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| Babblers | Arrowmarked Babbler |
| Titbabbler |
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| Bulbuls | Blackeyed Bulbul |
| Terrestrial Bulbul |
| Sombre Bulbul |
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| Thrushes | Groundscraper Thrush |
| Kurrichane Thrush |
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| Chats | Stonechat |
| Mocking Chat |
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| Robins | Heuglin's Robin |
| Natal Robin |
| Whitethroated Robin |
| Whitebrowed Robin |
| Bearded Robin |
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| Warblers | European Marsh Warbler |
| African Marsh Warbler |
| Cape Reed Warbler |
| African Sedge Warbler |
| Willow Warbler |
| Yellowbreasted Apalis |
| Longbilled Crombec |
| Yellowbilled Eremomela |
| Burntnecked Eremomela |
| Bleating Warbler |
| Stierling's Barred Warbler |
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| Cisticolas | Fantailed Cisticola |
| Croaking Cisticola |
| Redfaced Cisticola |
| Blackbacked Cisticola |
| Rattling Cisticola |
| Neddicky |
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| Prinias | Tawnyflanked Prinia |
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| Flycatchers | Spotted Flycatcher |
| Fantailed Flycatcher |
| Bluegrey Flycatcher |
| Dusky Flycatcher |
| Black Flycatcher |
| Pallid Flycatcher |
| Chinspot Batis |
| Paradise Flycatcher |
| Small insectivorous birds with prominent bristles protruding from the base of their bills. They are highly active and construct cup like nests which are bound together using spider webs and are covered with lichen on the outside. |
| Fiscal Flycatcher |
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| Wagtails | African Pied Wagtail |
| Cape Wagtail |
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| Pipits | Bushveld Pipit |
| Richard's Pipit |
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Shrikes | Redbacked Shrike | | Longtailed Shrike |
| Southern Boubou |
| Puffback |
| Small pied bird with crimson eyes. When excited the male erects his back feathers to form a puff. |
| Brubru |
| Threestreaked Tchagra |
| Blackcrowned Tchagra |
| Gorgeous Bush Shrike |
| Colourful shrikes with olive-green upper parts and yellow to orange upper parts. Males have a scarlet throat with a black gorget. |
| Orangebreasted Bush Shrike |
| Males are distinguished by a yellow forehead and eyebrow plus yellow underparts with only the breast orange. Not very secretive. |
| Lesser Grey Shrike |
| Greyheaded Bush Shrike |
| White Helmetshrike |
| Redbilled Helmetshrike |
| Whitecrowned Shrike |
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| Wydahs | Paradise Whydah |
| Small ground-feeding, seed eating finches which are brood parasites laying their eggs in the nests of waxbills. Males have very long tails in breeding plumage, but resemble the females when in non-breeding plumage. |
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| Starlings | Wattled Starling |
| Plumcoloured Starling |
| Fairly common summer resident, males have iridescent purple on the upper parts, which varies in colour depending on the angle of the light. |
| Burchell's Starling |
| Cape Glossy Starling |
| Particularly common around the camps during the winter months. |
| Greater Blue-eared Glossy Starling |
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| Oxpeckers | Redbilled Oxpecker |
| Yellowbilled Oxpecker |
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| Sunbirds | Marico Sunbird |
| Insect and nectar eating birds with decurved bills adapted to flower probing. Flight is swift and erratic. |
| Whitebellied Sunbird |
| Scarletchested Sunbird |
| Insect and nectar eating birds with decurved bills adapted to flower probing. Flight is swift and erratic. |
| Collared Sunbird |
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| White-eyes | Cape White-eye |
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| Sparrows | House Sparrow |
| Greyheaded Sparrow |
| Yellowthroated Sparrow |
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| Weavers | Redheaded Weaver |
| Spottedbacked Weaver |
| Masked Weaver |
| Lesser Masked Weaver |
| Spectacled Weaver |
| Thickbilled Weaver |
| Red Billed Buffaloweaver |
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| Queleas | Redbilled Quelea |
| Small sparrow like bird which occurs in flocks and is nomadic, Breeding colonies often involving tens of thousands of individuals resembling columns of smoke. |
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| Bishops | Red Bishop |
| Reed and grass loving weavers differing from other weavers in that males are predominantly black when breeding. In summer males display by puffing out their plumage. |
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| Widows and Wydahs | Whitewinged Widow |
| Redcollared Widow |
| Pintailed Wydah |
| ParadiseWydah |
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| Finches | Melba Finch |
| Bluebilled Firefinch |
| Redbilled Firefinch |
| Jameson's Firefinch |
| Blue Waxbill |
| Common Waxbill |
| Violeteared Waxbill |
| Bronze Mannikin |
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| Widowfinches | Black Widowfinch |
| Steelblue Widowfinch |
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| Canaries | Yelloweyed Canary |
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| Teals | Red Billed Teal |
| Very common red-pinkish bill with a dark crown frequently in large flocks on dams, flood plains and pans. |
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| Buntings | Goldenbreasted Bunting |
| Rock Bunting |
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* Rare # Vulnerable | |
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