The Cape Bird Club
Counts – Strandfontein – August 2007
photograph by Ann Koedlag
Egyptian Goose
| Wind | - |
| Weather | fine |
| Leader | Dick Barnes |
|
Species |
Presence |
Species |
Presence |
|
GREBES |
– |
COUCALS | – |
| Great Crested |
3 |
Burchell's Coucal |
– |
| Blacknecked | 532 | OWLS | – |
| Dabchick | 299 | Spotted Eagle Owl | 1 |
| PELICANS | – | SWIFTS | – |
| White Pelican | 31 | Black Swift | 30 |
| CORMORANTS | – | Whiterumped Swift | – |
| Whitebreasted Cormorant | 33 | Little Swift | 2 |
| Cape Cormorant | – | Alpine Swift | – |
| Reed Cormorant | 14 | MOUSEBIRDS | – |
| DARTERS | – | Whitebacked Mousebird | – |
| Darter | 9 | Redfaced | – |
| HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS | – | KINGFISHERS | – |
| Grey Heron | 12 | Pied Kingfisher | 6 |
| Blackheaded Heron | 11 | Giant Kingfisher | – |
| Purple Heron | 1 | Malachite Kingfisher | – |
| Goliath Heron | 1 | BARBETS | – |
| Little Egret | – | Acacia Pied Barbet | – |
| Yellow billed Egret | – | LARKS AND FINCHLARKS | – |
| Cattle Egret | 47 | Redcapped Lark | – |
| Little Bittern | – | SWALLOWS AND MARTINS | – |
| IBIS AND SPOONBILLS | – | European Swallow | 10 |
| Sacred Ibis | 8 | Whitethroated Swallow | 1 |
| Glossy Ibis | 8 | Greater Striped Swallow | 1 |
| Hadeda Ibis | 11 | Pearlbreasted Swallow | – |
| African Spoonbill | – | Black Sawwing | – |
| FLAMINGOES | – | Rock Martin | – |
| Greater Flamingo | 2915 | Brownthroated Martin | 9 |
| Lesser Flamingo | – | CROWS AND RAVENS | – |
| DUCKS AND GEESE | – | Pied Crow | 9 |
| Spurwinged Goose |
2 |
Whitenecked Raven | – |
| Egyptian Goose | 48 | BULBULS | – |
| Fulvous Duck | – | Cape Bulbul | 21 |
| Shelduck | 1 | THRUSHES, CHATS, ALETHES, ROBINS AND ROCKJUMPERS | – |
| Yellowbilled Duck | 7 | Olive Thrush | – |
| Red-billed Teal | 18 | – | – |
| Cape Teal | 31 | Cape Robin Chat | 8 |
| Cape Shoveller | 101 | Karoo Robin | 2 |
| Southern Pochard | 46 | TITBABBLERS, WARBLERS, APALISES, CROMBECS, CISTICOLAS AND PRINIAS | – |
| Hotentot Teal | 1 | Cape Reed Warbler | 13 |
| Whitefaced Duck | 2 | African Sedge Warbler | 21 |
| Maccoa | 51 | African Marsh Warbler | – |
| KITES | – | Grassbird | 1 |
| Black Shouldered Kite | 1 | Longbilled Crombec | 1 |
| Yellowbilled Kite | – | Levaillant's Cisticola | 31 |
| EAGLES | – | Greybacked | – |
| African Fish Eagle | – | Spotted Prinia | 13 |
| BUZZARDS | – | WAGTAILS, PIPITS AND LONGCLAWS | – |
| Steppe Buzzard | – | Cape Wagtail | 19 |
| GOSHAWKS AND SPARROWHAWKS | – | Grassveld Pipit | – |
| Redbreasted Sparrowhawk | – | Orangethroated Longclaw | 2 |
| Black Sparrowhawk | – | SHRIKES | – |
| African Goshawk |
– |
Fiscal Shrike | 1 |
| HARRIERS | – | Southern Boubou | 1 |
| African Marsh Harrier | 3 | Bokmakierie | 1 |
| FALCONS AND KESTRELS | – | STARLINGS | – |
| Peregrine Falcon | – | European Starling | 17 |
| Lanner Falcon | – | Wattled Starling | 4 |
| Rock Kestrel | – | SUGARBIRDS AND SUNBIRDS | – |
| FRANCOLIN AND QUAIL | – | Malachite Sunbird | – |
| Cape Francolin | 35 | Lesser Double collared Sunbird | 3 |
| GUINEAFOWL | – | WHITE EYES | – |
| Helmeted Guineafowl | – | Cape White Eye | 5 |
| RAIL, CRAKES, FLUFFTAILS, GALLINULES, MOORHENS AND COOTS | – | SPARROWS, WEAVERS, BISHOPS AND WIDOWS | – |
| Black Crake | – | House Sparrow | – |
| African Purple Swamp hen | 17 | Cape Sparrow | 5 |
| Moorhen | 83 | Cape Weaver | 6 |
| Redknobbed Coot | 277 | Southern Masked Weaver | 3 |
| Black Oystercatcher | 5 | Red Bishop | 1 |
| PLOVERS | – | Yellowrumped Widow | – |
| Threebanded Plover | 1 | WAXBILLS | – |
| Grey | – | Common Waxbill | 1 |
| Kittlitz's | – | Pintailed Whydah | – |
| Blacksmith Lapwing | 4 | CANARIES, SISKINS, FINCHES AND BUNTINGS | – |
| Ringed Plover | – | Cape Canary | 1 |
| Crowned Plover | – | Bully Canary | – |
| Turnstone | – | OTHER | – |
| SNIPES, GODWITS, SANDPIPERS, STINTS, CURLEWS AND PHALAROPES, RUFF, STINT | – | Mallard/Dutch Quacker | 1 |
| Common Sandpiper | – | Ostrich | 4 |
| Wood | – |
total species |
70 |
| Marsh Sandpiper | – |
– |
– |
| Curlew | – | – | – |
| Greenshank | – | – | – |
| Little Stint | – | – | – |
| Ruff | – | – | – |
| African Snipe | – | – | – |
| AVOCETS AND STILTS | – | – | – |
| Blackwinged Stilt | 11 | – | – |
| Pied Avocet | 47 | – | – |
| DIKKOPS | – | – | – |
| Spotted Thickknees | 2 | – | – |
| Water Thickknees | – | – | – |
| SKUAS, GULLS AND TERNS | – | – | – |
| Kelp Gull | 3272 | – | – |
| Greyheaded Gull | – | – | – |
| Hartlaubs Gull | 148 | – | – |
| Caspian Tern | – | – | – |
| Swift Tern | – | – | – |
| Sandwich Tern | – | – | – |
| Common Tern | – | – | – |
| Whitewinged | – | – | – |
| PIGEONS AND DOVES | – | – | – |
| Feral Pigeon | – | – | – |
| Rock Pigeon | 25 | – | – |
| Redeyed Dove | 4 | – | – |
| Cape Turtle Dove | 6 | – | – |
| Laughing Dove | – | – | – |
| CUCKOOS | – | – | – |
| Klaas's Cuckoo | – | – | – |
| Diederik Cuckoo | – | – | – |
