Rietvlei Bird List

C-Common U-Uncommon R-Rare V-Vagrant A-All Year S-Summer W-Winter

Great Crested Grebe CA Blackened Grebe V Dabchick CA White Pelican CA Whitebreasted Cormorant CA Cape Cormorant UA Reed Cormorant CA Crowned Cormorant V Blue Crane RA Darter CA Grey Heron CA Blackheaded Heron CA Purple Heron CA Great White Egret V Little Egret CA Yellowbilled Egret CA Cattle Egret CA Blackcrowned Night Heron CA Little Bittern UA Hamerkop V White Stork V Black Stork V Yellowbilled Stork V Sacred Ibis CA Glossy Ibis CA Hadeda Ibis CA African Spoonbill CS Greater Flamingo CA Lesser Flamingo CS Whitefaced Duck UA Fulvous Duck UA Egyptian Goose CA South African Shelduck UA Yellowbilled Duck CA Cape Teal CA Hottentot Teal UA Redbilled Teal CA Whitebacked Duck UA Cape Shoveller CA Southern Pochard UA Knobbilled Duck V Spurwinged Goose CA Maccoa Duck UA Yellowbilled Kite US Cape Francolin CA Greywinged Duck UA Common Quail VW Helmeted Guineafowl CA African Rail UA Black Crake UA Baillon's Crake RA Purple Gallinule CA Moorhen CA Redknobbed Coot CA Painted Snipe UA Ethiopean Snipe CS African Blk Oystercatcher CA Ringed Plover CS Whitefronted Plover UA Chestnutbanded Plover RA Kittlitz's Plover CA Threebanded Plover CA Grey Plover RS Crowned Plover UA Blacksmith Plover CA Turnstone RS Common Sandpiper CS Wood Sandpiper CS Redshank V Marsh Sandpiper CS Greenshank CS Whimbrel V African Jacana V Knot V Curlew Sandpiper CS

Little Stint CS Pectoral Sandpiper V Sanderling US Ruff CS Bartailed Godwit V Curlew V Blackwinged Stilt CA Spotted Dikkop CA Water Dikkop CA Kelp Gull CA Greyheaded Gull UA Blackshouldered Kite CA African Fish Eagle UA Osprey RS Steppe Buzzard US Jackal Buzzard V African Marsh Harrier CA Peregrine Falcon UA Pied Crow CA Lanner Falcon CA Black Harrier RA Rock Kestrel CA Hartlaub's Gull CA Caspian Tern CA Swift Tern CA Sandwich Tern CS Common Tern CS Damara Tern V Whiskered Tern RS Whitewinged Tern CS Feral Pigeon CA Rock Pigeon CA Redeyed Dove CA Cape Turtle Dove CA Laughing Dove CA Namaqua Dove RA Klaas's Cuckoo CS Diederik Cuckoo US Burchell's Coucal UA Barn Owl UA Marsh Owl UA Spotted Eagle Owl UA Flerynecked Nightjar CA Black Swift CA Whiterumped Swift US Little Swift CA Alpine Swift CA Speckled Mousebird RA Whitebacked Mousebird RA Redfaced Mousebird RA Pied Kingfisher CA Giant Kingfisher UA Malachite Kingfisher CA Hoopoe RA Pied Barbet UA Redcapped Lark CA European Swallow CS Whitethroated Swallow CS Greater Striped Swallow US South African Cliff Swallow V Pearlbreasted Swallow US Rock Martin RA House Martin RS European Sand Martin US Brownthroated Martin CA Banded Martin US Cape Bulbul UA Olive Thrush RA Capped Wheatear RA Familiar Chat RA Stonechat RA Cape Robin CA Karoo Robin UA Titbabbler RA African Marsh Warbler CS

Cape Reed Warbler CA African Sedge Warbler CA Willow Warbler RS Bar-throated Apalis RA Longbilled Crombec CS Fantailed Cisticola CA Cloud Cisticola RA Greybacked Cisticola CA Levaillant's Cisticola CA Cape Batis RA Spotted Prinia CA Fiscal Flycatcher RA Paradise Flycatcher US Cape Wagtail CA Grassveld Pipit CA Orangethroated Longclaw CA Fiscal Shrike CA Bokmakierie CA Redbacked Shrike V European Starling CA Pied Starling RA Redwing Starling UA Malachite Sunbird US Lesser D/collard Sunbird CA Cape White-eye CA House Sparrow RA Cape Sparrow CA Cape Weaver CA Masked Weaver CA Red Bishop CA Yellowrumped Widow CA Common Waxbill CA Pintailed Whydah CA Cape Canary CA Yellow Canary CA Whitethroated Canary UA Cape Bunting RA

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