Birds to See in Eswatini in February
18 species listed for February · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
18 bird species on our list for Eswatini are recorded regularly in February. Of these, the most often recorded are Barn Swallow, Cattle Egret, Lesser Striped Swallow, Buzzard and Cape Starling. New this month: Spur-winged Goose and Magpie Shrike.
New in February2
Leaving after last month6
Residents
(10)Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Regularly May–Mar
Cape Starling
Lamprotornis nitensLC
Recorded all year
Fork-tailed Drongo
Dicrurus adsimilisLC
Recorded all year
Southern Masked Weaver
Ploceus velatusLC
Regularly May–Mar
Egyptian Goose
Alopochen aegyptiacaLC
Recorded all year
Helmeted Guineafowl
Numida meleagrisLC
Recorded all year
Grey Heron
Ardea cinereaLC
Regularly Apr–Feb
Pied Crow
Corvus albusLC
Recorded all year
House Sparrow
Passer domesticusLC
Recorded all year
Hoopoe
Upupa epopsLC
Recorded all year
Summer visitors
(5)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Passage migrants
(3)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
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