The Cape Bird Club
Counts – Strandfontein – February 2004
photograph by Ann Koeslag
Juvenile and adult Yellow billed Kite
| Wind | Mod SE |
| Weather | Fine |
| Leader | Dick Barnes |
|
Species |
Presence |
Species |
Presence |
|
GREBES |
– |
COUCAL | – |
| Great Crested |
15 |
Burchall's Coucal |
– |
| Blacknecked | 20 | OWLS | – |
| Dabchick | 504 | Spotted Eagle Owl | – |
| PELICANS | – | SWIFTS | – |
| White Pelican | 31 | Black Swift | – |
| CORMORANTS | – | Whiterumped Swift | – |
| Whitebreasted Cormorant | 228 | Little Swift | – |
| Cape Cormorant | 3 | Alpine Swift | – |
| Reed Cormorant | 34 | MOUSEBIRDS | – |
| DARTERS | – | Whitebacked Mousebird | – |
| Darter | 3 | Redfaced | – |
| HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS | – | KINGFISHERS | – |
| Grey Heron | 18 | Pied Kingfisher | 3 |
| Blackheaded Heron | 9 | Giant Kingfisher | – |
| Purple Heron | 5 | Malachite Kingfisher | – |
| Blackcrowned Night Heron | 2 | BARBETS | – |
| Little Egret | 10 | Acacia Pied Barbet | – |
| Yellow billed Egret | 1 | LARKS AND FINCHLARKS | – |
| Cattle Egret | 64 | Redcapped Lark | – |
| Squacco Heron | – | SWALLOWS AND MARTINS | – |
| IBIS AND SPOONBILLS | – | European Swallow | 923 |
| Sacred Ibis | 104 | Whitethroated Swallow | 45 |
| Glossy Ibis | 13 | Greater Striped Swallow | – |
| Hadeda Ibis | 11 | Pearlbreasted Swallow | – |
| White Stork | 1 | Black Sawwing | 1 |
| FLAMINGOES | – | Rock Martin | 8 |
| Greater Flamingo | 1513 | Brownthroated Martin | 11 |
| Lesser Flamingo | – | CROWS AND RAVENS | – |
| DUCKS AND GEESE | – | Pied Crow | 8 |
| Spurwinged Goose |
30 |
Whitenecked Raven | – |
| Egyptian Goose | 448 | BULBULS | – |
| Fulvous Duck |
– |
Cape Bulbul | 18 |
| Shelduck | 1 | THRUSHES, CHATS, ALETHES, ROBINS AND ROCKJUMPERS | – |
| Yellowbilled Duck | 99 | Olive Thrush | – |
| Red-billed Teal | 11 | – | – |
| Cape Teal | 408 | Cape Robin Chat | – |
| Cape Shoveller | 1871 | Stone Chat | – |
| Southern Pochard | 25 | TITBABBLERS, WARBLERS, APALISES, CROMBECS, CISTICOLAS AND PRINIAS | – |
| Hotentot Teal | – | Cape Reed Warbler | 3 |
| Whitebacked Duck | – | African Sedge Warbler | 6 |
| Maccoa | 43 | African Marsh Warbler | – |
| KITES | – | Grassbird | – |
| Black Shouldered Kite | 14 | Fantailed | 3 |
| Yellowbilled Kite | – | Levaillant's Cisticola | 19 |
| EAGLES | – | Greybacked | – |
| African Fish Eagle | – | Spotted Prinia | 4 |
| BUZZARDS | – | WAGTAILS, PIPITS AND LONGCLAWS | – |
| Steppe Buzzard | 1 | Cape Wagtail | 46 |
| GOSHAWKS AND SPARROWHAWKS | – | Grassveld Pipit | 3 |
| Redbreasted Sparrowhawk | – | Orangethroated Longclaw | 5 |
| Black Sparrowhawk | – | SHRIKES | – |
| African Goshawk |
– |
Fiscal Shrike | – |
| HARRIERS | – | Southern Boubou | – |
| African Marsh Harrier | 12 | Bokmakierie | – |
| FALCONS AND KESTRELS | – | STARLINGS | – |
| Peregrine Falcon | – | European Starling | 146 |
| Lanner Falcon | – | Redwinged Starling | 1 |
| Rock Kestrel | – | SUGARBIRDS AND SUNBIRDS | – |
| FRANCOLIN AND QUAIL | – | Malachite Sunbird | 1 |
| Cape Francolin | – | Lesser Double collared Sunbird | 1 |
| GUINEAFOWL | – | WHITE EYES | – |
| Helmeted Guineafowl | 79 | Cape White Eye | – |
| RAIL, CRAKES, FLUFFTAILS, GALLINULES, MOORHENS AND COOTS | – | SPARROWS, WEAVERS, BISHOPS AND WIDOWS | – |
| Black Crake | – | House Sparrow | – |
| African Purple Swamp hen | 8 | Cape Sparrow | 5 |
| Moorhen | 42 | Cape Weaver | – |
| Redknobbed Coot | 418 | Southern Masked Weaver | – |
| Black Oystercatcher | 3 | Red Bishop | – |
| PLOVERS | – | Yellowrumped Widow | – |
| Threebanded Plover | 10 | WAXBILLS | – |
| Grey | – | Common Waxbill | – |
| Kittlitz's | – | Pintailed Whydah | – |
| Blacksmith Lapwing | 63 | CANARIES, SISKINS, FINCHES AND BUNTINGS | – |
| Ringed Plover | 28 | Cape Canary | – |
| Crowned Plover | – | Bully Canary | – |
| Turnstone | 1 | OTHER | – |
| SNIPES, GODWITS, SANDPIPERS, STINTS, CURLEWS AND PHALAROPES, RUFF, STINT | – | Mallard/Dutch Quacker | – |
| Common Sandpiper | – | Common Peacock | – |
| Wood | 2 |
total species |
75 |
| Marsh Sandpiper | – |
– |
– |
| Curlew | 10 | – | – |
| Greenshank | 28 | – | – |
| Little Stint | 323 | – | – |
| Ruff | 53 | – | – |
| American Blackwinged Stilt | – | – | – |
| AVOCETS AND STILTS | – | – | – |
| Blackwinged Stilt | 190 | – | – |
| Pied Avocet | 488 | – | – |
| DIKKOPS | – | – | – |
| Spotted Thickknees | 2 | – | – |
| Water Thickknees | – | – | – |
| SKUAS, GULLS AND TERNS | – | – | – |
| Kelp Gull | 2510 | – | – |
| Greyheaded Gull | – | – | – |
| Hartlaubs Gull | 1027 | – | – |
| Caspian Tern | 9 | – | – |
| Swft Tern | 52 | – | – |
| Sandwich Tern | 1 | – | – |
| Common Tern | 2 | – | – |
| Whitewinged | 60 | – | – |
| PIGEONS AND DOVES | – | – | – |
| Feral Pigeon | – | – | – |
| Rock Pigeon | 18 | – | – |
| Redeyed Dove | – | – | – |
| Cape Turtle Dove | 7 | – | – |
| Laughing Dove | – | – | – |
| CUCKOOS | – | – | – |
| Klaas's Cuckoo | – | – | – |
| Diederik Cuckoo | – | – | – |
