This checklist is for Ndumo Game Reserve, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It dated 1995 and is available at the reserve. This checklist is not copyrighted nor from a copyrighted source. Roy Carlson San Carlos, CA CHECKLIST Ndumo Game Reserve Checklist - 317 species 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 Egyptian Goose Spur-winged Goose Comb Duck African Pygmy-goose Yellow-billed Duck Red-billed Duck Hottentot Teal Cape Shoveler FLAMINGOS Greater Flamingo Lesser Flamingo HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS Black Heron Little Egret Intermediate Egret Gray Heron Black-headed Heron Goliath Heron Purple Heron Great Egret Cattle Egret Squacco Heron Striated Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Little Bittern Dwarf Bittern HAMERKOP Hamerkop IBIS AND SPOONBILLS Glossy Ibis Hadada Ibis Sacred Ibis African Spoonbill STORKS Yellow-billed Stork African Openbill Woolly-necked Stork Saddle-billed Stork Marabou Stork HAWKS, EAGLES AND KITES African Cuckoo-Falcon Black-shouldered Kite Black Kite African Fish-Eagle Palm-nut Vulture White-backed Vulture White-headed Vulture Short-toed Eagle Brown Snake-Eagle Fasciated Snake-Eagle Bateleur African Harrier-Hawk Lizard Buzzard Gabar Goshawk African Goshawk Shikra Little Sparrowhawk Common Buzzard Tawny Eagle Wahlberg's Eagle African Hawk-Eagle Booted Eagle Martial Eagle Crowned Hawk-Eagle FALCONS AND CARACARAS Sooty Falcon GUINEAFOWL Helmeted Guineafowl Crested Guineafowl PHEASANTS, GROUSE, QUAIL AND TURKEYS Crested Francolin Natal Francolin RAILS AND COOTS Buff-spotted Flufftail Black Crake Purple Swamphen Common Moorhen SUNGREBES African Finfoot BUSTARDS Red-crested Bustard JACANAS African Jacana Lesser Jacana PAINTED-SNIPES Greater Painted-snipe SANDPIPERS African Snipe Marsh Sandpiper Common Greenshank 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 Collared Pratincole PLOVERS AND LAPWINGS Common Ringed Plover Kittlitz's Plover Three-banded Plover Blacksmith Plover Wattled Lapwing Black-winged Lapwing Crowned Lapwing GULLS AND TERNS Whiskered Tern White-winged Tern Caspian Tern PIGEONS AND DOVES Laughing Dove Ring-necked Dove Red-eyed Dove Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove Tambourine Dove African Green-Pigeon PARROTS Brown-headed Parrot MOUSEBIRDS Speckled Mousebird Red-faced Mousebird TURACOS Livingstone's Turaco Purple-crested Turaco Gray Go-away-bird OLD WORLD CUCKOOS Red-chested Cuckoo Black Cuckoo African Cuckoo Klaas's Cuckoo Dideric Cuckoo Yellowbill COUCALS Burchell's Coucal OWLS Spotted Eagle-Owl Verreaux's Eagle-Owl Pel's Fishing-Owl African Wood-Owl Pearl-spotted Owlet African Barred Owlet Marsh Owl NIGHTJARS Fiery-necked Nightjar Square-tailed Nightjar SWIFTS African Swift Little Swift White-rumped Swift TROGONS AND QUETZALS Narina Trogon KINGFISHERS Malachite Kingfisher African Pygmy-Kingfisher Woodland Kingfisher Brown-hooded Kingfisher Striped Kingfisher Giant Kingfisher Pied Kingfisher BEE-EATERS White-fronted Bee-eater Little Bee-eater Blue-cheeked Bee-eater European Bee-eater ROLLERS Lilac-breasted Roller Broad-billed Roller HOOPOES African Hoopoe WOODHOOPOES Green Woodhoopoe Common Scimitar-bill HORNBILLS Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill Crowned Hornbill African Gray Hornbill Trumpeter Hornbill AFRICAN BARBETS AND TINKERBIRDS White-eared Barbet Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird Red-fronted Tinkerbird Pied Barbet Black-collared Barbet HONEYGUIDES Scaly-throated Honeyguide Greater Honeyguide Lesser Honeyguide Wahlberg's Honeyguide WOODPECKERS Golden-tailed Woodpecker Cardinal Woodpecker Bearded Woodpecker BROADBILLS African Broadbill MONARCH FLYCATCHERS African Crested-Flycatcher African Paradise-Flycatcher DRONGOS Square-tailed Drongo Fork-tailed Drongo CROWS AND JAYS Pied Crow ORIOLES African Black-headed Oriole CUCKOO-SHRIKES Gray Cuckoo-shrike Black Cuckoo-shrike SHRIKES Red-backed Shrike Common Fiscal Magpie Shrike BUSHSHRIKES AND ALLIES Brubru Black-backed Puffback Black-crowned Tchagra Brown-crowned Tchagra Southern Tchagra Southern Boubou Sulphur-breasted Bushshrike Four-colored Bushshrike Gray-headed Bushshrike White Helmetshrike Retz's Helmetshrike Zululand Batis Chinspot Batis Black-throated Wattle-eye THRUSHES Groundscraper Thrush Kurrichane Thrush STARLINGS Red-winged Starling Black-bellied Glossy-Starling Red-shouldered Glossy-Starling Greater Blue-eared Glossy-Starling Violet-backed Starling Wattled Starling Red-billed Oxpecker OLD WORLD FLYCATCHERS Pale Flycatcher Southern Black-Flycatcher Fiscal Flycatcher Spotted Flycatcher African Dusky Flycatcher Ashy Flycatcher Gray Tit-Flycatcher White-throated Robin-Chat White-browed Robin-Chat Red-capped Robin-Chat Bearded Scrub-Robin Brown Scrub-Robin Red-backed Scrub-Robin Stonechat Capped Wheatear Familiar Chat SWALLOWS Plain Martin Gray-rumped Swallow Barn Swallow Wire-tailed Swallow Greater Striped-Swallow Lesser Striped-Swallow Black Sawwing BULBULS Common Bulbul Sombre Greenbul Yellow-bellied Greenbul Terrestrial Brownbul Yellow-streaked Bulbul Yellow-spotted Nicator WHITE-EYES African Yellow White-eye Pale White-eye CISTICOLAS AND ALLIES Red-faced Cisticola Rattling Cisticola Piping Cisticola Zitting Cisticola Desert Cisticola Tawny-flanked Prinia Bar-throated Apalis Yellow-breasted Apalis Rudd's Apalis Black-headed Apalis Green-backed Camaroptera Stierling's Wren-Warbler OLD WORLD WARBLERS African Bush-Warbler African Reed-Warbler Lesser Swamp-Warbler Icterine Warbler Greencap Eremomela Burnt-neck Eremomela Cape Crombec Willow Warbler BABBLERS Arrow-marked Babbler CHICKADEES, TITS Southern Black-Tit PENDULINE TITS African Penduline-Tit LARKS Latakoo Lark Rufous-naped Lark Flappet Lark Sabota Lark OLD WORLD SPARROWS Cape Sparrow Yellow-throated Petronia WAXBILLS AND ALLIES Green-winged Pytilia Green-backed Twinspot Pink-throated Twinspot Red-billed Firefinch African Firefinch Jameson's Firefinch Blue-breasted Cordonbleu Lavender Waxbill Common Waxbill Zebra Waxbill Bronze Mannikin Black-and-white Mannikin Magpie Mannikin Village Indigobird Variable Indigobird Purple Indigobird Pin-tailed Whydah Eastern Paradise-Whydah WAGTAILS AND PIPITS African Pied Wagtail Cape Wagtail Yellow-throated Longclaw African Pipit WEAVERS AND ALLIES Lesser Masked Weaver Spectacled Weaver African Golden-Weaver Holub's Golden-Weaver Southern Brown-throated Weaver Southern Masked-Weaver Village Weaver Forest Weaver Red-headed Weaver Red-headed Quelea Red-billed Quelea Yellow-crowned Bishop Red Bishop Yellow Bishop White-winged Widowbird Grosbeak Weaver SUNBIRDS AND SPIDERHUNTERS Collared Sunbird Olive Sunbird Mouse-colored Sunbird Amethyst Sunbird Scarlet-chested Sunbird White-breasted Sunbird Southern Double-collared Sunbird Neergaard's Sunbird Mariqua Sunbird Purple-banded Sunbird SISKINS, CROSSBILLS AND ALLIES Southern Yellow-rumped Seedeater Lemon-breasted Seedeater Yellow-fronted Canary Brimstone Canary Streaky-headed Seedeater BUNTINGS, SPARROWS, TANAGERS, ALLIES Cinnamon-breasted Bunting Golden-breasted Bunting