Southern African Birds

 

Penguins
Tropicbirds, Boobies, Gannets & Frigatebirds
Albatrosses, Petrels, Fulmar, Prion, Shearwater
Skuas, Jaegers, Gulls, Skimmers, Terns, Noddies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pelicans
Ibises, Spoonbills & Hammerkop
Egrets, Herons, Bitterns
Cormorants and Darters

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Storks
Cranes
Flamingos
Ducks & Geese

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grebes
Flufftails, Rails, Crakes, Gallinules, Swamphens, Moorhens, Coots & Finfoot
Painted-snipes and Snipes
Jacanas & Thick-knees Oystercatchers, Stilts, Avocets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Godwits, Curlews and Whimbrels, ‘Shanks’, Stints, Sandpipers, Ruff, Turnstones, Phalaropes
Plovers, Lapwings & Crab Plover
Coursers, Pratincoles
Bustards and Korhaans

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Francolins, Spurfowls, Quails, Guineafowls & Buttonquails
Ostriches
Vultures, Buzzards, Kites and Harriers
Eagles, Secretarybird and Osprey

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hawks, Goshawks and Sparrowhawks
Falcons, Hobby’s and Kestrels
Sandgrouse
Pigeons and Doves

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Owls and Nightjars
Swifts, Swallows and Martins
Honeyguides
Woodpeckers and Wryneck

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Barbets and Tinkerbirds
Hornbills
Hoopoes, Wood-hoopoes and Scimitarbills
Rollers and Trogon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kingfishers
Bee-eaters
Mousebirds
Cuckoos

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coucals and Malkhoa
Parrots, Lovebirds and Parakeet
Turaco’s and Go-away Bird
Pitta and Broadbill

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Orioles and Drongos
Crows and Raven
Bushshrike, Puffback, Tchagras, and Brubru
Boubous, Helmetshrikes, Batises, Wattle-eyes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shrikes and Cuckooshrikes
Flycatchers, Blackcap, Hyliota
Tits, Penduline-Tits and Tit-babblers
Bulbuls, Greenbuls, Brownbuls and Nicator

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Warblers
Crombecs,Camaroptera and Creeper
White-eyes, Apalis & Eremomela
Cisticolas and Prinias

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Larks and Sparrowlarks
Wagtails, Pipits and Longclaws
Thrushes and Babblers
Robins, Rockjumpers, Akalat and Nightingale

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chats & Wheatears
Starlings, Mynas and Oxpeckers
Sunbirds and Sugarbirds
Bishops, Queleas and Weavers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Widowbirds
Finches, Firefinches and Pytilia
Waxbills, Twinspots and Mannikins
Whydahs, Indigobirds and Cuckoo Finch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sparrows and Petronia
Canaries, Chaffinch and Buntings