Elaleni Bird Sightings

With a wide variety of bird species calling Elaleni home, we encourage our residents to let us know when they spot one of the many wonderful creatures.

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Birds Sighted

Bar-throated Apalis
Yellow-breasted Apalis
Black-collared Barbet
Crested Barbet
White-eared Barbet
Cape Batis
Chinspot Batis
Little Bee-eater
White-fronted Bee-eater
Southern Red Bishop
Little Bittern
Southern Boubou
Terrestrial Brownbul
Dark-capped Bulbul
Cinnamon-breasted Bunting
Grey-headed Bush-shrike
Olive Bush-shrike
Orange-breasted Bush-shrike
Small Buttonquail
Steppe Buzzard
Green-backed Camaroptera
Brimstone Canary
Forest Canary
Yellow-fronted Canary
Familiar Chat
Croaking Cisticola
Lazy Cisticola
Levaillant’s Cisticola
Rattling Cisticola
Red-faced Cisticola
Rufous-winged Cisticola
Zitting Cisticola
Mocking Cliff-chat
Red-knobbed Coot
Reed Cormorant
White-breasted Cormorant
Burchell’s Coucal
Black Crake
Grey Crowned Crane
Pied Crow
African Emerald Cuckoo
Black Cuckoo
Diderick Cuckoo
Jacobin Cuckoo
Klaas’s Cuckoo
Red-chested Cuckoo
Black Cuckooshrike
African Darter
Laughing Dove
Namaqua Dove
Red-eyed Dove
Tambourine Dove
Fork-tailed Drongo
Fulvous Duck
White-backed Duck
White-faced Duck
Yellow-billed Duck
African Crowned Eagle
Long-crested Eagle
Spotted Eagle-Owl
Cattle Egret
Little Egret
Yellow-billed Egret
Lanner Falcon
African Firefinch
Red-billed Firefinch
Common Fiscal
African Fish-Eagle
African Dusky Flycatcher
Ashy Flycatcher
Blue-mantled Crested Flycatcher
Fiscal Flycatcher
Southern Black Flycatcher
Spotted Flycatcher
Shelley’s Francolin
Egyptian Goose
Spur-winged Goose
African Goshawk
Cape Grassbird
Little Grebe
Sombre Greenbul
Yellow-bellied Greenbul
African Green-Pigeon
Common Greenshank
Helmeted Guineafowl
Hamerkop
African Harrier-Hawk
Bat Hawk
African Hawk-Eagle
Black-headed Heron
Goliath Heron
Green-backed Heron
Grey Heron
Purple Heron
Squacco Heron
European Honey-Buzzard
Greater Honeyguide
Lesser Honeyguide
African Hoopoe
Trumpeter Hornbill
African Sacred Ibis
Hadeda Ibis
Dusky Indigobird
Village Indigobird
African Jacana
Brown-hooded Kingfisher
Giant Kingfisher
Malachite Kingfisher
Pied Kingfisher
Black-shouldered Kite
Yellow-billed Kite
Blacksmith Lapwing
Red-capped Lark
Rufous-naped Lark
Yellow-throated Longclaw
Green Malkoha
Bronze Mannikin
African Marsh-Harrier
Banded Martin
Brown-throated Martin
Sand Martin
Common Moorhen
Lesser Moorhen
Red-faced Mousebird
Speckled Mousebird
Common Myna
Neddicky
Fierynecked Nightjar
Square-tailed Nightjar
Black-headed Oriole
Western Osprey
African Palm-Swift
African Paradise-Flycatcher
Rose-ringed Parakeet
Great White Pelican
Pinkbacked Pelican
Yellow-throated Petronia
Speckled Pigeon
African Pipit
Striped Pipit
Three-banded Plover
Tawny-flanked Prinia
Black-backed Puffback
African Pygmy-Goose
African Pygmy-Kingfisher
Red-billed Quelea
Red-headed Quelea
African Reed-warbler
Great Reed-warbler
Cape Robin-chat
Red-capped Robin-chat
Eurasian Roller
Little Rush-warbler
Common Sandpiper
Wood Sandpiper
Black Saw-wing
Brown Scrub-robin
White-browed Scrub-robin
Streaky-headed Seed-eater
Red-backed Shrike
Black-chested Snake-Eagle
Brown Snake-Eagle
House Sparrow
Southern Grey-headed Sparrow
Black Sparrowhawk
Little Sparrowhawk
African Spoonbill
Natal Spurfowl
Black-bellied Starling
Cape Glossy Starling
Common Starling
Red-winged Starling
Violet-backed Starling
Wattled Starling
African Stonechat
White Stork
Woolly-necked Stork
Amethyst Sunbird
Collared Sunbird
Grey Sunbird
Malachite Sunbird
Olive Sunbird
Purple-banded Sunbird
Scarlet-chested Sunbird
White-bellied Sunbird
Barn Swallow
Lesser Striped Swallow
Red-breasted Swallow
White-throated Swallow
Wire-tailed Swallow
Lesser Swamp-warbler
African Black Swift
Alpine Swift
Horus Swift
Little Swift
White-rumped Swift
Black-crowned Tchagra
Southern Tchagra
Water Thickknee
Kurrichane Thrush
Olive Thrush
Red-fronted Tinkerbird
Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird
Southern Black Tit
Narina Trogon
Purple-crested Turaco
Cape Turtle-Dove
Green Twinspot
Palmnut Vulture
African Pied Wagtail
Cape Wagtail
Dark-capped Yellow Warbler
Marsh Warbler
Willow Warbler
Black-throated Wattle-eye
Blue Waxbill
Common Waxbill
Grey Waxbill
Orange-breasted Waxbill
Cape Weaver
Spectacled Weaver
Thick-billed Weaver
Village Weaver
Yellow Weaver
Cape White-eye
Pin-tailed Whydah
Fan-tailed Widowbird
Red-collared Widowbird
Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove
Green Wood-hoopoe
Yellow-throated Woodland-Warbler
Cardinal Woodpecker
Golden-tailed Woodpecker
Red-throated Wryneck

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