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.

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. Small grey mongoose
  17. Large grey mongoose
  18. Yellow mongoose
  19. Common dwarf mongoose
  20. Slender mongoose
  21. African civit
  22. Large spotted genet
  23. Small spotted genet
  24. Black rhinoceros
  25. White rhinoceros
  26. Wild dog
  27. Mountain zebra
  28. Plains zebra
  29. Southern giraffe
  30. Maasai giraffe
  31. Reticulated giraffe
  32. African savannah (bush) elephant
  33. African buffalo
  34. Eland
  35. Gemsbok (southern oryx)
  36. Beisa oryx
  37. Black wildebeest
  38. Common wildebeest (blue, white-bearded)
  39. Hartebeest (red, coke’s, Jackson’s, Lichtenstein’s)
  40. Blesbok and Bontebok*
  41. Lesser kudu
  42. Greater kudu
  43. Sable antelope
  44. Springbok
  45. Waterbuck (common and Defassa)
  46. Lechwe (red and Kafue)
  47. Puku
  48. Moutain reedbuck
  49. Common reedbuck
  50. Bohor reedbuck*
  51. Grey rhebuck*
  52. Oribi
  53. Gerenuk*
  54. Nyala*
  55. Imbabala bushbuck
  56. Impala
  57. Grant’s gazelle
  58. Thompson’s gazelle
  59. Klipspringer
  60. Common duiker
  61. Aders duiker*
  62. Natal red duiker*
  63. Steenbok
  64. Dik Dik
  65. Bush pig*
  66. Spring hare*
  67. Scrub hare*
  68. Tree squirrel
  69. Southern African ground squirrel
  70. Unstripped ground squirrel
  71. Zanzibar sand squirrel*
  72. Red-bellied coastal ground squirrel*
  73. Black and rufous elephant shrew*

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

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. Tawny eagle
  10. African hawk eagle
  11. Brown snake eagle
  12. Long-crested eagle
  13. Crowned eagle*
  14. Purple grenadier
  15. Pale-chanting goshawk
  16. Dark-chanting goshawk*
  17. Gabar goshawk
  18. African marsh harrier
  19. Rock kestrel
  20. Grey kestrel
  21. Black kite
  22. Black-winged kite
  23. Augur buzard
  24. Lizard buzard*
  25. Jackal buzard*
  26. Lanner falcon
  27. African pygmy falcon*
  28. 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. Crested francolin
  13. Coqui francolin
  14. Grey-winged francolin
  15. Common buttonquail*

Crakes, Rails, Gallinules, Coots, Moorhens and Jacanas

  1. Black crake
  2. African rail
  3. African jacana
  4. Lesser jacana
  5. Eurasian moorhen*

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. Northern black khorhan
  6. 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. Blacksmith lapwing
  6. Crowned lapwing
  7. Long-toed lapwing
  8. White-crowned lapwing
  9. Senegal lapwing
  10. Black-winged lapwing
  11. Spur-winged lapwing*
  12. Three-banded plover
  13. Kittlitz’s plover*
  14. White-fronted plover*
  15. Pied avocet
  16. Common greenshank
  17. Black-tailed godwit*
  18. Wood sandpiper
  19. Common sandpiper*
  20. African snipe
  21. Collared pratincole*
  22. African black oystercatcher*

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

  1. Lesser black-backed gull
  2. Grey-headed gull
  3. Kelp gull*
  4. Wiskered tern*
  5. Lesser crested tern*
  6. Roseate tern*
  7. Caspian tern*
  8. Cape Ganet*
  9. Brown noddy*
  10. 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. African orange-bellied parrot*
  4. Red-bellied parrot*
  5. Brown-headed parrot*

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

Nightjars

  1. Fiery-necked nightjar
  2. Squared-tailed nightjar*

Swifts

  1. Little swift
  2. African palm swift
  3. White-rumped 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. 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*

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. Cape grassbird*

Swallows

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

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. Eastern (yellow-spotted) nicator*

Robins, Thrushes, Chats and Wheatears

  1. Kalahari scrub robin
  2. White-browed scrub robin
  3. Bearded scrub robin
  4. Karoo chat
  5. Cape robin-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. Olive thrush*
  14. White-browed robin-chat
  15. Red-capped robin-chat*
  16. Ant-eating chat
  17. Arnot’s chat
  18. Familiar chat
  19. Sooty chat
  20. Northern anteater chat
  21. Mocking cliff chat*
  22. Silver bird
  23. Abyssinian wheatear
  24. Capped wheatear

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

  1. Long-billed crombec
  2. Red-faced crombec*
  3. Green-capped emorelia
  4. Black-chested prinia
  5. Tawny-flanked prinia
  6. Yellow-breasted apalis
  7. Bar-throated apalis*
  8. Green-backed camaroptera
  9. Grey-backed camaroptera
  10. Stierling’s wren-warbler*

Cisticolas

  1. Chirping cisticola
  2. Zitting 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. Parit batis
  13. Cape batis
  14. Chinspot batis
  15. Short-tailed batis*
  16. Pale batis*
  17. 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. African yellow 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*

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. Orange-breasted bushshrike
  8. Black-fronted bushshrike*
  9. Grey-headed bushshrike*
  10. Grey-backed fiscal
  11. Common fiscal
  12. Taita fiscal*
  13. Long-tailed fiscal*
  14. Tropical boubou
  15. East-coast (zanzibar) boubou*
  16. Southern boubou*
  17. Brubru
  18. Black-backed puffback
  19. Southern tchagra
  20. Black-crowned tchagra
  21. Brown-crowned tchagra
  22. 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. Common myna

Sparrows, Weavers, Finches, Queleas and Buntings

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

Widowbirds and Bishops

  1. Northern red 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. Bronze mannikin
  7. Black-and-white mannikin*
  8. Red-throated twinspot
  9. Green twinspot*
  10. Green-winged pytilia (melba finch)
  11. Red-cheeked cordon-bleu
  12. Red-billed firefinch
  13. Southern citril*
  14. Eastern paradise whydah*
  15. Village indigobird*
  16. Golden-breasted bunting*

Reptiles and Amphibians

  1. Clicking stream frog
  2. Water monitor
  3. Barking gecko
  4. Crocodile
  5. Black mamba
  6. Vine snake
  7. Green bush snake*
  8. Mwanza flat-headed rock agama (or mwanza agama or spider-man agama)
  9. Lounge lizard*
  10. Kenyan rock agama*
  11. African five-lined skink*
  12. Leopard tortoise
  13. Two-horned chameleon*
  14. Three-horned chameleon*
  15. Pygmy chameleon*