With over 450 bird species (seasonal) and over 60 different species of mammals, North Luangwa is a wildlife rich paradise.
ANTELOPE
Bushbuck
Common Duiker
Cookson’s Wildebeest
Eland
Impala
Klippspinger
Kudu
Lichenstein’s Hartebeest
Oribi
Puku
Reedbuck
Roan
Sharpe’s Grysbok
Steinbok
Waterbuck
BATS
Egyptian Fruit bat
Horse shoe bat
Leaf nosed bat
Peters Epauleted Fruit bat
Simple nosed bat
Slit faced bat
Tom bat
CARNIVORA
African Striped Weasel
Clawless Otter
Honey Badger
Side Striped Jackal
Spotted Hyaena
Wild Dog
CATS
African Wild Cat
Caracal
Cheetah
Leopard
Lion
Serval
VIVERRIDAE
African Civet
Rusty spotted Genet
MONGOOSES
Banded
Bushy Tailed
Dwarf
Large Grey
Marsh
Meller’s
Selous
Slender
White Tailed
GENERAL MAMMALS
Aardvark
Black Rhinoceros
Buffalo
Bushpig
Crawshay’s Zebra
Elephant
Hippopotamus
Thornycroft’s Giraffe
Warthog
Black Tailed Scrub Hare
Bush Squirrel
Cane Rat
Four Toed Elephant Shrew
Multimammate Mouse
Pangolin
Porcupine
Sun Squirrel
Tree Mouse
PRIMATES
Moloney’s Monkey
Night Ape
Thick tailed bush baby
Vervet Monkey
Yellow Baboon
SNAKES
African Python
Bark Snake
Black Mamba
Blacknecked Spitting Cobra
Boomslang
Brown House Snake
Eastern Green Snake
Herald Snake
Mozambique Spitting Cobra
Olive Grass Snake
Olive Marsh Snake
Puff Adder
Pygmy Sand Snake
Rhombic Night Adder
Spotted Bush Snake
Stilleto Snake
Striped Bellied Sand Snake
Striped Grass Snake
Tiger Snake
OTHER
Bibron’s Gecko
Blue Headed Tree Agama
Land Monitor
Leopard Tortoise
Nile Crocodile
Serrated Hinged Terrapin
Striped Skink
Tropical House Gecko
Water Monitor
FROGS
Banded Rubber Frog
Bubbling Kassina
Foam Nest Frog (Gray Tree Frog)
Painted Reed Frog
Marbled Snout Burrower
Rain Frogs
Muller’s Platanna
Common River Frog
Puddle Frogs
TOADS
Guttural Toad
Red Toad
Flat Backed Toad
Apalis
– Bar Throated
– Yellow Breasted
Avocet
Barbet
– Black Backed
– Black Collared
– Crested
– Whyte’s
– Yellow Fronted Tinkerbird
– Yellow Rumped Tinkerbird
Batis
– Chinspot
Bee-eater
– Blue cheeked
– European
– Little
Madagascar (ulive)
– Southern Carmine)
– Swallow Tailed
– White Fronted
Bishop
– Black Winged (Firecrowned)
– Southern Red
– Yellow (Yellow Rumped Widow)
Bittern
– Dwarf
– Little
Boubou
Tropical
Broadbill
– African
Brubru
Bulbuls
– Dark Capped (Black Eyed)
– Greenbul – Cabanis’s
– Greenbul – Little
– Greenbul – Sombre
– Greenbul – Yellow Bellied
– Grey ulive
– Terrestrial
Bunting
– Cinnamon Breasted (Rock)
– Gulden Breasted
Bustard
– Black Bellied (Korhaan)
– Denham’s
Buttonquail
– Kurrichane
Buzzard
– Augur
– Common
– Honey
– Lizard
Canary
– Brimstone (Bully)
– Yellow Fronted
Chat
– Arnot’s
– Boulders
– Common Stonechat
– Familiar
Cisticula
– Rattling
– Red Faced
– Rock Loving
– Short Winged
– Trilling
– Zitting (Fan Tailed)
Coot
– Red Knobbed
Cormorant
– Reed
– White Breasted
Coucal
– Black
– Senegal
– White Browed
Courser
– Bronze Winged
– Temminck’s
– Three Banded
Crake
– African
– Black
– Corn
– Striped
Crane
– Grey Crowned (Southern)
– Wattled
Creeper
– Spotted
Crombec
– Long Billed
– Red Capped
Crow
– Pied
Cuckoo
– African Grey
– Barred Long Tailed
– Black
– Common (Eurasian)
– Diderick’s
– Emerald
– Great Spotted
– Jacobin
– Klass’s
– Lesser
– Levaillant’s (Striped)
– Red Chested
– Thick Billed
Curlew
Darter
– African
Dove
– Blue Spotted Wood
– Cape Turle
– Green Spotted Wood (Emerald)
– Laughing
– Mourning
– Namaqua
– Red Eyed
– Tamourine
Drongo
– Forked Tailed
Duck
– Comb (Knobbilled)
– Fulvous Whistling
– Garganey
– Southern Pochard
– Teal :Hottentot
– Teal :Red Billed
– White Backed
– White Faced Whistling
Dunlin
Eagle
– Bateleur
– Booted
– Crowned
– Fish
– Greater Spotted
– Hawk Eagle :African
– Hawk Eagle :Ayre’s
– Lesser Spotted
– Long Crested
– Martial
– Osprey
– Snake Eagle : Black Chested
– Snake Eagle :Brown
– Snake Eagle :Western Banded
– Steppe
– Tawny
– Verreaux’s (Black)
– Wahlberg’s
Egret
– Cattle
– Great White
– Little
– Yellow Billed
Eremomela
– Burnt Necked
– Green Capped
– Yellow Bellied
Falcon
– Amur (Eastern Red Footed)
– European
– Lanner
– Peregine
– Red Necked
Finch
– Cut Throat
– Firefinch African (Bluebilled)
– Firefinch Jameson’s
– Firefinch Red Billed
Finfoot
– African
Flamingo
– Greater
– Lesser
Flufftail
– Red Chested
Flycatchers
– Ashy
– Black Throated Wattle Eye
– Dusky
– Grey Tit (Lead Culoured)
– Livingstone’s
– Pale (Mouse Culoured)
– Paradise
– Southern Black
– Spotted
– White Tailed
Franculin
– Coqui
– Shelley’s
– Spurfowl: Hildebrandt
– Spurfowl: Natal
– Spurfowl :Red Necked
– Spurfowl :Swainson’s
Gallinule
– African Purule Swamphen (Purple Gallinule)
– Allen’s (lesser)
Godwit
– Black Tailed
Goose
– Egyptian
– Pygmy
– Spur winged
Goshawk
– African
– Black
– Dark Chanting
– Gabar
– Shikra (Little Banded)
Grebe
– Little
Greenshank
Guineafowl
– Crested
– Helmeted
Gull
– Grey Headed
– Lesser Black Backed
Hamerkop
Harrier
– African Harrier Hawk (Gymnogene)
– Marsh
– Montagu’s
– Palid
– Western Marsh
Hawks
– African Cuckoo
– Bat
Heron
– Black (Egret)
– Black Headed
– Guliath
– Green Backed
– Grey
– Madagascar Pond (Squacco)
– Night Heron :Black Crowned
– Night Heron :White Backed
– Purple
– Rufous Bellied
– Squacco
Honey Guide
– Brown Backed (Sharp Billed Honeyguide)
– Green Backed (Slender Billed Honeyguide)
Honeybird
– Greater
– Lesser
– Pallid (Eastern Least)
– Scaly Fronted
Hoopoe
– African
Hornbill
– Crowned
– Grey :African
– Ground :Southern
– Pale Billed
– Red Billed
– Silvery Cheeked
– Trumpeter
Hyliota
– Southern
– Yellow Billed
Ibis
– Glossy
– Hadeda
– Sacred
Indigobird
– Purple
– Village (Steel Blue Widowfinch)
– Zambezi (Green Widowfinch)
Jacana
– African
– Lesser
Kestrel
– Dickinson’s
– Lesser
Kingfisher
– Brown Hooded
– Giant
– Grey Headed (Chestnut Bellied)
– Half Cullared
– Malachite
– Pied
– Pygmy
– Striped
– Woodland
Kite
– Black
– Black shouldered
– Yellow Billed
Lapwing (Plover)
– Blacksmith (Plover)
– Crowned
– Lesser Black Winged
– Long Toed
– Spur Winged
– Wattled ( Senegal Wattled)
– White Headed ( White Crowned)
Lark
– Dusky
– Flappet
– Red Capped
– Sparrow Lark :Chestnut Backed
Longclaw
– Yellow Throated
Lovebird
– Lilian’s
Mannikin
– Bronze
– Magpie (Common)
Martins
– Banded
– Brown Throated (Plain)
– House (Common)
– Rock
– Sand
Moorhen
– Common
– Lesser
Mousebird
– Red Faced
Neddicky
Nicator
– Eastern (Yellow spotted)
Nightingale
– Thrush
Nightjar
– Fiery necked
– Freckled
– Gaboon
– Pennant winged
Oriule
– Black headed
– Gulden, African
– Gulden, Eurasian
Owl
– Eagle Owl :Spotted
– Eagle Owl :Verreaux’s (Giant)
– Fishing Owl :Pel’s
– Grass Owl :African
– Owl – Barn
– Owl – Marsh
– Owlet – Barred
– Owlet – Pearl Spotted
– Owlet – Wood
– Scops
-White faced
Ox Pecker
Red billed
Yellow billed
Parrots
– Brown necked
– Meyer’s
Pelican
– Great white
– Pink backed
Petronia
– Yellow throated
Pigeon
– Green
Pipit
– African (Richards or Grassveld)
– Buffy
– Long billed
– Striped
Pitta
Plover
– Caspian
– Greater sand (Sand)
– Kittlitz’s
– Ringed
– Three Banded
– White fronted sand
Pratincole
– Common (Red winged)
– Rock
Prinia
– Tawny Flanked
Puffback
– Black backed
Pytilia
– Green Winged (Melba Finch)
– Orange Winged
Quail
– Blue
– Harlequin
Quelea
– Cardinal
– Red Billed
Rail
– African
Raven
– White necked
Redshank
– Common
Robins
– Bocage’s Akalat
– Robin Chat :Red Capped (Natal)
– Robin Chat :White Browed (Heuglin’s)
– Scrub Robin :Bearded
– Scrub Robin :White Browed
Roller
– Broad billed
– European
– Lilac Breasted
– Purple
– Racket Tailed
Ruff
Sanderling
Sandgrouse
– Double Banded
Sandpiper
– Common
– Curlew
– Green
– Marsh
– Terek
– Wood
Secretarybird
Seed Cracker
– Black Bellied
Seed Eater
– Richard’s (Striped Breasted)
Shrikes
– Bush Shike :Orange – Breasted
– Bush Shrike :Grey Headed
– Cuckoshike :Black
– Cuckoshike :White Breasted
– Fiscal
– Helmet Shike :Retz’s
– Helmet Shike :White
– Lesser Grey
– Red Backed
– Souza’s
Skimmer
– African
Snipes
– African (Ethiopian)
– Great
– Painted
Sparrow
– Grey Headed Southern
– House
Sparrowhawk
– Little
– Ovambo
Spinetail
– Bohms
– Mottled
Spoonbill
Starling
– Blue eared, Greater
– Blue eared, Miombo (lesser)
– Meves’s (Longtailed)
– Violet Backed (Plumcoloured)
– Wattled
– White Winged Babbling
Stilt
– Black Winged
Stint
– Little
Storks
– Abdim’s
– Black
– Marabou
– Open bill
– Saddle Billed
– White
– Woolly Necked
– Yellow Billed
Sunbird
– Amethyst (Black)
– Anchieta’s (Red & Black)
– Collared
– Coppery
– Double collared: Miombo
– Olive
– Purple Banded
– Scarlet Chested
– Shelley’s
– Variable (Yellow Bellied)
– White Bellied
Swallows
– Barn (European)
– Grey Rumped
– Lesser Striped
– Mosque
– Saw Wing :Black
– White Throated
– Wire Tailed
Swifts
– African Palm
– Alpine
– Common (European)
– Horus
– Little
– Mottled
– White Rumped
Tchagra
– Black Crowned
– Brown Crowned (3 Streaked)
Tern
– White Winged
Thick Knee
– Spotted (Dikkop)
– Water (Dikkop)
Thrushes
– Collared Palm
– Kurrichane
– Miombo Rock
Tits
– Grey Penduline
– Rufous Bellied
– Southern Black
Trogon
– Narina
Turaco
– Grey Go away Bird (Grey Lourie)
– Purple Crested
– Ross’s
– Schalow’s
Turnstone
Twinspot
– Red Throated
Vulture
– Egyptian
– Hooded
– Lappet Faced
– Palm Nut
– Ruppell’s
– White Backed
– White Headed
Wagtail
– Mountain (Long Tailed)
– Pied
– Yellow
Warblers
– Bleating Bush
– Evergreen Forest
– Garden
– Great Reed
– Icterine
– Laura’s
– Marsh
– Miombo Barred
– Moustached Grass
– Olive Tree
– Red Winged
– Reed
– Sedge
– Willow
Waxbill
– Blue
– Common
– Orange Breasted
– Swee
Weavers
– Bar Winged
– Chestnut Backed Sparrow
– Cuckoo Finch (Parasitic)
– Dark Backed
– Golden
– Lesser Masked
– Red Billed Buffalo
– Red Headed
– Southern Masked (Vitelline/African)
– Spectacled
– Thick Billed
– Village (Spotted Backed)
– White Browed Sparrow
Wheatear
– Capped
– Northern (European)
Whimbrel
White Eye
– African Yellow
Whitethroat
– Common
Whydahs
– Broad Tailed Paradise
– Eastern Paradise
– Pin Tailed
Widowbird
– Red Collared
– White Winged
Wood Hoopoes
– Green (Red Billed)
– Scimitarbill
Woodpeckers
– Bearded
– Bennett’s
– Cardinal
– Golden Tailed
– Green Backed (Little Spotted)
– Olive
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