The Cape Bird Club
Counts – Strandfontein – July 2006
photograph by Peter Steyn
Avocets
| Wind | Mod NW |
| Weather | Clear |
| Leader | Dick Barnes |
|
Species |
Presence |
Species |
Presence |
|
GREBES |
– |
COUCALS | – |
| Great Crested |
2 |
Burchell's Coucal |
– |
| Blacknecked | 198 | OWLS | – |
| Dabchick | 1047 | Spotted Eagle Owl | – |
| PELICANS | – | SWIFTS | – |
| White Pelican | 3 | Black Swift | – |
| CORMORANTS | – | Whiterumped Swift | – |
| Whitebreasted Cormorant | 37 | Little Swift | – |
| Cape Cormorant | 9 | Alpine Swift | – |
| Reed Cormorant | 25 | MOUSEBIRDS | – |
| DARTERS | – | Whitebacked Mousebird | – |
| Darter | 3 | Redfaced | – |
| HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS | – | KINGFISHERS | – |
| Grey Heron | 8 | Pied Kingfisher | – |
| Blackheaded Heron | 4 | Giant Kingfisher | – |
| Purple Heron | 3 | Malachite Kingfisher | – |
| Blackcrowned Night Heron | 1 | BARBETS | – |
| Little Egret | – | Acacia Pied Barbet | – |
| Yellow billed Egret | – | LARKS AND FINCHLARKS | – |
| Cattle Egret | 691 | Redcapped Lark | – |
| Little Bittern | – | SWALLOWS AND MARTINS | – |
| IBIS AND SPOONBILLS | – | European Swallow | 1 |
| Sacred Ibis | 171 | Whitethroated Swallow | – |
| Glossy Ibis | 125 | Greater Striped Swallow | 1 |
| Hadeda Ibis | 9 | Pearlbreasted Swallow | – |
| African Spoonbill | – | Black Sawwing | – |
| FLAMINGOES | – | Rock Martin | 10 |
| Greater Flamingo | 232 | Brownthroated Martin | 153 |
| Lesser Flamingo | – | CROWS AND RAVENS | – |
| DUCKS AND GEESE | – | Pied Crow | 7 |
| Spurwinged Goose |
23 |
Whitenecked Raven | 2 |
| Egyptian Goose | 132 | BULBULS | – |
| Fulvous Duck | – | Cape Bulbul | 12 |
| Shelduck | 5 | THRUSHES, CHATS, ALETHES, ROBINS AND ROCKJUMPERS | – |
| Yellowbilled Duck | 105 | Olive Thrush | – |
| Red-billed Teal | 250 | – | – |
| Cape Teal | 326 | Cape Robin Chat | 4 |
| Cape Shoveller | 279 | Karoo Robin | – |
| Southern Pochard | 142 | TITBABBLERS, WARBLERS, APALISES, CROMBECS, CISTICOLAS AND PRINIAS | – |
| Hotentot Teal | 2 | Cape Reed Warbler | 9 |
| Whitebacked Duck | – | African Sedge Warbler | 26 |
| Maccoa | 5 | African Marsh Warbler | – |
| KITES | – | Grassbird | – |
| Black Shouldered Kite | 2 | Fantailed | 7 |
| Yellowbilled Kite | – | Levaillant's Cisticola | 35 |
| EAGLES | – | Greybacked | – |
| African Fish Eagle | – | Spotted Prinia | 19 |
| BUZZARDS | – | WAGTAILS, PIPITS AND LONGCLAWS | – |
| Jackal Buzzard | 1 | Cape Wagtail | 16 |
| GOSHAWKS AND SPARROWHAWKS | – | Grassveld Pipit | 5 |
| Redbreasted Sparrowhawk | – | Orangethroated Longclaw | – |
| Black Sparrowhawk | – | SHRIKES | – |
| African Goshawk |
– |
Fiscal Shrike | – |
| HARRIERS | – | Southern Boubou | – |
| African Marsh Harrier | 3 | Bokmakierie | – |
| FALCONS AND KESTRELS | – | STARLINGS | – |
| Peregrine Falcon | – | European Starling | 51 |
| Lanner Falcon | – | Wattled Starling | – |
| Rock Kestrel | 2 | SUGARBIRDS AND SUNBIRDS | – |
| FRANCOLIN AND QUAIL | – | Malachite Sunbird | – |
| Cape Francolin | 7 | Lesser Double collared Sunbird | 2 |
| GUINEAFOWL | – | WHITE EYES | – |
| Helmeted Guineafowl | 15 | Cape White Eye | 19 |
| RAIL, CRAKES, FLUFFTAILS, GALLINULES, MOORHENS AND COOTS | – | SPARROWS, WEAVERS, BISHOPS AND WIDOWS | – |
| Black Crake | 2 | House Sparrow | – |
| African Purple Swamp hen | 10 | Cape Sparrow | 2 |
| Moorhen | 110 | Cape Weaver | 13 |
| Redknobbed Coot | 407 | Southern Masked Weaver | 5 |
| Black Oystercatcher | 21 | Red Bishop | – |
| PLOVERS | – | Yellowrumped Widow | – |
| Threebanded Plover | – | WAXBILLS | – |
| Grey | – | Common Waxbill | 14 |
| Kittlitz's | 44 | Pintailed Whydah | – |
| Blacksmith Lapwing | 87 | CANARIES, SISKINS, FINCHES AND BUNTINGS | – |
| Ringed Plover | – | Cape Canary | – |
| Crowned Plover | – | Bully Canary | 2 |
| Turnstone | – | OTHER | – |
| SNIPES, GODWITS, SANDPIPERS, STINTS, CURLEWS AND PHALAROPES, RUFF, STINT | – | Mallard/Dutch Quacker | – |
| Common Sandpiper | – | Common Peacock | – |
| Wood | – |
total species |
69 |
| Marsh Sandpiper | – |
– |
– |
| Curlew | – | – | – |
| Greenshank | – | – | – |
| Little Stint | – | – | – |
| Ruff | – | – | – |
| African Snipe | – | – | – |
| AVOCETS AND STILTS | – | – | – |
| Blackwinged Stilt | 256 | – | – |
| Pied Avocet | 340 | – | – |
| DIKKOPS | – | – | – |
| Spotted Thickknees | – | – | – |
| Water Thickknees | – | – | – |
| SKUAS, GULLS AND TERNS | – | – | – |
| Kelp Gull | 1771 | – | – |
| Greyheaded Gull | – | – | – |
| Hartlaubs Gull | 477 | – | – |
| Caspian Tern | – | – | – |
| Swft Tern | 119 | – | – |
| Sandwich Tern | – | – | – |
| Common Tern | – | – | – |
| Whitewinged | – | – | – |
| PIGEONS AND DOVES | – | – | – |
| Feral Pigeon | – | – | – |
| Rock Pigeon | 18 | – | – |
| Redeyed Dove | – | – | – |
| Cape Turtle Dove | 5 | – | – |
| Laughing Dove | – | – | – |
| CUCKOOS | – | – | – |
| Klaas's Cuckoo | – | – | – |
| Diederik Cuckoo | – | – | – |
