With the announcement that the Avibase nomenclature will now be the standard, I have made the changes from IOC to AVIbase accordingly.
Sadly this also means some lost lifers.
| IOC Name | Avilist name | Comment |
| Fulvous Duck | Fulvous Whistling Duck | |
| Woolly-necked Stork | African Woolly-necked Stork
Asian Woolly-necked Stork |
Species split – additional lifer |
| Striated Heron / Green-backed Heron | Little Heron | |
| Intermediate Egret | Yellow-billed Egret
Medium Egret |
Species split – additional lifer |
| White-breasted Cormorant
Great Cormorant |
Great Cormorant | Species Lump – lifer lost |
| African Crowned Eagle | Crowned Eagle | |
| Yellow-billed Kite
Black Kite |
Black Kite | Species Lump – lifer lost |
| African Purple Swamphen
Grey-headed Swamphen |
Purple Swamphen | Species Lump – lifer lost |
| African Black Oystercatcher | African Oystercatcher | |
| Sub-antarctic Skua | Brown Skua | |
| African Mourning Dove | Mourning Collared Dove | |
| African Hoopoe
Eurasian Hoopoe |
Common Hoopoe | Species Lump – lifer lost |
| Grey-headed Parrot | Brown-necked Parrot | |
| Agulhas Long Billed Lark | Cape Long-billed Lark | Species lumped |
| Dark-capped Bulbul | Common Bulbul | Species lumped |
| Rock Marting | Large Rock Martin | Species split |
| African Reed Warbler | Common Reed Warbler | Species Lumped |
| Lazy Cisticola | Rock Loving Cisticola | Species split |
| Green-backed Camaroptera
Grey-backed Camaroptera |
Bleating Camaroptera | Species Lumped – Lifer Lost |
| Chestnut-vented Tit-babbler | Chestnut-vented Warbler | |
| Layard’s Tit-babbler | Layard’s Warbler | |
| Cape Glossy Starling | Cape Starling | |
| Mountain Wheatear | Mountain Chat | |
| Scaly-feathered Finch | Scaly-feathered Weaver | |
| Yellow Weaver | Eastern Golden Weaver | |
| Golden Weaver | Holub’s Golden Weaver | |
| Red-backed Mannikin | Black-and-white Mannikin | |
| Indian Jungle Crow | Large-billed Crow | Species Lumped – Lifer Lost |
| Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch | Indian Nuthatch | Species corrected |
| Germaine’s Swiftlet | Edible Nest Swiftlet | Species lumped – Lifer Lost |
| Cave Swiftlet | Linchi Swiftlet | |
| Malaysian Pied Fantail | Sunda Pied Fantail | |
| Black-crested Bulbul | Ruby-throated Bulbul | Species corrected |