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Guineafowls; Francolins; Button-quails                                                  

Crakes and Rails; Jacanas

Cranes

Bustards

Avocets and Stilts; Oystercatchers

Thick-knees

Coursers and Pratincoles

Plovers

Sandpipers

Skuas

Gulls and Terns; Skimmers

Sandgrouses

Doves and Pigeons

Photos

Guineafowls; Francolins; Button-quails

Red-billed Francolin                     Bo  Na(Ca)

Helmeted Guineafowl                   SA

Crakes and Rails; Jacanas

Black Crake    Na(Ca)

African Jacana                              Zi  Na(Ca)

Cranes

Grey Crowned Crane                   Zi Rw 

Wattled Crane             Na(Ca) 

Demoiselle Crane           Et   

Bustards

Black-bellied Bustard (Korhaan)               SA(Nam)  

Avocets and Stilts; Oystercatchers

Black-winged Stilt                         Ta Ug Ug   

African Black Oystercatcher          SA

Thick-knees

Water Thick-knee                         ZiUg   Ta

Coursers and Pratincoles

Plovers

Blacksmith Lapwing                         SA(Nam)   

Spur-winged Lapwing                      Ug Ta

Long-toed Lapwing                          Bo

African Wattled Lapwing     Na(Ca)

White-crowned Lapwing            Ta Ta

Crowned Lapwing                        SA(Nam) SA(Nam) 

Kittlitz's Plover                            Ta                 

Three-banded Plover      Na SA(Nam) Ta

Common Ringed Plover              Ug

Sandpipers

Common Greenshank                 Ug

African Snipe                                 SA(Nam)                   

Skuas                    Photos of these birds can be seen in Birds of the Oceans and Poles

Gulls and Terns; Skimmers

Hartlaob's Gull                        SA

Grey-headed Gull            Ug

Lesser Black-backed Gull      SA SA

Cape Gull                            SA

Swift Tern                        SA

Antarctic Tern                    Tristan

Whiskered Tern                    Bo

African Skimmer                    Ta  Ta    

Sandgrouses

Doves and Pigeons

Namaqua Dove         Ta              

Ring-necked Dove (Cape Turtle)            Co Ta

Red-eyed Dove                                          Ta

Laughing Dove        Na(Ca)

Feral Pigeon     Et

Speckled Pigeon        Et

36 Bird Species Photographed