Southern Africa bird calls Flashcards

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African rail

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White-winged widowbird

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Bearded scrub-robin

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Barred wren-warbler

*fast brubru then stierling’s wren warbler*

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Sombre greenbul

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Common buzzard

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Half-collared kingfisher

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Crested francolin

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Fork-tailed drongo

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Lizard buzzard

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Coqui francolin

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Bennett’s woodpecker

white-red moustache

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Bateleur

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Crested guineafowl

*duck then drummer*

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Kelp gull

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Gorgeous bushshrike

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Green-backed heron

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Senegal coucal

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Green-backed camaroptera

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African jacana

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White-throated robin-chat

“happy birthday to you happy birthday to you”

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African golden oriole

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Hartlaub’s gull

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Crimson-breasted shrike

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Giant kingfisher

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Arrow-marked babbler

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Red-billed buffalo weaver

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Hadeda ibis

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*three-blind-mice*

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Violet-backed starling

*horror movie sounds–violet/violent*

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Double-banded sandgrouse

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Crowned lapwing

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Common cuckoo

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Brown-hooded kingfisher

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Grey-headed kingfisher

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African darter

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Cardinal woodpecker

brown forehead

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Sabota lark

*mimics 60+ birds*

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Trumpeter hornbill

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Southern white-crowned shrike

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White-browed robin-chat

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Black-faced waxbill

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Spotted thick-knee

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Natal spurfowl

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Southern pied babbler

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White-browed sparrow-weaver

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Blue waxbill

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White-fronted bee-eater

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Red-eyed dove

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Martial eagle

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Green-capped eremomela

*yellow-breasted apalis with no rhythm*

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Marico flycatcher

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Mocking cliff chat

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African scops owl

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Terrestrial brownbul

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African goshawk

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African paradise flycatcher

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Lesser spotted eagle

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Marico sunbird

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Freckled nightjar

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Broad-billed roller

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Brown-backed honeybird

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Southern white-faced owl

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African cuckoo

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Cape shoveler

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Swainson’s spurfowl

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Shikra

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Woodland kingfisher

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Acacia pied barbet

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Red-capped robin-chat

*snores*

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Saddle-billed stork

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Bearded woodpecker

white-black-white

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Southern black tit

“rob-it rob-it”

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Collared pratincole

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Thick-billed cuckoo

“weeee-wick weeee-wick”

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Tawny eagle

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Kurrichane thrush

*escape room notes that you have to re-create*

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Western barn owl

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Blue-cheeked bee-eater

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Little bee-eater

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Verreaux’s eagle

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Black-backed puffback

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Pied kingfisher

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Diederik cuckoo

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Southern ground hornbill

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Collared sunbird

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Southern grey-headed sparrow

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Spectacled weaver

*descending then swizzle*

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Zitting cisticola

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Black cuckooshrike

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Water thick-knee

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Lesser honeyguide

“vic-vic-vic”

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Black-shouldered kite

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Desert cisticola

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Greater blue-eared starling

*sounds like a white-fronted bee-eater, but something’s off*

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Red-billed oxpecker

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Spur-winged goose

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Long-billed crombec

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Spotted eagle-owl

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Rufous-cheeked nightjar

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African hawk-eagle

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Common moorhen

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Laughing dove

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Black-throated canary

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Common scimitarbill

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Red-faced cisticola

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Dark-chanting goshawk

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Namaqua sandgrouse

“calky-vein”

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Black-headed oriole

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Levaillant’s cuckoo

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Rock dove

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Namaqua dove

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African fish eagle

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Magpie shrike

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Greater painted snipe

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Cut-throat finch

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Common greenshank

“choo-choo-choo”

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African black duck

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Brown-crowned tchagra

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Common tern

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Green wood-hoopoe

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Brubru

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African harrier-hawk

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Southern black flycatcher

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Speckled mousebird

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Red-knobbed coot

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Grey-headed bushshrike

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African olive pigeon

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Marsh owl

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Verreaux’s eagle-owl

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Burnt-necked eremomela

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Northern black korhaan

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Wahlberg’s eagle

(note: baggy leggings)

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European nightjar

*fast square-tailed*

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Meyer’s parrot

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Kori bustard

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Olive-tree warbler

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African mourning dove

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White-browed scrub-robin

*same call, repeated, until she gives in*

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Black-chested prinia

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Purple-crested turaco

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Grey-backed camaroptera

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*peep*

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Rufous-naped lark

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Tawny-flanked prinia

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Bronze-winged courser

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Kalahari scrub-robin

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Yellow-billed duck

261
Q
A
262
Q
A
263
Q
A
264
Q
A
265
Q
A

African (purple) swamphen

266
Q
A
267
Q
A
268
Q
A

Three-banded courser

269
Q
A
270
Q
A
271
Q
A
272
Q
A

Red-capped lark

273
Q
A
274
Q
A

Tropical boubou

275
Q
A
276
Q
A

African red-eyed bulbul

277
Q
A

Malachite kingfisher

278
Q
A

Southern red bishop

279
Q
A
280
Q
A

Grey-headed gull

281
Q
A
282
Q
A
283
Q
A
284
Q
A

Ashy flycatcher

285
Q
A

Golden-breasted bunting

286
Q
A
287
Q
A
288
Q
A

Black-crowned tchagra

289
Q
A
290
Q
A
291
Q
A
292
Q
A

Temminck’s courser

293
Q
A

Pearl-spotted owlet

294
Q
A
295
Q
A

White-backed vulture

296
Q
A

Spotted flycatcher

297
Q
A

Brown snake eagle

298
Q
A
299
Q
A

Burchell’s coucal

300
Q
A
301
Q
A
302
Q
A

White-faced whistling duck

303
Q
A
304
Q
A
305
Q
A

African wattled lapwing

306
Q
A

Monotonous lark

307
Q
A

Cinnamon-breasted bunting

308
Q
A

Red-chested cuckoo

309
Q
A
310
Q
A

Black cuckoo

“I’m so sick”

311
Q
A

Red-chested flufftail

312
Q
A

Yellow-bellied greenbul

313
Q
A
314
Q
A

Orange-breasted bushshrike

315
Q
A

Jacobin cuckoo

316
Q
A

Black-collared barbet

“black-collar black-collar black-collar”

317
Q
A

African snipe

318
Q
A
319
Q
A
320
Q
A

Red-crested korhaan

321
Q
A

Striped kingfisher

322
Q
A
323
Q
A

Red-faced mousebird

324
Q
A

Great spotted cuckoo

325
Q
A

Rattling cisticola

*gattlin’ gun*

326
Q
A
327
Q
A

Golden-tailed woodpecker

streaked white-red

328
Q
A

Southern red-billed hornbill

329
Q
A
330
Q
A

Common quail

331
Q
A
332
Q
A
333
Q
A
334
Q
A
335
Q
A
336
Q
A

White-crested helmet-shrike

337
Q
A
338
Q
A
339
Q
A

Dark-capped bulbul

340
Q
A

Cape turtle dove

341
Q
A
342
Q
A