Common Birds in Botswana
Our list for Botswana has 25 common birds recorded regularly there: 17 residents, 7 summer visitors and 1 winter visitor
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Botswana in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 25, most common first
Smallest to largest
Length, cm- Southern Masked Weaver 13–15 cm
- Red-backed Shrike 16–18 cm
- Lesser Striped Swallow 15–19 cm
- Barn Swallow 17–19 cm
- Common Sandpiper 18–20 cm
- Wood Sandpiper 19–21 cm
- Fork-tailed Drongo 23–26 cm
- Ruff 20–32 cm
- Cape Starling 25–28 cm
- African Jacana 23–31 cm
- European Bee-eater 27–29 cm
- Hoopoe 25–32 cm
- Greenshank 30–35 cm
- Magpie Shrike 35–50 cm
- Squacco Heron 40–49 cm
- Pied Crow 46–52 cm
- Cattle Egret 46–56 cm
- Glossy Ibis 48–66 cm
- Helmeted Guineafowl 53–63 cm
- Little Egret 55–65 cm
- Egyptian Goose 63–73 cm
- Great White Egret 80–104 cm
- Grey Heron 90–98 cm
- Spur-winged Goose 75–115 cm
- Common Ostrich 210–275 cm
Body length, bill to tail. Rare birds in grey.
Data: EOD – eBird Observation Dataset (Cornell Lab of Ornithology), accessed via GBIF.org, CC BY 4.0. Records from 2019–2024, aggregated and filtered by Birdfact. How these lists are made