Birding on the Knysna Estuary
Birding on the Knysna Estuary – Interested in bird watching? The Knysna Estuary and River provide some top notch opportunities to see the following species:
*These are birds that actually live and/or feed on the lagoon. This list is kindly supplied by John Bircher of the U3A Birding Group, Knysna.
Roberts number | Common Name |
6 | Great Crested Grebe |
8 | Little Grebe (Dabchick) |
55 | White-breasted Cormorant |
56 | Cape Cormorant |
58 | Reed Cormorant |
60 | African Darter |
62 | Grey Heron |
63 | Black-headed Heron |
64 | Goliath Heron |
67 | Little Egret |
71 | Cattle Egret |
91 | African Sacred Ibis |
94 | Hadeda Ibis |
95 | African Spoonbill |
96 | Greater Flamingo |
97 | Lesser Flamingo |
102 | Egyptian Goose |
103 | South African Shelduck |
104 | Yellow-billed Duck |
106 | Cape Teal |
108 | Red-billed Teal |
112 | Cape Shoveller |
116 | Spur-winged Goose |
148 | African Fish Eagle |
170 | Osprey |
223 | Af. Purple Swamphen (Ple. Gal.) |
226 | Common Moorhen |
228 | Red-knobbed Coot |
244 | African Black Oystercatcher |
245 | Common Ringed Plover |
246 | White-fronted Plover |
248 | Kittlitz’s Plover |
249 | Three-banded Plover |
254 | Grey Plover |
258 | Blacksmith Lapwing (Plover) |
262 | Ruddy Turnstone |
264 | Common Sandpiper |
266 | Wood Sandpiper |
269 | Marsh Sandpiper |
270 | Common Greenshank |
272 | Curlew Sandpiper |
284 | Ruff |
286 | African (Ethiopian) Snipe |
289 | Eurasian Curlew |
290 | Common Whimbrel |
294 | Pied Avocet |
295 | Black-winged Stilt |
298 | Water Thick-knee (Dikkop) |
312 | Cape (Kelp) Gull |
322 | Caspian Tern |
324 | Swift Tern |
326 | Sandwich Tern |
327 | Common Tern |
428 | Pied Kingfisher |
429 | Giant Kingfisher |
431 | Malachite Kingfisher |
520 | White-throated Swallow |
711 | African Pied Wagtail |