The Cape Bird Club
Counts – Strandfontein – January 2010
photograph by Greg Morgan
Blackwinged Stilt
| Wind | mild NW |
| Weather | fine |
| Leader | Dick Barnes |
|
Species |
Presence |
Species |
Presence |
|
GREBES |
- |
COUCALS | - |
| Great Crested |
9 |
Burchell's Coucal |
- |
| Blacknecked | 9 | OWLS | - |
| Little (Dabchick) | 141 | Spotted Eagle Owl | - |
| PELICANS | - | SWIFTS | - |
| White Pelican | 44 | Black Swift | 55 |
| CORMORANTS | - | Whiterumped Swift | 1 |
| Whitebreasted Cormorant | 111 | Little Swift | 20 |
| Cape Cormorant | - | Alpine Swift | 5 |
| Reed Cormorant | 14 | MOUSEBIRDS | - |
| DARTERS | - | Whitebacked Mousebird | 5 |
| Darter | 3 | Redfaced Mousebird | - |
| STORKS, HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS | - | KINGFISHERS | - |
| White Stork | 1 | - | - |
| Grey Heron | 23 | Pied Kingfisher | - |
| Blackheaded Heron | 10 | Giant Kingfisher | - |
| Purple Heron | 1 | Malachite Kingfisher | - |
| Blackcrowned Night Heron | 7 | BARBETS | - |
| Great White Egret | - | Acacia Pied Barbet | - |
| Yellow billed Egret | - | LARKS AND FINCHLARKS | - |
| Cattle Egret | 80 | Redcapped Lark | - |
| Little Bittern | - | SWALLOWS AND MARTINS | - |
| IBIS AND SPOONBILLS | - | European Swallow | 89 |
| Sacred Ibis | 118 | Whitethroated Swallow | 4 |
| Glossy Ibis | 79 | Greater Striped Swallow | - |
| Hadeda Ibis | 23 | Pearlbreasted Swallow | - |
| African Spoonbill | 3 | Black Sawwing | - |
| FLAMINGOES | - | Rock Martin | - |
| Greater Flamingo | 2093 | Brownthroated Martin | 4 |
| Lesser Flamingo | - | CROWS AND RAVENS | - |
| DUCKS AND GEESE | - | Pied Crow | 5 |
| Spurwinged Goose |
48 |
Whitenecked Raven | - |
| Egyptian Goose | 409 | BULBULS | - |
| Shelduck | 9 | Cape Bulbul | 13 |
| Yellowbilled Duck | 117 | THRUSHES, CHATS, ALETHES, ROBINS AND ROCKJUMPERS | - |
| Fulvous Duck | - | Olive Thrush | - |
| Red-billed Teal | 159 | Cape Robin Chat | 1 |
| Cape Teal | 692 | Karoo Robin | - |
| Cape Shoveller | 868 | TITBABBLERS, WARBLERS, APALISES, CROMBECS, CISTICOLAS AND PRINIAS | - |
| Southern Pochard | 43 | Lesser Swamp Warbler (Cape Reed) | 4 |
| Hottentot Teal | - | Little Rush Warbler (African Sedge) | 6 |
| White faced Duck | - | African Marsh Warbler | - |
| Maccoa | 35 | Grassbird | - |
| KITES | - | Cisticola Zitting (Fantailed) | - |
| Black Shouldered Kite | 2 | Cisticola Levaillant's | 19 |
| Yellowbilled Kite | 2 | Cisticola Greybacked | - |
| EAGLES | - | Karoo Prinia (Spotted) | 6 |
| African Fish Eagle | - | WAGTAILS, PIPITS AND LONGCLAWS | - |
| BUZZARDS | - | Cape Wagtail | 21 |
| Steppe Buzzard | 1 | African Pipit (Grassveld) | 6 |
| GOSHAWKS AND SPARROWHAWKS | - | Cape Longclaw (Orangethroated) | 1 |
| Redbreasted Sparrowhawk | - | SHRIKES | - |
| Black Sparrowhawk | - | Fiscal Flycatcher | 1 |
| African Goshawk |
- |
Southern Boubou | - |
| HARRIERS | - | Bokmakierie | - |
| African Marsh Harrier | 2 | STARLINGS | - |
| FALCONS AND KESTRELS | - | Commom Starling | 259 |
| Peregrine Falcon | - | Redwing Starling | 1 |
| Lanner Falcon | - | SUGARBIRDS AND SUNBIRDS | - |
| Rock Kestrel | 1 | Orangebreasted Sunbird | 1 |
| FRANCOLIN AND QUAIL | - | Southern Doublecollared Sunbird (Lesser) | 5 |
| Cape Spurfowl (Francolin) | - | WHITE EYES | - |
| GUINEAFOWL | - | Cape White Eye | - |
| Helmeted Guineafowl | 1 | SPARROWS, WEAVERS, BISHOPS AND WIDOWS | - |
| RAIL, CRAKES, FLUFFTAILS, GALLINULES, MOORHENS AND COOTS | - | House Sparrow | - |
| Black Crake | - | Cape Sparrow | 5 |
| African Purple Swamphen (Gallinule) | 6 | Cape Weaver | 9 |
| Moorhen | 44 | Southern Masked Weaver | - |
| Redknobbed Coot | 284 | Red Bishop | - |
| African Black Oystercatcher | 6 | Yellowrumped Widow | - |
| PLOVERS | - | WAXBILLS | - |
| Threebanded Plover | 1 | Common Waxbill | 12 |
| Grey | - | Pintailed Whydah | - |
| Kittlitz's | - | CANARIES, SISKINS, FINCHES AND BUNTINGS | - |
| Blacksmith Lapwing | 55 | Cape Canary | 3 |
| Ringed Plover | 32 | Bully Canary (Brimstone) | - |
| Crowned Plover | - | OTHER | - |
| Turnstone | - | Mallard/Dutch Quacker | - |
| SNIPES, GODWITS, SANDPIPERS, STINTS, CURLEWS AND PHALAROPES, RUFF, STINT | - | Black Swan | 1 |
| Common Sandpiper | - |
Yellow Wagtail |
- |
| Wood | 3 |
total species |
83 |
| Marsh Sandpiper | - | - | - |
| Curlew | - | - | - |
| Greenshank | 6 | - | - |
| Little Stint | 15 | - | - |
| Ruff | 11 | - | - |
| African Snipe | - | - | - |
| AVOCETS AND STILTS | - | - | - |
| Blackwinged Stilt | 169 | - | - |
| Pied Avocet | 1049 | - | - |
| DIKKOPS | - | - | - |
| Spotted Thickknees | 2+ 2chicks | - | - |
| Water Thickknees | - | - | - |
| SKUAS, GULLS AND TERNS | - | - | - |
| Kelp Gull | 1898 | - | - |
| Greyheaded Gull | - | - | - |
| Hartlaubs Gull | 1855 | - | - |
| Caspian Tern | 5 | - | - |
| Swift Tern | 17 | - | - |
| Sandwich Tern | 20 | - | - |
| Common Tern | 20 | - | - |
| Whitewinged | - | - | - |
| PIGEONS AND DOVES | - | - | - |
| Rock Dove (Feral Pigeon) | 3 | - | - |
| Speckled Pigeon (Rock Pigeon) | 10 | - | - |
| Redeyed Dove | 2 | - | - |
| Cape Turtle Dove | 9 | - | - |
| Laughing Dove | - | - | - |
| CUCKOOS | - | - | - |
| Klaas's Cuckoo | - | - | - |
| Diederik Cuckoo | - | - | - |
