Bird List

Due to Thornybush Nature Reserve’s diverse vegetation and landscape, the private reserve is home to over 300 bird species, making it a birding enthusiast’s paradise.

The following species have been sighted in the reserve.

Apalis

Yellowbreasted

Babbler

Arrowmarked

Barbet

Blackcollared
Crested
Pied

Batis

Chinspot

Bee-Eater

Southern Carmine
Eurasian (European)
Little
Whitefronted

Bishop

Yellowcrowned
Southern Red

Boubou

Southern

Bittern

Dwarf
Little

Brubru

Brubru

Bulbul

Dark-capped

Greenbul

Sombre

Brownbul

Terrestrial

Bunting

Goldenbreasted
Cinnamon-breasted

Bustard

Kori

Buttonquail

Kurrichane

Honey-Buzzard

European

Buzzard

Lizard
Steppe

Seedeater

Streakyheaded

Canary

Yelloweyed

Cisticola

Croaking
Zitting
Rattling
Redfaced
Reed
Tinkling
Wailing

Crake

Corn
Black
African

Eagle

Lesser Spotted
Longcrested
Martial
Steppe
Tawny
Whalberg's

Egret

Cattle
Great
Little

Eremomela

Burntnecked
Yellowbellied

Hobby

African

Falcon

Lanner
Peregrine

Finch

Cutthroat
Melba

Finchlark

Chestnutbacked

Firefinch

Bluebilled
Jameson's
Red-billed

Flycatcher

Black
Blue grey
Dusky
Fantailed
Pallid
Paradise
Spotted

Francolin

Coqui
Crested
Natal
Swainson's

Goose

Egyption
Spurwinged

Goshawk

African
Dark Chanting
Gabar
Little Banded

Kite

Blackshouldered
Black
Yellowbilled

Korhaan

Blackbellied
Redcrested

Lark

Ducky
Flappet
Monotonous
Rufousnaped
Sabota

Loerie

Grey
Purplecrested

Longclaw

Yellowthroated

Mannikin

Bronze

Moorhen

Lesser

Mousebird

Redfaced
Speckled

Neddicky
Nightjar

Eurasion (European)
Fierynecked
Freckled
Mozambique
Pennantwinged

Oriole

African Golden
Blackhead
Eurasion Goldem

Owl

Barn
Barred
Giant Eagle
Grass
Marsh
Pearlspotted
Scops
Spotted Eagle
Whitefaced

Oxpecker

Redbilled

Parrot

Brownheaded

Pigeon

Green

Pipit

Bushveld
Grassveld

Starling

Burchell's
Cape Glossy
Greater Blue-Eared
Plumcoloured
Wattled

Stilt

Blackwinged

Stonechat
Stork

Abdim's
Black
Marabou
Saddlebilled
White
Woolleynecked
Yellowbilled

Sunbird

Black
Collared
Marico
Purplebanded
Scarletchested
Whitebellied

Swallow

Black Sawwing
Eurasion (European)
Greater Striped
Lesser Striped
Mosque
Redbreasted
Whitetailed

Swift

Alpine
Black
Horus
Little
Palm
White Rumped

Tcharga

Blackcrowned
Threestreaked

Teal

Redbilled

Thrush

Kurrichane

Coucal

Burchell's + Whitebrowed

Courser

Bronzewinged
Temminck's

Crombec

Longbilled

Cuckoo

African
Black
Diderick
African Emerald
Common
Green Spotted
Jacobin
Klaas's
Redchested
Levaillant's
Thickbilled

Cuckoo-Shrike

Black
White Breasted

Grebe

Little

Thick-knee

Spotted
Water

Turtle-Dove

Cape

Wood-Dove

Emeraldspotted

Dove

Laughing
Namaqua
Redeyed

Drongo

Forktailed

Duck

African Black
Comb
Whitefaced

Hawk-Eagle

African

Bateleur
Snake-Eagle

Blackbreasted
Brown

Fish-Eagle

African

Greenshank
Guinea Fowl

Helmeted

Gymnogene
Hamerkop
Harrier

Montagu's
Pallid

Hawk

Cuckoo

Heron

Blackcrowned Night
Blackheaded
Goliath
Greenbacked
Grey
Purple
Squacco

Honeyguide

Greater
Lesser
Scaley Throated
Sharpbilled

Hoopoe

Redbilled Wood
Scimitarbilled Wood

Hornbill

Southern Ground
Grey
Redbilled
Southen Yellowbilled

Ibis

Hadeda
Sacred

Jacana

African

Kestrel

Eastern Redfooted

Kingfisher

Brownhooded
Giant
Greyhooded
Halfcollared
Malachite
Pied
Pygmy
Striped
Woodland

Plover

Blacksmith
Crowned
Lesser Blackwinged
Threebanded
Wattled

Pochard

Southern

Prinia

Tawnyflanked

Puffback
Quail

Common
Harlequin

Robin

Bearded
Natal
Whitebrowed Scrub
Whitethroated

Roller

Eurasion (European)
Lilacbreasted
Purple

Sandgrouse

Doublebanded

Sandpiper

Common
Marsh
Wood

Secretary Bird
Shrike

Fiscal
Gorgeous Bush
Greyheaded Bush
Lesser Grey
Longtailed
Orangebreasted Bush
Redbacked
Redbilled Helmet
White Helmet
Whitecrowned

Snipe

Painted

Sparrow

Greyheaded

Sparrowhawk

Black
Little
Ovrambo

Spoonbill

African

Tinkerbarbet

Yellowfronted

Tit

Grey Penduline
Southern Black

Vulture

Cape
Hooded
Lappetfaced
Whitebacked
Whiteheaded

Wagtail

African Pied
Cape

Warbler

African Marsh
Bleating
Eurasion Marsh
Stierling's Barred
Willow

Waxbill

Blue
Common
Orangebreasted
Violeteared

Weaver

Redbilled Buffalo
Lesser Masked
Masked
Redheaded
Spottedbaced
Thick Billed

White-eye

Cape

Widow

Redshouldered
White winged

Widowfinch

Black
Purple
Steelblue

Whydah

Paradise
Pintailed
Shafttailed

Woodpecker

Bearded
Bennet's
Cardinal
Goldentailed