eBird Field Checklist
Golden Gate Highlands NP (Please consider more precise locations)
, Free State, ZA
ebird.org/hotspot/L963149
253 species (+9 other taxa) - Year-round, All years
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Ostriches
Common Ostrich
Waterfowl
White-faced Whistling-Duck
Egyptian Goose
South African Shelduck
Spur-winged Goose
Blue-billed Teal
Cape Shoveler
African Black Duck
Yellow-billed Duck
Red-billed Duck
Southern Pochard
Grouse, Quail, and Allies
Helmeted Guineafowl
Red-winged Francolin
Gray-winged Francolin
Common Quail
Natal Spurfowl
Swainson's Spurfowl
Flamingos
Greater Flamingo
Grebes
Little Grebe
Pigeons and Doves
Rock Pigeon
Speckled Pigeon
Rameron Pigeon
Red-eyed Dove
Ring-necked Dove
Laughing Dove
Namaqua Dove
Bustards
Blue Bustard
White-quilled Bustard
Turacos
Gray Go-away-bird
Cuckoos
White-browed Coucal
Pied Cuckoo
Dideric Cuckoo
Klaas's Cuckoo
Black Cuckoo
Red-chested Cuckoo
Swifts
Alpine Swift
Common Swift
African Swift
Little Swift
Horus Swift
White-rumped Swift
African Palm Swift
large swift sp.
Flufftails
Red-chested Flufftail
Striped Flufftail
Rails, Gallinules, and Allies
African Rail
Eurasian Moorhen
Red-knobbed Coot
African Swamphen
Cranes
Gray Crowned-Crane
Blue Crane
Shorebirds
Black-winged Stilt
Pied Avocet
Three-banded Plover
Blacksmith Lapwing
Crowned Lapwing
Wattled Lapwing
African Snipe
Marsh Sandpiper
Wood Sandpiper
Common Greenshank
Ruff
Little Stint
Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers
Gray-hooded Gull
Whiskered Tern
White-winged Tern
Storks
Black Stork
White Stork
Cormorants and Anhingas
Long-tailed Cormorant
Great Cormorant
Shoebill and Hammerkop
Hamerkop
Herons, Ibis, and Allies
Little Bittern
Black-crowned Night Heron
Little Egret
Western Cattle Egret
Great Egret
Yellow-billed Egret
Gray Heron
Black-headed Heron
Glossy Ibis
African Sacred Ibis
Southern Bald Ibis
Hadada Ibis
African Spoonbill
Vultures, Hawks, and Allies
Secretarybird
Black-winged Kite
African Harrier-Hawk
Bearded Vulture
White-backed Vulture
Cape Griffon
Long-crested Eagle
Booted Eagle
Verreaux's Eagle
Pale Chanting-Goshawk
African Marsh Harrier
Black Harrier
Little Sparrowhawk
Rufous-breasted Sparrowhawk
Black Goshawk
Black Kite
African Fish-Eagle
Common Buzzard
Jackal Buzzard
Owls
Barn Owl
Spotted Eagle-Owl
Cape Eagle-Owl
Marsh Owl
Mousebirds
Speckled Mousebird
Red-faced Mousebird
Hoopoes
Eurasian Hoopoe
Woodhoopoes and Scimitarbills
Green Woodhoopoe
Kingfishers
Half-collared Kingfisher
Malachite Kingfisher
Giant Kingfisher
Barbets and Toucans
Crested Barbet
Pied Barbet
Black-collared Barbet
Honeyguides
Wahlberg's Honeyguide
Lesser Honeyguide
Greater Honeyguide
Woodpeckers
Rufous-necked Wryneck
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Cardinal Woodpecker
Olive Woodpecker
Ground Woodpecker
Falcons and Caracaras
Lesser Kestrel
Rock Kestrel
Greater Kestrel
Red-footed Falcon
Amur Falcon
Lanner Falcon
Peregrine Falcon
Wattle-eyes and Batises
Cape Batis
Bushshrikes and Allies
Black-backed Puffback
Brown-crowned Tchagra
Southern Boubou
Bokmakierie
Drongos
Fork-tailed Drongo
Monarch Flycatchers
African Paradise-Flycatcher
Shrikes
Southern Fiscal
Jays, Magpies, Crows, and Ravens
Cape Crow
Pied Crow
White-necked Raven
crow/raven sp.
Rockjumpers
Drakensberg Rockjumper
Fairy Flycatchers
Fairy Flycatcher
Larks
Spike-heeled Lark
Eastern Long-billed Lark
Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark
Sabota Lark
Eastern Clapper Lark
Rufous-naped Lark
Red-capped Lark
Crombecs, Longbills, and Allies
Cape Grassbird
Cisticolas and Allies
Bar-throated Apalis
Tawny-flanked Prinia
Karoo Prinia
Drakensberg Prinia
prinia sp.
Rock-loving Cisticola
Wailing Cisticola
Levaillant's Cisticola
Piping Cisticola
Zitting Cisticola
Desert Cisticola
Cloud Cisticola
Pale-crowned Cisticola
Wing-snapping Cisticola
cisticola sp.
Reed Warblers and Allies
African Yellow-Warbler
Common Reed Warbler
Lesser Swamp Warbler
Grassbirds and Allies
Fan-tailed Grassbird
Barratt's Warbler
Little Rush Warbler
Martins and Swallows
Black Sawwing
Banded Martin
Plain Martin
Rock Martin
Barn Swallow
White-throated Swallow
Western House-Martin
Greater Striped Swallow
Lesser Striped Swallow
South African Swallow
swallow sp.
Bulbuls
Common Bulbul
Black-fronted Bulbul
Sylviid Warblers
Bush Blackcap
White-eyes, Yuhinas, and Allies
Orange River White-eye
Cape White-eye
Starlings and Mynas
Common Myna
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Red-winged Starling
African Pied Starling
Cape Starling
Thrushes
Kurrichane Thrush
Olive Thrush
Karoo Thrush
Olive/Karoo Thrush
Old World Flycatchers
Spotted Flycatcher
Chat Flycatcher
Fiscal Flycatcher
Karoo Scrub-Robin
Cape Robin-Chat
Sentinel Rock-Thrush
Cape Rock-Thrush
African Stonechat
Buff-streaked Chat
Sickle-winged Chat
Mocking Cliff-Chat
Southern Anteater-Chat
Mountain Wheatear
Capped Wheatear
Familiar Chat
Sugarbirds
Gurney's Sugarbird
Sunbirds and Spiderhunters
Amethyst Sunbird
Malachite Sunbird
Greater Double-collared Sunbird
Weavers and Allies
White-browed Sparrow-Weaver
Cape Weaver
Southern Masked-Weaver
Village Weaver
Ploceus sp.
Red-billed Quelea
Southern Red Bishop
Yellow-crowned Bishop
Yellow Bishop
White-winged Widowbird
Red-collared Widowbird
Fan-tailed Widowbird
Long-tailed Widowbird
Euplectes sp.
Estrildids
Swee Waxbill
Common Waxbill
Quailfinch
Red-headed Finch
Southern Cordonbleu
Indigobirds and Whydahs
Pin-tailed Whydah
Eastern Paradise-Whydah
Old World Sparrows
House Sparrow
Cape Sparrow
Southern Gray-headed Sparrow
Wagtails and Pipits
Cape Wagtail
Mountain Wagtail
African Pipit
Nicholson's Pipit
Plain-backed Pipit
Buffy Pipit
Yellow-tufted Pipit
Short-tailed Pipit
pipit sp.
Yellow-breasted Pipit
Orange-throated Longclaw
Finches, Euphonias, and Allies
Yellow-fronted Canary
Forest Canary
Black-throated Canary
Brimstone Canary
Streaky-headed Seedeater
Drakensberg Siskin
Cape Canary
Old World Buntings
Golden-breasted Bunting
Cape Bunting
Cinnamon-breasted Bunting
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