The Cape Bird Club

Counts – Strandfontein – June 2008


photograph by Greg Morgan

Longbilled Crombec

Wind strong SE
Weather
Leader Dick Barnes

 

Species

Presence

Species

Presence

GREBES

COUCALS
Great Crested

1

Burchell's Coucal

Blacknecked 20 OWLS
Dabchick 752 Spotted Eagle Owl
PELICANS SWIFTS 
White Pelican 2 Black Swift
CORMORANTS Whiterumped Swift
Whitebreasted Cormorant 12 Little Swift
Cape Cormorant Alpine Swift
Reed Cormorant 3 MOUSEBIRDS
DARTERS Whitebacked Mousebird
Darter  13 Redfaced
HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS KINGFISHERS
Grey Heron 5 Pied Kingfisher
Blackheaded Heron 12 Giant Kingfisher
Purple Heron 1 Malachite Kingfisher
Blackcrowned Night Heron BARBETS
Little Egret 7 Acacia Pied Barbet
Yellow billed Egret LARKS AND FINCHLARKS 
Cattle Egret 116 Redcapped Lark
Little Bittern SWALLOWS AND MARTINS 
IBIS AND SPOONBILLS European Swallow 
Sacred Ibis 143 Whitethroated Swallow
Glossy Ibis 54 Greater Striped Swallow
Hadeda Ibis 19 Pearlbreasted Swallow
African Spoonbill Black Sawwing
FLAMINGOES Rock Martin 1
Greater Flamingo 161 Brownthroated Martin 28
Lesser Flamingo CROWS AND RAVENS
DUCKS AND GEESE Pied Crow 6
Spurwinged Goose

6

Whitenecked Raven 1
Egyptian Goose 113 BULBULS 
Shelduck Cape Bulbul 15
Yellowbilled Duck 107 THRUSHES, CHATS, ALETHES, ROBINS AND ROCKJUMPERS
Hotentot Teal 3 Olive Thrush
Red-billed Teal 569 Cape Robin Chat 1
Cape Teal 991 Karoo Robin
Cape Shoveller 824 TITBABBLERS, WARBLERS, APALISES, CROMBECS, CISTICOLAS AND PRINIAS
Southern Pochard 23 Cape Reed Warbler 1
Whitefaced Duck African Sedge Warbler 4
Fluvous Duck 2 African Marsh Warbler
Maccoa 40 Grassbird 2
KITES Fantailed 4
Black Shouldered Kite Levaillant's Cisticola 12
Yellowbilled Kite Greybacked
EAGLES Spotted Prinia 4
African Fish Eagle 1 WAGTAILS, PIPITS AND LONGCLAWS
BUZZARDS Cape Wagtail 17
Jackal Buzzard 1 Grassveld Pipit 3
GOSHAWKS AND SPARROWHAWKS Orangethroated Longclaw
Redbreasted Sparrowhawk SHRIKES
Black Sparrowhawk Fiscal Shrike 1
African Goshawk

Southern Boubou
HARRIERS Bokmakierie 1
African Marsh Harrier STARLINGS
FALCONS AND KESTRELS Commom Starling 70
Peregrine Falcon 2 Redwing Starling
Lanner Falcon SUGARBIRDS AND SUNBIRDS
Rock Kestrel Malachite Sunbird
FRANCOLIN AND QUAIL Lesser Double collared Sunbird 6
Cape Francolin 3 WHITE EYES
GUINEAFOWL Cape White Eye 22
Helmeted Guineafowl 35 SPARROWS, WEAVERS, BISHOPS AND WIDOWS
RAIL, CRAKES, FLUFFTAILS, GALLINULES, MOORHENS AND COOTS  House Sparrow
Black Crake Cape Sparrow
African Purple Swamp hen 15 Cape Weaver 1
Moorhen 129 Southern Masked Weaver
Redknobbed Coot 810 Red Bishop 2
Black Oystercatcher Yellowrumped Widow
PLOVERS WAXBILLS
Threebanded Plover 2 Common Waxbill
Grey Pintailed Whydah
Kittlitz's 80 CANARIES, SISKINS, FINCHES AND BUNTINGS
Blacksmith Lapwing 44 Cape Canary
Ringed Plover  Bully Canary 1
Crowned Plover OTHER
Turnstone  Mallard/Dutch Quacker
SNIPES, GODWITS, SANDPIPERS, STINTS, CURLEWS AND PHALAROPES, RUFF, STINT Ostrich 3
Common Sandpiper

total species

64
Wood
Marsh Sandpiper
Curlew
Greenshank 2
Little Stint
Ruff
African Snipe 1
AVOCETS AND STILTS
Blackwinged Stilt 214
Pied Avocet 146
DIKKOPS
Spotted Thickknees
Water Thickknees 
SKUAS, GULLS AND TERNS
Kelp Gull 1381
Greyheaded Gull
Hartlaubs Gull 193
Caspian Tern 1
Swift Tern 81
Sandwich Tern 1
Common Tern 1
Whitewinged 2
PIGEONS AND DOVES
Feral Pigeon 1
Rock Pigeon 25
Redeyed Dove 11
Cape Turtle Dove 1
Laughing Dove
CUCKOOS
Klaas's Cuckoo
Diederik Cuckoo 

                                                                                                                                                         

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