Bird AlbumZambia · Northern Province
South Luangwa NP
390 species and 21,655 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: August and November–December, with up to 198 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Southern Carmine Bee-eaterMerops nubicoides
Helmeted GuineafowlNumida meleagris
Meves's StarlingLamprotornis mevesii
Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca
Lilac-breasted RollerCoracias caudatus
Blue WaxbillUraeginthus angolensis
White-fronted Bee-eaterMerops bullockoides
Little Bee-eaterMerops pusillus
Yellow-billed StorkMycteria ibis
Ring-necked DoveStreptopelia capicola
Great EgretArdea alba
White-crowned LapwingVanellus albiceps
African JacanaActophilornis africanus
Red-billed OxpeckerBuphagus erythrorynchaSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- South Luangwa NP – Mfuwe Lodge12 km338 species
- Luambe NP67 km270 species
- Mutinondo Wilderness78 km312 species
All 390 species recorded here
- African Sacred Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus
- Meves's Starling Lamprotornis mevesii
- Egyptian Goose Alopochen aegyptiaca
- Lilac-breasted Roller Coracias caudatus
- Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris
- Little Bee-eater Merops pusillus
- White-fronted Bee-eater Merops bullockoides
- Yellow-billed Stork Mycteria ibis
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- White-browed Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser mahali
- White-crowned Lapwing Vanellus albiceps
- Ring-necked Dove Streptopelia capicola
- Hadada Ibis Bostrychia hagedash
- African Jacana Actophilornis africanus
- Emerald-spotted Wood Dove Turtur chalcospilos
- Hamerkop Scopus umbretta
- African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer
- Southern Red-billed Hornbill Tockus rufirostris
- Red-billed Oxpecker Buphagus erythroryncha
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- Saddle-billed Stork Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis
- Blue Waxbill Uraeginthus angolensis
- Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis
- Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis
- Swainson's Spurfowl Pternistis swainsonii
- African Openbill Anastomus lamelligerus
- African Pied Wagtail Motacilla aguimp
- Lilian's Lovebird Agapornis lilianae
- Water Thick-knee Burhinus vermiculatus
- Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
- Spur-winged Goose Plectropterus gambensis
- Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala
- Blacksmith Lapwing Vanellus armatus
- African Spoonbill Platalea alba
- Tropical Boubou Laniarius major
- White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus
- Bateleur Terathopius ecaudatus
- Southern Ground Hornbill Bucorvus leadbeateri
- African Grey Hornbill Lophoceros nasutus
- Red-billed Quelea Quelea quelea
- Brown-hooded Kingfisher Halcyon albiventris
- Wire-tailed Swallow Hirundo smithii
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Grey Go-away-bird Crinifer concolor
- Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala
- Southern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer diffusus
- Grey Crowned Crane Balearica regulorum
- Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
- Yellow-billed Oxpecker Buphagus africanus
- Greater Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chalybaeus
- Red-billed Buffalo Weaver Bubalornis niger
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus
- Southern Carmine Bee-eater Merops nubicoides
- Red-necked Spurfowl Pternistis afer
- Black-backed Puffback Dryoscopus cubla
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- Marabou Stork Leptoptilos crumenifer
- African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus
- Crowned Lapwing Vanellus coronatus
- Woodland Kingfisher Halcyon senegalensis
- Green Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus purpureus
- Lesser Striped Swallow Cecropis abyssinica
- Three-banded Plover Thinornis tricollaris
- Crowned Hornbill Lophoceros alboterminatus
- Western Banded Snake Eagle Circaetus cinerascens
- White-browed Robin-Chat Cossypha heuglini
- African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus
- Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura
- Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
- White-faced Whistling Duck Dendrocygna viduata
- Red-faced Mousebird Urocolius indicus
- Yellow-bellied Greenbul Chlorocichla flaviventris
- Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Arrow-marked Babbler Turdoides jardineii
- African Skimmer Rynchops flavirostris
- Brown-throated Martin Riparia paludicola
- Little Swift Apus affinis
- Yellow-fronted Canary Crithagra mozambica
- Meyer's Parrot Poicephalus meyeri
- Goliath Heron Ardea goliath
- Common Hoopoe Upupa epops
- Green-winged Pytilia Pytilia melba
- Brown Snake Eagle Circaetus cinereus
- Purple-crested Turaco Gallirex porphyreolophus
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Village Indigobird Vidua chalybeata
- Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus
- Martial Eagle Polemaetus bellicosus
- African Wattled Lapwing Vanellus senegallus
- Knob-billed Duck Sarkidiornis melanotos
- Square-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus fossii
- Giant Kingfisher Megaceryle maxima
- Rattling Cisticola Cisticola chiniana
- White-headed Vulture Trigonoceps occipitalis
- Lizard Buzzard Kaupifalco monogrammicus
- Orange-breasted Bushshrike Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus
- Tawny Eagle Aquila rapax
- Verreaux's Eagle-Owl Ketupa lactea
- Brown-crowned Tchagra Tchagra australis
- Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides
- Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
- African Green Pigeon Treron calvus
- Long-tailed Paradise Whydah Vidua paradisaea
- Red-chested Cuckoo Cuculus solitarius
- Namaqua Dove Oena capensis
- Grey-headed Kingfisher Halcyon leucocephala
- Retz's Helmetshrike Prionops retzii
- African Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia microscelis
- Lappet-faced Vulture Torgos tracheliotos
- Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio
- Collared Sunbird Hedydipna collaris
- Greater Honeyguide Indicator indicator
- White-browed Coucal Centropus superciliosus
- Three-banded Courser Rhinoptilus cinctus
- Trumpeter Hornbill Bycanistes bucinator
- Terrestrial Brownbul Phyllastrephus terrestris
- Black-crowned Tchagra Tchagra senegalus
- Southern Masked Weaver Ploceus velatus
- Yellow-breasted Apalis Apalis flavida
- White-fronted Plover Anarhynchus marginatus
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Cardinal Woodpecker Dendropicos fuscescens
- African Hawk-Eagle Aquila spilogaster
- Northern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer griseus
- Bearded Woodpecker Chloropicus namaquus
- Swallow-tailed Bee-eater Merops hirundineus
- African Goshawk Aerospiza tachiro
- Horus Swift Apus horus
- Senegal Coucal Centropus senegalensis
- African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis
- Ashy Flycatcher Fraseria caerulescens
- Shikra Tachyspiza badia
- Lesser Masked Weaver Ploceus intermedius
- White-rumped Swift Apus caffer
- Bennett's Woodpecker Campethera bennettii
- White-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris talatala
- Southern Red Bishop Euplectes orix
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- Spectacled Weaver Ploceus ocularis
- White-crested Helmetshrike Prionops plumatus
- Wattled Starling Creatophora cinerea
- Grey-headed Bushshrike Malaconotus blanchoti
- Eastern Nicator Nicator gularis
- Collared Palm Thrush Cichladusa arquata
- Pel's Fishing Owl Scotopelia peli
- Wahlberg's Eagle Hieraaetus wahlbergi
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird Chalcomitra senegalensis
- Broad-billed Roller Eurystomus glaucurus
- Jameson's Firefinch Lagonosticta rhodopareia
- Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura
- Red-necked Falcon Falco chicquera
- Long-billed Crombec Sylvietta rufescens
- Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis
- Common Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus cyanomelas
- African Scops Owl Otus senegalensis
- Dwarf Bittern Botaurus sturmii
- Chinspot Batis Batis molitor
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- Collared Pratincole Glareola pratincola
- Ruff Calidris pugnax
- Pied Crow Corvus albus
- Violet-backed Starling Cinnyricinclus leucogaster
- Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix leucotis
- Southern Black Flycatcher Melaenornis pammelaina
- Black-collared Barbet Lybius torquatus
- Holub's Golden Weaver Ploceus xanthops
- Black Crake Zapornia flavirostra
- African Emerald Cuckoo Chrysococcyx cupreus
- White-winged Widowbird Euplectes albonotatus
- Little Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza minulla
- Jacobin Cuckoo Clamator jacobinus
- Fiery-necked Nightjar Caprimulgus pectoralis
- Diederik Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius
- Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
- Kittlitz's Plover Anarhynchus pecuarius
- Pearl-spotted Owlet Glaucidium perlatum
- Double-banded Sandgrouse Pterocles bicinctus
- Black Cuckoo Cuculus clamosus
- Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata
- Abdim's Stork Ciconia abdimii
- African Darter Anhinga rufa
- Brown-necked Parrot Poicephalus fuscicollis
- Crowned Eagle Stephanoaetus coronatus
- Mourning Collared Dove Streptopelia decipiens
- Gabar Goshawk Micronisus gabar
- Greater Painted-snipe Rostratula benghalensis
- Yellow-billed Egret Ardea brachyrhyncha
- Crested Barbet Trachyphonus vaillantii
- African Wood Owl Strix woodfordii
- Natal Spurfowl Pternistis natalensis
- Lesser Honeyguide Indicator minor
- European Bee-eater Merops apiaster
- Golden-tailed Woodpecker Campethera abingoni
- Black-headed Oriole Oriolus larvatus
- Black Cuckooshrike Campephaga flava
- Bat Hawk Macheiramphus alcinus
- Red-faced Cisticola Cisticola erythrops
- African Cuckoo Cuculus gularis
- Brubru Nilaus afer
- Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo
- Common Swift Apus apus
- Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula
- Red-throated Twinspot Hypargos niveoguttatus
- Allen's Gallinule Porphyrio alleni
- Black-chested Snake Eagle Circaetus pectoralis
- Cut-throat Finch Amadina fasciata
- Levaillant's Cuckoo Clamator levaillantii
- Broad-tailed Paradise Whydah Vidua obtusa
- Bronze-winged Courser Rhinoptilus chalcopterus
- Spotted Thick-knee Burhinus capensis
- Thrush Nightingale Luscinia luscinia
- Racket-tailed Roller Coracias spatulatus
- African Pipit Anthus cinnamomeus
- Black-winged Red Bishop Euplectes hordeaceus
- Cinnamon-breasted Bunting Emberiza tahapisi
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Yellow-throated Bush Sparrow Gymnoris superciliaris
- Banded Martin Neophedina cincta
- Little Stint Calidris minuta
- Striped Kingfisher Halcyon chelicuti
- Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
- Black Heron Egretta ardesiaca
- Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild
- Reed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus
- Variable Sunbird Cinnyris venustus
- Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus
- African Barred Owlet Glaucidium capense
- Grey Tit-Flycatcher Fraseria plumbea
- Long-crested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis
- Böhm's Spinetail Neafrapus boehmi
- Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Moustached Grass Warbler Melocichla mentalis
- Dickinson's Kestrel Falco dickinsoni
- Bronze Mannikin Spermestes cucullata
- Mosque Swallow Cecropis senegalensis
- African Golden Oriole Oriolus auratus
- Spotted Eagle-Owl Bubo africanus
- Lesser Grey Shrike Lanius minor
- Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis
- Ovambo Sparrowhawk Accipiter ovampensis
- Kurrichane Thrush Turdus libonyana
- Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus
- Southern Black Tit Melaniparus niger
- Pennant-winged Nightjar Caprimulgus vexillarius
- Western House Martin Delichon urbicum
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Purple Indigobird Vidua purpurascens
- Red-headed Weaver Anaplectes rubriceps
- Lesser Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chloropterus
- Northern Yellow White-eye Zosterops senegalensis
- Black-throated Wattle-eye Platysteira peltata
- Amethyst Sunbird Chalcomitra amethystina
- Lesser Moorhen Paragallinula angulata
- Red-billed Teal Anas erythrorhyncha
- Common Buzzard Buteo buteo
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- African Crake Crecopsis egregia
- Pale-billed Hornbill Lophoceros pallidirostris
- Fulvous Whistling Duck Dendrocygna bicolor
- Klaas's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas
- Temminck's Courser Cursorius temminckii
- Dusky Lark Pinarocorys nigricans
- African Firefinch Lagonosticta rubricata
- Purple Heron Ardea purpurea
- Red-capped Robin-Chat Cossypha natalensis
- African Broadbill Smithornis capensis
- Eurasian Golden Oriole Oriolus oriolus
- Schalow's Turaco Tauraco schalowi
- Red-collared Widowbird Euplectes ardens
- Yellow Bishop Euplectes capensis
- Green-capped Eremomela Eremomela scotops
- Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
- Orange-winged Pytilia Pytilia afra
- Blue-spotted Wood Dove Turtur afer
- Harlequin Quail Coturnix delegorguei
- Dark Chanting Goshawk Melierax metabates
- African Dusky Flycatcher Muscicapa adusta
- African Cuckoo-Hawk Aviceda cuculoides
- African Swamphen Porphyrio madagascariensis
- White-winged Tern Chlidonias leucopterus
- Amur Falcon Falco amurensis
- African Pitta Pitta angolensis
- European Roller Coracias garrulus
- Arnot's Chat Myrmecocichla arnotti
- African Pygmy Kingfisher Ispidina picta
- Black Saw-wing Psalidoprocne pristoptera
- Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser rufoscapulatus
- Alpine Swift Tachymarptis melba
- White-backed Night Heron Calherodius leuconotus
- Souza's Shrike Lanius souzae
- Böhm's Bee-eater Merops boehmi
- Southern White-faced Owl Ptilopsis granti
- Orange-breasted Waxbill Amandava subflava
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Black-bellied Bustard Lissotis melanogaster
- African Pygmy Goose Nettapus auritus
- Capped Wheatear Oenanthe pileata
- Western Barn Owl Tyto alba
- Red-capped Lark Calandrella cinerea
- Red-throated Rock Martin Ptyonoprogne rufigula
- Brimstone Canary Crithagra sulphurata
- Grey-rumped Swallow Pseudhirundo griseopyga
- White-throated Swallow Hirundo albigularis
- Pink-backed Pelican Pelecanus rufescens
- Lesser Jacana Microparra capensis
- Great Spotted Cuckoo Clamator glandarius
- Lesser Kestrel Falco naumanni
- Zambezi Indigobird Vidua codringtoni
- Olive Woodpecker Dendropicos griseocephalus
- Southern Hyliota Hyliota australis
- Stierling's Wren-Warbler Calamonastes stierlingi
- Golden-breasted Bunting Emberiza flaviventris
- European Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus
- Black Sparrowhawk Astur melanoleucus
- Flappet Lark Amirafra rufocinnamomea
- Montagu's Harrier Circus pygargus
- African Marsh Harrier Circus ranivorus
- Lemon Dove Aplopelia larvata
- Dusky Indigobird Vidua funerea
- Cape Wagtail Motacilla capensis
- Freckled Nightjar Caprimulgus tristigma
- African Grass Owl Tyto capensis
- Shelley's Sunbird Cinnyris shelleyi
- Ayres's Hawk-Eagle Hieraaetus ayresii
- Narina Trogon Apaloderma narina
- Fawn-breasted Waxbill Estrilda paludicola
- White-backed Duck Thalassornis leuconotus
- Hartlaub's Babbler Turdoides hartlaubii
- Tambourine Dove Turtur tympanistria
- Grey-headed Gull Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus
- Eastern Miombo Sunbird Cinnyris manoensis
- Yellow-bellied Eremomela Eremomela icteropygialis
- Long-toed Lapwing Vanellus crassirostris
- Rufous-bellied Heron Ardeola rufiventris
- Red-breasted Swallow Cecropis semirufa
- Blue-billed Teal Spatula hottentota
- Coppery-tailed Coucal Centropus cupreicaudus
- Cuckoo-finch Anomalospiza imberbis
- Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus chrysoconus
- Lesser Spotted Eagle Clanga pomarina
- African Snipe Gallinago nigripennis
- Marsh Warbler Acrocephalus palustris
- Icterine Warbler Hippolais icterina
- Half-collared Kingfisher Alcedo semitorquata
- Bushveld Pipit Anthus caffer
- Yellow-mantled Widowbird Euplectes macroura
- Black-and-white Mannikin Spermestes bicolor
- Pallid Harrier Circus macrourus
- Singing Cisticola Cisticola cantans
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Merops persicus
- Marsh Tchagra Bocagia minuta
- Plain-backed Pipit Anthus leucophrys
- Wattled Crane Grus carunculata
- Hildebrandt's Spurfowl Pternistis hildebrandti
- Yellow-crowned Canary Serinus flavivertex
- Sharp-tailed Starling Lamprotornis acuticaudus
- Purple-banded Sunbird Cinnyris bifasciatus
- Angola Swallow Hirundo angolensis
- Grey-olive Greenbul Phyllastrephus cerviniventris
- Brown Firefinch Lagonosticta nitidula
- Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
- Black-faced Canary Crithagra capistrata
- Square-tailed Drongo Dicrurus ludwigii
- Fan-tailed Widowbird Euplectes axillaris
- Common Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus
- Miombo Scrub Robin Tychaedon barbata
- Bearded Scrub Robin Tychaedon quadrivirgata
- Olive Bee-eater Merops superciliosus
- African Black Duck Anas sparsa
- Bar-throated Apalis Apalis thoracica
- African Black Swift Apus barbatus
- Augur Buzzard Buteo augur
- Caspian Plover Anarhynchus asiaticus
- White-breasted Cuckooshrike Ceblepyris pectoralis
- Pearl-breasted Swallow Hirundo dimidiata
- Scaly-throated Honeyguide Indicator variegatus
- Splendid Starling Lamprotornis splendidus
- Northern Carmine Bee-eater Merops nubicus
- Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybrida
- Great Snipe Gallinago media
- Coqui Francolin Campocolinus coqui
- Verreaux's Eagle Aquila verreauxii
- Groundscraper Thrush Turdus litsitsirupa
- Red-capped Crombec Sylvietta ruficapilla
- Red-knobbed Coot Fulica cristata
- White-necked Raven Corvus albicollis
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at South Luangwa NP?
August and November–December. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 198 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at South Luangwa NP?
390 species, from 21,655 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at South Luangwa NP in November?
The most recorded in November: Southern Carmine Bee-eater, Helmeted Guineafowl, Meves's Starling, Egyptian Goose and Lilac-breasted Roller.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.