The Cape Bird Club
Counts – Strandfontein – April 2003
photograph by Michael McSweeney
Blackwinged Stilts
| Wind | none |
| Weather | fine |
| Leader | Dick Barnes |
|
Species |
Presence |
Species |
Presence |
|
GREBES |
– |
COUCALS | – |
| Great Crested |
9 |
Burchell's Coucal |
– |
| Blacknecked | 204 | OWLS | – |
| Dabchick | 511 | Spotted Eagle Owl | – |
| PELICANS | – | SWIFTS | – |
| White Pelican | 30 | Black Swift | 20 |
| CORMORANTS | – | Whiterumped Swift | 3 |
| Whitebreasted Cormorant | 131 | Little Swift | – |
| Cape Cormorant | – | Alpine Swift | – |
| Reed Cormorant | 10 | MOUSEBIRDS | – |
| DARTERS | – | Speckled Mousebird | 1 |
| Darter | 2 | Redfaced | – |
| HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS | – | KINGFISHERS | – |
| Grey Heron | 27 | Pied Kingfisher | 5 |
| Blackheaded Heron | 7 | Giant Kingfisher | – |
| Purple Heron | 5 | Malachite Kingfisher | – |
| Blackcrowned Night Heron | – | BARBETS | – |
| Little Egret | 4 | Acacia Pied Barbet | – |
| Great White Egret | 1 | LARKS AND FINCHLARKS | – |
| Cattle Egret | 117 | Redcapped Lark | – |
| Little Bittern | – | SWALLOWS AND MARTINS | – |
| IBIS AND SPOONBILLS | – | European Swallow | 113 |
| Sacred Ibis | 94 | Whitethroated Swallow | – |
| Glossy Ibis | 11 | Greater Striped Swallow | – |
| Hadeda Ibis | 8 | Pearlbreasted Swallow | – |
| African Spoonbill | – | Black Sawwing | – |
| FLAMINGOES | – | Rock Martin | 3 |
| Greater Flamingo | 1719 | Brownthroated Martin | – |
| Lesser Flamingo | – | CROWS AND RAVENS | – |
| DUCKS AND GEESE | – | Pied Crow | 1 |
| Spurwinged Goose |
56 |
Whitenecked Raven | – |
| Egyptian Goose | 148 | BULBULS | – |
| Shelduck | 5 | Cape Bulbul | 39 |
| Yellowbilled Duck | 138 | THRUSHES, CHATS, ALETHES, ROBINS AND ROCKJUMPERS | – |
| Hotentot Teal | – | Olive Thrush | – |
| Red-billed Teal | 41 | Cape Robin Chat | 2 |
| Cape Teal | 531 | Karoo Robin | – |
| Cape Shoveller | 253 | TITBABBLERS, WARBLERS, APALISES, CROMBECS, CISTICOLAS AND PRINIAS | – |
| Southern Pochard | 22 | Cape Reed Warbler | 9 |
| Fulvous Duck | 1 | African Sedge Warbler | 29 |
| Whitebacked Duck | – | African Marsh Warbler | – |
| Maccoa | 366 | Grassbird | – |
| KITES | – | Fantailed Cisticola | – |
| Black Shouldered Kite | 6 | Levaillant's Cisticola | 18 |
| Yellowbilled Kite | – | Greybacked Cisticola | 1 |
| EAGLES | – | Karro Prinia | 11 |
| African Fish Eagle | – | WAGTAILS, PIPITS AND LONGCLAWS | – |
| BUZZARDS | – | Cape Wagtail | 51 |
| Steppe Buzzard | – | Grassveld Pipit | 3 |
| GOSHAWKS AND SPARROWHAWKS | – | Orangethroated Longclaw | 5 |
| Redbreasted Sparrowhawk | – | SHRIKES | – |
| Black Sparrowhawk | – | Fiscal Shrike | – |
| African Goshawk |
– |
Southern Boubou | – |
| HARRIERS | – | Bokmakierie | – |
| African Marsh Harrier | 2 | STARLINGS | – |
| FALCONS AND KESTRELS | – | Commom Starling | 211 |
| Peregrine Falcon | – | Redwing Starling | 5 |
| Lanner Falcon | – | SUGARBIRDS AND SUNBIRDS | – |
| Rock Kestrel | – | Malachite Sunbird | – |
| FRANCOLIN AND QUAIL | – | Lesser Double collared Sunbird | 1 |
| Cape Francolin | 11 | WHITE EYES | – |
| GUINEAFOWL | – | Cape White Eye | 1 |
| Helmeted Guineafowl | 18 | SPARROWS, WEAVERS, BISHOPS AND WIDOWS | – |
| RAIL, CRAKES, FLUFFTAILS, GALLINULES, MOORHENS AND COOTS | – | House Sparrow | – |
| Black Crake | – | Cape Sparrow | 7 |
| African Purple Swamp hen | 16 | Cape Weaver | 6 |
| Moorhen | 113 | Southern Masked Weaver | 2 |
| Redknobbed Coot | 357 | Red Bishop | 8 |
| Black Oystercatcher | 7 | Yellowrumped Widow | 20 |
| PLOVERS | – | WAXBILLS | – |
| Threebanded Plover | 1 | Common Waxbill | 15 |
| Whitefronted | – | Pintailed Whydah | – |
| Kittlitz's | – | CANARIES, SISKINS, FINCHES AND BUNTINGS | – |
| Blacksmith Lapwing | 47 | Cape Canary | 1 |
| Ringed Plover | 6 | Bully Canary | 1 |
| Crowned Plover | – | OTHER | – |
| Rednecked Phalarope | – | Barthroated Apalis | 1 |
| SNIPES, GODWITS, SANDPIPERS, STINTS, CURLEWS AND PHALAROPES, RUFF, STINT | – | Ostrich | – |
| Common Sandpiper | – |
total species |
77 |
| Wood | – | – | – |
| Marsh Sandpiper | – | – | – |
| Curlew | – | – | – |
| Greenshank | – | – | – |
| Little Stint | 29 | – | – |
| Ruff | 30 | – | – |
| African Snipe | – | – | – |
| AVOCETS AND STILTS | – | – | – |
| Blackwinged Stilt | 237 | – | – |
| Pied Avocet | 266 | – | – |
| DIKKOPS | – | – | – |
| Spotted Thickknees | 4 + chicks | – | – |
| Water Thickknees | – | – | – |
| SKUAS, GULLS AND TERNS | – | – | – |
| Kelp Gull | 808 | – | – |
| Greyheaded Gull | – | – | – |
| Hartlaubs Gull | 311 | – | – |
| Caspian Tern | – | – | – |
| Swift Tern | – | – | – |
| Sandwich Tern | – | – | – |
| Common Tern | – | – | – |
| Whitewinged | 288 | – | – |
| PIGEONS AND DOVES | – | – | – |
| Feral Pigeon | – | – | – |
| Rock Pigeon | – | – | – |
| Redeyed Dove | 1 | – | – |
| Cape Turtle Dove | 4 | – | – |
| Laughing Dove | 2 | – | – |
| CUCKOOS | – | – | – |
| Klaas's Cuckoo | – | – | – |
| Diederik Cuckoo | – | – | – |
