Birds of South Africa

889 bird species have been recorded in South Africa on eBird, the global citizen-science database run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. 887 of them have a full profile in the Birbs encyclopedia — start with the well-known birds below, browse the complete list, then check which are being reported near you right now.

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Birds to know first

• Abdim’s StorkCiconia abdimii
• African Barred OwletGlaucidium capense
• African Black DuckAnas sparsa
• African Black SwiftApus barbatus
• African BroadbillSmithornis capensis
• African CuckooCuculus gularis
• African Cuckoo-HawkAviceda cuculoides
• African DarterAnhinga rufa
• African Dusky FlycatcherMuscicapa adusta
• African Emerald CuckooChrysococcyx cupreus
• African FinfootPodica senegalensis
• African FirefinchLagonosticta rubricata
• African Golden OrioleOriolus auratus
• African Grass OwlTyto capensis
• African Green PigeonTreron calvus
• African Grey HornbillLophoceros nasutus
• African Harrier-HawkPolyboroides typus
• African Hawk-EagleAquila spilogaster
• African HobbyFalco cuvierii
• African JacanaActophilornis africanus
• African Marsh HarrierCircus ranivorus
• African Olive PigeonColumba arquatrix
• African OpenbillAnastomus lamelligerus
• African OystercatcherHaematopus moquini
• African Palm SwiftCypsiurus parvus
• African Paradise FlycatcherTerpsiphone viridis
• African PenguinSpheniscus demersus
• African Pied WagtailMotacilla aguimp
• African PipitAnthus cinnamomeus
• African Pygmy GooseNettapus auritus

The full checklist — 887 birds of South Africa in our library

• Abdim’s Stork
• Acacia Pied Barbet
• African Barred Owlet
• African Black Duck
• African Black Swift
• African Broadbill
• African Crake
• African Cuckoo
• African Cuckoo-Hawk
• African Darter
• African Dusky Flycatcher
• African Emerald Cuckoo
• African Finfoot
• African Firefinch
• African Fish Eagle
• African Golden Oriole
• African Goshawk
• African Grass Owl
• African Green Pigeon
• African Grey Hornbill
• African Harrier-Hawk
• African Hawk-Eagle
• African Hobby
• African Jacana
• African Marsh Harrier
• African Olive Pigeon
• African Openbill
• African Oystercatcher
• African Palm Swift
• African Paradise Flycatcher
• African Penguin
• African Pied Wagtail
• African Pipit
• African Pygmy Goose
• African Pygmy Kingfisher
• African Rail
• African Red-eyed Bulbul
• African Rock Pipit
• African Sacred Ibis
• African Scops Owl
• African Skimmer
• African Snipe
• African Spoonbill
• African Stonechat
• African Swamphen
• African Wattled Lapwing
• African Wood Owl
• African Woolly-necked Stork
• African Yellow Warbler
• Allen’s Gallinule
• Alpine Swift
• American Golden Plover
• Amethyst Sunbird
• Amsterdam Albatross
• Amur Falcon
• Ant-eating Chat
• Antarctic Petrel
• Antarctic Prion
• Antarctic Tern
• Arctic Tern
• Arnot’s Chat
• Arrow-marked Babbler
• Ashy Flycatcher
• Ashy Tit
• Asian Dowitcher
• Atlantic Canary
• Atlantic Petrel
• Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross
• Australasian Gannet
• Ayres’s Hawk-Eagle
• Baillon’s Crake
• Baird’s Sandpiper
• Banded Martin
• Bank Cormorant
• Bar-headed Goose
• Bar-tailed Godwit
• Bar-throated Apalis
• Barau’s Petrel
• Barn Owl
• Barn Swallow
• Barratt’s Warbler
• Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo
• Barred Wren-Warbler
• Bat Hawk
• Bateleur
• Bearded Scrub Robin
• Bearded Vulture
• Bearded Woodpecker
• Bennett’s Woodpecker
• Black Coucal
• Black Crake
• Black Cuckoo
• Black Cuckooshrike
• Black Harrier
• Black Heron
• Black Kite
• Black Saw-wing
• Black Skimmer
• Black Sparrowhawk
• Black Stork
• Black Swan
• Black Tern
• Black-and-white Mannikin
• Black-backed Puffback
• Black-bellied Bustard
• Black-bellied Starling
• Black-bellied Storm Petrel
• Black-bellied Whistling Duck
• Black-browed Albatross
• Black-cheeked Lovebird
• Black-chested Prinia
• Black-chested Snake Eagle
• Black-collared Barbet
• Black-crowned Night Heron
• Black-crowned Tchagra
• Black-eared Sparrow-Lark
• Black-faced Sheathbill
• Black-faced Waxbill
• Black-fronted Bushshrike
• Black-headed Canary
• Black-headed Gull
• Black-headed Heron
• Black-headed Oriole
• Black-naped Tern
• Black-necked Grebe
• Black-rumped Buttonquail
• Black-tailed Godwit
• Black-throated Canary
• Black-throated Wattle-eye
• Black-winged Kite
• Black-winged Lapwing
• Black-winged Pratincole
• Black-winged Stilt
• Blacksmith Lapwing
• Blue Korhaan
• Blue Petrel
• Blue Swallow
• Blue Waxbill
• Blue-billed Teal
• Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
• Blue-mantled Crested Flycatcher
• Blue-spotted Wood Dove
• Böhm’s Spinetail
• Bokmakierie
• Booted Eagle
• Botha’s Lark
• Boulder Chat
• Bradfield’s Swift
• Bridled Tern
• Brimstone Canary
• Broad-billed Roller
• Broad-billed Sandpiper
• Bronze Mannikin
• Bronze-winged Courser
• Bronze-winged Parrot
• Brown Booby
• Brown Scrub Robin
• Brown Skua
• Brown Snake Eagle
• Brown-backed Honeybird
• Brown-crowned Tchagra
• Brown-headed Parrot
• Brown-hooded Kingfisher
• Brown-necked Parrot
• Brown-throated Martin
• Brubru
• Budgerigar
• Buff-breasted Sandpiper
• Buff-spotted Flufftail
• Buff-streaked Chat
• Buffy Pipit
• Buller’s Albatross
• Burchell’s Coucal
• Burchell’s Courser
• Burchell’s Sandgrouse
• Burchell’s Starling
• Burnt-necked Eremomela
• Bush Blackcap
• Bushveld Pipit
• Cape Batis
• Cape Bulbul
• Cape Bunting
• Cape Canary
• Cape Clapper Lark
• Cape Cormorant
• Cape Crow
• Cape Eagle-Owl
• Cape Gannet
• Cape Grassbird
• Cape Long-billed Lark
• Cape Longclaw
• Cape Parrot
• Cape Penduline Tit
• Cape Robin-Chat
• Cape Rock Thrush
• Cape Rockjumper
• Cape Shoveler
• Cape Siskin
• Cape Sparrow
• Cape Spurfowl
• Cape Starling
• Cape Sugarbird
• Cape Teal
• Cape Vulture
• Cape Wagtail
• Cape Weaver
• Cape White-eye
• Capped Wheatear
• Cardinal Woodpecker
• Caspian Plover
• Caspian Tern
• Chat Flycatcher
• Chatham Albatross
• Chestnut Weaver
• Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark
• Chestnut-banded Plover
• Chestnut-vented Warbler
• Chinspot Batis
• Chorister Robin-Chat
• Chukar Partridge
• Cinnamon-breasted Bunting
• Cinnamon-breasted Warbler
• Citrine Wagtail
• Cloud Cisticola
• Cockatiel
• Collared Flycatcher
• Collared Palm Thrush
• Collared Pratincole
• Collared Sunbird
• Common Bulbul
• Common Buttonquail
• Common Buzzard
• Common Cuckoo
• Common Diving Petrel
• Common Greenshank
• Common Hoopoe
• Common Moorhen
• Common Myna
• Common Ostrich
• Common Quail
• Common Redshank
• Common Redstart
• Common Reed Warbler
• Common Ringed Plover
• Common Sandpiper
• Common Scimitarbill
• Common Shelduck
• Common Starling
• Common Swift
• Common Tern
• Common Waxbill
• Common Whitethroat
• Coqui Francolin
• Corn Crake
• Cory’s Shearwater
• Crab-plover
• Crested Barbet
• Crested Francolin
• Crested Honey Buzzard
• Crimson-breasted Shrike
• Croaking Cisticola
• Crowned Cormorant
• Crowned Eagle
• Crowned Hornbill
• Crowned Lapwing
• Cuckoo-finch
• Curlew Sandpiper
• Cut-throat Finch
• Damara Tern
• Dark Chanting Goshawk
• Dark-backed Weaver
• Denham’s Bustard
• Desert Cisticola
• Dickinson’s Kestrel
• Diederik Cuckoo
• Double-banded Courser
• Double-banded Sandgrouse
• Drakensberg Prinia
• Drakensberg Rockjumper
• Drakensberg Siskin
• Dune Lark
• Dunlin
• Dusky Indigobird
• Dusky Lark
• Dusky Sunbird
• Dwarf Bittern
• Eastern Bronze-naped Pigeon
• Eastern Clapper Lark
• Eastern Golden Weaver
• Eastern Long-billed Lark
• Eastern Nicator
• Eastern Rockhopper Penguin
• Eastern Rosella
• Egyptian Goose
• Egyptian Vulture
• Elegant Tern
• Eleonora’s Falcon
• Emerald-spotted Wood Dove
• Emu
• Eurasian Bittern
• Eurasian Blackcap
• Eurasian Chaffinch
• Eurasian Curlew
• Eurasian Golden Oriole
• Eurasian Hobby
• Eurasian Oystercatcher
• Eurasian Whimbrel
• European Bee-eater
• European Honey Buzzard
• European Nightjar
• European Pied Flycatcher
• European Red-rumped Swallow
• European Roller
• European Storm Petrel
• European Turtle Dove
• Fairy Flycatcher
• Fairy Prion
• Familiar Chat
• Fan-tailed Grassbird
• Fan-tailed Widowbird
• Fawn-colored Lark
• Fiery-necked Nightjar
• Fiscal Flycatcher
• Fischer’s Lovebird
• Flappet Lark
• Flesh-footed Shearwater
• Forest Buzzard
• Forest Canary
• Fork-tailed Drongo
• Franklin’s Gull
• Freckled Nightjar
• Fulvous Whistling Duck
• Fynbos Buttonquail
• Gabar Goshawk
• Garden Warbler
• Gentoo Penguin
• Giant Kingfisher
• Glossy Ibis
• Golden Pipit
• Golden-breasted Bunting
• Golden-tailed Woodpecker
• Goliath Heron
• Gorgeous Bushshrike
• Great Cormorant
• Great Crested Grebe
• Great Egret
• Great Frigatebird
• Great Knot
• Great Reed Warbler
• Great Shearwater
• Great Snipe
• Great Sparrow
• Great Spotted Cuckoo
• Great White Pelican
• Great-winged Petrel
• Greater Blue-eared Starling
• Greater Crested Tern
• Greater Double-collared Sunbird
• Greater Flamingo
• Greater Honeyguide
• Greater Kestrel
• Greater Painted-snipe
• Greater Sand Plover
• Greater Striped Swallow
• Green Barbet
• Green Malkoha
• Green Sandpiper
• Green Twinspot
• Green Wood Hoopoe
• Green-backed Camaroptera
• Green-capped Eremomela
• Green-winged Pytilia
• Grey Crowned Crane
• Grey Cuckooshrike
• Grey Go-away-bird
• Grey Heron
• Grey Penduline Tit
• Grey Petrel
• Grey Plover
• Grey Sunbird
• Grey Tit
• Grey Tit-Flycatcher
• Grey Wagtail
• Grey Waxbill
• Grey-backed Cisticola
• Grey-backed Sparrow-Lark
• Grey-backed Storm Petrel
• Grey-faced Petrel
• Grey-headed Albatross
• Grey-headed Bushshrike
• Grey-headed Gull
• Grey-headed Kingfisher
• Grey-rumped Swallow
• Grey-winged Francolin
• Greylag Goose
• Ground Woodpecker
• Groundscraper Thrush
• Gull-billed Tern
• Gurney’s Sugarbird
• Hadada Ibis
• Half-collared Kingfisher
• Hamerkop
• Harlequin Quail
• Hartlaub’s Gull
• Helmeted Guineafowl
• Holub’s Golden Weaver
• Hooded Vulture
• Horus Swift
• House Crow
• House Sparrow
• Hudsonian Godwit
• Icterine Warbler
• Imperial Shag
• Indian Peafowl
• Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross
• Jackal Buzzard
• Jacobin Cuckoo
• Jameson’s Firefinch
• Java Sparrow
• Jouanin’s Petrel
• Kalahari Scrub Robin
• Karoo Chat
• Karoo Eremomela
• Karoo Korhaan
• Karoo Lark
• Karoo Long-billed Lark
• Karoo Prinia
• Karoo Scrub Robin
• Karoo Thrush
• Kelp Gull
• Kerguelen Petrel
• Kerguelen Tern
• King Penguin
• Kittlitz’s Plover
• Klaas’s Cuckoo
• Knob-billed Duck
• Knysna Turaco
• Knysna Warbler
• Knysna Woodpecker
• Kori Bustard
• Kurrichane Thrush
• Lanner Falcon
• Lappet-faced Vulture
• Large Rock Martin
• Large-billed Lark
• Lark-like Bunting
• Laughing Dove
• Laughing Gull
• Layard’s Warbler
• Leach’s Storm Petrel
• Lemon Dove
• Lemon-breasted Canary
• Lesser Black-backed Gull
• Lesser Crested Tern
• Lesser Cuckoo
• Lesser Flamingo
• Lesser Frigatebird
• Lesser Grey Shrike
• Lesser Honeyguide
• Lesser Jacana
• Lesser Kestrel
• Lesser Masked Weaver
• Lesser Moorhen
• Lesser Noddy
• Lesser Spotted Eagle
• Lesser Striped Swallow
• Lesser Swamp Warbler
• Lesser Whitethroat
• Lesser Yellowlegs
• Levaillant’s Cisticola
• Levaillant’s Cuckoo
• Light-mantled Albatross
• Lilac-breasted Roller
• Lilian’s Lovebird
• Little Bee-eater
• Little Bittern
• Little Blue Heron
• Little Crake
• Little Egret
• Little Grebe
• Little Heron
• Little Ringed Plover
• Little Rush Warbler
• Little Shearwater
• Little Sparrowhawk
• Little Stint
• Little Swift
• Little Tern
• Livingstone’s Turaco
• Lizard Buzzard
• Long-billed Crombec
• Long-billed Pipit
• Long-crested Eagle
• Long-tailed Jaeger
• Long-tailed Paradise Whydah
• Long-tailed Widowbird
• Long-toed Lapwing
• Ludwig’s Bustard
• Macaroni Penguin
• Maccoa Duck
• Madagascar Cuckoo
• Magpie Mannikin
• Magpie Shrike
• Malachite Kingfisher
• Malachite Sunbird
• Malagasy Pond Heron
• Mallard
• Mandarin Duck
• Mangrove Kingfisher
• Manx Shearwater
• Marabou Stork
• Marico Flycatcher
• Marico Sunbird
• Marsh Owl
• Marsh Sandpiper
• Marsh Warbler
• Martial Eagle
• Mascarene Martin
• Melodious Lark
• Meves’s Starling
• Meyer’s Parrot
• Mocking Cliff Chat
• Monotonous Lark
• Montagu’s Harrier
• Mosque Swallow
• Mottled Spinetail
• Mountain Chat
• Mountain Pipit
• Mountain Wagtail
• Mourning Collared Dove
• Muscovy Duck
• Mute Swan
• Namaqua Dove
• Namaqua Sandgrouse
• Namaqua Warbler
• Narina Trogon
• Natal Spurfowl
• Neddicky
• Neergaard’s Sunbird
• Nicholson’s Pipit
• Northern Black Korhaan
• Northern Carmine Bee-eater
• Northern Giant Petrel
• Northern Pintail
• Northern Rockhopper Penguin
• Northern Royal Albatross
• Northern Shoveler
• Northern Wheatear
• Olive Bee-eater
• Olive Bushshrike
• Olive Sunbird
• Olive Thrush
• Olive Woodpecker
• Olive-tree Warbler
• Orange Ground Thrush
• Orange River Francolin
• Orange River White-eye
• Orange-breasted Bushshrike
• Orange-breasted Sunbird
• Orange-breasted Waxbill
• Orange-winged Pytilia
• Osprey
• Ovambo Sparrowhawk
• Pacific Golden Plover
• Pale Chanting Goshawk
• Pale Flycatcher
• Pale-crowned Cisticola
• Pale-winged Starling
• Pallid Harrier
• Palm-nut Vulture
• Parasitic Jaeger
• Pearl-breasted Swallow
• Pearl-spotted Owlet
• Pectoral Sandpiper
• Pel’s Fishing Owl
• Pennant-winged Nightjar
• Peregrine Falcon
• Pied Avocet
• Pied Crow
• Pied Kingfisher
• Pied Starling
• Pin-tailed Whydah
• Pincoya Storm Petrel
• Pink-backed Pelican
• Pink-billed Lark
• Pink-throated Twinspot
• Pintado Petrel
• Plain-backed Pipit
• Plain-backed Sunbird
• Pomarine Jaeger
• Pririt Batis
• Protea Canary
• Purple Gallinule
• Purple Heron
• Purple Indigobird
• Purple Roller
• Purple-banded Sunbird
• Purple-crested Turaco
• Pygmy Falcon
• Quailfinch
• Racket-tailed Roller
• Rattling Cisticola
• Red Junglefowl
• Red Knot
• Red Lark
• Red Phalarope
• Red-backed Shrike
• Red-billed Buffalo Weaver
• Red-billed Firefinch
• Red-billed Oxpecker
• Red-billed Quelea
• Red-billed Spurfowl
• Red-billed Teal
• Red-breasted Swallow
• Red-capped Lark
• Red-capped Robin-Chat
• Red-chested Cuckoo
• Red-chested Flufftail
• Red-collared Widowbird
• Red-crested Korhaan
• Red-crested Pochard
• Red-eyed Dove
• Red-faced Cisticola
• Red-faced Mousebird
• Red-footed Booby
• Red-footed Falcon
• Red-headed Finch
• Red-headed Quelea
• Red-headed Weaver
• Red-knobbed Coot
• Red-necked Buzzard
• Red-necked Falcon
• Red-necked Phalarope
• Red-necked Spurfowl
• Red-necked Stint
• Red-tailed Shrike
• Red-tailed Tropicbird
• Red-throated Pipit
• Red-throated Wryneck
• Red-winged Francolin
• Red-winged Starling
• Reed Cormorant
• Retz’s Helmetshrike
• Ring-necked Dove
• Ringed Teal
• River Warbler
• Rock Dove
• Rock Kestrel
• Rock Pratincole
• Rock-loving Cisticola
• Rose-ringed Parakeet
• Roseate Tern
• Rosy-faced Lovebird
• Rosy-throated Longclaw
• Rudd’s Apalis
• Rudd’s Lark
• Ruddy Duck
• Ruddy Turnstone
• Ruff
• Rufous-bellied Heron
• Rufous-breasted Sparrowhawk
• Rufous-cheeked Nightjar
• Rufous-eared Warbler
• Rufous-naped Lark
• Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin
• Rufous-winged Cisticola
• Rüppell’s Vulture
• Sabine’s Gull
• Sabota Lark
• Saddle-billed Stork
• Salvin’s Albatross
• Salvin’s Prion
• Sand Martin
• Sanderling
• Sandwich Tern
• Saunders’s Tern
• Scaly-breasted Munia
• Scaly-feathered Weaver
• Scaly-throated Honeyguide
• Scarlet-chested Sunbird
• Sclater’s Lark
• Secretarybird
• Sedge Warbler
• Senegal Coucal
• Senegal Lapwing
• Sentinel Rock Thrush
• Shaft-tailed Whydah
• Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
• Shelley’s Francolin
• Shikra
• Short-clawed Lark
• Short-tailed Pipit
• Short-tailed Shearwater
• Short-toed Rock Thrush
• Shy Albatross
• Sickle-winged Chat
• Slaty Egret
• Slender-billed Prion
• Snowy Albatross
• Snowy Egret
• Snowy Sheathbill
• Sociable Weaver
• Soft-plumaged Petrel
• Sombre Greenbul
• Sooty Albatross
• Sooty Falcon
• Sooty Gull
• Sooty Shearwater
• Sooty Tern
• South African Cliff Swallow
• South African Shelduck
• South Georgia Diving Petrel
• South Polar Skua
• Southern Bald Ibis
• Southern Banded Snake Eagle
• Southern Black Flycatcher
• Southern Black Korhaan
• Southern Black Tit
• Southern Boubou
• Southern Brown-throated Weaver
• Southern Carmine Bee-eater
• Southern Crested Guineafowl
• Southern Double-collared Sunbird
• Southern Fiscal
• Southern Fulmar
• Southern Giant Petrel
• Southern Grey-headed Sparrow
• Southern Ground Hornbill
• Southern Hyliota
• Southern Masked Weaver
• Southern Pied Babbler
• Southern Pochard
• Southern Red Bishop
• Southern Red-billed Hornbill
• Southern Red-fronted Tinkerbird
• Southern Royal Albatross
• Southern Tchagra
• Southern White-crowned Shrike
• Southern White-faced Owl
• Southern Yellow White-eye
• Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill
• Speckled Mousebird
• Speckled Pigeon
• Spectacled Petrel
• Spectacled Weaver
• Spike-heeled Lark
• Spotted Crake
• Spotted Eagle-Owl
• Spotted Flycatcher
• Spotted Ground Thrush
• Spotted Redshank
• Spotted Thick-knee
• Spur-winged Goose
• Spur-winged Lapwing
• Squacco Heron
• Square-tailed Drongo
• Square-tailed Nightjar
• Stark’s Lark
• Steppe Eagle
• Stierling’s Wren-Warbler
• Streaked Shearwater
• Streaky-breasted Flufftail
• Streaky-headed Seedeater
• Striped Crake
• Striped Flufftail
• Striped Kingfisher
• Striped Pipit
• Subantarctic Shearwater
• Sunda Zebra Finch
• Swainson’s Spurfowl
• Swallow-tailed Bee-eater
• Swamp Nightjar
• Swee Waxbill
• Tahiti Petrel
• Taita Falcon
• Tambourine Dove
• Tawny Eagle
• Tawny-flanked Prinia
• Temminck’s Courser
• Temminck’s Stint
• Terek Sandpiper
• Terrestrial Brownbul
• Thick-billed Cuckoo
• Thick-billed Weaver
• Three-banded Courser
• Three-banded Plover
• Thrush Nightingale
• Tibetan Sand Plover
• Tinkling Cisticola
• Tractrac Chat
• Tree Pipit
• Tristan Albatross
• Tropical Boubou
• Tropical Shearwater
• Trumpeter Hornbill
• Turquoise Parrot
• Upcher’s Warbler
• Upland Sandpiper
• Verreaux’s Eagle
• Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl
• Victorin’s Warbler
• Village Indigobird
• Village Weaver
• Violet Turaco
• Violet-backed Starling
• Violet-eared Waxbill
• Wahlberg’s Eagle
• Wailing Cisticola
• Water Thick-knee
• Wattled Starling
• Wedge-tailed Shearwater
• Western Cattle Egret
• Western House Martin
• Western Marsh Harrier
• Western Yellow Wagtail
• Whinchat
• Whiskered Tern
• White Stork
• White Wagtail
• White-backed Duck
• White-backed Mousebird
• White-backed Night Heron
• White-backed Vulture
• White-bellied Bustard
• White-bellied Storm Petrel
• White-bellied Sunbird
• White-breasted Cuckooshrike
• White-breasted Waterhen
• White-browed Robin-Chat
• White-browed Scrub Robin
• White-browed Sparrow-Weaver
• White-cheeked Tern
• White-chinned Petrel
• White-crested Helmetshrike
• White-crowned Lapwing
• White-eared Barbet
• White-faced Storm Petrel
• White-faced Whistling Duck
• White-fronted Bee-eater
• White-fronted Plover
• White-headed Duck
• White-headed Petrel
• White-headed Vulture
• White-necked Raven
• White-rumped Sandpiper
• White-rumped Swift
• White-starred Robin
• White-throated Bee-eater
• White-throated Canary
• White-throated Robin-Chat
• White-throated Swallow
• White-winged Flufftail
• White-winged Tern
• White-winged Widowbird
• Wild Turkey
• Willow Warbler
• Wilson’s Phalarope
• Wilson’s Storm Petrel
• Wing-snapping Cisticola
• Wire-tailed Swallow
• Wood Duck
• Wood Sandpiper
• Wood Warbler
• Woodland Kingfisher
• Woodwards’ Batis
• Yellow Bishop
• Yellow Canary
• Yellow-bellied Eremomela
• Yellow-bellied Greenbul
• Yellow-billed Duck
• Yellow-billed Egret
• Yellow-billed Oxpecker
• Yellow-billed Stork
• Yellow-breasted Apalis
• Yellow-breasted Pipit
• Yellow-collared Lovebird
• Yellow-crested Cockatoo
• Yellow-crowned Bishop
• Yellow-fronted Canary
• Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird
• Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird
• Yellow-streaked Greenbul
• Yellow-throated Bush Sparrow
• Yellow-throated Longclaw
• Yellow-throated Sandgrouse
• Yellow-throated Woodland Warbler
• Zitting Cisticola

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Birds of South Africa by bird group

• Hawks, Eagles & Kites of South Africa (51 species)
• Old World Flycatchers & Chats of South Africa (42 species)
• Sandpipers & Allies of South Africa (37 species)
• Petrels & Shearwaters of South Africa (35 species)
• Ducks, Geese & Swans of South Africa (33 species)
• Gulls, Terns & Skimmers of South Africa (33 species)
• Cisticolas & Allies of South Africa (32 species)
• Larks of South Africa (27 species)
• Weavers of South Africa (25 species)
• Wagtails & Pipits of South Africa (24 species)
• Waxbills & Munias of South Africa (23 species)
• Herons, Egrets & Bitterns of South Africa (21 species)
• Plovers of South Africa (20 species)
• Swallows & Martins of South Africa (19 species)
• Cuckoos of South Africa (18 species)

Species lists and counts come from the eBird network; "recorded" means reported by birders to eBird. Tap any bird for its full profile, photos, sounds and ID notes.