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Guineafowls; Francolins; Button-quails                                                  

Crakes and Rails; Jacanas

Cranes

Bustards

Avocets and Stilts; Oystercatchers

Thick-knees

Coursers and Pratincoles

Plovers

Sandpipers

Skuas

Gulls and Terns; Skimmers

Sandgrouses

Doves and Pigeons

 

Guineafowls; Francolins; Button-quails

Red-billed Francolin                     Bo  Na(Ca)

Crested Francolin                            SA(KZN) 

Helmeted Guineafowl                   SA  SA(KZN)

Crested Guineafowl                     SA(KZN)

Crakes and Rails; Jacanas

Black Crake    Na(Ca)    Mo

African Jacana                 Zi  Na(Ca) Mo

Cranes

Grey Crowned Crane                   Zi Rw 

Wattled Crane             Na(Ca) 

Demoiselle Crane           Et   

Bustards

Black-bellied Bustard (Korhaan)               SA(Nam)   SA(KZN)

Avocets and Stilts; Oystercatchers

Black-winged Stilt                         Ta Ug Ug   

African Black Oystercatcher          SA

 

Crab Plover - Dromas ardeola    Mo

      

Thick-knees

Water Thick-knee                         ZiUg   Ta

Coursers and Pratincoles

Plovers

Blacksmith Lapwing                         SA(Nam)   

Spur-winged Lapwing                      Ug Ta

Long-toed Lapwing                          Bo

African Wattled Lapwing     Na(Ca) SA(KZN)

White-crowned Lapwing            Ta Ta

Crowned Lapwing                  SA(Nam)  SA(KZN)

Kittlitz's Plover                            Ta    Mo           

Lesser Black-winged Plover   Vanellus lugubris  SA(KZN)

Three-banded Plover      Na SA(Nam) SA(KZN)

                                           Ta

Common Ringed Plover              Ug      Mo

White-fronted Plover - Charadrius marginatus     Mo

Ruddy Turnstone - Arenaria interpres

Mo     Mo

 

Sandpipers

Common Sandpiper - Actitis hypoleucos Mo   Mo

 

Common Greenshank                 Ug   -Mo

Curlew Sandpiper - Calidris ferruginea

Eurasian Curlew - Numenius arquata

  Mo Mo 

 

African Snipe                                 SA(Nam)                   

Skuas                    Photos of these birds can be seen in Birds of the Oceans and Poles

 

Gulls and Terns; Skimmers

Hartlaob's Gull                        SA

Grey-headed Gull            Ug

Lesser Black-backed Gull      SA SA

Cape Gull                            SA

Swift Tern                        SA

Antarctic Tern                    Tristan

Whiskered Tern                    Bo

Caspian Tern - Sterna caspia

Mo  Mo Mo

 

African Skimmer                    Ta  Ta    

Sandgrouses

Doves and Pigeons

Namaqua Dove         Ta              

Ring-necked Dove (Cape Turtle)            Co Ta Mo

Red-eyed Dove                                          Ta

Laughing Dove        Na(Ca)   Mo

Feral Pigeon     Et

Speckled Pigeon        Et

 

42 Bird Species Photographed