The Cape Bird Club
Counts – Strandfontein – January 2007
photograph by Heather Howell
Threebanded Plover
| Wind | Mod SE |
| Weather | Fine |
| Leader | Derek Longrigg |
|
Species |
Presence |
Species |
Presence |
|
GREBES |
– |
COUCALS | – |
| Great Crested |
3 |
Burchell's Coucal |
– |
| Blacknecked | 3 | OWLS | – |
| Dabchick | 383 | Spotted Eagle Owl | – |
| PELICANS | – | SWIFTS | – |
| White Pelican | 107 | Black Swift | – |
| CORMORANTS | – | Whiterumped Swift | – |
| Whitebreasted Cormorant | 83 | Little Swift | – |
| Cape Cormorant | – | Alpine Swift | – |
| Reed Cormorant | 26 | MOUSEBIRDS | – |
| DARTERS | – | Whitebacked Mousebird | – |
| Darter | 2 | Redfaced | 1 |
| HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS | – | KINGFISHERS | – |
| Grey Heron | 26 | Pied Kingfisher | 1 |
| Blackheaded Heron | 8 | Giant Kingfisher | – |
| Purple Heron | 8 | Malachite Kingfisher | – |
| Blackcrowned Night Heron | 5 | BARBETS | – |
| Little Egret | 5 | Acacia Pied Barbet | – |
| Yellow billed Egret | – | LARKS AND FINCHLARKS | – |
| Cattle Egret | 207 | Redcapped Lark | – |
| Little Bittern | – | SWALLOWS AND MARTINS | – |
| IBIS AND SPOONBILLS | – | European Swallow | 154 |
| Sacred Ibis | 228 | Whitethroated Swallow | 12 |
| Glossy Ibis | 188 | Greater Striped Swallow | – |
| Hadeda Ibis | 29 | Pearlbreasted Swallow | – |
| African Spoonbill | 9 | Black Sawwing | – |
| FLAMINGOES | – | Rock Martin | – |
| Greater Flamingo | 816 | Brownthroated Martin | 4 |
| Lesser Flamingo | – | CROWS AND RAVENS | – |
| DUCKS AND GEESE | – | Pied Crow | 4 |
| Spurwinged Goose |
13 |
Whitenecked Raven | 3 |
| Egyptian Goose | 732 | BULBULS | – |
| Fulvous Duck | – | Cape Bulbul | 16 |
| Shelduck | 16 | THRUSHES, CHATS, ALETHES, ROBINS AND ROCKJUMPERS | – |
| Yellowbilled Duck | 106 | Olive Thrush | – |
| Red-billed Teal | 316 | – | – |
| Cape Teal | 690 | Cape Robin Chat | – |
| Cape Shoveller | 606 | Karoo Robin | – |
| Southern Pochard | 54 | TITBABBLERS, WARBLERS, APALISES, CROMBECS, CISTICOLAS AND PRINIAS | – |
| Whitefaced Duck | – | Cape Reed Warbler | 7 |
| Whitebacked Duck | – | African Sedge Warbler | 8 |
| Maccoa | 17 | African Marsh Warbler | – |
| KITES | – | Grassbird | 2 |
| Black Shouldered Kite | 2 | Fantailed | 1 |
| Yellowbilled Kite | – | Levaillant's Cisticola | 24 |
| EAGLES | – | Greybacked | 1 |
| African Fish Eagle | 2 | Spotted Prinia | 8 |
| BUZZARDS | – | WAGTAILS, PIPITS AND LONGCLAWS | – |
| Steppe Buzzard | – | Cape Wagtail | 114 |
| GOSHAWKS AND SPARROWHAWKS | – | Grassveld Pipit | 6 |
| Redbreasted Sparrowhawk | – | Orangethroated Longclaw | 6 |
| Black Sparrowhawk | – | SHRIKES | – |
| African Goshawk |
– |
Fiscal Shrike | – |
| HARRIERS | – | Southern Boubou | – |
| African Marsh Harrier | 4 | Bokmakierie | – |
| FALCONS AND KESTRELS | – | STARLINGS | – |
| Peregrine Falcon | – | European Starling | 295 |
| Lanner Falcon | – | Redwing Starling | 2 |
| Rock Kestrel | – | SUGARBIRDS AND SUNBIRDS | – |
| FRANCOLIN AND QUAIL | – | Malachite Sunbird | – |
| Cape Francolin | – | Lesser Double collared Sunbird | 2 |
| GUINEAFOWL | – | WHITE EYES | – |
| Helmeted Guineafowl | 24 | Cape White Eye | 4 |
| RAIL, CRAKES, FLUFFTAILS, GALLINULES, MOORHENS AND COOTS | – | SPARROWS, WEAVERS, BISHOPS AND WIDOWS | – |
| Black Crake | – | House Sparrow | – |
| African Purple Swamp hen | 9 | Cape Sparrow | 54 |
| Moorhen | 65 | Cape Weaver | 13 |
| Redknobbed Coot | 442 | Southern Masked Weaver | – |
| Black Oystercatcher | 29 | Red Bishop | – |
| PLOVERS | – | Yellowrumped Widow | – |
| Threebanded Plover | 4 | WAXBILLS | – |
| Grey | 1 | Common Waxbill | 1 |
| Kittlitz's | 7 | Pintailed Whydah | – |
| Blacksmith Lapwing | 119 | CANARIES, SISKINS, FINCHES AND BUNTINGS | – |
| Ringed Plover | 155 | Cape Canary | – |
| Crowned Plover | – | Bully Canary | – |
| Turnstone | – | OTHER | – |
| SNIPES, GODWITS, SANDPIPERS, STINTS, CURLEWS AND PHALAROPES, RUFF, STINT | – | Mallard/Dutch Quacker | – |
| Common Sandpiper | 4 | Common Peacock | – |
| Wood | – |
total species |
83 |
| Marsh Sandpiper | – | – | – |
| Greenshank | 18 | – | – |
| Curlew | 8 | – | – |
| Little Stint | 235 | – | – |
| Ruff | 13 | – | – |
| African Snipe | 1 | – | – |
| AVOCETS AND STILTS | – | – | – |
| Blackwinged Stilt | 647 | – | – |
| Pied Avocet | 1296 | – | – |
| DIKKOPS | – | – | – |
| Spotted Thickknees | – | – | – |
| Water Thickknees | – | – | – |
| SKUAS, GULLS AND TERNS | – | – | – |
| Kelp Gull | 2905 | – | – |
| Greyheaded Gull | 1 | – | – |
| Hartlaubs Gull | 1309 | – | – |
| Caspian Tern | 1 | – | – |
| Swft Tern | 35 | – | – |
| Sandwich Tern | 60 | – | – |
| Common Tern | – | – | – |
| Whitewinged | – | – | – |
| PIGEONS AND DOVES | – | – | – |
| Feral Pigeon | – | – | – |
| Rock Pigeon | 16 | – | – |
| Redeyed Dove | 3 | – | – |
| Cape Turtle Dove | 7 | – | – |
| Laughing Dove | – | – | – |
| CUCKOOS | – | – | – |
| Klaas's Cuckoo | – | – | – |
| Diederik Cuckoo | 1 | – | – |
