South Africa · KwaZulu-Natal
KwaDukuza – Sappi Stanger hide
283 species and 15,396 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: January and November, with up to 169 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
African JacanaActophilornis africanus
Fan-tailed WidowbirdEuplectes axillaris
Blacksmith LapwingVanellus armatus
Blue-billed TealSpatula hottentota
Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca
Lesser Striped SwallowCecropis abyssinica
Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
Wood SandpiperTringa glareola
Cape WagtailMotacilla capensis
Red-eyed DoveStreptopelia semitorquata
Common MoorhenGallinula chloropus
Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis
Common MynaAcridotheres tristis
Common BulbulPycnonotus barbatus154 species seen regularly here in November · showing the 14 most recorded. All 283 species recorded here ↓
Species seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Eshowe – Dlinza Forest54 km305 species
- Umlalazi NR64 km315 species
All 283 species recorded here
- African Jacana Actophilornis africanus
- Blacksmith Lapwing Vanellus armatus
- Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
- Blue-billed Teal Spatula hottentota
- Egyptian Goose Alopochen aegyptiaca
- Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- Black Crake Zapornia flavirostra
- Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
- Reed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus
- Cape Wagtail Motacilla capensis
- Hadada Ibis Bostrychia hagedash
- Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
- Three-banded Plover Thinornis tricollaris
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
- Fan-tailed Widowbird Euplectes axillaris
- Yellow-billed Duck Anas undulata
- White-faced Whistling Duck Dendrocygna viduata
- Lesser Striped Swallow Cecropis abyssinica
- Little Rush Warbler Bradypterus baboecala
- Spur-winged Goose Plectropterus gambensis
- Brown-throated Martin Riparia paludicola
- Yellow-fronted Canary Crithagra mozambica
- Common Myna Acridotheres tristis
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- African Darter Anhinga rufa
- Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
- Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala
- Speckled Mousebird Colius striatus
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- Little Stint Calidris minuta
- Red-billed Teal Anas erythrorhyncha
- Rufous-winged Cisticola Cisticola galactotes
- Ruff Calidris pugnax
- Lesser Swamp Warbler Acrocephalus gracilirostris
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Red-winged Starling Onychognathus morio
- African Swamphen Porphyrio madagascariensis
- Spectacled Weaver Ploceus ocularis
- Southern Fiscal Lanius collaris
- Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis
- Burchell's Coucal Centropus burchellii
- Cape Starling Lamprotornis nitens
- Southern Red Bishop Euplectes orix
- Black-collared Barbet Lybius torquatus
- Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus
- Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava
- Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura
- Hamerkop Scopus umbretta
- African Pied Wagtail Motacilla aguimp
- Goliath Heron Ardea goliath
- Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild
- Brown-hooded Kingfisher Halcyon albiventris
- Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula
- African Sacred Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus
- Little Swift Apus affinis
- Little Bee-eater Merops pusillus
- African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus
- Water Thick-knee Burhinus vermiculatus
- Southern Brown-throated Weaver Ploceus xanthopterus
- Purple Heron Ardea purpurea
- Bronze Mannikin Spermestes cucullata
- Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus bilineatus
- African Rail Rallus caerulescens
- African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura
- White-throated Swallow Hirundo albigularis
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Diederik Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius
- Cape Teal Anas capensis
- Eastern Golden Weaver Ploceus subaureus
- Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis
- Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides
- Cape White-eye Zosterops virens
- Thick-billed Weaver Amblyospiza albifrons
- Giant Kingfisher Megaceryle maxima
- Grey Crowned Crane Balearica regulorum
- African Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia microscelis
- Black Saw-wing Psalidoprocne pristoptera
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Tambourine Dove Turtur tympanistria
- Purple-crested Turaco Gallirex porphyreolophus
- Red-faced Cisticola Cisticola erythrops
- Pied Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta
- Yellow-billed Egret Ardea brachyrhyncha
- Cape Shoveler Spatula smithii
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- Black-bellied Starling Notopholia corusca
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
- African Pipit Anthus cinnamomeus
- Greater Painted-snipe Rostratula benghalensis
- Wire-tailed Swallow Hirundo smithii
- Common Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- Red-capped Robin-Chat Cossypha natalensis
- Southern Boubou Laniarius ferrugineus
- Sombre Greenbul Andropadus importunus
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird Chalcomitra senegalensis
- African Spoonbill Platalea alba
- Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis
- Pied Crow Corvus albus
- White-rumped Swift Apus caffer
- Crested Barbet Trachyphonus vaillantii
- Western Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava
- Kurrichane Thrush Turdus libonyana
- Southern Black Flycatcher Melaenornis pammelaina
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- White-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris talatala
- Kittlitz's Plover Anarhynchus pecuarius
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- African Green Pigeon Treron calvus
- African Stonechat Saxicola torquatus
- Sedge Warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus
- Baillon's Crake Zapornia pusilla
- Ring-necked Dove Streptopelia capicola
- Red-faced Mousebird Urocolius indicus
- African Snipe Gallinago nigripennis
- Olive Sunbird Cyanomitra olivacea
- Red-billed Quelea Quelea quelea
- Greater Flamingo Phoenicopterus roseus
- Black-throated Wattle-eye Platysteira peltata
- Red-collared Widowbird Euplectes ardens
- Levaillant's Cisticola Cisticola tinniens
- African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis
- Amethyst Sunbird Chalcomitra amethystina
- Common Hoopoe Upupa epops
- African Wattled Lapwing Vanellus senegallus
- African Dusky Flycatcher Muscicapa adusta
- Natal Spurfowl Pternistis natalensis
- Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybrida
- Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
- Lesser Moorhen Paragallinula angulata
- Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis
- African Marsh Harrier Circus ranivorus
- Southern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer diffusus
- Klaas's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas
- Spotted Crake Porzana porzana
- Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris
- Southern Pochard Netta erythrophthalma
- African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus
- Long-crested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis
- Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata
- Fulvous Whistling Duck Dendrocygna bicolor
- Violet-backed Starling Cinnyricinclus leucogaster
- Red-knobbed Coot Fulica cristata
- African Black Duck Anas sparsa
- White Wagtail Motacilla alba
- African Yellow Warbler Iduna natalensis
- Southern Masked Weaver Ploceus velatus
- Purple-banded Sunbird Cinnyris bifasciatus
- Common Tern Sterna hirundo
- Black Sparrowhawk Astur melanoleucus
- Emerald-spotted Wood Dove Turtur chalcospilos
- Collared Sunbird Hedydipna collaris
- Cape Weaver Ploceus capensis
- Little Tern Sternula albifrons
- Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea
- African Pygmy Kingfisher Ispidina picta
- African Firefinch Lagonosticta rubricata
- Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis
- Long-tailed Widowbird Euplectes progne
- Common Buzzard Buteo buteo
- Golden-tailed Woodpecker Campethera abingoni
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Southern Bald Ibis Geronticus calvus
- White-eared Barbet Stactolaema leucotis
- Black Heron Egretta ardesiaca
- Black-and-white Mannikin Spermestes bicolor
- Large Rock Martin Ptyonoprogne fuligula
- Black-crowned Tchagra Tchagra senegalus
- Wattled Starling Creatophora cinerea
- Little Bittern Botaurus minutus
- Knob-billed Duck Sarkidiornis melanotos
- Grey Sunbird Cyanomitra veroxii
- White-winged Tern Chlidonias leucopterus
- Rattling Cisticola Cisticola chiniana
- Pink-backed Pelican Pelecanus rufescens
- Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
- Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus
- Lesser Honeyguide Indicator minor
- Cape Robin-Chat Dessonornis caffer
- Sanderling Calidris alba
- Brimstone Canary Crithagra sulphurata
- Cardinal Woodpecker Dendropicos fuscescens
- Lesser Masked Weaver Ploceus intermedius
- Holub's Golden Weaver Ploceus xanthops
- Red-headed Quelea Quelea erythrops
- Western Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus
- Great Reed Warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus
- Rufous-bellied Heron Ardeola rufiventris
- Southern Black Tit Melaniparus niger
- Olive Thrush Turdus olivaceus
- Collared Pratincole Glareola pratincola
- Black-backed Puffback Dryoscopus cubla
- Square-tailed Drongo Dicrurus ludwigii
- African Openbill Anastomus lamelligerus
- Yellow-breasted Apalis Apalis flavida
- White-fronted Plover Anarhynchus marginatus
- Yellow-throated Longclaw Macronyx croceus
- Square-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus fossii
- Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa
- Lesser Jacana Microparra capensis
- Yellow-bellied Greenbul Chlorocichla flaviventris
- Horus Swift Apus horus
- Ashy Flycatcher Fraseria caerulescens
- Banded Martin Neophedina cincta
- White-necked Raven Corvus albicollis
- White-fronted Bee-eater Merops bullockoides
- Red-chested Flufftail Sarothrura rufa
- Black-headed Oriole Oriolus larvatus
- Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
- Palm-nut Vulture Gypohierax angolensis
- Greater Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris afer
- Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
- Trumpeter Hornbill Bycanistes bucinator
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala
- Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio
- Dusky Indigobird Vidua funerea
- Bar-throated Apalis Apalis thoracica
- Crowned Eagle Stephanoaetus coronatus
- Fiscal Flycatcher Sigelus silens
- Southern Red-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus pusillus
- Jackal Buzzard Buteo rufofuscus
- White-backed Duck Thalassornis leuconotus
- Red-chested Cuckoo Cuculus solitarius
- Caspian Plover Anarhynchus asiaticus
- Wahlberg's Eagle Hieraaetus wahlbergi
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Merops persicus
- Pale-crowned Cisticola Cisticola cinnamomeus
- Streaky-headed Seedeater Crithagra gularis
- Croaking Cisticola Cisticola natalensis
- Namaqua Dove Oena capensis
- Half-collared Kingfisher Alcedo semitorquata
- Greater Honeyguide Indicator indicator
- Greater Crested Tern Thalasseus bergii
- Orange-breasted Waxbill Amandava subflava
- Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia
- Greater Striped Swallow Cecropis cucullata
- Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris
- Eurasian Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- South African Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon spilodera
- Garden Warbler Sylvia borin
- Buff-spotted Flufftail Sarothrura elegans
- Western House Martin Delichon urbicum
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Forest Buzzard Buteo trizonatus
- Red-capped Lark Calandrella cinerea
- Grey-headed Gull Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus
- Black-chested Snake Eagle Circaetus pectoralis
- White-winged Widowbird Euplectes albonotatus
- Fan-tailed Grassbird Catriscus brevirostris
- Sooty Falcon Falco concolor
- Familiar Chat Oenanthe familiaris
- Cape Longclaw Macronyx capensis
- European Bee-eater Merops apiaster
- Cape Sparrow Passer melanurus
- European Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus
- Cape Gannet Morus capensis
- Common Buttonquail Turnix sylvaticus
- Alpine Swift Tachymarptis melba
- African Pygmy Goose Nettapus auritus
- Green Twinspot Mandingoa nitidula
- Cape Crow Corvus capensis
- Yellow-billed Stork Mycteria ibis
- Blue-mantled Crested Flycatcher Trochocercus cyanomelas
- Pale Flycatcher Agricola pallidus
- Black Cuckooshrike Campephaga flava
- African Black Swift Apus barbatus
- Rufous-naped Lark Corypha africana
- Amur Falcon Falco amurensis
- White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus
- African Oystercatcher Haematopus moquini
- Orange-breasted Bushshrike Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus
- Marsh Warbler Acrocephalus palustris
- Allen's Gallinule Porphyrio alleni
- Crowned Hornbill Lophoceros alboterminatus
- Lemon Dove Aplopelia larvata
- European Roller Coracias garrulus
- Grey-rumped Swallow Pseudhirundo griseopyga
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at KwaDukuza – Sappi Stanger hide?
January and November. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 169 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at KwaDukuza – Sappi Stanger hide?
283 species, from 15,396 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at KwaDukuza – Sappi Stanger hide in November?
The most recorded in November: African Jacana, Fan-tailed Widowbird, Blacksmith Lapwing, Blue-billed Teal and Egyptian Goose.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.