BabblersArrowmarked Babbler
Titbabbler

BulbulsBlackeyed Bulbul
Terrestrial Bulbul
Sombre Bulbul

ThrushesGroundscraper Thrush
Kurrichane Thrush

ChatsStonechat
Mocking Chat

RobinsHeuglin's Robin
Natal Robin
Whitethroated Robin
Whitebrowed Robin
Bearded Robin

WarblersEuropean 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

CisticolasFantailed Cisticola
Croaking Cisticola
Redfaced Cisticola
Blackbacked Cisticola
Rattling Cisticola
Neddicky

PriniasTawnyflanked Prinia

FlycatchersSpotted 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

WagtailsAfrican Pied Wagtail
Cape Wagtail

PipitsBushveld Pipit
Richard's Pipit

ShrikesRedbacked 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

WydahsParadise 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.

StarlingsWattled 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

OxpeckersRedbilled Oxpecker
Yellowbilled Oxpecker

SunbirdsMarico 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

White-eyesCape White-eye

SparrowsHouse Sparrow
Greyheaded Sparrow
Yellowthroated Sparrow

WeaversRedheaded Weaver
Spottedbacked Weaver
Masked Weaver
Lesser Masked Weaver
Spectacled Weaver
Thickbilled Weaver
Red Billed Buffaloweaver

QueleasRedbilled 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.

BishopsRed 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.

Widows and WydahsWhitewinged Widow
Redcollared Widow
Pintailed Wydah
ParadiseWydah

FinchesMelba Finch
Bluebilled Firefinch
Redbilled Firefinch
Jameson's Firefinch
Blue Waxbill
Common Waxbill
Violeteared Waxbill
Bronze Mannikin

WidowfinchesBlack Widowfinch
Steelblue Widowfinch

CanariesYelloweyed Canary

TealsRed Billed Teal
Very common red-pinkish bill with a dark crown frequently in large flocks on dams, flood plains and pans.

BuntingsGoldenbreasted Bunting
Rock Bunting

* Rare

# Vulnerable




MalaMala Game Reserve, Private Bag X284, Hillcrest, Kwazulu Natal, 3650, South Africa.