A territory mapping method has been employed in 2015 to assess the population density of all diurnal raptors and owls in a riparian forest on Zambezi River near Katima Mulilo, NE Namibia. The forest was c. 280 ha in surface area. The following densities (pairs/10 km2) were recorded: Haliaeetus vocifer - 7.1, Polyboroides typus, Milvus aegyptiacus, and Accipiter tachiro - each species with 3.6; Circaetus cinerascens, Kaupifalco monogrammicus each species with 1.8; Tyto alba – 14.3, Strix woodfordii - 10.7, and Glaucidium perlatum - 3.6. In general, the raptor population density in southern Africa is much higher in woodlands and savanna than in grasslands. Keywords: Accipitiformis, Stringiformis, census, habitat, population ecology.