Etali Bird List. Little Grebe (Dabchick) Pinkbacked Pelican. Whitebreasted Cormorant. Blackheaded Heron

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1 Name Ostrich Little Grebe (Dabchick) Pinkbacked Pelican Whitebreasted Cormorant Reed Cormorant Darter Grey Heron Blackheaded Heron Goliath Heron Purple Heron Little Egret Yellowbilled Egret Black Egret Cattle Egret Squacco Heron Greenbacked Heron Dwarf Bittern Hamerkop White Stork Black Stork Abdim s Stork Status

2 Marabou Stork Yellowbilled Stork Sacred Ibis Glossy Ibis Hadeda Ibis African Spoonbill Whitefaced Duck Fulvous Duck Egyptian Goose South African Shelduck Yellowbilled Duck African Black Duck Hottebtot Teal Redbilled Teal Cape Shovellor Southern Pochard Comb Duck (Knobbilled Duck) Spurwinged Goose Maccoa Duck Secretarybird Cape Vulture African Whitebacked Vulture (Whitebacked Vulture) Lappetfaced Vulture

3 Whiteheaded Vulture Yellow billed Kite Black Kite Blackshouldered Kite Black Eagle Tawny Eagle Steppe Eagle Wahlberg s Eagle Booted Eagle African Hawk Eagle Martial Eagle Brown Snake Eagle Blackchested Snake Eagle (Blackbreasted Snake Eagle) Bateleur Eagle African Fish Eagle Steppe Buzzard Lizard Buzzard Ovambo Sparrowhawk Little Sparrowhawha Shikra Goshawk (Little Banded Goshawk) Gabar Goshawk Pale Chanting Goshawk African Marsh Harrier

4 Montagu s Harrier Pallid African Harrier Hawk (Gymnogene) Peregrine Falcon Lanner Falcon European Hobby Western Redfooted Kestrel Amur Redfooted Falcon (Eastern Redfooted Kestrel) Rock Kestrel Greater Kestrel Lesser Kestrel Coqui Francolin Crested Francolin Natal Francolin Swainson s Spurfowl (Swainso s Francolin) Quail Harlequin Quail Helmeted Guineafowl Kurrichane Buttonquail African Rail Corncrake Black Crack Baillon s Crack

5 Purple Gallinule Moorhen Lesser Moorhen Redknobbed Coot African Finfoot Kori Bustard Redcrested Korhaan Northern Black Korhaan Old World Painted Snipe Ringed Plover Kittlitz s Plover Threebanded Plover Crowned Lapwing (Crowned Plover) Blacksmith Lapwing (Blacksmith Plover) Wattled Lapwing (Wattled Plover) Sandpiper Wood Sandpiper Marsh Sandpiper Greenshank Curlew Sandpiper Little Stilt Ruff Blackwinged Stilt

6 Spotted Thicknee (Potted Dikkop) Temminck s Courser Doublebanded Courser Bronzewinged Courser Blackwinged Pratincole Whitewinged Tern Namaqua Sandgrouse Burchell s Sandgrouse Yellowthroated Sandgrouse Doublebanded Sandgrouse Speckled Pigeon (Rameron Pigeon) African Olive Pigeon (Rameron Pigeon) Redeyed Dove Cape Turtle Dove Laughing Dove Namaqua Dove Greenspotted Dove African Green Pigeon Meyer s Parrot Go- Away Bird (Grey Lourie) Cuckoo (Eurasian Cuckoo) African Cuckoo Redchested Cuckoo

7 Black Cuckoo Great Spotted Cuckoo Striped Cuckoo Jacobin Cuckoo Klaas s Cuckoo Diderik Cuckoo Burchell s Coucal Barn Owl Marsh Owl Scops Owl Whitefaced Scops Owl (Whitefaced Owl) Pearlspotted Owlet (Pearlspotted Owl) Spotted Eagle Owl Vereaux s Eagle Owl (Giant Eagle Owl) European Nightjar Fierynecked Nightjar Rufouscheeked Nightjar Freckled Nightjar African Black Swift Swift (European Swift) Whiterumped Swift Little Swift Alpine Swift

8 Palm Swift Whitebacked Mousebird Redfaced Mousebird Pied Kingfisher Giant Kingfisher Malachite Kingfisher Woodland Kingfisher Brownhooded Kingfisher Striped Kingfisher European Bee- eater Bluecheeked Bee- eater Carmine Bee- eater Little Bee- eater Swallowtailed Bee- eater European Roller Lilacbreaster Roller Purple Roller African Hoopoe Redbilled Hoopoe Scimitarbilled Hornbill (Greater Scimiter Hoepoe) Grey Hornbill Redbilled Hornbill Southern Yellow billed Hornbill

9 Blackcollared Barbet Acacia Pied Barbet Yellowfronted Tinker Barbet Crested Barbet Greater Honeyguide Lesser Honeyguide Brownbacked Honeybird (Sharpbilled Honeyguide) Bennett s Woodpecker Goldentailed Woodpecker Cardinal Woodpecker Bearded Woodpecker Monotonous Lark Rufousnaped Lark Flappet Lark Sabota Lark Dusky Lark Redcapped Lark Pinkbilled Lark Chestnutbacked Sparrowlark (Chestnutbacked finchlark) Greybacked Sparrowlark (Greybacked Finchlark) Barn Swallow Whitethroated Swallow Pearlbreasted Swallow

10 Redbreasted Swallow Greater Striped Swallow Lesser Striped Swallow South African Cliff Swallow Rock Martin House Martin Sand Martin Brownthroated Martin Black Cuckooshrike Forktailed Drongo European Golden Oriole Blackheaded Oriole Black Crow Pied Crow Ashy Tit Southern Black Tit Cape Penduline Tit Arrowmarked Babbler Pied Babbler Darkcapped Bulbul (Blackeyed Bulbul) Kurrichane Thrush Olive Thrush Groundscraper Thrush

11 Cape Rockthrush Shorttoed Rockthrush Capped Wheatear Familiar Chat Mocking Chat Southern Anteating Chat (Anteating Chat) Stonechat Whitethroated Robin Chat (Whitethroated Robin) Whitebrowed Scrub Robin (Whitebrowed Robin) Kalahari Scrub Robin (Kalahari Robin) Garden Warbler Whitethroat Chestnutvented Titbabbler Icterine Warbler Olivetree Warbler Great Reed Warbler African Marsh Warbler European Marsh Warbler European Sedge Warbler African Sedge Warbler Willow Warbler Barthroated Apallis Longbilled Crombec

12 Yellowbllied Eremomela Burntnecked Eremomela Greybacked Bleating Warbler African Barred Warbler Zitting Cisticola (Fantailed Cisticola) Desert Cisticola Tinkling Cisticola Rattling Cisticola Lazy Cisticola Neddicky Tawnyflanked Prinia Blackchested Prinia Spotted Flycatcher Greytit Flycatcher (Fantailed Flycatcher) Southern Black Flycatcher Marico Flycatcher Fiscal Flycatcher African Pipit (African Pipit) Longbilled Pipit Buffy Pipit Bushveld Pipit Lesser Grey Shrike Fiscal Shrike

13 Redbacked Shrike MagpieShrike (Afrcan Longtailed Shrike) Southern Boubou Crimsonbreasted Shrike Blackbacked Puffback Brubru Browncrowned Tchagra Blackcrowned Tchagra Greyheaded Bush Shrike White Helmetshrike Whitecrowned Shrike Wattled Starling Violetback Starling (Plumcoloured Starling) Burchell s Starling Cape Glossy Starling (Glossy Starling) Redwinged Starling Redbilled Oxpecker Marico Sunbird Whitebellied Sunbird Amethyst Sunbird (African Black Sunbird) Cape White- eye Redbilled Buffalo Weaver Whitebrowed Sparrowweaver

14 House Sparrow Great Sparrow Cape Sparrow Greyheaded Sparrow Yellowthroated Petronia (African Yellowthroated Sparrow) Scalyfeathered Finch Masked Weaver Redheaded Weaver Redbilled Quelea Golden Bishop Whitewinged Widow Bird Greenwinged Pytilia (Melba Finch) Jameson s Firefinch Blue Waxbill Violeteared Waxbill Waxbill Blackfaced Waxbill Quail Finch Cutthroat Finch Redheaded Finch Pintailed Whydah Shafttailed Whydah Longtailed Paradise Whydah (Paradise Whydah)

15 Dusky Indigo Bird (Black Widowfinch) Purple Indigo Bird (Purple Windowfinch) Village Indigo Bird (Steelblue Windowfinch) Yelloweyed Canary Blackthroated Canary Streakyheaded Seedeater (Streakyhead Canary) Goldenbreasted Bunting Cape Bunting Cinnamon Breasted Bunting Larklike Bunting

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