The Cape Bird Club
Counts – Strandfontein – June 2005
photograph by Morne Carstens
Sacred Ibis
| Wind | NW |
| Weather | Rain |
| Leader | Derek Longrigg |
|
Species |
Presence |
Species |
Presence |
|
GREBES |
– |
COUCAL | – |
| Great Crested |
1 |
Burchall's Coucal |
– |
| Blacknecked | 78 | OWLS | – |
| Dabchick | 701 | Spotted Eagle Owl | – |
| PELICANS | – | SWIFTS | – |
| White Pelican | 9 | Black Swift | – |
| CORMORANTS | – | Whiterumped Swift | – |
| Whitebreasted Cormorant | 22 | Little Swift | – |
| Cape Cormorant | 1 | Alpine Swift | – |
| Reed Cormorant | 6 | MOUSEBIRDS | – |
| DARTERS | – | Whitebacked Mousebird | – |
| Darter | 47 | Redfaced | – |
| HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS | – | KINGFISHERS | – |
| Grey Heron | 5 | Pied Kingfisher | – |
| Blackheaded Heron | 3 | Giant Kingfisher | – |
| Purple Heron | 3 | Malachite Kingfisher | – |
| Blackcrowned Night Heron | – | BARBETS | – |
| Little Egret | 48 | Acacia Pied Barbet | – |
| Yellow billed Egret | – | LARKS AND FINCHLARKS | – |
| Cattle Egret | 246 | Redcapped Lark | – |
| Squacco Heron | 1 | SWALLOWS AND MARTINS | – |
| IBIS AND SPOONBILLS | – | European Swallow | – |
| Sacred Ibis | 119 | Whitethroated Swallow | – |
| Glossy Ibis | 16 | Greater Striped Swallow | – |
| Hadeda Ibis | 1 | Pearlbreasted Swallow | – |
| African Spoonbill | – | Black Sawwing | – |
| FLAMINGOES | – | Rock Martin | 1 |
| Greater Flamingo + 4 juveniles | 412 | Brownthroated Martin | 160 |
| Lesser Flamingo | 7 | CROWS AND RAVENS | – |
| DUCKS AND GEESE | – | Pied Crow | – |
| Spurwinged Goose |
4 |
Whitenecked Raven | 4 |
| Egyptian Goose | 84 | BULBULS | – |
| Fulvous Duck |
– |
Cape Bulbul | 8 |
| Shelduck | 4 | THRUSHES, CHATS, ALETHES, ROBINS AND ROCKJUMPERS | – |
| Yellowbilled Duck | 75 | Olive Thrush | – |
| Red-billed Teal | 91 | – | – |
| Cape Teal | 73 | Cape Robin Chat | – |
| Cape Shoveller | 115 | Karoo Robin | – |
| Southern Pochard | 64 | TITBABBLERS, WARBLERS, APALISES, CROMBECS, CISTICOLAS AND PRINIAS | – |
| Hotentot Teal | 3 | Cape Reed Warbler | 3 |
| Whitebacked Duck | – | African Sedge Warbler | 2 |
| Maccoa | 29 | African Marsh Warbler | – |
| KITES | – | Grassbird | – |
| Black Shouldered Kite | 1 | Fantailed | – |
| Yellowbilled Kite | – | Levaillant's Cisticola | 2 |
| EAGLES | – | Greybacked | – |
| African Fish Eagle | – | Spotted Prinia | 7 |
| BUZZARDS | – | WAGTAILS, PIPITS AND LONGCLAWS | – |
| Jackal Buzzard | 1 | Cape Wagtail | 12 |
| GOSHAWKS AND SPARROWHAWKS | – | Grassveld Pipit | – |
| 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 | 86 |
| Lanner Falcon | – | Redwinged Starling | 1 |
| Rock Kestrel | – | SUGARBIRDS AND SUNBIRDS | – |
| FRANCOLIN AND QUAIL | – | Malachite Sunbird | 1 |
| Cape Francolin | 1 | Lesser Double collared Sunbird | 1 |
| GUINEAFOWL | – | WHITE EYES | – |
| Helmeted Guineafowl | 99 | Cape White Eye | 16 |
| RAIL, CRAKES, FLUFFTAILS, GALLINULES, MOORHENS AND COOTS | – | SPARROWS, WEAVERS, BISHOPS AND WIDOWS | – |
| Black Crake | – | House Sparrow | 50 |
| African Purple Swamp hen | 6 | Cape Sparrow | – |
| Moorhen | 69 | Cape Weaver | – |
| Redknobbed Coot | 985 | Southern Masked Weaver | – |
| Black Oystercatcher | 6 | Red Bishop | – |
| PLOVERS | – | Yellowrumped Widow | – |
| Threebanded Plover | – | WAXBILLS | – |
| Grey | – | Common Waxbill | – |
| Kittlitz's | – | Pintailed Whydah | – |
| Blacksmith Lapwing | 51 | 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 |
62 |
| Marsh Sandpiper | – |
– |
– |
| Curlew | – | – | – |
| Greenshank | – | – | – |
| Little Stint | – | – | – |
| Ruff | – | – | – |
| American Blackwinged Stilt | – | – | – |
| AVOCETS AND STILTS | – | – | – |
| Blackwinged Stilt | 200 | – | – |
| Pied Avocet | 66 | – | – |
| DIKKOPS | – | – | – |
| Spotted Thickknees | – | – | – |
| Water Thickknees | – | – | – |
| SKUAS, GULLS AND TERNS | – | – | – |
| Kelp Gull | 1475 | – | – |
| Greyheaded Gull | 2 | – | – |
| Hartlaubs Gull | 267 | – | – |
| Caspian Tern | – | – | – |
| Swft Tern | 2 | – | – |
| Sandwich Tern | – | – | – |
| Common Tern | – | – | – |
| Whitewinged | – | – | – |
| PIGEONS AND DOVES | – | – | – |
| Feral Pigeon | 38 | – | – |
| Rock Pigeon | 49 | – | – |
| Redeyed Dove | 2 | – | – |
| Cape Turtle Dove | 5 | – | – |
| Laughing Dove | – | – | – |
| CUCKOOS | – | – | – |
| Klaas's Cuckoo | – | – | – |
| Diederik Cuckoo | – | – | – |
