Birds of South Africa
These pictures were taken during two South Africa trips, (1) a June 2004 trip guided near Johannesburg by Etienne Marais and near Cape town by Richard Grant and (2) a June 2005 trip guided by Etienne Marais. Note: The pictures are copyrighted and should not be reproduced without permission.
Yearling ostrich
African penguin (at right: a chick)
Little grebe
Black-browed albatross during a pelagic trip about 28 miles south of the Cape of Good Hope.
Shy albatross
White-chinned petrel (left) and Pintado Petrel (right)
Subantarctic skua (left) and Sooty shearwater (right)
Cape gannet
White-breasted cormorant
White-breasted cormorant (left), African darter (center, right)
Great white pelican
Gray heron
Gray heron (left), Black-headed heron (center), African green-backed heron = Striated heron (right)
Yellow-billed stork (left), Saddle-billed stork (immature, right)
Greater flamingo
African spoonbill
Hammerkop
African sacred ibis (left), Hadeda ibis (right)
Egyptian goose
White-faced duck (left), Hottentot teal (left center), African black duck (right center), Comb duck (right)
Cape shoveler (left), Yellow-billed duck (center and right)
White-backed vulture
African fish eagles building a nest
Bateleur
Brown snake-eagle (left) and Black-chested snake-eagle (right)
Martial eagle
African harrier-hawk (juvenile)
Bat hawk
Dickinson's kestrel (left) and Rock kestrel (right)
Cape francolin
Natal francolin (left), Crested francolin (center), Cape francolin (right)
Swainson's spurfowl
Helmeted guineafowl
African finfoot (female)
Red-knobbed coot (at right: a chick)
Lesser moorhen (juvenile), African jacana (juvenile)
African purple swamphen
Black crake
Blue crane
Kori bustard (male, left, and female, center and right)
Denham's bustard
Red-crested korhaan
Southern black korhan (male - left, female - center), Karoo korhan (right)
Black-winged stilt
Chestnut-banded plover (left), Three-banded plover (center), White-fronted plover (right)
Crowned lapwing (left), Blacksmith lapwing (right)
Greenshank
Greater painted-snipe (females)
Temminck's courser (left), Water thickknee (center left and center right), Spotted thickknee (right)
Cape gull
Double-banded sand-grouse (left: male, right: female)
Cape turtle-dove (left), Speckled pigeon (center), Laughing dove (right)
Gray go-away bird (Lourie)
Burchell's coucal
Pearl-spotted owl
Pied kingfisher
White-fronted bee-eater
Lilac-breasted roller
Southern ground-hornbill
Southern yellow-billed hornbill
Red-billed hornbill
Common scimitarbill
African hoopoe
Acacia pied barbet (left), Crested barbet in evening sunlight (right)
Cape long-billed lark (left), Agulhas long-billed lark (center left), Sabota lark (center right), Rufous-naped lark (right)
Rock martin
Fork-tailed drongo
Cape crow
Arrow-marked babbler
Dark-capped bulbul
Groundscraper thrush (left), Olive thrush (right)
Cape rock-thrush (female: left and male: right)
Cape rockjumper (female and male)
Capped wheatear
White-browed robin-chat (left), African stonechat (male, center), Mocking cliff-chat (right)
Lesser swamp warbler
Gray-backed camaroptera
Yellow-breasted apalis (left), Rudd's apalis (right)
Neddicky (left), Gray-backed cisticola (right)
Levaillant's cisticola
Fiscal flycatcher
Marico flycatcher (left and center), Southern black flycatcher (right)
Chinspot batis (female)
African pied wagtail
Magpie shrike
Southern boubou
Brown-crowned tchagra
Bokmakierie
White-crested helmet-shrike
Brubru
Cape glossy starling (left), Burchell's starling (center left), Pied starling (center right), Red-winged starling (female, right)
Red-billed oxpecker (left and center), Yellow-billed oxpecker (right)
Cape sugarbird (male)
Southern double-collared sunbird
Greater double-collard sunbird
Orange-breasted sunbird
White-bellied sunbird
Amethyst sunbird
Cape sparrow
Village weaver (left), Southern masked-weaver (non-breeding plumage, right)
Cape weaver
Shaft-tailed whydah
Cut-throat finch (left) and Jameson's firefinch (female, right)
Violet-cheeked waxbill (left), Blue waxbill (center), Black-faced waxbill (right)
