Birds I've seen Before -- but always nice to meet again

For the trip we had 326 different species and only 67 of those were life birds. It is an extraordinary number for a winter visit to South Africa -- here are some of the birds that were repeats -- some I hadn't been able to capture in a photo before. I've split them up in very unscientific categories for the purpose of this post.

Doves & Pigeons

Laughing Dove

Namaqua Dove

African Green Pigeon

African Emerald Wood Dove

Rameron Pigeon

Oxpeckers are one of my favorite birds -- usually attached to some critter...

Instead of Hummingbirds they have Sunbirds in South Africa

Amethyst Sunbird female

White-bellied Sunbird

Marico Sunbird

Swallows & Martins scrape the sky and are notoriously difficult to shoot -- I was happy to get some decent photos this time.

Rufous-chested Swallow

Wire-tailed Swallow

Mosque Swallow

Plain Martin

Rock Martin

There are a lot of birds that are ground feeders.

Common Ostrich

Kori Bustard

Red-crested Bustard

Crested Francolin

Double Banded Sandgrouse

Helmeted Guineafowl

Natal Spurfowl

Swainson's Spurfowl

Square-tailed Nightjar

Wattled Starling

Cape Starling

Greater Blue-eared Starling

Meve's Starling

African Pipit

Nicholson's Pipit

Chestnut-backed Sparrow Lark

Groundscraper Thrush

Kurrichane Thrush

Large-billed Lark

Red-capped Lark

Sabota Lark

White-browed Scrub-robin

White-browed Robin-chat

Red-billed Firefinch

Southern Cordonbleu

Terrestrial Brownbul

Pin-tailed Whydah

Common Waxbill

Perchers

Southern Black Flycatcher

Red-faced Mousebird

Red-billed Quelea

Rattling Cisticola

Purple Roller

Pied Barbet

Magpie Shrike

Mocking Cliff Chat

Long-billed Crombec

Lilac-breasted Roller

Burchell's Coucal

Cape Bunting

Cape Weaver

Cape White-eye

Capped Wheatear

Chinspot Batis

Cinnamon-breasted Bunting

Crested Barbet

Desert Cisticola

Fork-tailed Drongo

Familiar Chat

Andrew's Feeder

Fork-tailed Drongo

Golden-breasted Bunting

Gray-backed Cisticola

Grosbeak Weaver

Black-crowned Tchagra

Brown-crowned Tchagra

Southern Tchagra

Brown-headed Parrots

African Stonechat

Arrowmarked Babbler

Black-backed Puffbird

Karoo Prinia

Karoo Scrub Robin

Lesser Masked Weaver

Southern Boubou

Southern Fiscal

Southern Gray-headed Sparrow

Southern Red Bishop

Sulphur-breasted Bushshrike

Tawny-flanked Prinia

Village Indigobird

White-crowned Shrike

White-fronted Bee-eater

White-throated Canary

Yellow Canary

Yellow-breasted Apalis

Yellow-thraoted Longclaw

Finally cleared the House with Hornbills

African Gray Hornbill

Southern Ground Hornbill

Southern Red-billed Hornbill

Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill

The fabulous Common Hoopoe

Then there are the birds around water -- Lots of them!

Waders

African Openbill

African Spoonbill

Black Storks

Black-headed Heron

Gray-headed Heron

Great White Pelican

Hadada Ibis

Hamerkop

Pied Avocet

Saddle-billed Stork

Striated Heron

Wooly-necked Stork

Some of the species spend most of their time swimming

African Finfoot

Egyptian Goose (Gypo)

Little Grebe

Red-billed Teal

South African Shelduck

Many of the waterbirds are much smaller and might not spend all their time in the water...

African Jacana

Black Crake

Three Banded Plover (quite a common bird)

Spotted Thick-knee

Blacksmith Lapwing

Common Greenshank

Common Sandpiper

Crowned Lapwing

Greater Painted Snipe

Water Thick-knee

White-crowned Lapwing

Wood Sandpiper

Kingfishers by water and in the woods

Brown-hooded Kingfisher

Giant Kingfisher

Malachite Kingfisher

Pied Kingfisher

Striped Kingfisher

Finally we have the kings of the sky! Raptors

African Wood Owl

Bateleur

Black-winged Kite

Brown Snake-eagle

African Hawk-eagle

Dark Chanting-goshawk

Jackal Buzzard

Lizzard Buzzard

Long-crested Eagle (in Andrew's backyard - they call it Cresty)

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African Fish Eagle

African Harrier Hawk

Martial Eagle

Pale Chanting-goshawk

Pied Crow

Tawny Eagle

White-necked Raven

Yellow-billed Kite

Lappet-faced Vulture

White-headed Vulture

So that's it -- a nice collection. Hope to see them next time too!