Bird List of Kimango Farms
Bird species recorded in alphabetical order based on sightings by Zul Bhatia, a UK based ornithologist, between 1996 and 2001, and Kim and Janush Axmann. Nomenclature follows Stevenson & Fanshawe (2002). Photos by Kim and Janush Axmann.
Babbler, arrow-marked
Barbet, spot-flanked
Batis, black-headed
Batis, chin-spot
Bateleur
Bunting, African Golden Breasted
Bee-eater, blue-cheeked
Bea-eater, European
Bee-eater, little
Bee-eater, Northern-carmine

Little bee-eater
Bee-eater, white-fronted
Bishop,Black-winged Red
Bishop, Southern Red
Bishop, Zanzibar Red
Boubou, tropical
Brownbul, Northern
Bulbul, common
Bush-shrike, black-fronted
Bush-shrike, four-coloured
Bush-shrike, grey-headed
Bush-shrike, sulphur-breasted
Bustard, black-bellied
Bustard, spotted thick-knee
Buzzard, common
Buzzard, Eurasian Honey-
Buzzard, lizard
Camaroptera, green-backed
Canary, yellow-fronted
Chatterer, rofous
Cisticola, desert
Cisticola, rattling
Cisticola, siffling
Cisticola, winding
Cordon-bleu, Southern
Courser, Temminck’s
Courser, violet-tipped
Crombec, red-faced
Crow, common house
Crow, pied
Cuckoo, black and white
Cuckoo, Diederik
Cuckoo, Klaas”s Cuckoo
Cuckoo, Levaillant’s
Coucal, white-browed
Dove, African mourning
Dove, emerald-spotted wood
Dove, laughing
Dove, Namaqua
Dove, red-eyed
Dove, ring-necked
Dove, Tambourine
Eagle, black-chested snake
Eagle, booted
Eagle, brown snake-
Eagle, lesser spotted
Eagle, Martial’s
Eagle, steppe
Eagle, Wahlberg’ s
Egret, cattle
Egret, little
Falcon, lesser
Falcon, red-necked
Finch, cut-throat
Firefinch, African
Firefinch, Jameson’s
Firefinch, red-billed
Fiscal, common
Fiscal, long-tailed
Flycatcher, African paradise
Flycatcher, ashy
Flycatcher, spotted
Francolin, crested
Go-away-bird, bare-faced
Greenbul, Zanzibar sombre
Greenbul, grey-olive
Guineafowl, helmeted
Hamerkop
Harrier, Montagu’s
Harrier-Hawk, African
Heron, black-headed
Heron, purple
Heron, striated
Honeyguide, lesser
Hophoe, African
Hornbill, African grey
Hornbill, crowned
Hornbill, redbilled
Hornbill, Southern ground
Hornbill, trumpeter
Hornbill, van der Deckens
Ibis, Hadada
Ibis, sacred
Indigobird, village
Kestrel, common
Kestrel, grey
Kingfisher, brown-hooded
Kingfisher, giant
Kingfisher, grey-headed
Kingfisher, malachite
Kingfisher, striped
Kite, black
Kite, black-shouldered
Lapwing, crowned
Lark, Fisher’s sparrow-
Lark, flappet
Longlaw, yellow-throated
Manneikin, bronze
Mousebird, blue-naped
Mousebird, speckled
Nicator, Eastern
Nightjar, eurasian
Nightjar, square-tailed
Nightingale, thrush
Oriole, African golden
Oriole, Eurasian golden
Owl, barn
Owl, marsh
Owl, spotted eagle-
Owl, white-faced Scops-
Owlet, pearl-spotted
Parrot, brown-headed
Pigeon, feral
Pipit, golden
Pipit, grassland
Pytilia, green-winged
Pytilia, orange-winged
Prinia, tawny-flanked
Puffback, black-backed
Quail, common button-
Quail, Harlequin
Quelea, Red-billed
Raven, white naped
Robin-chat, white-browed
Robin, white-browed Scrub
Rock-Thrush, common
Roller, European
Roller, lilac-breasted
Sandpiper, common
Sandpiper, wood
Shrike, Isabelline
Shrike, red-backed
Sparrow, grey-headed
Sparrow, house
Sparrowhawk, little
Spurfowl, red-necked
Starling, greater blue-eared
Starling, violet-backed
Stork, Abdim’s
Stork, African open-billed
Sunbird, amethyst
Sunbird, collared
Sunbrid, purple-banded
Sunbrid, scarlet chested
Sunbird, Shelley’s
Sunbrid, variable
Swallow, Angola
Swallow, barn
Swallow, lesser striped
Swallow, mosque
Swallow, wire-tailed
Swift, African palm
Swift, Eurasian
Swift, little
Tinkerbird, red-fronted
Thrush, olive
Thrush, spotted-morning
Thrush, common rock-
Tchagra, black-crowned
Tchagra, brown-crowned
Vulture, African white-backed
Wagtail, African pied
Wagtail, yellow
Warbler, barred
Warbler, garden
Warbler, olivaceous
Warbler, widdow
Wattle-eye, black-throated
Waxbill, common
Waxbill, zebra
Wheatear, capped
Wheatear, Isabelline
Wheatear, Northern
Weaver, African golden
Weaver, black-headed
Weaver, spectacled
Whinchat
Whitethroat, common
Whydah, pin-tailed
Whydah, Eastern paradise
Widowbird, white-winged
Woodpecker, cardinal
Woodpecker, Golden-tailed
