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"I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A bird could fall frozen from it's nest without ever having felt self pitty"* *D H Lawrence
The following birds have been spotted at ZiZi Estate, for ease of reference we have listed the page on which the birds can be found in the Newmans Birds of South Africa:
1. Reed Cormorant (Pg 84) 2. White Breasted Or Great Cormorant (Pg 84) 3. African Darter (Pg 84) 4. Cattle Egret (Pg 92) 5. Little Egret (Pg 92) 6.Yellow Billed Or Intermediate Egret (Pg 92) 7. Great Egret (Pg 92) 8. Grey Heron (Pg 94) 9. Purple Heron (Pg 94) 10. White Stork (Pg 98) 11. Black Stork (Pg 98) 12. Yellow Billed Stork (Pg 100) 13. Hamerkop (Pg 100) 14. African Spoonbill (Pg 102) 15. Sacred Ibis (Pg 104) 16. Hadeda Ibis (Pg 104) 17. White Faced Duck (Pg 106) 18. Egyptian Goose (Pg 108) 19. Spur WInged Goose (Pg 108) 20. African Black Duck (Pg 114) 21. Yellow Billed Duck (Pg 114) 22. Knob Billed Or Comb Duck (Pg 114) 23. Red Knobbed Coot (Pg 116) 24. Common Moorhen (Pg 118) 25. Black Crake (Pg 122) 26. African Jacana (Pg 138) 27. Blacksmith Plover Or Lapwing (Pg 142) 28. Crowned Plover Or Lapwing (Pg 142) 29. Spotted Dikkop Or Thicknee (Pg 148) 30. Swainsons Francolin Or Spurfowl (Pg 164) 31. Natal Francolin (Pg 166) 32. Helemeted Guineafowl (Pg 168) 33. Black Shouldered Kite (Pg 194) 34. Gymnogene Or African Harrier Hawk (Pg 204) 35. Red Eyed Dove (Pg 216) 36. Cape Turtle Or Ring Necked Dove (Pg 216) 37. Laughing Dove (Pg 216) 38. Namaqua Dove (Pg 216) 39. Rock Or Speckled Pigeon (Pg 218) 40. Feral Pigeon Or Rock Dove (Pg 220) 41. Rameron Or African Olive Pigoen (Pg 220) 42. Grey Lourie Or Go-Away Bird (Pg 226) 43. Diederik Cuckoo (Pg 228) 44. Red Chested Cuckoo (Pg 230) 45. Burchells Coucal (Pg 234) 46. Greater Striped Swallow (Pg 248) 47. White Throated Swallow (Pg 250) 48. Eurupean Or Barn Swallow (Pg 252) 49. House Martin (Pg 256) 50. Little Swift (Pg 260) 51. Speckled Mousebird (Pg 264) 52. Red Faced Mousebird (Pg 264) 53. Giant Kingfisher (Pg 268) 54. Pied Kingfisher (Pg 268) 55. Brown Hoodeed Kingfisher (Pg 272) 56. Red Billed Or Green Woodhoopoe (Pg 276) 57. African Hoopoe (Pg 276) 58. Black Collared Barbet (Pg 284) 59. Crested Barbet (Pg 284) 60. Yellow Throated Long Claw (Pg 312) 61.Cape Wagtail (Pg 314) 62. African Pied Wagtail (Pg 314) 63. Fork Tailed Drongo (Pg 316) 64. Pied Crow (Pg 320) 65. Black Or Cape Crow (Pg 320) 66. Blck Headed Oriole (Pg 320) 67. Black Eyed Or Dark Capped Bulbul (Pg 326) 68. Arrow Marked Babbler (Pg 330) 69. Groundscraper Thrush (Pg 332) 70. Kurrichane Thrush (Pg 332) 71. Cape Robin Or Robin Chat (Pg 344) 72. Willow Warbler (Pg 352) 73. Bar Throated Apalis (Pg 360) 74. Tawny Flanked Prinia (Pg 378) 75. Spotted Flycatcher (Pg 382) 76. Fiscal Flycathcer (Pg 384) 77. Chin Spot Batis (Pg 386) 78. Paradise Flycatcher (Pg 388) 79. Fiscal Shrike Or Common Fiscal (Pg 392) 80. Puffback Or Blackbacked Puffback (Pg 392) 81. Southern Boubou (Pg 394) 82. Bokmakierie (Pg 400) 83. Red Winged Starling (Pg 402) 84. Plum Coloured Or Violet Backed Starling (Pg 404) 85. Cape Glossy Straling (Pg 406) 86. Malachite Sunbird (Pg 410) 87. White Bellied Sunbird (Pg 414) 88. Black Or Amethyst Sunbird (Pg 416) 89. Cape White Eye (Pg 422) 90. House Sparrow (Pg 424) 91. Cape Weaver (Pg 428) 92. Spectacled Weaver (Pg 430) 93. Southern Masked Weaver (Pg 432) 94. Spotted Backed Or Village Weaver (Pg 432) 95. Golden Or Yellow Crowned Bishop (Pg 432) 96. Southern Red Bishop (Pg 436) 97. Blue Waxbill (Pg 446) 98. Common Waxbill (Pg 446) 99. Swee Waxbill (Pg 448) 100. Pin Tailed Whydah (Pg 452) 101. Paradise Whydah (Pg 452)
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