List of Birds found in the Walter Sisulu NBG

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KEY

COMMON UNCOMMON Rare Visitor
* denotes a migrant species
8 DABCHICK (LITTLE GREBE)
55 Whitebreasted Cormorant
58 REED CORMORANT
60 Darter
62 GREY HERON
63 Blackheaded Heron
65 Purple Heron
71 CATTLE EGRET
72 Squacco Heron*
74 GREENBACKED HERON
76 Blackcrowned Night Heron
79 Dwarf Bittern*
81 HAMERKOP
83 WHITE STORK*
85 Abdims Stork
89 Marabou Stork
91 SACRED IBIS
93 GLOSSY IBIS
94 HADEDA IBIS
95 African Spoonbill
99 Whitefaced Duck
102 EGYPTIAN GOOSE
104 YELLOWBILLED DUCK
105 AFRICAN BLACK DUCK
116 Spurwinged Goose
122 Cape Vulture
126 BLACK KITE*
126 YELLOWBILLED KITE*
127 BLACKSHOULDERED KITE
128 African Cuckoo Hawk (Cuckoo Hawk)
131 VERREAUX'S EAGLE (BLACK EAGLE)
135 WAHLBERGS EAGLE*
136 BOOTED EAGLE*
142 Brown Snake Eagle
143 Black-chested Snake-Eagle (Blackbreasted Snake Eagle)
148 African Fish Eagle
149 STEPPE BUZZARD*
152 JACKAL BUZZARD
156 OVAMBO SPARROWHAWK
157 LITTLE SPARROWHAWK
158 BLACK SPARROWHAWK
159 Shikara (Little Banded Goshawk)
161 GABAR GOSHAWK
169 African Harrier-hawk (Gymnogene)
171 Peregrine Falcon
172 Lanner Falcon
173 African Hobby Falcon* (Hobby Falcon)
180 Amur Falcon* (Eastern Redfooted Kestrel)
181 ROCK KESTREL
182 Greater Kestrel
183 Lesser Kestrel*
188 Coqui Francolin
192 REDWING FRANCOLIN
199 SWAINSONS SPURFOWL (SWAINSON'S FRANCOLIN)
203 HELMETED GUINEAFOWL
226 COMMON MOORHEN (MOORHEN)
228 Redknobbed Coot
225 CROWNED LAPWING (CROWNED PLOVER)
258 BLACKSMITH LAPWING (BLACKSMITH PLOVER)
260 AFRICAN WATTLED LAPWING ( WATTLED PLOVER)
264 Common Sandpiper*
265 Green Sandpiper*
297 SPOTTED THICK-KNEE (SPOTTED DIKKOP)
315 Greyheaded Gull
348 ROCK DOVE (FERAL PIGEON)
349 SPECKLED PIGEON (ROCK PIGEON)
350 AFRICAN OLIVE-PIGEON (RAMERON PIGEON)
352 REDEYED DOVE
354 CAPE TURTLE DOVE
355 LAUGHING DOVE
356 Namaqua Dove
373 GREY GO-AWAY-BIRD (GREY LOURIE)
374 Common Cuckoo* (European Cuckoo)
377 RED-CHESTED CUCKOO*
378 BLACK CUCKOO*
381 Striped Cuckoo*
382 JACOBIN CUCKOO*
385 KLAASS CUCKOO*
386 DIEDERIK CUCKOO*
391 BURCHELLS COUCAL
398 Pearl-spotted Owl
401 SPOTTED EAGLE-OWL
405 FIERY-NECKED NIGHTJAR
406 RUFOUS-CHEEKED NIGHTJAR*
408 FRECKLED NIGHTJAR
411COMMON SWIFT* (EUROPEAN SWIFT)
412 AFRICAN BLACK SWIFT*(BLACK SWIFT)
415 WHITE-RUMPED SWIFT*
416 Horus Swift*
417 LITTLE SWIFT*
418 ALPINE SWIFT*
421 AFRICAN PALM SWIFT (PALM SWIFT)
424 SPECKLED MOUSEBIRD
426 RED-FACED MOUSEBIRD
428 PIED KINGFISHER
429 GIANT KINGFISHER
430 HALF-COLLARED KINGFISHER
431 MALACHITE KINGFISHER
433 Woodland Kingfisher*
435 BROWN-HOODED KINGFISHER
438 EUROPEAN BEE-EATER*
443 White-fronted Bee-eater
444 Little Bee-eater
445 Swallow-tailed Bee-eater
451 AFRICAN HOOPOE
452 GREEN WOOD-HOOPOE (REDBILLED WOODHOOPOE)
457 AFRICAN GREY HORNBILL
464 BLACK-COLLARED BARBET
465 ACACIA PIED BARBET (PIED BARBET)
470 YELLOW-FRONTED TINKERBIRD (YELLOWFRONTED BARBET)
473 CRESTED BARBET

474 GREATER HONEYGUIDE
476 LESSER HONEYGUIDE
478 BROWN-BACKED HONEYGUIDE (SHARPBILLED HONEYGUIDE)
483 GOLDEN-TAILED WOODPECKER
486 CARDINAL WOODPECKER
489 RED-THROATED WRYNECK
518 BARN SWALLOW* (EUROPEAN SWALLOW)
520 WHITE-THROATED SWALLOW*
526 GREATER STRIPED SWALLOW*
527 LESSER STRIPED SWALLOW*
529 ROCK MARTIN
530 COMMON HOUSE-MARTIN* (HOUSE MARTIN)
533 Brown-throated Martin
538 BLACK CUCKOOSHRIKE
541 FORK-TAILED DRONGO
545 BLACK-HEADED ORIOLE
548 PIED CROW
552 ASHY GREY TIT
554 SOUTHERN BLACK TIT
560 ARROW-MARKED BABBLER
568 DARK-CAPPED BULBUL (BLACKEYED BULBUL )
576 KURRICHANE THRUSH
577 KAROO THRUSH (OLIVE THRUSH)
581 CAPE ROCK-THRUSH
583 SHORT-TOED ROCK-THRUSH
589 FAMILIAR CHAT
593 MOCKING CLIFF-CHAT (MOCKING CHAT )
596 AFRICAN STONECHAT (STONECHAT)
601 CAPE ROBIN-CHAT (CAPE ROBIN)
619 GARDEN WARBLER*
621Chestnut-vented Titbabbler (Titbabbler)
631 African Reed-warbler* ( AfricanMarsh Warbler)
638 Little Rush-warbler (African Sedge Warbler)
643 WILLOW WARBLER*
645 BARTHROATED APALIS
651 Longbilled Crombec
661 CAPE GRASSBIRD (GRASSBIRD)
664 ZITTING CISTICOLA (FANTAILED CISTICOLA)
665 Desert Cisticola
670 WAILING CISTICOLA
677 Levaillants Cisticola
679 Lazy Cisticola
681 NEDDICKY
683 TAWNY-FLANKED PRINIA
685 BLACK-CHESTED PRINIA
689 SPOTTED FLYCATCHER*
694 Black Flycatcher
698 FISCAL FLYCATCHER
701 CHINSPOT BATIS
706 FAIRY FLYCATCHER*
710 AFRICAN PARADISE FLYCATCHER* (PARADISE FLYCATCHER)
713 CAPE WAGTAIL
715 Grey Wagtail
716 AFRICAN PIPIT (GRASSVELD PIPIT )
719 Buffy Pipit
720 STRIPED PIPIT
727 CAPE LONGCLAW (ORANGETHROATED LONGCLAW)
732 COMMON SHRIKE (FISCAL SHRIKE)
733 Red-backed Shrike*
736 SOUTHERN BOUBOU
740 BLACK-BACKED PUFFBACK (PUFFBACK)
741 BRUBRU
743 BROWN-CROWNED TCHAGRA (THREESTREAKED TCHAGRA)
744 BLACK-CROWNED TCHAGRA
746 BOKMAKIERIE
751GREY-HEADED BUSH-SHRIKE
753 White-crested Helmetshrike (White Helmetshrike)
758 COMMON MYNA (INDIAN MYNA)
759 PIED STARLING
760 Wattled Starling
761 VIOLET-BACKED STARLING* (PLUMCOLOURED STARLING)
764 CAPE GLOSSY STARLING
769 RED-WINGED STARLING
775 MALACHITE SUNBIRD
779 Marico Sunbird
785 GREATER DOUBLE-COLLARED SUNBIRD
787 WHITE-BELLIED SUNBIRD
792 AMETHYST SUNBIRD (BLACK SUNBIRD)
796 CAPE WHITE-EYE
801 HOUSE SPARROW
803 CAPE SPARROW
804 SOUTHERN GREY-HEADED SPARROW (GREYHEADED SPARROW)
807 Thick-billed Weaver
813 CAPE WEAVER
814 SOUTHERN MASKED WEAVER (MASKED WEAVER)
819 Red-headed Weaver
821 RED-BILLED QUELEA
824 SOUTHERN RED BISHOP (RED BISHOP)
826 Yellow-crowned Bishop (Golden Bishop)
829 WHITE-WINGED WIDOWBIRD
831 REDCOLLARED WIDOWBIRD
840 AFRICAN FIREFRINCH (BLUEBILLED FIREFINCH)
841 Jamesons Firefinch
842 Red-billed Firefinch
844 BLUE WAXBILL
845 Violet-eared Waxbill
846 COMMON WAXBILL
856 Red-headed Finch
857 BRONZE MANNIKIN
860 PIN-TAILED WHYDAH
864 Dusky Indigobird (Black Widowfinch)
867 Village Indigobird (Steelblue Widowfinch)
869 YELLOW-FRONTED CANARY (YELLOWEYED CANARY)
870 BLACK-THROATED CANARY
881 STREAKY-HEADED SEEDEATER (STREAKYHEADED CANARY)
885 CAPE BUNTING
886 CINNAMON-BREASTED BUNTING (ROCK BUNTING)
887 Lark-like Bunting

(Numbers next to each name are from Roberts classic work on SA birds)

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