The Cape Bird Club

Counts – Strandfontein – March 2003


photograph by Greg Morgan

Masked Weaver

Wind strong SE 
Weather fine
Leader Dick Barnes

 

Species

Presence

Species

Presence

GREBES

COUCALS
Great Crested

15

Burchell's Coucal

Blacknecked 43 OWLS
Dabchick 315 Spotted Eagle Owl
PELICANS SWIFTS 
White Pelican 1 Black Swift 20
CORMORANTS Whiterumped Swift 3
Whitebreasted Cormorant 238 Little Swift
Cape Cormorant Alpine Swift
Reed Cormorant 16 MOUSEBIRDS
DARTERS Whitebacked Mousebird
Darter  1 Redfaced
HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS KINGFISHERS
Grey Heron 16 Pied Kingfisher 2
Blackheaded Heron 6 Giant Kingfisher
Purple Heron Malachite Kingfisher
Blackcrowned Night Heron BARBETS
Little Egret 8 Acacia Pied Barbet
Yellow billed Egret 1 LARKS AND FINCHLARKS 
Cattle Egret 115 Redcapped Lark
Little Bittern SWALLOWS AND MARTINS 
IBIS AND SPOONBILLS European Swallow  428
Sacred Ibis 64 Whitethroated Swallow 4
Glossy Ibis 28 Greater Striped Swallow 4
Hadeda Ibis 3 Pearlbreasted Swallow
African Spoonbill Black Sawwing
FLAMINGOES Rock Martin
Greater Flamingo 2387 Brownthroated Martin 53
Lesser Flamingo CROWS AND RAVENS
DUCKS AND GEESE Pied Crow 3
Spurwinged Goose

2

Whitenecked Raven
Egyptian Goose 222 BULBULS 
Shelduck Cape Bulbul 15
Yellowbilled Duck 126 THRUSHES, CHATS, ALETHES, ROBINS AND ROCKJUMPERS
Hotentot Teal Olive Thrush
Red-billed Teal 49 Cape Robin Chat 1
Cape Teal 480 Karoo Robin
Cape Shoveller 534 TITBABBLERS, WARBLERS, APALISES, CROMBECS, CISTICOLAS AND PRINIAS
Southern Pochard 17 Cape Reed Warbler 5
Whitefaced Duck African Sedge Warbler 18
Whitebacked Duck African Marsh Warbler
Maccoa 30 Grassbird
KITES Fantailed Cisticola
Black Shouldered Kite 4 Levaillant's Cisticola 20
Yellowbilled Kite Greybacked Cisticola
EAGLES Karro Prinia 13
African Fish Eagle WAGTAILS, PIPITS AND LONGCLAWS
BUZZARDS Cape Wagtail 67
Steppe Buzzard Grassveld Pipit 4
GOSHAWKS AND SPARROWHAWKS Orangethroated Longclaw 14
Redbreasted Sparrowhawk SHRIKES
Black Sparrowhawk Fiscal Shrike
African Goshawk

Southern Boubou
HARRIERS Bokmakierie
African Marsh Harrier 4 STARLINGS
FALCONS AND KESTRELS Commom Starling 104
Peregrine Falcon Redwing Starling 2
Lanner Falcon SUGARBIRDS AND SUNBIRDS
Rock Kestrel Malachite Sunbird
FRANCOLIN AND QUAIL Lesser Double collared Sunbird
Cape Francolin WHITE EYES
GUINEAFOWL Cape White Eye
Helmeted Guineafowl 12 SPARROWS, WEAVERS, BISHOPS AND WIDOWS
RAIL, CRAKES, FLUFFTAILS, GALLINULES, MOORHENS AND COOTS  House Sparrow
Black Crake Cape Sparrow
African Purple Swamp hen 10 Cape Weaver 7
Moorhen 61 Southern Masked Weaver
Redknobbed Coot 304 Red Bishop
Black Oystercatcher 2 Yellowrumped Widow
PLOVERS WAXBILLS
Threebanded Plover Common Waxbill 6
Whitefronted Pintailed Whydah
Kittlitz's CANARIES, SISKINS, FINCHES AND BUNTINGS
Blacksmith Lapwing 22 Cape Canary
Ringed Plover  Bully Canary 2
Crowned Plover OTHER
Rednecked Phalarope  Mallard/Dutch Quacker
SNIPES, GODWITS, SANDPIPERS, STINTS, CURLEWS AND PHALAROPES, RUFF, STINT Ostrich
Common Sandpiper

total species

64
Wood
Marsh Sandpiper
Curlew
Greenshank
Little Stint 22
Ruff 24
African Snipe
AVOCETS AND STILTS
Blackwinged Stilt 292
Pied Avocet 1232
DIKKOPS
Spotted Thickknees
Water Thickknees 
SKUAS, GULLS AND TERNS
Kelp Gull 433
Greyheaded Gull 3
Hartlaubs Gull 390
Caspian Tern 8
Swift Tern 31
Sandwich Tern 3
Common Tern 8
Whitewinged 100
PIGEONS AND DOVES
Feral Pigeon
Rock Pigeon
Redeyed Dove
Cape Turtle Dove 1
Laughing Dove
CUCKOOS
Klaas's Cuckoo
Diederik Cuckoo 

                                                                                                                                                         

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