Botswana · North-West District
Maun – Thamalakane River
320 species and 6,374 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: September, with up to 126 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Laughing DoveSpilopelia senegalensis
Blacksmith LapwingVanellus armatus
White-faced Whistling DuckDendrocygna viduata
African OpenbillAnastomus lamelligerus
Squacco HeronArdeola ralloides
Red-eyed DoveStreptopelia semitorquata
Fork-tailed DrongoDicrurus adsimilis
Grey HeronArdea cinerea
Ring-necked DoveStreptopelia capicola
African JacanaActophilornis africanus
Common HoopoeUpupa epops
Common BulbulPycnonotus barbatus
Woodland KingfisherHalcyon senegalensis
Spur-winged GoosePlectropterus gambensis41 species seen regularly here in November · showing the 14 most recorded. All 320 species recorded here ↓
Species seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Okavango Delta – Chitabe/Chitabe Lediba Camp52 km292 species
- Okavango Delta – Kanana Camp74 km278 species
All 320 species recorded here
- Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
- Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis
- Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis
- Blacksmith Lapwing Vanellus armatus
- Meves's Starling Lamprotornis mevesii
- Ring-necked Dove Streptopelia capicola
- African Jacana Actophilornis africanus
- Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis
- African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- Magpie Shrike Urolestes melanoleucus
- White-faced Whistling Duck Dendrocygna viduata
- Common Hoopoe Upupa epops
- Mourning Collared Dove Streptopelia decipiens
- Swamp Boubou Laniarius bicolor
- Hartlaub's Babbler Turdoides hartlaubii
- Red-billed Buffalo Weaver Bubalornis niger
- African Openbill Anastomus lamelligerus
- Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
- African Grey Hornbill Lophoceros nasutus
- Arrow-marked Babbler Turdoides jardineii
- Southern Red-billed Hornbill Tockus rufirostris
- Holub's Golden Weaver Ploceus xanthops
- Grey Go-away-bird Crinifer concolor
- Burchell's Starling Lamprotornis australis
- Lilac-breasted Roller Coracias caudatus
- African Red-eyed Bulbul Pycnonotus nigricans
- Hamerkop Scopus umbretta
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Black-collared Barbet Lybius torquatus
- Blue Waxbill Uraeginthus angolensis
- Common Myna Acridotheres tristis
- White-browed Robin-Chat Cossypha heuglini
- Reed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus
- Kurrichane Thrush Turdus libonyana
- Pied Crow Corvus albus
- Purple Heron Ardea purpurea
- Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides
- Red-billed Spurfowl Pternistis adspersus
- Black Crake Zapornia flavirostra
- African Pygmy Goose Nettapus auritus
- Marabou Stork Leptoptilos crumenifer
- Crested Barbet Trachyphonus vaillantii
- African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer
- Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura
- Black-backed Puffback Dryoscopus cubla
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- Senegal Coucal Centropus senegalensis
- Hadada Ibis Bostrychia hagedash
- Little Bee-eater Merops pusillus
- Groundscraper Thrush Turdus litsitsirupa
- Green Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus purpureus
- African Darter Anhinga rufa
- African Green Pigeon Treron calvus
- African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis
- Red-faced Mousebird Urocolius indicus
- Lesser Striped Swallow Cecropis abyssinica
- Southern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer diffusus
- African Sacred Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus
- Red-billed Quelea Quelea quelea
- Red-billed Oxpecker Buphagus erythroryncha
- Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- Emerald-spotted Wood Dove Turtur chalcospilos
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala
- Southern Masked Weaver Ploceus velatus
- Rattling Cisticola Cisticola chiniana
- Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill Tockus leucomelas
- Cape Starling Lamprotornis nitens
- Woodland Kingfisher Halcyon senegalensis
- Spur-winged Goose Plectropterus gambensis
- Coppery-tailed Coucal Centropus cupreicaudus
- Namaqua Dove Oena capensis
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Black-headed Oriole Oriolus larvatus
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Egyptian Goose Alopochen aegyptiaca
- Wattled Starling Creatophora cinerea
- Lesser Jacana Microparra capensis
- White-browed Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser mahali
- Meyer's Parrot Poicephalus meyeri
- Black-throated Canary Crithagra atrogularis
- Water Thick-knee Burhinus vermiculatus
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- Goliath Heron Ardea goliath
- Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
- Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava
- Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus
- Red-billed Teal Anas erythrorhyncha
- White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus
- Yellow-billed Egret Ardea brachyrhyncha
- Crimson-breasted Shrike Laniarius atrococcineus
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Red-headed Weaver Anaplectes rubriceps
- Orange-breasted Bushshrike Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Southern Pied Babbler Turdoides bicolor
- Pearl-spotted Owlet Glaucidium perlatum
- Terrestrial Brownbul Phyllastrephus terrestris
- Marico Sunbird Cinnyris mariquensis
- White-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris talatala
- Long-billed Crombec Sylvietta rufescens
- Common Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus cyanomelas
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
- Crowned Lapwing Vanellus coronatus
- Green-winged Pytilia Pytilia melba
- Southern Carmine Bee-eater Merops nubicoides
- White-backed Duck Thalassornis leuconotus
- Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis
- African Pipit Anthus cinnamomeus
- Greater Painted-snipe Rostratula benghalensis
- Knob-billed Duck Sarkidiornis melanotos
- Golden-tailed Woodpecker Campethera abingoni
- Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea
- Southern White-crowned Shrike Eurocephalus anguitimens
- Yellow-bellied Greenbul Chlorocichla flaviventris
- Giant Kingfisher Megaceryle maxima
- Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio
- Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
- Bearded Woodpecker Chloropicus namaquus
- Long-tailed Paradise Whydah Vidua paradisaea
- Black-chested Snake Eagle Circaetus pectoralis
- Marico Flycatcher Bradornis mariquensis
- Wahlberg's Eagle Hieraaetus wahlbergi
- Black Cuckoo Cuculus clamosus
- Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris
- Rufous-bellied Heron Ardeola rufiventris
- Crested Francolin Ortygornis sephaena
- Verreaux's Eagle-Owl Ketupa lactea
- Brown-throated Martin Riparia paludicola
- African Barred Owlet Glaucidium capense
- African Scops Owl Otus senegalensis
- Yellow-billed Stork Mycteria ibis
- Levaillant's Cuckoo Clamator levaillantii
- Jameson's Firefinch Lagonosticta rhodopareia
- Swallow-tailed Bee-eater Merops hirundineus
- Little Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza minulla
- Slaty Egret Egretta vinaceigula
- Red-necked Falcon Falco chicquera
- Greater Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chalybaeus
- Tropical Boubou Laniarius major
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Diederik Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius
- Black Heron Egretta ardesiaca
- Wire-tailed Swallow Hirundo smithii
- Black-faced Waxbill Brunhilda erythronotos
- Spectacled Weaver Ploceus ocularis
- Abdim's Stork Ciconia abdimii
- Luapula Cisticola Cisticola luapula
- Ashy Flycatcher Fraseria caerulescens
- Saddle-billed Stork Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis
- Double-banded Sandgrouse Pterocles bicinctus
- Dickinson's Kestrel Falco dickinsoni
- European Bee-eater Merops apiaster
- African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus
- Allen's Gallinule Porphyrio alleni
- Brown-crowned Tchagra Tchagra australis
- Purple Roller Coracias naevius
- Tawny Eagle Aquila rapax
- Fiery-necked Nightjar Caprimulgus pectoralis
- Jacobin Cuckoo Clamator jacobinus
- Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata
- Common Ostrich Struthio camelus
- Southern Black Flycatcher Melaenornis pammelaina
- Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
- Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild
- Broad-billed Roller Eurystomus glaucurus
- Southern Red Bishop Euplectes orix
- Southern Brown-throated Weaver Ploceus xanthopterus
- Village Indigobird Vidua chalybeata
- Black-chested Prinia Prinia flavicans
- Bateleur Terathopius ecaudatus
- Banded Martin Neophedina cincta
- Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
- Long-toed Lapwing Vanellus crassirostris
- Southern Ground Hornbill Bucorvus leadbeateri
- Southern Fiscal Lanius collaris
- White-crested Helmetshrike Prionops plumatus
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybrida
- Brubru Nilaus afer
- Lesser Moorhen Paragallinula angulata
- Southern Pochard Netta erythrophthalma
- Collared Pratincole Glareola pratincola
- Acacia Pied Barbet Tricholaema leucomelas
- Yellow-bellied Eremomela Eremomela icteropygialis
- Bradfield's Hornbill Lophoceros bradfieldi
- Ruff Calidris pugnax
- Yellow-breasted Apalis Apalis flavida
- Violet-backed Starling Cinnyricinclus leucogaster
- Cardinal Woodpecker Dendropicos fuscescens
- Golden-breasted Bunting Emberiza flaviventris
- Buffy Pipit Anthus vaalensis
- African Wood Owl Strix woodfordii
- Fulvous Whistling Duck Dendrocygna bicolor
- Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus
- African Spoonbill Platalea alba
- Swainson's Spurfowl Pternistis swainsonii
- Scaly-feathered Weaver Sporopipes squamifrons
- Dwarf Bittern Botaurus sturmii
- African Hawk-Eagle Aquila spilogaster
- Southern Black Tit Melaniparus niger
- Gabar Goshawk Micronisus gabar
- Yellow-billed Oxpecker Buphagus africanus
- Grey-headed Kingfisher Halcyon leucocephala
- African Golden Oriole Oriolus auratus
- Blue-billed Teal Spatula hottentota
- Common Swift Apus apus
- Swamp Nightjar Caprimulgus natalensis
- Lesser Honeyguide Indicator minor
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird Chalcomitra senegalensis
- Red-knobbed Coot Fulica cristata
- Black-crowned Tchagra Tchagra senegalus
- Yellow Canary Crithagra flaviventris
- Western Barn Owl Tyto alba
- White-winged Tern Chlidonias leucopterus
- European Roller Coracias garrulus
- Sedge Warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus
- Little Swift Apus affinis
- Common Buzzard Buteo buteo
- Three-banded Plover Thinornis tricollaris
- Retz's Helmetshrike Prionops retzii
- Greater Kestrel Falco rupicoloides
- Red-crested Korhaan Lophotis ruficrista
- Chinspot Batis Batis molitor
- Grey-headed Gull Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus
- Violet-eared Waxbill Granatina granatina
- Rock Kestrel Falco rupicolus
- Western House Martin Delichon urbicum
- Bat Hawk Macheiramphus alcinus
- Grey-rumped Swallow Pseudhirundo griseopyga
- African Marsh Harrier Circus ranivorus
- Yellow-throated Bush Sparrow Gymnoris superciliaris
- Amethyst Sunbird Chalcomitra amethystina
- Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
- South African Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon spilodera
- Lesser Masked Weaver Ploceus intermedius
- Pink-backed Pelican Pelecanus rufescens
- Cut-throat Finch Amadina fasciata
- Lizard Buzzard Kaupifalco monogrammicus
- White-fronted Bee-eater Merops bullockoides
- African Swamphen Porphyrio madagascariensis
- Little Bittern Botaurus minutus
- Northern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer griseus
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- Martial Eagle Polemaetus bellicosus
- Great Reed Warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus
- Thick-billed Weaver Amblyospiza albifrons
- Brown Snake Eagle Circaetus cinereus
- Secretarybird Sagittarius serpentarius
- Pririt Batis Batis pririt
- Cape Crow Corvus capensis
- African Cuckoo Cuculus gularis
- Chestnut-vented Warbler Curruca subcoerulea
- Spotted Thick-knee Burhinus capensis
- Lappet-faced Vulture Torgos tracheliotos
- Brown Firefinch Lagonosticta nitidula
- White-headed Vulture Trigonoceps occipitalis
- Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura
- Shikra Tachyspiza badia
- Spotted Eagle-Owl Bubo africanus
- Black-necked Grebe Podiceps nigricollis
- Capped Wheatear Oenanthe pileata
- Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix leucotis
- White-throated Swallow Hirundo albigularis
- Red-breasted Swallow Cecropis semirufa
- Chirping Cisticola Cisticola pipiens
- African Snipe Gallinago nigripennis
- Collared Flycatcher Ficedula albicollis
- Yellow-billed Duck Anas undulata
- Barred Wren-Warbler Calamonastes fasciolatus
- Southern White-faced Owl Ptilopsis granti
- Common Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Merops persicus
- African Pied Wagtail Motacilla aguimp
- African Crake Crecopsis egregia
- Fan-tailed Widowbird Euplectes axillaris
- African Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia microscelis
- Lesser Kestrel Falco naumanni
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Black-winged Pratincole Glareola nordmanni
- Icterine Warbler Hippolais icterina
- Orange-winged Pytilia Pytilia afra
- Shaft-tailed Whydah Vidua regia
- Northern Black Korhaan Afrotis afraoides
- Quailfinch Ortygospiza atricollis
- Red-chested Flufftail Sarothrura rufa
- Stierling's Wren-Warbler Calamonastes stierlingi
- Black Coucal Centropus grillii
- Burnt-necked Eremomela Eremomela usticollis
- Pearl-breasted Swallow Hirundo dimidiata
- Grey-headed Bushshrike Malaconotus blanchoti
- Bronze-winged Courser Rhinoptilus chalcopterus
- Greater Striped Swallow Cecropis cucullata
- White-winged Widowbird Euplectes albonotatus
- African Rail Rallus caerulescens
- Double-banded Courser Smutsornis africanus
- African Wattled Lapwing Vanellus senegallus
- Rufous-naped Lark Corypha africana
- Booted Eagle Hieraaetus pennatus
- Fiscal Flycatcher Sigelus silens
- Collared Sunbird Hedydipna collaris
- Greater Honeyguide Indicator indicator
- Garden Warbler Sylvia borin
- Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus
- Cape Penduline Tit Anthoscopus minutus
- Kittlitz's Plover Anarhynchus pecuarius
- Orange River Francolin Scleroptila gutturalis
- Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala
- Kori Bustard Ardeotis kori
- African Hobby Falco cuvierii
- Namaqua Sandgrouse Pterocles namaqua
- Grey Penduline Tit Anthoscopus caroli
- Horus Swift Apus horus
- Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus
- Bennett's Woodpecker Campethera bennettii
- Lesser Grey Shrike Lanius minor
- African Stonechat Saxicola torquatus
- Black Sparrowhawk Astur melanoleucus
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Maun – Thamalakane River?
September. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 126 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Maun – Thamalakane River?
320 species, from 6,374 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Maun – Thamalakane River in November?
The most recorded in November: Laughing Dove, Blacksmith Lapwing, White-faced Whistling Duck, African Openbill and Squacco Heron.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.