The Cape Bird Club

Counts – Strandfontein – August 2008


photograph by Michael McSweeney

Greater Flamingos

Wind none
Weather fine
Leader Derek Longrigg

 

Species

Presence

Species

Presence

GREBES

COUCALS
Great Crested

2

Burchell's Coucal

Blacknecked 105 OWLS
Dabchick 252 Spotted Eagle Owl
PELICANS SWIFTS 
White Pelican Black Swift
CORMORANTS Whiterumped Swift
Whitebreasted Cormorant 52 Little Swift
Cape Cormorant Alpine Swift
Reed Cormorant 4 MOUSEBIRDS
DARTERS Whitebacked Mousebird
Darter  13 Redfaced
HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS KINGFISHERS
Grey Heron 2 Pied Kingfisher
Blackheaded Heron Giant Kingfisher 1
Purple Heron 3 Malachite Kingfisher
Blackcrowned Night Heron BARBETS
Little Egret 1 Acacia Pied Barbet
Yellow billed Egret LARKS AND FINCHLARKS 
Cattle Egret 220 Redcapped Lark
Little Bittern SWALLOWS AND MARTINS 
IBIS AND SPOONBILLS European Swallow 
Sacred Ibis 17 Whitethroated Swallow
Glossy Ibis 22 Greater Striped Swallow
Hadeda Ibis 24 Pearlbreasted Swallow
African Spoonbill Black Sawwing
FLAMINGOES Rock Martin
Greater Flamingo 593 Brownthroated Martin
Lesser Flamingo CROWS AND RAVENS
DUCKS AND GEESE Pied Crow
Spurwinged Goose

Whitenecked Raven
Egyptian Goose 41 BULBULS 
Shelduck Cape Bulbul 11
Yellowbilled Duck 20 THRUSHES, CHATS, ALETHES, ROBINS AND ROCKJUMPERS
Hotentot Teal Olive Thrush
Red-billed Teal 122 Cape Robin Chat 3
Cape Teal 59 Karoo Robin
Cape Shoveller 319 TITBABBLERS, WARBLERS, APALISES, CROMBECS, CISTICOLAS AND PRINIAS
Southern Pochard 490 Cape Reed Warbler 8
Whitefaced Duck African Sedge Warbler 9
Whitebacked Duck African Marsh Warbler
Maccoa 46 Grassbird 1
KITES Fantailed 1
Black Shouldered Kite Levaillant's Cisticola 17
Yellowbilled Kite Greybacked
EAGLES Spotted Prinia 10
African Fish Eagle WAGTAILS, PIPITS AND LONGCLAWS
BUZZARDS Cape Wagtail 14
Jackal Buzzard Grassveld Pipit 1
GOSHAWKS AND SPARROWHAWKS Orangethroated Longclaw 1
Redbreasted Sparrowhawk SHRIKES
Black Sparrowhawk Fiscal Shrike
African Goshawk

Southern Boubou
HARRIERS Bokmakierie
African Marsh Harrier 2 STARLINGS
FALCONS AND KESTRELS Commom Starling 15
Peregrine Falcon Redwing Starling
Lanner Falcon SUGARBIRDS AND SUNBIRDS
Rock Kestrel Malachite Sunbird
FRANCOLIN AND QUAIL Lesser Double collared Sunbird
Cape Francolin 3 WHITE EYES
GUINEAFOWL Cape White Eye 1
Helmeted Guineafowl 51 SPARROWS, WEAVERS, BISHOPS AND WIDOWS
RAIL, CRAKES, FLUFFTAILS, GALLINULES, MOORHENS AND COOTS  House Sparrow
Black Crake Cape Sparrow
African Purple Swamp hen 9 Cape Weaver 2
Moorhen 66 Southern Masked Weaver 2
Redknobbed Coot 419 Red Bishop
Black Oystercatcher 38 Yellowrumped Widow
PLOVERS WAXBILLS
Threebanded Plover 1 Common Waxbill 4
Grey Pintailed Whydah
Kittlitz's CANARIES, SISKINS, FINCHES AND BUNTINGS
Blacksmith Lapwing 26 Cape Canary 4
Ringed Plover  Bully Canary
Crowned Plover OTHER
Turnstone  Mallard/Dutch Quacker
SNIPES, GODWITS, SANDPIPERS, STINTS, CURLEWS AND PHALAROPES, RUFF, STINT Ostrich
Common Sandpiper

total species

55
Wood
Marsh Sandpiper
Curlew
Greenshank
Little Stint
Ruff
African Snipe
AVOCETS AND STILTS
Blackwinged Stilt 36
Pied Avocet 15
DIKKOPS
Spotted Thickknees 1
Water Thickknees 
SKUAS, GULLS AND TERNS
Kelp Gull 1220
Greyheaded Gull
Hartlaubs Gull 121
Caspian Tern
Swift Tern 39
Sandwich Tern
Common Tern
Whitewinged
PIGEONS AND DOVES
Feral Pigeon
Rock Pigeon 2
Redeyed Dove
Cape Turtle Dove 3
Laughing Dove
CUCKOOS
Klaas's Cuckoo
Diederik Cuckoo 

                                                                                                                                                         

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