BIRD DATA

This is work in progress! But it is a start and hopefully with the contributions of volunteers it can grow quickly.
The bird data in the left hand column is arranged in the taxonomic order used by Roberts VI, and in the right column the birds are listed alphabetically using the family name first. To find out about the status of a bird in KNR, click first on its name using either the taxonomic list on the left below, or the alphabetic list on the right.

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indicates data updated   
** indicates new additions

55 White Breasted Cormorant
58 Reed Cormorant
62 Grey Heron
63 Black-headed Heron
67 Little Egret
71 Cattle Egret
74 Green-Backed Heron
81 Hammerkop
83 White Stork (Flying over)
91 Sacred Ibis
93 Glossy Ibis
94 Hadeda Ibis
102 Egyptian Goose
104 Yellow-billed Duck
105 African Black Duck
118 Secretary Bird
126 Black/Yellow-billed Kite
127 Black-shouldered Kite
131 Verreaux's Eagle
149 Steppe Buzzard
152 Jackal Buzzard
159 Shikra
169 African Harrier-Hawk
171 Peregrine Falcon
172 Lanner Falcon
181 Rock Kestrel
181 Cocqui Francolin (heard)
193 Orange River Francolin
199 Swainson's Spurfowl
203 Helmeted Guineafowl
205 Small Buttonquail
226 Common Moorhen
249 Three-banded Plover
255 Crowned Lapwing
258 Blacksmith Lapwing
260 African Wattled Lapwing
264 Common Sandpiper
286 African Snipe
297 Spotted Thick-knee
315 Grey-headed Gull
348 Rock Dove
349 Speckled Pigeon
352 Red-eyed Dove
354 Cape Turtle Dove
355 Laughing Dove
373 Grey Go-away-bird
377 Red-chested Cuckoo
382 Jacobin Cuckoo
386 Diderick Cuckoo
391 Burchell's Coucal
392 Barn Owl
393 Grass Owl
401 Spotted Eagle-Owl
406 Rufous-cheeked Nightjar
411 Common Swift
415 White-rumped Swift
416 Horus Swift
417 Little Swift
421 African Palm-Swift
424 Speckled Mousebird
425 White-backed Mousebird
426 Red-faced Mousebird
429 Giant Kingfisher
430 Half-collared Kingfisher
431 Malachite Kingfisher
435 Brown-hooded Kingfisher
438 European Bee-eater
445 Swallow-tailed Bee-eater
447 Lilac-breasted Roller
451 African Hoopoe
452 Green Wood-Hoopoe
454 Common Scimitarbill
464 Black-collared Barbet *
465 African Pied Barbet *
473 Crested Barbet *
476 Lesser Honeyguide
478 Brown-backed Honeybird
486 Cardinal Woodpecker
489 Red-throated Wryneck
494 Rufous-naped Lark
500 Long-billed lark
506 Spike-heeled Lark
518 Barn Swallow
520 White-throated Swallow
526 Greater Striped Swallow
527 Lesser Striped Swallow
529 Rock Martin
530 Common House Martin
533 Brown-throated Martin
536 Black Saw-wing Swallow
538 Black Cuckooshrike
548 Pied Crow
552 Ashy Tit
568 Dark-capped Bulbul
577.1 Karoo Thrush
581 Cape Rock-Thrush
582 Sentinal Rock-Thrush
586 Mountain Wheatear
587 Capped Wheatear
596 African Stonechat
601 Cape Robin-Chat
619 Garden Warbler
621 Chestnut-vented Tit-Babbler
631 African Reed-Warbler
638 Little Rush-Warbler
625 Icterine Warbler
643 Willow Warbler
645 Bar-throated Apalis
664 Zitting Cisticola
666 Cloud Cisticola
667 Wing-snapping Cisticola
670 Wailing Cisticola
677 Levaillant's Cisticola
681 Neddicky
683 Tawny-flanked Prinia
685 Black-chested Prinia
689 Spotted Flycatcher
694 Southern Black Flycatcher
698 Fiscal Flycatcher
701 Chinspot Batis
706 Fairy Flycatcher
710 African Paradise Flycatcher
713 Cape Wagtail
716 African Pipit
717 Long-billed Pipit
727 Cape Longclaw
732 Common Fiscal
733 Red-backed Shrike
736 Southern Boubou
739 Crimson-breasted
741 Brubru
743 Brown-crowned Tchagra
744 Black-crowned Tchagra
746 Bokmakierie
758 Common Myna
759 Pied Starling
760 Wattled Starling
764 Cape Glossy Starling
769 Red-winged Starling
775 Malachite Sunbird *
787 White-bellied Sunbird
792 Amethyst Sunbird
796 Cape White Eye
801 House Sparrow
803 Cape Sparrow
804 S Grey-headed Sparrow
807 Thick-billed Weaver
813 Cape Weaver
814 Southern Masked Weaver
821 Red Billed Quelea
824 Southern Red Bishop
831 Red-collared Widow Bird
832 Long-tailed Widow Bird
834 Green-winged Pytilia
840 African Firefinch
841 Jameson's Firefinch
842 Red-billed Firefinch
846 Common Waxbill
852 African Quailfinch
854 Orange-breasted Waxbill
856 Read-headed Finch
857 Bronze Mannikin
860 Pin-tailed Wydah
865 Purple Indigobird
869 Yellow-fronted Canary
870 Black-throated Canary
878 Yellow Canary
881 Streaky-headed Seedeater
885 Cape Bunting
886 Cinnamon-breasted Bunting

Apalis. Bar-throated
Barbet, Acacia *
Barbet, Black-collared *
Barbet, Crested *
Batis, Chinspot
Bee-eater, European
Bee-eater, Swallow-tailed
Bishop, Red
Bokmakierie
Boubou, Southern
Brubru,
Bulbul, Dark-capped
Bunting, Cape
Bunting, Cinnamon-breasted
Buttonquail, Kurrichane
Buzzard, Jackal
Buzzard, Steppe
Canary, Black-throated
Canary, Yellow
Canary, Yellow-fronted
Chat, Stone
Cisticola, Cloud
Cisticola, Levaillant's
Cisticola, Rattling
Cisticola, Wailing
Cisticola, Zitting
Cormorant, Reed
Cormorant, White-breasted
Coucal, Burchall's
Crow, Pied
Cuckoo, Diderik
Cuckoo, Jacobin
Cuckoo, Red-chested
Cuckooshrike, Black
Dove, Cape Turtle
Dove, Laughing
Dove, Red-eyed
Dove, Rock
Duck, African Black
Duck, Yellow-billed
Eagle, Verreaux's
Eagle-Owl, Spotted
Egret, Cattle
Egret, Little
Falcon, Lanner
Falcon, Peregrine
Finch, Red-headed
Firefinch, African
Firefinch, Jameson's
Firefinch, Red-billed
Flycatcher, African Paradise
Flycatcher, Fairy
Flycatcher, Fiscal
Francolin, Coqui
Francolin, Orange River
Go-away-bird, Grey
Goose, Egyptian
Guineafowl, Helmited
Gull, Grey-headed
Hamerkop
Harrier-Hawk, African
Heron, Black-headed
Heron, Grey
Heron, Green-backed
Honeybird, Brown-backed
Honeyguide, Lesser
Hoopoe, African
Ibis, Glossy
Ibis, Hadeda
Ibis, African Sacred
Indigobird, Purple
Kestrel, Rock
Kingfisher, Brown-hooded
Kingfisher, Giant
Kingfisher, Half-collared
Kingfisher, Malachite
Kite, Black-shouldered
Kite, Black/Yellow-billed
Lapwing, African Wattled
Lapwing, Blacksmith
Lapwing, Crowned
Lark, Eastern Long-billed
Lark, Rufous-naped
Lark, Spike-heeled
Longclaw, Cape
Mannikin, Bronze
Martin, Brown-throated
Martin, Common House
Marti, Rock
Mousebird, Red-faced
Mousebird, Speckled
Mousebird, White-backed
Myna, Common
Neddicky
Nightjar, Rufous-cheeked
Owl, African Grass
Owl, Barn
Owl, Spotted Eagle-
Pigeon, Speckled
Pipit, African
Pipit, Long-billed
Plover, Three-banded
Prinia, Black-chested
Prinia, Tawny-flanked
Pytilia, Green-winged
Quailfinch, African
Quelia, Red-billed
Robin-Chat, Cape
Rock-Thrush, Cape
Rock-Thrush, Sentinal
Roller, Lilac-breasted
Sandpiper, Common
Scimitarbill, Common
Secretarybird
Seedeater, Streaky-headed
Shikra
(Shrike), Black-backed Puffback
(Shrike), Common Fiscal
Shrike, Crimson-breasted
Shrike, Red-backed
Snipe, African
Sparrow, Cape
Sparrow, House
Sparrow, S. Grey-headed
Spurfowl, Swainson's
Starling, Cape Glossy
Starling, Pied
Starling, Red-winged
Starling, Wattled
Stork, White
Sunbird, Amethyst
Sunbird, Malachite *
Sunbird, White-bellied
Swallow, Barn
Swallow, Black Saw-wing
Swallow, Greater Striped
Swallow, Lessor Striped
Swallow, White-throated
Swift, African Palm-
Swift, Common
Swift, Horus
Swift, White-rumped
Tchagra, Black-crowned
Tchagra, Brown-crowned
Thick-knee, Spotted
Thrush, Karoo
Tit, Ashy
Tit, Southern Black
Tit-Babbler, Chestnut-vented
Wagtail, Cape
Warbler, African Reed-
Warbler, Garden
Warbler, Icterine
Warbler, Little Rush-
Warbler, Willow
Waxbill, Blue
Waxbill, Common
Waxbill, Orange-breasted
Weaver, Cape
Weaver, Southern Masked
Weaver, Thick-billed
Wheatear, Capped
Wheatear, Mountain
White-eye, Cape
Whydah, Pin-tailed
Widowbird, Long-tailed
Widowbird, Red-collared
Wood-Hoopoe, Green
Woodpecker, Cardinal
Wryneck, Red-throated

 

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Brown-hooded Kingfisher
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