The Cape Bird Club
Counts – Strandfontein – February 2005
photograph by Jeremy Keyser
Strandfontein over looking False Bay towards Simnos Town
| Wind | Light SE |
| Weather | Fine |
| Leader | Dick Barnes |
|
Species |
Presence |
Species |
Presence |
|
GREBES |
– |
COUCAL | – |
| Great Crested |
11 |
Burchall's Coucal |
– |
| Blacknecked | 26 | OWLS | – |
| Dabchick | 288 | Spotted Eagle Owl | – |
| PELICANS | – | SWIFTS | – |
| White Pelican | 57 | Black Swift | – |
| CORMORANTS | – | Whiterumped Swift | 4 |
| Whitebreasted Cormorant | 169 | Little Swift | – |
| Cape Cormorant | 3 | Alpine Swift | – |
| Reed Cormorant | 46 | MOUSEBIRDS | – |
| DARTERS | – | Whitebacked Mousebird | – |
| Darter | 20 | Redfaced | – |
| HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS | – | KINGFISHERS | – |
| Grey Heron | 16 | Pied Kingfisher | – |
| Blackheaded Heron | 11 | Giant Kingfisher | – |
| Purple Heron | 4 | Malachite Kingfisher | – |
| Blackcrowned Night Heron | 3 | BARBETS | – |
| Little Egret | 5 | Acacia Pied Barbet | – |
| Yellow billed Egret | – | LARKS AND FINCHLARKS | – |
| Cattle Egret | 170 | Redcapped Lark | – |
| Squacco Heron | – | SWALLOWS AND MARTINS | – |
| IBIS AND SPOONBILLS | – | European Swallow | 1153 |
| Sacred Ibis | 114 | Whitethroated Swallow | 42 |
| Glossy Ibis | 39 | Greater Striped Swallow | – |
| Hadeda Ibis | 1 | Pearlbreasted Swallow | – |
| White Stork | 1 | Black Sawwing | 1 |
| FLAMINGOES | – | Rock Martin | 6 |
| Greater Flamingo | 904 | Brownthroated Martin | 1067 |
| Lesser Flamingo | – | CROWS AND RAVENS | – |
| DUCKS AND GEESE | – | Pied Crow | 3 |
| Spurwinged Goose |
60 |
Whitenecked Raven | – |
| Egyptian Goose | 388 | BULBULS | – |
| Fulvous Duck |
– |
Cape Bulbul | 18 |
| Shelduck | 80 | THRUSHES, CHATS, ALETHES, ROBINS AND ROCKJUMPERS | – |
| Yellowbilled Duck | 68 | Olive Thrush | – |
| Red-billed Teal | 46 | – | – |
| Cape Teal | 494 | Cape Robin Chat | – |
| Cape Shoveller | 1062 | Stone Chat | – |
| Southern Pochard | 7 | TITBABBLERS, WARBLERS, APALISES, CROMBECS, CISTICOLAS AND PRINIAS | – |
| Hotentot Teal | – | Cape Reed Warbler | 3 |
| Whitebacked Duck | 2 | African Sedge Warbler | 6 |
| Maccoa | 31 | African Marsh Warbler | – |
| KITES | – | Grassbird | – |
| Black Shouldered Kite | 8 | Fantailed | 3 |
| Yellowbilled Kite | – | Levaillant's Cisticola | 19 |
| EAGLES | – | Greybacked | – |
| African Fish Eagle | – | Spotted Prinia | 4 |
| BUZZARDS | – | WAGTAILS, PIPITS AND LONGCLAWS | – |
| Steppe Buzzard | – | Cape Wagtail | 61 |
| GOSHAWKS AND SPARROWHAWKS | – | Grassveld Pipit | 3 |
| Redbreasted Sparrowhawk | – | Orangethroated Longclaw | 3 |
| Black Sparrowhawk | – | SHRIKES | – |
| African Goshawk |
– |
Fiscal Shrike | – |
| HARRIERS | – | Southern Boubou | – |
| African Marsh Harrier | 1 | Bokmakierie | – |
| FALCONS AND KESTRELS | – | STARLINGS | – |
| Peregrine Falcon | – | European Starling | 312 |
| Lanner Falcon | – | Redwinged Starling | 1 |
| Rock Kestrel | – | SUGARBIRDS AND SUNBIRDS | – |
| FRANCOLIN AND QUAIL | – | Malachite Sunbird | 1 |
| Cape Francolin | 2 | Lesser Double collared Sunbird | 1 |
| GUINEAFOWL | – | WHITE EYES | – |
| Helmeted Guineafowl | 67 | Cape White Eye | – |
| RAIL, CRAKES, FLUFFTAILS, GALLINULES, MOORHENS AND COOTS | – | SPARROWS, WEAVERS, BISHOPS AND WIDOWS | – |
| Black Crake | – | House Sparrow | – |
| African Purple Swamp hen | 7 | Cape Sparrow | 1 |
| Moorhen | 90 | Cape Weaver | 6 |
| Redknobbed Coot | 593 | Southern Masked Weaver | 1 |
| Black Oystercatcher | 11 | Red Bishop | – |
| PLOVERS | – | Yellowrumped Widow | – |
| Threebanded Plover | 7 | WAXBILLS | – |
| Grey | – | Common Waxbill | 6 |
| Kittlitz's | 2 | Pintailed Whydah | – |
| Blacksmith Lapwing | 77 | 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 | – |
total species |
74 |
| Marsh Sandpiper | – |
– |
– |
| Curlew | – | – | – |
| Greenshank | 6 | – | – |
| Little Stint | 140 | – | – |
| Ruff | 53 | – | – |
| American Blackwinged Stilt | – | – | – |
| AVOCETS AND STILTS | – | – | – |
| Blackwinged Stilt | 312 | – | – |
| Pied Avocet | 712 | – | – |
| DIKKOPS | – | – | – |
| Spotted Thickknees | – | – | – |
| Water Thickknees | – | – | – |
| SKUAS, GULLS AND TERNS | – | – | – |
| Kelp Gull | 1272 | – | – |
| Greyheaded Gull | – | – | – |
| Hartlaubs Gull | 499 | – | – |
| Caspian Tern | 12 | – | – |
| Swft Tern | 334 | – | – |
| Sandwich Tern | 18 | – | – |
| Common Tern | 210 | – | – |
| Whitewinged | – | – | – |
| PIGEONS AND DOVES | – | – | – |
| Feral Pigeon | – | – | – |
| Rock Pigeon | 1 | – | – |
| Redeyed Dove | – | – | – |
| Cape Turtle Dove | 3 | – | – |
| Laughing Dove | – | – | – |
| CUCKOOS | – | – | – |
| Klaas's Cuckoo | – | – | – |
| Diederik Cuckoo | – | – | – |
