P&J's Southern Africa Birdlist

This is a list of the birds we have seen in Botswana, which we will update from time to time. * indicates a bird that we have seen within or immediately adjacent to our yard in Gaborone. Thanks to Karin, Pat and Melinda for inspiration and help with IDs, as well as just plain good company!

African penguin
Africa (jackass) penguin
great crested grebe
black-necked grebe
little grebe(dabchick)
white-breasted cormorant
bank cormorant
cape cormorant
reed cormorant
African darter
great white pelican
pink-backed pelican
goliath heron
purple heron
grey heron
black-headed heron
great (white) egret
little egret
cattle egret
squacco heron
black heron
rufous-bellied heron
black-crowned night heron
green-backed heron
dwarf bitten
black stork
Abdim's stork
white stork
yellow-billed stork
Marabou stork
saddle-billed stork
African open-billed stork
woolly-necked stork
greater flamingo
lesser flamingo
African spoonbill
hammerkop (and nest!)
Hadeda Ibis
southern bald ibis
African sacred Ibis
spur-winged goose
Egyptian goose
South African shelduck
comb (knob-billed) duck
white-faced duck (mawiwi)
African pygmy-goose
southern pochard
yellow-billed duck
Cape shoveler
cape teal
red-billed teal
lappet-faced vulture
white-headed vulture
cape vulture
African white-backed vulture
palm-nut vulture
African fish-eagle
bateleur
brown snake-eagle
black-chested snake-eagle
southern banded snake-eagle
tawny eagle
Verreaux's eagle
martial eagle
Long-crested Eagle
long-crested eagle
African hawk eagle
jackal buzzard
Augur buzzard
steppe buzzard
African harrier-hawk (gymnogene)
southern pale chanting goshawk
black kite
yellow-billed kite
black-shouldered kite
lizard buzzard
pygmy falcon
ovambo sparrowhawk
Gabar goshawk
little sparrowhawk
Lanner falcon
sooty falcon
lesser kestrel
rock kestrel
greater kestrel
red-billed francolin
Swainson's spurfowl (francolin)
cape francolin
natal francolin
crested francolin
Coqui francolin
helmeted guineafowl
crested guineafowl
common ostrich
African finfoot
red-knobbed coot
common moorhen
African purple swamphen (purple gallinule)
black crake
African jacana
lesser jacana
African rail
wattled crane
blue crane
secretarybird
Kori bustard
Ludwig's bustard
Ruppell's korhaan
red-crested korhaan
northern black korhaan
African black oystercatcher
black-winged stilt
pied avocet
common ringed plover
three-banded plover
Kittlitz's plover
chestnut-banded plover
white-fronted plover
crowned lapwing (plover)
long-toed lapwing (plover)
white-crowned lapwing (plover)
Arican wattled lapwing (plover)
blacksmith lapwing (plover)
grey plover
ruff
curlew sandpiper
sanderling
common sandpiper
wood sandpiper
Terek sandpiper
common greenshank
bar-tailed godwit
common whimbrel
Eurasian curlew
greater painted snipe
ruddy turnstone
spotted thick-knee (dikkop)
water thick-knee (dikkop)
double-banded courser
bronze-winged courser
cape (kelp) gull
Caspian tern
African skimmer
grey-headed gull
Hartlaub's gull
swift tern
sandwich tern
Damara tern
white-winged tern
whiskered tern
double-banded sandgrouse
Namaqua sandgrouse
Burchell's sandgrouse
speckled (rock) pigeon
rock dove (feral pigeon)
African mourning dove
red-eyed dove
cape turtle-dove
laughing dove*
African green-pigeon
emerald-spotted wood-dove
tambourine dove
Namaqua dove
grey-headed parrot
Meyer's parrot
grey go-away-bird (lourie)
African cuckoo
black cuckoo
Levaillant's (striped) cuckoo
Jacobin cuckoo
Diderick (Diederik) cuckoo
coppery-tailed coucal
Burchell's coucal
white-browed coucal
Senegal coucal
Verreaux's (giant) eagle-owl
Pel's fishing-owl
spotted eagle-owl
marsh owl
pearl-spotted owlet
African scops-owl
fiery-necked nightjar
rufous-cheeked nightjar
white-rumped swift
African palm-swift
red-faced mousebird
speckled mousebird
white-backed mousebird
giant kingfisher
pied kingfisher
half-collared kingfisher
malachite kingfisher
woodland kingfisher
brown-hooded kingfisher
grey-headed kingfisher
striped kingfisher
European bee-eater
blue-cheeked bee-eater
white-fronted bee-eater
southern carmine bee-eater
swallow-tailed bee-eater
little bee-eater
lilac-breasted roller
purple roller
broad-billed roller
southern ground-hornbill
trumpeter hornbill
Bradfield's hornbill
crowned hornbill
African grey hornbill
southern yellow-billed hornbill
red-billed hornbill
green (red-billed) wood hoopoe*
violet wood-hoopoe
common (greater) scimitarbill
African hoopoe*
black-collared barbet
white-eared barbet
crested barbet
acacia pied barbet
ground woodpecker
olive woodpecker
cardinal woodpecker
golden-tailed woodpecker
bearded woodpecker
Knysna woodpecker
dune lark
Sabota lark
fawn-colored lark
rufous-naped lark
Stark's lark
grey-backed sparrowlark (finchlark)
Gray's lark
spike-heeled lark
red-breasted swallow
South African cliff-swallow
lesser striped swallow
barn (European) swallow
wire-tailed swallow
pearl-breasted swallow
black saw-wing (swallow)
brown-throated martin
rock martin
fork-tailed drongo*
square-tailed drongo
black cuckooshrike
African golden oriole
(eastern) black-headed oriole*
white-necked raven
pied crow
Cape (black) crow
southern black tit
arrow-marked babbler
Hartlaub's babbler
southern pied babbler
Cape bulbul
African red-eyed bulbul*
dark-capped (blackeyed) bulbul
(African) yellow-bellied greenbul (bulbul)
Karoo thrush
kurrichane thrush*
groundscraper thrush
short-toed rock-thrush
familiar chat
Karoo chat
tractrac chat
mountain wheatear (chat)
capped wheatear
African (common) stonechat
southern anteating chat
mocking cliff-chat
Chorister robin-chat
red-capped robin-chat
Cape robin-chat
white-browed robin-chat (Heuglin's robin)
African white-throated robin-chat*
Kalahari scrub-robin
yellow-bellied eromomela
great reed-warbler
Cape grassbird
green-backed camaroptera (bleating warbler)
grey-backed camaroptera (bleating warbler)
chestnut-vented tit-babbler
long-billed crombec
yellow-breasted apalis
bar-throated apalis
zitting (fantailed) cisticola
tinkling cisticola
rattling cisticola
rufous-eared warbler
tawny-flanked prinia
black-chested prinia
African dusky flycatcher
ashy flycatcher
fiscal flycatcher
Marico flycatcher
African paradise flycatcher
Cape white-eye
Orange river white-eye
pririt batis
chinspot batis
Cape wagtail
African pied wagtail
African pipit
crimson-breasted shrike
magpie (African long-tailed) shrike
red-backed shrike
lesser grey shrike
common fiscal (fiscal shrike)
southern boubou
black-crowned tchagra
grey-headed bush-shrike*
Bokmakierie
gorgeous bush-shirke
orange-breasted bush-shrike
white-crested helmet-shrike
white-tailed shrike
southern white-crowned shrike
brubru
black-backed puffback
greater blue-eared starling
Cape glossy starling
violet-backed (plumcoloured) starling
Burchell's starling
Meve's (longtailed) starling
pale-winged starling
red-winged starling
common myna*
common (European) starling
(African) pied starling
red-billed oxpecker
yellow-billed oxpecker
Cape sugarbird
malachite sunbird
orange-breasted sunbird
scarlet-chested sunbird
Amethyst (African black) sunbird
collared sunbird
white-bellied sunbird*
dusky sunbird
greater double-collared sunbird
southern (lesser) double-collared sunbird
Marico sunbird
great sparrow
house sparrow*
Cape sparrow
southern grey-headed sparrow
red-billed buffalo-weaver
white-browed sparrow-weaver
thick-billed weaver
sociable weaver
village weaver
southern masked-weaver
red-headed weaver
golden weaver
red-billed Quelea
southern red bishop
shaft-tailed wydah
long-tailed (eastern) paradise-wydah
Jameson's firefinch
violet-eared waxbill
black-faced (blackcheeked) waxbill
common waxbill
blue waxbill
red-headed finch
scaly-feathered finch
green-winged pytilia (melba finch)
African Quailfinch
yellow canary
brimstone canary
yellow-fronted canary
black-headed canary
white-throated canary
cinnamon-breasted bunting
golden-breasted bunting
lark-like bunting
cape bunting
Martial eagle on the road to Kasane









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