GAMTOOS MOUTH BIRD LIST

Original check-list provided by Birdlife, Eastern Cape. Their list has been up-dated and the current list stands at about 192 species.

Our area of interest includes the estuary, beach, dunes and vegetation around the resort. Any new sightings should be verified by colleagues before adding to the official list. We may even find that some birds should come off the list. . Happy birding!

African (Black) Oystercatcher
African Black Duck
African Black Swift
African Darter
African Firefinch (Bluebilled..)
African Fish Eagle
African Goshawk
African Green-Pigeon
African Hoepoe
African Jacana
African Marsh Harrier
African Paradise Flycatcher
African Purple Swamphen
African Sacred Ibis
African Snipe
African Spoonbill
Alpine Swift
Amethyst Sunbird
Arctic Tern
Barn Swallow
Bar-tailed Godwit
Bar-throated Apalis
Black Crake
Black Crow
Black Cuckoo Shrike
Black Harrier
Black Saw-wing Swallow
Black Sparrowhawk
Black -winged Stilt
Black-backed Puffback
Black-collared Barbet
Black-crowned Night Heron
Black-headed Heron
Black-headed Oriole
Black-shouldered Kite
Blacksmith Lapwing
Blue Crane
Blue Waxbill
Blue-mantled Crested Flycatcher
Bokmakierie
Brimstone Canary
Brown-hooded Kingfisher
Brown-throated Martin
Burchell’sCoucal
Cape Batis
Cape Bulbul
Cape Canary
Cape Cormorant
Cape Gannet
Cape Glossy Starling
Cape Robin-Chat
Cape Shoveler
Cape Sparrow
Cape Teal
Cape Turtle Dove
Cape Wagtail
Cape Weaver
Cape White-eye
Caspian Tern
Citrine Wagtail
Collared Sunbird
Common Fiscal
Common Greenshank
Common Moorhen
Common Ringed Plover
Common Sandpiper
Common Starling
Common Tern
Common Waxbill
Common Whimbrel
Crab Plover
Crowned Hornbill
Crowned Lapwing
Curlew Sandpiper
Dark-capped Bulbul
Diderick Cuckoo
Dusky Flycatcher
Egyptian Goose
Emerald-spotted Wood-dove
Eurasian Curlew
Eurasian Oystercatcher
European Roller
Familiar Chat
Fiery-necked Nightjar
Fiscal Flycatcher
Fork-tailed Drongo
Giant Kingfisher
Golden-breasted Bunting
Goliath Heron
Great Egret
Greater Doubled-collared Sunbird
Greater Flamingo
Greater Striped Swallow
Green Wood-Hoepoe
Green-backed Camaroptera (Bleating...)
Grey Heron
Grey Plover
Grey-backed Cisticola
Grey-headed Gull
Hadeda Ibis
Half-collared Kingfisher
Helmeted Guineafowl
House Sparrow
Jackal Buzzard
Jacobin Cuckoo
Karoo Prinia
Kelp Gull
Kittlitz’s Plover
Klaas’s Cuckoo
Knysna Woodpecker
Kynsna Turaco
Lanner Falcon
Laughing Dove
Lesser Flamingo
Lesser Striped Swallow
Lesser Swamp-Warbler
Levaillant’sCisticola
Little Bittern
Little Egret
Little Grebe
Little Rush-Warbler (Afr. Sedge)
Little Stint
Little Swift
Little Tern
Malachite Kingfisher
Marsh Sandpiper
Neddicky
Olive Bush-shrike
Olive Thrush
Olive Woodpecker
Pied Avocet
Pied Kingfisher
Pied Starling
Pin-tailed Whydah
Purple Heron
Red Bishop
Red-billed Teal
Red-capped Lark
Red-chested CuckooBlack Cuckoo
Red-eyed Dove
Red-faced Mousebird
Red-fronted Tinkerbarbet
Red-knobbed Coot
Red-necked Spurfowl
Red-winged Starling
Reed Cormorant
Richard’s Pipit
Rock Martin
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)
Ruddy Turnstone
Ruff
Sanderling
Sandwich Tern
SombeGreenbul
South African Shelduck
Southern Boubou
Southern Double-collared Sunbird
Southern Grey-headed Sparrow
Southern Tchagra
Speckled Mousebird
Speckled Pigeon
Spectacled Weaver
Spotted Eagle Owl
Spotted Thick-knee
Spur-winged Goose
Stone Chat
Streaky- headed Seedeater
Swee Waxbill
Swift Tern
Tambourine Dove
Terek Sandpiper
Terrestrial Brownbul
Thick-billed Weaver
Three-banded Plover
Water Thick-Knee
Wattled Starling
Western Cattle Egret
Western Osprey
Whiskered Tern
White-breasted Cormorant
White-faced Whistling Duck
White-fronted Plover
White-rumped Swift
White-throated swallow
White-winged Tern
Wood Sandpiper
Yellow-billed Duck
Yellow-billed Kite
Yellow-breasted Apalis
Yellow-fronted Canary
ZittingCisticola (Fantailed)