The Cape Bird Club
Counts – Strandfontein – July 2005
photograph by Andrew Jenkins
Peregrine pair
| Wind | – |
| Weather | Beautiful |
| Leader | Dick Barnes |
|
Species |
Presence |
Species |
Presence |
|
GREBES |
– |
COUCAL | – |
| Great Crested |
4 |
Burchall's Coucal |
– |
| Blacknecked | 166 | OWLS | – |
| Dabchick | 648 | Spotted Eagle Owl | 1 |
| PELICANS | – | SWIFTS | – |
| White Pelican | 117 | Black Swift | – |
| CORMORANTS | – | Whiterumped Swift | – |
| Whitebreasted Cormorant | 168 | Little Swift | – |
| Cape Cormorant | – | Alpine Swift | – |
| Reed Cormorant | 16 | MOUSEBIRDS | – |
| DARTERS | – | Whitebacked Mousebird | – |
| Darter | 28 | Redfaced | – |
| HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS | – | KINGFISHERS | – |
| Grey Heron | 11 | Pied Kingfisher | – |
| Blackheaded Heron | 6 | Giant Kingfisher | – |
| Purple Heron | 6 | Malachite Kingfisher | 2 |
| Blackcrowned Night Heron | 1 | BARBETS | – |
| Little Egret | 8 | Acacia Pied Barbet | – |
| Yellow billed Egret | – | LARKS AND FINCHLARKS | – |
| Cattle Egret | 504 | Redcapped Lark | – |
| Squacco Heron | 1 | SWALLOWS AND MARTINS | – |
| IBIS AND SPOONBILLS | – | European Swallow | – |
| Sacred Ibis | 53 | Whitethroated Swallow | – |
| Glossy Ibis | 61 | Greater Striped Swallow | – |
| Hadeda Ibis | 30 | Pearlbreasted Swallow | – |
| African Spoonbill | 1 | Black Sawwing | – |
| FLAMINGOES | – | Rock Martin | – |
| Greater Flamingo + 4 juveniles | 2083 | Brownthroated Martin | 18 |
| Lesser Flamingo | 7 | CROWS AND RAVENS | – |
| DUCKS AND GEESE | – | Pied Crow | 1 |
| Spurwinged Goose |
12 |
Whitenecked Raven | 3 |
| Egyptian Goose | 126 | BULBULS | – |
| Fulvous Duck |
– |
Cape Bulbul | 15 |
| Shelduck | 2 | THRUSHES, CHATS, ALETHES, ROBINS AND ROCKJUMPERS | – |
| Yellowbilled Duck | 85 | Olive Thrush | – |
| Red-billed Teal | 250 | – | – |
| Cape Teal | 188 | Cape Robin Chat | 5 |
| Cape Shoveller | 159 | Karoo Robin | 1 |
| Southern Pochard | 180 | TITBABBLERS, WARBLERS, APALISES, CROMBECS, CISTICOLAS AND PRINIAS | – |
| Hotentot Teal | – | Cape Reed Warbler | 12 |
| Whitebacked Duck | – | African Sedge Warbler | 15 |
| Maccoa | 73 | African Marsh Warbler | – |
| KITES | – | Grassbird | 1 |
| Black Shouldered Kite | 3 | Fantailed | 1 |
| Yellowbilled Kite | – | Levaillant's Cisticola | 36 |
| EAGLES | – | Greybacked | 1 |
| African Fish Eagle | 1 | Spotted Prinia | 19 |
| BUZZARDS | – | WAGTAILS, PIPITS AND LONGCLAWS | – |
| Jackal Buzzard | 1 | Cape Wagtail | 9 |
| GOSHAWKS AND SPARROWHAWKS | – | Grassveld Pipit | 1 |
| Redbreasted Sparrowhawk | – | Orangethroated Longclaw | – |
| Black Sparrowhawk | – | SHRIKES | – |
| African Goshawk |
– |
Fiscal Shrike | – |
| HARRIERS | – | Southern Boubou | – |
| African Marsh Harrier | 6 | Bokmakierie | – |
| FALCONS AND KESTRELS | – | STARLINGS | – |
| Peregrine Falcon | – | European Starling | 95 |
| Lanner Falcon | – | Redwinged Starling | – |
| Rock Kestrel | – | SUGARBIRDS AND SUNBIRDS | – |
| FRANCOLIN AND QUAIL | – | Malachite Sunbird | – |
| Cape Francolin | 2 | Lesser Double collared Sunbird | 6 |
| GUINEAFOWL | – | WHITE EYES | – |
| Helmeted Guineafowl | 81 | Cape White Eye | 16 |
| RAIL, CRAKES, FLUFFTAILS, GALLINULES, MOORHENS AND COOTS | – | SPARROWS, WEAVERS, BISHOPS AND WIDOWS | – |
| Black Crake | 1 | House Sparrow | – |
| African Purple Swamp hen | 12 | Cape Sparrow | 20 |
| Moorhen | 165 | Cape Weaver | 1 |
| Redknobbed Coot | 832 | Southern Masked Weaver | 5 |
| Black Oystercatcher | 15 | Red Bishop | – |
| PLOVERS | – | Yellowrumped Widow | 3 |
| Threebanded Plover | 5 | WAXBILLS | – |
| Grey | – | Common Waxbill | 5 |
| Kittlitz's | 16 | Pintailed Whydah | – |
| Blacksmith Lapwing | 54 | CANARIES, SISKINS, FINCHES AND BUNTINGS | – |
| Ringed Plover | – | Cape Canary | – |
| Crowned Plover | – | Bully Canary | – |
| Turnstone | – | OTHER | – |
| SNIPES, GODWITS, SANDPIPERS, STINTS, CURLEWS AND PHALAROPES, RUFF, STINT | – | Mallard/Dutch Quacker | – |
| Common Sandpiper | – | Common Peacock | – |
| Wood | – |
total species |
75 |
| Marsh Sandpiper | – |
– |
– |
| Curlew | 2 | – | – |
| Greenshank | – | – | – |
| Little Stint | – | – | – |
| Ruff | – | – | – |
| American Blackwinged Stilt | – | – | – |
| AVOCETS AND STILTS | – | – | – |
| Blackwinged Stilt | 176 | – | – |
| Pied Avocet | 76 | – | – |
| DIKKOPS | – | – | – |
| Spotted Thickknees | – | – | – |
| Water Thickknees | – | – | – |
| SKUAS, GULLS AND TERNS | – | – | – |
| Kelp Gull | 1891 | – | – |
| Greyheaded Gull | – | – | – |
| Hartlaubs Gull | 470 | – | – |
| Caspian Tern | – | – | – |
| Swft Tern | 5 | – | – |
| Sandwich Tern | – | – | – |
| Common Tern | – | – | – |
| Whitewinged | – | – | – |
| PIGEONS AND DOVES | – | – | – |
| Feral Pigeon | – | – | – |
| Rock Pigeon | 5 | – | – |
| Redeyed Dove | 1 | – | – |
| Cape Turtle Dove | 7 | – | – |
| Laughing Dove | – | – | – |
| CUCKOOS | – | – | – |
| Klaas's Cuckoo | 1 | – | – |
| Diederik Cuckoo | – | – | – |
