The Cape Bird Club
Counts – Strandfontein – April 2002
photograph by Michael McSweeney
Yellowbilled Egret
| Wind | moderate SE |
| Weather | fine |
| Leader | Dick Barnes |
|
Species |
Presence |
Species |
Presence |
|
GREBES |
– |
COUCALS | – |
| Great Crested |
15 |
Burchell's Coucal |
– |
| Blacknecked | 38 | OWLS | – |
| Dabchick | 1295 | Spotted Eagle Owl | – |
| PELICANS | – | SWIFTS | – |
| White Pelican | 52 | Black Swift | – |
| CORMORANTS | – | Whiterumped Swift | – |
| Whitebreasted Cormorant | 241 | Little Swift | – |
| Cape Cormorant | – | Alpine Swift | – |
| Reed Cormorant | 28 | MOUSEBIRDS | – |
| DARTERS | – | Whitebacked Mousebird | – |
| Darter | 17 | Redfaced | – |
| HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS | – | KINGFISHERS | – |
| Grey Heron | 20 | Pied Kingfisher | 2 |
| Blackheaded Heron | 17 | Giant Kingfisher | – |
| Purple Heron | – | Malachite Kingfisher | – |
| Blackcrowned Night Heron | 4 | BARBETS | – |
| Little Egret | 15 | Acacia Pied Barbet | – |
| Yellow billed Egret | – | LARKS AND FINCHLARKS | – |
| Cattle Egret | 107 | Redcapped Lark | – |
| Little Bittern | – | SWALLOWS AND MARTINS | – |
| IBIS AND SPOONBILLS | – | European Swallow | – |
| Sacred Ibis | 170 | Whitethroated Swallow | 11 |
| Glossy Ibis | 81 | Greater Striped Swallow | 4 |
| Hadeda Ibis | 3 | Pearlbreasted Swallow | – |
| African Spoonbill | – | Black Sawwing | – |
| FLAMINGOES | – | Rock Martin | – |
| Greater Flamingo | 1549 | Brownthroated Martin | 257 |
| Lesser Flamingo | – | CROWS AND RAVENS | – |
| DUCKS AND GEESE | – | Pied Crow | 4 |
| Spurwinged Goose |
40 |
Whitenecked Raven | – |
| Egyptian Goose | 228 | BULBULS | – |
| Shelduck | 12 | Cape Bulbul | 38 |
| Yellowbilled Duck | 142 | THRUSHES, CHATS, ALETHES, ROBINS AND ROCKJUMPERS | – |
| Hotentot Teal | – | Olive Thrush | – |
| Red-billed Teal | 225 | Cape Robin Chat | 4 |
| Cape Teal | 725 | Karoo Robin | 3 |
| Cape Shoveller | 795 | TITBABBLERS, WARBLERS, APALISES, CROMBECS, CISTICOLAS AND PRINIAS | – |
| Southern Pochard | 135 | Cape Reed Warbler | 19 |
| Whitefaced Duck | – | African Sedge Warbler | 5 |
| Whitebacked Duck | 3 | African Marsh Warbler | – |
| Maccoa | 201 | Grassbird | 2 |
| KITES | – | Fantailed Cisticola | 5 |
| Black Shouldered Kite | 5 | Levaillant's Cisticola | 46 |
| Yellowbilled Kite | – | Greybacked Cisticola | – |
| EAGLES | – | Karro Prinia | 20 |
| African Fish Eagle | – | WAGTAILS, PIPITS AND LONGCLAWS | – |
| BUZZARDS | – | Cape Wagtail | 68 |
| Steppe Buzzard | – | Grassveld Pipit | – |
| GOSHAWKS AND SPARROWHAWKS | – | Orangethroated Longclaw | 3 |
| Redbreasted Sparrowhawk | – | SHRIKES | – |
| Black Sparrowhawk | – | Fiscal Shrike | 1 |
| African Goshawk |
– |
Fiscal Flycatcher | 1 |
| HARRIERS | – | Bokmakierie | 1 |
| African Marsh Harrier | 9 | STARLINGS | – |
| FALCONS AND KESTRELS | – | Commom Starling | 270 |
| Peregrine Falcon | – | Redwing Starling | 1 |
| Lanner Falcon | – | SUGARBIRDS AND SUNBIRDS | – |
| Rock Kestrel | – | Malachite Sunbird | – |
| FRANCOLIN AND QUAIL | – | Lesser Double collared Sunbird | 2 |
| Greywinged Francolin | 3 | WHITE EYES | – |
| GUINEAFOWL | – | Cape White Eye | – |
| Helmeted Guineafowl | 40 | SPARROWS, WEAVERS, BISHOPS AND WIDOWS | – |
| RAIL, CRAKES, FLUFFTAILS, GALLINULES, MOORHENS AND COOTS | – | House Sparrow | – |
| Black Crake | – | Cape Sparrow | 10 |
| African Purple Swamp hen | 23 | Cape Weaver | 26 |
| Moorhen | 209 | Southern Masked Weaver | – |
| Redknobbed Coot | 827 | Red Bishop | 21 |
| Black Oystercatcher | – | Yellowrumped Widow | – |
| PLOVERS | – | WAXBILLS | – |
| Threebanded Plover | 11 | Common Waxbill | 7 |
| Whitefronted | – | Pintailed Whydah | – |
| Kittlitz's | – | CANARIES, SISKINS, FINCHES AND BUNTINGS | – |
| Blacksmith Lapwing | 157 | Cape Canary | 45 |
| Ringed Plover | 7 | Yellow Canary | 2 |
| Crowned Plover | – | OTHER | – |
| Rednecked Phalarope | – | Tufted Duck | 1 |
| SNIPES, GODWITS, SANDPIPERS, STINTS, CURLEWS AND PHALAROPES, RUFF, STINT | – | Ostrich | – |
| Common Sandpiper | – |
total species |
76 |
| Wood | 2 | – | – |
| Marsh Sandpiper | – | – | – |
| Curlew | – | – | – |
| Greenshank | 3 | – | – |
| Little Stint | 68 | – | – |
| Ruff | – | – | – |
| African Snipe | – | – | – |
| AVOCETS AND STILTS | – | – | – |
| Blackwinged Stilt | 378 | – | – |
| Pied Avocet | 224 | – | – |
| DIKKOPS | – | – | – |
| Spotted Thickknees | 3 | – | – |
| Water Thickknees | – | – | – |
| SKUAS, GULLS AND TERNS | – | – | – |
| Kelp Gull | 812 | – | – |
| Greyheaded Gull | – | – | – |
| Hartlaubs Gull | 290 | – | – |
| Caspian Tern | 8 | – | – |
| Swift Tern | – | – | – |
| Sandwich Tern | – | – | – |
| Common Tern | 1 | – | – |
| Whitewinged | – | – | – |
| PIGEONS AND DOVES | – | – | – |
| Feral Pigeon | – | – | – |
| Rock Pigeon | 2 | – | – |
| Redeyed Dove | – | – | – |
| Cape Turtle Dove | 10 | – | – |
| Laughing Dove | 4 | – | – |
| CUCKOOS | – | – | – |
| Klaas's Cuckoo | – | – | – |
| Diederik Cuckoo | – | – | – |
