Southern Africa bird calls Flashcards
African rail
White-winged widowbird
Bearded scrub-robin

Barred wren-warbler
*fast brubru then stierling’s wren warbler*

Sombre greenbul

Common buzzard
Half-collared kingfisher
Crested francolin

Fork-tailed drongo
Lizard buzzard
Coqui francolin

Bennett’s woodpecker
white-red moustache

Bateleur
Crested guineafowl
*duck then drummer*
Kelp gull
Gorgeous bushshrike
Green-backed heron

Senegal coucal
Green-backed camaroptera
African jacana
White-throated robin-chat
“happy birthday to you happy birthday to you”
African golden oriole
Hartlaub’s gull
Crimson-breasted shrike
Giant kingfisher
Arrow-marked babbler

Red-billed buffalo weaver
Hadeda ibis
*three-blind-mice*
Violet-backed starling
*horror movie sounds–violet/violent*
Double-banded sandgrouse

Crowned lapwing
Common cuckoo
Brown-hooded kingfisher
Grey-headed kingfisher
African darter
Cardinal woodpecker
brown forehead

Sabota lark
*mimics 60+ birds*

Trumpeter hornbill

Southern white-crowned shrike

White-browed robin-chat

Black-faced waxbill

Spotted thick-knee
Natal spurfowl

Southern pied babbler
White-browed sparrow-weaver
Blue waxbill
White-fronted bee-eater
Red-eyed dove
Martial eagle
Green-capped eremomela
*yellow-breasted apalis with no rhythm*

Marico flycatcher

Mocking cliff chat
African scops owl
Terrestrial brownbul

African goshawk
African paradise flycatcher
Lesser spotted eagle
Marico sunbird

Freckled nightjar
Broad-billed roller
Brown-backed honeybird
Southern white-faced owl


African cuckoo

Cape shoveler
Swainson’s spurfowl
Shikra
Woodland kingfisher


Acacia pied barbet

Red-capped robin-chat
*snores*

Saddle-billed stork

Bearded woodpecker
white-black-white

Southern black tit
“rob-it rob-it”
Collared pratincole
Thick-billed cuckoo
“weeee-wick weeee-wick”

Tawny eagle

Kurrichane thrush
*escape room notes that you have to re-create*
Western barn owl
Blue-cheeked bee-eater

Little bee-eater
Verreaux’s eagle
Black-backed puffback
Pied kingfisher
Diederik cuckoo
Southern ground hornbill
Collared sunbird

Southern grey-headed sparrow
Spectacled weaver
*descending then swizzle*
Zitting cisticola

Black cuckooshrike

Water thick-knee
Lesser honeyguide
“vic-vic-vic”

Black-shouldered kite
Desert cisticola
Greater blue-eared starling
*sounds like a white-fronted bee-eater, but something’s off*

Red-billed oxpecker

Spur-winged goose
Long-billed crombec

Spotted eagle-owl
Rufous-cheeked nightjar
African hawk-eagle
Common moorhen
Laughing dove
Black-throated canary

Common scimitarbill
Red-faced cisticola
Dark-chanting goshawk

Namaqua sandgrouse
“calky-vein”
Black-headed oriole
Levaillant’s cuckoo
Rock dove
Namaqua dove
African fish eagle
Magpie shrike
Greater painted snipe
Cut-throat finch
Common greenshank
“choo-choo-choo”

African black duck
Brown-crowned tchagra
Common tern
Green wood-hoopoe
Brubru

African harrier-hawk
Southern black flycatcher

Speckled mousebird
Red-knobbed coot
Grey-headed bushshrike

African olive pigeon
Marsh owl
Verreaux’s eagle-owl
Burnt-necked eremomela
Northern black korhaan
Wahlberg’s eagle
(note: baggy leggings)

European nightjar
*fast square-tailed*

Meyer’s parrot

Kori bustard
Olive-tree warbler


African mourning dove

White-browed scrub-robin
*same call, repeated, until she gives in*

Black-chested prinia

Purple-crested turaco
Grey-backed camaroptera
*peep*
Rufous-naped lark

Tawny-flanked prinia
Bronze-winged courser

Kalahari scrub-robin

Yellow-billed duck
African (purple) swamphen
Three-banded courser

Red-capped lark
Tropical boubou


African red-eyed bulbul
Malachite kingfisher
Southern red bishop
Grey-headed gull
Ashy flycatcher

Golden-breasted bunting
Black-crowned tchagra
Temminck’s courser

Pearl-spotted owlet
White-backed vulture
Spotted flycatcher

Brown snake eagle
Burchell’s coucal


White-faced whistling duck
African wattled lapwing
Monotonous lark
Cinnamon-breasted bunting
Red-chested cuckoo
Black cuckoo
“I’m so sick”

Red-chested flufftail
Yellow-bellied greenbul

Orange-breasted bushshrike
Jacobin cuckoo

Black-collared barbet
“black-collar black-collar black-collar”

African snipe
Red-crested korhaan
Striped kingfisher
Red-faced mousebird
Great spotted cuckoo
Rattling cisticola
*gattlin’ gun*

Golden-tailed woodpecker
streaked white-red

Southern red-billed hornbill
Common quail

White-crested helmet-shrike
Dark-capped bulbul
Cape turtle dove
