Bird Checklist
with Steve Rooke and James Wolstencroft as leaders
- Column B: Number of days this species was seen on the 2011 tour
- Column C: Maximum daily count for this species on the 2011 tour
- Column D: H = Heard only; E = Extension only
| NC | B | C | D | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Common Ostrich | 8 | 50 | Struthio camelus | ||
| Little Grebe | 3 | 200 | Tachybaptus ruficollis | ||
| Pink-backed Pelican | 2 | 14 | Pelecanus rufescens | ||
| Great Cormorant | 7 | 5 | Phalacrocorax carbo | ||
| Long-tailed Cormorant | 5 | 8 | Phalacrocorax africanus | ||
| African Darter | 1 | 2 | Anhinga rufa | ||
| Black-crowned Night-Heron | 2 | 2 | Nycticorax nycticorax | ||
| Cattle Egret | 11 | 200 | Bubulcus ibis | ||
| Little Egret | 2 | 30 | Egretta garzetta | ||
| Black Heron | 1 | 1 | Egretta ardesiaca | ||
| Squacco Heron | 2 | 1 | Ardeola ralloides | ||
| Striated Heron | 2 | 2 | Butorides striatus | ||
| Yellow-billed (Intermediate) Egret | 2 | 1 | Mesophoyx intermedia | ||
| Great Egret | 1 | 2 | Casmerodius albus | ||
| Grey Heron | 4 | 4 | Ardea cinerea | ||
| Goliath Heron | 1 | 1 | Ardea goliath | ||
| Black-headed Heron | 9 | 15 | Ardea melanocephala | ||
| Hamerkop | 4 | 6 | Scopus umbretta | ||
| White Stork | 4 | 150 | Ciconia ciconia | ||
| Abdim's Stork | 4 | 500 | Ciconia abdimii | ||
| Saddle-billed Stork | 2 | 2 | Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis | ||
| Marabou Stork | 8 | 30 | Leptoptilus crumeniferus | ||
| African Open-billed Stork | 3 | 100 | Anastomus lamelligerus | ||
| Yellow-billed Stork | 6 | 4 | Mycteria ibis | ||
| Sacred Ibis | 6 | 80 | Threskiornis aethiopicus | ||
| Hadada Ibis | 5 | 12 | Bostrychia hagedash | ||
| Glossy Ibis | 2 | 20 | Plegadis falcinellus | ||
| African Spoonbill | 2 | 1 | Platalea alba | ||
| Greater Flamingo | 3 | 400 | Phoenicopterus ruber | ||
| Lesser Flamingo | 2 | ?000s | Phoenicopterus minor | ||
| Fulvous Whistling Duck | 1 | 30 | Dendrocygna bicolor | ||
| White-faced Whistling Duck | 2 | 20 | Dendrocygna viduata | ||
| White-backed Duck | 1 | 4 | Thalassornis leuconotus | ||
| Spur-winged Goose | 3 | 20 | Plectopterus gambensis | ||
| Knob-billed Duck (Goose) | 1 | 1 | Sarkidiornis melanotos | ||
| African Black Duck | 1 | 1 | Anas sparsa | ||
| Cape Teal | 1 | 4 | Anas capensis | ||
| Garganey | 1 | 2 | Anas querquedula | ||
| Red-billed Teal | 2 | 6 | Anas erythrorhyncha | ||
| Hottentot Teal | 2 | 5 | Anas hottentota | ||
| Southern Pochard | 1 | 100 | Netta erythrophthalma | ||
| Secretary Bird | 7 | 8 | Sagittarius serpentarius | ||
| Bat Hawk | 1 | 1 | Macheiramphus alcinus | ||
| Black-shouldered Kite | 5 | 3 | Elanus caeruleus | ||
| Yellow-billed Kite | 5 | 20 | Milvus m. parasiticus | ||
| Hooded Vulture | 3 | 5 | Necrosyrtes monachus | ||
| African White-backed Vulture | 9 | 50 | Gyps africanus | ||
| Rüppell's Griffon Vulture | 4 | 20 | Gyps ruepellii | ||
| Lappet-faced Vulture | 8 | 8 | Torgos tracheliotus | ||
| White-headed Vulture | 3 | 2 | Trigonoceps occipitalis | ||
| Black-chested Snake-Eagle | 4 | 3 | Circaetus pectoralis | ||
| Brown Snake Eagle | 4 | 3 | Circaetus cinereus | ||
| Bateleur | 8 | 10 | Terathopius ecaudatus | ||
| African Harrier-Hawk | 5 | 2 | Polyboroides typus | ||
| Pallid Harrier | 6 | 4 | Circus macrourus | ||
| Montagu's Harrier | 10 | 30 | Circus pygarus | ||
| Eurasian Marsh Harrier | 4 | 2 | Circus aeruginosus | ||
| Gabar Goshawk | 2 | 2 | Micronisus gabar | ||
| Dark Chanting Goshawk | 5 | 5 | Melierax metabates | ||
| Eastern Pale Chanting Goshawk | 3 | 1 | Melierax poliopterus | ||
| African Goshawk | 1 | 1 | Accipiter tachiro | ||
| Little Sparrowhawk | 1 | 1 | Accipiter minullus | ||
| Great Sparrowhawk | 2 | 1 | Accipiter melanoleucus | ||
| Common (Steppe) Buzzard | 7 | 3 | Buteo buteo | ||
| Augur Buzzard | 6 | 6 | Buteo augur | ||
| African Fish Eagle | 7 | 2 | Haliaeetus vocifer | ||
| Palm-nut Vulture | 2 | 2 | Gypohierax angolensis | ||
| Lesser Spotted Eagle | 1 | 1 | Aquila pomarina | ||
| Tawny Eagle | 8 | 4 | Aquila rapax | ||
| Wahlberg's Eagle | 1 | 4 | Aquila wahlbergi | ||
| African Hawk-Eagle | 1 | 1 | Hieraaetus spilogaster | ||
| Ayres's Hawk-Eagle | 1 | 2 | Hieraaetus ayresii | ||
| Long-crested Eagle | 3 | 2 | Lophaetus occipitalis | ||
| African Crowned Eagle | 1 | 4 | Stephanoaetus coronatus | ||
| Martial Eagle | 1 | 1 | Polemaetus bellicosus | ||
| Pygmy Falcon | 6 | 6 | Polihierax semitorquatus | ||
| 2 | 1 | 5 | |||
| Sooty Falcon | 1 | 1 | Falco concolor | ||
| Amur Falcon | 1 | 1 | Falco amurensis | ||
| Greater (White-eyed) Kestrel | 1 | 2 | Falco rupicoloides | ||
| Grey Kestrel | 2 | 1 | Falco ardosiaceus | ||
| Lesser Kestrel | 8 | ?00s | Falco naumanni | ||
| Mountain' Kestrel | 2 | 1 | Falco tinnunculus rufescens | ||
| Coqui Francolin | 5 | 2 | Pternistis coqui | ||
| Crested Francolin | 2 | 6 | Pternistis sephaena | ||
| Hildebrandt's Francolin | 1 | 6 | Pternistis hildebrandti | ||
| Grey-breasted Spurfowl E | 5 | 30 | Pternistis rufopictus | ||
| Yellow-necked Spurfowl | 2 | 30 | Pternistis leucoscepus | ||
| Red-necked Spurfowl | 2 | 4 | Pternistis afer | ||
| Helmeted Guineafowl | 9 | 50 | Numida meleagris | ||
| Black Crake | 4 | 3 | Amaurornis flavirostris | ||
| Common Moorhen | 2 | 4 | Gallinula chloropus | ||
| Red-knobbed Coot | 1 | 200 | Fulica cristata | ||
| Grey Crowned-Crane | 5 | 6 | Balearica regulorum | ||
| Kori Bustard | 4 | 20 | Ardeotis kori | ||
| Crested Bustard | 1 | 1 | Eupodotis ruficrista | ||
| White-bellied Bustard | 3 | 6 | Eupodotis senegalensis | ||
| Black-bellied Bustard | 2 | 4 | Eupodotis melanogaster | ||
| African Jacana | 7 | 15 | Actophilornis africanus | ||
| Greater Painted-snipe | 1 | 2 | Rostratula benghalensis | ||
| Pied Avocet | 1 | 8 | Recurvirostra avosetta | ||
| Black-winged Stilt | 8 | 30 | Himantopus himantopus | ||
| Water Thick-knee | 1 | 6 | Burhinus vermiculatus | ||
| Spotted Thick-knee | 1 | 2 | Burhinus capensis | ||
| Two-banded Courser | 5 | 15 | Rhinoptilus africanus | ||
| Heuglin's Courser | 2 | 2 | Rhinoptilus cinctus | ||
| Temminck's Courser | 1 | 4 | Cursorius temminckii | ||
| Collared Pratincole | 3 | 450 | Glareola pratincola | ||
| Long-toed Plover | 2 | 1 | Vanellus crassirostris | ||
| Blacksmith Plover | 9 | 40 | Vanellus armatus | ||
| Spur-winged Plover | 3 | 6 | Vanellus spinosus | ||
| Senegal Plover | 1 | 20 | Vanellus lugubris | ||
| Black-winged Plover | 3 | 40 | Vanellus melanopterus | ||
| Crowned Plover | 10 | 30 | Vanellus coronatus | ||
| African Wattled Plover | 2 | 2 | Vanellus senegallus | ||
| Ringed Plover | 5 | 25 | Charadrius hiaticula | ||
| Kittlitz's Plover | 2 | 20 | Charadrius pecuarius | ||
| Three-banded Plover | 5 | 2 | Charadrius tricollaris | ||
| White-fronted Plover | 2 | 3 | Charadrius marginatus | ||
| Chestnut-banded Plover | 1 | 18 | Charadrius pallidus | ||
| Lesser (Mongolian) Sandplover | 1 | 1 | Charadrius mongolus | ||
| Caspian Plover | 1 | 30 | Charadrius asiaticus | ||
| Little Stint | 6 | 40 | Calidris minuta | ||
| Curlew Sandpiper | 1 | 1 | Calidris ferruginea | ||
| Ruff | 7 | 40 | Philomachus pugnax | ||
| Common Snipe | 3 | 1 | Gallinago gallinago | ||
| Black-tailed Godwit | 1 | 1 | Limosa limosa | ||
| Marsh Sandpiper | 5 | 1 | Tringa stagnatilis | ||
| Common Greenshank | 5 | 2 | Tringa nebularia | ||
| Green Sandpiper | 2 | 3 | Tringa ochropus | ||
| Wood Sandpiper | 7 | 4 | Tringa glareola | ||
| Common Sandpiper | 6 | 6 | Actitis hypoleucos | ||
| Grey-headed Gull | 2 | 3 | Larus cirrocephalus | ||
| Gull-billed Tern | 7 | 50 | Sterna nilotica | ||
| Little Tern | 2 | 10 | Sternula albifrons | ||
| Whiskered Tern | 3 | ?00s | Chlidonias hybridus | ||
| White-winged Black Tern | 3 | ?00s | Chlidonias leucopterus | ||
| Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse | 3 | 30 | Pterocles exustus | ||
| Black-faced Sandgrouse | 2 | 20 | Pterocles decoratus | ||
| Yellow-throated Sandgrouse | 4 | 200 | Pterocles gutturalis | ||
| African Green Pigeon | 1 | 1 | Treron calva | ||
| Tambourine Dove | 1 | 1 | Turtur tympanistria | ||
| Emerald-spotted Wood Dove | 2 | 1 | Turtur chalcospilos | ||
| Namaqua Dove | 3 | 6 | Oena capensis | ||
| Olive Pigeon | 1 | 4 | Columba arquatrix | ||
| Speckled Pigeon | 2 | 20 | Columba guinea | ||
| Red-eyed Dove | 4 | 8 | Streptopelia semitorquata | ||
| African Mourning Dove | 8 | 20 | Streptopelia decipiens | ||
| Ring-necked Dove | 10 | 50 | Streptopelia capicola | ||
| Dusky Turtle Dove | 2 | 5 | Streptopelia lugens | ||
| Laughing Dove | 7 | 30 | Streptopelia senegalensis | ||
| Brown Parrot | 2 | 2 | Poicephalus meyeri | ||
| African Orange-bellied Parrot | 2 | 6 | Poicephalus rufiventris | ||
| Fischer's Lovebird | 5 | 200 | Agapornis fischeri | ||
| Yellow-collared Lovebird | 2 | 50 | Agapornis personatus | ||
| Hartlaub's Turaco | 1 | 3 | Tauraco hartlaubi | ||
| Bare-faced Go-away-bird | 3 | 10 | Corythaixoides personata | ||
| White-bellied Go-away-bird | 1 | 1 | Corythaixoides leucogaster | ||
| Eastern Grey Plantain-eater | 1 | 2 | Crinifer zonurus | ||
| Black-and-white Cuckoo | 3 | 1 | Oxylophus jacobinus | ||
| Great Spotted Cuckoo | 3 | 2 | Clamator glandarius | ||
| Red-chested Cuckoo | 1 | 2 | Cuculus solitarius | ||
| African Cuckoo | 6 | 10 | Cuculus gularis | ||
| African Emerald Cuckoo | 2 | 1 | H | Chrysococcyx cupreus | |
| Klaas's Cuckoo | 2 | 1 | Chrysococcyx klaas | ||
| Diederik (Didric) Cuckoo | 6 | 2 | Chrysococcyx caprius | ||
| White-browed Coucal | 8 | 5 | Centropus superciliosis | ||
| Black Coucal | 1 | 2 | Centropus grillii | ||
| African Scops Owl | 2 | 2 | Otus senegalensis | ||
| Verreaux's Eagle-Owl | 2 | 1 | Bubo lacteus | ||
| Pearl-spotted Owlet | 4 | 2 | Glaucidium perlatum | ||
| Dusky Nightjar | 1 | 1 | Caprimulgus fraenatus | ||
| Eurasian Nightjar | 2 | 1 | Caprimulgus europeus | ||
| Square-tailed (Mozambique) Nightjar | 1 | 4 | Caprimulgus fossii | ||
| Mottled Spinetail | 2 | 4 | Telacanthura ussheri | ||
| Scarce Swift | 1 | 5 | Schoutedenapus myoptilus | ||
| African Palm Swift | 4 | 12 | Cypsiurus parvus | ||
| Nyanza Swift | 1 | 200 | Apus niansae | ||
| Mottled Swift | 2 | 100 | Apus aequatorialis | ||
| White-rumped Swift | 2 | 4 | Apus caffer | ||
| Horus Swift | 1 | 10 | Apus horus | ||
| Little Swift | 4 | 30 | Apus affinis | ||
| Speckled Mousebird | 8 | 20 | Colius striatus | ||
| Blue-naped Mousebird | 6 | 8 | Urocolius macrourus | ||
| Grey-headed Kingfisher | 5 | 6 | Halcyon leucocephala | ||
| Brown-hooded Kingfisher | 2 | 2 | Halcyon albiventris | ||
| Woodland Kingfisher | 3 | 2 | Halcyon senegalensis | ||
| Striped Kingfisher | 4 | 2 | Halcyon chelicuti | ||
| Malachite Kingfisher | 3 | 3 | Alcedo cristata | ||
| African Pygmy Kingfisher | 1 | 1 | Ispidina picta | ||
| Pied Kingfisher | 3 | 30 | Ceryle rudis | ||
| Eurasian Bee-eater | 5 | 25 | Merops apiaster | ||
| Blue-cheeked Bee-eater | 3 | 12 | Merops persicus | ||
| White-fronted Bee-eater | 2 | 3 | Merops bullockoides | ||
| Little Bee-eater | 9 | 8 | Merops pusillus | ||
Non-Established Exotics |
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| Egyptian Goose | 8 | 100 | Alopochen aegyptiacus | ||