The Cape Bird Club
Counts – Strandfontein – April 2009
photograph by Louise Stafford
Male hybrid Mallard
| Wind | light NW |
| Weather | cloudy |
| Leader | Dick Barnes |
|
Species |
Presence |
Species |
Presence |
|
GREBES |
– |
COUCALS | – |
| Great Crested |
2 |
Burchell's Coucal |
1 |
| Blacknecked | 9 | OWLS | – |
| Dabchick | 596 | Spotted Eagle Owl | – |
| PELICANS | – | SWIFTS | – |
| White Pelican | 44 | Black Swift | 42 |
| CORMORANTS | – | Whiterumped Swift | 1 |
| Whitebreasted Cormorant | 47 | Little Swift | – |
| Cape Cormorant | – | Alpine Swift | – |
| Reed Cormorant | 34 | MOUSEBIRDS | – |
| DARTERS | – | Whitebacked Mousebird | – |
| Darter | 5 | Redfaced Mousebird | 6 |
| HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS | – | KINGFISHERS | – |
| Grey Heron | 13 | Pied Kingfisher | 3 |
| Blackheaded Heron | 12 | Giant Kingfisher | – |
| Purple Heron | 2 | Malachite Kingfisher | – |
| Blackcrowned Night Heron | 1 | BARBETS | – |
| Little Egret | – | Acacia Pied Barbet | – |
| Yellow billed Egret | – | LARKS AND FINCHLARKS | – |
| Cattle Egret | 125 | Redcapped Lark | – |
| Little Bittern | – | SWALLOWS AND MARTINS | – |
| IBIS AND SPOONBILLS | – | European Swallow | 3 |
| Sacred Ibis | 145 | Whitethroated Swallow | – |
| Glossy Ibis | 71 | Greater Striped Swallow | – |
| Hadeda Ibis | 32 | Pearlbreasted Swallow | – |
| African Spoonbill | – | Black Sawwing | – |
| FLAMINGOES | – | Rock Martin | – |
| Greater Flamingo | 235 | Brownthroated Martin | – |
| Lesser Flamingo | – | CROWS AND RAVENS | – |
| DUCKS AND GEESE | – | Pied Crow | 9 |
| Spurwinged Goose |
325 |
Whitenecked Raven | – |
| Egyptian Goose | 159 | BULBULS | – |
| Shelduck | 6 | Cape Bulbul | 23 |
| Yellowbilled Duck | 229 | THRUSHES, CHATS, ALETHES, ROBINS AND ROCKJUMPERS | – |
| Hotentot Teal | 7 | Olive Thrush | – |
| Red-billed Teal | 395 | Cape Robin Chat | 3 |
| Cape Teal | 309 | Karoo Robin | – |
| Cape Shoveller | 1124 | TITBABBLERS, WARBLERS, APALISES, CROMBECS, CISTICOLAS AND PRINIAS | – |
| Southern Pochard | 7 | Lesser Swamp Warbler (Cape Reed) | 11 |
| Whitefaced Duck | – | Little Rush Warbler (African Sedge) | 19 |
| Whitebacked Duck | 1 | African Marsh Warbler | – |
| Maccoa | 23 | Grassbird | – |
| KITES | – | Cisticola Zitting (Fantailed) | 3 |
| Black Shouldered Kite | 1 | Cisticola Levaillant's | 27 |
| Yellowbilled Kite | – | Cisticola Greybacked | – |
| EAGLES | – | Karoo Prinia (Spotted) | 9 |
| African Fish Eagle | 2 | WAGTAILS, PIPITS AND LONGCLAWS | – |
| BUZZARDS | – | Cape Wagtail | 122 |
| Jackal Buzzard | 1 | African Pipit (Grassveld) | 3 |
| GOSHAWKS AND SPARROWHAWKS | – | Cape Longclaw (Orangethroated) | 6 |
| Redbreasted Sparrowhawk | – | SHRIKES | – |
| Black Sparrowhawk | – | Fiscal Shrike | 2 |
| African Goshawk |
– |
Southern Boubou | 1 |
| HARRIERS | – | Bokmakierie | – |
| African Marsh Harrier | 4 | STARLINGS | – |
| FALCONS AND KESTRELS | – | Commom Starling | 217 |
| Peregrine Falcon | – | Redwing Starling | 2 |
| Lanner Falcon | – | SUGARBIRDS AND SUNBIRDS | – |
| Rock Kestrel | 1 | Malachite Sunbird | 1 |
| FRANCOLIN AND QUAIL | – | Southern Doublecollared Sunbird (Lesser) | 4 |
| Cape Francolin | 6 | WHITE EYES | – |
| GUINEAFOWL | – | Cape White Eye | – |
| Helmeted Guineafowl | 17 | SPARROWS, WEAVERS, BISHOPS AND WIDOWS | – |
| RAIL, CRAKES, FLUFFTAILS, GALLINULES, MOORHENS AND COOTS | – | House Sparrow | – |
| Black Crake | 1 | Cape Sparrow | 11 |
| African Purple Swamp hen | 12 | Cape Weaver | 8 |
| Moorhen | 147 | Southern Masked Weaver | 1 |
| Redknobbed Coot | 499 | Red Bishop | 12 |
| Black Oystercatcher | 10 | Yellowrumped Widow | – |
| PLOVERS | – | WAXBILLS | – |
| Threebanded Plover | 21 | Common Waxbill | 50 |
| Grey | – | Pintailed Whydah | – |
| Kittlitz's | – | CANARIES, SISKINS, FINCHES AND BUNTINGS | – |
| Blacksmith Lapwing | 244 | Cape Canary | – |
| Ringed Plover | 5 | Bully Canary (Brimstone) | – |
| Crowned Plover | – | OTHER | – |
| Turnstone | – | Mallard/Dutch Quacker | – |
| SNIPES, GODWITS, SANDPIPERS, STINTS, CURLEWS AND PHALAROPES, RUFF, STINT | – | Ostrich | – |
| Common Sandpiper | – |
Yellow Wagtail |
2 |
| Wood | – |
total species |
77 |
| Marsh Sandpiper | – | – | – |
| Curlew | – | – | – |
| Greenshank | – | – | – |
| Little Stint | 100 | – | – |
| Ruff | – | – | – |
| African Snipe | – | – | – |
| AVOCETS AND STILTS | – | – | – |
| Blackwinged Stilt | 159 | – | – |
| Pied Avocet | 188 | – | – |
| DIKKOPS | – | – | – |
| Spotted Thickknees | – | – | – |
| Water Thickknees | – | – | – |
| SKUAS, GULLS AND TERNS | – | – | – |
| Kelp Gull | 1286 | – | – |
| Greyheaded Gull | – | – | – |
| Hartlaubs Gull | 268 | – | – |
| Caspian Tern | 2 | – | – |
| Swift Tern | 55 | – | – |
| Sandwich Tern | 32 | – | – |
| Common Tern | – | – | – |
| Whitewinged | – | – | – |
| PIGEONS AND DOVES | – | – | – |
| Rock Dove (Feral Pigeon) | 5 | – | – |
| Speckled Pigeon (Rock Pigeon) | 3 | – | – |
| Redeyed Dove | – | – | – |
| Cape Turtle Dove | 5 | – | – |
| Laughing Dove | – | – | – |
| CUCKOOS | – | – | – |
| Klaas's Cuckoo | – | – | – |
| Diederik Cuckoo | – | – | – |
