NAMIBIA SPECIALTY BIRDS LIST
AFRICA
NAMIBIA
| # Species: | 668 |
| # Excl Vagrants: | 616 |
| # Endemics: | 2 |
| # Near Endemics: | 32 |
List of species that are endemic (E), near endemic (NE), have restricted ranges in the country (RR), or occur only locally (LC) in the country. Table also shows species with globally threatened or endangered status according to the IUCN.*
| 1 | Maccoa Duck | Oxyura maccoa | | V |
| 2 | Coqui Francolin | Campocolinus coqui | RR | |
| 3 | Hartlaub's Francolin | Pternistis hartlaubi | NE | |
| 4 | Cape Francolin | Pternistis capensis | NE | |
| 5 | Red-necked Francolin | Pternistis afer | RR | |
| 6 | Lesser Flamingo | Phoenicoparrus minor | | NT |
| 7 | European Turtle-Dove | Streptopelia turtur | | V |
| 8 | Kori Bustard | Ardeotis kori | | NT |
| 9 | Ludwig's Bustard | Neotis ludwigii | | EN |
| 10 | Denham's Bustard | Neotis denhami | RR | NT |
| 11 | Karoo Bustard | Eupodotis vigorsii | NE | |
| 12 | Rueppell's Bustard | Eupodotis rueppelii | NE | |
| 13 | Black-bellied Bustard | Lissotis melanogaster | RR | |
| 14 | Schalow's Turaco | Tauraco schalowi | RR | |
| 15 | Burchell's Coucal** | Centropus burchellii | RR | |
| 16 | Thick-billed Cuckoo | Pachycoccyx audeberti | RR | |
| 17 | African Emerald Cuckoo | Chrysococcyx cupreus | RR | |
| 18 | Swamp Nightjar | Caprimulgus natalensis | RR | |
| 19 | Bat-like Spinetail | Neafrapus boehmi | RR | |
| 20 | Little Swift | Apus affinis | | V |
| 21 | Horus Swift | Apus horus | RR | |
| 22 | Red-knobbed Coot | Fulica cristata | | EN |
| 23 | Gray Crowned-Crane | Balearica regulorum | RR | EN |
| 24 | Blue Crane | Anthropoides paradiseus | RR | V |
| 25 | Wattled Crane | Bugeranus carunculatus | | V |
| 26 | Eurasian Oystercatcher | Haematopus ostralegus | | NT |
| 27 | Chestnut-banded Plover | Charadrius pallidus | | NT |
| 28 | Eurasian Curlew | Numenius arquata | | NT |
| 29 | Bar-tailed Godwit | Limosa lapponica | | NT |
| 30 | Black-tailed Godwit | Limosa limosa | | NT |
| 31 | Red Knot | Calidris canutus | | NT |
| 32 | Curlew Sandpiper | Calidris ferruginea | | NT |
| 33 | Buff-breasted Sandpiper | Calidris subruficollis | | NT |
| 34 | Great Snipe | Gallinago media | | NT |
| 35 | Small Buttonquail | Turnix sylvaticus | | CR |
| 36 | Black-winged Pratincole | Glareola nordmanni | | NT |
| 37 | Hartlaub's Gull | Chroicocephalus hartlaubii | NE | |
| 38 | Damara Tern | Sternula balaenarum | | V |
| 39 | African Skimmer | Rynchops flavirostris | | NT |
| 40 | African Penguin | Spheniscus demersus | RR | EN |
| 41 | Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross | Thalassarche chlororhynchos | | EN |
| 42 | Gray-headed Albatross | Thalassarche chrysostoma | | EN |
| 43 | White-capped Albatross | Thalassarche cauta | | NT |
| 44 | Wandering Albatross | Diomedea exulans | | V |
| 45 | Leach's Storm-Petrel | Hydrobates leucorhoa | | V |
| 46 | White-chinned Petrel | Procellaria aequinoctialis | | V |
| 47 | Sooty Shearwater | Ardenna griseus | | NT |
| 48 | Woolly-necked Stork | Ciconia episcopus | | NT |
| 49 | Cape Gannet | Morus capensis | | EN |
| 50 | Crowned Cormorant | Microcarbo coronatus | | NT |
| 51 | Bank Cormorant | Phalacrocorax neglectus | NE | EN |
| 52 | Cape Cormorant | Phalacrocorax capensis | | EN |
| 53 | Great Bittern | Botaurus stellaris | RR | |
| 54 | Goliath Heron | Ardea goliath | RR | |
| 55 | Slaty Egret | Egretta vinaceigula | | V |
| 56 | Secretarybird | Sagittarius serpentarius | | EN |
| 57 | Bearded Vulture | Gypaetus barbatus | | NT |
| 58 | Egyptian Vulture | Neophron percnopterus | RR | EN |
| 59 | White-headed Vulture | Trigonoceps occipitalis | | CR |
| 60 | Lappet-faced Vulture | Torgos tracheliotos | | EN |
| 61 | Hooded Vulture | Necrosyrtes monachus | | CR |
| 62 | White-backed Vulture | Gyps africanus | | CR |
| 63 | Cape Griffon | Gyps coprotheres | | EN |
| 64 | Bateleur | Terathopius ecaudatus | | EN |
| 65 | Crowned Eagle | Stephanoaetus coronatus | | NT |
| 66 | Martial Eagle | Polemaetus bellicosus | | EN |
| 67 | Ayres's Hawk-Eagle | Hieraaetus ayresii | RR | |
| 68 | Tawny Eagle | Aquila rapax | | V |
| 69 | Steppe Eagle | Aquila nipalensis | | EN |
| 70 | Black Harrier | Circus maurus | | EN |
| 71 | Pallid Harrier | Circus macrourus | | NT |
| 72 | African Goshawk | Accipiter tachiro | RR | |
| 73 | Black Goshawk | Accipiter melanoleucus | RR | |
| 74 | Cape Eagle-Owl | Bubo capensis | RR | |
| 75 | Narina Trogon | Apaloderma narina | RR | |
| 76 | Southern Ground-Hornbill | Bucorvus leadbeateri | RR | V |
| 77 | Crowned Hornbill | Lophoceros alboterminatus | RR | |
| 78 | Monteiro's Hornbill | Tockus monteiri | NE | |
| 79 | Damara Red-billed Hornbill | Tockus damarensis | E | |
| 80 | Trumpeter Hornbill | Bycanistes bucinator | RR | |
| 81 | Half-collared Kingfisher | Alcedo semitorquata | RR | |
| 82 | African Pygmy Kingfisher | Ispidina picta | RR | |
| 83 | Brown-hooded Kingfisher | Halcyon albiventris | RR | |
| 84 | Pied Kingfisher | Ceryle rudis | | EN |
| 85 | Green-backed Honeyguide | Prodotiscus zambesiae | RR | |
| 86 | Wahlberg's Honeyguide | Prodotiscus regulus | RR | |
| 87 | Red-necked Falcon | Falco chicquera | | NT |
| 88 | Red-footed Falcon | Falco vespertinus | | NT |
| 89 | Sooty Falcon | Falco concolor | | V |
| 90 | Lanner Falcon | Falco biarmicus | | EN |
| 91 | Black-cheeked Lovebird | Agapornis nigrigenis | | V |
| 92 | Brown-necked Parrot | Poicephalus fuscicollis | RR | |
| 93 | Rueppell's Parrot | Poicephalus rueppellii | NE | |
| 94 | African Broadbill | Smithornis capensis | RR | |
| 95 | White-tailed Shrike | Lanioturdus torquatus | NE | |
| 96 | Retz's Helmetshrike | Prionops retzii | LC | |
| 97 | Gray-headed Bushshrike | Malaconotus blanchoti | RR | |
| 98 | Carp's Tit | Melaniparus carpi | NE | |
| 99 | Gray Tit | Melaniparus afer | NE | |
| 100 | Gray's Lark | Ammomanopsis grayi | NE | |
| 101 | Cape Lark | Certhilauda curvirostris | NE | |
| 102 | Karoo Long-billed Lark | Certhilauda subcoronata | NE | |
| 103 | Benguela Lark | Certhilauda benguelensis | NE | |
| 104 | Black-eared Sparrow-Lark | Eremopterix australis | RR | |
| 105 | Barlow's Lark | Calendulauda barlowi | NE | |
| 106 | Dune Lark | Calendulauda erythrochlamys | E | |
| 107 | Flappet Lark | Mirafra rufocinnamomea | RR | |
| 108 | Cape Clapper Lark | Mirafra apiata | NE | |
| 109 | Eastern Clapper Lark | Mirafra fasciolata | RR | |
| 110 | Pink-billed Lark | Spizocorys conirostris | RR | |
| 111 | Sclater's Lark | Spizocorys sclateri | NE | NT |
| 112 | Large-billed Lark | Galerida magnirostris | NE | |
| 113 | Eastern Nicator | Nicator gularis | RR | |
| 114 | Rockrunner | Achaetops pycnopygius | NE | |
| 115 | Yellow-rumped Eremomela | Eremomela gregalis | NE | |
| 116 | Namaqua Warbler | Phragmacia substriata | NE | |
| 117 | Karoo Prinia | Prinia maculosa | NE | |
| 118 | Kopje Warbler | Euryptila subcinnamomea | NE | |
| 119 | Luapala Cisticola | Cisticola luapala | RR | |
| 120 | Rufous-winged Cisticola | Cisticola galactotes | RR | |
| 121 | Layard's Warbler | Curruca layardi | NE | |
| 122 | Orange River White-eye | Zosterops pallidus | NE | |
| 123 | Bare-cheeked Babbler | Turdoides gymnogenys | NE | |
| 124 | Hartlaub's Babbler | Turdoides hartlaubii | RR | |
| 125 | Black-faced Babbler | Turdoides melanops | RR | |
| 126 | Yellow-billed Oxpecker | Buphagus africanus | RR | |
| 127 | Lesser Blue-eared Starling | Lamprotornis chloropterus | RR | |
| 128 | Sharp-tailed Starling | Lamprotornis acuticaudus | RR | |
| 129 | Karoo Thrush | Turdus smithi | RR | |
| 130 | Gray Tit-Flycatcher | Fraseria plumbeus | RR | |
| 131 | Herero Chat | Melaenornis herero | NE | |
| 132 | Karoo Scrub-Robin | Cercotrichas coryphoeus | RR | |
| 133 | Angola Cave-Chat | Xenocopsychus ansorgei | NE | |
| 134 | Collared Palm-Thrush | Cichladusa arquata | RR | |
| 135 | Southern Double-collared Sunbird | Cinnyris chalybeus | NE | |
| 136 | Shelley's Sunbird | Cinnyris shelleyi | RR | |
| 137 | Copper Sunbird | Cinnyris cupreus | RR | |
| 138 | Spectacled Weaver | Ploceus ocularis | RR | |
| 139 | Southern Brown-throated Weaver | Ploceus xanthopterus | RR | |
| 140 | Red-headed Quelea | Quelea erythrops | RR | |
| 141 | White-winged Widowbird | Euplectes albonotatus | RR | |
| 142 | Grosbeak Weaver | Amblyospiza albifrons | RR | |
| 143 | Bronze Mannikin | Spermestes cucullata | RR | |
| 144 | Magpie Mannikin | Spermestes fringilloides | RR | |
| 145 | Angola Waxbill | Coccopygia bocagei | NE | |
| 146 | Zebra Waxbill | Amandava subflava | RR | |
| 147 | Cinderella Waxbill | Glaucestrilda thomensis | NE | |
| 148 | Quailfinch | Ortygospiza atricollis | RR | |
| 149 | Orange-winged Pytilia | Pytilia afra | RR | |
| 150 | Peters's Twinspot | Hypargos niveoguttatus | RR | |
| 151 | Broad-tailed Paradise-Whydah | Vidua obtusa | RR | |
| 152 | Village Indigobird | Vidua chalybeata | RR | |
| 153 | Parasitic Weaver | Anomalospiza imberbis | RR | |
| 154 | Northern Gray-headed Sparrow | Passer griseus | RR | |
| 155 | Mountain Pipit | Anthus hoeschi | | NT |
| 156 | Rosy-throated Longclaw | Macronyx ameliae | RR | |
| 157 | Black-eared Seedeater | Crithagra mennelli | LC | |
* Nomenclature and taxonomic affinities are based on Clements 6th Edition published 2007 with updates through 2021 maintained by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, which relies largely on the AOU and SACC nomenclature committees. IUCN status may reflect splits not currently recognized by Clements.
** Species not accepted by Clements, AOU, or SACC that we recognize based on the IOC, field observations along with geographical separation, consensus opinions of field guide authors, and other sources. These species are potential splits in future Clements updates.
OTHER COUNTRIES
BIRDING LOCALES
PRESENCE CODES
| // | Boreal Visitor |
| \\ | Austral Visitor |
| || | Transient |
| ## | Non-breeding Dispersal |
| <> | Erratic/Irregular |
| () | Breeding Season Only |
| {} | Casual/Vagrant |
| [] | Accidental |
DISTRIBUTION CODES
| E | Endemic |
| LC | Local |
| NE | Near Endemic |
| RR | Range Restricted |
STATUS CODES
| NT | Near Threatened |
| V | Vulnerable |
| EN | Endangered |
| CR | Critically Endangered |
