List of Birds observed on 27th, 28th, 29th and 30th January 2003
 
African Darter
Great White Pelican
Pink-backed Pelican
Grey Heron
Black-headed Heron
Goliath Heron
Great White Egret
Little Egret
Western Reef Heron
Cattle Egret
Squacco Heron
 
Green-backed Heron   Hammerkop (and African Jacana)

Black-crowned Night Heron
Marabou Stork
African Spoonbill
Ruppell’s Griffon Vulture
European Griffon Vulture
White-backed Vulture
Hooded Vulture
Lanner
Common Kestrel
Grey Kestrel
Black Kite
Black-shouldered Kite
Wahlberg’s Eagle
Long-crested Hawk Eagle
Lizard Buzzard
Brown Snake Eagle
Grasshopper Buzzard
Bateleur
African Fish Eagle
Palm Nut Vulture
Shikra
Gabar Goshawk
Dark Chanting Goshawk
Marsh Harrier
African Harrier Hawk (Gymnogene)
Osprey
Double-spurred Francolin
Black Crowned Crane
Senegal Thick-knee
African Jacana
Egyptian Plover
Ringed Plover
White-fronted Plover
Kentish Plover
Grey Plover
Spur-winged Plover

Black-headed Plover
Black-winged Stilt
Little Stint
Sanderling
Ruff
Turnstone
Common Sandpiper
Wood Sandpiper
Redshank
Spotted Redshank
Greenshank
 
Bar-tailed Godwit
 
  Wattled Plover

Curlew
Whimbrel
Pomarine Skua
Great Skua
Lesser black-backed Gull
Slender-billed Gull
Audouin’s Gull
Kelp Gull
Grey-headed gull
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Lesser-crested Tern
Sandwich Tern
Royal Tern
Little Tern
Four-banded Sand Grouse
Speckled Pigeon
Red-eyed Dove
Mourning Dove
Vinaceous Dove
Laughing Dove

Namaqua Dove
Black-billed Wood Dove
Bruce’s Green Pigeon
Senegal Coucal
Violet Touraco
Grey Plantain-eater
Senegal Parrot
Rose-ringed Parakeet
Abyssinian Roller
Rufous-crowned Roller
 
Blue-bellied Roller   Broad-billed Roller

Pied Kingfisher
Malachite Kingfisher
Blue-breasted Kingfisher
Striped Kingfisher
European Bee-eater
Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
Little Bee-eater
Red-throated Bee-eater
Swallow-tailed Bee-eater
Grey Hornbill
Red-billed Hornbill
Abyssinian Ground Hornbill
Green Wood-hoopoe
Black Wood-hoopoe
Barn Owl
Pearl spotted Owlet
Long-tailed nightjar

Vieillot’s Barbet
Lesser honeyguide
Fine-spotted Woodpecker
Little Swift
African Palm Swift
Mottled Spinetail
Chestnut-backed Sparrow Lark
White Wagtail
Brown Babbler
 
Blackcap Babbler   Bearded Barbet

Leaflove
Common Bulbul
Rufous Scrub Robin
Black Flycatcher
West African Thrush
Redstart
Chiffchaff
Fan-tailed Warbler (Zitting Cisticola)
Tawny-flanked Prinia
Wire-tailed Swallow
Red-rumped Swallow
Mosque Swallow
Sandmartin
Fork-tailed Drongo
Square-tailed Drongo
Woodchat Shrike
Yellow-billed Shrike
White-crested Helmet Shrike
Gonolek
African Golden Oriole
Pied Crow
Piapiac
Lesser blue-eared Glossy Starling
Purple Glossy Starling
Long-tailed Glossy Starling
Yellow-billed Oxpecker
Beautiful (Long-tailed) Sunbird
Pygmy Sunbird
Red-breasted Swallow
Mouse Brown Sunbird
Buffalo Weaver
Village Weaver (Black-headed Weaver)
Little Weaver
House Sparrow
Grey-headed Sparrow
Red Bishop
Yellow-shouldered Widowbird
Bronze Mannikin
 

Cut-throat Finch
Quail Finch
Red-billed Fire Finch
(Red-tailed) Lavender Waxbill
Black-rumped Waxbill
Village Indigobird
Exclamatory Paradise Whydah
Yellow-fronted Canary
Cinnamon-breasted Rock Bunting
 
    Red-cheeked Cordon Bleu

 

 
     
     

 

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