The Cape Bird Club
Counts – Strandfontein – December 2005
Greater Flamingos
| Wind | Mod SE |
| Weather | Clear |
| Leader | Dick Barnes |
|
Species |
Presence |
Species |
Presence |
|
GREBES |
– |
COUCALS | – |
| Great Crested |
19 |
Burchell's Coucal |
– |
| Blacknecked | 100 | OWLS | – |
| Dabchick | 171 | Spotted Eagle Owl | – |
| PELICANS | – | SWIFTS | – |
| White Pelican | 45 | Black Swift | 40 |
| CORMORANTS | – | Whiterumped Swift | 65 |
| Whitebreasted Cormorant | 75 | Little Swift | 15 |
| Cape Cormorant | 1 | Alpine Swift | – |
| Reed Cormorant | 23 | MOUSEBIRDS | – |
| DARTERS | – | Whitebacked Mousebird | – |
| Darter | 1 | Redfaced | – |
| HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS | – | KINGFISHERS | – |
| Grey Heron | 13 | Pied Kingfisher | – |
| Blackheaded Heron | 4 | Giant Kingfisher | – |
| Purple Heron | 6 | Malachite Kingfisher | – |
| Blackcrowned Night Heron | 6 | BARBETS | – |
| Little Egret | 3 | Acacia Pied Barbet | – |
| Yellow billed Egret | – | LARKS AND FINCHLARKS | – |
| Cattle Egret | 39 | Redcapped Lark | – |
| Little Bittern | – | SWALLOWS AND MARTINS | – |
| IBIS AND SPOONBILLS | – | European Swallow | 659 |
| Sacred Ibis | 139 | Whitethroated Swallow | 21 |
| Glossy Ibis | 36 | Greater Striped Swallow | 1 |
| Hadeda Ibis | 38 | Pearlbreasted Swallow | – |
| African Spoonbill | – | Black Sawwing | 1 |
| FLAMINGOES | – | Rock Martin | – |
| Greater Flamingo | 2113 | Brownthroated Martin | 54 |
| Lesser Flamingo | – | CROWS AND RAVENS | – |
| DUCKS AND GEESE | – | Pied Crow | 1 |
| Spurwinged Goose |
– |
Whitenecked Raven | – |
| Egyptian Goose | 862 | BULBULS | – |
| Fulvous Duck |
– |
Cape Bulbul | 9 |
| Shelduck | 6 | THRUSHES, CHATS, ALETHES, ROBINS AND ROCKJUMPERS | – |
| Yellowbilled Duck | 47 | Olive Thrush | – |
| Red-billed Teal | 42 | – | – |
| Cape Teal | 889 | Cape Robin Chat | – |
| Cape Shoveller | 688 | Karoo Robin | 1 |
| Southern Pochard | 44 | TITBABBLERS, WARBLERS, APALISES, CROMBECS, CISTICOLAS AND PRINIAS | – |
| Hotentot Teal | – | Cape Reed Warbler | 11 |
| Whitebacked Duck | 1 | African Sedge Warbler | 8 |
| Maccoa | 159 | African Marsh Warbler | – |
| KITES | – | Grassbird | – |
| Black Shouldered Kite | 3 | Fantailed | – |
| Yellowbilled Kite | – | Levaillant's Cisticola | 22 |
| EAGLES | – | Greybacked | – |
| African Fish Eagle | 2 juveniles | Spotted Prinia | 2 |
| BUZZARDS | – | WAGTAILS, PIPITS AND LONGCLAWS | – |
| Steppe Buzzard | – | Cape Wagtail | 17 |
| GOSHAWKS AND SPARROWHAWKS | – | Grassveld Pipit | 2 |
| Redbreasted Sparrowhawk | – | Orangethroated Longclaw | 2 |
| Black Sparrowhawk | – | SHRIKES | – |
| African Goshawk |
– |
Fiscal Shrike | – |
| HARRIERS | – | Southern Boubou | 3 |
| African Marsh Harrier | 1 | Bokmakierie | – |
| FALCONS AND KESTRELS | – | STARLINGS | – |
| Peregrine Falcon | – | European Starling | 150 |
| Lanner Falcon | – | Redwinged Starling | 4 |
| Rock Kestrel | – | SUGARBIRDS AND SUNBIRDS | – |
| FRANCOLIN AND QUAIL | – | Malachite Sunbird | – |
| Cape Francolin | – | Lesser Double collared Sunbird | 1 |
| GUINEAFOWL | – | WHITE EYES | – |
| Helmeted Guineafowl | 12 | Cape White Eye | – |
| RAIL, CRAKES, FLUFFTAILS, GALLINULES, MOORHENS AND COOTS | – | SPARROWS, WEAVERS, BISHOPS AND WIDOWS | – |
| Black Crake | 2 | House Sparrow | 1 |
| African Purple Swamp hen | 9 | Cape Sparrow | 5 |
| Moorhen | 46 | Cape Weaver | 16 |
| Redknobbed Coot | 333 | Southern Masked Weaver | 6 |
| Black Oystercatcher | 6 | Red Bishop | – |
| PLOVERS | – | Yellowrumped Widow | – |
| Threebanded Plover | 1 | WAXBILLS | – |
| Grey | 3 | Common Waxbill | 1 |
| Kittlitz's | 1 | Pintailed Whydah | – |
| Blacksmith Lapwing | 49 | CANARIES, SISKINS, FINCHES AND BUNTINGS | – |
| Ringed Plover | 11 | 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 | – |
total species |
77 |
| Marsh Sandpiper | – |
– |
– |
| Curlew | 4 | – | – |
| Greenshank | 2 | – | – |
| Little Stint | 33 | – | – |
| Ruff +1 white, headed | 24 | – | – |
| African Snipe | – | – | – |
| AVOCETS AND STILTS | – | – | – |
| Blackwinged Stilt | 18 | – | – |
| Pied Avocet | 24 | – | – |
| DIKKOPS | – | – | – |
| Spotted Thickknees | 4 | – | – |
| Water Thickknees | – | – | – |
| SKUAS, GULLS AND TERNS | – | – | – |
| Kelp Gull | 3209 | – | – |
| Greyheaded Gull | – | – | – |
| Hartlaubs Gull | 448 | – | – |
| Caspian Tern | – | – | – |
| Swft Tern | 420 | – | – |
| Sandwich Tern | 150 | – | – |
| Common Tern | – | – | – |
| Whitewinged | – | – | – |
| PIGEONS AND DOVES | – | – | – |
| Feral Pigeon | – | – | – |
| Rock Pigeon | 17 | – | – |
| Redeyed Dove | 1 | – | – |
| Cape Turtle Dove | 4 | – | – |
| Laughing Dove | – | – | – |
| CUCKOOS | – | – | – |
| Klaas's Cuckoo | – | – | – |
| Diederik Cuckoo | – | – | – |
