The Cape Bird Club

Counts – Strandfontein – July 2009


photograph by Greg Morgan

Blackwinged Stilt

Wind none
Weather fine
Leader Dick Barnes

 

Species

Presence

Species

Presence

GREBES

COUCALS
Great Crested

Burchell's Coucal

Blacknecked 236 OWLS
Dabchick 677 Spotted Eagle Owl
PELICANS SWIFTS 
White Pelican 4 Black Swift
CORMORANTS Whiterumped Swift
Whitebreasted Cormorant 40 Little Swift 12
Cape Cormorant Alpine Swift
Reed Cormorant 10 MOUSEBIRDS
DARTERS Whitebacked Mousebird
Darter  27 Redfaced Mousebird
HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS KINGFISHERS
Grey Heron 8 Pied Kingfisher
Blackheaded Heron 13 Giant Kingfisher
Purple Heron 1 Malachite Kingfisher 1
Blackcrowned Night Heron BARBETS
Little Egret 3 Acacia Pied Barbet
Yellow billed Egret 1 LARKS AND FINCHLARKS 
Cattle Egret 222 Redcapped Lark 3
Little Bittern SWALLOWS AND MARTINS 
IBIS AND SPOONBILLS European Swallow 
Sacred Ibis 151 Whitethroated Swallow
Glossy Ibis 40 Greater Striped Swallow
Hadeda Ibis 19 Pearlbreasted Swallow
African Spoonbill 1 Black Sawwing
FLAMINGOES Rock Martin
Greater Flamingo Brownthroated Martin
Lesser Flamingo CROWS AND RAVENS
DUCKS AND GEESE Pied Crow 18
Spurwinged Goose

11

Whitenecked Raven
Egyptian Goose 63 BULBULS 
Shelduck Cape Bulbul 7
Yellowbilled Duck + Albino 196 THRUSHES, CHATS, ALETHES, ROBINS AND ROCKJUMPERS
Hottentot Teal 5 Olive Thrush
Red-billed Teal 116 Cape Robin Chat 5
Cape Teal 196 Karoo Robin
Cape Shoveller 240 TITBABBLERS, WARBLERS, APALISES, CROMBECS, CISTICOLAS AND PRINIAS
Southern Pochard 195 Lesser Swamp Warbler (Cape Reed) 9
Whitefaced Duck 14 Little Rush Warbler (African Sedge)  26
Whitebacked Duck African Marsh Warbler
Maccoa Dusky Flycatcher 1
KITES Cisticola Zitting (Fantailed) 
Black Shouldered Kite 3 Cisticola Levaillant's  31
Yellowbilled Kite Cisticola Greybacked
EAGLES Karoo Prinia  (Spotted) 5
African Fish Eagle WAGTAILS, PIPITS AND LONGCLAWS
BUZZARDS Cape Wagtail 20
Jackal Buzzard African Pipit (Grassveld) 4
GOSHAWKS AND SPARROWHAWKS Cape Longclaw  (Orangethroated) 1
Redbreasted Sparrowhawk SHRIKES
Black Sparrowhawk Fiscal Shrike 1
African Goshawk

Southern Boubou
HARRIERS Bokmakierie 1
African Marsh Harrier STARLINGS
FALCONS AND KESTRELS Commom Starling 26
Peregrine Falcon Redwing Starling 1
Lanner Falcon SUGARBIRDS AND SUNBIRDS
Rock Kestrel Malachite Sunbird
FRANCOLIN AND QUAIL  Southern Doublecollared Sunbird (Lesser) 1
Cape Spurfowl (Francolin) 7 WHITE EYES
GUINEAFOWL Cape White Eye 1
Helmeted Guineafowl 35 SPARROWS, WEAVERS, BISHOPS AND WIDOWS
RAIL, CRAKES, FLUFFTAILS, GALLINULES, MOORHENS AND COOTS  House Sparrow
Black Crake 2 Cape Sparrow 13
African Purple Swamphen (Gallinule) 8 Cape Weaver 7
Moorhen 105 Southern Masked Weaver 5
Redknobbed Coot 758 Red Bishop
Black Oystercatcher 5 Yellowrumped Widow
PLOVERS WAXBILLS
Threebanded Plover Common Waxbill 25
Grey Pintailed Whydah
Kittlitz's CANARIES, SISKINS, FINCHES AND BUNTINGS
Blacksmith Lapwing 40 Cape Canary 4
Ringed Plover  Bully Canary (Brimstone)
Crowned Plover OTHER
Turnstone  Mallard/Dutch Quacker
SNIPES, GODWITS, SANDPIPERS, STINTS, CURLEWS AND PHALAROPES, RUFF, STINT Ostrich
Common Sandpiper

White Goose with red face

1
Wood

total species

67
Marsh Sandpiper
Curlew
Greenshank 1
Little Stint
Ruff
African Snipe
AVOCETS AND STILTS
Blackwinged Stilt 42
Pied Avocet 114
DIKKOPS
Spotted Thickknees
Water Thickknees 
SKUAS, GULLS AND TERNS
Kelp Gull 2092
Greyheaded Gull
Hartlaubs Gull 306
Caspian Tern
Swift Tern 5
Sandwich Tern
Common Tern
Whitewinged
PIGEONS AND DOVES
Rock Dove (Feral Pigeon)
Speckled  Pigeon (Rock Pigeon) 8
Redeyed Dove 3
Cape Turtle Dove
Laughing Dove
CUCKOOS
Klaas's Cuckoo
Diederik Cuckoo 

                                                                                                                                                         

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