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Peek, Boo and Hoo Derek Keats's Birds Tim Cockcroft's Birds Ed Raubenheimer's Birds Stewart Mathesons' Birds Clint Ralph's Birds Johann Van Den Berg	Common Ostrich collecting pebbles at the Cape of Good Hope List of Bird Photos Rosie at StellenboschWriters.com The sequence of species is according to Roberts Bird Guide 2016 2nd edition page numbers    Common name  Afrikaans, German and Scientific names are found on the large photos         (Your keybord shortcut for 'search this page': ctrl plus f) 42  Common Ostrich 42  Helmeted Guineafowl 42  Crested Guineafowl 44  Coqui Francolin 44  Crested Francolin 44  Red-necked Spurfowl 44  Swainson's Spurfowl 46  Grey-winged Francolin 46  Shelley's Francolin 46  Orange River Francolin 48  Hartlaub's Spurfowl 48  Red-billed Spurfowl 48  Cape Spurfowl 48  Natal Spurfowl 50   Harlequin Quail 50  Common Buttonquail 54  Fulvous Whistling Duck 54  White-faced Whistling Duck 54  White-backed Duck 54  African Pygmy-Goose 56  Egyptian Goose 56  South African Shelduck 56  Spur-winged Goose 56  Knob-billed Duck 58  Cape Teal 58  Yellow-billed Duck 58  Mallard 60  African Black Duck 60  Cape Shoveler 62  Red-billed Teal 62  Hottentot Teal 62  Southern Pochard 62  Maccoa Duck 66  African Penguin 72  Black-browed Albatross 72  Shy Albatross 74  Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross 74  Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross 78  Northern Giant-Petrel 80  White-chinned Petrel 82  Sooty Shearwater 86  Southern Fulmar 84  Great Shearwater 86  Cape Petrel (Pintado Petrel) 92  Wilson's Storm-Petrel 98  Little Grebe 98  Great Crested Grebe 98  Black-necked Grebe 100  Greater Flamingo 100  Lesser Flamingo 100  Great White Pelican 100  Pink-backed Pelican 102  Yellow-billed Stork 102  African Openbill 102  Black Stork 102  Abdim's Stork 104  Woolly-necked Stork 104  White Stork 104  Saddle-billed Stork 104  Marabou Stork 106  African Sacred Ibis 106  Southern Bald Ibis 106  Glossy Ibis 106  Hadeda Ibis 106  African Spoonbill, 1 108  Little Bittern 108  Dwarf Bittern 108  Hamerkop 110  White-backed Night-Heron 110  Black-crowned Night-Heron 110  Striated Heron (Green-backed Heron) 112  Squacco Heron 112  Rufous-Bellied Heron 112  Slaty Egret 112   Black Heron 114  Western Cattle Egret 114   Intermediate Egret (Yellow-billed Egret) 114  Great Egret 114  Little Egret 114  Little Egret 116  Black-headed Heron 116   Goliath Heron 116  Purple Heron 120  Cape Gannet 1 and 2 122  Reed Cormorant 122  Crowned Cormorant 122  Bank Cormorant 124  White-Breasted Cormorant 124  Cape Cormorant 124  African Darter 126  Western Osprey 126  African Fish-Eagle 126  Palm-nut Vulture 128  African Cuckoo Hawk 128  European Honey Buzzard 130  Bat Hawk 130  African Harrier-Hawk 132  Black-winged Kite 132  Black Kite 132  Yellow-billed Kite 134   Secretarybird 134  Bearded Vulture 136  Hooded Vulture 136  White-backed Vulture 136  Cape Vulture 140  White-headed Vulture 140  Lappet-faced Vulture 140  Bateleur 1 and Bateleur 2 142  Black-chested Snake Eagle 142  Brown Snake Eagle 142  Southern Banded Snake Eagle 142  Western Banded Snake Eagle 144  African Marsh Harrier 144  Black Harrier 146  Pallid Harrier 146  Montagu's Harrier 148  Dark Chanting Goshawk 148  Southern Pale Chanting Goshawk 150  Gabar Goshawk 150  Shikra 150  Lizard Buzzard 152  African Goshawk 152   Little Sparrowhawk 154  Rufous-breasted Sparrowhawk 154  Black Sparrowhawk 158  Common Buzzard 158  Forest Buzzard 160  Jackal Buzzard 542  Red-Necked Buzzard 162  Tawny Eagle 164  Lesser Spotted Eagle 166  Verreaux's Eagle 166  Martial Eagle 166  African Crowned Eagle 168  African Hawk-Eagle 168  Ayres's Hawk-Eagle 168  Long-crested Eagle 170  Wahlberg's Eagle 170  Booted Eagle 172  Pygmy Falcon 172  Lesser Kestrel 172  Rock Kestrel 172  Greater Kestrel 174  Grey Kestrel 174  Dickinson's Kestrel 174  Red-necked Falcon 174  Sooty Falcon 176  Amur Falcon 176  Lanner Falcon 178  Peregrine Falcon 182  Kori Bustard 182  Ludwig's Bustard 182  Denham's Bustard 184  White-bellied Bustard 184  Blue Korhaan 184  Karoo Korhaan 184  Rüppell's Korhaan 186  Red-crested Korhaan 186  Black-bellied Bustard 188  Northern Black Korhaan 188  Southern Black Korhaan 190  Red-chested Flufftail 190  Buff-spotted Flufftail 192  African Crake 192  Spotted Crake 192  Baillon's Crake 194  African Rail 194  African Finfoot 542  Little Crake 194  Common Moorhen 194  Lesser Moorhen 196  African Swamphen 196  Black Crake 196  African Swamphen 196  Allen's Gallinule 196  Red-knobbed Coot 198  Grey Crowned Crane 198  Blue Crane 198  Wattled Crane 200  Water Thick-knee 200  Spotted Thick-knee 200  Black-Winged Stilt 200  Pied Avocet 202  Eurasian Oystercatcher 202  African Black Oystercatcher 202 Crab Plover 204  Long-toed Lapwing 204  Blacksmith Lapwing 204  White-crowned Lapwing 206  African Wattled Lapwing 206  Senegal Lapwing 206  Black-winged Lapwing 206 Crowned Lapwing 208   Pacific Golden Plover 208  Caspian Plover 208  Grey Plover 210  Common Ringed Plover 210  Kittlitz's Plover 210  Three-banded Plover 210  White-fronted Plover 212  Chestnut-banded Plover 212  Greater Sand Plover 214  Greater Painted-Snipe  1 214  African Jacana 214  Lesser Jacana 214  African Snipe, 1 216  Bar-tailed Godwit 218  Whimbrel 218  Eurasian Curlew 218  Common Redshank 220  Marsh Sandpiper 220  Common Greenshank 222  Green Sandpiper 222  Wood Sandpiper 222  Common Sandpiper 222  Pectoral Sandpiper 224  Terek Sandpiper 224  Curlew Sandpiper 224  Sanderling 226  Ruddy Turnstone 226  Ruff 228  Little Stint 228  Temminck's Stint 232  Red Phalarope 234  Burchell's Courser 234  Double-banded Courser 234  Temminck's Courser 234  Bronze-winged Courser 236  Collared Pratincole 236  Black-winged Pratincole 236  Rock Pratincole 238  African Skimmer 542  Black Skimmer 240  Kelp Gull 240  Lesser Black-backed Gull 242  Grey-headed Gull 242   Hartlaub's Gull 244  Caspian Tern 244  Lesser Crested Tern 246  Swift Tern 246  Sandwich Tern 246  Damara Tern 250  Common Tern 250  Arctic Tern 540  Elegant Tern 252  Whiskered Tern 252  White-Winged Tern 256  Namaqua Sandgrouse 256  Yellow-throated Sandgrouse 256  Double-banded Sandgrouse 256  Burchell's Sandgrouse 258  Rock Dove 258   Speckled Pigeon 258   Eastern Bronze-naped Pigeon 258  African Olive Pigeon 258  Lemon Dove 260  Mourning Collared-Dove 260  Ring-necked Dove (Cape Turtle-Dove) 260  Red-eyed Dove 260  Laughing Dove 262  Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove 262  Blue-spotted Wood-Dove 262  Tambourine Dove 262   Namaqua Dove 262  African Green Pigeon 264  Livingstone's Turaco 264   Knysna Turaco 266  Purple-crested Turaco 266  Grey Go-away-bird 268  Coppery-tailed Coucal 268   Senegal Coucal 268  White-browed Coucal 270  Burchell's Coucal 270  Green Malkoha 272  Great Spotted Cuckoo 272  Levaillant's Cuckoo 272  Jacobin Cuckoo 272  Thick-billed Cuckoo 274  Diederick Cuckoo 274  Klaas's Cuckoo 274  African Emerald Cuckoo 276  Black Cuckoo 276  Red-chested Cuckoo 278  African Cuckoo 278  Common Cuckoo 280  Western Barn Owl 280  African Wood-Owl 280  Marsh Owl 282  African Scops Owl 282  Southern White-faced Owl 282  Pearl-spotted Owlet 282  African Barred Owlet 284  Cape Eagle-Owl 284  Spotted Eagle-Owl 284a  Peek, Boo and Hoo 284  Verreaux's Eagle-Owl 284Pel's Fishing-Owl 286  European Nightjar 286  Fiery-necked Nightjar 286  Square-tailed Nightjar 288  Rufous-cheeked Nightjar 288  Freckled Nightjar 288  Swamp Nightjar 288  Pennant-winged Nightjar 296  Alpine Swift 298  African Palm Swift 300  Little Swift 300  Horus Swift 300  White-rumped Swift 302  Speckled Mousebird 302  White-backed Mousebird 302  Red-faced Mousebird 302  Narina Trogon 304  Purple Roller 304  Racket-tailed Roller 304  Lilac-breasted Roller and 2 304  European Roller 304  Broad-billed Roller 306  Grey-headed Kingfisher 306  Brown-hooded Kingfisher 306  Striped Kingfisher 306  Woodland Kingfisher 306  Mangrove Kingfisher 308  African Pygmy Kingfisher 308  Malachite Kingfisher 308  Half-collared Kingfisher 308  Giant Kingfisher 308  Pied Kingfisher, 1 310  Swallow-tailed Bee-eater 310  Little Bee-eater 310  White-fronted Bee-eater 312  Blue-cheeked Bee-eater 312  Olive Bee-eater 312  European Bee-eater 312  Madagascar Bee-eater 312  Southern Carmine Bee-eater 314  African Hoopoe 314  Green Wood Hoopoe 314  Common Scimitarbill 316  Crowned Hornbill 316  Bradfield's Hornbill 316  Monteiro's Hornbill 316  Damara Red-billed Hornbill 316  Southern Red-billed Hornbill 318  African Grey Hornbill 318  Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill 318  Trumpeter Hornbill 318  Southern Ground-Hornbill 322  White-eared Barbet 322  Green Barbet 322  Crested Barbet 322  Black-collared Barbet 322  Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird 322   Red-fronted Tinkerbird 322  Acacia Pied Barbet 326  Brown-backed Honeybird 326  Lesser Honeyguide 326  Scaly-throated Honeyguide 326  Greater Honeyguide 326  Red-throated Wryneck 330  Bennett's Woodpecker 330  Golden-tailed Woodpecker 330  Knysna Woodpecker 330  Ground Woodpecker 330 Cardinal Woodpecker 330 Bearded Woodpecker 330  Olive Woodpecker 334  Rose-ringed Parakeet 334  Rosy Faced Lovebird 334  Meyer's Parrot 334  Brown-headed Parrot 336  Rüppels Parrot 338  African Broadbill 338  White-tailed Shrike 338  Black-throated Wattle-eye 340  Cape Batis 340  Woodward's Batis 340  Chinspot Batis 340  Pririt Batis 342  White-crested Helmet-Shrike 342  Retz's Helmet-Shrike 344  Grey-headed Bushshrike 344  Olive Bush-Shrike 344  Orange-breasted Bush-Shrike 346  Gorgeous Bush-Shrike 346   Bokmakierie 346  Crimson-breasted Shrike 346  Brubru 348  Black-backed Puffback 348  Tropical Boubou 348  Southern Boubou 350  Black-crowned Tchagra 350  Brown-crowned Tchagra 350  Southern Tchagra 352  Grey Cuckooshrike 352  Black Cuckooshrike 352  Magpie Shrike 354  Southern White-crowned Shrike 354  Lesser Grey Shrike 354  Red-backed Shrike 354  Southern Fiscal 356  Black-headed Oriole 358  Square-tailed Drongo 358  Fork-tailed Drongo 358  Drakensberg Rock-jumper 358  Cape Rock-jumper 360  African Paradise-Flycatcher 1 and 2 360  Blue-mantled Crested Flycatcher 362  Cape Crow 362  Pied Crow 362  White-necked Raven 364  Southern Black Tit 366  Ashy Tit 366  Grey Tit 366  Cape Penduline-Tit 368  Melodious Lark 368  Rufous-naped Lark 368   Short-clawed Lark 370  Flappet Lark 370  Cape Clapper Lark 370  Eastern Clapper Lark 370  Fawn-coloured Lark 370  Sabota Lark 372  Karoo Lark 374  Karoo Long-billed Lark 374  Eastern Long-billed Lark 374  Cape Long-billed Lark 374  Agulhas Long-billed Lark 376  Dusky Lark 376  Spike-heeled Lark 376  Red-capped Lark 376  Large-billed Lark 378  Pink-billed Lark 378  Botha's Lark 378  Sclater's Lark 380  Gray's Lark 380  Chestnut-backed Sparrowlark 380  Grey-backed Sparrowlark 382  Eastern Nicator 382  African Red-eyed Bulbul 382  Cape Bulbul 382  Dark-capped Bulbul 384  Sombre Greenbul 384   Yellow-bellied Greenbul 384  Yellow-streaked Greenbul 384  Terrestrial Brownbul 386  Black Saw-wing 388  Brown-throated Martin 388  Sand Martin 388  Banded Martin 388  Rock Martin, 1 390  Barn Swallow 390  South African Cliff Swallow 392  White-Throated Swallow 392  Wire-tailed Swallow 390  Pearl-breasted Swallow 394  Greater Striped Swallow 394   Lesser Striped Swallow 394  Red-breasted Swallow 396  Cape Grassbird 396  Rockrunner 396  Victorin's Warbler 398  Long-billed Crombec 400   Willow Warbler 400  Yellow-throated Woodland-Warbler 402  Lesser Swamp-Warbler 404  African Reed-Warbler 639  Broad-tailed Warbler 406  Little Rush-Warbler 406  Knysna Warbler 406  Barratt's Warbler 412  African Yellow Warbler 412  Olive-tree Warbler 414  Red-faced Cisticola 414  Singing Cisticola 414  Lazy Cisticola 414  Neddicky 416  Rattling Cisticola 416  Tinkling Cisticola 416   Chirping Cisticola 416  Levaillant's Cisticola 416  Croaking Cisticola 418  Grey-backed Cisticola 418  Wailing Cisticola 418  Rufous-winged Cisticola 420  Zitting Cisticola 420  Desert Cisticola 420  Cloud Cisticola 420  Pale-Crowned Cisticola 422  Rufous-eared Warbler 422  Namaqua Warbler 424  Tawny-flanked Prinia 424  Black-chested Prinia 424  Karoo Prinia 426  Bar-throated Apalis 426  Rudd's Apalis 426  Yellow-breasted Apalis 424  Black-headed Apalis 428  Green-backed Camaroptera 428  Grey-backed Camaroptera 428  Barred Wren-Warbler 428  Stierling's Wren-Warbler 430  Green-capped Eremomela 430  Yellow-bellied Eremomela 430  Burnt-necked Eremomela 432  Black-faced Babbler 432  Hartlaub's Babbler 432  Southern Pied Babbler 432  Arrow-marked Babbler 432  Bare-cheeked Babbler 434  Bush Blackcap 434  Eurasian Blackcap 434  Common Whitethroat 436  Layard's Warbler 436  Chestnut-vented Warbler 438  Cape White-eye 438  Orange River White-eye 438  African Yellow White-eye 440  Common Myna 440  Wattled Starling 440  Common Starling 440  Violet-backed Starling 442  Black-bellied Starling 442  Cape Starling 442  Greater Blue-eared Starling 444  Meves's Starling 444  Burchell's Starling 444  Sharp-tailed Starling 444  Pied Starling 446  Red-winged Starling 446  Pale-winged Starling 446  Yellow-billed Oxpecker 446  Red-billed Oxpecker 448  Orange Ground-Thrush 448  Spotted Groundscraper Thrush 448  Groundscraper Thrush 448  Kurrichane Thrush 450  Olive Thrush 450  Karoo Thrush 450  White-starred Robin 452  White-browed Robin-Chat 452  White-throated Robin-Chat 452  Red-capped Robin-Chat 452  Chorister Robin-Chat 454  Cape Robin-Chat 454  Collared Palm-Thrush 454  Rufous-tailed Palm Thrush 454  Thrush Nightingale 456  Bearded Scrub Robin 456  Brown Scrub Robin 456  White-browed Scrub Robin 456  Kalahari Scrub Robin 456  Karoo Scrub Robin 458  African Stonechat 458  Buff-streaked Chat 460  Capped Wheatear 460  Mountain Wheatear 462  Tractrac Chat 462  Familiar Chat 464  Ant-eating Chat 464  Mocking Cliff Chat 464  Boulder Chat 466  Cape Rock-Thrush 466  Short-toed Rock-Thrush 468  Southern Black Flycatcher 468  Chat Flycatcher 755  Marico Flycatcher 468  Fiscal Flycatcher 470  Spotted Flycatcher 470  Ashy Flycatcher 470  African Dusky Flycatcher 472  Cape Sugarbird 472  Gurney's Sugarbird 472  Malachite Sunbird 474  Olive Sunbird 474  Grey Sunbird 474  Amethyst Sunbird 474  Scarlet-chested Sunbird 476  Southern Double-collared Sunbird 476  Neergaard's Sunbird 476  Greater Double-collared Sunbird 478  Collared Sunbird 478  Orange-breasted Sunbird 480  Marico Sunbird 480  Purple-banded Sunbird 482  White-bellied Sunbird 482  Dusky Sunbird 482  Copper Sunbird 484  House Sparrow 484  Great Sparrow 484  Cape Sparrow 484  Southern Grey-headed Sparrow 486  Yellow-throated Petronia 486  Sociable Weaver 486  White-browed Sparrow-Weaver 486  Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver 486  Scaly-feathered Weaver 488  Thick-billed Weaver 488  Spectacled Weaver 488  Cape Weaver 488  Eastern Golden Weaver 488  Holub's Golden Weaver 490  Southern Brown-throated Weaver 490   Lesser Masked Weaver 490  Southern Masked-Weaver 490  Village Weaver 492  Chestnut Weaver 492  Dark-backed Weaver 492  Red-headed Weaver 494  Red-headed Quelea 494  Red-billed Quelea 494  Yellow-crowned Bishop 496   Southern Red Bishop 496  Yellow Bishop 496  Fan-tailed Widowbird 498  Long-tailed Widowbird 498  Red-collared Widowbird 498  White-winged Widowbird 500  Orange-winged Pytilia 500  Green-winged Pytilia 500  Red-headed Finch 500  Cut-throat Finch 502  Green Twinspot 502  Pink-throated Twinspot 504  Red-billed Firefinch 504  African Firefinch 504  Jameson's Firefinch 506  Blue Waxbill 506  Violet-eared Waxbill 506  Cinderella Waxbill 508  Swee Waxbill 508  Grey Waxbill 508  Common Waxbill 508  Orange-breasted Waxbill 508  Black-faced Waxbill 510  Quailfinch 510  Bronze Mannikin 510  Red-backed Mannikin 510  Magpie Mannikin 512  Dusky Indigobird 512  Cuckoo Finch 514  Pin-tailed Whydah 514  Long-tailed Paradise Whydah 514  Shaft-tailed Whydah 516  Western Yellow Wagtail 516  Citrine Wagtail 518  Cape Wagtail 518  Mountain Wagtail 518  African Pied Wagtail 518  Golden Pipit - Golden Longclaw 520  Cape Longclaw 520  Yellow-throated Longclaw 520  Rosy-throated Longclaw 522  African Pipit 522  Mountain Pipit 522  Long-billed Pipit 524  Buffy Pipit 524  Plain-backed Pipit 524  African Rock Pipit 526  Tree Pipit 526  Striped Pipit 526   Short-tailed Pipit 532  Common Chaffinch 532  Forest Canary 532  Black-throated Canary 532  Streaky-headed Seedeater 534  Cape Canary 534  Yellow-fronted Canary 534  Yellow Canary 534  Brimstone Canary 536  White-throated Canary 536  Protea Seedeater 536  Drakensberg Siskin 536  Cape Siskin 538  Lark-like Bunting 538  Cinnamon-breasted Bunting 538  Cape Bunting 538  Golden-breasted Bunting
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