Safari Animal Sighting List

We kept a running list of all the animals we saw on safari in both Malawi and Tanzania. Some animals we saw in abundance (here's looking at you impala, hippos and wildebeests) and some we saw only once or twice. This list includes all the mammals, only one lizard (the rest known locally just as "lizard"), probably about 30% of the bird species, and none of the insect or plant species. I guess that is just the way of the safari world. These are listed in the order and park where we first saw them, but most we also saw later too.

Majete:
Impala
Nyala
Turtle
Sable
Warthog
Yellow baboons
Ground hornbill
Kudu
Trumpeter hornbill
African Elephant
Pied Kingfisher
Brown headed parrot
Helmeted Guineafowl
Water buck
Hippopotamus
Nightjars
Lions
Spotted eagle owl
Lizard buzzards
Termina? Kosa
Golden web spider
Yellow billed kite
Hadeda Ibis
Boehm’s Bee-eaters
Little bee-eater
Bushbucks
Nile Crocodile
Egyptian geese
African grey hornbill
Whiteback vulture
Tree squirrel
Zebra
African Golden oriole
Eland
Lilac-breasted roller
African jacana

Zomba Plateau:
Forest cobra
Vervet monkey
Blue - Samango monkey
Exclamatory paradise whydah

Mvuu:
Cattle egrets
Great white egret
Open bill stork
Banded mongoose
White tail mongoose
Water monitor lizard
Martial Eagle
Porcupine
African civet
Small spotted genet
Side striped jackal
Barn owl
Cheetah
Amethyst sunbird
Trumpeter hornbill
Southern ground hornbill
Brown throated weaver
Wooly necked stork
Bush pig
Serval
Mellers mongoose
African fish eagle
Purple indigobird

Ngorongoro:
Giraffe
Crown crane
Buffalo
Wildebeest
Male lion
Black rhinoceros
Ostrich
Kori bustard
Flamingo
Grant’s gazelle
Thompson gazelle
Spotted Hyena

Serengeti:
Wire backed Vulture
Nubian vulture
Leopard (completing big 5 in one day!)
Topi
Secretary bird
Dwarf mongoose
Rock Hyrax
African Hoopoe
Dikdik
Striped mongoose
Falcon
Blacktailed hare
Hartebeest
Superb Starling
Grey go away bird
White headed buffalo weaver
Marabou stork
Olive baboon
Golden jackal
Flap eared chameleon
Goliath heron