Botswana Bird Gallery

Here are some of the many bird species observed during a second trip to Botswana in 2014. More Botswana scenes are here.

Southern Botswana

 

Black-backed Puffback (17cm) Barn Swallow (18cm) Black-chested Prinia (14cm) Booted Eagle (50cm) Cape Vulture (110cm) Little Stint (14cm) Cape Wagtail (20cm)

Cape Weaver (f) (17cm)

Crested Barbet (24cm) another

Crimson-breasted Shrike (25cm)

Familiar Chat (juv) (15cm)

Green-winged Pytilia (13cm)

Kalahari Scrub-robin (15cm)

Lesser Grey Shrike (21cm)

Natal Spurfowl (34cm)

Pin-tailed Whydah (f) (12cm)

Rattling Cisticola (15cm)

Crowned Lapwing (30cm)

Red-backed Shrike (18cm)

Rufous-naped Lark (17cm)

Sabota Lark (15cm)

Scaly-feathered Finch (10cm)

Short-clawed Lark (18cm)

Spotted Eagle-owl (47cm)

Swallow-tailed Bee-eater (21cm)

Greater Blue-eared Starling (24cm)

Three-banded Plover (18cm)

White-browed Sparrow-weaver (17cm)

 

 

 

 

Western Cattle Egret (51cm)

Blacksmith Plover (30cm)

African Jacana (25-32cm)

Wood Sandpiper (20cm)  

 

 

                                       

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