Zambia · Central Province
Kasanka NP
412 species and 8,917 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: November–December, with up to 217 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
African DarterAnhinga rufa
Spur-winged GoosePlectropterus gambensis
African Fish EagleIcthyophaga vocifer
White-backed VultureGyps africanus
African JacanaActophilornis africanus
Black KiteMilvus migrans
Common BulbulPycnonotus barbatus
Pied KingfisherCeryle rudis
Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
African StonechatSaxicola torquatus
Red-chested CuckooCuculus solitarius
Schalow's TuracoTauraco schalowi
Crowned HornbillLophoceros alboterminatus
Woodland KingfisherHalcyon senegalensisSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
All 412 species recorded here
- Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
- Spur-winged Goose Plectropterus gambensis
- African Jacana Actophilornis africanus
- African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer
- Red-chested Cuckoo Cuculus solitarius
- African Darter Anhinga rufa
- White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus
- Schalow's Turaco Tauraco schalowi
- Crowned Hornbill Lophoceros alboterminatus
- Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis
- Black-backed Puffback Dryoscopus cubla
- Böhm's Bee-eater Merops boehmi
- Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis
- Reed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus
- Black-backed Barbet Pogonornis minor
- Emerald-spotted Wood Dove Turtur chalcospilos
- Trumpeter Hornbill Bycanistes bucinator
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- White-fronted Bee-eater Merops bullockoides
- African Stonechat Saxicola torquatus
- Square-tailed Drongo Dicrurus ludwigii
- Ring-necked Dove Streptopelia capicola
- Coppery-tailed Coucal Centropus cupreicaudus
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Woodland Kingfisher Halcyon senegalensis
- African Wattled Lapwing Vanellus senegallus
- Ross's Turaco Tauraco rossae
- Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus bilineatus
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- White-browed Robin-Chat Cossypha heuglini
- Pale-billed Hornbill Lophoceros pallidirostris
- Chirping Cisticola Cisticola pipiens
- Speckled Mousebird Colius striatus
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Chinspot Batis Batis molitor
- White-faced Whistling Duck Dendrocygna viduata
- Spectacled Weaver Ploceus ocularis
- Red-necked Spurfowl Pternistis afer
- Bateleur Terathopius ecaudatus
- Hadada Ibis Bostrychia hagedash
- Violet-backed Starling Cinnyricinclus leucogaster
- Tropical Boubou Laniarius major
- African Green Pigeon Treron calvus
- African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis
- Black-headed Oriole Oriolus larvatus
- Wattled Crane Grus carunculata
- Dark-backed Weaver Ploceus bicolor
- Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides
- Orange-breasted Bushshrike Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus
- Yellow-throated Bush Sparrow Gymnoris superciliaris
- Purple-throated Cuckooshrike Campephaga quiscalina
- White-breasted Cuckooshrike Ceblepyris pectoralis
- Little Bee-eater Merops pusillus
- Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
- Hamerkop Scopus umbretta
- Brown Firefinch Lagonosticta nitidula
- Black-throated Wattle-eye Platysteira peltata
- African Marsh Harrier Circus ranivorus
- Lesser Jacana Microparra capensis
- Hartlaub's Babbler Turdoides hartlaubii
- Brown-hooded Kingfisher Halcyon albiventris
- Wood Pipit Anthus nyassae
- Croaking Cisticola Cisticola natalensis
- Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
- Kurrichane Thrush Turdus libonyana
- Blacksmith Lapwing Vanellus armatus
- Egyptian Goose Alopochen aegyptiaca
- Yellow-breasted Apalis Apalis flavida
- Black Cuckooshrike Campephaga flava
- Pel's Fishing Owl Scotopelia peli
- Little Greenbul Eurillas virens
- Black-necked Eremomela Eremomela atricollis
- Fan-tailed Widowbird Euplectes axillaris
- Cabanis's Greenbul Phyllastrephus cabanisi
- Black Crake Zapornia flavirostra
- Amethyst Sunbird Chalcomitra amethystina
- European Bee-eater Merops apiaster
- White-crested Helmetshrike Prionops plumatus
- African Emerald Cuckoo Chrysococcyx cupreus
- Miombo Scrub Robin Tychaedon barbata
- Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris
- Rufous-bellied Tit Melaniparus rufiventris
- Moustached Grass Warbler Melocichla mentalis
- African Pygmy Goose Nettapus auritus
- Collared Sunbird Hedydipna collaris
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- Holub's Golden Weaver Ploceus xanthops
- Pale-throated Greenbul Atimastillas flavigula
- Wahlberg's Eagle Hieraaetus wahlbergi
- Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus
- African Openbill Anastomus lamelligerus
- Rufous-bellied Heron Ardeola rufiventris
- Purple-banded Sunbird Cinnyris bifasciatus
- Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus chrysoconus
- Martial Eagle Polemaetus bellicosus
- Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava
- Green-capped Eremomela Eremomela scotops
- Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus
- Ashy Flycatcher Fraseria caerulescens
- Cardinal Woodpecker Dendropicos fuscescens
- Crowned Eagle Stephanoaetus coronatus
- Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio
- Yellow-fronted Canary Crithagra mozambica
- Yellow-mantled Widowbird Euplectes macroura
- Stierling's Wren-Warbler Calamonastes stierlingi
- Sharp-tailed Starling Lamprotornis acuticaudus
- White-backed Duck Thalassornis leuconotus
- Brubru Nilaus afer
- Black-collared Barbet Lybius torquatus
- Red-throated Twinspot Hypargos niveoguttatus
- Southern Red Bishop Euplectes orix
- Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata
- Goliath Heron Ardea goliath
- Grey Go-away-bird Crinifer concolor
- Black-eared Seedeater Crithagra mennelli
- Yellow-billed Duck Anas undulata
- Yellow-bellied Hyliota Hyliota flavigaster
- Trilling Cisticola Cisticola woosnami
- African Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia microscelis
- Northern Fiscal Lanius humeralis
- African Wood Owl Strix woodfordii
- Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
- Grey Penduline Tit Anthoscopus caroli
- Black-and-white Mannikin Spermestes bicolor
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- Lesser Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chloropterus
- Black-crowned Tchagra Tchagra senegalus
- Green-backed Woodpecker Campethera maculosa
- Fiery-necked Nightjar Caprimulgus pectoralis
- Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
- Broad-billed Roller Eurystomus glaucurus
- Cape Wagtail Motacilla capensis
- Western Violet-backed Sunbird Anthreptes longuemarei
- Spotted Eagle-Owl Bubo africanus
- Grey-rumped Swallow Pseudhirundo griseopyga
- Lizard Buzzard Kaupifalco monogrammicus
- Narina Trogon Apaloderma narina
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- Olive Woodpecker Dendropicos griseocephalus
- Meyer's Parrot Poicephalus meyeri
- Red-faced Cisticola Cisticola erythrops
- Black Cuckoo Cuculus clamosus
- Variable Sunbird Cinnyris venustus
- Lesser Striped Swallow Cecropis abyssinica
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Merops persicus
- African Broadbill Smithornis capensis
- Short-winged Cisticola Cisticola brachypterus
- Retz's Helmetshrike Prionops retzii
- Plain-backed Pipit Anthus leucophrys
- Red-collared Widowbird Euplectes ardens
- Marabou Stork Leptoptilos crumenifer
- Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild
- Red-billed Quelea Quelea quelea
- Red-capped Crombec Sylvietta ruficapilla
- Senegal Coucal Centropus senegalensis
- Saddle-billed Stork Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis
- Arnot's Chat Myrmecocichla arnotti
- Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- African Golden Oriole Oriolus auratus
- Common Buzzard Buteo buteo
- Southern Black Flycatcher Melaenornis pammelaina
- Western Banded Snake Eagle Circaetus cinerascens
- Senegal Lapwing Vanellus lugubris
- Marsh Tchagra Bocagia minuta
- African Pipit Anthus cinnamomeus
- Common Swift Apus apus
- Fan-tailed Grassbird Catriscus brevirostris
- Amur Falcon Falco amurensis
- Swainson's Spurfowl Pternistis swainsonii
- Lesser Swamp Warbler Acrocephalus gracilirostris
- Little Rush Warbler Bradypterus baboecala
- Grey Tit-Flycatcher Fraseria plumbea
- Flappet Lark Amirafra rufocinnamomea
- Pale Flycatcher Agricola pallidus
- Cabanis's Bunting Emberiza cabanisi
- Golden-breasted Bunting Emberiza flaviventris
- African Barred Owlet Glaucidium capense
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
- Anchieta's Sunbird Anthreptes anchietae
- Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo
- Klaas's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas
- Yellow-billed Egret Ardea brachyrhyncha
- Northern Yellow White-eye Zosterops senegalensis
- Collared Flycatcher Ficedula albicollis
- African Goshawk Aerospiza tachiro
- Olive Sunbird Cyanomitra olivacea
- Orange-breasted Waxbill Amandava subflava
- Buffy Pipit Anthus vaalensis
- Fawn-breasted Waxbill Estrilda paludicola
- European Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus
- Bronze Mannikin Spermestes cucullata
- Lesser Honeyguide Indicator minor
- Red-chested Flufftail Sarothrura rufa
- Greater Honeyguide Indicator indicator
- White-headed Vulture Trigonoceps occipitalis
- Yellow-billed Stork Mycteria ibis
- Red-faced Mousebird Urocolius indicus
- Brown-crowned Tchagra Tchagra australis
- Palm-nut Vulture Gypohierax angolensis
- Long-crested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis
- African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus
- Half-collared Kingfisher Alcedo semitorquata
- African Pied Wagtail Motacilla aguimp
- African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus
- Grey-headed Kingfisher Halcyon leucocephala
- Souza's Shrike Lanius souzae
- Racket-tailed Roller Coracias spatulatus
- Red-headed Weaver Anaplectes rubriceps
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- Lappet-faced Vulture Torgos tracheliotos
- Common Hoopoe Upupa epops
- Lesser Spotted Eagle Clanga pomarina
- Grey-headed Bushshrike Malaconotus blanchoti
- Knob-billed Duck Sarkidiornis melanotos
- Böhm's Flycatcher Myopornis boehmi
- Levaillant's Cuckoo Clamator levaillantii
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Grey-olive Greenbul Phyllastrephus cerviniventris
- Long-tailed Cisticola Cisticola angusticauda
- White-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris talatala
- Copper Sunbird Cinnyris cupreus
- White-browed Coucal Centropus superciliosus
- Bronze-winged Courser Rhinoptilus chalcopterus
- African Pygmy Kingfisher Ispidina picta
- Fülleborn's Longclaw Macronyx fuelleborni
- African Swamphen Porphyrio madagascariensis
- Greater Swamp Warbler Acrocephalus rufescens
- Arrow-marked Babbler Turdoides jardineii
- Southern Ground Hornbill Bucorvus leadbeateri
- Brown Snake Eagle Circaetus cinereus
- Red-billed Teal Anas erythrorhyncha
- Red-headed Quelea Quelea erythrops
- Golden-tailed Woodpecker Campethera abingoni
- African Hobby Falco cuvierii
- Giant Kingfisher Megaceryle maxima
- Common Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus cyanomelas
- Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis
- Little Swift Apus affinis
- Western House Martin Delichon urbicum
- White-winged Black Tit Melaniparus leucomelas
- Purple Heron Ardea purpurea
- Blue-billed Teal Spatula hottentota
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Ruff Calidris pugnax
- Black Coucal Centropus grillii
- Thick-billed Cuckoo Pachycoccyx audeberti
- Scaly-throated Honeyguide Indicator variegatus
- Miombo Tit Melaniparus griseiventris
- Verreaux's Eagle-Owl Ketupa lactea
- Little Bittern Botaurus minutus
- Tawny Eagle Aquila rapax
- Dark Chanting Goshawk Melierax metabates
- Blue-mantled Crested Flycatcher Trochocercus cyanomelas
- African Grey Hornbill Lophoceros nasutus
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird Chalcomitra senegalensis
- Black-faced Canary Crithagra capistrata
- Tree Pipit Anthus trivialis
- African Cuckoo-Hawk Aviceda cuculoides
- Wattled Starling Creatophora cinerea
- Dwarf Bittern Botaurus sturmii
- Terrestrial Brownbul Phyllastrephus terrestris
- Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis
- Pied Crow Corvus albus
- Great Reed Warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus
- Brimstone Canary Crithagra sulphurata
- Swallow-tailed Bee-eater Merops hirundineus
- Yellow-bellied Greenbul Chlorocichla flaviventris
- Blue-breasted Bee-eater Merops variegatus
- Shelley's Francolin Scleroptila shelleyi
- Brown-headed Apalis Apalis alticola
- Long-billed Crombec Sylvietta rufescens
- Capped Wheatear Oenanthe pileata
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
- Pennant-winged Nightjar Caprimulgus vexillarius
- Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
- Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus
- Red-knobbed Coot Fulica cristata
- Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura
- African Hawk-Eagle Aquila spilogaster
- Black-winged Red Bishop Euplectes hordeaceus
- African Snipe Gallinago nigripennis
- Coqui Francolin Campocolinus coqui
- African Scops Owl Otus senegalensis
- Black-chested Snake Eagle Circaetus pectoralis
- Temminck's Courser Cursorius temminckii
- African Spoonbill Platalea alba
- Kittlitz's Plover Anarhynchus pecuarius
- African Black Duck Anas sparsa
- Cuckoo-finch Anomalospiza imberbis
- African Cuckoo Cuculus gularis
- Red-breasted Swallow Cecropis semirufa
- Three-banded Plover Thinornis tricollaris
- Western Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava
- Red-capped Robin-Chat Cossypha natalensis
- Locust Finch Paludipasser locustella
- White-rumped Swift Apus caffer
- Bushveld Pipit Anthus caffer
- Blue-spotted Wood Dove Turtur afer
- African Spotted Creeper Salpornis salvadori
- Western Barn Owl Tyto alba
- Green Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus purpureus
- Yellow Bishop Euplectes capensis
- Crowned Lapwing Vanellus coronatus
- Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
- Greater Painted-snipe Rostratula benghalensis
- Collared Pratincole Glareola pratincola
- Ovambo Sparrowhawk Accipiter ovampensis
- African Dusky Flycatcher Muscicapa adusta
- Striped Kingfisher Halcyon chelicuti
- Little Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza minulla
- Southern Carmine Bee-eater Merops nubicoides
- Green-backed Honeybird Prodotiscus zambesiae
- African Sacred Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus
- Blue Waxbill Uraeginthus angolensis
- Lesser Grey Shrike Lanius minor
- Rattling Cisticola Cisticola chiniana
- Black Sparrowhawk Astur melanoleucus
- Orange-winged Pytilia Pytilia afra
- Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala
- Square-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus fossii
- Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis
- Yellow-bellied Eremomela Eremomela icteropygialis
- Southern Red-billed Hornbill Tockus rufirostris
- Little Stint Calidris minuta
- Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula
- Booted Eagle Hieraaetus pennatus
- Red-capped Lark Calandrella cinerea
- White-winged Tern Chlidonias leucopterus
- Shikra Tachyspiza badia
- Miombo Pied Barbet Tricholaema frontata
- Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus
- Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybrida
- Western Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus
- Gabar Goshawk Micronisus gabar
- Marsh Warbler Acrocephalus palustris
- African Thrush Turdus pelios
- Southern Hyliota Hyliota australis
- Cinnamon-breasted Bunting Emberiza tahapisi
- Pallid Honeyguide Indicator meliphilus
- Southern White-faced Owl Ptilopsis granti
- Black Saw-wing Psalidoprocne pristoptera
- Sedge Warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus
- Freckled Nightjar Caprimulgus tristigma
- Groundscraper Thrush Turdus litsitsirupa
- Black-bellied Seedcracker Pyrenestes ostrinus
- Reichard's Seedeater Crithagra reichardi
- Ayres's Hawk-Eagle Hieraaetus ayresii
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- African Rail Rallus caerulescens
- Western Miombo Sunbird Cinnyris gertrudis
- Spotted Thick-knee Burhinus capensis
- African Finfoot Podica senegalensis
- Black Heron Egretta ardesiaca
- Bearded Woodpecker Chloropicus namaquus
- Mosque Swallow Cecropis senegalensis
- Dickinson's Kestrel Falco dickinsoni
- Garden Warbler Sylvia borin
- Common Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus
- Swamp Flycatcher Muscicapa aquatica
- Brown-throated Martin Riparia paludicola
- Abdim's Stork Ciconia abdimii
- Lilac-breasted Roller Coracias caudatus
- Banded Martin Neophedina cincta
- Montagu's Harrier Circus pygargus
- Eastern Miombo Sunbird Cinnyris manoensis
- Bocage's Akalat Sheppardia bocagei
- Streaky-breasted Flufftail Sarothrura boehmi
- Rufous-naped Lark Corypha africana
- Striped Crake Aenigmatolimnas marginalis
- Shoebill Balaeniceps rex
- Broad-tailed Paradise Whydah Vidua obtusa
- Long-tailed Paradise Whydah Vidua paradisaea
- Bearded Scrub Robin Tychaedon quadrivirgata
- Fulvous Whistling Duck Dendrocygna bicolor
- White-tailed Blue Flycatcher Elminia albicauda
- Meves's Starling Lamprotornis mevesii
- Black-bellied Bustard Lissotis melanogaster
- Miombo Rock Thrush Monticola angolensis
- Familiar Chat Oenanthe familiaris
- Natal Spurfowl Pternistis natalensis
- Blue Quail Synoicus adansonii
- Augur Buzzard Buteo augur
- Greater Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chalybaeus
- Tambourine Dove Turtur tympanistria
- Olive Bee-eater Merops superciliosus
- Pearl-breasted Swallow Hirundo dimidiata
- Green Twinspot Mandingoa nitidula
- Southern Pochard Netta erythrophthalma
- White-browed Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser mahali
- Yellow-bellied Waxbill Coccopygia quartinia
- Wire-tailed Swallow Hirundo smithii
- Namaqua Dove Oena capensis
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Diederik Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius
- White-winged Widowbird Euplectes albonotatus
- Magpie Mannikin Spermestes fringilloides
- Pink-backed Pelican Pelecanus rufescens
- Rosy-throated Longclaw Macronyx ameliae
- Sooty Chat Myrmecocichla nigra
- Eurasian Golden Oriole Oriolus oriolus
- Swamp Nightjar Caprimulgus natalensis
- Southern Black Tit Melaniparus niger
- Red-throated Rock Martin Ptyonoprogne rufigula
- Jacobin Cuckoo Clamator jacobinus
- Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- African Pitta Pitta angolensis
- European Roller Coracias garrulus
- Common Whitethroat Curruca communis
- European Nightjar Caprimulgus europaeus
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Kasanka NP?
November–December. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 217 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Kasanka NP?
412 species, from 8,917 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Kasanka NP in November?
The most recorded in November: African Darter, Spur-winged Goose, African Fish Eagle, White-backed Vulture and African Jacana.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.