Birding at the Kapama Game Reserve
A report of my birding trip to the Kapama Game Reserve in South Africa, near Kruger National Park, where I saw more than 60 species during the few days that I spent there
Camera & lens I used at the time:
Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XSi with Sigma Lens 150-500mm
Species Observed:
White-faced Whistling-Duck
Knob-billed Duck
Egyptian Goose
Spur-winged Goose
Crested Francolin
Speckled Pigeon*
Ring-necked Dove
Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove
African Green-Pigeon
Gray Go-away-bird
Purple-crested Turaco
Burchell's Coucal
Levaillant's Cuckoo
African/Common Cuckoo
Eurasian Nightjar
Alpine Swift
African Palm Swift
Black Crake
Blacksmith Lapwing
Crowned Lapwing
Wattled Lapwing
African Jacana
Common Sandpiper
Little Grebe
Marabou Stork
Hadada Ibis
Striated Heron
Western Cattle-Egret
Gray Heron
White-backed Vulture
African Fish-Eagle
Spotted Eagle-Owl
Pearl-spotted Owlet
Southern Red-billed Hornbill
European Bee-eater
Southern Carmine Bee-eater
Malachite Kingfisher
Woodland Kingfisher
Brown-hooded Kingfisher
Pied Kingfisher
Lilac-breasted Roller
Amur Falcon*
African Black-headed Oriole
Retz's Helmetshrike
Sulphur-breasted Bushshrike
Fork-tailed Drongo
Magpie Shrike
Green-backed Camaroptera
Banded Martin
Barn Swallow
Common Bulbul
Arrow-marked Babbler
Red-billed Oxpecker
Burchell's Starling
Cape Starling
Spotted Flycatcher
Ashy Flycatcher
White-throated Robin-Chat
Southern Masked-Weaver
Red-billed Quelea
Southern Red Bishop
Red-billed Firefinch
Pin-tailed Whydah
Eastern Paradise-Whydah
francolin/spurfowl sp.
Unidentified raptors & swift
*Species Observed Only
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