Wildlife List

This page is for recording wildlife species I observe and is dedicated to you wildlifers that like to list species.

*denotes new species observed in 2024.

#denotes new species observed in 2025.

MAMMALS

  1. Thick-tailed galago (bush baby)
  2. Rock hyrax
  3. Chacma baboon
  4. Yellow baboon
  5. Olive baboon
  6. Red colobus
  7. Zanzibar red colobus*
  8. Guereza colobus (Abyssinian colobus)
  9. Gentle (Blue & Sykes) monkey
  10. Hippopotamus
  11. African lion
  12. Leopard
  13. Cheetah
  14. Spotted hyeana
  15. Bat-eared fox
  16. Cape fox#
  17. Small grey mongoose
  18. Large grey mongoose
  19. Yellow mongoose
  20. Common dwarf mongoose
  21. Slender mongoose
  22. African civit
  23. Large spotted genet
  24. Small spotted genet
  25. Black rhinoceros
  26. White rhinoceros
  27. Wild dog
  28. Mountain zebra
  29. Plains zebra
  30. Southern giraffe
  31. Maasai giraffe
  32. Reticulated giraffe
  33. African savannah (bush) elephant
  34. African buffalo
  35. Eland
  36. Gemsbok (southern oryx)
  37. Beisa oryx
  38. Black wildebeest
  39. Common wildebeest (blue, white-bearded)
  40. Hartebeest (red, coke’s, Jackson’s, Lichtenstein’s)
  41. Blesbok and Bontebok*
  42. Lesser kudu
  43. Greater kudu
  44. Sable antelope
  45. Springbok
  46. Waterbuck (common and Defassa)
  47. Lechwe (red and Kafue)
  48. Puku
  49. Moutain reedbuck
  50. Common reedbuck
  51. Bohor reedbuck*
  52. Grey rhebuck*
  53. Oribi
  54. Gerenuk*
  55. Nyala*
  56. Imbabala bushbuck
  57. Impala
  58. Grant’s gazelle
  59. Thompson’s gazelle
  60. Klipspringer
  61. Common duiker
  62. Aders duiker*
  63. Natal red duiker*
  64. Steenbok
  65. Dik Dik
  66. Bush pig*
  67. Spring hare*
  68. Scrub hare*
  69. Tree squirrel
  70. Southern African ground squirrel
  71. Unstripped ground squirrel
  72. Zanzibar sand squirrel*
  73. Red-bellied coastal ground squirrel*
  74. Black and rufous elephant shrew*
  75. Kalahari four-lined mouse#
  76. Black-tailed tree rat#

BIRDS (organized loosely into groups according to Stevenson)

Ostriches

  1. Common ostrich
  2. Somalian ostrich

Penguins

  1. African penguin

Pelicans and grebes

  1. White pelican
  2. Pink-backed pelican
  3. Great crested grebe*

Cormorants, Darter and Finfoot

  1. Cape cormorant
  2. Reed cormorant
  3. White-breasted cormorant
  4. Great cormorant
  5. Long-tailed cormorant*

Bitterns, Herons and Egrets

  1. Dwarf bittern*
  2. Grey heron
  3. Goliath heron
  4. Rufous-bellied heron
  5. Green-backed (sriated) heron
  6. Black-headed heron
  7. Black-crowned night-heron
  8. Striated heron
  9. Great egret
  10. Cattle egret
  11. Yellow-billed egret
  12. Little egret
  13. Snowy egret

Hamerkop and storks

  1. Hammerkop
  2. Saddle-billed stork
  3. Wooley-necked stork
  4. Maribou stork
  5. Yellow-billed stork
  6. African open-billed
  7. Black stork

Ibises

  1. Glossy ibis
  2. Hadidad ibis
  3. Sacred ibis
  4. Southern bald ibis*

Spoonbills and Flamingos

  1. African spoonbill
  2. Lesser flamingo
  3. Greater flamingo*

Waterfowl

  1. Egyptian goose
  2. Spur-winged goose
  3. Cape shoveler
  4. White-faced whistling duck
  5. Little grebe
  6. Yellow-billed duck
  7. White-backed duck*
  8. Red-billed teal
  9. Hottentot teal
  10. Cape teal
  11. African finfoot
  12. African black duck#
  13. Red-billed duck#
  14. Southern pochard#
  15. South African shellduck#

Vultures

  1. White-backed vulture
  2. Hooded vulture
  3. Lappet-faced vulture
  4. White-headed vulture
  5. Palm-nut vulture
  6. Ruppell’s vulture
  7. Bearded vulture*

Raptors and Secretarybird

  1. Sectretary bird
  2. African harrier-hawk (gymnogene)
  3. Verreaux’s eagle
  4. Black-chested snake eagle
  5. African fish eagle
  6. Martial eagle
  7. Bateleur
  8. Tawny eagle
  9. African hawk eagle
  10. Brown snake eagle
  11. Long-crested eagle
  12. Crowned eagle*
  13. Purple grenadier
  14. Pale-chanting goshawk
  15. Dark-chanting goshawk*
  16. Gabar goshawk
  17. African marsh harrier
  18. Rock kestrel
  19. Grey kestrel
  20. Black kite
  21. Black-winged kite
  22. Augur buzard
  23. Lizard buzard*
  24. Jackal buzard*
  25. Lanner falcon
  26. African pygmy falcon*
  27. Little sparrowhawk*

Guineafowl, Spurfowl, Francolins and Quails

  1. Helmeted guineafowl
  2. Crested guineafowl
  3. Vulturine guineafowl*
  4. Swainson’s spurfowl
  5. Natal spurfowl
  6. Red-billed spurfowl
  7. Red-necked spurfowl
  8. Hildebrandt’s spurfowl
  9. Grey-breasted spurfowl
  10. Yellow-necked spurfowl
  11. Cape spurfowl*
  12. Hartlaub’s spurfowl#
  13. Crested francolin
  14. Coqui francolin
  15. Grey-winged francolin
  16. Common buttonquail*

Crakes, Rails, Gallinules, Coots, Moorhens and Jacanas

  1. Black crake
  2. African rail
  3. Red-knobbed coot
  4. African jacana
  5. Lesser jacana
  6. Common (Eurasian) moorhen*
  7. African swamphen#

Cranes

  1. Blue crane
  2. Wattled crane
  3. Gray crowned crane
  4. Cape crane*

Bustards and Khorhans

  1. Ludwig’s bustard
  2. Kori bustard
  3. White-bellied bustard
  4. Black-bellied bustard
  5. Ruppell’s bustard#
  6. White-quilled bustard#
  7. Northern black khorhan
  8. Red-crestd khorhan

Thick-knees, Stilts, Coursers, Lapwings, Pratincoles, Plovers, Oystercatcer, and Sandpipers

  1. Spotted thick-knee
  2. Water thick-knee
  3. Black-winged stilt
  4. Three-banded courser
  5. Double-banded courser#
  6. Blacksmith lapwing
  7. Crowned lapwing
  8. Long-toed lapwing
  9. White-crowned lapwing
  10. Senegal lapwing
  11. Black-winged lapwing
  12. Spur-winged lapwing*
  13. Three-banded plover
  14. Kittlitz’s plover*
  15. White-fronted plover*
  16. Pied avocet
  17. Common greenshank
  18. Black-tailed godwit*
  19. Wood sandpiper
  20. Common sandpiper*
  21. African snipe
  22. Collared pratincole*
  23. African black oystercatcher*

Gulls, Terns, Ganet’s, Noddy’s and Skimmers

  1. Lesser black-backed gull
  2. Grey-headed (hooded) gull
  3. Hartlaub’s gull#
  4. Kelp gull*
  5. Wiskered tern*
  6. Lesser crested tern*
  7. Roseate tern*
  8. Caspian tern*
  9. Cape Ganet*
  10. Brown noddy*
  11. African skimmer*

Sandgrouse

  1. Yellow-throated sandgrouse
  2. Lichtenstein’s sandgrouse
  3. Double-banded sandgrouse
  4. Namaqua sandgrouse
  5. Black-faced sandgrouse*
  6. Lichtenstein’s sandgrouse*
  7. Three-banded sandgrouse*

Pigeons and Doves

  1. Green pigeon
  2. Speckled pigeon
  3. Laughing dove
  4. Namaqua dove
  5. Cape turtle dove
  6. Emerald-spotted wood dove
  7. Red-eyed dove
  8. Morning collared dove*

Parrots and Lovebirds

  1. Meyer’s parrot
  2. Lilian’s lovebird
  3. Rosy-faced lovebird#
  4. African orange-bellied parrot*
  5. Red-bellied parrot*
  6. Brown-headed parrot*
  7. Rupple’s parot#

Turacos and Go-away birds

  1. Schalow’s turaco
  2. Fisher’s turaco*
  3. Hartlaub’s turaco*
  4. Knysna turaco*
  5. Grey go-away bird
  6. Bare-faced go-away-bird
  7. White-bellied go-away-bird*

Cuckoos

  1. Great spotted cuckoo*
  2. Green Malkoha*

Coucals & Malkohas

  1. Burchell’s coucal
  2. White-browed coucal
  3. Green malkoha*

Owls

  1. African barred owlet
  2. Pearl-spotted owlet
  3. Western barn owl
  4. Verreaux’ (giant) eagle-owl
  5. Southern white-faced owl
  6. African wood owl
  7. African scops owl
  8. Spotted eagle owl#

Nightjars

  1. Fiery-necked nightjar
  2. Squared-tailed nightjar*
  3. Freckled nightjar#

Swifts

  1. Little swift
  2. African palm swift
  3. White-rumped swift
  4. Alpine swift#
  5. Bradfield’s swift#

Mousebirds and Trogons

  1. White-backed mousebird
  2. Speckled mousebird
  3. Blue-naped mousebird
  4. White-headed mousebird*
  5. Narina trogon

Kingfishers

  1. Pied kingfisher
  2. Malachite kingfisher
  3. Brown-hooded kingfisher
  4. Giant kingfisher
  5. Grey-headed kingfisher
  6. Woodland kingfisher
  7. Stripped kingfisher
  8. Mangrove kingfisher*

Bee-eaters

  1. White-fronted bea-eater
  2. Swallow-tailed bee-eater
  3. Little bee-eater
  4. Olive bee-eater
  5. Whire-throated bee-eater*
  6. Blue-breasted bee-eater*
  7. Bohm’s bee-eater*

Rollers

  1. Lilac-breasted roller
  2. Purple roller
  3. Racket-tailed roller

Woodhoopoes, Scimitarbills and Hoopoes

  1. African hoopoe
  2. Eurasian hoopoe*
  3. Green wood hoopoe
  4. Violet woodhoopoe#
  5. Common scimitarbill*

Hornbills

  1. Southern ground hornbill
  2. Southern red-billed hornbill
  3. Southern yellow-billed hornbill
  4. African grey hornbill
  5. Bradfield’s hornbill
  6. Crowned hornbill
  7. Trumpeter hornbill
  8. Van der Decker’s hornbill
  9. Hemprich’s hornbill*
  10. Eastern yellow-billed hornbill*
  11. Northern red-billed hornbill*
  12. Silvery-cheeked hornbill*
  13. Monteiro’s hornbill#

Tinkerbirds and Barbets

  1. Yellow-fronted tinkerbird
  2. Red-fronted tinkerbird
  3. Crested barbet
  4. Black-collared barbet
  5. Acacia pied barbet
  6. White-headed barbet
  7. Usambiro barbet
  8. Black-throated barbet
  9. Red-fronted barbet*
  10. D’Anaud’s barbet*
  11. Green barbet*
  12. White-eared barbet*

Honeyguides

  1. Greater honeyguide

Woodpeckers

  1. Cardinal woodpecker
  2. Bearded woodpecker
  3. Bennett’s woodpecker
  4. Golden-tailed woodpecker
  5. Brown-backed woodpecker
  6. Nubian woodpecker
  7. Green-backed woodpecker*
  8. Knysna woodpecker*
  9. Olive woodpecker*

Larks and grassbird

  1. Spike-headed lark
  2. Red-capped lark
  3. Foxy lark
  4. Grey-backed sparrow-lark
  5. Rufous-naped lark*
  6. Karoo long-billed lark#
  7. Sabota lark#
  8. Spike-heeled lark#
  9. Cape grassbird*

Swallows

  1. Wire-tailed swallow
  2. Lesser-stripped swallow
  3. Red-rumped swallow*
  4. Black sawwing*
  5. Rock martin#

Wagtails, Pipits and Longclaws

  1. Cape wagtail
  2. African pied wagtail
  3. Mountain wagtail*
  4. Cape wagtail*
  5. African pipit
  6. Woodland pipit
  7. Cape longclaw
  8. Yellow-throated longclaw

Cuckooshrikes

  1. Black cuckooshrike

Bulbuls and Nicators

  1. Cape bulbul
  2. Common bulbul
  3. Sombre greenbul*
  4. Cabanis’s greenbul*
  5. Yellow-streaked greenbul*
  6. Little greenbul*
  7. Terrestrial brownbul*
  8. Black-fronted bulbul#
  9. Eastern (yellow-spotted) nicator*

Robins, Thrushes, Chats and Wheatears

  1. Kalahari scrub robin
  2. White-browed scrub robin
  3. Karoo scrub robin#
  4. Bearded scrub robin
  5. Karoo chat
  6. African stonechat
  7. Kurrichane thrush
  8. African thrush
  9. Collared palm-thrush
  10. Spotted morning thrush*
  11. Cape rock thrush*
  12. Red-tailed rufous thrush (ant-thrush)*
  13. Rufous-tailed palm thrush#
  14. Olive thrush*
  15. Short-tailed rock thrush#
  16. Groundscraper thrush#
  17. White-browed robin-chat
  18. Red-capped robin-chat*
  19. Cape robin-chat
  20. Ant-eating chat
  21. Arnot’s chat
  22. Familiar chat
  23. Sooty chat
  24. Northern anteater chat
  25. Mocking cliff chat*
  26. Silver bird
  27. Abyssinian wheatear
  28. Capped wheatear
  29. Mountain wheatear#
  30. Cape rockjumper#

Warblers, Crombecs, Longbills, Eremomelas, Prinias, Apalises and Camaropteras

  1. Long-billed crombec
  2. Red-faced crombec*
  3. Green-capped eremomela
  4. Karoo eremomela#
  5. Black-chested prinia
  6. Tawny-flanked prinia
  7. Karoo prinia#
  8. Yellow-breasted apalis
  9. Bar-throated apalis*
  10. Green-backed camaroptera
  11. Grey-backed camaroptera
  12. Stierling’s wren-warbler*
  13. Common reed warbler#
  14. Chestnut-vented warbler#

Cisticolas

  1. Chirping cisticola
  2. Zitting cisticola*
  3. Levaillant’s cisticola#

Flycatchers, Batises and Wattle-eyes

  1. Fiscal flycatcher
  2. Marico flycatcher
  3. Blue-grey flycatcher
  4. Ashy flycatcher
  5. African paradise flycatcher
  6. African crested flycatcher*
  7. African dusky flycatcher*
  8. Black-and-white shrike-flycatcher*
  9. Southern black flycatcher*
  10. Blue-collared crested flycatcher*
  11. Blue-mantled crested flycatcher*
  12. Fairy flycatcher#
  13. Parit batis
  14. Cape batis
  15. Chinspot batis
  16. Short-tailed batis*
  17. Pale batis*
  18. Brown-throated wattle-eye

Babblers

  1. Arrow-marked babler
  2. Southern pied babbler

Tits and White-eyes

  1. Southern black tit
  2. African penduline tit*
  3. Carp’s tit#
  4. Gray tit#
  5. African yellow white-eye
  6. Cape white-eye#
  7. Orange River white-eye#

Sunbirds

  1. Southern double-collared sunbird
  2. Scarlet-chested sunbird
  3. White-bellied sunbird
  4. Variable (yellow-bellied) sunbird
  5. Miombo double-collared sunbird
  6. Red-chested sunbird
  7. Beautiful sunbird*
  8. Purple-banded sunbird*
  9. Olive sunbird*
  10. Banded sunbird*
  11. Amani sunbird*
  12. Collared sunbird*
  13. Malachite sunbird*
  14. Greater double-collared sunbird*
  15. Orange-breasted sunbird*
  16. Dusky sunbird#

Shrikes, Boubous, Bushshrikes, Brubru, Puffbacks and Tchagras

  1. Fiscal shrike
  2. Southern white-crowned shrike
  3. Magpie shrike
  4. Crimson-breasted shrike
  5. White-crested helmet-shrike
  6. Northern white-crowned shrike
  7. White-tailed shrike#
  8. Orange-breasted bushshrike
  9. Black-fronted bushshrike*
  10. Grey-headed bushshrike*
  11. Grey-backed fiscal
  12. Common fiscal
  13. Taita fiscal*
  14. Long-tailed fiscal*
  15. Tropical boubou
  16. East-coast (zanzibar) boubou*
  17. Southern boubou*
  18. Brubru
  19. Black-backed puffback
  20. Southern tchagra
  21. Black-crowned tchagra
  22. Brown-crowned tchagra
  23. Bokmakierie

Drongos, Crows and Ravens

  1. Fork-tailed drongo
  2. Square-tailed drongo
  3. Pied crow
  4. Cape crow
  5. House crow*
  6. Fan-tailed raven*
  7. White-necked raven*

Orioles and Oxpeckers

  1. Red-billed oxpecker
  2. Yellow-billed oxpecker
  3. Black-headed oriole
  4. African golden oriole

Starlings

  1. Red-winged starling
  2. Pied starling
  3. Cape glossy starling
  4. Greater blue-eared starling
  5. Burchell’s starling
  6. Greves’s starling
  7. Wattled starling
  8. Superb starling
  9. Ruppell’s starling
  10. Golden-breasted starling*
  11. Bristle-crowned starling*
  12. Waller’s starling*
  13. Pale-winged starling#
  14. Common myna

Sparrows, Weavers, Finches, Queleas and Buntings

  1. Cape bunting
  2. Golden-breasted bunting
  3. Cinnamon-breasted bunting#
  4. Cape sparrow
  5. Great sparrow
  6. Southern grey-headed sparrow
  7. Northern grey-headed sparrow*
  8. Yellow-throated bush-sparrow*
  9. Red-billed quelea
  10. White-browed sparrow-weaver
  11. Red-billed buffalo-weaver
  12. White-headed buffalo-weaver
  13. Scaly-feathered finch (weaver)
  14. Red-headed finch
  15. Red-headed weaver
  16. African (eastern) golden (yellow) weaver
  17. Lesser masked weaver
  18. Spectacled weaver
  19. Holub’s golden weaver
  20. Lesser weaver*
  21. Northern masked weaver*
  22. Black-capped social weaver*
  23. Gray-headed social weaver*
  24. Forest weaver*
  25. Dark-backed weaver*
  26. Cape weaver*
  27. Spotted-backed weaver*
  28. Southern masked weaver#
  29. Sociable weaver#

Widowbirds and Bishops

  1. Northern red bishop*
  2. Yellow bishop#

Twinspots, Cordo-blues, Firefinches, Mannikins, Waxbills, Whydahs, Canaries, Seedeaters, Indigobirds and Buntings

  1. Blue waxbill (southern cordon-blue, blue-breasted cordon-blue)
  2. Violet-eared waxbill
  3. Black-faced waxbill
  4. Common waxbill*
  5. Yellow-fronted canary
  6. White-throated canary#
  7. Yellow canary#
  8. Bronze mannikin
  9. Black-and-white mannikin*
  10. Red-throated twinspot
  11. Green twinspot*
  12. Green-winged pytilia (melba finch)
  13. Red-cheeked cordon-bleu
  14. Red-billed firefinch
  15. Southern citril*
  16. Eastern paradise whydah*
  17. Village indigobird*
  18. Golden-breasted bunting*
  19. Lark-like bunting#

Reptiles and Amphibians

  1. Clicking stream frog
  2. Water monitor
  3. Barking gecko
  4. Bibron’s gecko#
  5. Crocodile
  6. Black mamba
  7. Vine snake
  8. Green bush snake*
  9. Cape cobra#
  10. Mole snake#
  11. Mwanza flat-headed rock agama (or mwanza agama or spider-man agama)
  12. Lounge lizard*
  13. Kenyan rock agama*
  14. Namibian rock agama#
  15. African five-lined skink*
  16. Kalahari tree skink#
  17. Leopard tortoise
  18. Angulate tortoise#
  19. Two-horned chameleon*
  20. Three-horned chameleon*
  21. Pygmy chameleon*