Birdlife

The following wild birds are common visitors to the Manor

  1.  Crowned Plover
  2. Blacksmith Plover
  3. Water Dikkop
  4. Wattled Plover
  5.  White Faced Duck
  6. Yellow Bill Duck
  7. Fulvous Duck
  8. African Black Duck
  9.  Moorhen
  10.  Egyptian Goose
  11.  Red Bishop
  12. Masked Weaver
  13. Cape Weaver
  14.  Redwinged Starling
  15. Glossy Starling
  16.  Paradise Flycatcher
  17. Black Sunbird
  18.  Cape White-eye
  19. Cape Robin
  20.  Red-eyed Bulbul
  21.  Pied Crow
  22. Lesser Striped Swallow
  23.  Cardinal woodpecker
  24. Crested Barbet
  25. Bokmakierie
  26.  African Hoopoe
  27. Redbilled Woodhoopoe
  28.  Swift
  29.  Barn Owl
  30. Spotted Eagle Owl
  31.  Burchell’s Coucal
  32. Grey Lourie
  33.  Cape Turtle Dove
  34. Laughing Dove
  35. Rock Pigeon
  36. Feral Pigeon
  37.  Blue Crane
  38.  Helmeted Guineafowl
  39.  Hamerkop
  40. Sacred Ibis
  41.  Egret
  42. Cormorant
  43.  Fiscal Shrike
  44. Olive Thrush
  45. Mousebird
  46.  Hadeda
  47. Malachite Kingfisher
  48. Grey Hooded Kingfisher
  49.  Grey Wagtail
  50.  Grey Hornbill
  51.  Cape Sparrow
  52.  Swainson’s Francolin
  53. Bronze Mannikin
  54. Red Headed Finch
  55. Black Collared Barbet
  56. Thick Billed Weaver
  57. Shaft Tailed Whydah
  58. Pin Tailed Whydah
  59. Ring Neck Parakeet
  60. European Bee Eater
  61. White Guinea Fowl

If you have identified a bird at the Manor which is not on our list, please let us know.

The following birds are captive at the Manor

  1. Fulvous Duck
  2. Yellow Bill duck
  3. White Face Duck
  4. Mandarin duck
  5. Carolina Duck
  6. Pochard Duck
  7. Ringneck Teal Duck
  8. Maned Goose
  9. Chucca Partridge
  10. Indian Ringneck
  11. Common Shellduck