Acacia Pied Barbet
Bird Lists & Photos
Our trip to Namibia was also amazing from a birding standpoint. We saw 128 species of bird, and 124 that we'd never seen before.
In Germany, we birded for only a few hours at the Stadwaldt Forest in Frankfurt, seeing the following species (* indicates a "lifer"):
| * Common Swift *Wood Pigeon Feral Pigeon House Sparrow Northern Magpie *Eurasian Nuthatch *Spotted Flycatcher |
*Great Spotted Woodpecker *Blue Tit *Great Tit *Eurasian Jay *Great Cormorant *Blackcap |
*European Robin *Blackbird *Mistle Thrush *Black Redstart *Chaffinch *Yellowhammer |
In Namibia, we birded every day, both as we were hunting and around the camps, seeing the following species (* indicates a "lifer"):
| *Marabou Stork *South African Shellduck *Lappet-faced Vulture *White-backed Vulture *Bateleur *Tawny Eagle *Martial Eagle *African Hawk-Eagle *Booted Eagle *Southern Pale-Chanting Goshawk Black-shouldered Kite *Gabar Goshawk *Little Sparrowhawk *Greater Kestrel *Red-billed Francolin *Orange-river Francolin *Helmeted Guineafowl *Common Ostrich *Secretarybird *Kori Bustard *Red-crested Koorhan *Northern Black Koorhan *Crowned Lapwing *Blacksmith Lapwing *Namaqua Sandgrouse *Burchell's Sandgrouse *Speckled Pigeon Feral Pigeon *Cape Turtle-dove *Laughing Dove *Emerald-spotted Wood-dove *Namaqua Dove *Rosy-faced Lovebird *Gray Lourie *Alpine Swift *Bradfield's Swift |
*Little Swift *African Palm Swift *White-backed Mousebird *Swallow-tailed Bee-eater *Purple Roller *Bradfield's Hornbill *Montiero's Hornbill *Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill *Red-billed Hornbill *Damara Hornbill *Common Scimitarbill *African Hoopoe *Acacia Pied Barbet *Cardinal Woodpecker *Golden-tailed Woodpecker *Bearded Woodpecker *Monotonous Lark *Sabota Lark *Red-capped Lark *Rock Martin *Fork-tailed Drongo *Cape Crow *Ashy Tit *Carp's Tit *Bare-cheeked Babbler *Southern Pied Babbler *African Red-eyed Bulbul *Short-toed Rock Thrush *Familiar Chat *White-browed Scrub-Robin *Kalahari Scrub-Robin *Yellow-bellied Eremomela *Rockrunner *Barred Wren-warbler *Grey-backed Camaroptera *Chestnut-vented Tit-babbler *Desert Cisticola |
*Tinkling Cisticola *Black-chested Prinia *Marico Flycatcher *Pritrit Batis *Crimson-breasted Shrike *Common Fiscal *Brown-crowned Tchagra *White-crested Helmet-Shrike *Southern White-crowned Shrike *Brubru *Black-backed Puffback *Cape Glossy Starling *Burchell's Starling *Pale-winged Starling *White-bellied Sunbird *Dusky Sunbird *Marico Sunbird *Great Sparrow *Cape Sparrow *Southern Grey-headed Sparrow *Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver *White-browed Sparrow-Weaver *Sociable Weaver *Southern Masked Weaver *Lesser Masked Weaver *Red-billed Quelea *Shaft-tailed Whydah *Violet-eared Waxbill *Black-faced Waxbill *Blue Waxbill *Red-headed Finch *Scaly-feathered Finch *Green-winged Pytilia *Yellow Canary *Black-throated Canary *Golden-breasted Bunting *Lark-like Bunting |
Acacia Pied Barbet
African Red-eyed Bulbul
Ashy Tit
Bearded Woodpecker
Black-chested Prinia
Black-faced Waxbill
Blacksmith Lapwing
Black-throated Canary
Blue Waxbill
Bradfield's Hornbill
Brown-crowned Tchagra
Crimson-breasted Shrike
Dusky Sunbird
Fork-tailed Drongo
Gabar Goshawk
Golden-breasted Bunting
Green-winged Pytilia
Grey Lourie
Grey-backed Camaroptera
Helmeted Guineafowl
Kori Bustard
Marico Flycatcher
Pritrit Batis
Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver
Red-billed Hornbill
Sabota Lark
Short-toed Rock Thrush
Southern Pale Chanting Goshawk
Southern Pied Babbler
Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill
Swallow-tailed Bee-eater
Violet-eared Waxbill
White-bellied Sunbird
Yellow Canary
Yellow-bellied Eremomela
