What Are LBJ'S (Little Brown Jobs)? Here Are The LBJ Species Of South Africa

LBJ's or Little Brown Jobs refer to the common brown birds of South Africa. These birds are called LBJ's or Little Brown Jobs because there are some many types of these common birds and they can all be mistaken for one another as these South African birds look very similar and they can present a few problems when you try to identify them. The LBJ's of South Africa include: Warblers, Sparrows, Cisticolas, and Grassbirds. Here they are...

1. Yellow-Throated Woodland-Warbler

2. Willow Warbler

3. Icterine warbler

4. Olive Tree-Warbler

5. Garden Warbler

6. Common White-Throat

7. Knysna Warbler

8. Barrat's Warbler

9. Victorin's Warbler

10. Broad-Tailed Warbler

11. (African Sedge) Little Rush-Warbler

12. (Cape Reed) Lesser Swamp-Warbler

13. River Warbler

14. African (Marsh) Reed-Warbler

15. Eurasian (European) Reed-Warbler

16. (European) Marsh-Warbler

17. Great Reed-Warbler

18. Dark-Capped (African) Yellow Warbler

19. (European) Sedge Warbler

20. Cape Grassbird

21. Cinnamon-Breasted Warbler

22. Stierling's (Barred) Wren-Warbler

23. (African) Barred Wren-Warbler

24. Green-Backed Camaroptera (Bleating Warbler)

25. Grey-Backed Camaroptera (Bleating Warbler)

26. Zitting (Fan-Tailed) Cisticola

27. Desert Cisticola

28. Cloud Cisticola

29. Wing-Snapping (Ayer's) Cisticola

30. Pale-Crowned Cisticola

31. Neddicky

32. Grey-Backed Cisticola

33. Wailing Cisticola

34. Tinkling Cisticola

35. Croaking Cisticola

36. Rattling Cisticola

37. Lazy Cisticola

38. Rufous-Winged (Black-Backed) Cisticola

39. Levaillant's Cisticola

40. Red-Faced Cisticola

41. Great Sparrow

42. House Sparrow

43. Cape Sparrow

44. (African) Yellow-Throated Petronia (Sparrow)

45. Southern Grey-Headed Sparrow

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