Birds to See in Eswatini in September
19 species listed for September · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
19 bird species on our list for Eswatini are recorded regularly in September. Of these, the most often recorded are Cape Starling, Egyptian Goose, Fork-tailed Drongo, Pied Crow and Southern Masked Weaver. New this month: Spur-winged Goose, Moorhen, Little Grebe and Rock Dove and 1 more.
New in September5
Leaving after last month2
Residents
(10)Recorded all year
Cape Starling
Lamprotornis nitensLC
Recorded all year
Egyptian Goose
Alopochen aegyptiacaLC
Recorded all year
Fork-tailed Drongo
Dicrurus adsimilisLC
Recorded all year
Pied Crow
Corvus albusLC
Recorded all year
Southern Masked Weaver
Ploceus velatusLC
Regularly May–Mar
Hoopoe
Upupa epopsLC
Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Regularly May–Mar
House Sparrow
Passer domesticusLC
Recorded all year
Grey Heron
Ardea cinereaLC
Regularly Apr–Feb
Helmeted Guineafowl
Numida meleagrisLC
Recorded all year
Summer visitors
(2)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Passage migrants
(6)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
Little Grebe
Tachybaptus ruficollisLC
Regularly Jul–Dec
Common Sandpiper
Actitis hypoleucosLC
Regularly Aug–Jan
Moorhen
Gallinula chloropusLC
Regularly Jul–Nov
Spur-winged Goose
Plectropterus gambensisLC
Regularly May–Feb
Lanner Falcon
Falco biarmicusLC
Regularly Apr–Nov
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Regularly Sep–Feb
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