The Cape Bird Club
Counts – Strandfontein – April 2007
African Fish Eagle at Strandfontein
| Wind | Nil |
| Weather | Perfect |
| Leader | Dick Barnes |
|
Species |
Presence |
Species |
Presence |
|
GREBES |
– |
COUCALS | – |
| Great Crested |
8 |
Burchell's Coucal |
– |
| Blacknecked | 20 | OWLS | – |
| Dabchick | 518 | Spotted Eagle Owl | – |
| PELICANS | – | SWIFTS | – |
| White Pelican | 37 | Black Swift | – |
| CORMORANTS | – | Whiterumped Swift | – |
| Whitebreasted Cormorant | 89 | Little Swift | – |
| Cape Cormorant | 2 | Alpine Swift | – |
| Reed Cormorant | 11 | MOUSEBIRDS | – |
| DARTERS | – | Whitebacked Mousebird | – |
| Darter | 2 | Redfaced | – |
| HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS | – | KINGFISHERS | – |
| Grey Heron | 17 | Pied Kingfisher | 6 |
| Blackheaded Heron | 14 | Giant Kingfisher | – |
| Purple Heron | 1 | Malachite Kingfisher | – |
| Blackcrowned Night Heron | 3 | BARBETS | – |
| Little Egret | 3 | Acacia Pied Barbet | – |
| Yellow billed Egret | – | LARKS AND FINCHLARKS | – |
| Cattle Egret | 108 | Redcapped Lark | – |
| Little Bittern | – | SWALLOWS AND MARTINS | – |
| IBIS AND SPOONBILLS | – | European Swallow | 1 |
| Sacred Ibis | 96 | Whitethroated Swallow | – |
| Glossy Ibis | 32 | Greater Striped Swallow | – |
| Hadeda Ibis | 68 | Pearlbreasted Swallow | – |
| African Spoonbill | – | Black Sawwing | – |
| FLAMINGOES | – | Rock Martin | – |
| Greater Flamingo | 917 | Brownthroated Martin | 5 |
| Lesser Flamingo | – | CROWS AND RAVENS | – |
| DUCKS AND GEESE | – | Pied Crow | 2 |
| Spurwinged Goose |
73 |
Whitenecked Raven | 1 |
| Egyptian Goose | 325 | BULBULS | – |
| Shelduck | – | Cape Bulbul | 53 |
| Yellowbilled Duck | 86 | THRUSHES, CHATS, ALETHES, ROBINS AND ROCKJUMPERS | – |
| Hotentot Teal | 2 | Olive Thrush | – |
| Red-billed Teal | 152 | Sentinel Rock Thrush | 1 |
| Cape Teal | 769 | Cape Robin Chat | 4 |
| Cape Shoveller | 909 | Karoo Robin | 2 |
| Southern Pochard | 87 | TITBABBLERS, WARBLERS, APALISES, CROMBECS, CISTICOLAS AND PRINIAS | – |
| Whitefaced Duck | – | Cape Reed Warbler | 5 |
| Whitebacked Duck | – | African Sedge Warbler | 29 |
| Maccoa | 74 | African Marsh Warbler | – |
| KITES | – | Grassbird | 1 |
| Black Shouldered Kite | 4 | Fantailed | – |
| Yellowbilled Kite | – | Levaillant's Cisticola | 27 |
| EAGLES | – | Greybacked | – |
| African Fish Eagle | – | Spotted Prinia | 7 |
| BUZZARDS | – | WAGTAILS, PIPITS AND LONGCLAWS | – |
| Steppe Buzzard | – | Cape Wagtail | 30 |
| GOSHAWKS AND SPARROWHAWKS | – | Grassveld Pipit | 2 |
| Redbreasted Sparrowhawk | – | Orangethroated Longclaw | 3 |
| Black Sparrowhawk | – | SHRIKES | – |
| African Goshawk |
– |
Fiscal Flycatcher | 1 |
| HARRIERS | – | Southern Boubou | – |
| African Marsh Harrier | 5 | Bokmakierie | – |
| FALCONS AND KESTRELS | – | STARLINGS | – |
| Peregrine Falcon | 1 | European Starling | 69 |
| Lanner Falcon | – | Redwing Starling | 2 |
| Rock Kestrel | 1 | SUGARBIRDS AND SUNBIRDS | – |
| FRANCOLIN AND QUAIL | – | Malachite Sunbird | – |
| Cape Francolin | 25 | Lesser Double collared Sunbird | 2 |
| GUINEAFOWL | – | WHITE EYES | – |
| Helmeted Guineafowl | 23 | Cape White Eye | 5 |
| RAIL, CRAKES, FLUFFTAILS, GALLINULES, MOORHENS AND COOTS | – | SPARROWS, WEAVERS, BISHOPS AND WIDOWS | – |
| Black Crake | – | House Sparrow | – |
| African Purple Swamp hen | 35 | Cape Sparrow | 35 |
| Moorhen | 304 | Cape Weaver | 11 |
| Redknobbed Coot | 484 | Southern Masked Weaver | – |
| Black Oystercatcher | 22 | Red Bishop | 67 |
| PLOVERS | – | Yellowrumped Widow | 1 |
| Threebanded Plover | 6 | WAXBILLS | – |
| Grey | – | Common Waxbill | 1 |
| Kittlitz's | – | Pintailed Whydah | – |
| Blacksmith Lapwing | 158 | CANARIES, SISKINS, FINCHES AND BUNTINGS | – |
| Ringed Plover | – | Cape Canary | – |
| Crowned Plover | – | Bully Canary | 3 |
| Turnstone | – | OTHER | – |
| SNIPES, GODWITS, SANDPIPERS, STINTS, CURLEWS AND PHALAROPES, RUFF, STINT | – | Mallard/Dutch Quacker | – |
| Common Sandpiper | – | Ostrich | 4 |
| Wood | – |
total species |
84 |
| Marsh Sandpiper | – | – | – |
| Curlew | – | – | – |
| Greenshank | – | – | – |
| Little Stint | 80 | – | – |
| Ruff | – | – | – |
| African Snipe | – | – | – |
| AVOCETS AND STILTS | – | – | – |
| Blackwinged Stilt | 246 | – | – |
| Pied Avocet | 648 | – | – |
| DIKKOPS | – | – | – |
| Spotted Thickknees | – | – | – |
| Water Thickknees | – | – | – |
| SKUAS, GULLS AND TERNS | – | – | – |
| Kelp Gull | 2159 | – | – |
| Greyheaded Gull | 2 | – | – |
| Hartlaubs Gull | 303 | – | – |
| Caspian Tern | 5 | – | – |
| Swift Tern | 71 | – | – |
| Sandwich Tern | 2 | – | – |
| Common Tern | – | – | – |
| Whitewinged | – | – | – |
| PIGEONS AND DOVES | – | – | – |
| Feral Pigeon | – | – | – |
| Rock Pigeon | 4 | – | – |
| Redeyed Dove | 11 | – | – |
| Cape Turtle Dove | 6 | – | – |
| Laughing Dove | – | – | – |
| CUCKOOS | – | – | – |
| Klaas's Cuckoo | – | – | – |
| Diederik Cuckoo | – | – | – |
