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1 BIRD LIST Nxamaseri Island Lodge Date: Apalis Yellow breasted Avocet Babbler Arrowmarked Hartlaubs Tit Barbet collared Crested Yellow fronted tinker Batis Chinspot (whiteflanked) Bee-eater Blue cheeked Carmine Olive Swallowtailed fronted Bishop - Golden Red Redheaded Bittern Dwarf ( Rail Heron) Broadbill African Bulbul eyed Redeyed Terrestrial Yellowbellied Bunting Goldenbreasted Larklike Rock Bustard Kori Stanley s Buzzard Honey Lizard Steppe Cisticola - backed Chirping Desert Fantailed Neddicky Rattling Redfaced Tinkling Coot Redknobbed Cormorant Reed breasted Coucal Burchell s Copperytailed Senegal browed Courser - Bronzewinged Doublebanded Temminck s Threebanded Crake African Baillon s Corncrake Spotted Crane Crowned Crombec Longbilled Redcapped Redfaced Crow 1

2 Canary eared Cuckoo African throated Bully Diederick throated Emerald Yelloweyed Chat Anteating Great spotted Arnot s Jacobin - Capped wheatear Klaas s - Stone Redchested Dikkop Spotted (Cape) Striped - Water Cuckoo Shrikes Dove Cape Turtle breasted Greenspotted Curlew Laughing Darter Mourning Finchlark - backed Namaqua Finfoot African Redeyed Firefinch Brown Drongo Forktailed Jameson s Duck African Cape Shoveller Flamingo - Greater Fulvous Knobbilled Flufftail Redchested Southern Potchard Flycatcher backed Blue grey faced Marico Pallid Eagle African Fish Paradise African Hawk Spotted Ayre s Francolin Coqui Bateleur Crested breasted Snake Booted Swainson s Brown Snake Gallinules Honey Buzzard Spotted Goose Egyptian Longcrested Pygmy Martial Spurwinged Steppe Goshawk - African Tawny Dark Chanting Wahlberg s Gabar Western Banded Snake Banded (Shikra) Melanistic Gabar Pale Chanting Greenshank Grebe ( Dabchick) Egret Guineafowl - Helmeted Cattle Gulls - headed Great headed Gymnogene Slaty Hammerkop Harriers African Marsh Eremomela Burntnecked Montague s Greencapped Palid Yellowbellied Hawk Bat Falcon African Hobby Cuckoo Hobby Helmetshrike - Lanner Peregrine Heron crowned night 2

3 Rednecked Tiata Finch Cutthroat Melba Quail Scalyfeathered Honeyguide - Greater Sharpbilled Slenderbilled Hoopoe - African wood- Scimitarbilled wood- Hornbill Bradfield s Crowned Ground Trumpeter Ibise Glossy Hadeda Sacred Jacana - African Kestrel Dickinson s Eastern Redfooted Greater Rock (Common) Western Redfooted Kingfisher - Brownhooded Giant hooded Halfcollared Malachite Pygmy Striped Woodland Kite shouldered Korhaan bellied Redcrested Larks Chestnutbacked Finchlark Dusky Fawncoloured Flappet Monotonous Redcapped headed Goliath Greenbacked Rufousbellied Squacco backed night Lourie - Knysna - crested Lovebird - cheeked Martin - Banded Brownthroated House Rock Sand Moorhen Common Mousebird Redfaced Nightingale - Thrush Nightjar - Fierynecked Freckled Mozambique Natal Pennantwinged Rufouscheeked Oriole African Golden headed Golden Osprey Ostrich Owl Barn Barred Giant Eagle Marsh Pearlspotted Pel s Fishing Scops Spotted Eagle faced Wood Oxpecker Parrot Cape (Brownnecked) Meyers Pelicans - Pinkbacked Pendulin Tit Cape Pigeon Green Pipit Buffy Plainbacked Grassveld Tree Pita Angola Shrike - Brubru 3

4 Rufousnaped Sabota Longclaw - Pinkthroated Plover smith Caspian Chestnutbanded Crowned Kittlitz s Longtoed (winged) Ringed crowned fronted Pratincole winged Redwinged (Collared) Rock ( collared) Crimsonbreasted Fiscal headed Bush- Longtailed Orangebreasted Bush Puffback Redbacked Sousa s Southern crowned Southern Boubou Swamp Boubou Tropical Boubou Skimmer African Snipe Ethiopian (East African) Painted Prinia chested Sparrow House - Tawnyflanked headed Pytilia Goldenbacked Yellowthroated Quail Harlequin Sparrowhawk Kurrichane Buttonquail Quelea - Ovambo Rail African Spoonbill African Robin Bearded Starling Burchells Heuglin s Glossy Kalahari Greater Blue-eared browed Longtailed Roller - Broadbilled Plumcoloured Lilacbreasted Stilt Avocet winged Rackettailed Stint - Ruff Stork Abdims(bellied) Sandgrouse - Doublebanded Namaqua Marabou Spotted (Burchell s) Openbilled Yellowthroated Saddlebilled Sandpiper Common Curlew Woolynecked - Green - Marsh Sunbird - Terek Collared - Wood Coppery Secretary Bird Marico Swallow Eastern Sawwing banded Scarletchested Greater striped Shelley s rumped bellied Striped Warbler African Marsh Mosque African Sedge( Rush) Pearlbreasted Barred Redbreasted Bleating throated Cape reed ( Swamp) Wiretailed Marsh Reed 4

5 Sedge Garden Icterine throat Willow Swift Alpine Bohm s(batlike) Spinetail Horus Palm rumped Tchagra crowned Threestreaked Teal Cape Hottentot Tern Caspian Whiskered winged Thrushe Collared Palm Groundscraper Kurrichane Miombo Rock Titbabbler Tit Southern Southern Trogon Narina Turnstone Vulture Cape Hooded Lappetfaced backed headed Wagtail African Cape Yellow Waxbill - cheeked Blue Common Orangebreasted Violeteared Weaver Brownthroated Golden Masked Masked Buffalo Redheaded Spectacled Spotted Backed Thickbilled browed Sparrow- Widow - Redshouldered winged Whimbrel Whydah Broadtailed Paradise Paradise Pintailed Shafttailed -eye - Yellow Widowfinch Steelblue Woodpecker Bearded Bennet s Cardinal Goldentailed Other: 5

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