Botswana Bird Gallery

Here are some of the many bird species observed in Botswana in 2013. I saw many others during a return visit to southern Botswana in 2014.

More Botswana scenes are here.

Northern Botswana

 

Black-backed Puffback (17cm) Southern Red-billed Hornbill (42cm) Long-billed Crombec (11cm) Abdim's Stork (79cm) Southern Grey-headed Sparrow (15cm) Little Egret (60cm) African Openbill (74-90cm)

Red-billed Oxpecker (19cm)

Lilac-breasted Roller (29/37cm)

African Fish Eagle (68cm)

Coppery-tailed Coucal (49cm)

Red-necked Spurfowl (37cm)

Southern Ground Hornbill (90-130cm)

Knob-billed Duck (56-76cm)

Malachite Kingfisher (14cm)

Pied Kingfisher (24cm)

Woodland Kingfisher (23cm)

White-crowned Lapwing (30cm)

Water Thick-knee (40cm)

Egyptian Goose (60-75cm)

Meyer's Parrot (23cm)

African Golden Oriole (22cm)

Red-headed Weaver with food (14cm)

Fork-tailed Drongo (24cm)

Grey-headed Kingfisher (21cm)

Greater Blue-eared Starling (24cm)

Broad-billed Roller (28cm)

Dickinson's Kestrel (29cm)

Grey Go-away Bird (49cm)

Burchell's Starling (32cm)

Verreaux's Eagle-owl (62cm)

Little Bee-eater (16cm)

Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (25/33cm)

Hamerkop (54cm)

Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill (48-60cm)

Green Wood-Hoopoe (34cm)

Bearded Woodpecker (24cm)

Blacksmith Plover (30cm)

African Jacana (25-32cm)

Ostriches

European Bee-eater (25/28cm)

Western Cattle Egret (51cm)

                                                            

Southern Botswana

 

Levaillant's Cuckoo (39cm) Violet-backed Starling (17cm) Black-faced Waxbill (f) (12cm) Red-backed Shrike (18cm) Dideric Cuckoo (19cm) Kurrichane Thrush (21cm) Rufous-naped Lark (17cm)

Jameson's Firefinch (11cm)

Bushveld Pipit (13cm)

Acacia Pied Barbet (17cm)

Red-billed Firefinch (10cm)

African Paradise Flycatcher (m) (17/34cm) (female)

Little Bee-eater (16cm)

Black-chested Prinia (14cm)

Southern Red Bishop (12cm)

Blue Waxbill (12cm)

Lanner Falcon (36-48cm)

Marico Sunbird (m) (12cm)

White-bellied Sunbird (m) (11cm)

Orange-winged Pytilia (f) (13cm)

Rattling Cisticola (15cm)

Kalahari Scrub Robin (15cm)

Southern Masked Weaver (m) (16cm)

Chinspot Batis (13cm)

Plain-backed Sunbird (m) (10cm)

White-throated Robin-Chat (16cm)

Burchell's Coucal (41cm)

Brown-hooded Kingfisher (21cm)

                                       

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