Burchell's sandgrouse (Gevlekte sandpatrys)

Scientific name: Pterocles burchelli

Near-endemic to southern Africa, occurring from south-eastern Angola to Namibia (excluding the most arid areas closer to the coast), Botswana and northern South Africa. It generally prefers areas with red Kalahari sands with patches of grass and scattered shrubs.
Burchell's sandgrouse is a plump bird about the size of a pigeon with a small head and short legs. The eye is surrounded by bare yellow skin, the cheeks and throat are pale grey and the body is light brown, mottled with darker shades and white speckles.
It mainly eats seeds, especially of legumes, doing most of its foraging in pairs or small flocks during the day.

Rüppell's korhaan (Woestynkorhaan)

Scientific name: Eupodotis rueppellii

Near endemic to western Namibia, marginally extending into south-western Angola; it generally prefers the gravel  and sandy plains of the Namib Desert.
It is a small bustard, only 60 cm long. The head and neck are grey, with black stripes down the throat (less marked in females), through the eye, and on the sides of the neck, and white cheeks. The body is sandy brown above, and white below. The legs are sandy yellow-brown.
Mainly eats invertebrates (such as termites), small reptiles, succulent leaves and seeds, doing most of its foraging by walking along the ground, plucking prey from the substrate

Yellow-bellied eremomela (Geelpensbossanger)

Scientific name: Eremomela icteropygialis

Here it is fairly common in the shrublands of the Kalahari and the Karoo, also occupying savanna woodland (especially Acacia) and gardens.
The yellow-bellied eremomela is a very small bird 10 cm long and weighing around 9 g. Its upperparts are grey, becoming darker and more olive on the wings and tail. There is a thin pale grey supercilium and a blackish stripe through the eye. The grey breast shades into the lemon yellow belly. The bill is blackish.
It mainly eats insects, supplemented with fruit, seeds and nectar. It typically forages in the foliage of bushes and saplings, gleaning food from leaves and twigs and sometimes joining mixed species foraging flocks.

Malachite kingfisher (Kuifkopvisvanger)

Scientific name: Alcedo cristata

The general color of the upper parts of the adult bird is bright metallic blue. The head has a short crest of black and blue feathers, which gives rise to the scientific name. The face, cheeks, and underparts are rufous and there are white patches are on the throat and rear neck sides. The bill is black in young birds and reddish-orange in adults; the legs are bright red.
The Malachite kingfisher is common in many areas of southern Africa, living in a wide variety of aquatic habitats.
 It feeds mainly on fish, as well as amphibians and insects.

Long-billed crombec (Bosveldstompstert)

Scientific name: Sylvietta rufescens 

The long-billed crombec is a small, nearly tailless bird 12 cm long and weighing around 16 g. Its upperparts are brownish grey-brown, and there is a pale grey supercilium, separated from the whitish throat by a dark eye stripe. The whitish breast shades into the buff belly. The long slightly curved bill is blackish.
In southern africa it is common in arid savanna, the Okavango Delta, mixed-species woodland with well-developed undergrowth, gardens, Acacia thickets, Mopane & Miombo woodland.
It mainly eats invertebrates, supplemented with seeds and fruit. Often foraging in mixed-species flocks, it gleans food from the leaves and branches of bushes and trees.

Black-headed heron (Swartkopreier)

Scientific name: Ardea melanocephala 

In southern Africa it is common in Zimbabwe and South Africa while more scarce in Namibia, Botswana and Mozambique. It generally favours open grassy habitats, sometimes moving into marshes and floodplains in southern Mozambique.
The black-headed heron is a large bird, standing 85 cm tall, and it has a 150 cm wingspan. It is nearly as large as the grey heron, which it resembles in appearance, although it is generally darker. Its plumage is largely grey above, and paler grey below. It has a powerful dusky bill.
It mainly eats terrestrial insects, supplemented with small mammals, reptiles and birds, doing most of its foraging solitarily. It hunts by slowly and purposefully moving through the grass, rocking its head from side to side; when it spots prey, it freezes and then strikes with its bill.

Lesser masked-weaver (Kleingeelvink)

Scientific name: Ploceus intermedius

 In Southern Africa it is locally common across the northern half of the region, from northern Namibia to Mozambique and north-eastern South Africa, generally prefering habitats with or close to water, such as Acacia savanna, open woodland, riverine trees, reedbeds, swamps and mangroves.
The breeding male is a yellow bird and has forehead and forecrown, lores, cheek, ear-coverts, chin and throat black.
It mainly eats insects (especially caterpillars) and nectar, doing most of its foraging in the tree canopy, gleaning prey from foliage and flowers.

Pale-winged starling (Bleekvlerkspreeu)

Scientific name: Onychognathus nabouroup

Plumage is uniformly glossy black, except for narrow pale rufous panel visible on folded wing, some whitish of central primaries often visible in flight.
Near-endemic to southern Africa, occurring from southern Angola through Namibia to the Northern, Western and Eastern Cape, marginally extending into the Free State. It generally prefers habitats with rock-strewn hills and valleys, as it is dependant on them for nesting and roosting sites.
It mainly eats insects, fruit, seeds, nectar and pollen, foraging on the ground or gleaning food from vegetation; it also regularly hawks prey from a perch. In addition it may remove ectoparasites from Klipspringers (Oreatragus Oreatragus) and Mountain zebra (Equus zebra).

Dusky Sunbird Namakwasuikerbekkie

Scientific name: Cinnyris fuscus

Near-endemic to southern Africa, occurring from central Angola to Namibia and the western half of South Africa, marginally extending into south-western Botswana. It generally prefers drainage line woodland in succulent and Nama Karoo, semi-arid coastal plains with sand dunes, scrub along rivers and streams and rocky inselbergs with adequate cover, sometimes moving into gardens.
The breeding male has blackish-brownhead with faint purple-blue iridescence, upperparts dark brown with blue, purple.
It mainly eats nectar supplemented with arthropods, hawking insects aerially and gleaning prey from foliage and spider webs.

Greater Blue-eared Starling (Groot-blouoorglansspreeu)

Scientific name: Lamprotornis chalybaeus

Here it is locally common in Zimbabwe, Mozambique and north-eastern South Africa, extending into northern Botswana and Namibia. It generally prefers open savanna woodland with dense undergrowth, such as Mopane (Colosphermum mopane) and Acacia.
This starling is glossy blue-green with a purple-blue belly and blue ear patch. Its iris is bright yellow or orange. The sexes are similar, but the juvenile is duller and has blackish brown underparts.
(The lesser blue-eared starling is similar to this species, but the blue of the belly does not extend forward of the legs.)
It eats a variety of insects, fruit and small invertebrates, foraging in trees and on the ground.

Dark-capped bulbul, Black-eyed bulbul (Swartoogtiptol)

Scientific name: Pycnonotus tricolor

It occurs across much of sub-Saharan Africa, from Chad to Ethiopia south to southern Africa. Here it is common to abundant across Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Northern Botswana, the Caprivi Strip, the Limpopo Province, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape.
It can occupy any habitat with adequate supply of fruiting trees and bushes, absent only from dense woodland or grassland with few bushes.
The dark-capped bulbul is mostly greyish brown above and whitish brown below, with a distinctive dark head and pointy crest on top of the head. The back of the head merges into the brown of the back, and the chin is also blackish. The underparts are grey-brown apart from white around the vent.
It eats a range of fruit, petals, nectar, seeds and arthropods, foraging in groups and using a wide variety of techniques. These include plucking fruit from trees and bushes, probing the flowers of Aloe for nectar, hawking flying insects, hunting for spiders on buildings and picking up fallen fruit.

Rosy-faced lovebird (Rooiwangparkiet)

Scientific name: Agapornis roseicollis

The Rosy-faced lovebird is found exclusively in Namibia, but it is a popular cage bird worldwide, so escapees can be found outside its wild range.  It lives in various types of woodland, often with rivers nearby.
It lives in noisy gregarious colonies, which use many different types of nesting sites.
It eats mainly seeds, the rest being largely made of fruits and, rarely, flowers.

African mourning Dove (Rooioogtortelduif)

Scientific name: Streptopelia decipiens

The African mourning dove lives in small areas in the northern half of southern Africa, where it is locally common. It lives in moist savanna, cultivated areas and riverine Acacia woodland.
Its back, wings and tail are pale brown. The head is grey and the underparts are pink, shading to pale grey on the belly. There is a black hind neck patch edged with white. The legs and a patch of bare skin around the eye are red.
Mainly eats seeds, supplemented with insects and fruit. It typically forages on the ground, in flocks of up to about 30 birds.

African pied wagtail (Bontkwikkie)

Scientific name: Motacilla aguimp

Occurs across much of sub-Saharan Africa, from Senegal to Sudan south to southern Africa. Here it is fairly common in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, eastern and north-western South Africa and northern Namibia, while more scarce in Botswana and the interior of South Africa.
  It generally prefers wide rivers and other water bodies with sandy banks or scattered boulders, but it may also occupy rocky coastlines. It is also common in man-made habitats, such as parks, playing fields, golf courses, suburban gardens and sewage works.
A striking black and white wagtail with black upperparts contrasting with white underparts, a white supercilium and a white patch in the folded wing.
It mainly eats insects, especially flies but also other invertebrates, grass seeds, tadpoles, small fish and scraps of human food.

Rufous-tailed palm-thrush (Rooistertmôrelyster)

Scientific name: Cichladusa ruficauda

Occurs in a band from Gabon, Congo and eastern DRC to Angola and the extreme north-western region of Namibia. Here it is locally common in gallery forests and riverine woodland, especially with interspersed Northern lala palms.
Its length is 17–18 cm (6.7–7.1 in), and its weight is 22–37 g (0.78–1.31 oz). The sexes are alike. The head and nape are bright rufous-brown. The back, scapulars and the median and greater coverts are also rufous-brown, but are slightly paler. The flight feathers are dark brown, with rufous or rufous-brown edges, and the underwing coverts are pale buffish-brown. The rump and tail are rufous-brown or chestnut. The face and neck-sides are mostly pale grey, with the lores being darker. The chin, throat and upper breast are yellowish-buff. The breast and flanks are pale grey, and the centre of the belly is pale buff. The colour of the eyes ranges from brown to red. The beak is black, and the legs can be pale brown, pale purple or bluish-grey.
It mainly eats invertebrates, such as beetles (Coleoptera) and spiders, doing most of its foraging on the ground but also gleaning food from leaves and branches. It additionally eats the fruit of the Oil palm.

Bennett's woodpecker (Bennettse speg)

Scientific name: Campethera bennettii 

The Bennett's woodpecker is found from Tanzania south to southern Africa, where it occurs in deciduous woodland and savanna with tall trees.
Bennett's woodpecker is about 24 cm (9.4 in) long and weighs 61–84 g (2.2–3.0 oz). The male's forehead, crown and nape are red. The chin and throat are white. The upperparts are brown, yellow and white. The underparts are pale yellow, and there are dark spots on the breast and flanks. The eyes are red, the beak is grey, and the legs are bluish-green or grey-green.
Feeds mainly on ants, their eggs and pupae, doing most of its foraging by excavating underground ant nests, scooping them up with its sticky tongue. It also eats beetles and termite alates.

Swamp boubou (Moeraswaterfiskaal)

Scientific name: Laniarius bicolor

Occurs from Cameroon and the DRC to southern Africa, where it is locally common in northern Botswana, the Caprivi Strip and the upper-most reaches of Namibia. It almost only occurs along watercourses with surrounding dense vegetetation, such as tall reedbeds, Cyperus papyrus (Papyrus) and Ficus verruculosa (Water figs).
The upperparts are deep blue-black with a slight luster. The long, fluffy rump feathers have concealed white spots,[2] giving the rump a pale appearance. The wings are black with white wing-stripes, and the underparts are pure white. The iris is dark brown, the bill and palate are black, and the legs and feet slate-blue.
It eats a variety of insects, fruit and rarely frogs, doing most of its foraging in reedbeds or trees, gleaning prey from the vegetation. It also forages on the ground, flicking plant detritus around with its bill in a manner similar to thrushes.

Meves's starling, Long-tailed starling (Langstertglansspreeu)

Scientific name: Lamprotornis mevesii

Occurs from Angola, Zambia and Malawi to southern Africa, where it is locally common  in northern Namibia, Botswana and Mozambique, Zimbabwe and north-eastern South Africa.
It generally prefers open, seasonally flooded habitats with scattered trees such as Mopane , Baobab, Ana-tree , Fever-tree Acacia, Umbrella thorn and Leadwood.
The Meves's Starling is a bird about the same size as a starling. The male and female have the same plumage and colours. Head is blue, green. Eye is brown. Bill is black. Throat is blue, green. Back is blue. Legs are black.
It mainly eats insects supplemented with fruit and flowers, doing most of its foraging on the ground, often catching prey disturbed by large mammals such as African elephant.

Rüppell's parrot (Bloupenspapegaai)

Scientific name: Poicephalus rueppellii 

The Rüppell's parrot is near endemic to Namibia, occurring in habitats ranging from riparian woodland to Acacia as well as palm tree stands.
 A Rüppell's parrot has black feathers. Both adult male and female birds have some yellow feathers on the leading edge of the wings, and yellow feathers covering their upper legs; in immature birds, the yellow is dull or missing. They are sexually dimorphic; adult female birds have blue feathers on the lower back and the rump, whilst male birds lose this blue feather coloration as they become mature.
Its diet varies according to time of year, eating a range of plants and occasionally insects.

Lilac-breasted Roller (Gewone troupant)

Scientific name: Coracias caudatus

The Lilac-breasted roller is found from Eritrea and Somalia south to the northern half of southern Africa, where it is common in dry woodland.
In the field, these robust, large-headed birds are often perched alone on a tree in a grassy clearing, and are almost unmistakable with their colourful plumage tones. The lilac throat of the nominate subspecies C. c. caudatus deepens into a darker lilac breast. The crown to mantle is olive, and the cheeks and ear coverts a lilac-rufous.
It feeds on a wide variety of animals, especially insects, mainly hunting by sitting tight on a perch before pouncing on nearby prey.