Bird List

Sparrow hawk Crowned crane Falcon

There are over 160 species of migrant and indigenous birds on the Abo Shamani reserve as well as the greater conservancy. There is a project underway to photograph all of the birds of the ranch and the pictures will be added to the site. Listed below are some of the more prominent birds.

Apalis Barthroated Longclaw Orangethroated
Yellowbreasted Yellowthroated
Barbet Blackcollared Lourie Knysna
Redfronted Tinker Manniquin Bronze
Batis Cape Martin Banded
Chinspot Brownthroated
Bee-eater European House
Bishop Red Rock
Bitten Dwarf Sand
Little Moorhen Moorhen
Bokmakierie Bokmakierie Mousebird Speckled
Boubou Southern Redfaced
Bulbul Blackeyed Neddicky Neddicky
Sombre Nightjar European
Terrestrial Fierynecked
Bunting Goldenbreasted Oriole African Golden
Cape Rock Blackheaded
Bustard Stanleys European Golden
Ludwigs Osprey Osprey
Buzzard Forest Ostrich Ostrich
Jackal Owl Barn
Steppe Barred
Canary Bully Cape Eagle
Cape Giant Eagle
Forest Grass
Streakyheaded Marsh
Yelloweyed Scops
Chat Anteating Spotted Eagle
Familiar Wood
Mocking Pigeon Rameron
Stone Rock Pigeon
Cisticola Cloud Pipit Plainbacked
Fantailed Richard's
Lazy Plover Blacksmith's
Levaillants Blackwinged
Coot Redknobbed Crowned
Cormorant Cape Kittlitzs
Reed Ringed
Whitebreasted Threebanded
Coucal Burchell's White Fronted
Crake Baillons Pochard Southern
Black Prinia Spotted
Crane Crowned Tawny Flanked
Crow Black Quail Common
Pied Quelea Red Billed
Cuckoo Black Rail African
Diederik Raven Whitenecked
white stork Cape eagle owl Ground hornbill
Jacobin Robin Brown
Klaas Cape
Redchested Chorister
Cuckoo-shrike Black Starred
Grey Whitebrowed
Dabchick Cape Ruff Ruff
Darter African Sandpiper Common
Dikkop Spotted Curlew
Water Marsh
Dove Cape Turtle Terek
Cinnamon Wood
Greenspotted Secretary BirdSecretary Bird
Laughing Shelduck South African
Namaqua Shoveller Cape
Redeyed Turtle Shrike Boubou
Tambourine Common Fiscal
Drongo Forktail Grey Headed
Duck African Black Olive Bush
Fulvous Orange Breasted Bush
Maccoa Puffback
Whitebacked Red Backed
Whitefaced Snipe Ethiopian
Yellowbilled Sparrow Cape
Eagle African Fish Greyhead
Booted House
Crowned Yellowthroated
Loncrested Sparrowhawk Black
Martial Little
Egret Cattle Spoonbill African
Great White Starling Black Bellied Glossy
Little European
Yellowbilled Glossy
Falcon Eastern Redfooted Pied
Hobby Redwing
Lanner Wattled
Peregrine Stilt Blackwinged
Finch Quail Stint Little
Firefinch Bluebilled Stork Black
Flufftail Buff Spotted White
Flycatcher African Paradise Yellowbilled
Black Saddlebilled
Bluemantled Sunbird Black
Dusky Collared
Fiscal Greater Double-collared
Southern Black Grey
Francolin Greywing Lesser Double-collared
Rednecked Malachite
Redwinged Swallow Black Sawwing
Gallinule Purple European
African fish eagle Sunnbird Peregrine falcon
Goose Egyptian Greater Striped
Spurwinged Lesser Striped
Goshawk African Pearlbreasted
Pale Chanting Whitethroated
Grebe Blacknecked Swift Alpine
Greenshank Greenshank Black
Guineafowl Helmeted Horrus
Gymnogene Gymnogene Little
Hamerkop Hamerkop Whiterumped
Harrier African Marsh Tchagra Black Crowned
Black Southern
Pallid Teal Cape
Hawk Cuckoo Redbilled
Heron Black Crowned Night Tern Whiskered
Blackheaded Thrush Cape Rock
Goliath Olive
Greenbacked Tit Southern Black
Grey Trogon Narina
Purple Wagtail African Pied
Whitebacked Night Cape
Honeyguide Greater Longtailed
Lesser Warbler African Sedge
Scalythroated Bleating
Hoopoe African Cape Reed
Redbilled Wood Europeon
Hornbill Crowned Willow
Trumpeter Waxbill Common
Ibis Glossy Swee
Sacred Weaver Cape
Hadenda Forest
Jacana African Spectacled
Kestrel Rock Spotted-backed
Kingfisher Brownhooded Thickbilled
Giant Yellow
Halfcollared Whimbrel Whimbrel
Malachite White-eye Cape
Pied Whydah Pintailed
Pygmy Widow Longtailed
Kite Blackshouldered Red Collared
Yellowbilled Red Shouldered
Lark Redcapped Yellow Rumped
Rufous-naped Woodpecker Cardinal
Longclaw Orangethroated Knysna
Yellowthroated Olive
Wryneck Red Throated
Malachite African eagle Heron