- Racket-tailed Roller
- Racket-tailed Treepie
- Radde's Warbler
- Rattling Cisticola
- Razorbill
- Red-and-green Macaw
- Red-and-yellow Barbet
- Red-backed Shrike
- Red-bellied Macaw
- Red-bellied Parrot
- Red-billed Blue Magpie
- Red-billed Buffalo Weaver
- Red-billed Chough
- Red-billed Firefinch
- Red-billed Oxpecker
- Red-billed Quelea
- Red-billed Spurfowl
- Red-billed Teal
- Red-billed Tropicbird
- Red-breasted Merganser
- Red-breasted Parakeet
- Red-breasted Swallow
- Red-capped Cardinal
- Red-capped Lark
- Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu
- Red-chested Cuckoo
- Red-chested Sunbird
- Red-cowled Widowbird
- Red-crested Korhaan
- Red-crested Pochard
- Red-crowned Woodpecker
- Red-eyed Dove
- Red-faced Crombec
- Red-footed Falcon
- Red-fronted Barbet
- Red-fronted Serin
- Red-fronted Tinkerbird
- Red-headed Barbet
- Red-headed Bunting
- Red-headed Finch
- Red-headed Weaver
- Red-knobbed Coot
- Red-legged Cormorant
- Red-mantled Rosefinch
- Red-necked Falcon
- Red-necked Grebe
- Red-necked Phalarope
- Red-necked Spurfowl
- Red-necked Stint
- Red-necked Woodpecker
- Red-rumped Woodpecker
- Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Red-tailed Shrike
- Red-throated Bee-eater
- Red-throated Tit
- Red-throated Twinspot
- Red-wattled Lapwing
- Red-whiskered Bulbul
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Red-winged Starling
- Red Avadavat
- Red Collared Dove
- Red Junglefowl
- Red Knot
- Reddish Egret
- Reed Cormorant
- Reichenow's Seedeater
- Retz's Helmetshrike
- Rhinoceros Hornbill
- Ring-necked Dove
- Ring-necked Duck
- Ringed Kingfisher
- Riverside Tyrant
- Roadside Hawk
- Rock Bunting
- Rock Dove
- Rock Kestrel
- Rock Martin
- Rock Sparrow
- Rook
- Rose-ringed Parakeet
- Roseate Spoonbill
- Rosy-patched Bushshrike
- Rosy-throated Longclaw
- Rosy Starling
- Rouget's Rail
- Royal Tern
- Ruby-cheeked Sunbird
- Ruby-topaz Hummingbird
- Ruddy Ground Dove
- Ruddy Shelduck
- Ruddy Turnstone
- Rufescent Tiger Heron
- Ruff
- Ruffed Grouse
- Rufous-bellied Eagle
- Rufous-bellied Heron
- Rufous-bellied Niltava
- Rufous-breasted Antthrush
- Rufous-browed Flycatcher
- Rufous-capped Antthrush
- Rufous-collared Sparrow
- Rufous-eared Warbler
- Rufous-gorgeted Flycatcher
- Rufous-naped Lark
- Rufous-tailed Hummingbird
- Rufous-tailed Jacamar
- Rufous-tailed Tailorbird
- Rufous-tailed Weaver
- Rufous-throated Partridge
- Rufous-vented Chachalaca
- Rufous-winged Fulvetta
- Rufous Chatterer
- Rüppell's Black Chat
- Rüppell's Korhaan
- Rüppell's Robin-Chat
- Rüppell's Starling
- Rüppell's Vulture
- Rüppell's Weaver
- Russet-backed Oropendola
- Russet-crowned Warbler
- Rusty-breasted Wheatear
- Rusty-cheeked Scimitar Babbler
- Rusty-margined Flycatcher
- Rusty Flowerpiercer