Kruger Park - Crooks Corner - Sought after Species

Kruger Park Birding Tour Sought after Species

The Kruger National Park has a bird list of over 517 species and generally all areas of the park are excellent for bird watching but one area in particular stands out and that's Crooks Corner in the very North of the park.

Crooks Corner is home to some of South Africa’s rarer species and falls within the Southern most limit of some of Central Africa's bird ranges.

The below table will give you an idea of the status of the more sought after species.

C – Common U – Uncommon L – Localised Resident M – Migrant R – Rare Vagrant

Species	C	U	L	M	R
Bee-eater Blue-cheeked	*
Bittern Little		*
Boubou Tropical	*
Canary Lemon-breasted			*
Chat Arnot’s		*
Coucal Senegal		*
Courser Bronze-winged	*
Courser Three-banded		*
Cuckoo Barred					*
Cuckoo Thick-billed		*
Cuckooshrike White-breasted		*
Dove African Mourning	*
Dove Blue-spotted Wood		*
Dove Lemon		*
Dove Tambourine		*
Eagle Crowned		*
Eagle Martial	*
Eagle Verreaux’s	*
Eremomela Green-capped	*
Falcon Red-necked					*
Falcon Sooty					*
Finfoot African		*
Francolin Coqui	*
Francolin Shelley’s	*
Guineafowl Crested		*
Harrier Montagu’s				*
Harrier Pallid				*
Helmetshrike Retz’s	*
Heron Goliath	*
Heron White-backed Night		*
Hobby African		*		*
Hobby Eurasian				*
Hornbill Crowned		*
Hornbill Silvery-cheeked					*
Hornbill Trumpeter	*
Kestrel Dickinson’s					*
Kingfisher Grey-hooded		*
Lapwing White-crowned	*
Moorhen Lesser	*			*
Nicator Eastern	*
Nightingale Thrush					*
Nightjar Pennant-winged	*			*
Oriole African Golden		*
Owl Pel’s Fishing		*
Oxpecker Yellow-billed	*
Parrot Grey-headed		*	*
Parrot Meyer’s		*
Pelican Eastern White		*
Pigeon African Green	*
Plover Caspian					*
Pratincole Collared		*
Quail Harlequin	*
Roller Broad-billed	*
Roller Racket-tailed		*			*
Sandgrouse Double-banded	*
Spinetail Bohms	*		*
Spinetail Mottled	*		*
Starling Burchell’s	*
Starling Meve’s	*		*
Stork Saddle-billed	*
Swallow Mosque	*			*
Trogon Narina		*
Turaco Purple-crested	*
Twinspot Pink-throated		*
Wattle-eye Black-throated	*		*
White-eye Yellow	*		*
Whydah Eastern Paradise	*			*

Other birds very special to see and may be seen depending on the route travelled to and from the Kruger Park are:

African Broadbill, Yellow-streaked Greenbul, Forest Canary, Emerald Cuckoo, Square-tailed Drongo, Taita Falcon, Buff-spotted Flufftail, Blue-mantled Crested Flycatcher, Collared Flycatcher, Bat Hawk, Scaly-throated Honeguide, Southern Hyliota, Knysna Turaco, Gray-headed Parrot, White-starred Robin, Black-fronted Bushshrike, Olive Bushshrike, Gurney’s Sugarbird, Blue Swallow, Green Twinspot, Grey Wagtail and Mountain Wagtail.

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