Zimbabwe · Harare Province
Marlborough Vlei Sewage Works
218 species and 3,889 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: January, with up to 96 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
African Palm SwiftCypsiurus parvus
Levaillant's CisticolaCisticola tinniens
Black-headed HeronArdea melanocephala
Western Cattle EgretArdea ibis
Little Rush WarblerBradypterus baboecala
African StonechatSaxicola torquatus
Common MoorhenGallinula chloropus
Black CrakeZapornia flavirostra
Common WaxbillEstrilda astrild
Black-winged KiteElanus caeruleus
Wood SandpiperTringa glareola
African JacanaActophilornis africanus
Pin-tailed WhydahVidua macroura
Southern Masked WeaverPloceus velatus73 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.
Nearby hotspots
- Monavale Marsh8 km217 species
- Mukuvisi Woodlands15 km278 species
- Cleveland Dam/Haka Game Park20 km311 species
All 218 species recorded here
- African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus
- Little Rush Warbler Bradypterus baboecala
- Black Crake Zapornia flavirostra
- Blacksmith Lapwing Vanellus armatus
- African Sacred Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus
- Red-billed Teal Anas erythrorhyncha
- Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala
- Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
- Southern Red Bishop Euplectes orix
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Levaillant's Cisticola Cisticola tinniens
- Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild
- Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- African Stonechat Saxicola torquatus
- White-faced Whistling Duck Dendrocygna viduata
- Blue-billed Teal Spatula hottentota
- African Jacana Actophilornis africanus
- Southern Masked Weaver Ploceus velatus
- Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis
- Yellow-mantled Widowbird Euplectes macroura
- Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
- Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura
- Lesser Swamp Warbler Acrocephalus gracilirostris
- African Swamphen Porphyrio madagascariensis
- Red-faced Cisticola Cisticola erythrops
- Pied Crow Corvus albus
- Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
- Three-banded Plover Thinornis tricollaris
- Variable Sunbird Cinnyris venustus
- Bronze Mannikin Spermestes cucullata
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- African Wattled Lapwing Vanellus senegallus
- Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
- Common Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus
- Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
- Red-collared Widowbird Euplectes ardens
- Orange-breasted Waxbill Amandava subflava
- Little Swift Apus affinis
- Senegal Coucal Centropus senegalensis
- Hamerkop Scopus umbretta
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- Reed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus
- Purple-crested Turaco Gallirex porphyreolophus
- Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava
- Common Myna Acridotheres tristis
- European Bee-eater Merops apiaster
- African Yellow Warbler Iduna natalensis
- Thick-billed Weaver Amblyospiza albifrons
- African Rail Rallus caerulescens
- Brimstone Canary Crithagra sulphurata
- Rattling Cisticola Cisticola chiniana
- Blue Waxbill Uraeginthus angolensis
- Black-chested Snake Eagle Circaetus pectoralis
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Egyptian Goose Alopochen aegyptiaca
- Black Coucal Centropus grillii
- Swainson's Spurfowl Pternistis swainsonii
- Southern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer diffusus
- Wire-tailed Swallow Hirundo smithii
- Arrow-marked Babbler Turdoides jardineii
- White-throated Swallow Hirundo albigularis
- Diederik Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius
- Abdim's Stork Ciconia abdimii
- Greater Striped Swallow Cecropis cucullata
- Yellow-fronted Canary Crithagra mozambica
- Copper Sunbird Cinnyris cupreus
- Marsh Owl Asio capensis
- Grey-rumped Swallow Pseudhirundo griseopyga
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- African Marsh Harrier Circus ranivorus
- Knob-billed Duck Sarkidiornis melanotos
- Croaking Cisticola Cisticola natalensis
- Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala
- Gabar Goshawk Micronisus gabar
- Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis
- White-winged Widowbird Euplectes albonotatus
- Red-knobbed Coot Fulica cristata
- Rosy-throated Longclaw Macronyx ameliae
- Spectacled Weaver Ploceus ocularis
- Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis
- Great Reed Warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus
- Lesser Moorhen Paragallinula angulata
- Grey Go-away-bird Crinifer concolor
- Purple Heron Ardea purpurea
- Sedge Warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus
- Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides
- Allen's Gallinule Porphyrio alleni
- Red-chested Flufftail Sarothrura rufa
- Yellow-throated Longclaw Macronyx croceus
- Crested Barbet Trachyphonus vaillantii
- Little Bee-eater Merops pusillus
- Pale-crowned Cisticola Cisticola cinnamomeus
- Cuckoo-finch Anomalospiza imberbis
- Long-crested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis
- Red-billed Quelea Quelea quelea
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Ruff Calidris pugnax
- White-browed Robin-Chat Cossypha heuglini
- Western House Martin Delichon urbicum
- Tropical Boubou Laniarius major
- Black-throated Canary Crithagra atrogularis
- Streaky-headed Seedeater Crithagra gularis
- Amur Falcon Falco amurensis
- African Crake Crecopsis egregia
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird Chalcomitra senegalensis
- Black Sparrowhawk Astur melanoleucus
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- Pearl-breasted Swallow Hirundo dimidiata
- Holub's Golden Weaver Ploceus xanthops
- Village Indigobird Vidua chalybeata
- Yellow Bishop Euplectes capensis
- Lizard Buzzard Kaupifalco monogrammicus
- African Snipe Gallinago nigripennis
- Southern Pochard Netta erythrophthalma
- Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis
- Speckled Mousebird Colius striatus
- Black-collared Barbet Lybius torquatus
- Ring-necked Dove Streptopelia capicola
- Lesser Striped Swallow Cecropis abyssinica
- African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer
- Banded Martin Neophedina cincta
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris
- Little Bittern Botaurus minutus
- Red-breasted Swallow Cecropis semirufa
- Rufous-naped Lark Corypha africana
- Spur-winged Goose Plectropterus gambensis
- Natal Spurfowl Pternistis natalensis
- Greater Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chalybaeus
- Southern Black Flycatcher Melaenornis pammelaina
- Marabou Stork Leptoptilos crumenifer
- Common Buzzard Buteo buteo
- Jameson's Firefinch Lagonosticta rhodopareia
- Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis
- Little Stint Calidris minuta
- Black-backed Puffback Dryoscopus cubla
- Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus
- Red-winged Starling Onychognathus morio
- Green Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus purpureus
- White-rumped Swift Apus caffer
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- African Pied Wagtail Motacilla aguimp
- Red-headed Weaver Anaplectes rubriceps
- Cape Wagtail Motacilla capensis
- Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
- Western Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus
- Common Hoopoe Upupa epops
- Brown-throated Martin Riparia paludicola
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
- Eastern Miombo Sunbird Cinnyris manoensis
- Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
- Kurrichane Thrush Turdus libonyana
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Lesser Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chloropterus
- Northern Yellow White-eye Zosterops senegalensis
- Black-winged Pratincole Glareola nordmanni
- Black-bellied Bustard Lissotis melanogaster
- Western Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava
- Lesser Masked Weaver Ploceus intermedius
- African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus
- Greater Painted-snipe Rostratula benghalensis
- Whyte's Barbet Stactolaema whytii
- Purple Indigobird Vidua purpurascens
- Kittlitz's Plover Anarhynchus pecuarius
- Cape Longclaw Macronyx capensis
- Marsh Warbler Acrocephalus palustris
- Baillon's Crake Zapornia pusilla
- Fan-tailed Grassbird Catriscus brevirostris
- Montagu's Harrier Circus pygargus
- Lesser Honeyguide Indicator minor
- Lilac-breasted Roller Coracias caudatus
- Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo
- Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus chrysoconus
- African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis
- Red-faced Mousebird Urocolius indicus
- Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus
- Yellow-billed Egret Ardea brachyrhyncha
- Little Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza minulla
- Amethyst Sunbird Chalcomitra amethystina
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Crowned Lapwing Vanellus coronatus
- Pied Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta
- Common Buttonquail Turnix sylvaticus
- Groundscraper Thrush Turdus litsitsirupa
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybrida
- African Darter Anhinga rufa
- Shikra Tachyspiza badia
- African Openbill Anastomus lamelligerus
- Harlequin Quail Coturnix delegorguei
- Red-chested Cuckoo Cuculus solitarius
- Booted Eagle Hieraaetus pennatus
- Southern Fiscal Lanius collaris
- Marico Sunbird Cinnyris mariquensis
- Collared Flycatcher Ficedula albicollis
- African Golden Oriole Oriolus auratus
- African Goshawk Aerospiza tachiro
- Fiery-necked Nightjar Caprimulgus pectoralis
- Black Cuckoo Cuculus clamosus
- Black Saw-wing Psalidoprocne pristoptera
- Hadada Ibis Bostrychia hagedash
- Cinnamon-breasted Bunting Emberiza tahapisi
- Western Barn Owl Tyto alba
- White-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris talatala
- Wattled Starling Creatophora cinerea
- Lesser Jacana Microparra capensis
- Red-capped Lark Calandrella cinerea
- African Pipit Anthus cinnamomeus
- Yellow-billed Stork Mycteria ibis
- Marico Flycatcher Bradornis mariquensis
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- European Roller Coracias garrulus
- Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula
- Fulvous Whistling Duck Dendrocygna bicolor
- Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio
- Bar-throated Apalis Apalis thoracica
- Pallid Harrier Circus macrourus
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Marlborough Vlei Sewage Works?
January. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 96 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Marlborough Vlei Sewage Works?
218 species, from 3,889 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Marlborough Vlei Sewage Works in November?
The most recorded in November: African Palm Swift, Levaillant's Cisticola, Black-headed Heron, Western Cattle Egret and Little Rush Warbler.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.