South Africa · Western Cape
Karoo NP
218 species and 10,955 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: September–December, with up to 116 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Common OstrichStruthio camelus
Southern Masked WeaverPloceus velatus
Cape BuntingEmberiza capensis
Rufous-eared WarblerMalcorus pectoralis
Fairy FlycatcherStenostira scita
Familiar ChatOenanthe familiaris
Large Rock MartinPtyonoprogne fuligula
Karoo ChatEmarginata schlegelii
White-backed MousebirdColius colius
African Red-eyed BulbulPycnonotus nigricans
Pale-winged StarlingOnychognathus nabouroup
Little SwiftApus affinis
Karoo Scrub RobinTychaedon coryphoeus
Cape SparrowPasser melanurus107 species seen regularly here in November · showing the 14 most recorded. All 218 species recorded here ↓
Species seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
All 218 species recorded here
- Common Ostrich Struthio camelus
- Southern Masked Weaver Ploceus velatus
- Pale-winged Starling Onychognathus nabouroup
- Familiar Chat Oenanthe familiaris
- Karoo Chat Emarginata schlegelii
- Karoo Scrub Robin Tychaedon coryphoeus
- White-backed Mousebird Colius colius
- Cape Sparrow Passer melanurus
- Cape Bunting Emberiza capensis
- African Red-eyed Bulbul Pycnonotus nigricans
- Southern Fiscal Lanius collaris
- Red-winged Starling Onychognathus morio
- Mountain Chat Myrmecocichla monticola
- White-throated Canary Crithagra albogularis
- Fairy Flycatcher Stenostira scita
- Rufous-eared Warbler Malcorus pectoralis
- Karoo Prinia Prinia maculosa
- Large Rock Martin Ptyonoprogne fuligula
- Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis
- Fiscal Flycatcher Sigelus silens
- Karoo Long-billed Lark Certhilauda subcoronata
- Bokmakierie Telophorus zeylonus
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Ant-eating Chat Myrmecocichla formicivora
- Cape Wagtail Motacilla capensis
- Pale Chanting Goshawk Melierax canorus
- Ring-necked Dove Streptopelia capicola
- Little Swift Apus affinis
- Acacia Pied Barbet Tricholaema leucomelas
- Layard's Warbler Curruca layardi
- Cape Robin-Chat Dessonornis caffer
- Dusky Sunbird Cinnyris fuscus
- Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea
- Pririt Batis Batis pririt
- Chestnut-vented Warbler Curruca subcoerulea
- White-rumped Swift Apus caffer
- Greater Striped Swallow Cecropis cucullata
- Verreaux's Eagle Aquila verreauxii
- Southern Red Bishop Euplectes orix
- Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
- Rock Kestrel Falco rupicolus
- White-necked Raven Corvus albicollis
- Lark-like Bunting Emberiza impetuani
- Short-toed Rock Thrush Monticola brevipes
- Pied Crow Corvus albus
- Cape White-eye Zosterops virens
- Karoo Korhaan Heterotetrax vigorsii
- Karoo Thrush Turdus smithi
- Sickle-winged Chat Emarginata sinuata
- Malachite Sunbird Nectarinia famosa
- Black-headed Canary Serinus alario
- Egyptian Goose Alopochen aegyptiaca
- Booted Eagle Hieraaetus pennatus
- Namaqua Dove Oena capensis
- Grey-backed Cisticola Cisticola subruficapilla
- Pied Starling Lamprotornis bicolor
- South African Shelduck Tadorna cana
- Yellow-bellied Eremomela Eremomela icteropygialis
- Spike-heeled Lark Chersomanes albofasciata
- Southern Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris chalybeus
- Namaqua Warbler Phragmacia substriata
- Nicholson's Pipit Anthus nicholsoni
- Red-faced Mousebird Urocolius indicus
- Namaqua Sandgrouse Pterocles namaqua
- African Rock Pipit Anthus crenatus
- Ground Woodpecker Geocolaptes olivaceus
- Sabota Lark Calendulauda sabota
- Three-banded Plover Thinornis tricollaris
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Spotted Eagle-Owl Bubo africanus
- African Pipit Anthus cinnamomeus
- Red-knobbed Coot Fulica cristata
- Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris
- Lesser Swamp Warbler Acrocephalus gracilirostris
- Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild
- Long-billed Crombec Sylvietta rufescens
- Cape Crow Corvus capensis
- Chat Flycatcher Agricola infuscatus
- Common Hoopoe Upupa epops
- Tractrac Chat Emarginata tractrac
- Karoo Lark Calendulauda albescens
- Southern Tchagra Tchagra tchagra
- Alpine Swift Tachymarptis melba
- Hadada Ibis Bostrychia hagedash
- Yellow Canary Crithagra flaviventris
- Ludwig's Bustard Neotis ludwigii
- European Bee-eater Merops apiaster
- Grey Tit Melaniparus afer
- Black-throated Canary Crithagra atrogularis
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- Large-billed Lark Galerida magnirostris
- Double-banded Courser Smutsornis africanus
- Secretarybird Sagittarius serpentarius
- Brown-hooded Kingfisher Halcyon albiventris
- Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura
- Grey-winged Francolin Scleroptila afra
- Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
- Karoo Eremomela Eremomela gregalis
- Blacksmith Lapwing Vanellus armatus
- Common Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus
- Cardinal Woodpecker Dendropicos fuscescens
- Southern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer diffusus
- Grey-backed Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix verticalis
- Diederik Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius
- Neddicky Cisticola fulvicapilla
- Cape Weaver Ploceus capensis
- African Sacred Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus
- Greater Kestrel Falco rupicoloides
- African Black Swift Apus barbatus
- Jackal Buzzard Buteo rufofuscus
- Little Bittern Botaurus minutus
- Bar-throated Apalis Apalis thoracica
- Speckled Mousebird Colius striatus
- Cinnamon-breasted Warbler Euryptila subcinnamomea
- Common Buzzard Buteo buteo
- Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris
- Kori Bustard Ardeotis kori
- Rufous-cheeked Nightjar Caprimulgus rufigena
- Levaillant's Cisticola Cisticola tinniens
- Spotted Thick-knee Burhinus capensis
- Cape Penduline Tit Anthoscopus minutus
- Brown-throated Martin Riparia paludicola
- Capped Wheatear Oenanthe pileata
- Plain-backed Pipit Anthus leucophrys
- Red-billed Quelea Quelea quelea
- Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala
- Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
- Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus
- White-throated Swallow Hirundo albigularis
- Cape Bulbul Pycnonotus capensis
- Red-capped Lark Calandrella cinerea
- African Stonechat Saxicola torquatus
- African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus
- Hamerkop Scopus umbretta
- Cape Canary Serinus canicollis
- Cinnamon-breasted Bunting Emberiza tahapisi
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
- Black-eared Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix australis
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus
- Southern Black Korhaan Afrotis afra
- Olive Thrush Turdus olivaceus
- Yellow Bishop Euplectes capensis
- Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
- Crowned Lapwing Vanellus coronatus
- Black Harrier Circus maurus
- Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata
- Reed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus
- Sentinel Rock Thrush Monticola explorator
- Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Spur-winged Goose Plectropterus gambensis
- Yellow-billed Duck Anas undulata
- Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala
- Southern Boubou Laniarius ferrugineus
- Cape Rock Thrush Monticola rupestris
- Scaly-feathered Weaver Sporopipes squamifrons
- Wattled Starling Creatophora cinerea
- Red-headed Finch Amadina erythrocephala
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Banded Martin Neophedina cincta
- Pearl-breasted Swallow Hirundo dimidiata
- Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
- Cape Clapper Lark Corypha apiata
- Blue Crane Grus paradisea
- Lesser Kestrel Falco naumanni
- Cape Spurfowl Pternistis capensis
- Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis
- African Black Duck Anas sparsa
- Greater Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris afer
- Martial Eagle Polemaetus bellicosus
- Denham's Bustard Neotis denhami
- Freckled Nightjar Caprimulgus tristigma
- Rufous-breasted Sparrowhawk Accipiter rufiventris
- Cape Grassbird Sphenoeacus afer
- Orange-breasted Sunbird Anthobaphes violacea
- Red-billed Teal Anas erythrorhyncha
- Cloud Cisticola Cisticola textrix
- Water Thick-knee Burhinus vermiculatus
- Little Stint Calidris minuta
- Lesser Honeyguide Indicator minor
- Western Barn Owl Tyto alba
- Little Rush Warbler Bradypterus baboecala
- Eastern Clapper Lark Corypha fasciolata
- Brimstone Canary Crithagra sulphurata
- Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
- Streaky-headed Seedeater Crithagra gularis
- Kittlitz's Plover Anarhynchus pecuarius
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Cape Long-billed Lark Certhilauda curvirostris
- Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis
- Burchell's Courser Cursorius rufus
- Fiery-necked Nightjar Caprimulgus pectoralis
- Common Swift Apus apus
- Grey-headed Gull Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus
- Golden-breasted Bunting Emberiza flaviventris
- Cape Eagle-Owl Bubo capensis
- Southern Pochard Netta erythrophthalma
- Maccoa Duck Oxyura maccoa
- African Spoonbill Platalea alba
- Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus
- Purple Heron Ardea purpurea
- Cape Siskin Crithagra totta
- Greater Flamingo Phoenicopterus roseus
- African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer
- Gabar Goshawk Micronisus gabar
- African Dusky Flycatcher Muscicapa adusta
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- Cape Longclaw Macronyx capensis
- Western House Martin Delichon urbicum
- Black Saw-wing Psalidoprocne pristoptera
- Common Quail Coturnix coturnix
- Red-chested Cuckoo Cuculus solitarius
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- African Darter Anhinga rufa
- Cape Teal Anas capensis
- Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Karoo NP?
September–December. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 116 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Karoo NP?
218 species, from 10,955 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Karoo NP in November?
The most recorded in November: Common Ostrich, Southern Masked Weaver, Cape Bunting, Rufous-eared Warbler and Fairy Flycatcher.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.