The Cape Bird Club
Counts – Strandfontein – April 2004
Southern double collared Sunbird female
| Wind | None |
| Weather | Fine |
| Leader | Derek Longrigg |
|
Species |
Presence |
Species |
Presence |
|
GREBES |
– |
COUCAL | – |
| Great Crested |
11 |
Burchall's Coucal |
– |
| Blacknecked | 46 | OWLS | – |
| Dabchick | 421 | Spotted Eagle Owl | – |
| PELICANS | – | SWIFTS | – |
| White Pelican | 60 | Black Swift | 50 |
| CORMORANTS | – | Whiterumped Swift | – |
| Whitebreasted Cormorant | 202 | Little Swift | 20 |
| Cape Cormorant | – | Alpine Swift | – |
| Reed Cormorant | 40 | MOUSEBIRDS | – |
| DARTERS | – | Whitebacked Mousebird | – |
| Darter | 49 | Redfaced | – |
| HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS | – | KINGFISHERS | – |
| Grey Heron | 17 | Pied Kingfisher | 1 |
| Blackheaded Heron | 6 | Giant Kingfisher | – |
| Purple Heron | 5 | Malachite Kingfisher | – |
| Blackcrowned Night Heron | 2 | BARBETS | – |
| Little Egret | 8 | Acacia Pied Barbet | – |
| Yellow billed Egret | 2 | LARKS AND FINCHLARKS | – |
| Cattle Egret | 86 | Redcapped Lark | 2 |
| Squacco Heron | – | SWALLOWS AND MARTINS | – |
| IBIS AND SPOONBILLS | – | European Swallow | 10 |
| Sacred Ibis | 165 | Whitethroated Swallow | – |
| Glossy Ibis | 8 | Greater Striped Swallow | – |
| Hadeda Ibis | 17 | Pearlbreasted Swallow | – |
| African Spoonbill | – | Black Sawwing | – |
| FLAMINGOES | – | Rock Martin | – |
| Greater Flamingo | 1392 | Brownthroated Martin | 1 |
| Lesser Flamingo | – | CROWS AND RAVENS | – |
| DUCKS AND GEESE | – | Pied Crow | 8 |
| Spurwinged Goose |
13 |
Whitenecked Raven | – |
| Egyptian Goose | 162 | BULBULS | – |
| European Shelduck Duck |
1 |
Cape Bulbul | 24 |
| Shelduck | 8 | THRUSHES, CHATS, ALETHES, ROBINS AND ROCKJUMPERS | – |
| Yellowbilled Duck | 127 | Olive Thrush | – |
| Red-billed Teal | 27 | – | – |
| Cape Teal | 290 | Cape Robin Chat | – |
| Cape Shoveller | 443 | Stone Chat | – |
| Southern Pochard | 30 | TITBABBLERS, WARBLERS, APALISES, CROMBECS, CISTICOLAS AND PRINIAS | – |
| Hotentot Teal | – | Cape Reed Warbler | 6 |
| Whitebacked Duck | – | African Sedge Warbler | 5 |
| Maccoa | 133 | African Marsh Warbler | – |
| KITES | – | Grassbird | – |
| Black Shouldered Kite | 4 | Fantailed | – |
| Yellowbilled Kite | – | Levaillant's Cisticola | 8 |
| EAGLES | – | Greybacked | – |
| African Fish Eagle | 1 | Spotted Prinia | 4 |
| BUZZARDS | – | WAGTAILS, PIPITS AND LONGCLAWS | – |
| Steppe Buzzard | – | Cape Wagtail | 21 |
| GOSHAWKS AND SPARROWHAWKS | – | Grassveld Pipit | 1 |
| Redbreasted Sparrowhawk | – | Orangethroated Longclaw | 2 |
| Black Sparrowhawk | – | SHRIKES | – |
| African Goshawk |
– |
Fiscal Shrike | 1 |
| HARRIERS | – | Southern Boubou | – |
| African Marsh Harrier | 2 | Bokmakierie | – |
| FALCONS AND KESTRELS | – | STARLINGS | – |
| Peregrine Falcon | 1 | European Starling | 10 |
| Lanner Falcon | – | Cape Sugarbird | 1 |
| Rock Kestrel | – | SUGARBIRDS AND SUNBIRDS | – |
| FRANCOLIN AND QUAIL | – | Malachite Sunbird | – |
| Cape Francolin | 10 | Lesser Double collared Sunbird | 2 |
| GUINEAFOWL | – | WHITE EYES | – |
| Helmeted Guineafowl | 39 | Cape White Eye | – |
| RAIL, CRAKES, FLUFFTAILS, GALLINULES, MOORHENS AND COOTS | – | SPARROWS, WEAVERS, BISHOPS AND WIDOWS | – |
| Black Crake | – | House Sparrow | – |
| African Purple Swamp hen | 7 | Cape Sparrow | 4 |
| Moorhen | 42 | Cape Weaver | 1 |
| Redknobbed Coot | 312 | Southern Masked Weaver | – |
| Black Oystercatcher | 14 | Red Bishop | – |
| PLOVERS | – | Yellowrumped Widow | – |
| Threebanded Plover | 4 | WAXBILLS | – |
| Grey | – | Common Waxbill | – |
| Kittlitz's | 9 | Pintailed Whydah | – |
| Blacksmith Lapwing | 72 | CANARIES, SISKINS, FINCHES AND BUNTINGS | – |
| Ringed Plover | 14 | Cape Canary | – |
| Crowned Plover | – | Bully Canary | – |
| Turnstone | – | OTHER | – |
| SNIPES, GODWITS, SANDPIPERS, STINTS, CURLEWS AND PHALAROPES, RUFF, STINT | – | Mallard/Dutch Quacker | – |
| Common Sandpiper | – | Common Peacock | – |
| Wood Sandpiper | – |
total species |
71 |
| Marsh Sandpiper | – |
– |
– |
| Whimbrel | 1 | – | – |
| Greenshank | – | – | – |
| Little Stint | 118 | – | – |
| Ruff | 30 | – | – |
| American Blackwinged Stilt | – | – | – |
| AVOCETS AND STILTS | – | – | – |
| Blackwinged Stilt | 74 | – | – |
| Pied Avocet | 430 | – | – |
| DIKKOPS | – | – | – |
| Spotted Thickknees | – | – | – |
| Water Thickknees | – | – | – |
| SKUAS, GULLS AND TERNS | – | – | – |
| Kelp Gull | 237 | – | – |
| Greyheaded Gull | 2 | – | – |
| Hartlaubs Gull | 69 | – | – |
| Caspian Tern | 3 | – | – |
| Swift Tern | 194 | – | – |
| Sandwich Tern | 6 | – | – |
| Common Tern | 9 | – | – |
| Whitewinged | – | – | – |
| PIGEONS AND DOVES | – | – | – |
| Feral Pigeon | – | – | – |
| Rock Pigeon | – | – | – |
| Redeyed Dove | 2 | – | – |
| Cape Turtle Dove | – | – | – |
| Laughing Dove | 1 | – | – |
| CUCKOOS | – | – | – |
| Klaas's Cuckoo | – | – | – |
| Diederik Cuckoo | – | – | – |
