The Cape Bird Club
Counts – Strandfontein – February 2008
Cattle Egret
| Wind | None |
| Weather | Cloudy |
| Leader | Dick Barnes |
|
Species |
Presence |
Species |
Presence |
| Ostrich | 3 | – | – |
|
GREBES |
– |
COUCALS | – |
| Great Crested |
4 |
Burchell's Coucal |
– |
| Blacknecked | 22 | OWLS | – |
| Dabchick | 200 | Spotted Eagle Owl | – |
| PELICANS | – | SWIFTS | – |
| White Pelican | 39 | Black Swift | – |
| CORMORANTS | – | Whiterumped Swift | – |
| Whitebreasted Cormorant | 115 | Little Swift | – |
| Cape Cormorant | 2 | Alpine Swift | – |
| Reed Cormorant | 14 | MOUSEBIRDS | – |
| DARTERS | – | Whitebacked Mousebird | 1 |
| Darter | – | Redfaced | – |
| HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS | – | KINGFISHERS | – |
| Grey Heron | 21 | Pied Kingfisher | 1 |
| Blackheaded Heron | 9 | Giant Kingfisher | – |
| Purple Heron | 2 | Malachite Kingfisher | – |
| Blackcrowned Night Heron | 4 | BARBETS | – |
| Little Egret | 2 | Acacia Pied Barbet | – |
| Yellow billed Egret | 1 | LARKS AND FINCHLARKS | – |
| Cattle Egret | 36 | Redcapped Lark | – |
| Little Bittern | – | SWALLOWS AND MARTINS | – |
| IBIS AND SPOONBILLS | – | European Swallow | 23 |
| Sacred Ibis | 56 | Whitethroated Swallow | – |
| Glossy Ibis | 67 | Greater Striped Swallow | – |
| Hadeda Ibis | 9 | Pearlbreasted Swallow | – |
| African Spoonbill | 1 | Black Sawwing | – |
| FLAMINGOES | – | Rock Martin | – |
| Greater Flamingo | 1069 | Brownthroated Martin | 74 |
| Lesser Flamingo | – | CROWS AND RAVENS | – |
| DUCKS AND GEESE | – | Pied Crow | – |
| Spurwinged Goose |
117 |
Whitenecked Raven | 1 |
| Egyptian Goose | 307 | BULBULS | – |
| Hottentot Teal | 5 | Cape Bulbul | 22 |
| Shelduck | 16 | THRUSHES, CHATS, ALETHES, ROBINS AND ROCKJUMPERS | – |
| Yellowbilled Duck | 186 | Olive Thrush | – |
| Red-billed Teal | 102 | Cape Robin Chat | 8 |
| Cape Teal | 475 | Karoo Robin | – |
| Cape Shoveller | 1006 | TITBABBLERS, WARBLERS, APALISES, CROMBECS, CISTICOLAS AND PRINIAS | – |
| Southern Pochard | 101 | Cape Reed Warbler | 10 |
| Unidentified Duck | 1 | African Sedge Warbler | 16 |
| Whitebacked Duck | – | African Marsh Warbler | – |
| Maccoa | 8 | Grassbird | 2 |
| KITES | – | Fantailed | 1 |
| Black Shouldered Kite | 2 | Levaillant's Cisticola | 11 |
| Yellowbilled Kite | – | Greybacked | – |
| EAGLES | – | Spotted Prinia | 7 |
| African Fish Eagle | 1 | WAGTAILS, PIPITS AND LONGCLAWS | – |
| BUZZARDS | – | Cape Wagtail | 17 |
| Steppe Buzzard | – | Grassveld Pipit | 4 |
| GOSHAWKS AND SPARROWHAWKS | – | Orangethroated Longclaw | – |
| Redbreasted Sparrowhawk | – | SHRIKES | – |
| Black Sparrowhawk | – | Fiscal Shrike | 1 |
| African Goshawk |
– |
Southern Boubou | 1 |
| HARRIERS | – | Bokmakierie | – |
| African Marsh Harrier | 4 | STARLINGS | – |
| FALCONS AND KESTRELS | – | Common Starling | 188 |
| Peregrine Falcon | – | Redwing Starling | 3 |
| Lanner Falcon | – | SUGARBIRDS AND SUNBIRDS | – |
| Rock Kestrel | – | Malachite Sunbird | – |
| FRANCOLIN AND QUAIL | – | Lesser Double collared Sunbird | – |
| Cape Francolin | 14 | WHITE EYES | – |
| GUINEAFOWL | – | Cape White Eye | – |
| Helmeted Guineafowl | 49 | SPARROWS, WEAVERS, BISHOPS AND WIDOWS | – |
| RAIL, CRAKES, FLUFFTAILS, GALLINULES, MOORHENS AND COOTS | – | House Sparrow | – |
| Black Crake | 2 | Cape Sparrow | 5 |
| African Purple Swamp hen | 16 | Cape Weaver | 1 |
| Moorhen | 127 | Southern Masked Weaver | 9 |
| Redknobbed Coot | 301 | Red Bishop | – |
| Black Oystercatcher | 3 | Yellowrumped Widow | – |
| PLOVERS | – | WAXBILLS | – |
| Threebanded Plover | 2 | Common Waxbill | 10 |
| Grey | – | Pintailed Whydah | – |
| Kittlitz's | 15 | CANARIES, SISKINS, FINCHES AND BUNTINGS | – |
| Blacksmith Lapwing | 57 | Cape Canary | – |
| Ringed Plover | 60 | Bully Canary | 3 |
| Crowned Plover | – | Yellow Canary | 1 |
| Turnstone | – | OTHER | – |
| SNIPES, GODWITS, SANDPIPERS, STINTS, CURLEWS AND PHALAROPES, RUFF, STINT | – | Mallard / Hybrids | – |
| Common Sandpiper | 2 |
total species |
84 |
| Wood | 1 | – | – |
| Marsh Sandpiper | – | – | – |
| Greenshank | 4 | – | – |
| Curlew | – | – | – |
| Little Stint | 95 | – | – |
| Ruff | 40 | – | – |
| African Snipe | – | – | – |
| AVOCETS AND STILTS | – | – | – |
| Blackwinged Stilt | 332 | – | – |
| Pied Avocet | 760 | – | – |
| DIKKOPS | 259 | – | – |
| Spotted Thickknees | – | – | – |
| Water Thickknees | – | – | – |
| SKUAS, GULLS AND TERNS | – | – | – |
| Kelp Gull | 2614 | – | – |
| Greyheaded Gull | – | – | – |
| Hartlaubs Gull | 516 | – | – |
| Caspian Tern | 6 | – | – |
| Swift Tern | 150 | – | – |
| Sandwich Tern | – | – | – |
| Common Tern | 2 | – | – |
| Whitewinged | – | – | – |
| PIGEONS AND DOVES | – | – | – |
| Feral Pigeon | – | – | – |
| Rock Pigeon | 17 | – | – |
| Redeyed Dove | 7 | – | – |
| Cape Turtle Dove | 15 | – | – |
| Laughing Dove | – | – | – |
| CUCKOOS | – | – | – |
| Klaas's Cuckoo | – | – | – |
| Diederik Cuckoo | – | – | – |
