Special birds of St Lucia & Surrounds
Below are listed the bird 'specials' of St Lucia and surrounding birding locations. 'Specials' can be described as the birds which are much sought after by birders because they are rare, secretive or have a restricted and very localised distribution range. Click on the birds to read more about them!
ISIMANGALISO WETLANDS PARK: ST LUCIA; EASTERN & WESTERN SHORES
- Rudds' apalis
- Woodwards batis
- Livingstones' turaco
- Green malkoha
- Black-throated Wattle-eye
- Brown scrub-robin
- Narina trogon
- Blue-mantled Crested-flycatcher
- Eastern nicator
- Buff-spotted flufftail
- Southern-banded Snake-eagle
- African cuckoo-hawk
- Crowned eagle
- Grey waxbill
- Red-backed mannikin
- Green twinspot
- Pink-throated twinspot
- Purple-banded sunbird
- Olive sunbird
- Grey sunbird
- Spotted ground-thrush (Winter)
- White-starred robin (Winter)
- Chorister robin (Winter)
- Crested guineafowl
- Tambourine dove
- Lemon dove
- Senegal lapwing
- Rosy-throated longclaw
- Black coucal (rare)
- Lemon-breasted canary
- Black-rumped buttonquail
- Red-headed quelea
- Blue-cheeked bee-eater
- Pale-crowned cisticola
- Rufous-winged cisticola
- Croaking cisticola
- Short-tailed pipit (winter)
- Lesser-crested tern
- Sooty tern (vagrant)
- Chestnut-banded plover (vagrant)
- Greater sand-plover
- Swamp nightjar
- African Wood-owl
- African pygmy-goose
- Lesser jacana
- Black sparrowhawk
- Denham's bustard
- Palmnut vulture
- Southern Brown-throated weaver
- Collared pratincole
Mkhuze Game Reserve
- African broadbill
- Eastern nicator
- Gorgeous bush-shrike
- Bearded scrub-robin
- Pink-throated twinspot
- Pels' fishing-owl
- Dwarf bittern (summer)
- Lesser moorhen (summer)
- Allens' gallinule (summer)
- African crake
- Neergaard's sunbird
- Senegal lapwing
- Broad-billed roller
- Bushveld pipit
- Olive-tree warbler (summer)
- Narina trogon
- Purple-banded sunbird
- Western Osprey
- Green malkoha
- Lesser-spotted eagle
- Blue-cheeked bee-eater (summer)
- Rudd's apalis
- Crested guineafowl
- Grey waxbill
- White-eared barbet
- African yellow white-eye
- Scaly-throated honeyguide
- White-eared barbet
HLUHLUWE-UMFOLOZI GAME RESERVE
- Southern Ground hornbill
- Gorgeous bush-shrike
- Eastern nicator
- African finfoot
- Narina trogon
- African emerald cuckoo St Lucia:
- Tambourine dove
- Olive woodpecker
- Bushveld pipit
- Olive bush-shrike
- Lemon dove
- Crested guineafowl
- Crowned eagle
- African cuckoo hawk
- Lanner falcon
- Tawny eagle
- Lappet-faced vulture
- White-headed vulture
- Bald ibis (winter)
- Jackal buzzard (winter)
- Dwarf bittern
MPEMPE PAN
- Senegal lapwing
- Black-winged lapwing
- Caspian plover
- Kittlitz's plover
- Western yellow wagtail
- Lemon-breasted canary
- Grey-rumped swallow
- Lesser jacana
- Lesser moorhen (summer)
- Allen's gallinule (summer)
- Greater painted snipe
- African marsh harrier
- Rosy-throated longclaw
- African pygmy gooseB
- Temminck's courser
- White-backed duck
- Blue-billed teal