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Birds on the Mogalakwena Reserves

ostrich
     1 common ostrich

cormorants, darters
     55 white-breasted cormorant
     58 reed cormorant
     60 African darter

bitterns, herons, egrets, hamerkop
     62 grey heron
     63 black-headed heron
     64 goliath heron
     66 great (white) egret
     67 little egret
     69 black heron (egret)
     71 cattle egret
     72 (common) squacco heron
     74 green-backed heron
     76 black-crowned night-heron
     77 white-backed night-heron
     78 little bittern
     79 dwarf bittern

storks
     84 black stork
     85 Abdim's stork
     87 African openbill (open-billed stork)
     88 saddle-billed stork
     89 marabou stork
     90 yellow-billed stork

ibises, spoonbills
     81 hamerkop
     91 African sacred ibis
     93 glossy ibis
     94 hadeda ibis
     95 African spoonbill

ducks, geese
     99 white-faced duck
     101 white-backed duck
     102 Egyptian goose
     104 yellow-billed duck
     105 African black duck
     115 comb (knob-billed) duck
     116 spur-winged goose

secretarybird
     118 secretarybird

all raptors excl secretarybird, falcons
     119 lammergeier (bearded vulture)
     121 hooded vulture
     122 Cape vulture
     123 (African) white-backed vulture
     124 lappet-faced vulture
     125 white-headed vulture
     126 yellow-billed kite
     127 black-shouldered kite
     132 tawny eagle
     133 steppe eagle
     135 Wahlberg's eagle
     137 African hawk-eagle
     142 brown snake-eagle
     143 black-chested snake-eagle
     146 bateleur
     148 African fish-eagle
     149 steppe buzzard
     162 southern pale chanting goshawk
     163 dark chanting goshawk
     169 African harrier-hawk

falcons (includes kestrels)
     157 little sparrowhawk
     159 shikra (little banded goshawk)
     160 African goshawk
     161 gabar goshawk

francolins, partridges, spurfowl, quails, peafowl
     189 crested francolin
     196 Natal francolin
     199 Swainson's spurfowl (francolin)
     201 harlequin quail

guineafowl
     203 helmeted guineafowl
     204 crested guineafowl

buttonquails
     200 common quail
     205 small (kurrichane) buttonquail

rails, crakes, flufftails, gallinules, (incl moorhens, coots)
     213 black crake
     223 African purple swamphen (purple gallinule)
     226 common moorhen
     228 red-knobbed coot

finfoots
     229 African finfoot

bustards (incl korhaans)
     230 kori bustard
     237 redcrested korhaan

jacanas
     240 African jacana

painted-snipes
     242 greater painted snipe
     286 African (Ethiopian) snipe

avocets, stilts
     295 black-winged stilt

plovers
     249 three-banded plover
     255 crowned lapwing (plover)
     258 blacksmith lapwing (plover)
     260 African wattled lapwing (plover)

snipes, godwits, sandpipers, stints, curlews, turnstones, ruff, phalaropes
     264 common sandpiper
     266 wood sandpiper
     269 marsh sandpiper


thick-knees
     297 spotted thick-knee (dikkop)
     298 water thick-knee (dikkop)

coursers, pratincoles
     300 Temminck's courser
     302 three-banded courser
     303 bronze-winged courser

sandgrouse
     347 double-banded sandgrouse

pigeons, doves
     349 speckled (rock) pigeon
     352 red-eyed dove
     354 Cape turtle-dove
     355 laughing dove
     356 Namaqua dove
     358 emerald-spotted wood-dove

turacos
     373 grey go-away-bird (lourie)

cuckoos, coucals, malkohas
     374 common (european) cuckoo
     375 African cuckoo
     377 red-chested cuckoo
     378 black cuckoo
     381 Levaillant's (striped) cuckoo
     382 Jacobin cuckoo
     385 Klaas's cuckoo
     386 Diderik (Diederik) cuckoo
     391 Burchell's coucal

owls
     392 barn owl
     395 marsh owl
     396 African scops-owl
     397 southern white-faced scops-owl
     398 pearl-spotted owlet
     399 African barred owlet
     401 spotted eagle-owl
     402 Verreaux's (giant) eagle-owl

nightjars
     405 fiery-necked nightjar
     406 rufous-cheeked nightjar
     409 square-tailed (Mozambique) nightjar

swifts
     411 common (European) swift
     416 horus swift
     417 little swift
     421 African palm-swift

mousebirds
     424 speckled mousebird
     426 red-faced mousebird

kingfishers
     428 pied kingfisher
     429 giant kingfisher
     431 malachite kingfisher
     432 African pygmy-kingfisher
     433 woodland kingfisher
     435 brown-hooded kingfisher
     436 grey-headed (grey-hooded) kingfisher
     437 striped kingfisher

bee-eaters
     438 European bee-eater
     441 southern carmine bee-eater
     443 white-fronted bee-eater
     444 little bee-eater
     445 swallow-tailed bee-eater

rollers
     446 European roller
     447 lilac-breasted roller
     449 purple roller

wood-hoopoes, scimitarbills, hoopoes
     451 African hoopoe
     452 green (redbilled) wood-hoopoe
     454 common (greater) scimitarbill

hornbills
     457 African grey hornbill
     458 red-billed hornbill
     459 southern yellow-billed hornbill
     463 southerm ground-hornbill

honeyguides, honeybirds
     474 greater honeyguide
     478 brown-backed (sharpbilled) honeybird

barbets
     464 black-collared barbet
     465 acacia pied barbet
     473 crested barbet

woodpeckers, wrynecks
     481 Bennett's woodpecker
     483 golden-tailed woodpecker
     486 cardinal woodpecker
     487 bearded woodpecker

larks, sparrowlarks
     493 monotonous lark
     494 rufous-naped lark
     496 flappet lark
     498 Sabota lark
     515 chestnut-backed sparrowlark (finchlark)

swallows, martins
     518 barn (European) swallow
     520 white-throated swallow
     522 wire-tailed swallow
     524 red-breasted swallow
     527 lesser striped swallow
     530 common house-martin

drongos
     541 fork-tailed drongo

orioles
     543 Eurasian (European) golden oriole
     545 (Eastern) black-headed oriole

crows, ravens
     548 pied crow

tits, penduline-tits
     554 southern black tit
     557 Cape penduline-tit

babblers and allies
     560 arrow-marked babbler
     563 southern pied babbler

bulbuls, greenbuls, brownbuls
     568 dark-capped (blackeyed) bulbul
     569 terrestrial brownbul (bulbul)
     572 sombre greenbul (bulbul)
     574 (African) yellow-bellied greenbul (bulbul)

thrushes, alethes, robins, robin-chats, chats, rockjumpers, flycatchers
     576 kurrichane thrush
     589 groundscraper thrush
     599 white-browed robin-chat (Heuglin's robin)
     602 (African) white-throated robin-chat (robin)
     613 white-browed scrub-robin (robin)
     689 spotted flycatcher
     691 ashy (bluegrey) flycatcher
     693 grey tit-flycatcher (fantailed flycatcher)
     694 southern black flycatcher
     695 Marico flycatcher
     696 pale (mousecoloured) flycatcher
     710 African paradise-flycatcher

titbabblers, hyliotas, warblers, apalises, crombecs, eremomelas, grassbird, rockrunner, cisticolas, prinias
     628 great reed-warbler
     645 bar-throated apalis
     648 grey-backed camaroptera (bleating warbler)
     651 long-billed crombec
     653 yellow-bellied eremomela
     656 burnt-necked eremomela
     658 (African) barred wren-warbler
     664 zitting (fantailed) cisticola
     672 rattling cisticola
     683 tawny-flanked prinia

wattle-eyes, batises
     701 chinspot batis

wagtails, pipits, longclaws
     711 African pied wagtail

shrikes
     731 lesser grey shrike
     732 common fiscal (fiscal shrike)
     733 red-backed shrike
     735 magpie (African longtailed) shrike
     739 crimson-breasted shrike

bush-shrikes, boubous, tchagras, brubru, puffbacks, white-tailed shrike
     736 southern boubou
     737 tropical boubou
     743 brown-crowned (threestreaked) tchagra
     744 black-crowned tchagra
     748 orange-breasted bush-shrike
     751 grey-headed bush-shrike

helmet-shrikes
     740 black-backed puffback
     741 brubru
     753 white-crested (white) helmet-shrike
     754 Retz's (redbilled) helemt-shrike
     756 southern white-crowned shrike

starlings, mynas, oxpeckers
     658 common (Indian) myna
     760 wattled starling
     761 violet-backed (plumcoloured) starling
     762 Burchell's starling
     763 Meves's (longtailed) starling
     764 Cape glossy starling
     765 greater blue-eared starling
     769 red-winged starling
     772 red-billed oxpecker

sunbirds
     779 Marico sunbird
     786 variable (yellowbellied) sunbird
     787 white-bellied sunbird
     792 amethyst (African black) sunbird
     793 collared sunbird

white-eyes
     796 Cape white-eye

sparrows, weavers, bishops, queleas, widowbirds, cuckoo finch
     798 red-billed buffalo-weaver
     799 white-browed sparrow-weaver
     801 house sparrow
     802 great sparrow
     803 Cape sparrow
     810 spectacled weaver
     811 village (spottedbacked) weaver
     814 southern masked-weaver
     815 lesser masked-weaver
     819 red-headed weaver
     821 red-billed quelea
     824 southern red bishop
     829 white-winged widowbird (widow)
     831 red-collared widowbird (widow)
     832 long-tailed widowbird (widow)

pytilias, twinspots, crimsonwings, mannikins seedcrackers, firefinches, waxbills
     841 Jameson's firefinch
     842 red-billed firefinch
     844 blue waxbill
     845 violet-eared waxbill
     846 common waxbill
     847 black-faced (blackcheeked) waxbill

whydahs, indigobirds
     860 pin-tailed wydah
     862 long-tailed (Eastern) paradise-whydah
     864 dusky indigobird (black widowfinch)
     867 village indigobird (steelblue widowfinch)

finches, siskins, seed-eaters, canaries
     806 scaly-feathered finch
     834 green-winged pytilia (melba finch)
     855 cut-throat finch
     857 bronze mannikin
     869 yellow-fronted (yelloweyed) canary
     870 black-throated canary
     878 yellow canary

buntings
     884 golden-breasted bunting
     886 cinnamon-breasted (rock) bunting