This is a list of birds which we have actually seen at Kulafumbi. The list grows almost daily when the migrants from Europe & elsewhere arrive, and also as we learn to identify more and more of the species…so keep an eye on this page.
As far as possible, when I list migrant species, I note the date we first see them each year (starting 2007), to give an indication of the time of year these birds pass through Kulafumbi. Some migrants are inter-Africa rain migrants, following the rain around the region; others visit from Europe and Asia.
- Apalis – Yellow-breasted
- Barbet – D’Arnauds
- Barbet – Spot-flanked
- Barbet – Red and Yellow
- Batis – Pygmy
- Bee Eater – Carmine [09 Feb 08]
- Bee Eater – Eurasian [Oct 07]
- Bee Eater – Blue-cheeked [24 Jan 08] [07 Jan 09]
- Bee Eater – Little Green
- Bee Eater – Madagascar [02 May 11]
- Bee Eater – Somali [26 Oct 07]
- Bee Eater – White-throated [02 Nov 07]
- Bishop – Fire-fronted
- Brownbul – Northern
- Bulbul – Yellow Vented (aka Common Bulbul)
- Bunting – Somali Golden Breasted
- Bush Chat – Rufous (aka Rufous Scrub Robin) [21 Oct 10]
- Bush-shrike – Grey-headed
- Bush-shrike – Rosy-patched
- Bustard – Crested
- Camaroptera – Grey-backed
- Chatterer – Rufous
- Cordon Bleu – Red-cheeked
- Cormorant – Long-Tailed
- Coucal – White Browed
- Courser – Heuglins
- Crake – Black
- Crombec – Northern
- Cuckoo – African [25 Nov 07]
- Cuckoo – Black and White (aka Jacobin Cuckoo) [03 Nov 07]
- Cuckoo – Diederik [03 Nov 07]
- Cuckoo – European [25 Nov 07]
- Cuckoo – Great Spotted [02 Nov 07]
- Cuckoo – Red-chested [11 Nov 07]
- Dikkop – Water (aka Water Thick-Knee)
- Dove – Emerald Spotted Wood
- Dove – Laughing
- Dove – Namaqua
- Dove – Red-eyed
- Dove – Ring-necked
- Drongo – Fork-tailed (aka Common Drongo)
- Duck – Knob Billed
- Duck – White-faced Tree
- Eagle – African Fish
- Eagle – African Hawk
- Eagle – Bateleur
- Eagle – Booted
- Eagle – Brown Snake
- Eagle – Long-crested
- Eagle – Martial
- Eagle – Tawny
- Eagle – Wahlbergs
- Egret – Great White
- Egret – Little
- Falcon – Amur [20 Nov 07][29 Nov 09]
- Falcon – Lanner
- Falcon – Peregrine
- Finch – Cut-throat
- Firefinch – Red Billed
- Flycatcher – African Paradise
- Flycatcher – Pale
- Flycatcher – Southern Black
- Flycatcher – Spotted [Nov 07] [18 Oct 10]
- Francolin – Crested
- Gadwall [31 Oct 07]
- Go Away Bird – White Bellied (aka Bush Turaco)
- Goshawk – Gabar (including melanistic morph spotted 29 Nov 07)
- Goshawk – Pale Chanting
- Goose – Egyptian
- Greenshank – Common [Oct 07]
- Guineafowl – Helmeted
- Guineafowl – Vulturine
- Gymnogene (aka African Harrier Hawk)
- Hammerkop
- Harrier – Eurasian [14 Nov 07]
- Hawk – Bat
- Helmet-shrike – White-crested
- Heron – Black-crowned Night-
- Heron – Goliath
- Heron – Green Backed
- Heron – Purple
- Heron – Squacco
- Hoopoe – African
- Honeybird – Wahlbergs? Eastern?
- Honeyguide – Greater (aka Black-throated Honeyguide)
- Hornbill – Grey
- Hornbill – Red-billed
- Hornbill – von der Decken
- Hornbill – Yellow-billed
- Ibis – Hadada (aka Hadeda Ibis)
- Ibis – Sacred
- Indigo Bird – Common
- Kingfisher – Brown-hooded
- Kingfisher – Giant
- Kingfisher – Grey-headed
- Kingfisher – Pied
- Kite – Black (aka Yellow-billed Kite)
- Kite – Black Shouldered
- Lark – Pink-breasted
- Morning Warbler – Spotted
- Mousebird – Blue-naped
- Nightingale – subspecies: africana [Apr 11]
- Oriole – Black Headed
- Oriole – Eurasian Golden
- Oriole – Golden
- Owl – African Scops
- Owl – Verreaux Eagle
- Owlette – Pearl-spotted
- Oxpecker – Red-billed
- Parrot – Orange-bellied
- Pelicans – Pink-backed
- Petronia – Yellow-spotted
- Pigeon – African Green
- Pigeon – Speckled
- Pipit – Golden
- Plover – Ringed [Oct 07]
- Plover – Spur-winged
- Plover – White-fronted (aka White-fronted Sandplover)
- Plover – Three Banded
- Prinia – Tawny-flanked
- Puffback – Pringle’s
- Pytilia – Green-winged
- Quail – Harlequin [01 Dec 07]
- Quelea – Red-billed
- Redshank – Spotted
- Roller – Broad-billed [25 Nov 07]
- Roller – European [17 Nov 07]
- Roller – Lilac-breasted [14 Nov 07]
- Ruff [25 Oct 07]
- Sandgrouse – Black-faced
- Sandpiper – Common [Oct 07]
- Sandpiper – Green [Oct 07]
- Sandpiper – Marsh [Oct 07]
- Sandpiper – Wood
- Scrub Robin – White-browed – subspecies: vulpina
- Shikra
- Shrike – Fiscal
- Shrike – Lesser Grey [10 Apr 11]
- Shrike – Slate-coloured Boubou
- Shrike – Red-tailed (aka Isabelline Shrike) – subspecies: phoenicuroides [08 Apr 11]
- Shrike – White-capped
- Silverbill – Grey-headed
- Snipe – African
- Snipe – Painted
- Sparrow – Grey-headed
- Sparrowhawk – Little
- Spoonbill – African
- Spurfowl – Yellow Necked (aka Yellow Necked Francolin)
- Starling – Fisher’s
- Starling – Golden Breasted
- Starling – Magpie [11 Mar 09]
- Starling – Ruppell’s Long-tailed Glossy
- Starling – Superb
- Starling – Wattled [22 Nov 07 – local migrant, follows rain]
- Stint – Little [26 Oct 07]
- Stork – African Open-billed
- Stork – Black [Oct 07]
- Stork – Marabou
- Stork – Saddle-billed
- Stork – Woolly-necked
- Stork – Yellow-billed
- Sunbird – Black-bellied
- Sunbird – Collared
- Sunbird – Hunters
- Sunbird – Purple-banded (aka Little Purple-banded Sunbird) – subspecies: tsavoensis with little or no maroon/violet on it at all, despite the name.
- Sunbird – Violet-backed
- Swallow – Lesser Striped
- Swallow – Mosque
- Swallow – Wire-tailed
- Swift – African Palm
- Swift – Common (aka Eurasian Swift) [Oct 07]
- Swift – Little
- Tchagra – Three Streaked [07 Nov 10]
- Teal – Red-billed (aka Red-billed Duck) [20 Oct 07]
- Tern – species?
- Thrush – Olive
- Tinkerbird – Red-fronted
- Wagtail – Pied
- Warbler – Olivaceous [24 Jan 11]
- Warbler – Red-fronted
- Warbler – Wood [31 Oct 10]
- Warbler – Wren
- Weaver – African Golden
- Weaver – Chestnut [Oct 07]
- Weaver – Grosbeak
- Weaver – Lesser Masked (aka Masked Weaver)
- Weaver – Red-headed
- Weaver – Village (aka Black Headed Weaver)
- Weaver – Vitelline Masked
- Weaver – Red-billed Buffalo
- Weaver – White-headed Buffalo
- Wheatear – Isabelline [08 May 11]
- Wheatear – Northern
- Whydah – Paradise
- Whydah – Pin-tailed
- Wood Hoopoe – Green
- Woodpecker – Bearded
- Woodpecker – Cardinal
- Woodpecker – Nubian
