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

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