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Eswatini wildlife

515 species in the Eswatini dex: 152 Common, 184 Uncommon, 155 Rare, 24 Legendary. Tiers come from how often people record each species here; Legendary ones and protected species are never shown at their real location.

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Legendary

The rarest finds here: 150 points each. Their locations are always protected.

#016 🦌 Brown Greater Galago

#050 🐦 Cape Teal

#067 🐦 Long-billed Pipit

#090 🐦 Marsh Owl

#115 🐦 Curlew Sandpiper

#125 🐦 European Nightjar

#133 🐦 Black Coucal

#141 🐦 White-fronted Plover

#195 🐦 Grey Cuckooshrike

#234 🐦 Black Heron

#263 🐦 Sooty Falcon

#288 🐦 Booted Eagle

#305 🐦 Little Bittern

#343 🐦 Southern Carmine Bee-eater

#348 🐦 Lesser Jacana

#394 🐦 Indian Peafowl

#396 🐦 Pink-Backed Pelican

#401 🐦 Lesser Flamingo

#403 🐦 American Flamingo

#453 🐦 Pied Avocet

#458 🐦 Sand Martin

#474 🐦 Cape Shoveler

#494 🐦 Southern Tchagra

#555 🦎 Spotted Dwarf Gecko

Rare

155

#008 🦌 Slender Mongoose

#013 🦌 Serval

#015 🦌 Klipspringer

#019 🦌 Vaal Rhebok

#021 🦌 Blue Duiker

#023 🦌 Rock Hyrax

#025 🦌 Common Eland

#026 🦌 Nyala

#029 🐦 Shikra

#030 🐦 Black Sparrowhawk

#032 🐦 Rufous-breasted Sparrowhawk

#035 🐦 Great Reed Warbler

#039 🐦 Sedge Warbler

#040 🐦 Eurasian Reed Warbler

#045 🐦 Cut-throat Finch

#049 🐦 Red-headed Weaver

#054 🐦 African Openbill

#059 🐦 Blue Crane

#061 🐦 Bushveld Pipit

#065 🐦 Striped Pipit

#066 🐦 Nicholson's Pipit

#068 🐦 Buffy Pipit

#074 🐦 Common Swift

#075 🐦 African Black Swift

#077 🐦 Horus Swift

#078 🐦 Steppe Eagle

#079 🐦 Lesser Spotted Eagle

#081 🐦 African Hawk-Eagle

#082 🐦 Verreaux's Eagle

#091 🐦 African Cuckoo-hawk

#099 🐦 Cape Eagle-owl

#100 🐦 Verreaux's Eagle-owl

#102 🐦 Southern Ground-hornbill

#112 🐦 Stierling's Wren-warbler

#113 🐦 Red-capped Lark

#116 🐦 Little Stint

#126 🐦 Square-tailed nightjar

#128 🐦 Freckled Nightjar

#140 🐦 Common Ringed Plover

#145 🐦 Whiskered Tern

#147 🐦 Yellow-bellied Greenbul

#151 🐦 Grey-headed Gull

#156 🐦 White stork

#159 🐦 Black Stork

#163 🐦 Southern Double-collared Sunbird

#167 🐦 Black-chested Snake Eagle

#170 🐦 African Marsh-harrier

#172 🐦 Desert Cisticola

#177 🐦 Rufous-winged Cisticola

#181 🐦 Cloud Cisticola

#183 🐦 Great Spotted Cuckoo

#185 🐦 Levaillant's Cuckoo

#188 🐦 African Olive Pigeon

#190 🐦 Lemon Dove

#194 🐦 Purple Roller

#198 🐦 Cape Crow

#202 🐦 Chorister Robin-chat

#206 🐦 Common Quail

#207 🐦 Harlequin Quail

#208 🐦 Wattled Starling

#210 🐦 African Crake

#215 🐦 Forest Canary

#219 🐦 African Cuckoo

#221 🐦 Temminck's Courser

#225 🐦 Common house martin

#236 🐦 Intermediate egret

#239 🐦 Cape Bunting

#242 🐦 Saddle-billed Stork

#243 🐦 Yellow-bellied Eremomela

#246 🐦 Chestnut-backed Sparrow-lark

#251 🐦 Grey Waxbill

#264 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#265 🐦 Rock Kestrel

#266 🐦 Eurasian Hobby

#268 🐦 African Snipe

#269 🐦 Lesser Moorhen

#274 🐦 Collared Pratincole

#275 🐦 African Barred Owlet

#276 🐦 Pearl-spotted Owlet

#277 🐦 White-backed Night Heron

#281 🐦 Cape Vulture

#284 🐦 Grey-headed Kingfisher

#291 🐦 Icterine Warbler

#292 🐦 Olive-tree Warbler

#294 🐦 Blue Swallow

#295 🐦 Pearl-breasted Swallow

#306 🐦 Dwarf Bittern

#309 🐦 Brown Firefinch

#314 🐦 Pied Starling

#320 🐦 Lesser Grey Shrike

#326 🐦 Magpie Mannikin

#330 🐦 Red-crested Korhaan

#336 🐦 Green Twinspot

#339 🐦 Dark Chanting-goshawk

#344 🐦 Blue-cheeked Bee-eater

#347 🐦 Gabar Goshawk

#353 🐦 Flappet Lark

#358 🐦 Mountain Wagtail

#366 🐦 Hooded Vulture

#368 🐦 Denham's Bustard

#370 🐦 African Pygmy-goose

#375 🐦 Black-crowned night heron

#378 🐦 Mountain Wheatear

#383 🐦 Eurasian Golden Oriole

#385 🐦 Black-faced Quail-Finch

#388 🐦 Thick-billed Cuckoo

#389 🐦 Osprey

#393 🐦 Cape Sparrow

#397 🐦 European Honey Buzzard

#399 🐦 Great Cormorant

#411 🐦 Black-throated Wattle-eye

#426 🐦 Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird

#428 🐦 White-starred Robin

#432 🐦 Purple Swamphen

#437 🐦 Brown-backed Honeybird

#439 🐦 Gurney's Sugarbird

#446 🐦 Southern White-faced Owl

#452 🐦 African Rail

#455 🐦 Bronze-winged Courser

#456 🐦 Banded Martin

#459 🐦 Greater Painted-snipe

#460 🐦 Secretarybird

#461 🐦 Knob-billed Duck

#463 🐦 Buff-spotted Flufftail

#464 🐦 Red-chested Flufftail

#466 🐦 Fan-tailed Grassbird

#467 🐦 Red-winged Francolin

#468 🐦 Shelley's Francolin

#472 🐦 African Broadbill

#473 🐦 Blue-billed Teal

#481 🐦 African Wood Owl

#482 🐦 Common Ostrich

#483 🐦 Garden Warbler

#487 🐦 Alpine Swift

#489 🐦 Knysna Turaco

#490 🐦 Livingstone's Turaco

#499 🐦 White-backed Duck

#504 🐦 Southern Red-billed Hornbill

#505 🐦 Lappet-faced Vulture

#509 🐦 White-headed Vulture

#513 🐦 Marsh Sandpiper

#514 🐦 Blue-mantled Crested Flycatcher

#531 🐦 Black-winged Lapwing

#537 🐦 Purple Indigobird

#543 🦎 Giant Lance Skink

#545 🦎 Cape Centipede Eater

#552 🦎 Savanna hingeback

#553 🦎 Cape Wolf Snake

#557 🦎 Mozambique Spitting Cobra

#560 🦎 Green Water Snake

#564 🦎 Short-snouted Grass Snake

#565 🦎 Olive Whip Snake

#566 🦎 Highveld Crag Lizard

#567 🐸 Edible Frog

#571 🦎 Tiger Cat Snake

Uncommon

184

#002 🦌 White rhinoceros

#003 🦌 Vervet Monkey

#004 🦌 Blue wildebeest

#006 🦌 Bontebok

#009 🦌 Southern Giraffe

#010 🦌 Common Hippopotamus

#012 🦌 Waterbuck

#014 🦌 African elephant

#017 🦌 Lion

#018 🦌 Chacma Baboon

#022 🦌 Bushpig

#028 🦌 Greater Kudu

#031 🐦 Little Sparrowhawk

#033 🐦 African Goshawk

#036 🐦 African Reed Warbler

#037 🐦 Lesser Swamp Warbler

#038 🐦 Marsh Warbler

#041 🐦 Common Sandpiper

#043 🐦 Half-collared Kingfisher

#046 🐦 Orange-breasted Waxbill

#051 🐦 Red-billed Teal

#052 🐦 African Black Duck

#053 🐦 Yellow-billed Duck

#056 🐦 African Darter

#058 🐦 Grey Penduline Tit

#064 🐦 Plain-backed Pipit

#070 🐦 Rudd's Apalis

#071 🐦 Bar-throated Apalis

#072 🐦 Narina Trogon

#076 🐦 White-rumped Swift

#080 🐦 Tawny Eagle

#083 🐦 Great Egret

#085 🐦 Goliath Heron

#087 🐦 Purple Heron

#088 🐦 Squacco Heron

#092 🐦 Cape Batis

#095 🐦 Pale Flycatcher

#096 🐦 Little rush warbler

#097 🐦 Red-billed Buffalo Weaver

#098 🐦 Spotted Eagle-owl

#105 🐦 Spotted Thick-knee

#107 🐦 Common Buzzard

#108 🐦 Jackal Buzzard

#110 🐦 Striated Heron

#111 🐦 Trumpeter Hornbill

#114 🐦 Sabota Lark

#117 🐦 Ruff

#120 🐦 Black Cuckooshrike

#122 🐦 Bennett's Woodpecker

#123 🐦 Buff-streaked Chat

#130 🐦 Greater Striped-Swallow

#131 🐦 Red-breasted Swallow

#143 🐦 Kittlitz's Plover

#148 🐦 Olive Bushshrike

#153 🐦 African Emerald Cuckoo

#157 🐦 Woolly-necked Stork

#158 🐦 African Woolly-necked Stork

#161 🐦 Greater Double-collared Sunbird

#162 🐦 Purple-banded Sunbird

#166 🐦 Brown Snake Eagle

#171 🐦 Lazy Cisticola

#173 🐦 Wing-snapping Cisticola

#176 🐦 Neddicky

#179 🐦 Wailing Cisticola

#180 🐦 Croaking Cisticola

#182 🐦 Levaillant's Cisticola

#184 🐦 Jacobin Cuckoo

#186 🐦 Swee Waxbill

#189 🐦 Speckled Pigeon

#191 🐦 Rock Dove

#193 🐦 European Roller

#196 🐦 White-necked Raven

#199 🐦 Grey Go-away-bird

#201 🐦 Cape Robin-Chat

#204 🐦 White-throated Robin-Chat

#205 🐦 Red-capped Robin-chat

#213 🐦 Streaky-headed Seedeater

#216 🐦 Brimstone Canary

#218 🐦 Black Cuckoo

#222 🐦 Olive Sunbird

#223 🐦 Grey sunbird

#229 🐦 Olive Woodpecker

#230 🐦 Cape Robin-chat

#232 🐦 Square-tailed Drongo

#235 🐦 Little Egret

#241 🐦 Cinnamon-breasted Bunting

#245 🐦 Burnt-neck Eremomela

#248 🐦 Bearded Scrub Robin

#256 🐦 Yellow Bishop

#258 🐦 Long-tailed Widowbird

#261 🐦 Amur Falcon

#262 🐦 Lanner Falcon

#267 🐦 Red-Knobbed Coot

#270 🐦 Common Moorhen

#273 🐦 Southern Bald Ibis

#278 🐦 Crested Guineafowl

#289 🐦 Wahlberg's Eagle

#290 🐦 Black-winged Stilt

#293 🐦 White-throated Swallow

#300 🐦 Dark-capped Yellow Warbler

#301 🐦 Greater Honeyguide

#302 🐦 Lesser Honeyguide

#303 🐦 Scaly-throated Honeyguide

#304 🐦 African Pygmy-kingfisher

#307 🐦 Red-throated Wryneck

#308 🐦 Lizard Buzzard

#310 🐦 Jameson's Firefinch

#312 🐦 Red-billed Firefinch

#323 🐦 Black-bellied Bustard

#324 🐦 Black-and-white Mannikin

#327 🐦 Long-crested Eagle

#329 🐦 African Grey Hornbill

#333 🐦 Cape Longclaw

#337 🐦 Giant Kingfisher

#349 🐦 Yellow-billed Kite

#350 🐦 Black Kite

#355 🐦 Cape Rock Thrush

#360 🐦 African Dusky Flycatcher

#361 🐦 Ashy Flycatcher

#362 🐦 Spotted Flycatcher

#363 🐦 Yellow-billed Stork

#364 🐦 Grey Tit-Flycatcher

#367 🐦 Malachite Sunbird

#373 🐦 Black-bellied Starling

#376 🐦 Namaqua Dove

#377 🐦 Familiar Chat

#386 🐦 African Scops Owl

#400 🐦 White-breasted Cormorant

#408 🐦 Willow Warbler

#410 🐦 African Spoonbill

#412 🐦 Spur-winged Goose

#413 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#414 🐦 Dark-backed Weaver

#415 🐦 Cape Weaver

#417 🐦 Lesser Masked Weaver

#419 🐦 Yellow Weaver

#421 🐦 African Golden Weaver

#424 🐦 African Finfoot

#425 🐦 Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird

#427 🐦 Red-fronted Tinkerbird

#429 🐦 Brown-headed Parrot

#430 🐦 Martial Eagle

#431 🐦 African Harrier-hawk

#433 🐦 Drakensberg Prinia

#436 🐦 Retz's Helmetshrike

#440 🐦 Black Saw-wing

#441 🐦 Grey-rumped Swallow

#444 🐦 Swainson's Spurfowl

#447 🐦 Rock Martin

#457 🐦 Brown-throated martin

#470 🐦 Cape Canary

#471 🐦 Fiscal Flycatcher

#475 🐦 Cape Grassbird

#477 🐦 White-eared Barbet

#478 🐦 Crowned Eagle

#486 🐦 Little Grebe

#496 🐦 Bokmakierie

#497 🐦 Bateleur

#500 🐦 Mocking Cliff Chat

#502 🐦 Red-billed Hornbill

#508 🐦 Acacia Pied Barbet

#511 🐦 Common Greenshank

#517 🐦 Olive Thrush

#519 🐦 Common Buttonquail

#522 🐦 Barn Owl

#524 🐦 Eurasian Hoopoe

#527 🐦 Magpie Shrike

#530 🐦 Senegal Lapwing

#533 🐦 Village Indigobird

#534 🐦 Dusky Indigobird

#536 🐦 Long-tailed Paradise Whydah

#544 🐸 Common River Frog

#546 🐸 African Gray Treefrog

#547 🦎 Turner’s Gecko

#548 🦎 Nile crocodile

#549 🦎 Red-lipped Snake

#556 🦎 Common Giant Plated Lizard

#558 🦎 Cape Terrapin

#559 🦎 Serrated hinged terrapin

#561 🦎 Spotted Bush Snake

#562 🦎 Common Flat Lizard

#572 🦎 Twig Snake

#575 🦎 White-throated Monitor

#577 🐸 African Clawed Frog

Common

152

#001 🦌 Impala

#007 🦌 Plains zebra

#011 🦌 Roan antelope

#020 🦌 Common warthog

#024 🦌 Bush Duiker

#027 🦌 Bushbuck

#034 🐦 Common myna · introduced

#042 🐦 African Jacana

#044 🐦 Egyptian Goose

#047 🐦 Black Crake

#048 🐦 Thick-billed Weaver

#055 🐦 Sombre Greenbul

#063 🐦 African Pipit

#069 🐦 Yellow-breasted Apalis

#073 🐦 Little Swift

#084 🐦 Grey Heron

#086 🐦 Black-Headed Heron

#093 🐦 Chinspot Batis

#094 🐦 Hadada Ibis

#101 🐦 Cattle Egret

#104 🐦 Red-billed Oxpecker

#106 🐦 Water Thick-knee

#118 🐦 Green-backed camaroptera

#121 🐦 Golden-tailed Woodpecker

#127 🐦 Fiery-necked Nightjar

#129 🐦 Lesser Striped Swallow

#134 🐦 White-browed Coucal

#136 🐦 Pied Kingfisher

#138 🐦 Amethyst Sunbird

#139 🐦 Scarlet-chested Sunbird

#144 🐦 Three-banded Plover

#149 🐦 Orange-breasted Bushshrike

#150 🐦 Bearded Woodpecker

#152 🐦 Diederik Cuckoo

#154 🐦 Klaas's Cuckoo

#160 🐦 Violet-backed Starling

#164 🐦 Marico Sunbird

#165 🐦 White-bellied Sunbird

#174 🐦 Rattling Cisticola

#175 🐦 Red-faced Cisticola

#178 🐦 Zitting Cisticola

#187 🐦 Speckled Mousebird

#192 🐦 Lilac-breasted Roller

#197 🐦 Pied Crow

#200 🐦 Malachite Kingfisher

#203 🐦 White-browed Robin-chat

#214 🐦 Yellow-fronted Canary

#220 🐦 Red-chested Cuckoo

#224 🐦 African Palm Swift

#227 🐦 White-faced Whistling-Duck

#228 🐦 Cardinal Woodpecker

#231 🐦 Fork-tailed Drongo

#233 🐦 Black-backed Puffback

#238 🐦 Black-winged Kite

#240 🐦 Golden-breasted Bunting

#247 🐦 White-browed Scrub Robin

#250 🐦 Common Waxbill

#253 🐦 White-winged Widowbird

#254 🐦 Red-collared Widowbird

#255 🐦 Fan-tailed Widowbird

#257 🐦 Red Bishop

#279 🐦 Yellow-throated Petronia

#280 🐦 White-backed Vulture

#282 🐦 Brown-hooded Kingfisher

#283 🐦 Striped Kingfisher

#285 🐦 Woodland Kingfisher

#286 🐦 African Fish Eagle

#287 🐦 Collared Sunbird

#296 🐦 Barn Swallow

#297 🐦 Wire-tailed Swallow

#299 🐦 Pink-throated Twinspot

#311 🐦 African Firefinch

#313 🐦 Burchell's Starling

#316 🐦 Cape Starling

#317 🐦 Southern Boubou

#318 🐦 Southern Fiscal

#319 🐦 Red-backed Shrike

#321 🐦 Marabou Stork

#325 🐦 Bronze mannikin

#328 🐦 Crowned Hornbill

#331 🐦 Black-collared Barbet

#334 🐦 Yellow-throated Longclaw

#335 🐦 Grey-headed Bushshrike

#338 🐦 Southern Black Flycatcher

#340 🐦 European Bee-eater

#341 🐦 White-fronted Bee-eater

#345 🐦 Little Bee-eater

#346 🐦 Long-tailed Cormorant

#351 🐦 Rufous-naped Lark

#356 🐦 African Pied Wagtail

#357 🐦 Cape Wagtail

#371 🐦 Eastern Nicator

#372 🐦 Brubru

#374 🐦 Helmeted Guineafowl

#380 🐦 Red-winged Starling

#382 🐦 Black-headed Oriole

#384 🐦 Crested Francolin

#390 🐦 Southern Black Tit

#391 🐦 Southern Grey-headed Sparrow

#392 🐦 House sparrow · introduced

#404 🐦 Green Woodhoopoe

#406 🐦 Terrestrial Brownbul

#416 🐦 Village Weaver

#418 🐦 Spectacled Weaver

#420 🐦 Southern Masked Weaver

#434 🐦 Tawny-flanked Prinia

#435 🐦 White-crested Helmetshrike

#442 🐦 Groundscraper Thrush

#443 🐦 Natal Spurfowl

#448 🐦 Common Bulbul

#449 🐦 Dark-capped Bulbul

#450 🐦 Green-winged Pytilia

#451 🐦 Red-billed Quelea

#454 🐦 Common Scimitarbill

#465 🐦 African stonechat

#469 🐦 Hamerkop

#476 🐦 Laughing Dove

#479 🐦 Ring-necked Dove

#480 🐦 Red-eyed Dove

#485 🐦 Long-billed Crombec

#491 🐦 Purple-crested Turaco

#492 🐦 Brown-crowned Tchagra

#493 🐦 Black-crowned Tchagra

#495 🐦 Gorgeous Bushshrike

#498 🐦 African Paradise Flycatcher

#501 🐦 Sacred Ibis

#503 🐦 Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill

#506 🐦 Crested Barbet

#507 🐦 African Green Pigeon

#510 🐦 Wood Sandpiper

#515 🐦 Arrow-marked Babbler

#516 🐦 Kurrichane Thrush

#520 🐦 Emerald-spotted Wood Dove

#521 🐦 Tambourine Dove

#523 🐦 African Hoopoe

#525 🐦 Blue Waxbill

#526 🐦 Red-faced Mousebird

#528 🐦 Blacksmith Lapwing

#529 🐦 Crowned Lapwing

#532 🐦 African Wattled Lapwing

#535 🐦 Pin-tailed Whydah

#541 🐦 Cape White-eye

#542 🦎 Southern Tree Agama

#550 🦎 House Gecko

#551 🐸 Painted Reed Frog

#554 🦎 Cape Dwarf Gecko

#568 🐸 African Split-skin Toad

#569 🐸 Gutteral Toad

#570 🦎 Leopard tortoise

#573 🦎 Rainbow Skink

#574 🦎 Striped Skink

#576 🦎 Nile Monitor

Vagrants

Rare visitors from elsewhere. Listed, but outside the completion count.

#005 🦌 Lesser Red Musk Shrew

#057 🐦 Cuckoo Weaver

#060 🐦 Short-tailed Pipit

#062 🐦 Yellow-breasted Pipit

#089 🐦 Rufous-bellied Heron

#103 🐦 Yellow-billed Oxpecker

#109 🐦 Forest Buzzard

#119 🐦 Grey-backed Camaroptera

#124 🐦 Coqui Francolin

#132 🐦 Mosque Swallow

#135 🐦 Eastern Long-billed Lark

#137 🐦 Blue malkoha

#142 🐦 Chestnut-banded Plover

#146 🐦 White-winged Tern

#155 🐦 Abdim's Stork

#168 🐦 Pallid Harrier

#169 🐦 Montagu's Harrier

#209 🐦 Corn Crake

#211 🐦 Black-throated Canary

#212 🐦 Yellow Canary

#217 🐦 Common Cuckoo

#226 🐦 Fulvous Whistling Duck

#237 🐦 Slaty Egret

#244 🐦 Green-capped Eremomela

#249 🐦 Brown Scrub Robin

#252 🐦 Yellow-crowned Bishop

#259 🐦 White-bellied Bustard

#260 🐦 Broad-billed Roller

#271 🐦 Ground Woodpecker

#272 🐦 Orange Ground-thrush

#298 🐦 Caspian Tern

#315 🐦 Greater Blue-eared Starling

#322 🐦 Bush Blackcap

#332 🐦 Bat Hawk

#342 🐦 Swallow-tailed Bee-eater

#352 🐦 Eastern Clapper Lark

#354 🐦 Sentinel Rock Thrush

#359 🐦 Western Yellow Wagtail

#365 🐦 Ant-eating Chat

#369 🐦 Southern Pochard

#379 🐦 Capped Wheatear

#381 🐦 Sooty Tern

#387 🐦 Maccoa Duck

#395 🐦 Great White Pelican

#398 🐦 South African Swallow

#402 🐦 Greater Flamingo

#405 🐦 Yellow-streaked Greenbul

#407 🐦 Yellow-throated Woodland-warbler

#409 🐦 Dusky Lark

#422 🐦 Southern Brown-throated Weaver

#423 🐦 Grey Plover

#438 🐦 Cape Sugarbird

#445 🐦 Double-banded Sandgrouse

#462 🐦 Striped Flufftail

#484 🐦 Common Whitethroat

#488 🐦 South African Shelduck

#512 🐦 Green sandpiper

#518 🐦 Black-rumped Buttonquail

#538 🐦 Southern Yellow White-eye

#539 🐦 Orange River White-eye

#540 🐦 African Yellow White-eye

#563 🦎 Lebombo Flat Lizard