. This family of passerine birds is closely related to the true shrikes in the family Laniidae, and were once included in that group....
  
  , Laniarius ferrugineus
• Crimson-breasted Gonolek
  Crimson-breasted Gonolek
  The Crimson-breasted Gonolek , Laniarius atrococcineus, formerly called the Crimson-breasted Shrike, is a southern African bird occurring in a broad swathe from southern Angola to the Free State province in South Africa. This species was first collected by ‎William John Burchell in 1811 near the...
  
  , Laniarius atrococcineus
• Bokmakierie
  Bokmakierie
  The Bokmakierie is a bushshrike. This family of passerine birds is closely related to the true shrikes in the family Laniidae, and was once included in that group...
  
  , Telophorus zeylonus
• Orange-breasted Bush-Shrike
  Sulphur-breasted Bushshrike
  The Sulphur-breasted Bushshrike or Orange-breasted Bush-Shrike is a species of bird in the Malaconotidae family....
  
  , Telophorus sulfureopectus
• Olive Bushshrike
  Olive Bushshrike
  The Olive Bushshrike is a species of bird in the Malaconotidae family.It is found in Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe....
  
  , Telophorus olivaceus
• Black-fronted Bushshrike
  Black-fronted Bushshrike
  The Black-fronted Bushshrike is a passerine bird of the bushshrike family, Malaconotidae. It inhabits forests in Southern and Eastern Africa. It forms a superspecies with the Many-coloured Bushshrike and the two are sometimes considered to be a single species.-Description:It is 18-19 centimetres...
  
  , Telophorus nigrifrons
• Four-colored Bushshrike, Telophorus viridis
• Grey-headed Bushshrike, Malaconotus blanchoti

Prionopidae

• White Helmetshrike
  White Helmetshrike
  The White-crested Helmetshrike , also known as the White Helmetshrike, is a species of passerine bird in the helmetshrike family Prionopidae, formerly usually included in the Malaconotidae.-Distribution and habitat:...
  
  , Prionops plumatus
• Retz's Helmetshrike
  Retz's Helmetshrike
  The Retz's Helmetshrike is a species of bird in the helmetshrike family Prionopidae, formerly usually included in the Malaconotidae....
  
  , Prionops retzii
• Chestnut-fronted Helmetshrike
  Chestnut-fronted Helmetshrike
  The Chestnut-fronted Helmetshrike is a species of bird in the helmetshrike family Prionopidae, formerly usually included in the Malaconotidae.It is found in Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe....
  
  , Prionops scopifrons

Dicruridae

• Square-tailed Drongo
  Square-tailed Drongo
  The Square-tailed Drongo, Dicrurus ludwigii, is a drongo. The drongos are small passerine birds of the Old World tropics. They were previously classed as the family Dicruridae, but that has been much enlarged to include a number of largely Australasian groups, such as the Australasian fantails,...
  
  , Dicrurus ludwigii
• Fork-tailed Drongo
  Fork-tailed Drongo
  The Fork-tailed Drongo, Dicrurus adsimilis, also called the Common Drongo, African Drongo or Savanna Drongo, is a drongo, a type of small passerine bird of the Old World tropics. The species was earlier considered to cover Asia, but the Asian species is now called the Black Drongo...
  
  , Dicrurus adsimilis

Corvidae

Corvidae

Corvidae is a cosmopolitan family of oscine passerine birds that contains the crows, ravens, rooks, jackdaws, jays, magpies, treepies, choughs and nutcrackers. The common English names used are corvids or the crow family , and there are over 120 species...

• House Crow
  House Crow
  thumb|300px|Bangalore, IndiaThe House Crow , also known as the Colombo Crow is a common bird of the Crow family that is of Asian origin but now found in many parts of the world, where they arrived assisted by shipping. It is between the Jackdaw and the Carrion Crow in size but is relatively...
  
  , Corvus splendens Introduced
• Cape Crow
  Cape Crow
  The Cape Crow or Black Crow is slightly larger than the Carrion Crow and is completely black with a slight gloss of purple in the feathers. It has proportionately longer legs, wings and tail too and has a much longer, slimmer bill that seems to be designed for probing into the ground for...
  
  , Corvus capensis
• Pied Crow
  Pied Crow
  The Pied Crow is a widely distributed African bird species in the crow genus.Structurally, the Pied Crow is better thought of as a small crow-sized Raven, especially as it can hybridise with the Somali Crow where their ranges meet in the Horn of Africa...
  
  , Corvus albus
• White-necked Raven
  White-necked Raven
  The White-necked Raven, Corvus albicollis, is somewhat smaller than the Common Raven or indeed its nearest relative, the Thick-billed Raven C. crassirostris.-Description:...
  
  , Corvus albicollis

Sturnidae

• Common Myna
  Common Myna
  The Common Myna or Indian Myna also sometimes spelled Mynah, is a member of family Sturnidae native to Asia. An omnivorous open woodland bird with a strong territorial instinct, the Myna has adapted extremely well to urban environments...
  
  , Acridotheres tristis Introduced
• European Starling
  European Starling
  The Common Starling , also known as the European Starling or just Starling, is a passerine bird in the family Sturnidae.This species of starling is native to most of temperate Europe and western Asia...
  
  , Sturnus vulgaris Introduced
• Wattled Starling
  Wattled Starling
  The Wattled Starling is a nomadic resident in eastern and southern Africa. It is a species of grassland, open woodland and cultivation....
  
  , Creatophora cinerea
• Cape Glossy-starling, Lamprotornis nitens
• Greater Blue-eared Glossy Starling, Lamprotornis chalybaeus
• Meves's Glossy Starling, Lamprotornis mevesii
• Burchell's Glossy Starling, Lamprotornis australis
• Black-bellied Glossy Starling, Lamprotornis corruscus
• Violet-backed Starling
  Violet-backed Starling
  The Violet-backed Starling , also known as the Plum-coloured Starling or Amethyst Starling, is a relatively small species of starling in the Sturnidae family. This strongly sexually dimorphic species is found widely in woodland of mainland sub-Saharan Africa.-References:* BirdLife International 2004....
  
  , Cinnyricinclus leucogaster
• African Pied Starling
  African Pied Starling
  The African Pied Starling, Lamprotornis bicolor, is a bird endemic to South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland. It is common in most of its range, but largely absent from the arid northwest and the eastern lowlands of South Africa...
  
  , Spreo bicolor
• Red-winged Starling
  Red-winged Starling
  The Red-winged Starling, Onychognathus morio, is a bird of the starling family Sturnidae native to eastern Africa from Ethiopia to the Cape in South Africa. It is known in Afrikaans as the Rooivlerkspreeu.-Taxonomy:...
  
  , Onychognathus morio
• Pale-winged Starling
  Pale-winged Starling
  The Pale-winged Starling is a species of starling in the Sturnidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa.-References:* BirdLife International 2004. . Downloaded on 24 July 2007....
  
  , Onychognathus nabouroup
• Red-billed Oxpecker
  Red-billed Oxpecker
  The Red-billed Oxpecker, Buphagus erythrorhynchus, is a passerine bird in the starling and myna family Sturndidae; some ornithologists regard the oxpeckers to be in a family by themselves, the Buphagidae. It is native to the savannah of sub-Saharan Africa, from the Central African Republic east to...
  
  , Buphagus erythrorhynchus
• Yellow-billed Oxpecker
  Yellow-billed Oxpecker
  The Yellow-billed Oxpecker, Buphagus africanus, is a passerine bird in the starling and myna family Sturnidae; some ornithologists regard the Oxpeckers to be a separate family, the Buphagidae . It is native to the savannah of sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal east to Sudan...
  
  , Buphagus africanus

Ploceidae

• Red-billed Buffalo Weaver, Bubalornis niger
• Scaly-feathered Weaver, Sporopipes squamifrons
• White-browed Sparrow-Weaver
  White-browed Sparrow-weaver
  The White-browed Sparrow-Weaver is a predominantly brown, sparrow-sized weaver found throughout central and northcentral southern Africa. It is found in...
  
  , Plocepasser mahali
• Sociable Weaver
  Sociable Weaver
  The Sociable Weaver or Social Weaver is a species of bird in the Ploceidae family endemic to Southern Africa. It is monotypic within the genus Philetairus. It is found in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa. but their range is centred around Northern Cape Province and southern Namibia...
  
  , Philetairus socius
• Lesser Masked Weaver
  Lesser Masked Weaver
  The Lesser Masked Weaver is a species of bird in the Ploceidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland,...
  
  , Ploceus intermedius
• Spectacled Weaver
  Spectacled Weaver
  The Spectacled Weaver is a species of bird in the Ploceidae family. It is found widely in woodland, forest edge and gardens of East, Middle and Southern Africa, but is absent from the most arid regions and dense, primary rainforest...
  
  , Ploceus ocularis
• Cape Weaver
  Cape Weaver
  The Cape Weaver is a resident breeding bird species endemic to South Africa.This common species occurs in grassland, agricultural and fynbos habitats, often near rivers...
  
  , Ploceus capensis Endemic
• African Golden Weaver, Ploceus subaureus
• Holub's Golden Weaver, Ploceus xanthops
• Southern Brown-throated Weaver
  Southern Brown-throated Weaver
  The Southern Brown-throated Weaver is a species of bird in the Ploceidae family.It is found in Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.-References:...
  
  , Ploceus xanthopterus
• Southern Masked Weaver, Ploceus velatus
• Village Weaver
  Village Weaver
  The Village Weaver , also known as the Spotted-backed Weaver or Black-headed Weaver , is a species of bird found in much of sub-Saharan Africa...
  
  , Ploceus cucullatus
• Dark-backed Weaver, Ploceus bicolor
• Red-headed Weaver
  Red-headed Weaver
  The Red-headed Weaver is a species of bird in the Ploceidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Anaplectes....
  
  , Anaplectes rubriceps
• Red-headed Quelea
  Red-headed Quelea
  The Red-headed Quelea is a species of bird in the Ploceidae family.It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana,...
  
  , Quelea erythrops
• Red-billed Quelea
  Red-billed Quelea
  The Red-billed Quelea is the world's most abundant wild bird species, with an estimated adult breeding population of 1.5 billion pairs. Some estimates of the overall population have been as large as 10 billion...
  
  , Quelea quelea
• Yellow-crowned Bishop
  Yellow-crowned Bishop
  The Yellow-crowned Bishop is a species of passerine bird in the family Ploceidae native to Africa south of the Sahara. It is highly sexually dimorphic in its breeding season, during which the male adopts a distinctive yellow and black plumage, contrasting with the female's predominantly brown...
  
  , Euplectes afer
• Red Bishop, Euplectes orix
• Yellow Bishop
  Yellow Bishop
  The Yellow Bishop or Yellow-rumped Widow is a resident breeding bird species in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.This common weaver...
  
  , Euplectes capensis
• Fan-tailed Widowbird
  Fan-tailed Widowbird
  The Fan-tailed Widowbird is a species of bird in the Ploceidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda,...
  
  , Euplectes axillaris
• White-winged Widowbird
  White-winged Widowbird
  The White-winged Widowbird is a species of passerine bird in the family Ploceidae native to Africa south of the Sahara. It is highly sexually dimorphic in its breeding season, during which the male's yellow plumage turns dark and he gains more white feathers, contrasting with the female's...
  
  , Euplectes albonotatus
• Red-collared Widowbird
  Red-collared Widowbird
  The Red-collared Widowbird is a species of bird in the Ploceidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau,...
  
  , Euplectes ardens
• Long-tailed Widowbird
  Long-tailed Widowbird
  The Long-tailed Widowbird is a species of bird in the Ploceidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Lesotho, South Africa, Swaziland, and Zambia.-References:...
  
  , Euplectes progne
• Thick-billed Weaver, Amblyospiza albifrons

Estrildidae

• Orange-winged Pytilia
  Orange-winged Pytilia
  The Orange-winged Pytilia is a common species of estrildid finch found in Africa. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 2,300,000 km²....
  
  , Pytilia afra Rare/Accidental
• Green-winged Pytilia
  Green-winged Pytilia
  The Green-winged Pytilia is a common species of estrildid finch found in Africa. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of .It is found in most of Africa south of the Sahara...
  
  , Pytilia melba
• Green-backed Twinspot
  Green-backed Twinspot
  The Green-backed Twinspot is an estrildid finch found in sub-saharan Africa. This species is evaluated as Least Concern.-Subspecies:The Green-backed Twinspot has four sub-species:* Mandingoa nitidula chubbi...
  
  , Mandingoa nitidula
• Peters's Twinspot
  Peters's Twinspot
  Peters's Twinspot is a common species of bird found in sub-saharan Africa. This species has a large range, with an estimated global extent of occurrence of 2,000,000 km²....
  
  , Hypargos niveoguttatus
• Pink-throated Twinspot
  Pink-throated Twinspot
  The Pink-throated Twinspot is an estrildid finch. It inhabits dry savanna and moist, subtropical/tropical shrubland habitats near the southeast African coast in Mozambique, South Africa and Swaziland...
  
  , Hypargos margaritatus
• Red-billed Firefinch
  Red-billed Firefinch
  The Red-billed Firefinch or Senegal Firefinch is a very small passerine bird. This estrildid finch is a resident breeding bird in almost all parts of sub-Saharan Africa. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 10,000,000 km²...
  
  , Lagonosticta senegala
• African Firefinch
  African Firefinch
  The African Firefinch , also called the Blue-billed Firefinch due to the color of its bill, is a common species of estrildid finch found in almost all parts of Africa...
  
  , Lagonosticta rubricata
• Jameson's Firefinch
  Jameson's Firefinch
  Jameson's Firefinch is a common species of estrildid finch found in Southern Africa. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 2,600,000 km²....
  
  , Lagonosticta rhodopareia
• Blue-breasted Cordonbleu, Uraeginthus angolensis
• Violet-eared Waxbill, Uraeginthus granatina
• Black-tailed Waxbill
  Black-tailed Waxbill
  The Black-tailed Waxbill Estrilda perreini is a common species of estrildid finch found in wetter land of Southern Africa. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 670,000 km².-Habitat:...
  
  , Estrilda perreini
• Yellow-bellied Waxbill, Estrilda quartinia
• Swee Waxbill
  Swee Waxbill
  The Swee Waxbill Estrilda melanotis also known as Yellow-bellied Waxbill is a common species of estrildid finch found in of Sub-Saharan Africa....
  
  , Estrilda melanotis
• Common Waxbill
  Common Waxbill
  The Common Waxbill , also known as the St Helena Waxbill, is a small passerine bird belonging to the estrildid finch family. It is native to sub-Saharan Africa but has been introduced to many other regions of the world and now has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 10,000,000 km²...
  
  , Estrilda astrild
• Black-cheeked Waxbill
  Black-cheeked Waxbill
  The Black-cheeked Waxbill Estrilda erythronotos is a common species of estrildid finch found in southern Africa. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 1,300,000 km²....
  
  , Estrilda erythronotos
• Zebra Waxbill
  Zebra Waxbill
  The Zebra Waxbill or Orange-breasted Waxbill is a small sparrow-like bird with a reddish iris, orange breast, red bill and dark olive-green plumage. The male has a red rump, dark bars on the whitish flank and a scarlet eyebrow stripe...
  
  , Sporaeginthus subflavus
• African Quailfinch
  African Quailfinch
  The Black-faced Quail-Finch , also known as the African Quail-Finch, is a common species of estrildid finch found in almost all parts of Africa except at far north of Africa...
  
  , Ortygospiza fuscocrissa
• Bronze Mannikin
  Bronze Mannikin
  The Bronze Mannikin or Bronze Munia Lonchura cucullata is a small passerine bird. This estrildid finch is an abundant resident breeding bird in much of Africa south of the Sahara Desert of dry savanna habitats...
  
  , Spermestes cucullatus
• Black-and-white Mannikin
  Black-and-white Mannikin
  The Black-and-white Mannikin or Black-and-white Munia Lonchura bicolor is a species of estrildid finch found in southern and central Africa. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 4,200,000 km²....
  
  , Spermestes bicolor
• Magpie Mannikin
  Magpie Mannikin
  The Magpie Mannikin or Magpie Munia Lonchura fringilloides is a species of estrildid finch found in southern and central Africa. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 1,400,000 km²....
  
  , Spermestes fringilloides
• Cut-throat Finch
  Cut-throat Finch
  The Cut-throat Finch Amadina fasciata is a common species of estrildid finch found in Africa and originated in Africa, also known as the Bearded Finch, the Ribbon Finch, the Cut Throat, or the Weaver Finch....
  
  , Amadina fasciata
• Red-headed Finch
  Red-headed Finch
  The Red-headed Finch, Amadina erythrocephala, is a common species of estrildid finch found in Africa. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 1,600,000 km²...
  
  , Amadina erythrocephala

Viduidae

• Village Indigobird
  Village Indigobird
  The Village Indigobird, Vidua chalybeata, is a small songbird. It is a resident breeding bird in most of Africa south of the Sahara Desert....
  
  , Vidua chalybeata
• Variable Indigobird
  Variable Indigobird
  The Dusky Indigobird or Variable Indigobird is a species of bird in the Viduidae family. It is found in Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea-Bissau, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and...
  
  , Vidua funerea
• Purple Indigobird, Vidua purpurascens
• Pale-winged Indigobird
  Pale-winged Indigobird
  Wilson's Indigobird or Pale-winged Indigobird is a species of bird in the Viduidae family. It is found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, and Togo.-References:*...
  
  , Vidua wilsoni
• Shaft-tailed Whydah, Vidua regia
• Pin-tailed Whydah
  Pin-tailed Whydah
  The Pin-tailed Whydah, Vidua macroura, is a small songbird. It is a resident breeding bird in most of Africa south of the Sahara Desert.This whydah is found in many open habitats including open woodland, scrub and cultivation....
  
  , Vidua macroura
• Eastern Paradise Whydah
  Eastern Paradise Whydah
  The Long-tailed Paradise Whydah or Eastern Paradise Whydah, Vidua paradisaea, is a small brown sparrow-like bird of Eastern Africa, from east Sudan to south Angola...
  
  , Vidua paradisaea
• Broad-tailed Paradise Whydah, Vidua obtusa Rare/Accidental

Emberizidae

Emberizidae

The Emberizidae are a large family of passerine birds. They are seed-eating birds with a distinctively shaped bill.In Europe, most species are called buntings. In North America, most of the species in this family are known as sparrows, but these birds are not closely related to the sparrows, the...

• Lark-like Bunting
  Lark-like Bunting
  The Lark-like Bunting is a species of bird in the Emberizidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe....
  
  , Emberiza impetuani
• Cinnamon-breasted Bunting
  Cinnamon-breasted Bunting
  The Cinnamon-breasted Bunting is a species of bird in the Emberizidae family. It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon,...
  
  , Emberiza tahapisi
• Cape Bunting
  Cape Bunting
  The Cape Bunting, Emberiza capensis, is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae.-Taxonomy:There are a dozen subspecies, differing in plumage, but all have the distinctive head pattern and rufous in the wings. The northeastern race E. c. vincenti is very dark above, and slaty below. It...
  
  , Emberiza capensis
• Golden-breasted Bunting
  Golden-breasted Bunting
  The Golden-breasted Bunting, Emberiza flaviventris, is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae. It occurs in dry open woodlands in Africa south of the Sahara, but is absent from the equatorial forest belt.There are three subspecies:...
  
  , Emberiza flaviventris

Fringillidae

• Chaffinch
  Chaffinch
  The Chaffinch , also called by a wide variety of other names, is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae.- Description :...
  
  , Fringilla coelebs Introduced
• Cape Canary
  Cape Canary
  The Cape Canary is a small passerine bird in the finch family. It is a resident breeder in eastern and southern Africa and has been introduced to Mauritius and Réunion....
  
  , Serinus canicollis
• Forest Canary
  Forest Canary
  The Forest Canary is a species of finch in the Fringillidae family.It is found in South Africa and Swaziland.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes....
  
  , Serinus scotops Endemic
• Black-throated Canary
  Black-throated Canary
  The Yellow-rumped Seedeater , also known as the Black-throated Canary, is a species of finch in the Fringillidae family.-Distribution:...
  
  , Serinus atrogularis
• Lemon-breasted Seedeater
  Lemon-breasted Seedeater
  The Lemon-Breasted Seedeater , also known as the Lemon-breasted Canary, is a species of finch in the Fringillidae family.It is found in Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe....
  
  , Serinus citrinipectus
• Yellow-fronted Canary
  Yellow-fronted Canary
  The Yellow-fronted Canary is a small passerine bird in the finch family. It is known elsewhere and in aviculture as the Green Singing Finch....
  
  , Serinus mozambicus
• Yellow Canary
  Yellow Canary
  The Yellow Canary is a small passerine bird in the finch family. It is a resident breeder in much of the western and central regions of southern Africa and has been introduced to Ascension and St Helena islands....
  
  , Serinus flaviventris
• Brimstone Canary
  Brimstone Canary
  The Brimstone Canary or Bully Canary, Serinus sulphuratus, is a small passerine bird in the finch family. It is a resident breeder in central and southern Africa....
  
  , Serinus sulphuratus
• White-throated Canary
  White-throated Canary
  The White-throated Canary is a species of finch in the Fringillidae family.-Description:The White-throated Canary is a small bird about 15 cm long with generally dull-coloured plumage and a yellow or yellow-green rump. It has a heavy horn-coloured beak and brown irises. Its legs are brown...
  
  , Serinus albogularis
• Streaky-headed Seedeater
  Streaky-headed Seedeater
  The Streaky-headed Seedeater or Streaky-headed Canary is a small passerine bird in the finch family. It is a common resident breeder in suitable habitat in much of Africa south of the Sahara....
  
  , Serinus gularis
• Black-eared Seedeater
  Black-eared Seedeater
  The Black-eared Seedeater is a species of finch in the Fringillidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe....
  
  , Serinus mennelli
• Protea Canary
  Protea Canary
  The Protea Canary, Serinus leucopterus, is a small passerine bird in the finch family.-Distribution and habitat:...
  
  , Serinus leucopterus Endemic
• Cape Siskin
  Cape Siskin
  The Cape Siskin, Serinus totta, is a small passerine bird in the finch family. It is an endemic resident breeder in the southern Cape Province of South Africa...
  
  , Pseudochloroptila totta Endemic
• Drakensberg Siskin
  Drakensberg Siskin
  The Drakensberg Siskin, Serinus symonsi, is a small passerine bird in the finch family. It is an endemic resident breeder in the eastern Cape Province Transkei and western Natal in South Africa, and in Lesotho...
  
  , Pseudochloroptila symonsi Endemic
• Black-headed Canary
  Black-headed Canary
  The Black-headed Canary is a species of finch found in Lesotho, Namibia and South Africa. It is sometimes placed in genus Alario as Alario alario...
  
  , Alario alario
• Damara Canary
  Damara Canary
  The Damara Canary, Serinus leucolaema, is a small passerine bird in the finch family.-Description:The Damara Canary is 12-15 cm in length. The adult male has rich brown upperparts and tail, a white hind collar and mainly white underparts...
  
  , Alario leucolaema

Passeridae

• House Sparrow
  House Sparrow
  The House Sparrow is a bird of the sparrow family Passeridae, found in most parts of the world. One of about 25 species in the genus Passer, the House Sparrow occurs naturally in most of Europe, the Mediterranean region, and much of Asia...
  
  , Passer domesticus Introduced
• Great Rufous Sparrow, Passer motitensis
• Cape Sparrow
  Cape Sparrow
  The Cape Sparrow or Mossie is a bird of the sparrow family Passeridae. Brightly coloured and distinctive, it is coloured grey, brown, and chestnut, with some black and white markings on the male...
  
  , Passer melanurus
• Southern Grey-headed Sparrow
  Southern Grey-headed Sparrow
  The Southern Grey-headed Sparrow is a passerine bird of the sparrow family Passeridae. It is sometimes treated as a subspecies of the Grey-headed Sparrow. It is found in savanna and woodland in Angola and Zambia down to South Africa....
  
  , Passer diffusus
• Yellow-throated Petronia
  Yellow-throated Petronia
  The Yellow-throated Petronia is a species of bird in the sparrow family Passeridae. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe...
  
  , Petronia superciliaris

Prince Edward Islands

Note: All but the accidentals are breeders

Anatidae

Anatidae

Anatidae is the biological family of birds that includes ducks, geese and swans. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on all the world's continents except Antarctica and on most of the world's islands and island groups...

• Eaton's Pintail
  Eaton's Pintail
  The Eaton's Pintail is a dabbling duck of the genus Anas. The species is restricted to the island groups of Kerguelen and Crozet in the southern Indian Ocean. It resembles a small female Northern Pintail. It was named after the English explorer and naturalist Alfred Edmund Eaton...
  
  , Anas eatoni Accidental Vulnerable

Spheniscidae

Penguin

Penguins are a group of aquatic, flightless birds living almost exclusively in the southern hemisphere, especially in Antarctica. Highly adapted for life in the water, penguins have countershaded dark and white plumage, and their wings have become flippers...

• King Penguin
  King Penguin
  The King Penguin is the second largest species of penguin at about , second only to the Emperor Penguin. There are two subspecies—A. p. patagonicus and A. p...
  
  , Aptenodytes patagonicus
• Gentoo Penguin
  Gentoo penguin
  The Gentoo Penguin , Pygoscelis papua, is easily recognized by the wide white stripe extending like a bonnet across the top of its head and its bright orange-red bill. The gentoo penguin has pale whitish-pink webbed feet and a fairly long tail - the most prominent tail of all penguins. Chicks have...
  
  , Pygoscelis papua Near-threatened
• Chinstrap Penguin
  Chinstrap Penguin
  The Chinstrap Penguin is a species of penguin which is found in the South Sandwich Islands, Antarctica, the South Orkneys, South Shetland, South Georgia, Bouvet Island and Balleny...
  
  , Pygoscelis antarcticus Accidental
• Rockhopper Penguin
  Rockhopper penguin
  The rockhopper penguins are three closely related taxa of crested penguins that have been traditionally treated as a single species and are sometimes split into two or three species. Not all experts agree on the classification of these penguins...
  
  , Eudyptes chrysocome (race filholi)
• Macaroni Penguin
  Macaroni Penguin
  The Macaroni Penguin is a species of penguin found from the Subantarctic to the Antarctic Peninsula. One of six species of crested penguin, it is very closely related to the Royal Penguin, and some authorities consider the two to be a single species...
  
  , Eudyptes chrysolophus Vulnerable

Diomedeidae

• Wandering Albatross
  Wandering Albatross
  The Wandering Albatross, Snowy Albatross or White-winged Albatross, Diomedea exulans, is a large seabird from the family Diomedeidae, which has a circumpolar range in the Southern Ocean. It was the first species of albatross to be described, and was long considered the same species as the Tristan...
  
  , Diomedea exulans Vulnerable
• Grey-headed Albatross
  Grey-headed Albatross
  The Grey-headed Albatross, Thalassarche chrysostoma, also known as the Grey-headed Mollymawk, is a large seabird from the albatross family. It has a circumpolar distribution, nesting on isolated islands in the Southern Ocean and feeding at high latitudes, further south than any of the other...
  
  , Thalassarche chrysostoma Vulnerable
• Shy Albatross
  Shy Albatross
  The Shy Albatross or Shy Mollymawk, Thalassarche cauta, is a medium sized albatross that breeds off Australia and New Zealand's sub-Antarctic islands and ranges extensively across the Southern Ocean...
  
  , Thalassarche cauta Near-threatened
• Yellow-nosed Albatross
  Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross
  The Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross, Thalassarche chlororhynchos, is a large seabird in the albatross family. This small mollymawk was once considered conspecific with the Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross and known as the Yellow-nosed Albatross...
  
  , Thalassarche chlororhynchos
• Sooty Albatross
  Sooty Albatross
  The Sooty Albatross, Dark-mantled Sooty Albatross or Dark-mantled Albatross, Phoebetria fusca, is a species of bird in the albatross family...
  
  , Phoebetria fusca Endangered
• Light-mantled Albatross
  Light-mantled Albatross
  The Light-mantled Albatross, Phoebetria palpebrata, also known as the Grey-mantled Albatross or the Light-mantled Sooty Albatross, is a small albatross in the genus Phoebetria, which it shares with the Sooty Albatross...
  
  , Phoebetria palpebrata Near-threatened

Procellariidae

Procellariidae

The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels.The procellariids are...

• Southern Giant Petrel
  Southern Giant Petrel
  The Southern Giant Petrel , also known as the Antarctic Giant Petrel, Giant Fulmar, Stinker, and Stinkpot, is a large seabird of the southern oceans. Its distribution overlaps broadly with the similar Northern Giant Petrel, though it overall is centered slightly further south...
  
  , Macronectes giganticus
• Northern Giant Petrel
  Northern Giant Petrel
  The Northern Giant Petrel , also known as the Hall's Giant Petrel, is a large seabird of the southern oceans. Its distribution overlaps broadly with the similar Southern Giant Petrel, though it overall is centered slightly further north.-Taxonomy:The Northern Giant Petrel along with its...
  
  , Macronectes halli
• Blue Petrel
  Blue Petrel
  The Blue Petrel is a small seabird in the family Procellariidae. This small petrel is the only member of the genus Halobaena but is closely allied to the prions.-Taxonomy:...
  
  , Halobaena caerulea
• Salvin's Prion, Pachyptila salvini
• Fairy Prion
  Fairy Prion
  The Fairy Prion is a small seabird with the standard prion plumage of black upperparts and white underneath with an "M" wing marking.-Taxonomy:...
  
  , Pachyptila turtur
• Kerguelen Petrel
  Kerguelen Petrel
  The Kerguelen Petrel is a small slate-grey seabird in the family Procellariidae. The species has been described as a "taxonomic oddball", being placed for a long time in Pterodroma before being split out in 1942 into its own genus Lugensa...
  
  , Lugensa brevirostris Vulnerable
• Great-winged Petrel
  Great-winged Petrel
  The Great-winged Petrel or Grey-faced Petrel, Pterodroma macroptera, is a petrel. In New Zealand it is also known by its Māori name oi and as a muttonbird.- Taxonomy :...
  
  , Pterodroma macroptera
• Soft-plumaged Petrel
  Soft-plumaged Petrel
  The Soft-plumaged Petrel is a species of seabird in the Procellariidae family.-Distribution:It breeds on islands in the Southern Hemisphere, nesting on Tristan da Cunha, Gough Island, the Prince Edward Islands, Crozet Islands, Macquarie Island, and on the Antipodes Islands of New Zealand. Small...
  
  , Pterodroma mollis
• Grey Petrel
  Grey Petrel
  The Grey Petrel , also called the Brown Petrel, Pediunker or Grey Shearwater is a species of seabird in the Procellariidae, or petrel family...
  
  , Procellaria cinerea Near-threatened
• White-chinned Petrel
  White-chinned Petrel
  The White-chinned Petrel or Cape Hen, Procellaria aequinoctialis, is a large shearwater in the family Procellariidae. It ranges around the Southern Oceans as far north as South Australia, Peru and Namibia, and breeds colonially on scattered islands....
  
  , Procellaria aequinoctialis

Hydrobatidae

• Grey-backed Storm-Petrel
  Grey-backed Storm-petrel
  The Grey-backed Storm Petrel is a species of seabird in the Hydrobatidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Garrodia which was named by William Alexander Forbes in 1881 after Alfred Henry Garrod, while the specific descriptor is an allusion to the Nereids, the sea nymphs of Greek...
  
  , Garrodia nereis
• Black-bellied Storm-Petrel
  Black-bellied Storm-petrel
  The Black-bellied Storm Petrel is a species of seabird in the Hydrobatidae family.It is found in Antarctica, Argentina, Australia, Bouvet Island, Brazil, Chile, Falkland Islands, French Polynesia, French Southern Territories, Madagascar, Mozambique, New Zealand, Oman, Peru, Saint Helena, São Tomé...
  
  , Fregetta tropica

Pelecanoididae

• South Georgia Diving-Petrel
  South Georgia Diving-petrel
  The South Georgia Diving Petrel or Georgian Diving-petrel is a diving-petrel, one of four very similar auk-like small petrels of the southern oceans...
  
  , Pelecanoides georgicus
• Common Diving Petrel
  Common Diving Petrel
  The Common Diving Petrel , also known as the Smaller Diving-Petrel or simply the Diving-Petrel, is a diving-petrel, one of four very similar auk-like small petrels of the southern oceans...
  
  , Pelecanoides urinatrix

Phalacrocoracidae

• Imperial Shag
  Imperial Shag
  The Imperial Shag, Phalacrocorax atriceps, is a black and white cormorant native to many subantarctic islands, the Antarctic Peninsula and southern South America, primarily in rocky coastal regions, but locally also at large inland lakes. It is sometimes placed in the genus Leucocarbo instead...
  
  , Phalacrocorax atriceps (race melanogenis)

Ardeidae

• Cattle egret
  Cattle Egret
  The Cattle Egret is a cosmopolitan species of heron found in the tropics, subtropics and warm temperate zones. It is the only member of the monotypic genus Bubulcus, although some authorities regard its two subspecies as full species, the Western Cattle Egret and the Eastern Cattle Egret...
  
  , Bubulcus ibis Accidental

Rallidae

Rallidae

The rails, or Rallidae, are a large cosmopolitan family of small to medium-sized birds. The family exhibits considerable diversity and the family also includes the crakes, coots, and gallinules...

• Common Moorhen
  Common Moorhen
  The Common Moorhen is a bird in the Rallidae family with an almost worldwide distribution. The North and South American Committees of the AOU and the IOC have voted on or before July 2011 to split the American forms into a new species Common Gallinule, however, no other committee has voted to...
  
  , Gallinula chloropus Accidental

Chionididae

• Lesser Sheathbill, Chionis minor (race marionesis)

Stercorariidae

• Brown Skua
  Brown Skua
  The Brown Skua , also known as the Antarctic Skua, Southern Great Skua, Southern Skua, or Hākoakoa , is a large seabird that breeds in the subantarctic and Antarctic zones and moves further north when not breeding...
  
  , Catharacta antarctica

Laridae

• Kelp Gull
  Kelp Gull
  The Kelp Gull , also known as the Dominican Gull, breeds on coasts and islands through much of the southern hemisphere. The race L. d. vetula occurs around southern Africa, and nominate L. d...
  
  , Larus dominicanus

Sternidae

• Antarctic Tern
  Antarctic Tern
  The Antarctic Tern is a typical tern. It ranges throughout the southern oceans. It is very similar in appearance to the closely related Arctic Tern, but is stockier, and the wing tips are grey instead of blackish in flight...
  
  , Sterna vittata
• Kerguelen Tern
  Kerguelen Tern
  The Kerguelen Tern is a tern of the southern hemisphere.This seabird mainly breeds colonially in the Kerguelen Islands, as its common name implies. However, smaller colonies are also found in the Prince Edward Islands and Crozet Islands...
  
  , Sterna virgata Near-threatened

Cuculidae

• Common Cuckoo
  Common Cuckoo
  The Common Cuckoo is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, Cuculiformes, which includes the roadrunners, the anis and the coucals....
  
  , Cuculus canorus Accidental

Hirundinidae

Swallow

The swallows and martins are a group of passerine birds in the family Hirundinidae which are characterised by their adaptation to aerial feeding...

• Barn Swallow
  Barn Swallow
  The Barn Swallow is the most widespread species of swallow in the world. It is a distinctive passerine bird with blue upperparts, a long, deeply forked tail and curved, pointed wings. It is found in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas...
  
  , Hirundo rustica Accidental

External links

• Birds of South Africa Birdlist, multi-lingual website by country with standardized codes for abundance and seasonal presence
• Marion Island Fauna List of animals, Department of Botany & Zoology, University of Stellenbosch
• Birds, Prince Edward Islands, SANAP Ecology, breeding colonies and species list
• Vast reserve to protect remote Prince Edward Islands in the Southern Ocean Marine Protected Area around Prince Edward Islands, establishment and species affected, May 2009