Status codes
B = Breeding resident – present all year; known or presumed to breed.
P = Palaearctic migrant – non-breeding summer visitor; breeds during the northern summer in Europe and Asia: typically present November-March.
T = Tropical migrant – breeding summer visitor; winters in tropical Africa: typically present September-April.
A = Altitudinal migrant – non-breeding winter visitor; breeds at higher altitudes in KwaZulu-Natal: typically present May-August.
N = Nomad – visits irregularly, sometimes in large numbers, in response to specific environmental cues. May breed.
V = Vagrant – one-off or occasional visitor outside its normal range.
E = Endemic to South Africa.
e = Endemic to southern Africa.
Abundance and status codes pertain locally: for example species considered common within the main part of their range may be rare or vagrant here.
Abundance codes
C = Common – always present, seen regularly.
U = Uncommon – usually present, but not necessarily found on the day.
R = Rare – numerically few, hard to find.
Nomads and vagrants do not get an abundance code.
| Coqui Francolin | B | R |
| Grey-winged Francolin | B | R |
| Red-winged Francolin | B | C |
| Red-necked Spurfowl | B | U |
| Swainson’s Spurfowl | B | U |
| Common Quail | T | R |
| Helmeted Guineafowl | B | U |
| Egyptian Goose | B | C |
| African Black Duck | B | U |
| Yellow-billed Duck | B | R |
| Greater Honeyguide | B | U |
| Lesser Honeyguide | B | U |
| Brown-backed Honeybird | B | U |
| Red-throated Wryneck | B | U |
| Golden-tailed Woodpecker | B | C |
| Ground Woodpecker | BE | R |
| Cardinal Woodpecker | B | C |
| Olive Woodpecker | B | U |
| Black-collared Barbet | B | C |
| Crested Barbet | B | U |
| Southern Ground-Hornbill | B | R |
| African Hoopoe | B | C |
| Green Wood-Hoopoe | B | C |
| Half-collared Kingfisher | B | C |
| Malachite Kingfisher | B | U |
| Grey-headed Kingfisher | V | |
| Brown-hooded Kingfisher | B | C |
| Giant Kingfisher | B | C |
| Pied Kingfisher | V | |
| Speckled Mousebird | B | C |
| Jacobin Cuckoo | T | C |
| Red-chested Cuckoo | T | C |
| Black Cuckoo | T | C |
| Klaas’s Cuckoo | T | C |
| Diderick Cuckoo | T | C |
| Alpine Swift | B | U |
| Common Swift | P | U |
| African Black Swift | B | C |
| Little Swift | T | U |
| Horus Swift | T | R |
| White-rumped Swift | T | C |
| African Wood-Owl | B | U |
| Marsh Owl | B | R |
| Fiery-necked Nightjar | T | R |
| Freckled Nightjar | B | R |
| Speckled Pigeon | B | C |
| African Olive-Pigeon | B | C |
| Lemon Dove | B | U |
| Laughing Dove | B | C |
| Cape Turtle-Dove | B | C |
| Red-eyed Dove | B | C |
| Namaqua Dove | V | |
| Denham’s Bustard | B | R |
| Buff-spotted Flufftail | B | U |
| Common Moorhen | V | |
| Common Greenshank | P | R |
| Spotted Thick-knee | B | R |
| Blacksmith Lapwing | B | U |
| African Cuckoo Hawk | B | R |
| Black-shouldered Kite | B | U |
| Yellow-billed Kite | T | U |
| African Fish-Eagle | V | |
| Lammergeier | B | R |
| Cape Vulture | Be | U |
| African Harrier-Hawk | B | C |
| African Goshawk | B | C |
| Little Sparrowhawk | B | U |
| Rufous-chested Sparrowhawk | B | R |
| Black Sparrowhawk | B | R |
| Steppe Buzzard | P | C |
| Forest Buzzard | B | R |
| Jackal Buzzard | Be | C |
| Verreaux’s Eagle | B | R |
| Martial Eagle | B | R |
| Long-crested Eagle | V | |
| African Crowned Eagle | B | R |
| Secretarybird | B | U |
| Rock Kestrel | B | U |
| Amur Falcon | P | U |
| Lanner Falcon | B | U |
| Peregrine Falcon | B | R |
| Little Grebe | B | C |
| African Darter | B | U |
| Reed Cormorant | B | C |
| White-breasted Cormorant | V | |
| Grey Heron | B | U |
| Black-headed Heron | B | C |
| Goliath Heron | V | |
| Black-crowned Night-Heron | V | |
| Cattle Egret | B | U |
| Little Bittern | P | R |
| Hamerkop | B | C |
| Hadeda Ibis | B | C |
| Southern Bald Ibis | BE | U |
| African Sacred Ibis | B | R |
| African Spoonbill | V | |
| Black Stork | B | R |
| White Stork | P | U |
| Fork-tailed Drongo | B | C |
| Fairy Flycatcher | Ae | U |
| African Paradise-Flycatcher | T | C |
| Black-backed Puffback | B | C |
| Black-crowned Tchagra | B | R |
| Southern Tchagra | BE | R |
| Southern Boubou | Be | C |
| Bokmakierie | Be | U |
| Olive Bush-Shrike | B | C |
| Cape Batis | Be | C |
| Cape Crow | B | C |
| Pied Crow | B | U |
| White-necked Raven | B | C |
| Common Fiscal | B | C |
| Grey Cuckooshrike | B | R |
| Black Cuckooshrike | B | R |
| Southern Black Tit | B | C |
| Brown-throated Martin | B | U |
| Barn Swallow | P | C |
| White-throated Swallow | T | C |
| Greater Striped Swallow | T | C |
| Rock Martin | B | U |
| Common House-Martin | P | U |
| Black Saw-wing | B | C |
| Dark-capped Bulbul | B | C |
| Terrestrial Brownbul | B | U |
| Barratt’s Warbler | Be | U |
| Cape Grassbird | Be | C |
| African Reed-Warbler | T | R |
| Lesser Swamp-Warbler | B | R |
| Long-billed Crombec | B | R |
| Yellow-throated Woodland-Warbler | B | C |
| Willow Warbler | P | U |
| Broad-tailed Warbler | B | R |
| Arrow-marked Babbler | B | C |
| Bush Blackcap | BE | C |
| Cape White-eye | Be | C |
| Lazy Cisticola | B | C |
| Wailing Cisticola | B | C |
| Levaillant’s Cisticola | B | C |
| Neddicky | B | C |
| Zitting Cisticola | B | C |
| Wing-snapping Cisticola | B | U |
| Drakensberg Prinia | BE | C |
| Bar-throated Apalis | B | C |
| Rufous-naped Lark | B | U |
| Cape Rock-Thrush | BE | C |
| Sentinel Rock-Thrush | AE | R |
| Groundscraper Thrush | B | C |
| Olive Thrush | B | C |
| Karoo Thrush | V | |
| Southern Black Flycatcher | B | C |
| Fiscal Flycatcher | BE | C |
| Spotted Flycatcher | P | U |
| African Dusky Flycatcher | B | C |
| White-starred Robin | B | R |
| Cape Robin-Chat | B | C |
| Chorister Robin-Chat | BE | C |
| African Stonechat | B | C |
| Buff-streaked Chat | AE | U |
| Mountain Wheatear | Be | R |
| Familiar Chat | B | C |
| Anteating Chat | Be | R |
| Mocking Cliff-Chat | B | U |
| Red-winged Starling | B | C |
| Cape Glossy Starling | B | C |
| Violet-backed Starling | T | U |
| Pied Starling | BE | U |
| Common Myna | V | |
| Red-billed Oxpecker | V | |
| Amethyst Sunbird | B | C |
| Malachite Sunbird | B | C |
| Southern Double-collared Sunbird | BE | U |
| Greater Double-collared Sunbird BE | C | |
| Gurney’s Sugarbird | Be | U |
| Spectacled Weaver | B | R |
| Cape Weaver | BE | C |
| Southern Masked-Weaver | B | C |
| Red-billed Quelea | N | |
| Yellow-crowned Bishop | B | R |
| Southern Red Bishop | B | U |
| Yellow Bishop | B | C |
| Fan-tailed Widowbird | B | U |
| Red-collared Widowbird | B | C |
| Long-tailed Widowbird | B | R |
| African Firefinch | B | U |
| Swee Waxbill | BE | C |
| Common Waxbill | B | C |
| Orange-breasted Waxbill | B | R |
| African Quailfinch | B | R |
| Bronze Mannikin | V | |
| Dusky Indigobird | B | U |
| Pin-tailed Whydah | B | C |
| House Sparrow | B | C |
| Southern Grey-headed Sparrow | B | C |
| Cape Wagtail | B | C |
| Mountain Wagtail | B | U |
| Cape Longclaw | Be | U |
| African Rock Pipit | VE | |
| African Pipit | B | C |
| Plain-backed Pipit | B | R |
| Long-billed Pipit | B | U |
| Cape Canary | B | C |
| Forest Canary | BE | C |
| Yellow-fronted Canary | B | C |
| Yellow Canary | Ae | R |
| Brimstone Canary | B | U |
| Streaky-headed Seedeater | B | C |
| Cinnamon-breasted Bunting | B | R |
| Golden-breasted Bunting | B | C |