Bird Life South Africa

Bird Species Spotted at The Rest

(compiled by the regional Birdlife SA members’ group)

A

Bar-throated Apalis
Yellow-breasted Apalis

B

Arrow-marked Babbler
Black-collared Barbet
Crested Barbet
Chinspot Batis
European Bee-eater
Little Bee-eater
White-fronted Bee-eater
Southern Red Bishop
Southern Boubou
Terrestrial Brownbul
Brubru
Dark-capped Bulbul
Cinnamon-breasted Bunting
Gorgeous Bushshrike
Grey-headed Bushshrike
Olive Bushshrike
Orange-breasted Bushshrike
Kurrichane Buttonquail
Common Buzzard

C

Green-backed Camaroptera
Brimstone Canary
Yellow-fronted Canary
Familiar Chat
Mocking Cliff Chat
Lazy Cisticola
Red-faced Cisticola
Reed Cormorant
Burchell’s Coucal
Black Crake
Long-billed Crombec
African Cuckoo
Black Cuckoo
Diederik Cuckoo
Klaas’s Cuckoo
Levaillant’s Cuckoo
Red-chested Cuckoo
Black Cuckooshrike

D

Emerald-spotted Wood Dove
Laughing Dove
Red-eyed Dove
Tambourine Dove
Fork-tailed Drongo

E

African Fish Eagle
Long-crested Eagle
Western Cattle Egret

F

Cut-throat Finch
African Firefinch
Common Fiscal
Buff-spotted Flufftail
African Dusky Flycatcher
African Paradise Flycatcher
Ashy Flycatcher
Grey Tit-flycatcher
Southern Black Flycatcher
Spotted Flycatcher

G

African Goshawk
Cape Grassbird
Little Grebe
Sombre Greenbul
Helmeted Guineafowl

H

Hamerkop
African Harrier-hawk
Purple Heron
Brown-backed Honeybird
Lesser Honeyguide
Scaly-throated Honeyguide
African Hoopoe
Trumpeter Hornbill

I

Hadeda Ibis
Dunsky Indigobird
Village Indigobird

J

African Jacana

K

Brown-hooded Kingfisher
Giant Kingfisher
Malachite Kingfisher
Pied Kingfisher
Woodlands Kingfisher
Yellow-billed Kite
Black Shoulder Kite

L

Yellow-throated Longclaw

M

Bronze Mannikin
Red-faced Mousebird
Speckled Mousebird
Common Myna

N

Eastern Nicator
Fiery-necked Nightjar
Freckled Nightjar

O

Black-headed Oriole
Spotted Eagle-owl
Western Barn Owl

P

Great White Pelican
African Green Pigeon
Speckled Pigeon
Striped Pipt
Tawny-flanked Prinia
Black-backed Puffback

R

White-browed Scrub-robin
Cape Robin-chat
Red-capped Robin-chat
White-browed Robin-chat
White-throated Robin-chat

S

Black Saw-wing
Common Scimitarbill
Streaky-headed Seedeater
Red-backed Shrike
House Sparrow
Southern Grey-headed Sparrow
Black Sparrowhawk
Little Sparrowhawk
Natal Spurfowl
Cape Glossy Starling
Red-winged Starling
Violet-backed Starling
African Stonechat
Black Stork
White Stork
Amethyst Sunbird
Collared Sunbird
Greater Double-collared Sunbird
Scarlet-chested Sunbird
White-bellied Sunbird
Barn Swallow
Lesser Striped Swallow
Wire-tailed Swallow
African Palm Swift
Little Swift
White-rumped Swift

T

Black-crowned Tchagra
Groundscraper Thrush
Kurrichane Thrush
Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird
Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird
Southern Black Tit
Purple-crested Turaco

W

Cape Wagtail
African Reed Warbler
Dark-capped Yellow Warbler
Great Reed Warbler
Little Rush Warbler
Marsh Warbler
Willow Warbler
Common Waxbill
African Golden Weaver
Red Headed Weaver
Southern Masked Weaver
Spectacled Weaver
Thick-billed Weaver
Village Weaver
Cape White-eye
Pin-tailed Whydah
Red-collared Widowbird
White winged Widowbird
Green Wood-hoopoe
Bearded Woodpecker
Cardinal Woodpecker
Golden-tailed Woodpecker
Olive Woodpecker
Red-throated Wryneck