Eswatini · Hhohho Region
Malolotja Nature Reserve
281 species and 4,867 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: November, with up to 97 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Greater Striped SwallowCecropis cucullata
Buff-streaked ChatCampicoloides bifasciatus
Red-winged StarlingOnychognathus morio
Cape LongclawMacronyx capensis
Red-chested CuckooCuculus solitarius
African StonechatSaxicola torquatus
Common BulbulPycnonotus barbatus
Wing-snapping CisticolaCisticola ayresii
Red-collared WidowbirdEuplectes ardens
Southern FiscalLanius collaris
Jackal BuzzardButeo rufofuscus
White-rumped SwiftApus caffer
Cape WeaverPloceus capensis
Wailing CisticolaCisticola laisSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Hawane Reservoir11 km140 species
- Mlilwane Wildlife Sanctuary40 km318 species
- Hlane Royal NP – Ndlovu Camp78 km268 species
- Hlane Royal NP79 km256 species
All 281 species recorded here
- Buff-streaked Chat Campicoloides bifasciatus
- African Stonechat Saxicola torquatus
- Cape Longclaw Macronyx capensis
- Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
- Southern Fiscal Lanius collaris
- Greater Striped Swallow Cecropis cucullata
- Red-winged Starling Onychognathus morio
- White-necked Raven Corvus albicollis
- Cape Rock Thrush Monticola rupestris
- Jackal Buzzard Buteo rufofuscus
- Yellow Bishop Euplectes capensis
- Cape Weaver Ploceus capensis
- Wailing Cisticola Cisticola lais
- Red-collared Widowbird Euplectes ardens
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Mocking Cliff Chat Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris
- Wing-snapping Cisticola Cisticola ayresii
- Greater Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris afer
- Familiar Chat Oenanthe familiaris
- Fan-tailed Widowbird Euplectes axillaris
- Southern Bald Ibis Geronticus calvus
- Long-tailed Widowbird Euplectes progne
- Plain-backed Pipit Anthus leucophrys
- Ring-necked Dove Streptopelia capicola
- Cape Canary Serinus canicollis
- White-rumped Swift Apus caffer
- Drakensberg Prinia Prinia hypoxantha
- Cape Robin-Chat Dessonornis caffer
- Rock-loving Cisticola Cisticola aberrans
- Black Saw-wing Psalidoprocne pristoptera
- Bokmakierie Telophorus zeylonus
- Red-throated Wryneck Jynx ruficollis
- Malachite Sunbird Nectarinia famosa
- Speckled Mousebird Colius striatus
- Red-chested Cuckoo Cuculus solitarius
- Cape Grassbird Sphenoeacus afer
- Red-winged Francolin Scleroptila levaillantii
- Cape Wagtail Motacilla capensis
- Yellow-throated Longclaw Macronyx croceus
- Hadada Ibis Bostrychia hagedash
- Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura
- Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild
- Levaillant's Cisticola Cisticola tinniens
- Amethyst Sunbird Chalcomitra amethystina
- Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava
- Cape White-eye Zosterops virens
- Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
- Nicholson's Pipit Anthus nicholsoni
- Croaking Cisticola Cisticola natalensis
- Yellow-fronted Canary Crithagra mozambica
- Streaky-headed Seedeater Crithagra gularis
- African Pipit Anthus cinnamomeus
- Sombre Greenbul Andropadus importunus
- Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
- Large Rock Martin Ptyonoprogne fuligula
- Black-winged Lapwing Vanellus melanopterus
- Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis
- Lesser Striped Swallow Cecropis abyssinica
- Common Buzzard Buteo buteo
- Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea
- African Firefinch Lagonosticta rubricata
- European Bee-eater Merops apiaster
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Mountain Chat Myrmecocichla monticola
- Black-collared Barbet Lybius torquatus
- Southern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer diffusus
- African Black Swift Apus barbatus
- Gurney's Sugarbird Promerops gurneyi
- Common Quail Coturnix coturnix
- Brimstone Canary Crithagra sulphurata
- Little Swift Apus affinis
- Southern Boubou Laniarius ferrugineus
- Buffy Pipit Anthus vaalensis
- Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala
- Reed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus
- Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
- Banded Martin Neophedina cincta
- Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus
- Bronze Mannikin Spermestes cucullata
- Grey-rumped Swallow Pseudhirundo griseopyga
- Rock Kestrel Falco rupicolus
- Black Cuckoo Cuculus clamosus
- Black Sparrowhawk Astur melanoleucus
- Western House Martin Delichon urbicum
- Cinnamon-breasted Bunting Emberiza tahapisi
- Spectacled Weaver Ploceus ocularis
- Diederik Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius
- African Wattled Lapwing Vanellus senegallus
- Red-knobbed Coot Fulica cristata
- White-throated Swallow Hirundo albigularis
- Cloud Cisticola Cisticola textrix
- Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis
- Yellow-billed Duck Anas undulata
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Secretarybird Sagittarius serpentarius
- Pied Crow Corvus albus
- Spur-winged Goose Plectropterus gambensis
- African Yellow Warbler Iduna natalensis
- African Olive Pigeon Columba arquatrix
- Olive Sunbird Cyanomitra olivacea
- Purple-crested Turaco Gallirex porphyreolophus
- African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis
- Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio
- Burchell's Coucal Centropus burchellii
- Horus Swift Apus horus
- Black-backed Puffback Dryoscopus cubla
- Hamerkop Scopus umbretta
- Black-crowned Tchagra Tchagra senegalus
- Neddicky Cisticola fulvicapilla
- Quailfinch Ortygospiza atricollis
- Southern Black Tit Melaniparus niger
- Swee Waxbill Coccopygia melanotis
- Striped Pipit Anthus lineiventris
- Southern Red Bishop Euplectes orix
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Rattling Cisticola Cisticola chiniana
- Cape Crow Corvus capensis
- White-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris talatala
- Natal Spurfowl Pternistis natalensis
- Brown-hooded Kingfisher Halcyon albiventris
- Spotted Eagle-Owl Bubo africanus
- Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura
- Common Myna Acridotheres tristis
- Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis
- Denham's Bustard Neotis denhami
- Fan-tailed Grassbird Catriscus brevirostris
- Southern Black Flycatcher Melaenornis pammelaina
- Cape Batis Batis capensis
- Rufous-naped Lark Corypha africana
- Fiscal Flycatcher Sigelus silens
- Bar-throated Apalis Apalis thoracica
- Montagu's Harrier Circus pygargus
- White-browed Robin-Chat Cossypha heuglini
- Ashy Flycatcher Fraseria caerulescens
- Mountain Wagtail Motacilla clara
- Kurrichane Thrush Turdus libonyana
- Red-capped Lark Calandrella cinerea
- African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus
- Violet-backed Starling Cinnyricinclus leucogaster
- Southern Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris chalybeus
- White-throated Robin-Chat Dessonornis humeralis
- Holub's Golden Weaver Ploceus xanthops
- Desert Cisticola Cisticola aridulus
- Ground Woodpecker Geocolaptes olivaceus
- Egyptian Goose Alopochen aegyptiaca
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird Chalcomitra senegalensis
- Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis
- Red-faced Mousebird Urocolius indicus
- African Sacred Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus
- Little Bee-eater Merops pusillus
- Red-billed Quelea Quelea quelea
- Olive Bushshrike Chlorophoneus olivaceus
- African Pied Wagtail Motacilla aguimp
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- Black-headed Oriole Oriolus larvatus
- Groundscraper Thrush Turdus litsitsirupa
- Black-bellied Bustard Lissotis melanogaster
- Golden-tailed Woodpecker Campethera abingoni
- Brown-crowned Tchagra Tchagra australis
- African Emerald Cuckoo Chrysococcyx cupreus
- Common Hoopoe Upupa epops
- Stierling's Wren-Warbler Calamonastes stierlingi
- Dusky Indigobird Vidua funerea
- Common Swift Apus apus
- Swainson's Spurfowl Pternistis swainsonii
- Arrow-marked Babbler Turdoides jardineii
- Bateleur Terathopius ecaudatus
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Wire-tailed Swallow Hirundo smithii
- Amur Falcon Falco amurensis
- Forest Canary Crithagra scotops
- Golden-breasted Bunting Emberiza flaviventris
- Pink-throated Twinspot Hypargos margaritatus
- Cape Starling Lamprotornis nitens
- Klaas's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas
- Eastern Long-billed Lark Certhilauda semitorquata
- White-winged Widowbird Euplectes albonotatus
- Southern Masked Weaver Ploceus velatus
- Brown-throated Martin Riparia paludicola
- Half-collared Kingfisher Alcedo semitorquata
- Rufous-breasted Sparrowhawk Accipiter rufiventris
- Red-capped Robin-Chat Cossypha natalensis
- Eastern Nicator Nicator gularis
- Blue-mantled Crested Flycatcher Trochocercus cyanomelas
- Collared Sunbird Hedydipna collaris
- Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus
- Black-rumped Buttonquail Turnix nanus
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Olive Thrush Turdus olivaceus
- Common Buttonquail Turnix sylvaticus
- Alpine Swift Tachymarptis melba
- Cape Bunting Emberiza capensis
- Lesser Swamp Warbler Acrocephalus gracilirostris
- Lesser Grey Shrike Lanius minor
- Martial Eagle Polemaetus bellicosus
- Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
- Water Thick-knee Burhinus vermiculatus
- Giant Kingfisher Megaceryle maxima
- Red-faced Cisticola Cisticola erythrops
- African Black Duck Anas sparsa
- Flappet Lark Amirafra rufocinnamomea
- Long-crested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis
- Sentinel Rock Thrush Monticola explorator
- Brown Snake Eagle Circaetus cinereus
- Shelley's Francolin Scleroptila shelleyi
- Blue Waxbill Uraeginthus angolensis
- Blacksmith Lapwing Vanellus armatus
- Crowned Lapwing Vanellus coronatus
- Bushveld Pipit Anthus caffer
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Chorister Robin-Chat Cossypha dichroa
- Black-throated Canary Crithagra atrogularis
- African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus
- Grey Go-away-bird Crinifer concolor
- African Marsh Harrier Circus ranivorus
- Emerald-spotted Wood Dove Turtur chalcospilos
- Black Cuckooshrike Campephaga flava
- Gorgeous Bushshrike Telophorus viridis
- Square-tailed Drongo Dicrurus ludwigii
- Narina Trogon Apaloderma narina
- Freckled Nightjar Caprimulgus tristigma
- Harlequin Quail Coturnix delegorguei
- Olive Woodpecker Dendropicos griseocephalus
- Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus chrysoconus
- African Goshawk Aerospiza tachiro
- Pearl-breasted Swallow Hirundo dimidiata
- Brown-backed Honeybird Prodotiscus regulus
- Long-billed Crombec Sylvietta rufescens
- Marico Sunbird Cinnyris mariquensis
- African Wood Owl Strix woodfordii
- Blue Crane Grus paradisea
- Shikra Tachyspiza badia
- White-fronted Bee-eater Merops bullockoides
- Marsh Owl Asio capensis
- Black-and-white Mannikin Spermestes bicolor
- Crested Barbet Trachyphonus vaillantii
- Yellow-breasted Pipit Hemimacronyx chloris
- White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus
- Wahlberg's Eagle Hieraaetus wahlbergi
- Grey-headed Bushshrike Malaconotus blanchoti
- Red-headed Weaver Anaplectes rubriceps
- Grey Tit-Flycatcher Fraseria plumbea
- Striped Kingfisher Halcyon chelicuti
- Common Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus cyanomelas
- Short-tailed Pipit Anthus brachyurus
- Yellow-throated Woodland Warbler Phylloscopus ruficapilla
- Capped Wheatear Oenanthe pileata
- Senegal Lapwing Vanellus lugubris
- Verreaux's Eagle Aquila verreauxii
- Cardinal Woodpecker Dendropicos fuscescens
- Lizard Buzzard Kaupifalco monogrammicus
- Burchell's Starling Lamprotornis australis
- Pied Starling Lamprotornis bicolor
- African Finfoot Podica senegalensis
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
- Chinspot Batis Batis molitor
- African Cuckoo-Hawk Aviceda cuculoides
- Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris
- Crowned Hornbill Lophoceros alboterminatus
- Magpie Shrike Urolestes melanoleucus
- Three-banded Plover Thinornis tricollaris
- Grey Sunbird Cyanomitra veroxii
- Icterine Warbler Hippolais icterina
- African Dusky Flycatcher Muscicapa adusta
- Yellow-crowned Bishop Euplectes afer
- Thick-billed Weaver Amblyospiza albifrons
- African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- Little Rush Warbler Bradypterus baboecala
- Trumpeter Hornbill Bycanistes bucinator
- Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus bilineatus
- Knysna Turaco Tauraco corythaix
- White-faced Whistling Duck Dendrocygna viduata
- Crowned Eagle Stephanoaetus coronatus
- European Roller Coracias garrulus
- Ruff Calidris pugnax
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- Fiery-necked Nightjar Caprimulgus pectoralis
- 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 Malolotja Nature Reserve?
November. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 97 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Malolotja Nature Reserve?
281 species, from 4,867 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Malolotja Nature Reserve in November?
The most recorded in November: Greater Striped Swallow, Buff-streaked Chat, Red-winged Starling, Cape Longclaw and Red-chested Cuckoo.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.