Southern African photographic yearlist for 2008 - birds
       
Current total - 409      
       
Struthionidae - Ostriches
 

   

Southern Ostrich

       
Numididae - Guineafowl
 

 

 

Helmeted Guineafowl

 

 
 
Phasianidae - Pheasants and Allies
 

 

 

Grey-winged Francolin

Cape Spurfowl

 

 

       
Anatidae - Ducks
 
White-faced Duck White-backed Duck Spur-winged Goose Comb Duck
     

Egyptian Goose

South African Shelduck

Cape Teal

Yellow-billed Duck
       
Cape Shovellor Red-billed Teal Hottentot Teal Southern Pochard
       
   
Mallard Maccoa Duck    
       
Spheniscidae - Penguins
 
     
African Penguin      
 
Diomedeidae - Albatrosses
 
Southern Royal Albatross Northern Royal Albatross Wandering Albatross Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross
       
Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross Grey-headed Albatross Black-browed Albatross Shy Albatross
       
Procellariidae - Petrels and Shearwaters
 
Southern Giant Petrel Northern Giant Petrel Pintado Petrel Antarctic Prion
       
Slender-billed Prion Great-winged Petrel Soft-plumaged Petrel White-chinned Petrel
       
Cory's Shearwater Manx Shearwater Sooty Shearwater Flesh-footed Shearwater
       
     
Great Shearwater      
       
Hydrobatidae - Storm Petrels
 
   
Wilson's Storm Petrel European Storm Petrel    
 
Podicipedidae - Grebes
 

Little Grebe

Great Crested Grebe

Black-necked Grebe

 
Phoenicopteridae - Flamingos
 

   

Greater Flamingo

Lesser Flamingo    
 
Ciconiidae - Storks
 
Yellow-billed Stork Black Stork White Stork Marabou Stork
       
Threskiornithidae - Ibises and Spoonbills
 

Sacred Ibis

Hadeda Ibis

Glossy Ibis

African Spoonbill

 
Ardeidae - Herons and Egrets
 

Black-crowned Night Heron

Squacco Heron

Cattle Egret

Grey Heron

 

Black-headed Heron

Goliath Heron

Purple Heron

Great Egret
       

 

Intermediate Egret

Black Heron

Little Egret  
       
Phaethontidae - Tropicbirds
 
 
Fregatidae - Frigatebirds
 
 
Scopidae - Hamerkop
 
     
Hamerkop      
 
Pelecanidae - Pelicans
 
     
Great White Pelican      
 
Sulidae - Gannets and Boobies
 
     
Cape Gannet      
 
Phalacrocoracidae - Cormorants
 

Reed Cormorant

Crowned Cormorant

Bank Cormorant

White-breasted Cormorant

     

     

Cape Cormorant

     
       
Anhingidae - Darters
 
African Darter      
       
Falconidae - Falcons and Allies
 

Rock Kestrel

Greater Kestrel

Grey Kestrel

Red-necked Falcon

       

 

Amur Falcon

Lanner Falcon Peregrine Falcon  
       
Acciptridae - Hawks, Eagles and Kites
 

Secretarybird

Osprey

Black-shouldered Kite

Black (Yellow-billed) Kite

     
African Fish Eagle White-backed Vulture Cape Vulture Lappet-faced Vulture
     

Brown Snake Eagle

Bateleur

African Marsh Harrier Black Harrier
       

African Harrier Hawk

Southern Pale Chanting Goshawk

Gabar Goshawk African Goshawk
     
Shikra Ovambo Sparrowhawk Black Sparrowhawk Lizard Buzzard
 
Steppe Buzzard Forest Buzzard Augur Buzzard Jackal Buzzard
       
Tawny Eagle Verreaux's Eagle African Hawk Eagle Booted Eagle
       
     
Martial Eagle      
       
Otididae - Bustards
 

Kori Bustard

Denham's Bustard

Karoo Korhaan Ruppell's Korhaan
 

 

Red-crested Korhaan

Southern Black Korhaan

Northern Black Korhaan

 
       
Rallidae - Rails and Allies
 
Black Crake Baillon's Crake Allen's Gallinule African Purple Swamphen
 
   
Common Moorhen Red-knobbed Coot    
       
Heliornithidae - Finfoots
 
 
Gruidae - Cranes
 

 

 

Blue Crane

 

 
Turnicidae - Buttonquails
 
 
Burhinidae - Thick-knees
 

 

Water Thick-knee

Spotted Thick-knee

 
 
Chionididae - Sheathbills and Allies
 
 
Haemotopodidae - Oystercatchers
 

   

African Black Oystercatcher

European Oystercatcher

   
 
Dromadidae - Crab Plover
 
 
Recurvirostridae - Stilts and Avocets
 

 

Black-winged Stilt

Pied Avocet

   
 
Charadriidae - Plovers and Allies
 

Blacksmith Lapwing

Crowned Lapwing

African Wattled Lapwing

American Golden Plover

       

Grey Plover

Common Ringed Plover

Kittlitz's Plover

Three-banded Plover
       

 
White-fronted Plover Chestnut-banded Plover Caspian Plover  
       
Rostratulidae - Painted Snipes
 
 
Jacanidae - Jacanas
 

     
African Jacana      
 
Scolopacidae - Sandpipers and Allies
 

African Snipe Bar-tailed Godwit

Common Whimbrel

Eurasian Curlew

 

Common Redshank

Marsh Sandpiper

Common Greenshank

Wood Sandpiper
       

Terek Sandpiper

Common Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Red Knot
 

Sanderling

Little Stint Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper
       
Curlew Sandpiper

Broad-billed Sandpiper

Ruff Red-necked Phalarope
       
Glareolidae - Coursers and Pratincoles
 

   

Burchell's Courser

Double-banded Courser

   
       
Laridae - Gulls, Terns and Allies
 

Kelp Gull

Grey-headed Gull

Hartlaub's Gull

Common Black-headed Gull
       

Sabine's Gull

Caspian Tern Sandwich Tern

Swift Tern

 

Roseate Tern

Common Tern

Arctic Tern Antarctic Tern
       
Little Tern Damara Tern Whiskered Tern White-winged Tern
       
Stercorariidae - Skuas
 
Subantarctic Skua Pomarine Skua Arctic Skua Long-tailed Skua
 
Pteroclidae - Sandgrouse
 

 

 

Namaqua Sandgrouse

Double-banded Sandgrouse

 

 
Columbidae - Pigeons and Doves
 

Rock Dove

Speckled Pigeon

African Olive Pigeon

African Mourning Dove

     

Red-eyed Dove

Cape Turtle Dove

Laughing Dove

Namaqua Dove

 
     
African Green Pigeon      
       
Psittacidae - Parrots
 

     

Ruppell's Parrot

     
 
Musophagidae - Turacos
 

 

Knysna Turaco

Grey Go-away-bird

 
 
Cuculidae - Cuckoos
 

 

African Cuckoo

Klaas's Cuckoo

Diderick Cuckoo

 

       
Tytonidae - Barn Owls
 
 
Strigidae - Owls
 

African Scops Owl

Southern White-faced Owl

Spotted Eagle Owl African Wood Owl
 
     
Marsh Owl      
       
Caprimulgidae - Nightjars
 
   
Rufous-cheeked Nightjar Freckled Nightjar    
 
Apodidae - Swifts
 

African Palm Swift

Alpine Swift

Common Swift

African Black Swift

 
 
Little Swift Horus Swift White-rumped Swift  
       
Coliidae - Mousebirds
 

Speckled Mousebird

White-backed Mousebird

Red-faced Mousebird

 
Trogonidae - Trogons
 
 
Coraciidae - Rollers
 
   
Lilac-breasted Roller European Roller    
 
Alcedinidae - Kingfishers
 

Grey-hooded Kingfisher

Malachite Kingfisher

Giant Kingfisher

Pied Kingfisher

       
Meropidae - Bee-eaters
 

 

 

Madagascar Bee-eater

European Bee-eater

 

 

       
Upupidae - Hoopoes
 

     

African Hoopoe

     
 
Phoeniculidae - Woodhoopoes
 

 

Violet Woodhoopoe

 

 
 
Bucerotidae - Hornbills
 

African Grey Hornbill

Monteiro's Hornbill

Red-billed Hornbill

Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill

 
Bucorvidae - Ground Hornbills
 
 
Rhamphastidae - Toucans and Barbets
 
   
Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird Acacia Pied Barbet    
       
Indicatoridae - Honeyguides
 
 
Picidae - Woodpeckers
 

 

 

Bennett's Woodpecker

Cardinal Woodpecker

 

 

       
Eurylaimidae - Broadbills
 
 
Pittidae - Pittas
 
 
Platysteiridae - Shrike-Flycatchers, Wattle-eyes and Batises
 

Cape Batis Chinspot Batis

Pririt Batis

White-tailed Shrike

 
Malaconotidae - Helmet-Shrikes, Bush Shrikes and Puffbacks
 

Retz's Helmet-shrike

Bokmakierie

Southern Tchagra

Black-backed Puffback

 

   

Southern Boubou

Swamp Boubou

   
       
Campephagidae - Cuckoo-shrikes
 
 
Laniidae - Shrikes
 

Magpie Shrike

Southern White-crowned Shrike

Lesser Grey Shrike

Common Fiscal

       
Oriolidae - Orioles and Figbirds
 
 
Dicruridae - Drongos
 

   

Fork-tailed Drongo

   
 
Monarchidae - Monarchs
 

   

African Paradise Flycatcher

   
 
Corvidae - Crows, Jays and Allies
 

 

Cape Crow

Pied Crow

White-necked Raven

 

 
Paridae - Tits
 
 
Carp's Tit Grey Tit    
       
Remizidae - Penduline Tits
 
     
Cape Penduline Tit      
 
Hirundinidae - Swallows and Martins
 

Brown-throated Martin Banded Martin Barn Swallow

White-throated Swallow

       

Wire-tailed Swallow

Pearl-breasted Swallow Rock Martin Greater Striped Swallow
       
   
Lesser Striped Swallow Red-breasted Swallow    
       
Alaudidae - Larks
 

Cape Clapper Lark

Eastern Clapper Lark

Sabota Lark

Karoo Long-billed Lark

 

Benguela Long-billed Lark

Karoo Lark Dune Lark Spike-heeled Lark
       

Gray's Lark Red-capped Lark Sclater's Lark Stark's Lark
       
   
Large-billed Lark Grey-backed Sparrow-lark    
       
Cisticolidae - Cisticolas and Allies
 

Grey-backed Cisticola

Le Vaillant's Cisticola

Neddicky Zitting Cisticola
       

Desert Cisticola

Rufous-eared Warbler Tawny-flanked Prinia

Karoo Prinia

       
 
Namaqua Warbler Bar-throated Apalis Grey-backed Camaroptera  
       
Pycnonotidae - Bulbuls
 

African Red-eyed Bulbul

Cape Bulbul

Dark-capped Bulbul

Sombre Greenbul

 

     

Yellow-bellied Greenbul

     
       
Sylviidae - Old World Warblers
 
Victorin's Warbler Little Rush Warbler Cape Grassbird Lesser Swamp Warbler
       
African Reed Warbler Willow Warbler Yellow-bellied Eremomela Long-billed Crombec
       
   
Chestnut-vented Titbabbler Layard's Titbabbler    
       
Timaliidae - Babblers and Parrotbills
 
 
Arrow-marked Babbler Southern Pied Babbler Bare-cheeked Babbler  
       
Chaetopidae - Rockjumpers
 
     
Cape Rockjumper      
 
Zosteropidae - White-eyes
 
     
Cape White-eye      
 
Sturnidae - Starlings and Allies
 

Common Myna

Common Starling

Wattled Starling

Glossy Starling

       

Meve's Starling

Burchell's Starling Violet-backed Starling

African Pied Starling

       
   
Red-winged Starling

Yellow-billed Oxpecker

   
       
Turdidae - Thrushes
 

Groundscraper Thrush

Kurrichane Thrush Olive Thrush

Karoo Thrush

 
Muscicapidae - Old World Flycatchers and Allies
 

Cape Robin-chat White-throated Robin-chat

Rufous-tailed Palm Thrush

Kalahari Scrub Robin

       

Karoo Scrub Robin

Herero Chat

African Stonechat

Capped Wheatear

       

Mountain Wheatear Sickle-winged Chat Karoo Chat

Tractrac Chat

   

Familiar Chat

Southern Ant-eating Chat Cape Rock Thrush Short-toed Rock Thrush
       
Southern Black Flycatcher Marico Flycatcher Fiscal Flycatcher Spotted Flycatcher
       
   
African Dusky Flycatcher Fairy Flycatcher    
       
Nectariniidae - Sunbirds
 

Orange-breasted Sunbird Amethyst Sunbird Malachite Sunbird

Southern Double-collared Sunbird

       

Greater Double-collared Sunbird

Marico Sunbird White-bellied Sunbird

Dusky Sunbird

       
Promeropidae - Sugarbirds
 
     
Cape Sugarbird      
 
Passeridae - Old World Sparrows and Allies
 

White-browed Sparrow-weaver

Sociable Weaver

House Sparrow

Great Sparrow

 
   
Cape Sparrow Southern Grey-headed Sparrow    
       
Ploceidae - Weavers
 

Red-billed Buffalo-weaver

Scaly-feathered Finch

Spectacled Weaver

Cape Weaver

       

Golden Weaver

Southern Masked Weaver Red-headed Weaver Red-billed Quelea
       

 
Southern Red Bishop Yellow Bishop

White-winged Widowbird

 
       
Estrildidae - Waxbills and Allies
 

Red-headed Finch

Cutthroat Finch

Red-billed Firefinch

Blue Waxbill

       

Cinderella Waxbill

Swee Waxbill

Common Waxbill Orange-breasted Waxbill
       
     
Bronze Mannikin      
       
Viduidae - Indigobirds and Allies
 

   
Pin-tailed Whydah Shaft-tailed Whydah    
 
Motacillidae - Wagtails and Pipits
 

Yellow Wagtail

Cape Wagtail

Cape Longclaw

African Pipit

       

 

Long-billed Pipit

Buffy Pipit Bushveld Pipit  
       
Fringillidae - Finches and Allies
 

Common Chaffinch Cape Canary

Forest Canary

Black-throated Canary

     

Yellow Canary

Brimstone Canary

White-throated Canary

Streaky-headed Canary

 
 
Protea Canary Cape Siskin Black-headed Canary  
       
Emberizidae - Bunting, Sparrow and Allies
 

Larklike Bunting

Cinnamon-breasted Bunting

Cape Bunting

Golden-breasted Bunting