Stanley island is home to a diverse variety of birds:

Fish eaters

 Giant king fisher

Pied king fisher

Half collared king fisher

Malachite king fisher

Kelp gull

Herons

Goliath

Grey heron

Black headed

Little egret

Cormorants

White breasted

Cape-reed Cormorant

African darter

Waders

Common greenshank

Three banded lapwing

White fronted plover

Common whimbrel

Curlew

Blackwing stilt

Turnstone

Kittlitz

Godwit

Grey plover

African black oyster catcher

Crowned plover

Spotted thick knees

Fruit eaters

Taraco(knysna loerie)

Speckled mouse bird

Nerina trogen

Spotted mousebird

Cuckoo

Klaas’s cuckoo (meitjie)

Omnivores

Whiteneck raven

Burchells coucal

Water birds

Egyptian goose

African sacret ibis

Yellowbilled duck

Hadeda ibis

Spurwing goose

Africa spoonbill

Seed eaters

Blackheaded oriole

Cape sparrow

Cape turtle dove

Common waxbill

Spotted prinia

Red-eyed dove

Cape wagtail

Cape weaver

Bully canary

Capewagtail

Helmeted guinea fowl

 Insect eaters

Fiscal shrike

Cape robin chat

Barthroated apalis

Forktailed dronga 

African stonechat

Cape canary

Cape white eye

Redwing starling

Cape batis

Sombre bulbul

Raptors

African fish eagle

African marsh harrier

Black shouldered kite

Terns

Swift tern

Caspian tern