Yellow-billed kite

As its name suggests, you can spot the Yellow-billed kite by its brightly coloured beak. Widely found in Sub-Saharan Africa, it was thought to be related to the black kite, but genetic tests show that it is actually a separate species altogether.

Some of these birds will migrate into Southern Africa in the summer and then leave again in the autumn. The Yellow-billed kite’s diet mainly consists of small vertebrates like mice and rats, but they’re not fussy and will eat almost anything they can scavenge!