The Cape Bird Club
Counts – Strandfontein – March 2005
photograph by Ann Koeslag
Whitefaced Duck
| Wind | Moderate SE |
| Weather | Cloudy |
| Leader | Derek Longrigg |
|
Species |
Presence |
Species |
Presence |
|
GREBES |
– |
COUCAL | – |
| Great Crested |
16 |
Burchall's Coucal |
– |
| Blacknecked | 26 | OWLS | – |
| Dabchick | 425 | Spotted Eagle Owl | – |
| PELICANS | – | SWIFTS | – |
| White Pelican | 22 | Black Swift | – |
| CORMORANTS | – | Whiterumped Swift | 1 |
| Whitebreasted Cormorant | 249 | Little Swift | 70 |
| Cape Cormorant | – | Alpine Swift | – |
| Reed Cormorant | 32 | MOUSEBIRDS | – |
| DARTERS | – | Whitebacked Mousebird | 5 |
| Darter | 17 | Speckled | 4 |
| HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS | – | KINGFISHERS | – |
| Grey Heron | 11 | Pied Kingfisher | 1 |
| Blackheaded Heron | 9 | Giant Kingfisher | – |
| Purple Heron | 1 | Malachite Kingfisher | – |
| Blackcrowned Night Heron | 1 | BARBETS | – |
| Little Egret | 2 | Acacia Pied Barbet | – |
| Yellow billed Egret | – | LARKS AND FINCHLARKS | – |
| Cattle Egret | 202 | Redcapped Lark | – |
| Squacco Heron | – | SWALLOWS AND MARTINS | – |
| IBIS AND SPOONBILLS | – | European Swallow | 526 |
| Sacred Ibis | 83 | Whitethroated Swallow | 43 |
| Glossy Ibis | 71 | Greater Striped Swallow | – |
| Hadeda Ibis | 9 | Pearlbreasted Swallow | – |
| African Spoonbill | 1 | Black Sawwing | – |
| FLAMINGOES | – | Sand Martin | 1 |
| Greater Flamingo | 886 | Brownthroated Martin | 164 |
| Lesser Flamingo | – | CROWS AND RAVENS | – |
| DUCKS AND GEESE | – | Pied Crow | 3 |
| Spurwinged Goose |
20 |
Whitenecked Raven | 5 |
| Egyptian Goose | 222 | BULBULS | – |
| Fulvous Duck |
– |
Cape Bulbul | 28 |
| Shelduck | 51 | THRUSHES, CHATS, ALETHES, ROBINS AND ROCKJUMPERS | – |
| Yellowbilled Duck | 190 | Olive Thrush | – |
| Red-billed Teal | 184 | – | – |
| Cape Teal | 410 | Cape Robin Chat | 7 |
| Cape Shoveller | 926 | Stone Chat | 4 |
| Southern Pochard | 18 | TITBABBLERS, WARBLERS, APALISES, CROMBECS, CISTICOLAS AND PRINIAS | – |
| European Shelduck | 1 | Cape Reed Warbler | 7 |
| Whitebacked Duck | 2 | African Sedge Warbler | 15 |
| Maccoa | 47 | African Marsh Warbler | – |
| KITES | – | Grassbird | 4 |
| Black Shouldered Kite | 5 | Fantailed | 5 |
| Yellowbilled Kite | – | Levaillant's Cisticola | 14 |
| EAGLES | – | Greybacked | – |
| African Fish Eagle | – | Spotted Prinia | 5 |
| BUZZARDS | – | WAGTAILS, PIPITS AND LONGCLAWS | – |
| Steppe Buzzard | 4 | Cape Wagtail | 44 |
| GOSHAWKS AND SPARROWHAWKS | – | Grassveld Pipit | 4 |
| Redbreasted Sparrowhawk | – | Orangethroated Longclaw | 1 |
| Black Sparrowhawk | – | SHRIKES | – |
| African Goshawk |
– |
Fiscal Flycatcher | 1 |
| HARRIERS | – | Southern Boubou | – |
| African Marsh Harrier | 5 | Bokmakierie | 3 |
| FALCONS AND KESTRELS | – | STARLINGS | – |
| Peregrine Falcon | – | European Starling | 452 |
| Lanner Falcon | – | Cape Sugarbird | 1 |
| Rock Kestrel | 1 | SUGARBIRDS AND SUNBIRDS | – |
| FRANCOLIN AND QUAIL | – | Malachite Sunbird | – |
| Cape Francolin | – | Lesser Double collared Sunbird | 3 |
| GUINEAFOWL | – | WHITE EYES | – |
| Helmeted Guineafowl | 191 | Cape White Eye | 2 |
| RAIL, CRAKES, FLUFFTAILS, GALLINULES, MOORHENS AND COOTS | – | SPARROWS, WEAVERS, BISHOPS AND WIDOWS | – |
| Black Crake | – | House Sparrow | – |
| African Purple Swamp hen | 19 | Cape Sparrow | 3 |
| Moorhen | 101 | Cape Weaver | 9 |
| Redknobbed Coot | 383 | Southern Masked Weaver | – |
| Black Oystercatcher | 4 | Red Bishop | 1 |
| PLOVERS | – | Yellowrumped Widow | – |
| Threebanded Plover | 6 | WAXBILLS | – |
| Grey | – | Common Waxbill | – |
| Kittlitz's | 1 | Pintailed Whydah | – |
| Blacksmith Lapwing | 63 | CANARIES, SISKINS, FINCHES AND BUNTINGS | – |
| Ringed Plover | 25 | Cape Canary | 1 |
| Crowned Plover | – | Yellow Canary | 1 |
| Turnstone | – | OTHER | – |
| SNIPES, GODWITS, SANDPIPERS, STINTS, CURLEWS AND PHALAROPES, RUFF, STINT | – | Mallard/Dutch Quacker | 1 |
| Common Sandpiper | – | Common Peacock | – |
| Wood | – |
total species |
90 |
| Marsh Sandpiper | – |
– |
– |
| Curlew | – | – | – |
| Greenshank | 3 | – | – |
| Little Stint | 262 | – | – |
| Ruff | 50 | – | – |
| American Blackwinged Stilt | – | – | – |
| AVOCETS AND STILTS | – | – | – |
| Blackwinged Stilt | 442 | – | – |
| Pied Avocet | 456 | – | – |
| DIKKOPS | – | – | – |
| Spotted Thickknees | – | – | – |
| Water Thickknees | – | – | – |
| SKUAS, GULLS AND TERNS | – | – | – |
| Kelp Gull | 2086 | – | – |
| Greyheaded Gull | – | – | – |
| Hartlaubs Gull | 499 | – | – |
| Caspian Tern | 6 | – | – |
| Swft Tern | 20 | – | – |
| Sandwich Tern | – | – | – |
| Common Tern | 13 | – | – |
| Whitewinged | 20 | – | – |
| PIGEONS AND DOVES | – | – | – |
| Feral Pigeon | – | – | – |
| Rock Pigeon | 5 | – | – |
| Redeyed Dove | 1 | – | – |
| Cape Turtle Dove | 2 | – | – |
| Laughing Dove | 1 | – | – |
| CUCKOOS | – | – | – |
| Klaas's Cuckoo | – | – | – |
| Diederik Cuckoo | 1 | – | – |
