| FAMILY | †Roberts | SPECIES |
| Grebes | 6 8 | Greater crested grebe Dabchick |
| Pelicans | 49 50 | White pelican Pinkbacked pelican |
| Cormorants | 55 58 | Whitebreasted cormorant Reed cormorant |
| Darters | 60 | Darter |
| Herons, Egrets & Bitterns | 62 63 65 66 67 68 71 72 74 76 | Grey heron Blackheaded heron Purple heron Great white egret Little egret Yellowbilled egret Cattle egret Squacco heron Greenbacked heron Blackcrowned night heron |
| Hamerkops | 81 | Hamerkop |
| Storks | 83 84 85 89 90 | White stork Black stork Abdim’s stork Marabou stork Yellow-billed stork |
| Ibises & Spoonbills | 91 94 95 | Sacred ibis Hadeda ibis African spoonbill |
| Swans, Ducks & Geese | 99 102 104 105 108 113 115 | White-faced [whistling] duck Egyptian goose Yellowbilled duck African black duck Redbilled teal Southern pochard Knobbilled duck |
| Secretary birds | 118 | Secretarybird |
| Raptors | 122 126b 127 128 129 130 131 135 137 138 140 142 143 146 148 149 152 156 157 158 159 161* 165 169 | Cape vulture Yellowbilled kite Blackshouldered kite Cuckoo hawk Bat hawk Honey buzzard Black eagle Wahlberg’s eagle African hawk eagle Ayre’s eagle Martial eagle Brown snake eagle Blackbreasted snake eagle Bateleur African fish eagle Steppe buzzard Jackal buzzard Ovambo sparrowhawk Little sparrowhawk Black sparroehawk Little banded goshawk Gabar goshawk* African marsh harrier Montague’s harrier |
| * NOTE: Carruther’s list names ‘Gabar Goshawk’ but gives the number of the African Goshawk; Gabar is the more likely |
| Falcons & Kestrels | 171 172 181 182 183 | Peregrine falcon Lanner falcon Rock kestrel Greater kestrel Lesser kestrel |
| Francolins & Quails | 188 189 192 196 199 200 | Coqui francolin Crested francolin Redwing francolin Natal francolin Swainson’s francolin Common quail |
| Guineafowl | 203 | Helmeted guineafowl |
| Buttonquails | 205 | Kurrichane buttonquail |
| Cranes | 208 | Blue crane |
| Rails, Crakes, Flufftails, Gallinules, Moorhens & Coots | 213 223 226 228 | Black crake Purple Gallinule Moorhen Redknobbed coot |
| Bustards & Korhaans | 237 239 | Redcrested korhaan Black korhaan |
| Plovers | 249 255 258 260 | Threebanded plover Crowned plover Blacksmith plover Wattled plover |
| Sandpipers, Snipes & Phalaropes | 264 266 269 270 272 274 284 | Common sandpiper Wood sandpiper Marsh sandpiper Greenshank Curlew sandpiper Little stint Ruff |
| Avocets & Stilts | 294 | Avocet |
| Dikkops | 297 | Spotted dikkop |
| Skuas, Gulls, Terns & Noddies | 315 | Greyheaded gull |
| Pigeons & Doves | 349 350 353 354 355 356 358 | Rock pigeon Rameron pigeon Mourning dove Cape turtle dove Laughing dove Namaqua dove Green[Emerald]spotted wood-dove |
| Louries | 373 | Grey lourie |
| Cuckoos & Coucals | 375 377 378 381 382 385 386 391 | African cuckoo Redchested cuckoo Black cuckoo Striped cuckoo Jacobin cuckoo Klaas’s cuckoo Diederick cuckoo Burchall’s coucal |
| Barn owls & Grass owl | 392 | Barn owl |
| Owls | 394 396 397 398 401 | Wood owl Scops owl Whitefaced owl Pearlspotted owl Spotted eagle owl |
| Nightjars | 404 405 406 408 | European nightjar Fierynecked nightjar Rufouscheeked nightjar Freckled nightjar |
| Swifts | 412 415 416 417 418 421 | Black swift Whiterumped swift Horus swift Little swift Alpine swift Palm swift |
| Mousebirds | 424 425 426 | Speckled mousebird Whitebacked Mousebird Redfaced mousebird |
| Kingfishers | 428 429 430 431 432 433 435 437 | Pied kingfisher Giant kingfisher Halfcollared kingfisher Malachite kingfisher Pygmy kingfisher Woodland kingfisher Brownhooded kingfisher Striped kingfisher |
| Bee-eaters | 438 443 444 445 | European bee-eater Whitefronted bee-eater Little bee-eater Swallowtailed bee-eater |
| Rollers | 447 449 | Lilacbreasted roller Purple roller |
| Hoopoe | 451 | [African] Hoopoe |
| Woodhoopoes | 452 454 | Redbilled woodhoopoe Scimitarbilled woodhoopoe |
| Hornbills | 457 459 | Grey hornbill Yellowbilled hornbill |
| Barbets | 464 465 470 473 | Blackcollared barbet Pied barbet Yellowfronted tinker barbet Crested barbet |
| Honeyguides | 474 476 478 | Greater honeyguide Lesser honeyguide Sharpbilled honeyguide |
| Woodpeckers | 480 481 483 486 487 | Ground woodpecker Bennett’s woodpecker Goldentailed woodpecker Cardinal woodpecker Bearded woodpecker |
| Wrynecks | 489 | Redthroated wryneck |
| Larks | 494 495 496 498 500 507 | Rufousnaped lark Clapper lark Flappet lark Sabota lark Longbilled lark Redcapped lark |
| Swallows & Martins | 518 520 523 524 526 527 528 529 530 533 534 | European swallow Whitethroated swallow Pearlbreasted swallow Redbreasted swallow Greater striped swallow Lesser striped swallow South African cliff sw’llow Rock martin House martin Brownthroated martin Banded martin |
| Cuckooshrikes | 538 | Black cuckooshrike |
| Drongos | 541 | Forktailed drongo |
| Orioles | 543 545 | European golden oriole Blackheaded oriole |
| Crows | 547 548 | Black crow Pied crow |
| Tits | 552 554 | Ashy [Acacia] grey tit Southern black tit |
| Babblers | 560 | Arrowmarked babbler |
| Bulbuls | 568 | Blackeyed bulbul |
| Thrushes, Chats & Robins | 576 577 580 581 583 586 589 593 595 596 601 602 613 615 | Kurrichane thrush Olive thrush Groundscraper thrush Cape rock thrush Short-toed rock thrush Mountain chat Familiar chat Mocking chat Anteating chat Stonechat Cape robin Whitethroated robin Whitebrowed [scrub] robin Kalahari robin |
| Warblers, Tit-babblers, Eremomelas, Crombecs, Prinias & Cisticolas | 619 620 621 625 631 635 638 643 645 651 653 655 656 658 661 664 665 666 667 670 672 677 679 681 683 685 | Garden warbler Whitethroat Titbabbler Icterine warbler African marsh warbler Cape reed warbler African sedge warbler Willow warbler Barthroated apalis Longbilled crombec Yellowbellied eremomela Greencapped eremomela Burntnecked eremomela Barred warbler Grassbird Fantailed cisticola Desert cisticola Cloud cisticola Ayre’s cisticola Wailing cisticola Rattling cisticola Levaillant’s cisticola Lazy cisticola Neddicky Tawnyflanked prinia Blackchested prinia |
| Flycatchers | 689 694 695 696 698 701 706 710 | Spotted flycatcher Black flycatcher Marico flycatcher Pallid [Mousecolured] flyc. Fiscal flycatcher Chinspot batis Fairy flycatcher Paradise flycatcher |
| Wagtails, Pipits & Longclaws | 713 716 717 718 720 722 723 727 | Cape wagtail Richard’s pipit Longbilled pipit Plainbacked pipit Striped pipit Tree pipit Bushveld pipit Orangethroated longclaw |
| Shrikes, Tchagras, Bushshrikes & Helmetshrikes | 732 733 736 739 740 741 743 744 746 748 751 753 | Fiscal shrike Redbacked shrike Southern boubou Crimsonbreasted shrike Puffback Brubru Threestreaked tchagra Blackcrowned tchagra Bokmakierie Orangebreasted bushshrike Greyheaded bushshrike White helmetshrike |
| Starlings | 761 762 764 769 | Plumcoloured starling Burchell’s glossy starling Cape glossy starling Redwinged starling |
| Sunbirds | 775 779 785 787 792 | Malachite sunbird Marico sunbird Greater doublecollared sunbird Whitebellied sunbird Black sunbird |
| White-eyes | 796 | Cape white-eye |
| Weavers, Sparrows, Bishops & Widows | 798 799 801 803 804 805 806 811 813 814 819 820 821 824 826 829 831 832 | Redbilled buffalo weaver Whitebrowed sparrow wvr House sparrow Cape sparrow Greyheaded sparrow Yellowthroated sparrow Scalyfeathered finch Spottedbacked weaver Cape weaver Masked weaver Redheaded weaver Cuckoo finch Redbilled quelea Red bishop Golden bishop Whitewinged widow Redcollared widow Longtailed widow |
| Waxbills, Mannekins, Twinspots & Firefinches | 834 840 841 842 844 845 846 847 850 852 854 855 856 857 | Melba finch Bluebilled firefinch Jameson’s firefinch Redbilled firefinch Blue waxbill Violeteared waxbill Common waxbill Blackcheeked waxbill Swee waxbill Quail finch Orangebreasted waxbill Cutthroat finch Redheaded finch Bronze mannikin |
| Whydahs & Widowfinches | 860 862 864 867 | Pintailed whydah Paradise whydah Black widowfinch Steelblue widowfinch |
| Canaries & Buntings | 869 870 878 879 881 884 885 886 | Yelloweyed canary Blackthroated canary Yellow canary Whitethroated canary Streakyheaded canary Goldenbreasted bunting Cape bunting Rock bunting |
