The Cape Bird Club
Counts – Strandfontein – December 2008
Karoo Prinia
| Wind | NW |
| Weather | overcast |
| Leader | Dick Barnes |
|
Species |
Presence |
Species |
Presence |
|
GREBES |
– |
COUCALS | – |
| Great Crested |
2 |
Burchell's Coucal |
– |
| Blacknecked | 14 | OWLS | – |
| Dabchick | 84 | Spotted Eagle Owl | – |
| PELICANS | – | SWIFTS | – |
| White Pelican | 23 | Black Swift | 21 |
| CORMORANTS | – | Whiterumped Swift | – |
| Whitebreasted Cormorant | 109 | Little Swift | 1 |
| Cape Cormorant | – | Alpine Swift | – |
| Reed Cormorant | 27 | MOUSEBIRDS | – |
| DARTERS | – | Whitebacked Mousebird | – |
| Darter | 1 | Redfaced | – |
| HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS | – | KINGFISHERS | – |
| Grey Heron | 22 | Pied Kingfisher | – |
| Blackheaded Heron | 7 | Giant Kingfisher | – |
| Purple Heron | – | Malachite Kingfisher | – |
| Blackcrowned Night Heron | 16 | BARBETS | – |
| Little Egret | 18 | Acacia Pied Barbet | – |
| Yellow billed Egret | 1 | LARKS AND FINCHLARKS | – |
| Cattle Egret | 157 | Redcapped Lark | – |
| Little Bittern | – | SWALLOWS AND MARTINS | – |
| IBIS AND SPOONBILLS | – | European Swallow | 112 |
| Sacred Ibis | 64 | Whitethroated Swallow | 4 |
| Glossy Ibis | 172 | Greater Striped Swallow | – |
| Hadeda Ibis | 26 | Pearlbreasted Swallow | – |
| African Spoonbill | – | Black Sawwing | – |
| FLAMINGOES | – | Rock Martin | – |
| Greater Flamingo | 393 | Brownthroated Martin | 175 |
| Lesser Flamingo | – | CROWS AND RAVENS | – |
| DUCKS AND GEESE | – | Pied Crow | 4 |
| Spurwinged Goose |
103 |
Whitenecked Raven | – |
| Egyptian Goose | 278 | BULBULS | – |
| Shelduck | – | Cape Bulbul | 7 |
| Yellowbilled Duck | 330 | THRUSHES, CHATS, ALETHES, ROBINS AND ROCKJUMPERS | – |
| Hotentot Teal | – | Olive Thrush | – |
| Red-billed Teal | 298 | Cape Robin Chat | – |
| Cape Teal | 388 | Karoo Robin | – |
| Cape Shoveller | 899 | TITBABBLERS, WARBLERS, APALISES, CROMBECS, CISTICOLAS AND PRINIAS | – |
| Southern Pochard | 22 | Cape Reed Warbler | 5 |
| Whitefaced Duck | – | African Sedge Warbler | 14 |
| Whitebacked Duck | 27 | African Marsh Warbler | – |
| Maccoa | 4 | Grassbird | 2 |
| KITES | – | Fantailed | – |
| Black Shouldered Kite | 1 | Levaillant's Cisticola | 18 |
| Yellowbilled Kite | – | Greybacked | – |
| EAGLES | – | Spotted Prinia | 4 |
| African Fish Eagle | – | WAGTAILS, PIPITS AND LONGCLAWS | – |
| BUZZARDS | – | Cape Wagtail | 36 |
| Jackal Buzzard | – | Grassveld Pipit | 2 |
| 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 | 51 |
| Peregrine Falcon | – | Redwing Starling | 5 |
| Lanner Falcon | – | SUGARBIRDS AND SUNBIRDS | – |
| Rock Kestrel | 1 | Malachite Sunbird | – |
| FRANCOLIN AND QUAIL | – | Lesser Double collared Sunbird | – |
| Cape Francolin | 5 | WHITE EYES | – |
| GUINEAFOWL | – | Cape White Eye | 2 |
| Helmeted Guineafowl | 31 | SPARROWS, WEAVERS, BISHOPS AND WIDOWS | – |
| RAIL, CRAKES, FLUFFTAILS, GALLINULES, MOORHENS AND COOTS | – | House Sparrow | – |
| Black Crake | – | Cape Sparrow | – |
| African Purple Swamp hen | 7 | Cape Weaver | 3 |
| Moorhen | 33 | Southern Masked Weaver | 1 |
| Redknobbed Coot | 426 | Red Bishop | – |
| Black Oystercatcher | – | Yellowrumped Widow | – |
| PLOVERS | – | WAXBILLS | – |
| Threebanded Plover | 15 | Common Waxbill | 4 |
| Grey | – | Pintailed Whydah | – |
| Kittlitz's | 6 | CANARIES, SISKINS, FINCHES AND BUNTINGS | – |
| Blacksmith Lapwing | 140 | Cape Canary | – |
| 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 |
71 |
| Wood | – | – | – |
| Marsh Sandpiper | – | – | – |
| Curlew | – | – | – |
| Greenshank | 4 | – | – |
| Little Stint | 30 | – | – |
| Blacktailed Godwit | – | – | – |
| African Snipe | – | – | – |
| AVOCETS AND STILTS | – | – | – |
| Blackwinged Stilt | 186 | – | – |
| Pied Avocet | 936 | – | – |
| DIKKOPS | – | – | – |
| Spotted Thickknees | 1 | – | – |
| Water Thickknees | – | – | – |
| SKUAS, GULLS AND TERNS | – | – | – |
| Kelp Gull | 2178 | – | – |
| Greyheaded Gull | – | – | – |
| Hartlaubs Gull | 2976 | – | – |
| Caspian Tern | 1 | – | – |
| Swift Tern | 296 | – | – |
| Sandwich Tern | – | – | – |
| Common Tern | 27 | – | – |
| Whitewinged | – | – | – |
| PIGEONS AND DOVES | – | – | – |
| Feral Pigeon | – | – | – |
| Rock Pigeon | 19 | – | – |
| Redeyed Dove | 2 | – | – |
| Namaqua Dove | – | – | – |
| Laughing Dove | 6 | – | – |
| CUCKOOS | – | – | – |
| Klaas's Cuckoo | – | – | – |
| Diederik Cuckoo | – | – | – |
