Bird Finder: Kruger National Park ...
Quickly Find Kruger Birds on this Unique Website
The birds are divided into scientific classes or family names. Each family name is shown with the English names for the types of birds found within each family. Click the appropriate link to go and find specific avian species within the family.
Almost 500 birds found in the Kruger Park have been listed along with details on how to identify them.
Use is made of the world famous Roberts number classification that you will find in almost every bird book in South Africa.
Accipitridae ... Typical Raptors, Old Vultures, Osprey
Alaudidae ... Larks, Sparrowlarks
Alcedinidae ... Alcedinid Kingfishers
Ardeidae ... Egrets, Herons, Bitterns
Bucerotidae ... Typical hornbills
Campephagidae ... Cuckooshrikes
Cerylidae ... Cerylid Kingfishers
Charadriidae ... Plovers, Lapwings
Cisticolidae ... African Warblers
Coraciidae ... Typical Rollers
Cuculidae ... Old World Cuckoos, Malkohas
Dacelonidae ... Dacelonid Kingfishers
Dendrocygnidae ... Whistling Ducks
Estrildidae ... Waxbills, Firefinches, Twinspots
Fringillidae ... Chaffinches, Canaries, Buntings
Glareolidae ... Coursers, Pratincoles
Hirundinidae ... Swallows, Martins
Laridae ... Skuas, Jaegers, Gulls, Skimmers, Terns, Noddies
Lybiidae ... African Barbets, Tinkerbirds
Malaconotidae ... Bush-shrikes, Puffbacks, Tchagras, Boubous, Helment-shrikes, Batises, Wattle-eyes
Monarchidae ... Crested Flycatchers, Paradise-Flycatchers
Motacillidae ... Wagtails, Longclaws, Pipits
Muscicapidae ... Thrushes, Robins, Chats, Old World Flycatchers
Oriolidae ... Old World Orioles
Paridae ... Tits, Penduline-Tits
Passeridae ... Sparrows, Petronias
Phalacrocoracidae ... Cormorants
Phasianidae ... Francolins, Spurfowls, Quails
Phoenicopteridae ... Flamingos
Phoeniculidae ... Wood-hoopoes
Picidae ... Woodpeckers, Wrynecks
Ploceidae ... Weavers, Queleas, Windowbirds
Pstittacidae ... Parrots, Lovebirds
Pycnonotidae ... Bulbuls, Nicators
Rallidae ... Flufftails, Rails, Crakes, Gallinules, Swamphens, Moorhens, Coots
Recurvirostridae ... Stilts, Avocets
Rhinopomastidae ... Scimmitarbills
Rostratulidae ... Painted-snipes
Sagittariidae ... Secretarybird
Sturnidae ... Starlings, Mynans, Oxpeckers
Syliviidae ... Leaf-Warblers, Babblers, Warblers
Threskiornithidae ... Ibises, Spoonbills
Tytonidae ... Barn owls, Grass owls
Viduidae ... Whydahs, Indigobirds, Cuckoo Finch