Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Bird list

I've been keeping a list of all the birds I've seen since I've arrived back... some of them seem like dear friends, their calls are so very familiar! Just for fun, here's my list!

black-eyed bulbul
long-tailed shrike
paradise flycatcher
crested korhaan
speckled mousebird
ostrich
brown-hooded kingfisher
secretary bird
pygmy kingfisher
crowned plover
Natal robin
blacksmith plover
spectacled weaver
green heron
bronze mannikins
pied kingfisher
laughing doves Cape Glossy Starling

bateleur eagle
red-eyed doves
marabou stork
common sparrow
Goliath heron
common pigeon
pied wagtail
palm swift
crested francolin
yellow-eyed canary
Swain's francolin
firefinch
Natal francolin
pied crow
firefinches
white-headed vulture
white-backed vulture
butcher bird/fiscal shrike
lappet-faced vulture
cattle egrets
hooded vulture
black-headed heron
Cape vulture
helmeted guinea fowl
African spoonbill
sacred ibis
Khori bustard
hadeda ibis
buffalo weaver
pied crow
martial eagle
black-shouldered kite
Burchell's coucal
saddle-billed stork
African fish eagle
white-fronted bee-eater
great white egret
pallid harrier
reed cormorant
crested barbet
blackwinged stilt
brown-headed parrot
white-winged tern
Burchell's starling
yellow-billed hornbill
wood hoopoe
fork-tailed drongo
grey heron
Wahlberg's eagle
tawny eagle
grey lourie
yellow-billed stork
grey hornbill
African jacana
red-billed oxpecker
black crake
ground hornbill
Cape glossy starling
European roller
lilac-breasted roller


Am adding to this list as I go....

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