KNP Birds

Kruger National Park

Credits

Checklists and references used for the family and species lists, the taxonomy those names follow, and credit for photographs, recordings, and this site.

Data sources

  1. Birda SABAP2 Kruger checklist

    Primary filter for families and species that regularly occur in Kruger. SABAP2 observation counts separate residents, regular migrants, and regular visitors from rare and accidental records. The checklist cites the GBIF occurrence download linked here.

    Also: GBIF occurrence download.

    Licence unknown.

  2. BirdLife South Africa Checklist of Birds in South Africa 2026

    Official national list. Scientific names, English names, Afrikaans species names, and vagrant status come from this checklist.

    Also: 2026 PDF.

    Licence unknown.

  3. SANParks Kruger birds checklist

    Park checklist, cited as 546 species. Used as context for which birds are treated as regular in Kruger. It did not supply the master species list.

    Licence unknown.

  4. Avibase — Kruger National Park

    Family-ordered checklist used as a cross-check. The default taxonomy there is Clements, with an IOC option. It informed borderline regular-versus-vagrant judgement and was not the master list.

    Licence unknown.

  5. Wikipedia — List of birds of South Africa

    Cross-check of family structure. The page is arranged on Clements and notes BirdLife South Africa status. The licence below is the licence of the Wikipedia text.

    Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.

  6. Waterberg Bioquest — Voëls

    Afrikaans family headings. Waterberg is outside Kruger. A heading was used only where a stable southern African family name could be verified. Species Afrikaans names were not taken from this page.

    Licence unknown.

Taxonomy

IOC / BirdLife South Africa. Scientific names, English names, and family placement follow the IOC World Bird List as adopted by the BirdLife South Africa Checklist of Birds in South Africa 2026. Afrikaans species names come from that checklist. Afrikaans family headings come from Waterberg Bioquest only where a stable heading could be verified, and are left blank otherwise.

Photographs, recordings, and population sources

No photos or recordings have been added so far.

This site

KNP Birds is open source under the Apache License 2.0 licence. The code is at https://github.com/ftruter/KNP-birds.

Built and maintained by ftruter.

The green and gold are inspired by the SANParks green and the Springbok gold. The palette is colour inspiration only, with no implied endorsement.

This site isn't affiliated with SANParks.