Birds to See in Eswatini in May
14 species listed for May · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
14 bird species on our list for Eswatini are recorded regularly in May. Of these, the most often recorded are Fork-tailed Drongo, Cape Starling, Egyptian Goose, Cattle Egret and Pied Crow. New this month: Cattle Egret, Southern Masked Weaver, Spur-winged Goose and Purple Heron and 1 more.
Residents
(10)Recorded all year
Fork-tailed Drongo
Dicrurus adsimilisLC
Recorded all year
Cape Starling
Lamprotornis nitensLC
Recorded all year
Egyptian Goose
Alopochen aegyptiacaLC
Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Regularly May–Mar
Pied Crow
Corvus albusLC
Recorded all year
Helmeted Guineafowl
Numida meleagrisLC
Recorded all year
House Sparrow
Passer domesticusLC
Recorded all year
Hoopoe
Upupa epopsLC
Recorded all year
Grey Heron
Ardea cinereaLC
Regularly Apr–Feb
Southern Masked Weaver
Ploceus velatusLC
Regularly May–Mar
Summer visitors
(1)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