Bird AlbumSouth Africa · Northern Cape
Augrabies Falls NP
254 species and 11,054 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: September–December, with up to 117 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Pale-winged StarlingOnychognathus nabouroup
African Red-eyed BulbulPycnonotus nigricans
Alpine SwiftTachymarptis melba
Orange River White-eyeZosterops pallidus
Dusky SunbirdCinnyris fuscus
Laughing DoveSpilopelia senegalensis
Speckled PigeonColumba guinea
White-throated CanaryCrithagra albogularis
Cape Robin-ChatDessonornis caffer
Southern Masked WeaverPloceus velatus
Large Rock MartinPtyonoprogne fuligula
Cape WagtailMotacilla capensis
Cape SparrowPasser melanurus
Familiar ChatOenanthe familiarisSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
All 254 species recorded here
- Pale-winged Starling Onychognathus nabouroup
- African Red-eyed Bulbul Pycnonotus nigricans
- Orange River White-eye Zosterops pallidus
- Alpine Swift Tachymarptis melba
- Dusky Sunbird Cinnyris fuscus
- Large Rock Martin Ptyonoprogne fuligula
- Cape Robin-Chat Dessonornis caffer
- Southern Masked Weaver Ploceus velatus
- Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea
- Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis
- Acacia Pied Barbet Tricholaema leucomelas
- Cape Wagtail Motacilla capensis
- White-throated Canary Crithagra albogularis
- Cape Sparrow Passer melanurus
- White-backed Mousebird Colius colius
- Familiar Chat Oenanthe familiaris
- Pririt Batis Batis pririt
- Black-chested Prinia Prinia flavicans
- African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus
- Hadada Ibis Bostrychia hagedash
- Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild
- Ring-necked Dove Streptopelia capicola
- Cape Bunting Emberiza capensis
- Southern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer diffusus
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- African Pied Wagtail Motacilla aguimp
- Karoo Scrub Robin Tychaedon coryphoeus
- Cape Starling Lamprotornis nitens
- Mountain Chat Myrmecocichla monticola
- Karoo Thrush Turdus smithi
- White-throated Swallow Hirundo albigularis
- Crested Barbet Trachyphonus vaillantii
- Common Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus
- Little Swift Apus affinis
- Namaqua Warbler Phragmacia substriata
- Namaqua Dove Oena capensis
- Three-banded Plover Thinornis tricollaris
- Swallow-tailed Bee-eater Merops hirundineus
- Karoo Long-billed Lark Certhilauda subcoronata
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer
- Verreaux's Eagle Aquila verreauxii
- Common Hoopoe Upupa epops
- Reed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus
- Pale Chanting Goshawk Melierax canorus
- Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
- Hamerkop Scopus umbretta
- Brown-throated Martin Riparia paludicola
- African Darter Anhinga rufa
- Sociable Weaver Philetairus socius
- Brubru Nilaus afer
- Lark-like Bunting Emberiza impetuani
- Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
- Southern Red Bishop Euplectes orix
- Egyptian Goose Alopochen aegyptiaca
- Namaqua Sandgrouse Pterocles namaqua
- Southern Fiscal Lanius collaris
- Rock Kestrel Falco rupicolus
- Bokmakierie Telophorus zeylonus
- Red-faced Mousebird Urocolius indicus
- Sabota Lark Calendulauda sabota
- Greater Striped Swallow Cecropis cucullata
- White-rumped Swift Apus caffer
- Fiscal Flycatcher Sigelus silens
- Bradfield's Swift Apus bradfieldi
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Pied Crow Corvus albus
- Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Chat Flycatcher Agricola infuscatus
- Common Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus cyanomelas
- Spike-heeled Lark Chersomanes albofasciata
- Booted Eagle Hieraaetus pennatus
- Pygmy Falcon Polihierax semitorquatus
- Black Crake Zapornia flavirostra
- Long-billed Crombec Sylvietta rufescens
- Golden-tailed Woodpecker Campethera abingoni
- Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata
- Goliath Heron Ardea goliath
- Yellow-bellied Eremomela Eremomela icteropygialis
- Lesser Swamp Warbler Acrocephalus gracilirostris
- Ant-eating Chat Myrmecocichla formicivora
- Yellow Canary Crithagra flaviventris
- Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala
- Ashy Tit Melaniparus cinerascens
- Cardinal Woodpecker Dendropicos fuscescens
- Grey-backed Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix verticalis
- Red-billed Quelea Quelea quelea
- White-browed Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser mahali
- Wattled Starling Creatophora cinerea
- Scaly-feathered Weaver Sporopipes squamifrons
- Cape Spurfowl Pternistis capensis
- Common Ostrich Struthio camelus
- Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus
- Double-banded Sandgrouse Pterocles bicinctus
- Chestnut-vented Warbler Curruca subcoerulea
- African Black Duck Anas sparsa
- Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis
- Spotted Eagle-Owl Bubo africanus
- Fawn-colored Lark Calendulauda africanoides
- Black-throated Canary Crithagra atrogularis
- Cinnamon-breasted Warbler Euryptila subcinnamomea
- Lesser Grey Shrike Lanius minor
- Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus
- European Bee-eater Merops apiaster
- Karoo Chat Emarginata schlegelii
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Cape White-eye Zosterops virens
- Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala
- African Sacred Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus
- Rufous-eared Warbler Malcorus pectoralis
- Short-toed Rock Thrush Monticola brevipes
- Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
- Burchell's Coucal Centropus burchellii
- Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis
- Spur-winged Goose Plectropterus gambensis
- Yellow-billed Duck Anas undulata
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Rosy-faced Lovebird Agapornis roseicollis
- South African Shelduck Tadorna cana
- Ludwig's Bustard Neotis ludwigii
- Sickle-winged Chat Emarginata sinuata
- Common Swift Apus apus
- Giant Kingfisher Megaceryle maxima
- Diederik Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius
- Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris
- African Black Swift Apus barbatus
- Cape Weaver Ploceus capensis
- Black-collared Barbet Lybius torquatus
- Northern Black Korhaan Afrotis afraoides
- Fairy Flycatcher Stenostira scita
- Blacksmith Lapwing Vanellus armatus
- Lesser Honeyguide Indicator minor
- Karoo Korhaan Heterotetrax vigorsii
- Cinnamon-breasted Bunting Emberiza tahapisi
- Large-billed Lark Galerida magnirostris
- Double-banded Courser Smutsornis africanus
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- Greater Kestrel Falco rupicoloides
- African Pipit Anthus cinnamomeus
- Layard's Warbler Curruca layardi
- Stark's Lark Spizocorys starki
- Kori Bustard Ardeotis kori
- Karoo Prinia Prinia maculosa
- Jacobin Cuckoo Clamator jacobinus
- African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus
- Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- Banded Martin Neophedina cincta
- Grey-backed Cisticola Cisticola subruficapilla
- Rufous-cheeked Nightjar Caprimulgus rufigena
- Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio
- Martial Eagle Polemaetus bellicosus
- Levaillant's Cisticola Cisticola tinniens
- Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura
- Red-headed Finch Amadina erythrocephala
- Purple Heron Ardea purpurea
- Pied Starling Lamprotornis bicolor
- Little Bittern Botaurus minutus
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Eastern Clapper Lark Corypha fasciolata
- Tractrac Chat Emarginata tractrac
- Red Lark Calendulauda burra
- Great Sparrow Passer motitensis
- Black-chested Snake Eagle Circaetus pectoralis
- Cape Crow Corvus capensis
- Pearl-breasted Swallow Hirundo dimidiata
- Horus Swift Apus horus
- Freckled Nightjar Caprimulgus tristigma
- White-fronted Bee-eater Merops bullockoides
- Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis
- Capped Wheatear Oenanthe pileata
- Red-knobbed Coot Fulica cristata
- Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
- Lesser Kestrel Falco naumanni
- Common Buzzard Buteo buteo
- Western House Martin Delichon urbicum
- White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus
- South African Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon spilodera
- Burchell's Sandgrouse Pterocles burchelli
- Abdim's Stork Ciconia abdimii
- White-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris talatala
- Black-eared Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix australis
- Jackal Buzzard Buteo rufofuscus
- Black-headed Canary Serinus alario
- Red-billed Teal Anas erythrorhyncha
- Desert Cisticola Cisticola aridulus
- Gabar Goshawk Micronisus gabar
- Crowned Lapwing Vanellus coronatus
- Nicholson's Pipit Anthus nicholsoni
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
- Western Barn Owl Tyto alba
- Cape Penduline Tit Anthoscopus minutus
- White-faced Whistling Duck Dendrocygna viduata
- Secretarybird Sagittarius serpentarius
- Burchell's Starling Lamprotornis australis
- Red-capped Lark Calandrella cinerea
- Brown-hooded Kingfisher Halcyon albiventris
- Verreaux's Eagle-Owl Ketupa lactea
- Groundscraper Thrush Turdus litsitsirupa
- Crimson-breasted Shrike Laniarius atrococcineus
- Pink-billed Lark Spizocorys conirostris
- Shaft-tailed Whydah Vidua regia
- Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
- Karoo Lark Calendulauda albescens
- Burchell's Courser Cursorius rufus
- Common Myna Acridotheres tristis
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill Tockus leucomelas
- Red-necked Falcon Falco chicquera
- Tawny Eagle Aquila rapax
- Cape Bulbul Pycnonotus capensis
- African Spoonbill Platalea alba
- Red-breasted Swallow Cecropis semirufa
- Rufous-naped Lark Corypha africana
- Golden-breasted Bunting Emberiza flaviventris
- Green-winged Pytilia Pytilia melba
- Marico Flycatcher Bradornis mariquensis
- Cape Clapper Lark Corypha apiata
- Greater Painted-snipe Rostratula benghalensis
- European Roller Coracias garrulus
- Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides
- Grey Tit Melaniparus afer
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Chestnut Weaver Ploceus rubiginosus
- Malachite Sunbird Nectarinia famosa
- Ground Woodpecker Geocolaptes olivaceus
- Lilac-breasted Roller Coracias caudatus
- Purple Roller Coracias naevius
- Monotonous Lark Mirafra passerina
- Pearl-spotted Owlet Glaucidium perlatum
- Southern White-faced Owl Ptilopsis granti
- Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris
- African Stonechat Saxicola torquatus
- Violet-eared Waxbill Granatina granatina
- Cape Teal Anas capensis
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- Black-faced Waxbill Brunhilda erythronotos
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Plain-backed Pipit Anthus leucophrys
- Grey-headed Gull Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus
- Neddicky Cisticola fulvicapilla
- Karoo Eremomela Eremomela gregalis
- Cape Shoveler Spatula smithii
- Blue Crane Grus paradisea
- Spotted Thick-knee Burhinus capensis
- White-necked Raven Corvus albicollis
- Brown-crowned Tchagra Tchagra australis
- Black Cuckoo Cuculus clamosus
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Ashy Flycatcher Fraseria caerulescens
- Little Stint Calidris minuta
- Cape Long-billed Lark Certhilauda curvirostris
- Black Harrier Circus maurus
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Augrabies Falls NP?
September–December. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 117 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Augrabies Falls NP?
254 species, from 11,054 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Augrabies Falls NP in November?
The most recorded in November: Pale-winged Starling, African Red-eyed Bulbul, Alpine Swift, Orange River White-eye and Dusky Sunbird.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.