Southern African photographic yearlist for 2009 - birds
       
Current total - 287      
       
Struthionidae - Ostriches
 

 

 

 

Common Ostrich

 

 

 

       
Numididae - Guineafowl
 

 

 

 

Helmeted Guineafowl

 

 

 

       
Phasianidae - Pheasants and Allies
 

Coqui Francolin

Grey-winged Francolin Cape Spurfowl

Swainson's Spurfowl

       

     

Common Quail

     
       
Anatidae - Ducks
 
Fulvous Duck White-faced Duck Spur-winged Goose Egyptian Goose
       
South African Shelduck Cape Teal Yellow-billed Duck Cape Shoveler
       
Red-billed Teal Hottentot Teal Southern Pochard Maccoa Duck
       
Spheniscidae - Penguins
 
   
Macaroni Penguin 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 Southern Fulmar Pintado Petrel
       
Soft-plumaged Petrel White-chinned Petrel Cory's 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

African Openbill

White Stork

 
 
Threskiornithidae - Ibises and Spoonbills
 

Sacred Ibis

Hadeda Ibis

Glossy Ibis

African Spoonbill

 
Ardeidae - Herons and Egrets
 

Little Bittern

Black-crowned Night Heron

Cattle Egret

Grey Heron

       

Black-headed Heron

Goliath Heron

Purple Heron Yellow-billed Egret
       
   
Black Heron Little Egret    
       
Pelecanidae - Pelicans
 
   
Great White Pelican Pink-backed Pelican    
 
Sulidae - Gannets and Boobies
 
     
Cape Gannet      
 
Phalacrocoracidae - Cormorants
 

Reed Cormorant Crowned Cormorant

Bank Cormorant

White-breasted Cormorant
       

     

Cape Cormorant

     
       
Anhingidae - Anhingas and Darters
 

 

 

 

African Darter

     
       
Sagittariidae - Secretarybird
 

 

 

 

Secretarybird

     
       
Pandionidae - Ospreys
 

 

 

 

Osprey

     
       
Acciptridae - Hawks, Eagles and Kites
 
Black Kite African Fish Eagle White-backed Vulture African Marsh Harrier
       
African Harrier-hawk African Goshawk Black Sparrowhawk Rufous-chested Sparrowhark
       

Steppe Buzzard Jackal Buzzard

Tawny Eagle

Wahlberg's Eagle

       
     
Booted Eagle      
       
Falconidae - Falcons and Allies
 

Lesser Kestrel

Rock Kestrel

Amur Falcon

Lanner Falcon

       
Otididae - Bustards
 

 
Kori Bustard

Red-crested Korhaan

Southern Black Korhaan  
       
Rallidae - Rails and Allies
 
 
African Purple Swamphen Common Moorhen Red-knobbed Coot  
       
Gruidae - Cranes
 

 

   
Blue Crane

 

   
 
Burhinidae - Thick-knees
 

   
Water Thick-knee

Spotted Thick-knee

   
 
Haemotopodidae - Oystercatchers
 

 

   

African Black Oystercatcher

     
 
Recurvirostridae - Stilts and Avocets
 

 

Black-winged Stilt

Pied Avocet

   
 
Charadriidae - Plovers and Allies
 

Blacksmith Lapwing Crowned Lapwing

Grey Plover

Common Ringed Plover
       

Kittlitz's Plover

Three-banded Plover White-fronted Plover Chestnut-banded Plover
       
Rostratulidae - Painted Snipes
 
   

 

Greater Painted Snipe      
       
Scolopacidae - Sandpipers and Allies
 
Bar-tailed Godwit Marsh Sandpiper Common Greenshank Ruddy Turnstone
       

Sanderling

Little Stint

Curlew Sandpiper

Ruff
       
     
Red Phalarope      
       
Glareolidae - Coursers and Pratincoles
 

 

Burchell's Courser Temminck's Courser

Double-banded Courser

 
       
Laridae - Gulls, Terns and Allies
 

Sabine's Gull Grey-headed Gull Hartlaub's Gull

Kelp Gull

       
Caspian Tern Swift Tern Little Tern Common Tern
       
Arctic Tern Antarctic Tern Whiskered Tern White-winged Tern
       
Stercorariidae - Skuas
 
South Polar Skua Subantarctic Skua Pomarine Skua Arctic Skua
       
     
Long-tailed Skua      
 
Pteroclidae - Sandgrouse
 

 

 

Burchell's Sandgrouse

   
 
Columbidae - Pigeons and Doves
 
Speckled Pigeon African Olive Pigeon Lemon Dove Red-eyed Dove
       

Cape Turtle Dove Laughing Dove

Emerald-spotted Wood Dove

Namaqua Dove
       
Musophagidae - Turacos
 

 

 

Grey Go-away-bird

   
 
Strigidae - Owls
 

 

 

Spotted Eagle Owl

   
 
Apodidae - Swifts
 

African Palm Swift

Alpine Swift African Black Swift Bradfield's Swift
       
   
Little Swift White-rumped Swift    
 
Coliidae - Mousebirds
 

 

White-backed Mousebird

Red-faced Mousebird  
 
Coraciidae - Rollers
 
 
Purple Roller Lilac-breasted Roller European Roller  
 
Alcedinidae - Kingfishers
 

 

Woodland Kingfisher

Malachite Kingfisher

Pied Kingfisher

 
       
Meropidae - Bee-eaters
 

 

Swallow-tailed Bee-eater

White-fronted Bee-eater

European Bee-eater

 
       
Phoeniculidae - Woodhoopoes
 

Green Woodhoopoe

Common Scimitarbill

 
 
Bucerotidae - Hornbills
 

 

 

Red-billed Hornbill

Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill

 

 

 
Rhamphastidae - Toucans and Barbets
 
   
Black-collared Barbet Crested Barbet    
       
Indicatoridae - Honeyguides
 

 

 

Lesser Honeyguide Greater Honeyguide

 

 

       
Picidae - Woodpeckers
 

 

 

 

Cardinal Woodpecker  

 

 

       
Platysteiridae - Wattle-eyes and Batises
 

 

 

Cape Batis Pririt Batis

 

 

       
Malaconotidae - Bush-shrikes
 

Bokmakierie

Brown-crowned Tchagra

Southern Tchagra

Black-backed Puffback

       

 

Southern Boubou

Crimson-breasted Shrike

Brubru  
       
Laniidae - Shrikes
 
   
Lesser Grey Shrike Common Fiscal    
 
Oriolidae - Orioles and Figbirds
 
     
Black-headed Oriole      
 
Dicruridae - Drongos
 

   

Fork-tailed Drongo

   
 
Corvidae - Crows and Jays
 

 

House Crow

Pied Crow

 
 
Stenostiridae - Fairy Flycatchers
 

   

Fairy Flycatcher

   
 
Paridae - Tits
 
Southern Black Tit Ashy Tit Grey Tit  
       
Remizidae - Penduline Tits
 
   
Cape Penduline Tit      
       
Alaudidae - Larks
 
Eastern Clapper Lark Fawn-coloured Lark Spike-heeled Lark Red-capped Lark
       
     
Large-billed Lark      
       
Pycnonotidae - Bulbuls
 
   
African Red-eyed Bulbul Cape Bulbul    
       
Hirundinidae - Swallow and Martins
 
Black Saw-wing Brown-throated Martin Sand Martin Barn Swallow
       
White-throated Swallow Pearl-breasted Swallow Rock Martin Greater Striped Swallow
       
   
Lesser Striped Swallow South African Cliff Swallow    
       
Acrocephalidae - Reed Warblers and Allies
 
     
Lesser Swamp Warbler      
       
Cisticolidae - Cisticolas and Allies
 
Rattling Cisticola Grey-backed Cisticola Levaillant's Cisticola Neddicky
       

Zitting Cisticola Rufous-eared Warbler

Karoo Prinia

Black-chested Prinia
       
     
Green-backed Camaroptera      
       
Incertae Sedis - Family uncertain
 
     
Cape Grassbird      
       
Timaliidae - Babblers and Parrotbills
 
     
Arrow-marked Babbler      
       
Sylviidae - Sylviid Babblers
 
     
Layard's Titbabbler      
       
Zosteropidae - White-eyes
 
   
Cape White-eye Orange River White-eye    
       
Promeropidae - Sugarbirds
 
     
Cape Sugarbird      
       
Sturnidae - Starlings and Allies
 

Common Starling Wattled Starling

Cape Glossy Starling

Burchell's Starling

       

   

Pied Starling

Red-winged Starling    
       
Buphagidae - Oxpeckers
 

 

 

 

Red-billed Oxpecker

     
       
Turdidae - Thrushes
 

   

 

Olive Thrush

     
 
Muscicapidae - Old World Flycatchers and Allies
 
Cape Robin-chat White-throated Robin-chat Whtie-browed Scrub Robin Kalahari Scrub Robin
       
Karoo Scrub Robin African Stonechat Mountain Wheatear Familiar Chat
       
Sickle-winged Chat Anteating Chat Fiscal Flycatcher Spotted Flycatcher
       
   
Ashy Flycatcher African Dusky Flycatcher    
       
Nectariniidae - Sunbirds
 

 

Orange-breasted Sunbird Malachite Sunbird Southern Double-collared Sunbird  
       
Passeridae - Old World Sparrows and Allies
 
Sociable Weaver House Sparrow Cape Sparrow Southern Grey-headed Sparrow
       
Ploceidae - Weavers
 

Scaly-feathered Finch

Thick-billed Weaver

Cape Weaver

Southern Masked Weaver

       

 

Red-billed Quelea

Southern Red Bishop

Yellow Bishop

 
       
Estrildidae - Waxbills and Allies
 

Red-headed Finch

Jameson's Firefinch

Blue Waxbill

Violet-eared Waxbill

       
   
Common Waxbill African Quailfinch    
       
Viduidae - Indigobirds and Allies
 

Purple Indigobird Pin-tailed Whydah Shaft-tailed Whydah Long-tailed Paradise Whydah
 
Motacillidae - Wagtails and Pipits
 
   
Cape Wagtail African 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      
       
Emberizidae - Bunting, Sparrow and Allies
 

Lark-like Bunting

Cape Bunting