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Sedgefield Bird List

I think its a good idea to offer a Sedgefield Bird List as a basic guide for visitors and newbies to our town. Our village environment and surrounds is abundantly able to provide the keen birder with a great birding experience. Besides that, Birding can become a captivating hobby for retirees and new arrivals to the Garden Route. Sometimes one just needs a little help to get started.

I have categorised our local birds to make it easier to look for them in our area when you are out walking or cycling or perhaps just sitting in your garden. We have inland waterbirds/waders, seabirds, raptors, night birds and a plethora of charming and interesting feathered flyers that pay regular visits to our garden.

I suggest a pair of binoculars is an essential investment to really get the most out of birding.

Swift terns in shallow water at the Swartvlei River-mouth

Inland Waterbirds

Bittern Little
Cormorant Reed
Coot Red-knobbed
Crake Black
Darter African
Duck Yellow-billed
Duck White-faced

Cape Shoveler

Egret Little
Flamingo Greater
Goose Egyptian
Grebe Great Crested
Grebe Little
Greenshank
Gull Kelp
Heron Black-headed
Heron Grey
Heron Purple

Giant Kingfisher-female

Ibis Glossy
Ibis Sacred
Kingfisher Giant
Kingfisher Pied
Kingfisher Malachite

Malachite Kingfisher

Lapwing Blacksmith
Moorhen common
Plover 3-banded
Shoveler Cape
Spoonbill African

African Spoonbills

Stilt Black-winged
Sunbird Malachite
Swamphen Purple

Seabirds

Kitlitz Plovers

Cormorants Cape
Cormorants White-breasted
Gull Cape

African Black Oystercatchers

Oystercatcher African Black
Plover Kitlitz
Tern Caspian
Tern Swift

Nocturnal Birds
(active at night)

Fiery-necked Nightjar

Spotted Thick-knee
Nightjar Fiery-necked
Spotted Eagle Owl

Little Sparrowhawk that caught a dove in the drive-way, sitting on the perimeter wall at the side of our house.

Garden Birds

Cape Batis (female)

Apalis Bar-throated
Batis Cape
Bokmakierie
Boubou Southern
Burchell's Coucal
Bulbul Cape
Canary Brimstone

Emerald Cuckoo

Cuckoo Diderick
Cuckoo Emerald
Cuckoo Klaas's

Fiscal Flycatcher & fledgling

Dove Laughing
Dove Red-eyed
Dove Ring-necked
Drongo Fork-tailed
Fiscal Common
Flycatcher African Paradise

Black-headed Oriole

Flycatcher Fiscal
Grassbird Cape
Greenbul Sombre
Guineafowl Helmeted
Hoopoe African
Ibis Hadeda

Cape Sugarbird

Kingfisher Brown-hooded
Mousebird Speckled
Oriole Black-headed
Prinia Karoo
Robin-Chat Cape

Male Greater Double-collared Sunbird and Female Amethyst Sunbird

Greater Double-collared Sunbird (male) & Amethyst Sunbird (female)

Starling Red-winged
Sparrow Grey-headed
Sugarbird Cape
Sunbird Amethyst
Sunbird Greater Double-collared
Sunbird Southern Double-collared
Swallow Barn
Swallow Greater-striped
Swallow White-throated
Thrush Olive

White-throated Swallow

Turaco Knysna
Wagtail Cape
Waxbill Common
Weaver Cape
White-eye Cape
Woodpecker Knysna
Woodpecker Olive
Whydah Pin-tailed

Raptors

Eagle African Fish
African Harrier-Hawk
Buzzard Forest
Buzzard Jackal
Sparrowhawk Little

Jackal Buzzard

Spotted Eagle Owl Family

I trust you will have found this Sedgefield Bird list helpful. I do not claim that it is comprehensive but these are birds I have seen in the area as many of my photos will attest. I am never far from my camera!

I am happy to add to this Sedgefield Bird List if anyone cares to send me a photo of a bird I haven't listed here. Please fill in the info on my "Contact Me" page. I shall credit you with any photo I post on my page.

This list is no substitute however for a good bird book or an on-line digital bird program such as "Roberts Multimedia Birds of Southern Africa" which I can highly recommend!