Uploaded September 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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South Africa has an amazing variety of birds. This video is designed to help you identify some of the more common ones from hawks to dikkops and includes:

00:00 immature African harrier hawk
00:09 African cuckoo hawk
00:15 Southern pale-chanting goshawk
00:23 dark-chanting goshawk
00:30 black-shouldered kites
00:41 Montagu's harrier
00:48 yellow-billed kite
00:57 gabar goshawk
01:05 Lanner falcon
01:13 pygmy falcon
01:21 Natal frankolin
01:28 Swainson's frankolin
01:37 helmeted guineafowl
01:45 black crake
01:56 grey-crowned crane
02:04 African finfoot
02:12 female Northern black korhaan
02:19 male Northern black korhaan
02:28 female red-crested korhaan
02:36 male red-crested korhaan
02:44 kori bustard
02:52 African jacana
03:05 black-winged stilt
03:13 blacksmith plover
03:26 crowned lapwing
03:34 three-banded plover
03:42 African wattled lapwing
03:50 white-crowned lapwing
03:58 wood sandpiper
04:14 water dikkop

You can find more birds in the following videos:
ostriches to eagles youtu.be/fw8J28azFMk
youtu.be/LHd5zDwPnLc Sandgrouse to Hoopoes
youtu.be/vO8NN6BZxB4 Hornbills to Longclaws
youtu.be/y87mVLI8U6g shrikes to buntings

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