Birds of Eswatini
Eswatini hosts 440 regularly occurring species in this directory. Ordered by how often each bird is reported in the country.
- Fork-tailed DrongoDicrurus adsimilis
- Ring-necked DoveStreptopelia capicola
- Emerald-spotted Wood DoveTurtur chalcospilos
- Sombre GreenbulAndropadus importunus
- Brown-hooded KingfisherHalcyon albiventris
- Tawny-flanked PriniaPrinia subflava
- Hadada IbisBostrychia hagedash
- Red-eyed DoveStreptopelia semitorquata
- Black-collared BarbetLybius torquatus
- Black-backed PuffbackDryoscopus cubla
- Kurrichane ThrushTurdus libonyana
- Cape StarlingLamprotornis nitens
- Speckled MousebirdColius striatus
- White-bellied SunbirdCinnyris talatala
- Rattling CisticolaCisticola chiniana
- Southern BoubouLaniarius ferrugineus
- Southern FiscalLanius collaris
- Black-headed OrioleOriolus larvatus
- Blue WaxbillUraeginthus angolensis
- Southern Black FlycatcherMelaenornis pammelaina
- Common WaxbillEstrilda astrild
- Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
- Spectacled WeaverPloceus ocularis
- Southern Grey-headed SparrowPasser diffusus
- Yellow-fronted CanaryCrithagra mozambica
- White-browed Robin-ChatCossypha heuglini
- African Paradise FlycatcherTerpsiphone viridis
- Chinspot BatisBatis molitor
- Black-crowned TchagraTchagra senegalus
- Village WeaverPloceus cucullatus
- Lesser Striped SwallowCecropis abyssinica
- Laughing DoveSpilopelia senegalensis
- Pin-tailed WhydahVidua macroura
- Red-faced MousebirdUrocolius indicus
- HamerkopScopus umbretta
- Yellow-breasted ApalisApalis flavida
- Helmeted GuineafowlNumida meleagris
- Pied CrowCorvus albus
- Crested BarbetTrachyphonus vaillantii
- Orange-breasted BushshrikeChlorophoneus sulfureopectus
- Long-billed CrombecSylvietta rufescens
- African FirefinchLagonosticta rubricata
- Yellow-throated LongclawMacronyx croceus
- Scarlet-chested SunbirdChalcomitra senegalensis
- Golden-breasted BuntingEmberiza flaviventris
- African StonechatSaxicola torquatus
- African Pied WagtailMotacilla aguimp
- Fan-tailed WidowbirdEuplectes axillaris
- Golden-tailed WoodpeckerCampethera abingoni
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- Cape WagtailMotacilla capensis
- African PipitAnthus cinnamomeus
- Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca
- Blacksmith LapwingVanellus armatus
- Bleating CamaropteraCamaroptera brachyura
- Amethyst SunbirdChalcomitra amethystina
- Arrow-marked BabblerTurdoides jardineii
- Cape White-eyeZosterops virens
- Crowned LapwingVanellus coronatus
- African Palm SwiftCypsiurus parvus
- Red-winged StarlingOnychognathus morio
- European Bee-eaterMerops apiaster
- African Wattled LapwingVanellus senegallus
- White-browed CoucalCentropus superciliosus
- Reed CormorantMicrocarbo africanus
- Common ScimitarbillRhinopomastus cyanomelas
- Little SwiftApus affinis
- Crested FrancolinOrtygornis sephaena
- Common BulbulPycnonotus barbatus
- Southern Red BishopEuplectes orix
- Diederik CuckooChrysococcyx caprius
- White-faced Whistling DuckDendrocygna viduata
- Grey-headed BushshrikeMalaconotus blanchoti
- Red-faced CisticolaCisticola erythrops
- Black-winged KiteElanus caeruleus
- Cardinal WoodpeckerDendropicos fuscescens
- Terrestrial BrownbulPhyllastrephus terrestris
- Pied KingfisherCeryle rudis
- White-crested HelmetshrikePrionops plumatus
- Black-headed HeronArdea melanocephala
- Red-collared WidowbirdEuplectes ardens
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- Violet-backed StarlingCinnyricinclus leucogaster
- Gorgeous BushshrikeTelophorus viridis
- African Green PigeonTreron calvus
- Klaas's CuckooChrysococcyx klaas
- Wire-tailed SwallowHirundo smithii
- Red-chested CuckooCuculus solitarius
- BrubruNilaus afer
- White-fronted Bee-eaterMerops bullockoides
- Southern Yellow-billed HornbillTockus leucomelas
- Brown-crowned TchagraTchagra australis
- Southern Masked WeaverPloceus velatus
- Zitting CisticolaCisticola juncidis
- Little Bee-eaterMerops pusillus
- White-backed VultureGyps africanus
- White-winged WidowbirdEuplectes albonotatus
- Yellow-throated Bush SparrowGymnoris superciliaris
- Water Thick-kneeBurhinus vermiculatus
- African JacanaActophilornis africanus
- Green Wood HoopoePhoeniculus purpureus
- Malachite KingfisherCorythornis cristatus
- Red-backed ShrikeLanius collurio
- Common MynaAcridotheres tristis
- Lilac-breasted RollerCoracias caudatus
- Eastern NicatorNicator gularis
- NeddickyCisticola fulvicapilla
- Thick-billed WeaverAmblyospiza albifrons
- Striped KingfisherHalcyon chelicuti
- Tambourine DoveTurtur tympanistria
- White-necked RavenCorvus albicollis
- Rock-loving CisticolaCisticola aberrans
- Fiery-necked NightjarCaprimulgus pectoralis
- Greater Double-collared SunbirdCinnyris afer
- Streaky-headed SeedeaterCrithagra gularis
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis
- Bar-throated ApalisApalis thoracica
- Pink-throated TwinspotHypargos margaritatus
- Marico SunbirdCinnyris mariquensis
- Natal SpurfowlPternistis natalensis
- Black CuckooCuculus clamosus
- Common SandpiperActitis hypoleucos
- Wood SandpiperTringa glareola
- Spur-winged GoosePlectropterus gambensis
- Red-billed QueleaQuelea quelea
- Green-winged PytiliaPytilia melba
- Croaking CisticolaCisticola natalensis
- Collared SunbirdHedydipna collaris
- Levaillant's CisticolaCisticola tinniens
- Southern Red-fronted TinkerbirdPogoniulus pusillus
- African Sacred IbisThreskiornis aethiopicus
- Spotted FlycatcherMuscicapa striata
- Burchell's StarlingLamprotornis australis
- Striated HeronButorides striata
- Greater Striped SwallowCecropis cucullata
- Cape GrassbirdSphenoeacus afer
- Black CuckooshrikeCampephaga flava
- Yellow-rumped TinkerbirdPogoniulus bilineatus
- Giant KingfisherMegaceryle maxima
- Woodland KingfisherHalcyon senegalensis
- Red-billed FirefinchLagonosticta senegala
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus
- African Dusky FlycatcherMuscicapa adusta
- African DarterAnhinga rufa
- Cape LongclawMacronyx capensis
- Bearded WoodpeckerChloropicus namaquus
- Crowned HornbillLophoceros alboterminatus
- Jackal BuzzardButeo rufofuscus
- Spotted Thick-kneeBurhinus capensis
- Sabota LarkCalendulauda sabota
- Buff-streaked ChatCampicoloides bifasciatus
- Black KiteMilvus migrans
- Cape CanarySerinus canicollis
- Greater HoneyguideIndicator indicator
- Cape WeaverPloceus capensis
- Red-capped Robin-ChatCossypha natalensis
- African Harrier-HawkPolyboroides typus
- Lesser HoneyguideIndicator minor
- Familiar ChatOenanthe familiaris
- BateleurTerathopius ecaudatus
- White-rumped SwiftApus caffer
- African Black DuckAnas sparsa
- Purple HeronArdea purpurea
- Little Rush WarblerBradypterus baboecala
- Eastern Crested GuineafowlGuttera pucherani
- Acacia Pied BarbetTricholaema leucomelas
- QuailfinchOrtygospiza atricollis
- White-throated SwallowHirundo albigularis
- Wing-snapping CisticolaCisticola ayresii
- Swainson's SpurfowlPternistis swainsonii
- Speckled PigeonColumba guinea
- BokmakierieTelophorus zeylonus
- Wahlberg's EagleHieraaetus wahlbergi
- Dusky IndigobirdVidua funerea
- Jameson's FirefinchLagonosticta rhodopareia
- European RollerCoracias garrulus
- Trumpeter HornbillBycanistes bucinator
- Grey Penduline TitAnthoscopus caroli
- Purple-banded SunbirdCinnyris bifasciatus
- Lesser Swamp WarblerAcrocephalus gracilirostris
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Lesser Masked WeaverPloceus intermedius
- Swee WaxbillCoccopygia melanotis
- Orange-breasted WaxbillAmandava subflava
- Southern Bald IbisGeronticus calvus
- Wailing CisticolaCisticola lais
- Black-winged StiltHimantopus himantopus
- Long-tailed Paradise WhydahVidua paradisaea
- Common HoopoeUpupa epops
- African Grey HornbillLophoceros nasutus
- Magpie ShrikeUrolestes melanoleucus
- Lizard BuzzardKaupifalco monogrammicus
- Common MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- Plain-backed PipitAnthus leucophrys
- Black-bellied BustardLissotis melanogaster
- Cape BatisBatis capensis
- Shelley's FrancolinScleroptila shelleyi
- Red-breasted SwallowCecropis semirufa
- Brown-headed ParrotPoicephalus cryptoxanthus
- Cinnamon-breasted BuntingEmberiza tahapisi
- Brimstone CanaryCrithagra sulphurata
- Brown-throated MartinRiparia paludicola
- Common GreenshankTringa nebularia
- Square-tailed DrongoDicrurus ludwigii
- Yellow-billed DuckAnas undulata
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta
- Brown Snake EagleCircaetus cinereus
- Long-tailed WidowbirdEuplectes progne
- Grey-rumped SwallowPseudhirundo griseopyga
- Scaly-throated HoneyguideIndicator variegatus
- Cape Rock ThrushMonticola rupestris
- Yellow BishopEuplectes capensis
- Western Barn OwlTyto alba
- Long-crested EagleLophaetus occipitalis
- Namaqua DoveOena capensis
- Malachite SunbirdNectarinia famosa
- Rudd's ApalisApalis ruddi
- Large Rock MartinPtyonoprogne fuligula
- Olive WoodpeckerDendropicos griseocephalus
- Mocking Cliff ChatThamnolaea cinnamomeiventris
- Red-billed TealAnas erythrorhyncha
- Coqui FrancolinCampocolinus coqui
- Spotted Eagle-OwlBubo africanus
- Olive SunbirdCyanomitra olivacea
- African CuckooCuculus gularis
- Olive BushshrikeChlorophoneus olivaceus
- Chorister Robin-ChatCossypha dichroa
- African Olive PigeonColumba arquatrix
- Red-winged FrancolinScleroptila levaillantii
- Yellow-billed StorkMycteria ibis
- Red-knobbed CootFulica cristata
- Stierling's Wren-WarblerCalamonastes stierlingi
- Senegal LapwingVanellus lugubris
- Striped PipitAnthus lineiventris
- Village IndigobirdVidua chalybeata
- Lanner FalconFalco biarmicus
- Holub's Golden WeaverPloceus xanthops
- Retz's HelmetshrikePrionops retzii
- Jacobin CuckooClamator jacobinus
- Bennett's WoodpeckerCampethera bennettii
- Squacco HeronArdeola ralloides
- Dark-backed WeaverPloceus bicolor
- Asian Woolly-necked StorkCiconia episcopus
- Marabou StorkLeptoptilos crumenifer
- Marsh WarblerAcrocephalus palustris
- Red-throated WryneckJynx ruficollis
- African Marsh HarrierCircus ranivorus
- Eastern Golden WeaverPloceus subaureus
- Glossy IbisPlegadis falcinellus
- Fiscal FlycatcherSigelus silens
- Cape CrowCorvus capensis
- African SpoonbillPlatalea alba
- African Scops OwlOtus senegalensis
- African Yellow WarblerIduna natalensis
- RuffCalidris pugnax
- Black Saw-wingPsalidoprocne pristoptera
- White StorkCiconia ciconia
- African Emerald CuckooChrysococcyx cupreus
- Black-winged LapwingVanellus melanopterus
- African Pygmy KingfisherIspidina picta
- Common ButtonquailTurnix sylvaticus
- Western House MartinDelichon urbicum
- Crowned EagleStephanoaetus coronatus
- Narina TrogonApaloderma narina
- Bushveld PipitAnthus caffer
- Amur FalconFalco amurensis
- Martial EaglePolemaetus bellicosus
- Cape Robin-ChatDessonornis caffer
- Yellow-fronted TinkerbirdPogoniulus chrysoconus
- Mountain WagtailMotacilla clara
- SecretarybirdSagittarius serpentarius
- White-eared BarbetStactolaema leucotis
- Drakensberg PriniaPrinia hypoxantha
- Long-billed PipitAnthus similis
- Pearl-spotted OwletGlaucidium perlatum
- Rock DoveColumba livia
- Grey SunbirdCyanomitra veroxii
- Goliath HeronArdea goliath
- African Black SwiftApus barbatus
- Half-collared KingfisherAlcedo semitorquata
- Red-billed Buffalo WeaverBubalornis niger
- Burnt-necked EremomelaEremomela usticollis
- Horus SwiftApus horus
- Common QuailCoturnix coturnix
- Rock KestrelFalco rupicolus
- Northern Red-billed HornbillTockus erythrorhynchus
- Common OstrichStruthio camelus
- Little StintCalidris minuta
- Tawny EagleAquila rapax
- Common BuzzardButeo buteo
- Red-headed WeaverAnaplectes rubriceps
- Wattled StarlingCreatophora cinerea
- Southern Double-collared SunbirdCinnyris chalybeus
- Gabar GoshawkMicronisus gabar
- Yellow-bellied EremomelaEremomela icteropygialis
- Olive ThrushTurdus olivaceus
- Red-crested KorhaanLophotis ruficrista
- African FinfootPodica senegalensis
- Blue SwallowHirundo atrocaerulea
- African Woolly-necked StorkCiconia microscelis
- Eurasian HobbyFalco subbuteo
- African SnipeGallinago nigripennis
- Great Reed WarblerAcrocephalus arundinaceus
- Square-tailed NightjarCaprimulgus fossii
- Ground WoodpeckerGeocolaptes olivaceus
- Black StorkCiconia nigra
- Levaillant's CuckooClamator levaillantii
- Collared PratincoleGlareola pratincola
- African OpenbillAnastomus lamelligerus
- Marsh SandpiperTringa stagnatilis
- Brown-backed HoneybirdProdotiscus regulus
- Hooded VultureNecrosyrtes monachus
- Purple SwamphenPorphyrio porphyrio
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- Red-capped LarkCalandrella cinerea
- Lesser Grey ShrikeLanius minor
- African Wood OwlStrix woodfordii
- Black-chested Snake EagleCircaetus pectoralis
- African Cuckoo-HawkAviceda cuculoides
- Pied StarlingLamprotornis bicolor
- White-headed VultureTrigonoceps occipitalis
- Alpine SwiftTachymarptis melba
- Denham's BustardNeotis denhami
- Knob-billed DuckSarkidiornis melanotos
- Blue-mantled Crested FlycatcherTrochocercus cyanomelas
- Black-crowned Night HeronNycticorax nycticorax
- Common SwiftApus apus
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eaterMerops persicus
- Cape VultureGyps coprotheres
- Yellow-bellied GreenbulChlorocichla flaviventris
- Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo
- Grey-headed GullChroicocephalus cirrocephalus
- African Pygmy GooseNettapus auritus
- Verreaux's EagleAquila verreauxii
- Dark Chanting GoshawkMelierax metabates
- Purple RollerCoracias naevius
- Marsh OwlAsio capensis
- Whiskered TernChlidonias hybrida
- White-winged TernChlidonias leucopterus
- Rufous-breasted SparrowhawkAccipiter rufiventris
- Greater Painted-snipeRostratula benghalensis
- Red-chested FlufftailSarothrura rufa
- Bronze-winged CourserRhinoptilus chalcopterus
- African Hawk-EagleAquila spilogaster
- Peregrine FalconFalco peregrinus
- Buff-spotted FlufftailSarothrura elegans
- Desert CisticolaCisticola aridulus
- Cut-throat FinchAmadina fasciata
- Livingstone's TuracoTauraco livingstonii
- Southern Red-billed HornbillTockus rufirostris
- Harlequin QuailCoturnix delegorguei
- Southern PochardNetta erythrophthalma
- Temminck's CourserCursorius temminckii
- Freckled NightjarCaprimulgus tristigma
- African Barred OwletGlaucidium capense
- Gurney's SugarbirdPromerops gurneyi
- Green TwinspotMandingoa nitidula
- Eurasian Golden OrioleOriolus oriolus
- Southern Ground HornbillBucorvus leadbeateri
- Nicholson's PipitAnthus nicholsoni
- Cape SparrowPasser melanurus
- Forest CanaryCrithagra scotops
- White-backed DuckThalassornis leuconotus
- White-bellied BustardEupodotis senegalensis
- Buffy PipitAnthus vaalensis
- Saddle-billed StorkEphippiorhynchus senegalensis
- Rufous-winged CisticolaCisticola galactotes
- Curlew SandpiperCalidris ferruginea
- Orange River White-eyeZosterops pallidus
- Cape BuntingEmberiza capensis
- Common Reed WarblerAcrocephalus scirpaceus
- Steppe EagleAquila nipalensis
- African RailRallus caerulescens
- Purple IndigobirdVidua purpurascens
- Thick-billed CuckooPachycoccyx audeberti
- Icterine WarblerHippolais icterina
- Common Ringed PloverCharadrius hiaticula
- Grey-headed KingfisherHalcyon leucocephala
- Southern White-faced OwlPtilopsis granti
- Grey Crowned CraneBalearica regulorum
- Southern Carmine Bee-eaterMerops nubicoides
- Southern TchagraTchagra tchagra
- White-starred RobinPogonocichla stellata
- Brown FirefinchLagonosticta nitidula
- Ant-eating ChatMyrmecocichla formicivora
- Olive-tree WarblerHippolais olivetorum
- Western Yellow WagtailMotacilla flava
- Garden WarblerSylvia borin
- Cloud CisticolaCisticola textrix
- Pink-backed PelicanPelecanus rufescens
- Yellow-throated Woodland WarblerPhylloscopus ruficapilla
- Great Spotted CuckooClamator glandarius
- Chestnut-backed Sparrow-LarkEremopterix leucotis
- Blue-billed TealSpatula hottentota
- Lesser JacanaMicroparra capensis
- Black CoucalCentropus grillii
- Sand MartinRiparia riparia
- Booted EagleHieraaetus pennatus
- Cape TealAnas capensis
- Lappet-faced VultureTorgos tracheliotos
- Sedge WarblerAcrocephalus schoenobaenus
- Fulvous Whistling DuckDendrocygna bicolor
- Cape ShovelerSpatula smithii
- Pearl-breasted SwallowHirundo dimidiata
- Knysna TuracoTauraco corythaix
- Cuckoo-finchAnomalospiza imberbis
- Pied AvocetRecurvirostra avosetta
- European Honey BuzzardPernis apivorus
- Lesser FlamingoPhoeniconaias minor
- Broad-billed RollerEurystomus glaucurus
- European NightjarCaprimulgus europaeus
- African BroadbillSmithornis capensis
- American FlamingoPhoenicopterus ruber
- Black-throated Wattle-eyePlatysteira peltata
- Cape Eagle-OwlBubo capensis
- Sentinel Rock ThrushMonticola explorator
- Citrine WagtailMotacilla citreola
- Black HeronEgretta ardesiaca
- Forest BuzzardButeo trizonatus
- Green-capped EremomelaEremomela scotops
- Montagu's HarrierCircus pygargus
- Yellow-crowned BishopEuplectes afer
- Yellow-streaked GreenbulPhyllastrephus flavostriatus
- Striped FlufftailSarothrura affinis
- Corn CrakeCrex crex
- African Grass OwlTyto capensis
- Caspian TernHydroprogne caspia
- Green SandpiperTringa ochropus
- Black-throated CanaryCrithagra atrogularis
- Capped WheatearOenanthe pileata
- Abdim's StorkCiconia abdimii
- Rufous-bellied HeronArdeola rufiventris
- Black-rumped ButtonquailTurnix nanus
- Indian PeafowlPavo cristatus
- Great White PelicanPelecanus onocrotalus
- Greater Blue-eared StarlingLamprotornis chalybaeus
- South African ShelduckTadorna cana
- Fairy FlycatcherStenostira scita
- Eastern Long-billed LarkCerthilauda semitorquata
- Sooty FalconFalco concolor
Rare visitors
Recorded here, though only as vagrants or rarities.