- Racket-tailed Treepie
- Rattling Cisticola
- Razorbill
- Red-billed Buffalo Weaver
- Red-billed Chough
- Red-billed Firefinch
- Red-billed Oxpecker
- Red-billed Quelea
- Red-breasted Goose
- Red-breasted Merganser
- Red-capped Lark
- Red-capped Robin-Chat
- Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu
- Red-crested Korhaan
- Red-crested Pochard
- Red-faced Crombec
- Red-faced Mousebird
- Red-knobbed Coot
- Red-legged Partridge
- Red-necked Stint
- Red-throated Pipit
- Red-throated Wryneck
- Red-wattled Lapwing
- Red-whiskered Bulbul
- Red-winged Starling
- Red Collared Dove
- Red Junglefowl
- Red Knot
- Red Phalarope
- Redpoll
- Reed Cormorant
- Ring-necked Dove
- Ring Ouzel
- Rock Dove
- Rook
- Rose-ringed Parakeet
- Rosy-patched Bushshrike
- Rouget's Rail
- Rudd's Apalis
- Ruddy Shelduck
- Ruddy Turnstone
- Rufous-naped Lark
- Rüppell's Black Chat
- Rüppell's Robin-Chat
- Rüppell's Starling
- Rüppell's Vulture
- Rüppell's Weaver