ZABIRDSTUFF bird checklistsMagoebaskloof Area Bird Checklist

This Checklist includes only species regularly recorded or reasonably expected to occur. Vagrants and rarities are excluded. Numbers and letters after each species indicate relative likelihood that a birder will record them in a short visit.

3 = quite likely - regularly recorded or common.
2 = less likely but still regular, can be expected to be recorded at least once a week.
1 = more infrequently recorded - should be looked for.
S = summer visitor

NOTE: this is a rough guide only ! It is dependent on conditions and habitats visited

8 Dabchick  3        378 Black Cuckoo 2S 657 Bleating Warbler 2
55 White-breasted Cormorant 2 384 Emerald Cuckoo 2 661 Grassbird 2
58 Reed Cormorant 3 391 Burchell's Coucal 2 664 Fantailed Cisticola 2
62 Grey Heron 2 394 Wood Owl 1 674 Redfaced Cisticola 2
63 Black Headed Heron 2 412 Black Swift 2 677 Levaillant's Cisticola 2
65 Purple Heron 1 417 Little Swift 3 679 Lazy Cisticola 2
71 Cattle Egret 2 424 Speckled Mousebird 3 683 Tawnyflanked Prinia 3
94 Hadedah 3 426 Redfaced Mousebird 3 690 Dusky Flycatcher 3
99 Whitefaced Duck 2 427 Narina Trogon 2 691 Bluegrey Flycatcher 1
105 Black Duck 2 428 Pied Kingfisher 2 700 Cape Batis 3
126 Yellowbilled Kite 3S 429 Giant Kingfisher 2 708 Bluemantled Flycatcher 2
127 Blackshouldered Kite 3 435 Brownhooded Kingfisher 2 712 Longtailed Wagtail 3
129 Bat Hawk 1 438 European Bee-eater 2S 713 Cape Wagtail 2
139 Longcrested Eagle 2 451 Hoopoe 3 720 Striped Pipit 3
140 Martial Eagle 1 452 Redbilled Hoopoe 2 732 Fiscal Shrike 3
141 Crowned Eagle 2 475 Scalythroated Honeyguide 2 736 Southern Boubou 2
148 Fish Eagle 2 476 Lesser Honeyguide 1 740 Puffback Shrike 3
149 Steppe Buzzard 3S 488 Olive Woodpecker 3 749 Blackfronted Bush Shrike 2
150 Forest Buzzard 2 518 European Swallow 3S 750 Olive Bush Shrike 2
152 Jackall Buzzard 2 520 Whitethroated Swallow 2 783 Lesser Doublecollared Sunbird 2
155 Redbreasted Sparrowhawk 1 522 Wiretailed Swallow 2 785 Greater Doublecollared Sunbird 3
160 African Goshawk 2 529 Rock Martin 2 787 Whitebellied Sunbird 1
165 African Marsh Harrier 1 530 House Martin S2 792 Black Sunbird 2
169 Gymnogene 3 536 Black Saw Wing Swallow 3 793 Collared Sunbird 3
181 Rock Kestrel 2 540 Grey Cuckoo Shrike 2 796 Cape White-eye 3
192 Redwinged Francolin 1 542 Square-tailed Drongo 3 804 Greyheaded Sparrow 2
196 Natal Francolin 2 550 Whitenecked Raven 2 807 Thickbilled Weaver 2
203 Helmeted Guineafowl 2 565 Bush Blackcap 1 813 Cape Weaver 2
210 African Rail 1 568 Blackeyed Bulbul 3 816 Golden Weaver 2
213 Black Crake 2 569 Terrestrial Bulbul 2 824 Red Bishop 2
217 Redchested Flufftail 1 570 Yellowstreaked Bulbul 3 827 Yellowrumped Widow 3
218 Buffspotted Flufftail 1 572 Sombre Bulbul 3 831 Redcollared Widow 2
226 Moorhen 2 576 Kurrichane Thrush 2 835 Green Twinspot 1
228 Redknobbed Coot 3 577 Olive Thrush 3 840 Bluebilled Firefinch 3
349 Rock Pigeon 3 579 Orange Ground Thrush 1 846 Common Waxbill 3
350 Rameron Pigeon 3 601 Cape Robin 3 850 Swee Waxbill 2
352 Redeyed Dove 3 606 Starred Robin 2 857 Bronze Mannikin 2
358 Greenspotted Dove 2 616 Brown Robin 1 858 Redbacked Mannikin 2
359 Tambourine Dove 3 635 Cape Reed Warbler 2 869 Yelloweyed Canary 2
360 Cinnamon Dove 2 637 Yellow Warbler 1 872 Cape Canary 2
362 Cape Parrot 2 639 Barratt's Warbler 2 873 Forest Canary 2
370 Knysna Lourie 3 644 Yellowthroated Warbler 2 881 Streakyheaded Canary 2
371 Purple Crested Lourie 2 645 Bar-throated Apalis 3
377 Redchested Cuckoo 2S

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