Birds of South Africa

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

Malachite kingfisher (left), Brown-hooded kingfisher (center) and Giant kingfisher (right)

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)

Spike-heeled lark (Thanks to Mr. Charlie Moores for the ID correction.)

Rock martin

Fork-tailed drongo

Cape crow

Arrow-marked babbler

Dark-capped bulbul

Groundscraper thrush (left), Olive thrush (right)

Cape rock-thrush (male)

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)

Pink-throated twinspot (female and male)

Yellow canary

Cape canary (left), Protea seedeater (canary) (right)

Golden-breasted bunting (left), Cape bunting (right)

Our bird pictures from around the world follow standard ecozones approximately but not exactly:

Birds from the USA and Canada:   our house,   Hornsby Bend and greater Austin,   Texas,   California,   Hawaii,   Canada,

Neotropic birds from Central America and the Caribbean:   Honduras,   Costa Rica,   Panama,   Trinidad and Tobago

Neotropic birds from South America:   Ecuador,   Ecuador 2017,   Brazil.

Western palearctic birds:   Europe: Germany, Finland, Norway,   Europe: United Kingdom,   Europe: Spain,   the Canary Islands,   Europe: Lesbos, Greece,   Israel

Eastern palearctic birds:   China

Birds from Africa:   The Gambia,   South Africa

Indo-Malayan birds from   India: North-west (Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand)   India: North-east (Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya)   India: Central (Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh)

Birds from   Australia,   New Zealand.

For our 2014 December trip to India, see this travelog.

For our 2016 May-June trip to India, see this travelog.

For our 2017 April trip to High Island, Texas, see this web site.

For our 2018 March trip to India, see this travelog.

For our 2018 May trip to China, see this travelog.

For our 2018 November trip to China, see this travelog.

For our 2019 April trip to High Island, Texas, see this web site.

For our 2019 July trip to China, see this web site.

For our 2021 April trip to High Island, Texas, see this web site.

For our 2021 December trip to Ecuador, see this web site.

For our 2022 January trip to Peru, see this web site.

For our 2022 July-August trip to Australia and Papua New Guinea, see this web site.

For our 2022 September trip to Bolivia, see this web site.

For our 2022 November-December pre-trip to Argentina (before our Antarctic cruise), see this web site.

For our 2022 November-December cruise to Antarctica, see this web site.

For our 2023 January birding in Chile, see this web site.

For our 2023 January-March cruise from Chile to Antarctica and around South America to Miami, FL, see this web site.

For our 2023 March-April birding in south Florida (after the Seabourn cruise), see this web site.