This checklist is for Chobe N.P. in Botswana (no date). It is available at the park. It is not copyrighted nor from a copyrighted source. Roy Carlson San Carlos, CA CHECKLIST Chobe N.P. Checklist - 449 species OSTRICH Ostrich GREBES Little Grebe CORMORANTS Long-tailed Cormorant Great Cormorant ANHINGAS African Darter PELICANS Great White Pelican Pink-backed Pelican DUCKS, SWANS, GEESE Fulvous Whistling-Duck White-faced Whistling-Duck White-backed Duck Maccoa Duck Egyptian Goose Spur-winged Goose Comb Duck African Pygmy-goose Cape Teal Yellow-billed Duck African Black Duck Red-billed Duck Hottentot Teal Cape Shoveler Southern Pochard FLAMINGOS Greater Flamingo Lesser Flamingo HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS Slaty Egret Black Heron Little Egret Intermediate Egret Gray Heron Black-headed Heron Goliath Heron Purple Heron Great Egret Cattle Egret Squacco Heron Rufous-bellied Heron Striated Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron White-backed Night-Heron Little Bittern Dwarf Bittern Great Bittern HAMERKOP Hamerkop IBIS AND SPOONBILLS Glossy Ibis Hadada Ibis Sacred Ibis African Spoonbill STORKS Yellow-billed Stork African Openbill Black Stork Abdim's Stork Woolly-necked Stork White Stork Saddle-billed Stork Marabou Stork OSPREY Osprey HAWKS, EAGLES AND KITES African Cuckoo-Falcon European Honey-buzzard Bat Hawk Black-shouldered Kite Black Kite African Fish-Eagle Palm-nut Vulture Hooded Vulture White-backed Vulture Cape Griffon Lappet-faced Vulture White-headed Vulture Black-chested Snake-Eagle Brown Snake-Eagle Banded Snake-Eagle Bateleur African Marsh-Harrier Pallid Harrier Montagu's Harrier African Harrier-Hawk Lizard Buzzard Dark Chanting-Goshawk Pale Chanting-Goshawk Gabar Goshawk African Goshawk Shikra Little Sparrowhawk Ovampo Sparrowhawk Black Goshawk Common Buzzard Augur Buzzard Lesser Spotted Eagle Tawny Eagle Steppe Eagle Wahlberg's Eagle African Hawk-Eagle Booted Eagle Ayres's Hawk-Eagle Martial Eagle Long-crested Eagle Crowned Hawk-Eagle SECRETARY-BIRD Secretary-bird FALCONS AND CARACARAS Lesser Kestrel Eurasian Kestrel Greater Kestrel Dickinson's Kestrel Red-necked Falcon Red-footed Falcon Eurasian Hobby African Hobby Lanner Falcon Peregrine Falcon GUINEAFOWL Helmeted Guineafowl Crested Guineafowl PHEASANTS, GROUSE, QUAIL AND TURKEYS Coqui Francolin Crested Francolin Natal Francolin Red-billed Francolin Swainson's Spurfowl Harlequin Quail BUTTONQUAIL Small Buttonquail RAILS AND COOTS Kaffir Rail African Crake Corn Crake Black Crake Baillon's Crake Spotted Crake Purple Swamphen Allen's Gallinule Common Moorhen Lesser Moorhen Red-knobbed Coot SUNGREBES African Finfoot CRANES Wattled Crane Gray Crowned-Crane BUSTARDS Stanley Bustard Kori Bustard Red-crested Bustard White-quilled Bustard Black-bellied Bustard JACANAS African Jacana Lesser Jacana PAINTED-SNIPES Greater Painted-snipe SANDPIPERS Great Snipe African Snipe Marsh Sandpiper Common Greenshank Green Sandpiper Wood Sandpiper Common Sandpiper Little Stint Curlew Sandpiper Ruff THICK-KNEES Water Thick-knee Spotted Thick-knee AVOCETS AND STILTS Black-winged Stilt Pied Avocet PRATINCOLES AND COURSERS Bronze-winged Courser Three-banded Courser Temminck's Courser Collared Pratincole Black-winged Pratincole Rock Pratincole PLOVERS AND LAPWINGS Black-bellied Plover Common Ringed Plover Kittlitz's Plover Three-banded Plover Caspian Plover Long-toed Lapwing Blacksmith Plover White-headed Lapwing Wattled Lapwing Crowned Lapwing GULLS AND TERNS Gray-headed Gull Whiskered Tern White-winged Tern SKIMMERS African Skimmer SANDGROUSE Namaqua Sandgrouse Yellow-throated Sandgrouse Double-banded Sandgrouse Burchell's Sandgrouse PIGEONS AND DOVES Laughing Dove African Mourning Dove Ring-necked Dove Red-eyed Dove Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove Namaqua Dove African Green-Pigeon PARROTS Brown-necked Parrot Meyer's Parrot MOUSEBIRDS Red-faced Mousebird TURACOS Schalow's Turaco Gray Go-away-bird OLD WORLD CUCKOOS Pied Cuckoo Levaillant's Cuckoo Great Spotted Cuckoo Red-chested Cuckoo Black Cuckoo Common Cuckoo African Cuckoo Klaas's Cuckoo Dideric Cuckoo COUCALS Black Coucal Coppery-tailed Coucal Senegal Coucal Burchell's Coucal BARN-OWLS Barn Owl OWLS African Scops-Owl White-faced Scops-Owl Spotted Eagle-Owl Verreaux's Eagle-Owl Pel's Fishing-Owl African Wood-Owl Pearl-spotted Owlet African Barred Owlet Marsh Owl NIGHTJARS Eurasian Nightjar Rufous-cheeked Nightjar Fiery-necked Nightjar Swamp Nightjar Freckled Nightjar Square-tailed Nightjar Pennant-winged Nightjar SWIFTS African Palm-Swift Alpine Swift Common Swift African Swift Little Swift Horus Swift TROGONS AND QUETZALS Narina Trogon KINGFISHERS Half-collared Kingfisher Malachite Kingfisher African Pygmy-Kingfisher Gray-headed Kingfisher Woodland Kingfisher Brown-hooded Kingfisher Striped Kingfisher Giant Kingfisher Pied Kingfisher BEE-EATERS White-fronted Bee-eater Little Bee-eater Swallow-tailed Bee-eater Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Madagascar Bee-eater European Bee-eater Southern Carmine Bee-eater ROLLERS European Roller Lilac-breasted Roller Racket-tailed Roller Rufous-crowned Roller Broad-billed Roller HOOPOES African Hoopoe WOODHOOPOES Green Woodhoopoe Common Scimitar-bill HORNBILLS Red-billed Hornbill Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill Crowned Hornbill Bradfield's Hornbill African Gray Hornbill Trumpeter Hornbill GROUND-HORNBILLS Southern Ground-Hornbill AFRICAN BARBETS AND TINKERBIRDS Pied Barbet Black-collared Barbet Crested Barbet HONEYGUIDES Greater Honeyguide Lesser Honeyguide Green-backed Honeyguide Wahlberg's Honeyguide WOODPECKERS Bennett's Woodpecker Golden-tailed Woodpecker Cardinal Woodpecker Bearded Woodpecker Olive Woodpecker BROADBILLS African Broadbill MONARCH FLYCATCHERS African Paradise-Flycatcher DRONGOS Fork-tailed Drongo CROWS AND JAYS Pied Crow ORIOLES Eurasian Golden-Oriole African Golden-Oriole African Black-headed Oriole CUCKOO-SHRIKES White-breasted Cuckoo-shrike Black Cuckoo-shrike SHRIKES Red-backed Shrike Souza's Shrike Lesser Gray Shrike Common Fiscal Magpie Shrike White-crowned Shrike BUSHSHRIKES AND ALLIES Brubru Black-backed Puffback Black-crowned Tchagra Brown-crowned Tchagra Tropical Boubou Gabon Boubou Crimson-breasted Gonolek Sulphur-breasted Bushshrike Gray-headed Bushshrike White Helmetshrike Retz's Helmetshrike Chinspot Batis THRUSHES Groundscraper Thrush Kurrichane Thrush STARLINGS Red-shouldered Glossy-Starling Greater Blue-eared Glossy-Starling Southern Blue-eared Glossy-Starling Burchell's Glossy-Starling Meves's Glossy-Starling Violet-backed Starling Wattled Starling Yellow-billed Oxpecker Red-billed Oxpecker OLD WORLD FLYCATCHERS Pale Flycatcher Mariqua Flycatcher Southern Black-Flycatcher Spotted Flycatcher Ashy Flycatcher Gray Tit-Flycatcher White-browed Robin-Chat Red-capped Robin-Chat Collared Palm-Thrush Bearded Scrub-Robin Red-backed Scrub-Robin Kalahari Scrub-Robin Stonechat Capped Wheatear Southern Anteater-Chat White-headed Black Chat SWALLOWS Bank Swallow Plain Martin Banded Martin Gray-rumped Swallow Rock Martin Barn Swallow White-throated Swallow Wire-tailed Swallow Pearl-breasted Swallow Greater Striped-Swallow Lesser Striped-Swallow Rufous-chested Swallow Mosque Swallow Common House-Martin Black Sawwing BULBULS Common Bulbul Black-fronted Bulbul Yellow-bellied Greenbul Terrestrial Brownbul Eastern Nicator WHITE-EYES African Yellow White-eye CISTICOLAS AND ALLIES Red-faced Cisticola Rattling Cisticola Gray Cisticola Winding Cisticola Chirping Cisticola Croaking Cisticola Piping Cisticola Zitting Cisticola Desert Cisticola Tawny-flanked Prinia Black-chested Prinia Yellow-breasted Apalis Gray-backed Camaroptera Stierling's Wren-Warbler Barred Wren-Warbler OLD WORLD WARBLERS African Bush-Warbler Sedge Warbler African Reed-Warbler Marsh Warbler Great Reed-Warbler Lesser Swamp-Warbler Icterine Warbler Yellow-bellied Eremomela Greencap Eremomela Burnt-neck Eremomela Cape Crombec Willow Warbler Rufous-vented Warbler Garden Warbler Greater Whitethroat BABBLERS Angola Babbler Southern Pied-Babbler Arrow-marked Babbler CHICKADEES, TITS Southern Black-Tit Ashy Tit PENDULINE TITS African Penduline-Tit Southern Penduline-Tit LARKS Monotonous Lark Rufous-naped Lark Flappet Lark Fawn-colored Lark Sabota Lark Dusky Lark Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark Red-capped Lark OLD WORLD SPARROWS House Sparrow Cape Sparrow Yellow-throated Petronia WAXBILLS AND ALLIES Green-winged Pytilia Brown Firefinch Red-billed Firefinch Jameson's Firefinch Blue-breasted Cordonbleu Violet-eared Waxbill Common Waxbill Black-cheeked Waxbill Zebra Waxbill African Quailfinch Bronze Mannikin Cut-throat Village Indigobird Variable Indigobird Purple Indigobird Shaft-tailed Whydah Pin-tailed Whydah Eastern Paradise-Whydah Broad-tailed Paradise-Whydah WAGTAILS AND PIPITS African Pied Wagtail Cape Wagtail Yellow Wagtail Mountain Wagtail Rosy-throated Longclaw African Pipit Plain-backed Pipit Buffy Pipit Long-billed Pipit WEAVERS AND ALLIES Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver Scaly Weaver White-browed Sparrow-Weaver Lesser Masked Weaver Spectacled Weaver Holub's Golden-Weaver Southern Brown-throated Weaver Southern Masked-Weaver Village Weaver Red-headed Weaver Red-billed Quelea Yellow-crowned Bishop Red Bishop Fan-tailed Widowbird Yellow-shouldered Widowbird White-winged Widowbird Grosbeak Weaver SUNBIRDS AND SPIDERHUNTERS Collared Sunbird Amethyst Sunbird Scarlet-chested Sunbird White-breasted Sunbird Copper Sunbird Mariqua Sunbird Purple-banded Sunbird SISKINS, CROSSBILLS AND ALLIES Southern Yellow-rumped Seedeater Yellow-fronted Canary Damara Canary BUNTINGS, SPARROWS, TANAGERS, ALLIES Cinnamon-breasted Bunting Golden-breasted Bunting