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Sal's Life List (1 Viewer)

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This list is all of birds seen in South Africa. It was started in July 1985 and is recorded in the order as set down in Roberts' VII Bird List.

The Roberts book referred to is Roberts Birds of Southern Africa (VII Edition), edited by Phil Hockey, Richard Dean and Peter Ryan. This is a wonderful reference book but is a bit heavy for a field guide. For the latter I use Newman's Birds of Southern Africa (by Kenneth Newman) and the SASOL Birds of Southern Africa (Ian Sinclair, Phil Hockey and Warwick Tarboton).

1 Common Ostrich
2 Coqui Francolin
3 Crested Francolin
4 Shelley's Francolin
5 Red-billed Spurfowl
6 Natal Spurfowl
7 Red-necked spurfowl
8 Swainson's Spurfowl
9 Crested Guineafowl
10 Helmeted Guineafowl
11 White-faced Duck
12 Egyptian Goose
13 South African Shelduck
14 Spur-winged Goose
15 Comb Duck
16 African Pygmy-goose
17 Cape Teal
18 African Black Duck
19 Mallard
20 Yellow-billed Duck
21 Cape Shoveler
22 Red-billed Teal
23 Hottentot Teal
24 Southern Pochard
25 Kurrichane Buttonquail
26 Scaly-throated Honeygiude
27 Greater Honeyguide
28 Lesser Honeyguide
29 Red-throated Wryneck
30 Bennett's Woodpecker
31 Golden-tailed Woodpecker
32 Cardinal Woodpecker
33 Bearded Woodpecker
34 Olive Woodpecker
35 White-eared Barbet
36 Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird
37 Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird
38 Red-fronted Tinkerbird
39 Acacia Pied Barbet
40 Black-collared Barbet
41 Crested Barbet
42 Red-billed Hornbill
43 Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill
44 Crowned Hornbill
45 African Grey Hornbill
46 Trumpeter Hornbill
47 Southern Ground Hornbill
48 African Hoopoe
49 Green Wood-Hoopoe
50 Common Scimitarbill
51 Narina Trogon
52 European Roller
53 Lilac-breasted Roller
54 Purple Roller
55 Malachite Kingfisher
56 African Pygmy-Kingfisher
57 Grey-headed Kingfisher
58 Woodland Kingfisher
59 Mangrove Kingfisher
60 Brown-hooded Kingfisher
61 Striped Kingfisher
62 Giant Kingfisher
63 Pied Kinfisher
64 White-fronted Bee-eater
65 Little Bee-eater
66 Swallow-tailed Bee-eater
67 European Bee-eater
68 Southern Carmine Bee-eater
69 White-backed Mousebird
70 Speckled Mousebird
71 Red-faced Mousebird
72 Jacobin Cuckoo
73 Levaillant's Cuckoo
74 Great Spotted Cuckoo
75 Red-chested Cuckoo
76 African Cuckoo
77 Klaas's Cuckoo
78 African Emerald Cuckoo
79 Diderick Cuckoo
80 Black Coucal
81 Burchell's Coucal
82 Meyer's Parrot
83 Brown-headed Parrot
84 African Palm Swift
85 Alpine swift
86 African Black Swift
87 Little Swift
88 White-rumped Swift
89 Knysna Turaco
90 Purple-crested Turaco
91 Grey Go-away-bird
92 Barn Owl
93 African Scops-Owl
94 Southern White-faced Scops-Owl
95 Cape Eagle-Owl
96 Spotted Eagle-Owl
97 Verreaux's Eagle-Owl
98 Pel's Fishing-Owl
99 African Wood-Owl
100 Pearl-spotted Owlet
101 African Barred Owlet
102 Fiery-necked Nightjar
103 Rock Dove
104 Speckled pigeon
105 African Olive-Pigeon
106 Lemon Dove
107 Laughing Dove
108 African Mourning Dove
109 Cape Turtle-Dove
110 Red-eyed Dove
111 Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove
112 Tambourine Dove
113 Namaqua Dove
114 African Green-Pigeon
115 Denham's Bustard
116 Kori Bustard
117 Red-crested Korhaan
118 Southern Black Korhaan
119 White-bellied Korhaan
120 Black-bellied Korhaan
121 Grey Crowned Crane
122 Blue Crane
123 Wattled Crane
124 African Finfoot
125 Buff-spotted Flufftail
126 African Rail
127 Black Crake
128 African Purple Swamphen
129 Common Moorhen
130 Red-knobbed Coot
131 Namaqua Sandgrouse
132 Double-banded Sandgrouse
133 Burchell's Sandgrouse
134 Common Whimbrel
135 Marsh Sandpiper
136 Common Greenshank
137 Wood Sandpiper
138 Common Sandpiper
139 Sanderling
140 Little Stint
141 Curlew Sandpiper
142 Ruff
143 Greater Painted Snipe
144 African Snipe
145 African Jacana
146 Water Thick-knee
147 Spotted Thick-knee
148 African Black Oystercatcher
149 Black-winged Stilt
150 Pied Avocet
151 Common Ringed Plover
152 Kittlitz's Plover
153 Three-banded Plover
154 Chestnut-banded Plover
155 White-fronted Plover
156 Long-toed Lapwing
157 Blacksmith Lapwing
158 White-crowned Lapwing
159 African Wattled lapwing
160 Senegal Lapwing
161 Black-winged Lapwing
162 Crowned Lapwing
163 Double-banded Courser
164 Bronze-winged Courser
165 Temmink's Courser
166 African Skimmer
167 Kelp Gull
168 Grey-headed Gull
169 Hartlaub's Gull
170 Caspian Tern
171 Whiskered Tern
172 Bat Hawk
173 Black-shouldered Kite
174 Black Kite
175 Yellow-billed Kite
176 African Fish-Eagle
177 Palm-nut Vulture
178 Hooded Vulture
179 White-backed Vulture
180 Cape-Vulture
181 Lappet-faced Vulture
182 White-headed Vulture
183 Black-chested Snake-Eagle
184 Brown Snake-Eagle
185 Southern Banded Snake-Eagle
186 Bateleur
187 African Marsh-Harrier
188 Black Harrier
189 African Harrier-Hawk
190 Lizard Buzzard
191 Dark Chanting Goshawk
192 Southern Pale Chanting Goshawk
193 Gabar Goshawk
194 African Goshawk
195 Shikra
196 Little Sparrowhawk
197 Rufous-chested Sparrowhawk
198 Black Sparrowhawk
199 Steppe Buzzard
200 Augur Buzzard
201 Jackal Buzzard
202 Steppe Eagle
203 Tawny Eagle
204 Lesser Spotted Eagle
205 Verreaux's Eagle
206 African Hawk Eagle
207 Booted Eagle
208 Wahlberg's Eagle
209 Martial Eagle
210 Long-crested Eagle
211 African Crowned Eagle
212 Secretarybird
213 Pygmy Falcon
214 Rock Kestrel
215 Greater Kestrel
216 Dickinson's Kestrel
217 Red-necked Falcon
218 Red-footed Falcon
219 Amur Falcon
220 Lanner Falcon
221 Little Grebe
222 Great Crested Grebe
223 Cape Gannet
224 African Darter
225 Reed Cormorant
226 Whitebreasted Cormorant
227 Cape Cormorant
228 Little Egret
229 Yellow-billed Egret
230 Great Egret
231 Grey Heron
232 Black-headed Heron
233 Goliath Heron
234 Purple Heron
235 Cattle Egret
236 Squacco Heron
237 Striated Heron
238 Black-crowned Night Heron
239 Little Bittern
240 Dwarf Bittern
241 Hamerkop
242 Greater Flamingo
243 Lesser Flamingo
244 Glossy Ibis
245 Hadeda Ibis
246 Sacred Ibis
247 African Spoonbill
248 Great White Pelican
249 Pink-backed Pelican
250 Yellow-billed Stork
251 African Openbill
252 Black Stork
253 Abdim's Stork
254 Woolly-necked Stork
255 White Stork
256 Saddle-billed Stork
257 Marabou Stork
258 Black-headed Oriole
259 Square-tailed Drongo
260 Fork-tailed Drongo
261 Blue-mantled Crested Flycatcher
262 African Paradise-Flycatcher
263 Brubru
264 Black-backed Puffback
265 Black-crowned Tchagra
266 Brown-crowned Tchagra
267 Southern Tchagra
268 Southern Boubou
269 Crimson-breasted Shrike
270 Bokmakierie
271 Orange-breasted Bush-Shrike
272 Olive Bush-Shrike
273 Gorgeous Bush-Shrike
274 Grey-headed Bush-Shrike
275 White-crested Helmet-Shrike
276 Cape Batis
277 Chinspot Batis
278 Pirit Batis
279 Cape Crow
280 Pied Crow
281 White-necked Raven
282 Red-backed Shrike
283 Lesser Grey Shrike
284 Common Fiscal
285 Magpie Shrike
286 Southern White-crowned Shrike
287 Grey Cuckooshrike
288 Black Cuckooshrike
289 Southern Black Tit
290 Ashy Tit
291 Sand Martin
292 Brown-throated Martin
293 Banded Martin
294 Barn Swallow
295 White-throated Swallow
296 Wire-tailed Swallow
297 Pearl-breasted Swallow
298 Greater Striped Swallow
299 Lesser Striped Swallow
300 Red-breasted Swallow
301 Mosque Swallow
302 Rock Martin
303 Common House-Martin
304 Black Saw-wing
305 Dark-capped Bulbul
306 African Red-eyed Bulbul
307 Sombre Greenbul
308 Yellow-bellied Bulbul
309 Terrestrial Brownbul
310 Yellow-streaked Greenbul
311 Eastern Nicator
312 Little Rush-warbler
313 Cape Grassbird
314 European Marsh Warbler
315 Lesser Swamp Warbler
316 Dark-capped Yellow Warbler
317 Yellow-bellied Eremomela
318 Green-capped Eremomela
319 Burnt-necked Eremomela
320 Long-billed Crombec
321 Yellow-throated Woodland Warbler
322 Willow Warbler
323 Broad-tailed Warbler
324 Southern Pied Babbler
325 Arrow-marked Babbler
326 Chestnut-vented Titbabbler
327 African Yellow White-eye
328 Cape White-eye
329 Lazy Cisticola
330 Wailing Cisticola
331 Levaillant's Cisticola
332 Croaking Cisticola
333 Neddicky
334 Zitting Cisticola
335 Tawny-flanked Prinia
336 Black-chested Prinia
337 Drakensberg Prinia
338 Bar-throated Apalis
339 Yellow-breasted Apalis
340 Rudd's Apalis
341 Green-backed Camaroptera
342 Rufous-naped Lark
343 Flappet Lark
344 Sabota Lark
345 Dusky Lark
346 Chestnut-backed Sparrowlark
347 Grey-backed Sparrowlark
348 Red-capped Lark
349 Cape Rock-Thrush
350 Short-toed Rock-Thrush
351 Groundscraper Thrush
352 Kurrichane Thrush
353 Olive Thrush
354 Pale Flycatcher
355 Chat Flycatcher
356 Marico Flycatcher
357 Southern Black Flycatcher
358 Fiscal Flycatcher
359 Spotted Flycatcher
360 African Dusky Flycatcher
361 Ashy Flycatcher
362 Grey Tit-Flycatcher
363 White-starred Robin
364 Cape Robin-Chat
365 White-throated Robin-Chat
366 White-browed Robin-Chat
367 Red-capped Robin-Chat
368 Chorister Robin-Chat
369 Bearded Scrub-Robin
370 Whitebrowed Scrub-Robin
371 Kalahari Scrub-Robin
372 Karoo Scrub-Robin
373 African Stonechat
374 Buff-streaked Chat
375 Mountain Wheatear
376 Karoo Chat
377 Familiar Chat
378 Anteating Chat
379 Mocking Cliff-Chat
380 Pale-winged Starling
381 Red-winged Starling
382 Cape Glossy Starling
383 Greater Blue-eared Starling
384 Burchell's Starling
385 Violet-backed Starling
386 Pied Starling
387 Wattled Starling
388 Common Myna
389 Red-billed Oxpecker
390 Olive Sunbird
391 Grey Sunbird
392 Amethyst Sunbird
393 Scarlet-chested Sunbird
394 Malachite Sunbird
395 Collared Sunbird
396 Southern Double-collared Sunbird
397 Greater Double-collared Sunbird
398 Variable Sunbird
399 White-bellied Sunbird
400 Dusky Sunbird
401 Purple-banded Sunbird
402 Gurney's Sugarbird
403 Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver
404 Scaly-feathered Finch
405 White-browed Sparrow-Weaver
406 Sociable Weaver
407 Lesser Masked-Weaver
408 Spectacled Weaver
409 Cape Weaver
410 Yellow Weaver
411 Southern Brown-throated Weaver
412 Southern Masked-Weaver
413 Village Weaver
414 Dark-backed Weaver
415 Red-headed Weaver
416 Red-billed Quelea
417 Yellow-crowned Bishop
418 Southern Red Bishop
419 Yellow Bishop
420 Fan-tailed Widowbird
421 White-winged Widowbird
422 Red-collared Widowbird
423 Long-tailed Widowbird
424 Thick-billed Weaver
425 Orange-breasted Waxbill
426 African Quailfinch
427 Red-headed Finch
428 Swee Waxbill
429 Green Twinspot
430 Grey Waxbill
431 Common Waxbill
432 Violet-eared Waxbill
433 Blue Waxbill
434 Pink-throated Twinspot
435 Green-winged Pytilia
436 Red-billed Firefinch
437 African Firefinch
438 Jameson's Firefinch
439 Bronze Mannikin
440 Red-backed Mannikin
441 Village Indigobird
442 Dusky Indigobird
443 Shaft-tailed Whydah
444 Pin-tailed Whydah
445 Long-tailed Paradise-Whydah
446 House Sparrow
447 Cape Sparrow
448 Southern Grey-headed Sparrow
449 Yellow-throated Petronia
450 African Pied Wagtail
451 Cape Wagtail
452 Mountain Wagtail
453 Yellow-throated Longclaw
454 Cape Longclaw
455 African Pipit
456 Plain-backed Pipit
457 Long-billed Pipit
458 Black-throated Canary
459 Yellow-fronted Canary
460 Yellow Canary
461 Brimstone Canary
462 Streaky-headed Seedeater
463 Drakensberg Siskin
464 Lark-like Bunting
465 Cinnamon-breasted Bunting
466 Cape-Bunting
467 Golden-breasted Bunting
468 Bald Ibis (August 2007)
469 Cape Gannet
 
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