Birds to See in Eswatini in October
27 species listed for October · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
27 bird species on our list for Eswatini are recorded regularly in October. Of these, the most often recorded are Cape Starling, Lesser Striped Swallow, Fork-tailed Drongo, Cattle Egret and Helmeted Guineafowl. New this month: Barn Swallow, European Bee-eater, Willow Warbler and Magpie Shrike and 7 more.
Residents
(10)Recorded all year
Cape Starling
Lamprotornis nitensLC
Recorded all year
Fork-tailed Drongo
Dicrurus adsimilisLC
Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Regularly May–Mar
Helmeted Guineafowl
Numida meleagrisLC
Recorded all year
Pied Crow
Corvus albusLC
Recorded all year
Southern Masked Weaver
Ploceus velatusLC
Regularly May–Mar
Egyptian Goose
Alopochen aegyptiacaLC
Recorded all year
House Sparrow
Passer domesticusLC
Recorded all year
Hoopoe
Upupa epopsLC
Recorded all year
Grey Heron
Ardea cinereaLC
Regularly Apr–Feb
Summer visitors
(5)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Passage migrants
(11)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
Magpie Shrike
Urolestes melanoleucusLC
Regularly Jul–Feb
Common Sandpiper
Actitis hypoleucosLC
Regularly Aug–Jan
Spur-winged Goose
Plectropterus gambensisLC
Regularly May–Feb
Wood Sandpiper
Tringa glareolaLC
Regularly Aug–Dec
Glossy Ibis
Plegadis falcinellusLC
Regularly Oct–May
Little Grebe
Tachybaptus ruficollisLC
Regularly Jul–Dec
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Regularly Oct–Nov
Moorhen
Gallinula chloropusLC
Regularly Jul–Nov
Squacco Heron
Ardeola ralloidesLC
Regularly Oct
Common Reed-warbler
Acrocephalus scirpaceusLC
Regularly Oct
Great Cormorant
Phalacrocorax carboLC
Regularly Jul–Nov
Scarce visitors
(1)Recorded in some years but not every year
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