Botswana · North-West District
Chobe NP – A33
318 species and 5,762 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: September and November, with up to 129 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Black KiteMilvus migrans
Red-billed OxpeckerBuphagus erythroryncha
Helmeted GuineafowlNumida meleagris
Fork-tailed DrongoDicrurus adsimilis
Southern Red-billed HornbillTockus rufirostris
Ring-necked DoveStreptopelia capicola
White-backed VultureGyps africanus
Lilac-breasted RollerCoracias caudatus
African Fish EagleIcthyophaga vocifer
Little Bee-eaterMerops pusillus
Tawny EagleAquila rapax
Blue WaxbillUraeginthus angolensis
Spur-winged GoosePlectropterus gambensis
Marabou StorkLeptoptilos crumenifer113 species seen regularly here in November · showing the 14 most recorded. All 318 species recorded here ↓
Species seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Chobe Game Lodge13 km354 species
- Chobe NP – Ihaha15 km339 species
- Chobe River – west of Kasane17 km412 species
- Chobe River – boat trip21 km390 species
- Chobe Safari Lodge21 km346 species
- Cresta Mowana Lodge24 km314 species
All 318 species recorded here
- Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis
- Lilac-breasted Roller Coracias caudatus
- Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris
- Southern Red-billed Hornbill Tockus rufirostris
- White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus
- Ring-necked Dove Streptopelia capicola
- African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer
- Egyptian Goose Alopochen aegyptiaca
- Blacksmith Lapwing Vanellus armatus
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Greater Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chalybaeus
- Marabou Stork Leptoptilos crumenifer
- Red-billed Spurfowl Pternistis adspersus
- Grey Go-away-bird Crinifer concolor
- Southern Ground Hornbill Bucorvus leadbeateri
- Red-billed Oxpecker Buphagus erythroryncha
- African Jacana Actophilornis africanus
- Blue Waxbill Uraeginthus angolensis
- African Openbill Anastomus lamelligerus
- Spur-winged Goose Plectropterus gambensis
- African Grey Hornbill Lophoceros nasutus
- Southern Carmine Bee-eater Merops nubicoides
- Little Bee-eater Merops pusillus
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- African Spoonbill Platalea alba
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- Yellow-billed Stork Mycteria ibis
- African Darter Anhinga rufa
- African Sacred Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus
- Bateleur Terathopius ecaudatus
- White-faced Whistling Duck Dendrocygna viduata
- Emerald-spotted Wood Dove Turtur chalcospilos
- Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis
- Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
- Tawny Eagle Aquila rapax
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides
- White-crested Helmetshrike Prionops plumatus
- Green Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus purpureus
- Magpie Shrike Urolestes melanoleucus
- Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
- Reed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus
- Water Thick-knee Burhinus vermiculatus
- Cape Starling Lamprotornis nitens
- Swainson's Spurfowl Pternistis swainsonii
- Tropical Boubou Laniarius major
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Red-billed Quelea Quelea quelea
- Kori Bustard Ardeotis kori
- Hamerkop Scopus umbretta
- Arrow-marked Babbler Turdoides jardineii
- Crested Francolin Ortygornis sephaena
- Yellow-billed Egret Ardea brachyrhyncha
- Common Hoopoe Upupa epops
- White-fronted Bee-eater Merops bullockoides
- Purple Roller Coracias naevius
- Southern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer diffusus
- Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis
- Bradfield's Hornbill Lophoceros bradfieldi
- Namaqua Dove Oena capensis
- Yellow-billed Oxpecker Buphagus africanus
- Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill Tockus leucomelas
- White-browed Robin-Chat Cossypha heuglini
- Yellow-bellied Greenbul Chlorocichla flaviventris
- Swallow-tailed Bee-eater Merops hirundineus
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura
- Kurrichane Thrush Turdus libonyana
- Dark Chanting Goshawk Melierax metabates
- Pied Crow Corvus albus
- Martial Eagle Polemaetus bellicosus
- Red-billed Buffalo Weaver Bubalornis niger
- White-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris talatala
- Goliath Heron Ardea goliath
- Southern Black Flycatcher Melaenornis pammelaina
- White-crowned Lapwing Vanellus albiceps
- European Bee-eater Merops apiaster
- Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
- African Skimmer Rynchops flavirostris
- Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- Long-tailed Paradise Whydah Vidua paradisaea
- Amethyst Sunbird Chalcomitra amethystina
- White-browed Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser mahali
- Wattled Starling Creatophora cinerea
- Black-backed Puffback Dryoscopus cubla
- African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis
- Brown Snake Eagle Circaetus cinereus
- Red-crested Korhaan Lophotis ruficrista
- African Pied Wagtail Motacilla aguimp
- Crested Barbet Trachyphonus vaillantii
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird Chalcomitra senegalensis
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
- Three-banded Plover Thinornis tricollaris
- Broad-billed Roller Eurystomus glaucurus
- Black Heron Egretta ardesiaca
- Red-billed Teal Anas erythrorhyncha
- Racket-tailed Roller Coracias spatulatus
- Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybrida
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus
- Golden-breasted Bunting Emberiza flaviventris
- Long-billed Crombec Sylvietta rufescens
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Merops persicus
- Red-faced Mousebird Urocolius indicus
- Black-throated Canary Crithagra atrogularis
- Wire-tailed Swallow Hirundo smithii
- Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala
- Black-collared Barbet Lybius torquatus
- Rattling Cisticola Cisticola chiniana
- Long-toed Lapwing Vanellus crassirostris
- Crowned Lapwing Vanellus coronatus
- Swamp Boubou Laniarius bicolor
- African Pipit Anthus cinnamomeus
- Mourning Collared Dove Streptopelia decipiens
- Chinspot Batis Batis molitor
- Black Crake Zapornia flavirostra
- Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata
- Common Buzzard Buteo buteo
- Burchell's Starling Lamprotornis australis
- Yellow-throated Bush Sparrow Gymnoris superciliaris
- Gabar Goshawk Micronisus gabar
- Ruff Calidris pugnax
- Striped Kingfisher Halcyon chelicuti
- White-headed Vulture Trigonoceps occipitalis
- Meves's Starling Lamprotornis mevesii
- Grey-headed Gull Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus
- Brown-hooded Kingfisher Halcyon albiventris
- Grey-headed Bushshrike Malaconotus blanchoti
- Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
- Southern Black Tit Melaniparus niger
- Western Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava
- Lesser Striped Swallow Cecropis abyssinica
- Spotted Thick-knee Burhinus capensis
- Yellow-fronted Canary Crithagra mozambica
- Grey-headed Kingfisher Halcyon leucocephala
- Senegal Coucal Centropus senegalensis
- Common Ostrich Struthio camelus
- Collared Pratincole Glareola pratincola
- Marico Flycatcher Bradornis mariquensis
- Pearl-spotted Owlet Glaucidium perlatum
- Green-winged Pytilia Pytilia melba
- Shaft-tailed Whydah Vidua regia
- Lappet-faced Vulture Torgos tracheliotos
- Orange-breasted Bushshrike Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus
- Giant Kingfisher Megaceryle maxima
- Meyer's Parrot Poicephalus meyeri
- Groundscraper Thrush Turdus litsitsirupa
- Violet-backed Starling Cinnyricinclus leucogaster
- Southern Masked Weaver Ploceus velatus
- Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
- Northern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer griseus
- Holub's Golden Weaver Ploceus xanthops
- Brown-crowned Tchagra Tchagra australis
- Verreaux's Eagle-Owl Ketupa lactea
- African Wattled Lapwing Vanellus senegallus
- Village Indigobird Vidua chalybeata
- Double-banded Sandgrouse Pterocles bicinctus
- African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus
- Shikra Tachyspiza badia
- Little Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza minulla
- Golden-tailed Woodpecker Campethera abingoni
- White-winged Tern Chlidonias leucopterus
- Levaillant's Cuckoo Clamator levaillantii
- Saddle-billed Stork Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis
- Southern White-crowned Shrike Eurocephalus anguitimens
- African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus
- African Stonechat Saxicola torquatus
- Knob-billed Duck Sarkidiornis melanotos
- Wahlberg's Eagle Hieraaetus wahlbergi
- Hadada Ibis Bostrychia hagedash
- Crimson-breasted Shrike Laniarius atrococcineus
- Bearded Woodpecker Chloropicus namaquus
- Greater Painted-snipe Rostratula benghalensis
- Common Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus cyanomelas
- African Golden Oriole Oriolus auratus
- Purple Heron Ardea purpurea
- Jacobin Cuckoo Clamator jacobinus
- African Marsh Harrier Circus ranivorus
- Black-chested Snake Eagle Circaetus pectoralis
- Greater Striped Swallow Cecropis cucullata
- Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
- Common Myna Acridotheres tristis
- Northern Yellow White-eye Zosterops senegalensis
- Ashy Flycatcher Fraseria caerulescens
- Bearded Scrub Robin Tychaedon quadrivirgata
- Slaty Egret Egretta vinaceigula
- Pink-backed Pelican Pelecanus rufescens
- Rufous-bellied Heron Ardeola rufiventris
- Cape Teal Anas capensis
- Lesser Grey Shrike Lanius minor
- Red-necked Falcon Falco chicquera
- Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava
- Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis
- Woodland Kingfisher Halcyon senegalensis
- Cape Wagtail Motacilla capensis
- Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura
- Collared Sunbird Hedydipna collaris
- Marico Sunbird Cinnyris mariquensis
- Blue-billed Teal Spatula hottentota
- Ayres's Hawk-Eagle Hieraaetus ayresii
- Rufous-naped Lark Corypha africana
- Brubru Nilaus afer
- Coppery-tailed Coucal Centropus cupreicaudus
- Collared Palm Thrush Cichladusa arquata
- Little Swift Apus affinis
- Red-capped Lark Calandrella cinerea
- Burchell's Sandgrouse Pterocles burchelli
- Dwarf Bittern Botaurus sturmii
- Cinnamon-breasted Bunting Emberiza tahapisi
- Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo
- Pale Flycatcher Agricola pallidus
- Booted Eagle Hieraaetus pennatus
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus
- Amur Falcon Falco amurensis
- African Pygmy Goose Nettapus auritus
- Grey-rumped Swallow Pseudhirundo griseopyga
- Red-headed Weaver Anaplectes rubriceps
- Stierling's Wren-Warbler Calamonastes stierlingi
- Black Cuckooshrike Campephaga flava
- Pallid Harrier Circus macrourus
- Lizard Buzzard Kaupifalco monogrammicus
- Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala
- African Hawk-Eagle Aquila spilogaster
- Lesser Jacana Microparra capensis
- Capped Wheatear Oenanthe pileata
- Secretarybird Sagittarius serpentarius
- Hartlaub's Babbler Turdoides hartlaubii
- Southern Pochard Netta erythrophthalma
- Kittlitz's Plover Anarhynchus pecuarius
- African Green Pigeon Treron calvus
- Lesser Spotted Eagle Clanga pomarina
- Southern Red Bishop Euplectes orix
- Coqui Francolin Campocolinus coqui
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis
- Dusky Lark Pinarocorys nigricans
- Ovambo Sparrowhawk Accipiter ovampensis
- African Barred Owlet Glaucidium capense
- Southern Fiscal Lanius collaris
- Fan-tailed Widowbird Euplectes axillaris
- Brown Firefinch Lagonosticta nitidula
- Black-bellied Bustard Lissotis melanogaster
- Lesser Masked Weaver Ploceus intermedius
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Spectacled Weaver Ploceus ocularis
- Jameson's Firefinch Lagonosticta rhodopareia
- Purple-banded Sunbird Cinnyris bifasciatus
- Diederik Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius
- African Crake Crecopsis egregia
- Great Spotted Cuckoo Clamator glandarius
- Allen's Gallinule Porphyrio alleni
- Abdim's Stork Ciconia abdimii
- Cardinal Woodpecker Dendropicos fuscescens
- White-browed Coucal Centropus superciliosus
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus
- Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
- Half-collared Kingfisher Alcedo semitorquata
- Common Quail Coturnix coturnix
- Cape Vulture Gyps coprotheres
- Pale Chanting Goshawk Melierax canorus
- Black-crowned Tchagra Tchagra senegalus
- Western Barn Owl Tyto alba
- Dickinson's Kestrel Falco dickinsoni
- Lesser Honeyguide Indicator minor
- Terrestrial Brownbul Phyllastrephus terrestris
- Brown-throated Martin Riparia paludicola
- Pel's Fishing Owl Scotopelia peli
- Broad-tailed Paradise Whydah Vidua obtusa
- Black-headed Oriole Oriolus larvatus
- Southern Brown-throated Weaver Ploceus xanthopterus
- Arnot's Chat Myrmecocichla arnotti
- Mosque Swallow Cecropis senegalensis
- Black-winged Pratincole Glareola nordmanni
- Three-banded Courser Rhinoptilus cinctus
- Southern Pied Babbler Turdoides bicolor
- African Snipe Gallinago nigripennis
- Western Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus
- Buffy Pipit Anthus vaalensis
- Common Swift Apus apus
- Brown-backed Honeybird Prodotiscus regulus
- African Cuckoo Cuculus gularis
- African Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia microscelis
- Western House Martin Delichon urbicum
- Luapula Cisticola Cisticola luapula
- White-backed Night Heron Calherodius leuconotus
- Bronze-winged Courser Rhinoptilus chalcopterus
- Fulvous Whistling Duck Dendrocygna bicolor
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- Retz's Helmetshrike Prionops retzii
- Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
- Plain-backed Pipit Anthus leucophrys
- Spotted Eagle-Owl Bubo africanus
- Tinkling Cisticola Cisticola rufilatus
- Pearl-breasted Swallow Hirundo dimidiata
- Trumpeter Hornbill Bycanistes bucinator
- Chirping Cisticola Cisticola pipiens
- Brown-necked Parrot Poicephalus fuscicollis
- Sedge Warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus
- Little Stint Calidris minuta
- Flappet Lark Amirafra rufocinnamomea
- White-throated Swallow Hirundo albigularis
- Greater Honeyguide Indicator indicator
- Yellow Canary Crithagra flaviventris
- White-winged Widowbird Euplectes albonotatus
- African Black Swift Apus barbatus
- Greater Flamingo Phoenicopterus roseus
- Icterine Warbler Hippolais icterina
- African Finfoot Podica senegalensis
- Lesser Moorhen Paragallinula angulata
- Fawn-colored Lark Calendulauda africanoides
- Sabota Lark Calendulauda sabota
- Bennett's Woodpecker Campethera bennettii
- Red-breasted Swallow Cecropis semirufa
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Chobe NP – A33?
September and November. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 129 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Chobe NP – A33?
318 species, from 5,762 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Chobe NP – A33 in November?
The most recorded in November: Black Kite, Red-billed Oxpecker, Helmeted Guineafowl, Fork-tailed Drongo and Southern Red-billed Hornbill.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.