eBird Field Checklist
**USE MORE SPECIFIC HOTSPOTS** St. Lucia--general area
, Kwazulu-Natal, ZA
ebird.org/hotspot/L11994491
369 species (+12 other taxa) - Year-round, All years
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Ostriches
Common Ostrich
Waterfowl
White-faced Whistling-Duck
Fulvous Whistling-Duck
White-backed Duck
Egyptian Goose
Spur-winged Goose
African Pygmy-Goose
Blue-billed Teal
African Black Duck
Yellow-billed Duck
Cape Teal
Red-billed Duck
Southern Pochard
Grouse, Quail, and Allies
Helmeted Guineafowl
Southern Crested Guineafowl
Crested Francolin
Natal Spurfowl
Flamingos
Greater Flamingo
Lesser Flamingo
Grebes
Little Grebe
Pigeons and Doves
Rock Pigeon
Speckled Pigeon
Rameron Pigeon
Lemon Dove
Red-eyed Dove
Ring-necked Dove
Laughing Dove
Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove
Tambourine Dove
Namaqua Dove
African Green-Pigeon
Bustards
Black-bellied Bustard
Turacos
Livingstone's Turaco
Purple-crested Turaco
Cuckoos
White-browed Coucal
Black Coucal
Green Malkoha
Pied Cuckoo
Dideric Cuckoo
Klaas's Cuckoo
African Emerald Cuckoo
Black Cuckoo
Red-chested Cuckoo
African Cuckoo
Nightjars
Eurasian Nightjar
Fiery-necked Nightjar
Swamp Nightjar
Square-tailed Nightjar
Swifts
African Swift
Little Swift
Horus Swift
White-rumped Swift
African Palm Swift
Flufftails
Buff-spotted Flufftail
Rails, Gallinules, and Allies
African Rail
Lesser Moorhen
Eurasian Moorhen
Red-knobbed Coot
African Swamphen
Black Crake
Finfoots
African Finfoot
Cranes
Gray Crowned-Crane
Shorebirds
Spotted Thick-knee
Water Thick-knee
Black-winged Stilt
Pied Avocet
Eurasian Oystercatcher
African Oystercatcher
Black-bellied Plover
Common Ringed Plover
Three-banded Plover
Blacksmith Lapwing
Senegal Lapwing
Black-winged Lapwing
Crowned Lapwing
Wattled Lapwing
Tibetan Sand-Plover
Greater Sand-Plover
Kittlitz's Plover
Chestnut-banded Plover
White-fronted Plover
Greater Painted-Snipe
Lesser Jacana
African Jacana
Whimbrel
Eurasian Curlew
Bar-tailed Godwit
Terek Sandpiper
Common Sandpiper
Marsh Sandpiper
Wood Sandpiper
Common Greenshank
Ruddy Turnstone
Red Knot
Ruff
Curlew Sandpiper
Sanderling
Little Stint
Small Buttonquail
Black-rumped Buttonquail
Temminck's Courser
Collared Pratincole
Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers
Gray-hooded Gull
Kelp Gull
Sooty Tern
Little Tern
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Whiskered Tern
White-winged Tern
Common Tern
Roseate Tern
Sandwich Tern
Lesser Crested Tern
Great Crested Tern
Storks
African Openbill
Black Stork
African Woolly-necked Stork
White Stork
Saddle-billed Stork
Marabou Stork
Yellow-billed Stork
Frigatebirds, Boobies, and Gannets
Cape Gannet
Cormorants and Anhingas
African Darter
Long-tailed Cormorant
Cape Cormorant
Great Cormorant
cormorant sp.
Pelicans
Great White Pelican
Pink-backed Pelican
Shoebill and Hammerkop
Hamerkop
Herons, Ibis, and Allies
Little Bittern
Black-crowned Night Heron
Black Heron
Little Egret
Striated Heron
Rufous-bellied Heron
Squacco Heron
Western Cattle Egret
Great Egret
Yellow-billed Egret
Gray Heron
Purple Heron
Black-headed Heron
Goliath Heron
white egret sp.
Glossy Ibis
African Sacred Ibis
Southern Bald Ibis
Hadada Ibis
African Spoonbill
Vultures, Hawks, and Allies
Secretarybird
Osprey
Black-winged Kite
African Harrier-Hawk
Palm-nut Vulture
European Honey-buzzard
African Cuckoo-Hawk
Lappet-faced Vulture
Hooded Vulture
White-backed Vulture
old world vulture sp.
Bateleur
Black-chested Snake-Eagle
Brown Snake-Eagle
Fasciated Snake-Eagle
Crowned Eagle
Martial Eagle
Long-crested Eagle
Wahlberg's Eagle
Lizard Buzzard
African Marsh Harrier
African Goshawk
Little Sparrowhawk
Black Goshawk
Accipiter sp.
Black Kite
African Fish-Eagle
Common Buzzard
Forest Buzzard
Jackal Buzzard
Buteo/eagle sp.
Owls
Spotted Eagle-Owl
African Wood-Owl
Mousebirds
Speckled Mousebird
Red-faced Mousebird
Trogons and Quetzals
Narina Trogon
Hoopoes
Eurasian Hoopoe
Woodhoopoes and Scimitarbills
Green Woodhoopoe
Common Scimitarbill
Hornbills
Southern Ground-Hornbill
Crowned Hornbill
Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill
Trumpeter Hornbill
Kingfishers
Malachite Kingfisher
African Pygmy Kingfisher
Mangrove Kingfisher
Brown-hooded Kingfisher
Striped Kingfisher
Giant Kingfisher
Pied Kingfisher
kingfisher sp.
Bee-eaters, Rollers, and Allies
White-fronted Bee-eater
Little Bee-eater
Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
European Bee-eater
European Roller
Lilac-breasted Roller
Broad-billed Roller
Barbets and Toucans
Crested Barbet
White-eared Barbet
Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird
Red-fronted Tinkerbird
Pied Barbet
Black-collared Barbet
Honeyguides
Wahlberg's Honeyguide
Lesser Honeyguide
Scaly-throated Honeyguide
Woodpeckers
Rufous-necked Wryneck
Cardinal Woodpecker
Golden-tailed Woodpecker
Falcons and Caracaras
Eurasian Hobby
Parrots, Parakeets, and Allies
Budgerigar
African and Green Broadbills
African Broadbill
Cuckooshrikes
Gray Cuckooshrike
Black Cuckooshrike
Old World Orioles
African Black-headed Oriole
Wattle-eyes and Batises
Black-throated Wattle-eye
Woodwards' Batis
Chinspot Batis
Vangas, Helmetshrikes, and Allies
White Helmetshrike
Bushshrikes and Allies
Black-backed Puffback
Black-crowned Tchagra
Brown-crowned Tchagra
Southern Boubou
Sulphur-breasted Bushshrike
Olive Bushshrike
Four-colored Bushshrike
Gray-headed Bushshrike
Drongos
Square-tailed Drongo
Fork-tailed Drongo
Monarch Flycatchers
African Crested Flycatcher
African Paradise-Flycatcher
Shrikes
Red-backed Shrike
Southern Fiscal
Jays, Magpies, Crows, and Ravens
Cape Crow
Pied Crow
White-necked Raven
Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice
Southern Black-Tit
Larks
Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark
Sabota Lark
Rufous-naped Lark
Nicators
Eastern Nicator
Crombecs, Longbills, and Allies
Cape Crombec
Cisticolas and Allies
Green-backed Camaroptera
Bar-throated Apalis
Yellow-breasted Apalis
Rudd's Apalis
Tawny-flanked Prinia
Drakensberg Prinia
Red-faced Cisticola
Rattling Cisticola
Rufous-winged Cisticola
Levaillant's Cisticola
Croaking Cisticola
Piping Cisticola
Zitting Cisticola
Pale-crowned Cisticola
Wing-snapping Cisticola
cisticola sp.
Reed Warblers and Allies
African Yellow-Warbler
Marsh Warbler
Common Reed Warbler
Lesser Swamp Warbler
Great Reed Warbler
Grassbirds and Allies
Fan-tailed Grassbird
Martins and Swallows
Black Sawwing
Gray-rumped Swallow
Banded Martin
Plain Martin
Bank Swallow
Barn Swallow
White-throated Swallow
Wire-tailed Swallow
Western House-Martin
Greater Striped Swallow
Lesser Striped Swallow
Rufous-chested Swallow
South African Swallow
swallow sp.
Bulbuls
Sombre Greenbul
Yellow-bellied Greenbul
Yellow-streaked Greenbul
Terrestrial Brownbul
greenbul sp.
Common Bulbul
Sylviid Warblers
Bush Blackcap
White-eyes, Yuhinas, and Allies
Cape White-eye
Southern Yellow White-eye
Oxpeckers
Red-billed Oxpecker
Starlings and Mynas
European Starling
Wattled Starling
Common Myna
Violet-backed Starling
Red-winged Starling
Black-bellied Starling
Cape Starling
myna/starling sp.
Thrushes
Spotted Ground-Thrush
Kurrichane Thrush
Olive Thrush
Old World Flycatchers
African Dusky Flycatcher
Spotted Flycatcher
Muscicapa sp.
Pale Flycatcher
Gray Tit-Flycatcher
Ashy Flycatcher
Fiscal Flycatcher
Southern Black-Flycatcher
Brown Scrub-Robin
Bearded Scrub-Robin
Cape Robin-Chat
White-browed Robin-Chat
Red-capped Robin-Chat
Chorister Robin-Chat
African Stonechat
Mocking Cliff-Chat
Sunbirds and Spiderhunters
Collared Sunbird
Olive Sunbird
Mouse-colored Sunbird
Amethyst Sunbird
Scarlet-chested Sunbird
Malachite Sunbird
Neergaard's Sunbird
Greater Double-collared Sunbird
Marico Sunbird
Purple-banded Sunbird
White-breasted Sunbird
sunbird sp.
Weavers and Allies
Spectacled Weaver
Cape Weaver
African Golden-Weaver
Holub's Golden-Weaver
Southern Brown-throated Weaver
Lesser Masked-Weaver
Southern Masked-Weaver
Village Weaver
Forest Weaver
Red-billed Quelea
Southern Red Bishop
Red-collared Widowbird
Fan-tailed Widowbird
Long-tailed Widowbird
Grosbeak Weaver
Estrildids
Bronze Mannikin
Magpie Mannikin
Black-and-white Mannikin
Green-backed Twinspot
Black-tailed Waxbill
Common Waxbill
Quailfinch
Zebra Waxbill
Southern Cordonbleu
Pink-throated Twinspot
Red-billed Firefinch
Indigobirds and Whydahs
Pin-tailed Whydah
Eastern Paradise-Whydah
Old World Sparrows
House Sparrow
Southern Gray-headed Sparrow
Yellow-throated Bush Sparrow
Wagtails and Pipits
Cape Wagtail
African Pied Wagtail
African Pipit
Plain-backed Pipit
Yellow-throated Longclaw
Finches, Euphonias, and Allies
Yellow-fronted Canary
Forest Canary
Lemon-breasted Seedeater
Brimstone Canary
Streaky-headed Seedeater
Old World Buntings
Golden-breasted Bunting