The Cape Bird Club
Counts – Strandfontein – February 2007
Greater Flamingos
| Wind | North |
| Weather | Overcast |
| Leader | Dick Barnes |
|
Species |
Presence |
Species |
Presence |
|
GREBES |
– |
COUCALS | – |
| Great Crested |
– |
Burchell's Coucal |
– |
| Blacknecked | 4 | OWLS | – |
| Dabchick | 86 | Spotted Eagle Owl | – |
| PELICANS | – | SWIFTS | – |
| White Pelican | 49 | Black Swift | 10 |
| CORMORANTS | – | Whiterumped Swift | 6 |
| Whitebreasted Cormorant | 139 | Little Swift | 4 |
| Cape Cormorant | 2 | Alpine Swift | – |
| Reed Cormorant | 22 | MOUSEBIRDS | – |
| DARTERS | – | Whitebacked Mousebird | – |
| Darter | – | Redfaced | – |
| HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS | – | KINGFISHERS | – |
| Grey Heron | 18 | Pied Kingfisher | – |
| Blackheaded Heron | 7 | Giant Kingfisher | – |
| Purple Heron | 1 | Malachite Kingfisher | – |
| Blackcrowned Night Heron | 9 | BARBETS | – |
| Little Egret | 6 | Acacia Pied Barbet | – |
| Yellow billed Egret | – | LARKS AND FINCHLARKS | – |
| Cattle Egret | 131 | Redcapped Lark | – |
| Little Bittern | – | SWALLOWS AND MARTINS | – |
| IBIS AND SPOONBILLS | – | European Swallow | 1757 |
| Sacred Ibis | 106 | Whitethroated Swallow | 3 |
| Glossy Ibis | 27 | Greater Striped Swallow | – |
| Hadeda Ibis | 24 | Pearlbreasted Swallow | – |
| African Spoonbill | 1 | Black Sawwing | – |
| FLAMINGOES | – | Rock Martin | – |
| Greater Flamingo | 1832 | Brownthroated Martin | 25 |
| Lesser Flamingo | – | CROWS AND RAVENS | – |
| DUCKS AND GEESE | – | Pied Crow | 6 |
| Spurwinged Goose |
138 |
Whitenecked Raven | 2 |
| Egyptian Goose | 361 | BULBULS | – |
| Fulvous Duck | – | Cape Bulbul | 12 |
| Shelduck | 55 | THRUSHES, CHATS, ALETHES, ROBINS AND ROCKJUMPERS | – |
| Yellowbilled Duck | 211 | Olive Thrush | – |
| Red-billed Teal | 162 | Cape Robin Chat | 5 |
| Cape Teal | 512 | Karoo Robin | – |
| Cape Shoveller | 1030 | TITBABBLERS, WARBLERS, APALISES, CROMBECS, CISTICOLAS AND PRINIAS | – |
| Southern Pochard | 22 | Cape Reed Warbler | 4 |
| Whitefaced Duck | – | African Sedge Warbler | 20 |
| Whitebacked Duck | – | African Marsh Warbler | – |
| Maccoa | 7 | Grassbird | 2 |
| KITES | – | Fantailed | 1– |
| Black Shouldered Kite | 2 | Levaillant's Cisticola | 10 |
| Yellowbilled Kite | – | Greybacked | – |
| EAGLES | – | Spotted Prinia | 10 |
| African Fish Eagle | – | WAGTAILS, PIPITS AND LONGCLAWS | – |
| BUZZARDS | – | Cape Wagtail | 114 |
| Steppe Buzzard | – | Grassveld Pipit | 3 |
| 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 | – | European Starling | 288 |
| Peregrine Falcon | – | Redwing Starling | – |
| Lanner Falcon | – | SUGARBIRDS AND SUNBIRDS | – |
| Rock Kestrel | – | Malachite Sunbird | – |
| FRANCOLIN AND QUAIL | – | Lesser Double collared Sunbird | 1 |
| Cape Francolin | 7 | WHITE EYES | – |
| GUINEAFOWL | – | Cape White Eye | – |
| Helmeted Guineafowl | 39 | SPARROWS, WEAVERS, BISHOPS AND WIDOWS | – |
| RAIL, CRAKES, FLUFFTAILS, GALLINULES, MOORHENS AND COOTS | – | House Sparrow | – |
| Black Crake | – | Cape Sparrow | 11 |
| African Purple Swamp hen | 14 | Cape Weaver | 13 |
| Moorhen | 136 | Southern Masked Weaver | – |
| Redknobbed Coot | 545 | Red Bishop | – |
| Black Oystercatcher | 11 | Yellowrumped Widow | – |
| PLOVERS | – | WAXBILLS | – |
| Threebanded Plover | 2 | Common Waxbill | 12 |
| Grey | – | Pintailed Whydah | – |
| Kittlitz's | – | CANARIES, SISKINS, FINCHES AND BUNTINGS | – |
| Blacksmith Lapwing | 57 | Cape Canary | – |
| Ringed Plover | 7 | Bully Canary | – |
| Crowned Plover | – | OTHER | – |
| Turnstone | – | Mallard/Dutch Quacker | – |
| SNIPES, GODWITS, SANDPIPERS, STINTS, CURLEWS AND PHALAROPES, RUFF, STINT | – | Common Peacock | – |
| Common Sandpiper | 2 |
total species |
77 |
| Wood | – | – | – |
| Marsh Sandpiper | – | – | – |
| Greenshank | 4 | – | – |
| Curlew | – | – | – |
| Little Stint | 468 | – | – |
| Ruff | – | – | – |
| African Snipe | – | – | – |
| AVOCETS AND STILTS | – | – | – |
| Blackwinged Stilt | 332 | – | – |
| Pied Avocet | 993 | – | – |
| DIKKOPS | – | – | – |
| Spotted Thickknees | – | – | – |
| Water Thickknees | – | – | – |
| SKUAS, GULLS AND TERNS | – | – | – |
| Kelp Gull | 3276 | – | – |
| Greyheaded Gull | – | – | – |
| Hartlaubs Gull | 627 | – | – |
| Caspian Tern | 7 | – | – |
| Swft Tern | 69 | – | – |
| Sandwich Tern | 5 | – | – |
| Common Tern | 8 | – | – |
| Whitewinged | 136 | – | – |
| PIGEONS AND DOVES | – | – | – |
| Feral Pigeon | 3 | – | – |
| Rock Pigeon | 19 | – | – |
| Redeyed Dove | 2 | – | – |
| Cape Turtle Dove | 3 | – | – |
| Laughing Dove | – | – | – |
| CUCKOOS | – | – | – |
| Klaas's Cuckoo | – | – | – |
| Diederik Cuckoo | – | – | – |
