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This is a list of the bird species recorded in Africa.The area covered by this list is the Africa region defined by the American Birding Association's listing rules. [1] In addition to the continent itself, the area includes Madagascar, Mauritius, Rodrigues, Seychelles, Cape Verde, the Comoro Islands, Zanzibar and the Canary Islands, São Tomé and Príncipe and Annobón in the Gulf of Guinea.
The Birds of Africa is an eight-volume ornithological handbook.Its authors/editors are C. Hilary Fry, Stuart Keith and Emil Urban, and each volume contains colour plates painted by Martin Woodcock [1] The series ended with the 8th volume in 2013 and shortly after in August 2014 publisher Academic Press confirmed that they would no longer be reprinting the first 7 volumes.
List of birds of Saint Helena; List of birds of São Tomé and Príncipe; List of birds of Senegal; List of birds of Seychelles; List of birds of Sierra Leone; List of birds of Somalia; List of birds of Somaliland; List of birds of South Africa; List of birds of South Sudan; List of birds of Spain; List of birds of Sudan
A. African barred owlet; African black duck; African black swift; African blue tit; African broadbill; African chaffinch; African citril; African collared dove
The beautiful sunbird (Cinnyris pulchellus), formerly placed in the genus Nectarinia, is a small passerine bird in the sunbird family Nectariniidae.It is native to tropical Africa, its range extending from Senegal and Guinea in the west to Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Kenya in the east.
The following is a list of bird species endemic or near-endemic to southern Africa (South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and southern Mozambique). [1] Grey-winged francolin, Scleroptila africanus; Orange River francolin, Scleroptila levaillantoides; Red-billed spurfowl (red-billed francolin), Pternistes adspersus
The ostriches are flightless birds native to Africa. They are the largest living species of bird and are distinctive in appearance, with a long neck and legs and the ability to run at high speeds. Common ostrich, Struthio camelus. North African ostrich, S. c. camelus; Masai ostrich, S. c. massaicus; Somali ostrich, Struthio molybdophanes
The Birds of Prey of Southern Africa – C.G. Finch-Davies and Dr.A.C. Kemp (Winchester Press, Johannesburg 1980) ISBN 0-620-04578-7; The Birds Paintings of C.G. Finch-Davies – Introduction by Dr.A.C. Kemp (Winchester Press, Johannesburg 1984) ISBN 0-620-07459-0; A Celebration of Birds (Natural History Books, Johannesburg 1990) ISBN 0-620-14819-5