The Cape Bird Club

Counts – Strandfontein – June 2002


photograph by Morne Carstens

Francolin's Gull

Wind strong NW 
Weather overcast and cold
Leader Dick Barnes

 

Species

Presence

Species

Presence

GREBES

COUCALS
Great Crested

2

Burchell's Coucal

Blacknecked 208 OWLS
Dabchick 664 Spotted Eagle Owl
PELICANS SWIFTS 
White Pelican 40 Black Swift
CORMORANTS Whiterumped Swift
Whitebreasted Cormorant 77 Little Swift 80
Cape Cormorant 1 Alpine Swift
Reed Cormorant 12 MOUSEBIRDS
DARTERS Whitebacked Mousebird
Darter  Redfaced
HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS KINGFISHERS
Grey Heron 2 Pied Kingfisher
Blackheaded Heron 4 Giant Kingfisher
Purple Heron Malachite Kingfisher
Blackcrowned Night Heron BARBETS
Little Egret Acacia Pied Barbet
Yellow billed Egret LARKS AND FINCHLARKS 
Cattle Egret 31 Redcapped Lark
Little Bittern SWALLOWS AND MARTINS 
IBIS AND SPOONBILLS European Swallow 
Sacred Ibis 150 Whitethroated Swallow
Glossy Ibis 16 Greater Striped Swallow
Hadeda Ibis 4 Pearlbreasted Swallow
African Spoonbill 1 Black Sawwing
FLAMINGOES Rock Martin 20
Greater Flamingo 1634 Brownthroated Martin 550
Lesser Flamingo CROWS AND RAVENS
DUCKS AND GEESE Pied Crow 3
Spurwinged Goose

Whitenecked Raven
Egyptian Goose 80 BULBULS 
Shelduck Cape Bulbul 10
Yellowbilled Duck 48 THRUSHES, CHATS, ALETHES, ROBINS AND ROCKJUMPERS
Hotentot Teal Olive Thrush
Red-billed Teal 200 Cape Robin Chat
Cape Teal 144 Karoo Robin
Cape Shoveller 851 TITBABBLERS, WARBLERS, APALISES, CROMBECS, CISTICOLAS AND PRINIAS
Southern Pochard 157 Cape Reed Warbler
Whitefaced Duck African Sedge Warbler
Whitebacked Duck 10 African Marsh Warbler
Maccoa 292 Grassbird
KITES Fantailed Cisticola 1
Black Shouldered Kite 1 Levaillant's Cisticola 3
Yellowbilled Kite Greybacked Cisticola
EAGLES Karro Prinia
African Fish Eagle WAGTAILS, PIPITS AND LONGCLAWS
BUZZARDS Cape Wagtail 36
Black Eagles Grassveld Pipit
GOSHAWKS AND SPARROWHAWKS Orangethroated Longclaw 2
Redbreasted Sparrowhawk SHRIKES
Black Sparrowhawk Fiscal Shrike 1
African Goshawk

Fiscal Flycatcher 3
HARRIERS Bokmakierie 5
African Marsh Harrier 3 STARLINGS
FALCONS AND KESTRELS Commom Starling 182
Peregrine Falcon 1 Redwing Starling
Lanner Falcon SUGARBIRDS AND SUNBIRDS
Rock Kestrel Wattled Starling
FRANCOLIN AND QUAIL Lesser Doublecollared Sunbird 2
Cape Francolin WHITE EYES
GUINEAFOWL Cape White Eye
Helmeted Guineafowl SPARROWS, WEAVERS, BISHOPS AND WIDOWS
RAIL, CRAKES, FLUFFTAILS, GALLINULES, MOORHENS AND COOTS  House Sparrow
Black Crake Cape Sparrow
African Purple Swamp hen 12 Cape Weaver 11
Moorhen 90 Southern Masked Weaver
Redknobbed Coot 319 Red Bishop 62
Black Oystercatcher 2 Yellowrumped Widow
PLOVERS WAXBILLS
Threebanded Plover Common Waxbill 10
Whitefronted Pintailed Whydah
Kittlitz's CANARIES, SISKINS, FINCHES AND BUNTINGS
Blacksmith Lapwing 36 Cape Canary
Ringed Plover  Bully Canary
Crowned Plover OTHER
Rednecked Phalarope  Mallard/Dutch Quacker
SNIPES, GODWITS, SANDPIPERS, STINTS, CURLEWS AND PHALAROPES, RUFF, STINT Ostrich
Common Sandpiper

total species

52
Wood
Marsh Sandpiper
Curlew
Greenshank
Little Stint
Ruff
African Snipe
AVOCETS AND STILTS
Blackwinged Stilt 169
Pied Avocet 375
DIKKOPS
Spotted Thickknees
Water Thickknees 
SKUAS, GULLS AND TERNS
Kelp Gull 794
Greyheaded Gull
Hartlaubs Gull 150
Caspian Tern
Swift Tern
Sandwich Tern
Common Tern
Whitewinged
PIGEONS AND DOVES
Feral Pigeon 30
Rock Pigeon
Redeyed Dove 3
Cape Turtle Dove 1
Laughing Dove
CUCKOOS
Klaas's Cuckoo
Diederik Cuckoo 

                                                                                                                                                         

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