The Cape Bird Club
Counts – Strandfontein – December 2004
photograph by Greg Morgan
Caspian Tern
| Wind | calm |
| Weather | overcast |
| Leader | Dick Barnes |
|
Species |
Presence |
Species |
Presence |
|
GREBES |
– |
COUCAL | – |
| Great Crested |
29 |
Burchall's Coucal |
– |
| Blacknecked | 112 | OWLS | – |
| Dabchick | 265 | Spotted Eagle Owl | – |
| PELICANS | – | SWIFTS | – |
| White Pelican | 87 | Black Swift | 2 |
| CORMORANTS | – | Whiterumped Swift | – |
| Cape Cormorant | – | Little Swift | – |
| Whitebreasted Cormorant | 135 | Alpine Swift | 5 |
| Reed Cormorant | 21 | MOUSEBIRDS | – |
| DARTERS | – | Whitebacked Mousebird | 1 |
| Darter | – | Redfaced | – |
| HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS | – | KINGFISHERS | – |
| Grey Heron | 32 | Pied Kingfisher | 3 |
| Blackheaded Heron | 15 | Giant Kingfisher | – |
| Purple Heron | 1 | Malachite Kingfisher | – |
| Blackcrowned Night Heron | 9 | BARBETS | – |
| Little Egret | 4 | Acacia Pied Barbet | – |
| Yellow billed Egret | – | LARKS AND FINCHLARKS | – |
| Cattle Egret | 57 | Redcapped Lark | – |
| Squacco Heron | – | SWALLOWS AND MARTINS | – |
| IBIS AND SPOONBILLS | – | European Swallow | 7 |
| Sacred Ibis | 138 | Whitethroated Swallow | 6 |
| Glossy Ibis | 15 | Greater Striped Swallow | – |
| Hadeda Ibis | 16 | Pearlbreasted Swallow | – |
| Spoonbill | 1 | Black Sawwing | – |
| FLAMINGOES | – | Rock Martin | – |
| Greater Flamingo | 230 | Brownthroated Martin | 13 |
| Lesser Flamingo | – | CROWS AND RAVENS | – |
| DUCKS AND GEESE | – | Pied Crow | 8 |
| Spurwinged Goose |
9 |
Whitenecked Raven | – |
| Egyptian Goose | 526 | BULBULS | – |
| Fulvous Duck |
– |
Cape Bulbul | 12 |
| Shelduck | 4 | THRUSHES, CHATS, ALETHES, ROBINS AND ROCKJUMPERS | – |
| Yellowbilled Duck | 58 | Olive Thrush | – |
| Red-billed Teal | 49 | – | – |
| Cape Teal | 545 | Cape Robin Chat | – |
| Cape Shoveller | 1475 | Stone Chat | – |
| Southern Pochard | 264 | TITBABBLERS, WARBLERS, APALISES, CROMBECS, CISTICOLAS AND PRINIAS | – |
| Hotentot Teal | – | Cape Reed Warbler | 8 |
| Tufted Duck | 1 | African Sedge Warbler | 7 |
| Maccoa | 260 | African Marsh Warbler | – |
| KITES | – | Grassbird | – |
| Black Shouldered Kite | 5 | Fantailed | 3 |
| Yellowbilled Kite | – | Levaillant's Cisticola | 21 |
| EAGLES | – | Greybacked | – |
| African Fish Eagle | – | Spotted Prinia | 14 |
| BUZZARDS | – | WAGTAILS, PIPITS AND LONGCLAWS | – |
| Steppe Buzzard | 1 | Cape Wagtail | 27 |
| GOSHAWKS AND SPARROWHAWKS | – | Grassveld Pipit | 2 |
| Redbreasted Sparrowhawk | – | Orangethroated Longclaw | 5 |
| Black Sparrowhawk | – | SHRIKES | – |
| African Goshawk |
– |
Fiscal Shrike | – |
| HARRIERS | – | Southern Boubou | 1 |
| African Marsh Harrier | – | Bokmakierie | – |
| FALCONS AND KESTRELS | – | STARLINGS | – |
| Peregrine Falcon | – | European Starling | 101 |
| Lanner Falcon | – | Redwinged Starling | 2 |
| Rock Kestrel | – | SUGARBIRDS AND SUNBIRDS | – |
| FRANCOLIN AND QUAIL | – | Malachite Sunbird | 1 |
| Cape Francolin | 1 | Lesser Double collared Sunbird | 1 |
| GUINEAFOWL | – | WHITE EYES | – |
| Helmeted Guineafowl | 14 | Cape White Eye | – |
| RAIL, CRAKES, FLUFFTAILS, GALLINULES, MOORHENS AND COOTS | – | SPARROWS, WEAVERS, BISHOPS AND WIDOWS | – |
| Black Crake | – | House Sparrow | – |
| African Purple Swamp hen | 9 | Cape Sparrow | 6 |
| Moorhen | 51 | Cape Weaver | – |
| Redknobbed Coot | 408 | Southern Masked Weaver | 2 |
| Black Oystercatcher | 2 | Red Bishop | – |
| PLOVERS | – | Yellowrumped Widow | 1 |
| Threebanded Plover | 2 | WAXBILLS | – |
| Grey | – | Common Waxbill | 22 |
| Kittlitz's | 5 | Pintailed Whydah | – |
| Blacksmith Lapwing | 41 | CANARIES, SISKINS, FINCHES AND BUNTINGS | – |
| Ringed Plover | 43 | 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 | 1 |
total species |
75 |
| Marsh Sandpiper | – |
– |
– |
| Curlew | – | – | – |
| Greenshank | 4 | – | – |
| Little Stint | 57 | – | – |
| Ruff | 21 | – | – |
| American Blackwinged Stilt | – | – | – |
| AVOCETS AND STILTS | – | – | – |
| Blackwinged Stilt | 121 | – | – |
| Pied Avocet | 388 | – | – |
| DIKKOPS | – | – | – |
| Spotted Thickknees | 2 | – | – |
| Water Thickknees | – | – | – |
| SKUAS, GULLS AND TERNS | – | – | – |
| Kelp Gull | 2692 | – | – |
| Greyheaded Gull | 2 | – | – |
| Hartlaubs Gull | 1286 | – | – |
| Caspian Tern | 2 | – | – |
| Swft Tern | 23 | – | – |
| Sandwich Tern | 1 | – | – |
| Common Tern | 2 | – | – |
| Whitewinged | 60 | – | – |
| PIGEONS AND DOVES | – | – | – |
| Feral Pigeon | – | – | – |
| Rock Pigeon | 3 | – | – |
| Redeyed Dove | 4 | – | – |
| Cape Turtle Dove | 2 | – | – |
| Laughing Dove | – | – | – |
| CUCKOOS | – | – | – |
| Klaas's Cuckoo | – | – | – |
| Diederik Cuckoo | – | – | – |
