The Cape Bird Club
Counts – Strandfontein – June 2009
photograph by Greg Morgan
Burchell's Coucal
| Wind | light NW |
| Weather | cloudy |
| Leader | Dick Barnes |
|
Species |
Presence |
Species |
Presence |
|
GREBES |
– |
COUCALS | – |
| Great Crested |
– |
Burchell's Coucal |
1 |
| Blacknecked | 11 | OWLS | – |
| Dabchick | 431 | Spotted Eagle Owl | – |
| PELICANS | – | SWIFTS | – |
| White Pelican | 136 | Black Swift | – |
| CORMORANTS | – | Whiterumped Swift | – |
| Whitebreasted Cormorant | 55 | Little Swift | – |
| Cape Cormorant | – | Alpine Swift | – |
| Reed Cormorant | 11 | MOUSEBIRDS | – |
| DARTERS | – | Whitebacked Mousebird | – |
| Darter | 9 | Redfaced Mousebird | – |
| HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS | – | KINGFISHERS | – |
| Grey Heron | 4 | Pied Kingfisher | – |
| Blackheaded Heron | 6 | Giant Kingfisher | – |
| Purple Heron | 2 | Malachite Kingfisher | – |
| Blackcrowned Night Heron | 1 | BARBETS | – |
| Little Egret | 2 | Acacia Pied Barbet | – |
| Yellow billed Egret | – | LARKS AND FINCHLARKS | – |
| Cattle Egret | 123 | Redcapped Lark | – |
| Little Bittern | – | SWALLOWS AND MARTINS | – |
| IBIS AND SPOONBILLS | – | European Swallow | – |
| Sacred Ibis | 65 | Whitethroated Swallow | – |
| Glossy Ibis | 21 | Greater Striped Swallow | – |
| Hadeda Ibis | 17 | Pearlbreasted Swallow | – |
| African Spoonbill | – | Black Sawwing | – |
| FLAMINGOES | – | Rock Martin | – |
| Greater Flamingo | 329 | Brownthroated Martin | – |
| Lesser Flamingo | – | CROWS AND RAVENS | – |
| DUCKS AND GEESE | – | Pied Crow | 5 |
| Spurwinged Goose |
13 |
Whitenecked Raven | 1 |
| Egyptian Goose | 144 | BULBULS | – |
| Shelduck | – | Cape Bulbul | 16 |
| Yellowbilled Duck | 84 | THRUSHES, CHATS, ALETHES, ROBINS AND ROCKJUMPERS | – |
| Fulvous Duck | – | Olive Thrush | – |
| Red-billed Teal | 51 | Cape Robin Chat | – |
| Cape Teal | 62 | Karoo Robin | – |
| Cape Shoveller | 691 | TITBABBLERS, WARBLERS, APALISES, CROMBECS, CISTICOLAS AND PRINIAS | – |
| Southern Pochard | 28 | Lesser Swamp Warbler (Cape Reed) | 2 |
| Whitefaced Duck | – | Little Rush Warbler (African Sedge) | 5 |
| Whitebacked Duck | – | African Marsh Warbler | – |
| Maccoa | – | Grassbird | – |
| KITES | – | Cisticola Zitting (Fantailed) | 1 |
| Black Shouldered Kite | 1 | Cisticola Levaillant's | 12 |
| Yellowbilled Kite | – | Cisticola Greybacked | 1 |
| EAGLES | – | Karoo Prinia (Spotted) | 5 |
| African Fish Eagle | – | WAGTAILS, PIPITS AND LONGCLAWS | – |
| BUZZARDS | – | Cape Wagtail | 6 |
| Jackal Buzzard | – | African Pipit (Grassveld) | 3 |
| GOSHAWKS AND SPARROWHAWKS | – | Cape Longclaw (Orangethroated) | – |
| Redbreasted Sparrowhawk | 1 | SHRIKES | – |
| Black Sparrowhawk | – | Fiscal Shrike | 1 |
| African Goshawk |
– |
Southern Boubou | – |
| HARRIERS | – | Bokmakierie | – |
| African Marsh Harrier | 5 | STARLINGS | – |
| FALCONS AND KESTRELS | – | Commom Starling | 76 |
| Peregrine Falcon | – | Redwing Starling | 2 |
| Lanner Falcon | – | SUGARBIRDS AND SUNBIRDS | – |
| Rock Kestrel | – | Malachite Sunbird | – |
| FRANCOLIN AND QUAIL | – | Southern Doublecollared Sunbird (Lesser) | 2 |
| Cape Spurfowl (Francolin) | 13 | WHITE EYES | – |
| GUINEAFOWL | – | Cape White Eye | – |
| Helmeted Guineafowl | 17 | SPARROWS, WEAVERS, BISHOPS AND WIDOWS | – |
| RAIL, CRAKES, FLUFFTAILS, GALLINULES, MOORHENS AND COOTS | – | House Sparrow | – |
| Black Crake | – | Cape Sparrow | – |
| African Purple Swamphen (Gallinule) | 10 | Cape Weaver | 5 |
| Moorhen | 69 | Southern Masked Weaver | – |
| Redknobbed Coot | 606 | Red Bishop | – |
| Black Oystercatcher | 4 | Yellowrumped Widow | – |
| PLOVERS | – | WAXBILLS | – |
| Threebanded Plover | – | Common Waxbill | – |
| Grey | – | Pintailed Whydah | – |
| Kittlitz's | – | CANARIES, SISKINS, FINCHES AND BUNTINGS | – |
| Blacksmith Lapwing | 35 | Cape Canary | – |
| Ringed Plover | – | Bully Canary (Brimstone) | – |
| Crowned Plover | – | OTHER | – |
| Turnstone | – | Mallard/Dutch Quacker | – |
| SNIPES, GODWITS, SANDPIPERS, STINTS, CURLEWS AND PHALAROPES, RUFF, STINT | – | Ostrich | – |
| Common Sandpiper | – |
Yellow Wagtail |
– |
| Wood | – |
total species |
56 |
| Marsh Sandpiper | – | * Incomplete count (northeast section | – |
| Curlew | – | not counted - not enough counters avaialble) | – |
| Greenshank | – | – | – |
| Little Stint | – | – | – |
| Ruff | – | – | – |
| African Snipe | – | – | – |
| AVOCETS AND STILTS | – | – | – |
| Blackwinged Stilt | 102 | – | – |
| Pied Avocet | 9 | – | – |
| DIKKOPS | – | – | – |
| Spotted Thickknees | – | – | – |
| Water Thickknees | – | – | – |
| SKUAS, GULLS AND TERNS | – | – | – |
| Kelp Gull | 868 | – | – |
| Greyheaded Gull | – | – | – |
| Hartlaubs Gull | 177 | – | – |
| Caspian Tern | 1 | – | – |
| Swift Tern | 1 | – | – |
| Sandwich Tern | – | – | – |
| Common Tern | – | – | – |
| Whitewinged | – | – | – |
| PIGEONS AND DOVES | – | – | – |
| Rock Dove (Feral Pigeon) | – | – | – |
| Speckled Pigeon (Rock Pigeon) | 12 | – | – |
| Redeyed Dove | 2 | – | – |
| Cape Turtle Dove | 6 | – | – |
| Laughing Dove | – | – | – |
| CUCKOOS | – | – | – |
| Klaas's Cuckoo | – | – | – |
| Diederik Cuckoo | – | – | – |
