- Rainforest Scops Owl
- Rattling Cisticola
- Razorbill
- Red-billed Buffalo Weaver
- Red-billed Oxpecker
- Red-billed Spurfowl
- Red-breasted Swallow
- Red-crested Korhaan
- Red-crested Pochard
- Red-faced Mousebird
- Red Fody
- Red Kite
- Reed Cormorant
- Ringed Teal
- Rock Bunting
- Rock Pratincole
- Rock Sparrow
- Royal Tern
- Ruddy Duck
- Ruddy Turnstone
- Ruff
- Rufous-bellied Heron
- Rüppell's Vulture