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 |
| | 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 Bird | Secretary 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 |
| 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 |
