The Cape Bird Club
Counts – Strandfontein – December 2006
photograph by Doug Harebottle
Malachite Kingfisher
| Wind | Mod SE |
| Weather | Fine |
| Leader | Dick Barnes |
|
Species |
Presence |
Species |
Presence |
|
GREBES |
– |
COUCALS | – |
| Great Crested |
3 |
Burchell's Coucal |
– |
| Blacknecked | 57 | OWLS | – |
| Dabchick | 220 | Spotted Eagle Owl | – |
| PELICANS | – | SWIFTS | – |
| White Pelican | 73 | Black Swift | 1 |
| CORMORANTS | – | Whiterumped Swift | 8 |
| Whitebreasted Cormorant | 74 | Little Swift | 4 |
| Cape Cormorant | 3 | Alpine Swift | – |
| Reed Cormorant | 8 | MOUSEBIRDS | – |
| DARTERS | – | Whitebacked Mousebird | – |
| Darter | – | Redfaced | – |
| HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS | – | KINGFISHERS | – |
| Grey Heron | 23 | Pied Kingfisher | 1 |
| Blackheaded Heron | 1 | Giant Kingfisher | – |
| Purple Heron | 2 | Malachite Kingfisher | – |
| Blackcrowned Night Heron | 5 | BARBETS | – |
| Little Egret | 5 | Acacia Pied Barbet | – |
| Yellow billed Egret | 1 | LARKS AND FINCHLARKS | – |
| Cattle Egret | 148 | Redcapped Lark | – |
| Little Bittern | – | SWALLOWS AND MARTINS | – |
| IBIS AND SPOONBILLS | – | European Swallow | 166 |
| Sacred Ibis | 80 | Whitethroated Swallow | 15 |
| Glossy Ibis | 170 | Greater Striped Swallow | 7 |
| Hadeda Ibis | 23 | Pearlbreasted Swallow | – |
| African Spoonbill | – | Black Sawwing | – |
| FLAMINGOES | – | Rock Martin | – |
| Greater Flamingo | 288 | Brownthroated Martin | 25 |
| Lesser Flamingo | – | CROWS AND RAVENS | – |
| DUCKS AND GEESE | – | Pied Crow | 9 |
| Spurwinged Goose |
8 |
Whitenecked Raven | – |
| Egyptian Goose | 1033 | BULBULS | – |
| Fulvous Duck | 1 | Cape Bulbul | 10 |
| Shelduck | 8 | THRUSHES, CHATS, ALETHES, ROBINS AND ROCKJUMPERS | – |
| Yellowbilled Duck | 76 | Olive Thrush | – |
| Red-billed Teal | 212 | – | – |
| Cape Teal | 686 | Cape Robin Chat | – |
| Cape Shoveller | 349 | Karoo Robin | 1 |
| Southern Pochard | 98 | TITBABBLERS, WARBLERS, APALISES, CROMBECS, CISTICOLAS AND PRINIAS | – |
| Hotentot Teal | – | Cape Reed Warbler | 4 |
| Whitebacked Duck | – | African Sedge Warbler | 5 |
| Maccoa | 37 | African Marsh Warbler | – |
| KITES | – | Grassbird | – |
| Black Shouldered Kite | 1 | Fantailed | – |
| Yellowbilled Kite | – | Levaillant's Cisticola | 10 |
| EAGLES | – | Greybacked | 1 |
| African Fish Eagle | – | Spotted Prinia | 8 |
| BUZZARDS | – | WAGTAILS, PIPITS AND LONGCLAWS | – |
| Steppe Buzzard | – | Cape Wagtail | 23 |
| GOSHAWKS AND SPARROWHAWKS | – | Grassveld Pipit | 2 |
| Redbreasted Sparrowhawk | – | Orangethroated Longclaw | 2 |
| Black Sparrowhawk | – | SHRIKES | – |
| African Goshawk |
– |
Fiscal Shrike | – |
| HARRIERS | – | Southern Boubou | 2 |
| African Marsh Harrier | – | Bokmakierie | 1 |
| FALCONS AND KESTRELS | – | STARLINGS | – |
| Peregrine Falcon | – | European Starling | 114 |
| Lanner Falcon | – | Redwinged Starling | 3 |
| Rock Kestrel | – | SUGARBIRDS AND SUNBIRDS | – |
| FRANCOLIN AND QUAIL | – | Malachite Sunbird | – |
| Cape Francolin | 3 | Lesser Double collared Sunbird | – |
| GUINEAFOWL | – | WHITE EYES | – |
| Helmeted Guineafowl | 16 | Cape White Eye | – |
| RAIL, CRAKES, FLUFFTAILS, GALLINULES, MOORHENS AND COOTS | – | SPARROWS, WEAVERS, BISHOPS AND WIDOWS | – |
| Black Crake | – | House Sparrow | 1 |
| African Purple Swamp hen | 7 | Cape Sparrow | – |
| Moorhen | 31 | Cape Weaver | 2 |
| Redknobbed Coot | 187 | Southern Masked Weaver | – |
| Black Oystercatcher | 11 | Red Bishop | 3 |
| PLOVERS | – | Yellowrumped Widow | – |
| Threebanded Plover | 12 | WAXBILLS | – |
| Grey | 3 | Common Waxbill | – |
| Kittlitz's | – | Pintailed Whydah | – |
| Blacksmith Lapwing | 122 | CANARIES, SISKINS, FINCHES AND BUNTINGS | – |
| Ringed Plover | – | Cape Canary | – |
| Crowned Plover | – | Bully Canary | – |
| Turnstone | – | OTHER | – |
| SNIPES, GODWITS, SANDPIPERS, STINTS, CURLEWS AND PHALAROPES, RUFF, STINT | – | Mallard/Dutch Quacker | – |
| Common Sandpiper | 1 | Common Peacock | – |
| Wood | – |
total species |
78 |
| Marsh Sandpiper | – |
– |
– |
| Curlew | – | – | – |
| Greenshank | 2 | – | – |
| Little Stint | 17 | – | – |
| Bartailed Godwit | 1 | – | – |
| African Snipe | – | – | – |
| AVOCETS AND STILTS | – | – | – |
| Blackwinged Stilt | 490 | – | – |
| Pied Avocet | 1323 | – | – |
| DIKKOPS | – | – | – |
| Spotted Thickknees | 4 | – | – |
| Water Thickknees | – | – | – |
| SKUAS, GULLS AND TERNS | – | – | – |
| Kelp Gull | 3795 | – | – |
| Greyheaded Gull | – | – | – |
| Hartlaubs Gull | 3249 | – | – |
| Caspian Tern | – | – | – |
| Swft Tern | 46 | – | – |
| Sandwich Tern | 5 | – | – |
| Common Tern | – | – | – |
| Whitewinged | – | – | – |
| PIGEONS AND DOVES | – | – | – |
| Feral Pigeon | – | – | – |
| Rock Pigeon | 19 | – | – |
| Redeyed Dove | 2 | – | – |
| Cape Turtle Dove | 1 | – | – |
| Laughing Dove | – | – | – |
| CUCKOOS | – | – | – |
| Klaas's Cuckoo | – | – | – |
| Diederik Cuckoo | – | – | – |
