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 sandgrouse to hoopoes and includes:

00:00 Burchell's sandgrouse
00:08 female double-banded sandgrouse
00:15 male double-banded sandgrouse
00:23 African morning dove
00:30 Cape turtle dove
00:39 emerald-spotted wood-dove
00:46 green pigeon
00:54 laughing dove
01:02 Namaqua dove
01:10 speckled pigeon
01:18 brown-headed parrot
01:27 grey go-away bird
01:34 purple-crested turaco
01:42 Burchell's coucal
01:50 African scops-owl
01:58 pearl-spotted owlet
02:07 Verreaux's eagle owl
02:15 white-backed mousebird
02:22 brown-hooded kingfisher
02:30 giant kingfisher
02:38 malachite kingfisher
02:46 pied kingfisher
02:57 little bee-eater
03:04 swallow-tailed bee-eater
03:12 white-fronted bee-eater
03:23 lilac-breasted roller
03:32 purple roller
03:39 African hoopoe
03:48 green (red-billed) wood-hoopoe

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You can find more South African birds in the following videos: youtu.be/fw8J28azFMk ostriches to eagles
youtu.be/kysvuKtfPtY hawks to dikkops
youtu.be/vO8NN6BZxB4 hornbills to longclaws
youtu.be/y87mVLI8U6g shrikes to buntings

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