Identification Guides – BIRDS

WAGTAILS & PIPITS (Family Motacillidae)
– Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava)
– White Wagtail (Motacilla alba)
– Black-backed Wagtail (Motacilla lugens)
– Red-throated Pipit (Anthus cervinus)
– American Pipit (Anthus rubescens)
– Sprague’s Pipit (Anthus spragueii)

EUROPEAN WAGTAILS & PIPITS (Family Motacillidae)
– Pied Wagtail (Motacilla alba)

AFRICAN WAGTAILS & PIPITS (Family Motacillidae)
– African Pied Wagtail (Motacilla aguimp)

AFRICAN WEAVERS (Family Ploceidae)
– White-headed Buffalo Weaver (Dinemellia dinemelli)

WAXWINGS (Family Bombycillidae)
– Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus)

– Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum)

SILKY-FLYCATCHWERS (Family Ptilogonatidae)
– Phainopepla (Phainopepla nitens)

SHRIKES (Family Lanidae)
– Northern Shrike (Lanius excubitor)

– Loggerhead Shrike (Lanius ludovicianus)

AFRICAN SHRIKES (Family Lanidae)
– White-crowned Shrike (Eurocephalus ruppelli)

– Magpie Shrike (Lanius melanoleucus)

STARLINGS (Family Sturnidae)
– European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)

– Crested Myna (Acridotheres cristatellus)
– Hill Myna (Gracula religiosa)

AFRICAN STARLINGS (Family Sturnidae)
– Ruppell`s Long-tailed Starling (Lamprotornis purpuropterus)

– Superb Starling (Lamprotornis superbus/Spreo superbus)

– Red-wing Starling/Rooivlerkspreeu (Onychognathus morio)

– Yellow-billed Oxpecker (Buphagus africanus)

VIREOS (Family Vireonidae)
– White-eyed Vireo (Vireo griseus)
– Bell’s Vireo (Vireo bellii)
– Black-capped Vireo (Vireo atricapillus)
– Gray Vireo (Vireo vicinior)
– Solitary Vireo (Vireo solitarius)
– Yellow-throated Vireo (Vireo flavifrons)
– Hutton’s Vireo (Vireo huttoni)
– Warbling Vireo (Vireo gilvus)
– Philadelphia Vireo (Vireo philadelphicus)
– Red-eyed Vireo (Vireo olivaceus)
– Black-whiskered Vireo (Vireo altiloquus)