South African Birds That Are Dependant On Wetland Areas For Survival

The Wetland Birds Of South Africa

The birds that are dependant on a wetland or marsh habitat in South Africa, are not often encountered. These wetland birds are very secretive and do not like to be caught out in the open areas. The only bird in this group of birds that you can observe a fair amount in the open is the Red-Knobbed Coot. The wetland areas of South Africa are under huge threat and these scarcely found birds that occur in the wetlands of South Africa are getting scarcer.

1. African Finfoot

2. Red-Knobbed Coot

3. Common Moorhen

4. Lesser Moorhen

5. African Purple Swamphen (Gallinule)

6. Allen's (Lesser) Gallinule

7. American Purple Gallinule

8. Black Crake

9. African Jacana

10. Lesser Jacana

11. African Rail

12. Corn Crake

13. Spotted Crake

14. African Crake

15. Striped Crake

16. Baillon's Crake

17. Red-Chested Flufftail

18. Striped Flufftail

19. Streaky-Breasted Flufftail

20. White-Winged

21. Buff-Spotted Flufftail

22. Blue Crane

23. Wattled Crane

24. Grey (Southern) Crowned Crane

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