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                      Garden list   (est 1 January 2004)

English name English name
Helmeted Guineafowl Yellow-billed Kite
Egyptian Goose Rock Kestrel
Little Swift Purple Heron
White-rumped Swift Hadeda Ibis
Spotted Eagle-Owl Common Starling
Speckled Pigeon Barn Swallow
Laughing Dove Malachite Sunbird
Spotted Thick-knee Cape Wagtail
Cape Gull Yellow Canary
Blacksmith Lapwing Crowned Lapwing
Alpine Swift African Harrier-Hawk
Rufous-breasted Sparrowhawk Pied Crow
Red-eyed Dove Cape Turtle Dove
Familiar Chat Malachite Sunbird
Rose-ringed Parakeet (escapee) -


                          Life list   (est 1 July 2001)

English name English name English name
Common Ostrich Chukar Partridge Crested Francolin
Grey-winged Francolin Cape Spurfowl Natal Spurfowl
Swainson's Spurfowl Common Peacock Helmeted Guineafowl
Fulvous Duck White-faced Duck White-backed Duck
Maccoa Duck Egyptian Goose South African Shelduck
Spur-winged Goose Cape Teal African Black Duck
Mallard Yellow-billed Duck Cape Shoveler
Red-billed Teal Southern Pochard Hottentot Buttonquail
Greater Honeyguide Lesser Honeyguide Golden-tailed Woodpecker
Ground Woodpecker Cardinal Woodpecker Olive Woodpecker
Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird Acacia Pied Barbet Black-collared Barbet
Crested Barbet Red-billed Hornbill Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill
Bradfield's Hornbill African Grey Hornbill Southern Ground-Hornbill
African Hoopoe Green Wood-Hoopoe Violet Wood-Hoopoe
Common Scimitarbill Lilac-breasted Roller Purple Roller
Malachite Kingfisher Woodland Kingfisher Brown-hooded Kingfisher
Striped Kingfisher Giant Kingfisher Pied Kingfisher
White-fronted Bee-eater Little Bee-eater Swallow-tailed Bee-eater
European Bee-eater White-backed Mousebird Speckled Mousebird
Red-faced Mousebird Red-chested Cuckoo Black Cuckoo
Klaas's Cuckoo Diderick Cuckoo Coppery-tailed Coucal
Burchell's Coucal Meyer's Parrot Rüppell's Parrot
Rosy-faced Lovebird African Palm-Swift Alpine Swift
African Black Swift Little Swift Horus Swift
White-rumped Swift Purple-crested Turaco Grey Go-away-bird
Barn Owl African Scops-Owl Cape Eagle-Owl
Spotted Eagle-Owl Verreaux's Eagle-Owl Pearl-spotted Owlet
Fiery-necked Nightjar Square-tailed Nightjar Rock Dove
Speckled Pigeon African Olive-Pigeon Lemon Dove
Laughing Dove African Mourning Dove Cape Turtle-Dove
Red-eyed Dove Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove Namaqua Dove
African Green-Pigeon Denham's Bustard Kori Bustard
Red-crested Korhaan Southern Black Korhaan Northern Black Korhaan
Rüppell's Korhaan Karoo Korhaan Black-bellied Bustard
Blue Crane African Rail Black Crake
African Purple Swamphen Common Moorhen Red-knobbed Coot
Namaqua Sandgrouse Double-banded Sandgrouse Burchell's Sandgrouse
African Snipe Bar-tailed Godwit Common Whimbrel
Eurasian Curlew Common Redshank Marsh Sandpiper
Common Greenshank Wood Sandpiper Common Sandpiper
Ruddy Turnstone Red Knot Sanderling
Little Stint Curlew Sandpiper Ruff
Red-necked Phalarope Red Phalarope Greater Painted-snipe
African Jacana Lesser Jacana Water Thick-knee
Spotted Thick-knee African Black Oystercatcher Black-winged Stilt
Pied Avocet Grey Plover Common Ringed Plover
Kittlitz's Plover Three-banded Plover Chestnut-banded Plover
White-fronted Plover Blacksmith Lapwing African Wattled Lapwing
Crowned Lapwing Double-banded Courser Subantarctic Skua
Parasitic Jaeger Kelp Gull Grey-headed Gull
Hartlaub's Gull Franklin's Gull Caspian Tern
Swift Tern Sandwich Tern Common Tern
Arctic Tern Little Tern White-cheeked Tern
White-winged Tern Black Tern Osprey
European Honey-Buzzard Black-shouldered Kite Black Kite
African Fish-Eagle Palm-nut Vulture Hooded Vulture
White-backed Vulture Cape Vulture Lappet-faced Vulture
White-headed Vulture Black-chested Snake-Eagle Brown Snake-Eagle
Bateleur African Marsh-Harrier Black Harrier
African Harrier-Hawk Dark Chanting Goshawk Southern Pale Chanting Goshawk
African Goshawk Little Sparrowhawk Black Sparrowhawk
Steppe Buzzard Forest Buzzard Jackal Buzzard
Steppe Eagle Tawny Eagle Verreaux's Eagle
African Hawk-Eagle Booted Eagle Wahlberg's Eagle
Martial Eagle Long-crested Eagle African Crowned Eagle
Secretarybird Pygmy Falcon Lesser Kestrel
Rock Kestrel Greater Kestrel Amur Falcon
African Hobby Lanner Falcon Peregrine Falcon
Little Grebe Great Crested Grebe Black-necked Grebe
Cape Gannet African Darter Reed Cormorant
White-breasted Cormorant Bank Cormorant Cape Cormorant
Black Heron Little Egret Little Blue Heron
Yellow-billed Egret Great Egret Grey Heron
Black-headed Heron Goliath Heron Purple Heron
Cattle Egret Squacco Heron Rufous-bellied Heron
Green-backed Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Little Bittern
Dwarf Bittern Hamerkop Greater Flamingo
Lesser Flamingo Glossy Ibis Hadeda Ibis
Southern Bald Ibis African Sacred Ibis African Spoonbill
Great White Pelican Yellow-billed Stork Black Stork
Woolly-necked Stork White Stork Saddle-billed Stork
Marabou Stork African Penguin Wilson's Storm-Petrel
European Storm-Petrel Wandering Albatross Shy Albatross
Black-browed Albatross Southern Giant-Petrel Northern Giant-Petrel
Great-winged Petrel White-chinned Petrel Cory's Shearwater
Great Shearwater Sooty Shearwater Black-headed Oriole
Fork-tailed Drongo African Paradise-Flycatcher Brubru
Black-backed Puffback Black-crowned Tchagra Brown-crowned Tchagra
Swamp Boubou Southern Boubou Crimson-breasted Shrike
Bokmakierie Olive Bush-Shrike Grey-headed Bush-Shrike
White-crested Helmet-Shrike Cape Batis Chinspot Batis
Pririt Batis House Crow Cape Crow
Pied Crow White-necked Raven Common Fiscal
Magpie Shrike Southern White-crowned Shrike Grey Cuckooshrike
Cape Rock-jumper Cape Penduline-Tit Carp's Tit
Ashy Tit Grey Tit Sand Martin
Brown-throated Martin Banded Martin Barn Swallow
White-throated Swallow Wire-tailed Swallow Blue Swallow
Pearl-breasted Swallow Greater Striped Swallow Lesser Striped Swallow
Red-breasted Swallow South African Cliff-Swallow Rock Martin
Common House-Martin Black Saw-wing Dark-capped Bulbul
African Red-eyed Bulbul Cape Bulbul Sombre Greenbul
Yellow-bellied Greenbul Terrestrial Brownbul Cape Grassbird
Victorin's Warbler Long-billed Crombec Yellow-bellied Eremomela
Karoo Eremomela Little Rush-Warbler Knysna Warbler
African Reed-Warbler Yellow-throated Woodland-Warbler Willow Warbler
Hartlaub's Babbler Southern Pied Babbler Arrow-marked Babbler
Bare-cheeked Babbler Layard's Tit-Babbler Chestnut-vented Tit-Babbler
African Yellow White-eye Cape White-eye Orange River White-eye
Rattling Cisticola Levaillant's Cisticola Neddicky
Zitting Cisticola Desert Cisticola Tawny-flanked Prinia
Black-chested Prinia Karoo Prinia Namaqua Warbler
Bar-throated Apalis Grey-backed Camaroptera Rufous-naped Lark
Cape Clapper Lark Eastern Clapper Lark Sabota Lark
Karoo Lark Spike-heeled Lark Eastern Long-billed Lark
Black-eared Sparrowlark Chestnut-backed Sparrowlark Grey-backed Sparrowlark
Red-capped Lark Large-billed Lark Cape Rock-Thrush
Short-toed Rock-Thrush Groundscraper Thrush Kurrichane Thrush
Olive Thrush Karoo Thrush Marico Flycatcher
Southern Black Flycatcher Fiscal Flycatcher Spotted Flycatcher
African Dusky Flycatcher Cape Robin-Chat White-throated Robin-Chat
Bearded Scrub-Robin Kalahari Scrub-Robin Karoo Scrub-Robin
African Stonechat Capped Wheatear Karoo Chat
Tractrac Chat Familiar Chat Anteating Chat
Mocking Cliff-Chat Pale-winged Starling Red-winged Starling
Cape Glossy Starling Burchell's Starling Meves's Starling
Violet-backed Starling Pied Starling Wattled Starling
Common Starling Common Myna Red-billed Oxpecker
Orange-breasted Sunbird Amethyst Sunbird Scarlet-chested Sunbird
Malachite Sunbird Southern Double-collared Sunbird Greater Double-collared Sunbird
White-bellied Sunbird Dusky Sunbird Cape Sugarbird
Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver Scaly-feathered Finch White-browed Sparrow-Weaver
Sociable Weaver Lesser Masked-Weaver Cape Weaver
Southern Masked-Weaver Village Weaver Red-billed Quelea
Yellow-crowned Bishop Southern Red Bishop Yellow Bishop
Long-tailed Widowbird Cut-throat Finch Swee Waxbill
Black-faced Waxbill Common Waxbill Violet-eared Waxbill
Blue Waxbill Green-winged Pytilia Red-billed Firefinch
Brown Firefinch Jameson's Firefinch Bronze Mannikin
Village Indigobird Shaft-tailed Whydah Pin-tailed Whydah
Long-tailed Paradise-Whydah House Sparrow Great Sparrow
Cape Sparrow Southern Grey-headed Sparrow Yellow-throated Petronia
African Pied Wagtail Cape Wagtail Cape Longclaw
Striped Pipit African Rock Pipit African Pipit
Plain-backed Pipit Common Chaffinch Cape Canary
Black-headed Canary Yellow-fronted Canary Forest Canary
Yellow Canary Brimstone Canary Protea Seedeater
Streaky-headed Seedeater Cape Siskin Lark-like Bunting
Cinnamon-breasted Bunting Cape Bunting Golden-breasted Bunting
Chukar Patridge Knysna Woodpecker Half-collared Kingfisher
Tropical Boubou Small Buttonquail Lizzard Buzzard
Black Cuckooshrike Tambourine Dove Comb Duck
African Finfoot Lazy Cisticola Taita Falcon
Ashy Flycatcher Grey Tit-Flycatcher Black-chested Wattle-eye
Shikra African Barred Owlet African Wood-Owl
Brown-headed Parrot Grey-headed Parrot Yellow-breasted Apalis
White-crowned Lapwing Common Quail Bearded Scrub-Robin
White-browed Robin-Chat Orange-breasted Bush-Shrike Bohm's Spinetail
Greater Blue-eared Starling African Openbill Collared Sunbird
Marico Sunbird Mosque Swallow Southern Black Tit
Red-headed Weaver Spectacled Weaver Bearded Woodpecker
Bennett's Woodpecker - -


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