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Mantenga Nature Reserve - Fauna - Birds

(Provisional list: species recorded for 2631ACD, numbers are as per Roberts' Birds of Southern Africa)

8     Little Grebe
55    White-breasted Cormorant
58    Reed Cormorant
60    African Darter
62    Grey Heron
63    Black-headed Heron
66    Great Egret
71    Cattle Egret
74    Green-backed Heron
81    Hamerkop
83    White Stork
91    African Sacred Ibis
92    Bald Ibis
93    Glossy Ibis
94    Hadeda Ibis
95    African Spoonbill
99    White-faced Duck
102   Egyptian Goose
104   Yellow-billed Duck
105   African Black Duck
116   Spur-winged Goose
118   Secretarybird
126   Yellow-billed Kite
126   Black Kite
127   Black-shouldered Kite
131   Verreaux's Eagle
140   Martial Eagle
148   African Fish-Eagle
149   Steppe Buzzard
152   Jackal Buzzard
157   Little Sparrowhawk
160   African Goshawk
165   African Marsh-Harrier
169   African Harrier-Hawk
172   Lanner Falcon
173   Eurasian Hobby
180   Amur Falcon
191   Shelley's Francolin
196   Natal Spurfowl
199   Swainson's Spurfowl
203   Helmeted Guineafowl
213   Black Crake
226   Common Moorhen
238   Black-bellied Bustard
240   African Jacana
249   Three-banded Plover
255   Crowned Lapwing
257   Black-winged Lapwing
258   Blacksmith Lapwing
260   African Wattled Lapwing
264   Common Sandpiper
266   Wood Sandpiper
270   Common Greenshank
297   Spotted Thick-knee
298   Water Thick-knee
349   Speckled Pigeon
350   African Olive-Pigeon
352   Red-eyed Dove
354   Cape Turtle-Dove
358   Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove
359   Tambourine Dove
361   African Green-Pigeon
371   Purple-crested Turaco
377   Red-chested Cuckoo
378   Black Cuckoo
385   Klaas's Cuckoo
386   Diderick Cuckoo
391   Burchell's Coucal
392   Barn Owl
394   African Wood-Owl
405   Fiery-necked Nightjar
415   White-rumped Swift
416   Horus Swift
417   Little Swift
421   African Palm-Swift
424   Speckled Mousebird
426   Red-faced Mousebird
427   Narina Trogon
428   Pied Kingfisher
429   Giant Kingfisher
430   Half-collared Kingfisher
431   Malachite Kingfisher
435   Brown-hooded Kingfisher
438   European Bee-eater
443   White-fronted Bee-eater
444   Little Bee-eater
451   African Hoopoe
464   Black-collared Barbet
473   Crested Barbet
474   Greater Honeyguide
475   Scaly-throated Honeyguide
476   Lesser Honeyguide
478   Brown-backed Honeybird
483   Golden-tailed Woodpecker
486   Cardinal Woodpecker
488   Olive Woodpecker
494   Rufous-naped Lark
518   Barn Swallow
520   White-throated Swallow
522   Wire-tailed Swallow
526   Greater Striped Swallow
527   Lesser Striped Swallow
530   Common House-Martin
531   Grey-rumped Swallow
533   Brown-throated Martin
534   Banded Martin
536   Black Saw-wing
538   Black Cuckooshrike
541   Fork-tailed Drongo
545   Black-headed Oriole
547   Cape Crow
548   Pied Crow
550   White-necked Raven
554   Southern Black Tit
568   Dark-capped Bulbul
572   Sombre Greenbul
576   Kurrichane Thrush
577   Olive Thrush
580   Groundscraper Thrush
581   Cape Rock-Thrush
588   Buff-streaked Chat
589   Familiar Chat
593   Mocking Cliff-Chat
596   African Stonechat
598   Chorister Robin-Chat
599   White-browed Robin-Chat
600   Red-capped Robin-Chat
601   Cape Robin-Chat
613   White-browed Scrub-Robin
631   African Reed-Warbler
637   Dark-capped Yellow Warbler
642   Broad-tailed Warbler
643   Willow Warbler
645   Bar-throated Apalis
648   Yellow-breasted Apalis
657   Bleating Warbler
661   Cape Grassbird
664   Zitting Cisticola
667   Wing-snapping Cisticola
670   Wailing Cisticola
672   Rattling Cisticola
674   Red-faced Cisticola
677   Levaillant's Cisticola
678   Croaking Cisticola
679   Lazy Cisticola
681   Neddicky
683   Tawny-flanked Prinia
686   Spotted Prinia
689   Spotted Flycatcher
690   African Dusky Flycatcher
691   Ashy Flycatcher
694   Southern Black Flycatcher
700   Cape Batis
701   Chinspot Batis
710   African Paradise-Flycatcher
711   African Pied Wagtail
712   Mountain Wagtail
713   Cape Wagtail
717   Long-billed Pipit
718   Plain-backed Pipit
720   Striped Pipit
727   Cape Longclaw
728   Yellow-throated Longclaw
732   Common Fiscal
733   Red-backed Shrike
736   Southern Boubou
740   Black-backed Puffback
744   Black-crowned Tchagra
746   Bokmakierie
750   Olive Bush-Shrike
753   White-crested Helmet-Shrike
759   Pied Starling
761   Violet-backed Starling
764   Cape Glossy Starling
769   Red-winged Starling
775   Malachite Sunbird
783   Southern Double-collared Sunbird
785   Greater Double-collared Sunbird
787   White-bellied Sunbird
790   Olive Sunbird
792   Amethyst Sunbird
793   Collared Sunbird
796   Cape White-eye
801   House Sparrow
804   Southern Grey-headed Sparrow
805   Yellow-throated Petronia
807   Thick-billed Weaver
810   Spectacled Weaver
811   Village Weaver
813   Cape Weaver
816   Golden Weaver
824   Southern Red Bishop
828   Fan-tailed Widowbird
831   Red-collared Widowbird
840   African Firefinch
844   Blue Waxbill
846   Common Waxbill
850   Swee Waxbill
852   African Quailfinch
854   Orange-breasted Waxbill
857   Bronze Mannikin
858   Red-backed Mannikin
860   Pin-tailed Whydah
864   Dusky Indigobird
869   Yellow-fronted Canary
872   Cape Canary
881   Streaky-headed Seedeater
884   Golden-breasted Bunting
886   Cinnamon-breasted Bunting

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