The Cape Bird Club

Counts – Strandfontein – July 2008


photograph by Morne Carstens

Bokmakierie

Wind none recorded
Weather none recorded
Leader Dick Barnes

 

Species

Presence

Species

Presence

GREBES

COUCALS
Great Crested

Burchell's Coucal

Blacknecked 90 OWLS
Dabchick 359 Spotted Eagle Owl
PELICANS SWIFTS 
White Pelican 2 Black Swift
CORMORANTS Whiterumped Swift
Whitebreasted Cormorant 12 Little Swift
Cape Cormorant Alpine Swift
Reed Cormorant 6 MOUSEBIRDS
DARTERS Whitebacked Mousebird 1
Darter  3 Redfaced
HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS KINGFISHERS
Grey Heron 2 Pied Kingfisher 1
Blackheaded Heron 13 Giant Kingfisher
Purple Heron 4 Malachite Kingfisher 1
Blackcrowned Night Heron 3 BARBETS
Little Egret 6 Acacia Pied Barbet
Yellow billed Egret LARKS AND FINCHLARKS 
Cattle Egret 310 Redcapped Lark
Little Bittern SWALLOWS AND MARTINS 
IBIS AND SPOONBILLS European Swallow 
Sacred Ibis 97 Whitethroated Swallow
Glossy Ibis 4 Greater Striped Swallow
Hadeda Ibis 33 Pearlbreasted Swallow
African Spoonbill Black Sawwing
FLAMINGOES Rock Martin
Greater Flamingo 264 Brownthroated Martin 1
Lesser Flamingo CROWS AND RAVENS
DUCKS AND GEESE Pied Crow 3
Spurwinged Goose

19

Whitenecked Raven
Egyptian Goose 86 BULBULS 
Shelduck Cape Bulbul 39
Yellowbilled Duck 29 THRUSHES, CHATS, ALETHES, ROBINS AND ROCKJUMPERS
Hotentot Teal Olive Thrush
Red-billed Teal 79 Cape Robin Chat 8
Cape Teal 38 Karoo Robin 1
Cape Shoveller 428 TITBABBLERS, WARBLERS, APALISES, CROMBECS, CISTICOLAS AND PRINIAS
Southern Pochard 91 Cape Reed Warbler 13
Whitefaced Duck African Sedge Warbler 25
Whitebacked Duck 1 African Marsh Warbler
Maccoa 26 Grassbird 2
KITES Fantailed 7
Black Shouldered Kite 2 Levaillant's Cisticola 42
Yellowbilled Kite Greybacked
EAGLES Spotted Prinia 14
African Fish Eagle WAGTAILS, PIPITS AND LONGCLAWS
BUZZARDS Cape Wagtail 32
Jackal Buzzard 1 Grassveld Pipit 2
GOSHAWKS AND SPARROWHAWKS Orangethroated Longclaw 1
Redbreasted Sparrowhawk SHRIKES
Black Sparrowhawk Fiscal Shrike 1
African Goshawk

Southern Boubou
HARRIERS Bokmakierie 1
African Marsh Harrier 2 STARLINGS
FALCONS AND KESTRELS Commom Starling 39
Peregrine Falcon 1 Redwing Starling 5
Lanner Falcon SUGARBIRDS AND SUNBIRDS
Rock Kestrel Malachite Sunbird
FRANCOLIN AND QUAIL Lesser Double collared Sunbird 7
Cape Francolin 14 WHITE EYES
GUINEAFOWL Cape White Eye 23
Helmeted Guineafowl 11 SPARROWS, WEAVERS, BISHOPS AND WIDOWS
RAIL, CRAKES, FLUFFTAILS, GALLINULES, MOORHENS AND COOTS  House Sparrow
Black Crake Cape Sparrow 2
African Purple Swamp hen 26 Cape Weaver 9
Moorhen 160 Southern Masked Weaver 1
Redknobbed Coot 928 Red Bishop 1
Black Oystercatcher 26 Yellowrumped Widow
PLOVERS WAXBILLS
Threebanded Plover 1 Common Waxbill 12
Grey Pintailed Whydah
Kittlitz's CANARIES, SISKINS, FINCHES AND BUNTINGS
Blacksmith Lapwing 35 Cape Canary 2
Ringed Plover  Bully Canary
Crowned Plover OTHER
Turnstone  Mallard/Dutch Quacker
SNIPES, GODWITS, SANDPIPERS, STINTS, CURLEWS AND PHALAROPES, RUFF, STINT Ostrich 1
Common Sandpiper

total species

71
Wood
Marsh Sandpiper
Curlew
Greenshank
Little Stint
Ruff
African Snipe
AVOCETS AND STILTS
Blackwinged Stilt 4
Pied Avocet 8
DIKKOPS
Spotted Thickknees 1
Water Thickknees 
SKUAS, GULLS AND TERNS
Kelp Gull 1709
Greyheaded Gull
Hartlaubs Gull 97
Caspian Tern
Swift Tern
Sandwich Tern
Common Tern
Whitewinged
PIGEONS AND DOVES
Feral Pigeon
Rock Pigeon 23
Redeyed Dove 3
Cape Turtle Dove 2
Laughing Dove
CUCKOOS
Klaas's Cuckoo
Diederik Cuckoo 

                                                                                                                                                         

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