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SOUTH LUANGWA NATIONAL PARK, ZAMBIA
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Bird Population

Here we have listed all of the bird species that can be found in the South Luangwa National Park. Use the alphabet links to navigate your way around.

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Apalis Yellow-breasted Apalis	Avocet Avocet
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Babbler Arrow-marked Babbler Batis Chinspot Batis Bittern Dwarf Bittern Little Bittern Broadbill African Broadbill ButtonQuail Kurrichane Buttonquail Bustard Black-bellied Bustard Denham’s Bustard	Barbet & Tinkerbird Black-backed Barbet Black-collared Barbet Crested Barbet Whyte’s Barbet Golden-rumped Tinkerbird Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird Bishop Black Winged Red Bishop Red Bishop Yellow Bishop Bunting Cabanis’s Bunting Cinnamon-breasted Rock Bunting Golden-breasted Bunting	Bee-Eater Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Southern Carmine Bee-eater European Bee-eater Little Bee-eater Madagascar Bee-eater Northern Carmine Bee-eater Swallow Tailed Bee-eater White Fronted Bee-eater Boubou, Brubru & Bush Shrike Tropical Boubou BruBru Grey-headed Bush Shrike Orange-breasted Bush Shrike Buzzard Augur Buzzard Common Buzzard Honey Buzzard

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Canary Bully Canary Yellow-fronted Canary Chat Arnot’s Chat Familiar Chat Cisticola Fan-tailed Cisticola Rattling Cisticola Red Faced Cisticola Rock-loving Cisticola Short-winged Cisticola Trilling Cisticola Coot & Crake African Crake Black Crake Corn Crake Striped Crake Red-knobbed Coot	Cormorant Reed Comorant White-breasted Comorant Coucal African Black Coucal Burchell’s Coucal Senegal Coucal Courser Bronze-winged Courser Temmink’s Courser Three-banded Courser Crane Southern Crowned Crane Wattled Crane Creeper Spotted Creeper Crombec Long-billed Crombec Red-capped Crombec	Crow Pied Crow Cuckoo African Grey Cuckoo Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo Black Cuckoo Didric Cuckoo Emerald Cuckoo European Grey Cuckoo Great Spotted Cuckoo Jacobin Cuckoo Klaas’s Cuckoo Red Chested Cuckoo Striped Crested Cuckoo Thick-billed Cuckoo Cuckoo-Shrike Black-Cuckoo-shrike White-breasted Cuckoo-shrike Curlew Curlew
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Dove & Pigeon African Mounring Dove Cape Turtle Dove Emerald-spotted Wood Dove Laughing Dove Namaqua Dove Red-eyed Dove Tambourine Dove Green Pigeon	Darter Darter Dikkop Spotted Dikkop Water Dikkop Drongo Fork Tailed Drongo	Duck & Geese Fulvous Whistling Duck White-backed Duck White-faced Whistling Duck African Pygmy Goose Egyptian Goose Spur-winged Goose Garganey
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Egret Black Egret Cattle Egret Great White Egret Little Egret Yellow-billed Egret Eromomela Green-capped Eremomela Burnt-necked Eremomela Yellow-bellied Eremomela	Eagle African Fish Eagle African Hawk Eagle Ayres’s Hawk Eagle Bateleur Eagle Black-breasted Snake Eagle Booted Eagle Brown Snake Eagle Crowned Eagle	Greater Spotted Eagle Lesser Spotted Eagle Long-crested Eagle Martial Eagle Steppe Eagle Tawny Eagle Whalberg’s Eagle Western Banded Snake Eagle
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Falcon & Kestrel Eastern red-footed Falcon Lanner Falcon Peregine Falcon Red-necked Falcon Dickinson’s Kestrel Lesser Kestrel Finch Cut-throat Finch Melba Finch Blue-billed Firefinch Jameson’s Firefinch Red-billed Firefinch	Finfoot African Finfoot Flamingo Greater Flamingo Lesser Flamingo Flufftail Red-chested Flufftail Lesser Gallinule Purple Gallinule	Flycatcher Ashy Flycatcher Dusky Flycatcher Lead-coloured Flycatcher Pallid Flycatcher Southern Black Flycatcher Spotted Flycatcher Livingstone’s Flycatcher Paradise Flycatcher White-Tailed Blue Flycatcher Francolin Natal Francolin Red-necked Francolin Shelley’s Francolin Swainsons Francolin
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Goshawk, Gymogene, Harrier and Hawk African Goshawk Black Goshawk Dark Chanting Goshawk Gabar Goshawk Gymnogene African Marsh Harrier European March Harrier Montagu’s Harrier Pallid Harrier African Cuckoo Hawk Bat Hawk	Godwit & Greenshank Black-tailed Godwit Greenshank Grebe Little Grebe Greenbul Cabanis’s Greenbul Little Greenbul Yellow-bellied Greenbul	Guineafowl Crested Guineafowl Helmeted Guineafowl Gull Grey-headed Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull
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Helmet Shrike Retz’s Red-billed Helmet Shrike White Helmet Shrike Heron Black-crowned Night Heron Common Squacco Heron Black-headed Heron Goliath Heron Green-backed Heron Grey Heron Madagascar Squacco Heron Purple Heron Rufous-bellied Heron Whie-backed Night Heron	Hammerkop Hammerkop Hobby European Hobby Honeyguide Brown-backed Honeyguide Eastern Least Honeyguide Greater Honeyguide Green-backed Honeyguide Lesser Honeyguide Scaly-throated (fronted) Honeyguide	Hoopoe Hoopoe Red-billed Wood Hoopoe Hornbill African Grey Hornbill Crowned Hornbill Pale-billed Hornbill Red-billed Hornbill Southern Ground Hornbill Trumpeter Hornbill Hyliota Southern Hyliota Yellow-bellied Hyliota
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Ibis Glossy Ibis Hadada Ibis Sacred Ibis	Indigobird Dusky Indigobird Green Indigobird Village Indigobird	Jacana African Jacana Lesser Jacana
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Kingfisher Brown-headed Kingfisher Chestnut-bellied Kingfisher Giant Kingfisher Half-collared Kingfisher Malachite Kingfisher	Pied Kingfisher Pygmy Kingfisher Senegal Kingfisher Striped Kingfisher White-bellied Kingfisher	Kite Black Shouldered Kite Black/Yellow-billed Kite
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Lark Dusky Lark Flappet lark Chestnut-backed – Sparrow-Lark Red capped Lark	Longclaw Yellow-throated Longclaw Lourie Grey Lourie	Lovebird Lilian's Lovebird
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Martin African Rock Martin African Sand Martin Banded Martin European Sand Martin House Martin	Mannikin Bronze Mannikin Mousebird Red Faced Mousebird	Moorhen Common Moorhen Lesser Moorhen
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Nightjar Fiery-necked Nightjar Freckled Rock Nightjar Gaboon Nightjar Pennant-winged Nightjar	Neddicky Neddicky Nicator White-throated Nicator
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Owl African Scops Owl Giant Eagle Owl Marsh Owl Pel’s Fishing Owl Spotted Eagle Owl White faced Owl Barn Owl Grass Owl Wood Owl	Oriole African Golden Oriole Eastern Black-headed Oriole European Golden Oriole Osprey Osprey	Owlet Barred Owlet Pearl-spotted Owlet Oxpecker Red-billed Oxpecker Yellow-billed Oxpecker
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Parrot Brown-necked Parrot Meyer's Parrot Pelican Pink-backed Pelican White Pelican Petronia Yellow-throated Petonia Pipit Buffy Pipit Long Billed Pipit Richard’s Pipit Striped Pipit	Pitta African Pitta Plover Blacksmith Plover Caspian Plover Crowned Plover Greater Sand Plover Grey Plover Kittlitz’s Plover Lesser Black Winged Plover Long-toed Plover Ringed Plover Senegal Wattled Plover Three-banded Plover White-crowned Plover White fronted Sand Plover	Pochard Southern Pochard Pratincole Common Pratincole Rock Pratincole Prinia Tawny-flanked Prinia Puffback Southern Puffback Pytilia Orange-winged Pytilia
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Quail Blue Quail Harlequin Quail	Quelea Cardinal Quelea Red-billed Quelea
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Rail African Water Rail Raven White-necked Raven Redshank Common Redshank	Robin Bocage’s Robin Eastern Bearded Scrub Robin Heuglin’s Robin Red-capped Robin White-browed Scrub Robin	Roller Broad-billed Roller European Roller Lilac-breasted Roller Purple Roller Racket-tailed Roller Ruff Ruff
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Sanderling Sanderling Sandgrouse Double-banded Sandgrouse Sandpiper Common Sandpiper Curlew Sandpiper Green Sandpiper Marsh Sandpiper Terek Sandpiper Wood Sandpiper Saw-wing Black Saw-wing Scimitarbill Scimitarbill Secretary Bird SecretaryBird Seed-Cracker Black-bellied Seed-cracker Seed-Eater Stripe-breasted Seed-eater Shikra Shikra Shrike Fiscal Shrike Lesser Grey Shrike Red-backed Shrike Sousa’s Shrike Stilt Black-winged Stilt	Skimmer African Skimmer Snipe Painted Snipe EthiopianSnipe Great Snipe Sparrowhawk Little Sparrowhawk Ovambo Sparrowhawk Sparrow Grey-headed Sparrow House Sparrow Southern Grey-headed Sparrow Sparrow-Weaver Chestnut-mantled — Sparrow Weaver White-browed Sparrow Weaver Spinetail Bat-like Spinetail Mottled Spinetail Spoonbill African Spoonbill Starling Greater Blue-eared Starling Lesser blue-eared Starling Red-winged Starling Southern Long-tailed Starling Splendid Glossy Starling Violet-backed Starling Wattled Starling White-winged Starling Stint Little Stint	Stork Abdim’s Stork Black Stork Maribou Stork Openbill Stork Saddle-billed Stork Wooly-necked Stork Yellow-billed Stork White Stork Sunbird Amethyst Sunbird Collared Sunbird Coppery Sunbird Miombo Double-collared Sunbird Olive Sunbird Purple Banded Sunbird Scarlet-chested Sunbird Shelley’s Sunbird Violet-backed Sunbird White-bellied Sunbird Yellow-bellied Sunbird Swallow European Swallow Grey-rumped Swallow Lesser Striped Swallow Mosque Swallow Wire-tailed Swallow Swift African Palm Swift African White-rumped Swift Alpine Swift Euroipean Swift Horus Swift Little Swift Mottled Swift Stonechat Stonechat
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Tchagras Black-crowned Tchagra Brown-headed Tchagra Teals Hottentot teal Red-billed Teal Tern White-winged Black Tern	Thrush Collared Palm Thrush Kurrichane Thrush Miombo Rock Thrush Thrush-nightingale Tits Grey Penduline Tit Rufous-bellied Tit Southern Black Tit	Trogon Narina Trogon Turaco Lady Ross’s Turaco Purple-crested Turaco Schalow’s Turaco Turnstone Turnstone Twinspot Red-throated Twinspot
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Vulture African White-backed — Vulture Hooded Vulture Lappet-faced Vulture Palm-nut Vulture Ruppell's Vulture White-headed Vulture Warbler African Moustached Warbler Bleating Bush Warbler Evergreen Forest Warbler Garden Warbler Great Reed Warbler Icterine Warbler Laura’s Warbler Marsh Warbler Miombo Barred Warbler Olive Tree Warbler Red-winged Warbler Reed Warbler Sedge Warbler Willow Warbler	Wagtail African Pied Wagtail Yellow Wagtail Wattle-Eye Black-throated Wattle-eye Waxbill Blue Waxbill Common Waxbill Swee Waxbill Zebra Waxbill Weaver African Masked Weaver Bar-winged Weaver Dark-backed Weaver Large Golden Weaver Lesser Masked Weaver Parasitic Weaver Red-billed Buffalo Weaver Red-headed Weaver Spectacled Weaver Village Weaver	Wheatear Capped Wheatear European Wheater Whimrel Whimbrel White-Eye Yellow White-eye Whitethroat Common Whitethroat Whydah Red-Collared Whydah White-winged Whydah Widow Broad-tailed Paradise Widow Long-tailed Paradise Widow Pin-tailed Widow Woodpecker Bearded Woodpecker Bennett’s Woodpecker Cardinal Woodpecker Golden-tailed Woodpecker Little Spotted Woodpecker
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