The Cape Bird Club

Counts – Strandfontein – March 2007



Cape White eye

Wind Strong SE
Weather Clear
Leader Dick Barnes

 

Species

Presence

Species

Presence

GREBES

COUCALS
Great Crested

4

Burchell's Coucal

Blacknecked 10 OWLS
Dabchick 454 Spotted Eagle Owl
PELICANS SWIFTS 
White Pelican 8 Black Swift
CORMORANTS Whiterumped Swift
Whitebreasted Cormorant 61 Little Swift
Cape Cormorant 1 Alpine Swift
Reed Cormorant 7 MOUSEBIRDS
DARTERS Whitebacked Mousebird
Darter  2 Redfaced
HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS KINGFISHERS
Grey Heron 3 Pied Kingfisher 1
Blackheaded Heron 3 Giant Kingfisher
Purple Heron Malachite Kingfisher
Blackcrowned Night Heron BARBETS
Little Egret 2 Acacia Pied Barbet
Yellow billed Egret LARKS AND FINCHLARKS 
Cattle Egret 37 Redcapped Lark
Little Bittern SWALLOWS AND MARTINS 
IBIS AND SPOONBILLS European Swallow  173
Sacred Ibis 66 Whitethroated Swallow 7
Glossy Ibis 53 Greater Striped Swallow
Hadeda Ibis 2 Pearlbreasted Swallow
African Spoonbill Black Sawwing
FLAMINGOES Rock Martin
Greater Flamingo 1046 Brownthroated Martin 26
Lesser Flamingo CROWS AND RAVENS
DUCKS AND GEESE Pied Crow 11
Spurwinged Goose

150

Whitenecked Raven
Egyptian Goose 337 BULBULS 
Shelduck 51 Cape Bulbul 20
Yellowbilled Duck 78 THRUSHES, CHATS, ALETHES, ROBINS AND ROCKJUMPERS
Hotentot Teal 1 Olive Thrush
Red-billed Teal 82 Cape Robin Chat
Cape Teal 710 Karoo Robin
Cape Shoveller 1206 TITBABBLERS, WARBLERS, APALISES, CROMBECS, CISTICOLAS AND PRINIAS
Southern Pochard 74 Cape Reed Warbler
Whitefaced Duck African Sedge Warbler 15
Whitebacked Duck African Marsh Warbler
Maccoa 18 Grassbird 2
KITES Fantailed
Black Shouldered Kite 1 Levaillant's Cisticola 10
Yellowbilled Kite Greybacked
EAGLES Spotted Prinia 4
African Fish Eagle WAGTAILS, PIPITS AND LONGCLAWS
BUZZARDS Cape Wagtail 102
Steppe Buzzard Grassveld Pipit 5
GOSHAWKS AND SPARROWHAWKS Orangethroated Longclaw 2
Redbreasted Sparrowhawk SHRIKES
Black Sparrowhawk Fiscal Shrike
African Goshawk

Southern Boubou
HARRIERS Bokmakierie
African Marsh Harrier STARLINGS
FALCONS AND KESTRELS European Starling 88
Peregrine Falcon Redwing Starling
Lanner Falcon SUGARBIRDS AND SUNBIRDS
Rock Kestrel Malachite Sunbird
FRANCOLIN AND QUAIL Lesser Double collared Sunbird
Cape Francolin 1 WHITE EYES
GUINEAFOWL Cape White Eye
Helmeted Guineafowl 1 SPARROWS, WEAVERS, BISHOPS AND WIDOWS
RAIL, CRAKES, FLUFFTAILS, GALLINULES, MOORHENS AND COOTS  House Sparrow
Black Crake Cape Sparrow 65
African Purple Swamp hen 11 Cape Weaver
Moorhen 98 Southern Masked Weaver
Redknobbed Coot 309 Red Bishop 3
Black Oystercatcher 3 Yellowrumped Widow
PLOVERS WAXBILLS
Threebanded Plover 4 Common Waxbill 10
Grey 1 Pintailed Whydah
Kittlitz's 7 CANARIES, SISKINS, FINCHES AND BUNTINGS
Blacksmith Lapwing 64 Cape Canary
Ringed Plover  16 Bully Canary
Crowned Plover OTHER
Turnstone  Mallard/Dutch Quacker
SNIPES, GODWITS, SANDPIPERS, STINTS, CURLEWS AND PHALAROPES, RUFF, STINT Ostrich 2
Common Sandpiper

total species

65
Wood
Marsh Sandpiper
Curlew
Greenshank
Little Stint 6
Ruff 13
African Snipe 1
AVOCETS AND STILTS
Blackwinged Stilt 296
Pied Avocet 614
DIKKOPS
Spotted Thickknees
Water Thickknees 
SKUAS, GULLS AND TERNS
Kelp Gull 2409
Greyheaded Gull
Hartlaubs Gull 432
Caspian Tern 1
Swft Tern 40
Sandwich Tern
Common Tern 31
Whitewinged 314
PIGEONS AND DOVES
Feral Pigeon
Rock Pigeon 2
Redeyed Dove 5
Cape Turtle Dove
Laughing Dove
CUCKOOS
Klaas's Cuckoo
Diederik Cuckoo 

                                                                                                                                                         

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