PEACHFRONT SPEAKS

my south africa bird list

2007-12-06 - 7:07 p.m.

© 2007 by elaine radford

spotted thick-knee, suikerbosrand, south africa

Note: I arranged for a couple days in Johannesburg before and after my trip to Madagascar, and as you will see from my list, I managed to pick up a large number of nice South African birds in the area in a very short amount of time.

1. Little Grebe
2. Great Crested Grebe
3. White-Breasted Cormorant
4. Long-tailed/Reed Cormorant
5. African Darter
6. Gray Heron
7. Black-headed Heron
8. Goliath Heron
9. Purple Heron
10. Black Heron
11. Little Egret
12. Squacco Heron
13. Cattle Egret
14. Black-crowned Night-Heron
15. Little Bittern
16. Yellow-billed Stork
17. Sacred Ibis
18. Hadada Ibis
19. Glossy Ibis
20. African Spoonbill
21. White-faced Whistling-Duck
22. Egyptian Goose
23. Spur-winged Goose
24. Yellow-billed Duck
25. Red-billed Duck
26. Cape Shoveler
27. Southern Pochard
28. Black-shouldered Kite
29. Amur Falcon
30. Gray-winged Francolin
31. Swainson's Spurfowl
32. Helmeted Guineafowl
33. African Purple Swamphen
34. Common Moorhen
35. Red-knobbed Coot
36. Black-winged Stilt
37. Pied Avocet
38. Spotted Thick-knee
39. Blacksmith Plover
40. Crowned Plover
41. Wattled Plover
42. Three-banded Plover
43. African Snipe
44. Marsh Sandpiper
45. Common Greenshank
46. Wood Sandpiper
47. Little Stint
48. Curlew Sandpiper
49. Ruff
50. Whiskered Tern
51. White-winged Tern
52. Rock Dove
53. Speckled Pigeon
54. Ring-necked Dove
55. Laughing Dove
56. Dideric Cuckoo
57. Spotted Eagle-Owl
58. Marsh Owl
59. Little Swift
60. Horus Swift
61. White-rumped Swift
62. Speckled Mousebird
63. Hoopoe
64. Common Scimitar-bill
65. Black-collared Barbet
66. Crested Barbet
67. Red-throated Wryneck
68. Rufous-naped Lark
69. Eastern Long-billed Lark
70. Red-capped Lark
71. Bank Swallow
72. Plain Martin
73. Barn Swallow
74. White-throated Swallow
75. South African Cliff-Swallow
76. Orange-throated Longclaw
77. Grassland Pipit or African Pipit
78. Gray Cuckoo-shrike
79. Red-eyed Bulbul
80. Cape Rock-Thrush
81. Levaillant's Cisticola
82. Neddicky
83. Zitting Cisticola
84. Cloud Cisticola
85. Black-chested Prinia
86. Lesser Swamp-Warbler
87. Willow Warbler
88. Chestnut-Vented Tit-Babbler
89. Fiscal Flycatcher
90. Spotted Flycatcher
91. Cape Robin-Chat
92. African Stonechat
93. Mountain Wheatear
94. Capped Wheatear
95. Familiar Chat
96. Southern Anteater-Chat
97. African Paradise-Flycatcher
98. Cape White-eye
99. Red-backed Shrike
100. Common Fiscal
101. Bokmakierie
102. Pied Crow
103. Common Myna
104. Cape Glossy-Starling
105. African Pied Starling
106. Cape Weaver
107. African Masked-Weaver
108. Red-billed Quelea
109. Yellow-crowned Bishop
110. Red Bishop
111. Fan-tailed Widowbird
112. White-winged Widowbird
113. Red-collared Widowbird
114. Long-tailed Widowbird
115. Cuckoo Finch
116. Violet-eared Waxbill
117. Common Waxbill
118. Pin-tailed Whydah
119. Long-tailed Paradise-Whydah -- female only seen
120. Cinnamon-breasted Bunting
121. Cape Bunting
122. Cape Canary
123. Black-throated Canary
124. Yellow Canary
125. Streaky-headed Seedeater
126. Cape Sparrow

cape glossy-starling

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