The Cape Bird Club
Counts – Strandfontein – May 2005
photograph by Jeremy Keyser
Sunrise at Strandfontein
| Wind | Mod NW |
| Weather | Overcast |
| Leader | Dick Barnes |
|
Species |
Presence |
Species |
Presence |
|
GREBES |
– |
COUCAL | – |
| Great Crested |
8 |
Burchall's Coucal |
– |
| Blacknecked | 16 | OWLS | – |
| Dabchick | 480 | Spotted Eagle Owl | – |
| PELICANS | – | SWIFTS | – |
| White Pelican | 129 | Black Swift | 120 |
| CORMORANTS | – | Whiterumped Swift | 10 |
| Whitebreasted Cormorant | 79 | Little Swift | 70 |
| Cape Cormorant | 4 | Alpine Swift | – |
| Reed Cormorant | 13 | MOUSEBIRDS | – |
| DARTERS | – | Whitebacked Mousebird | – |
| Darter | 61 | Redfaced | – |
| HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS | – | KINGFISHERS | – |
| Grey Heron | 6 | Pied Kingfisher | – |
| Blackheaded Heron | 24 | Giant Kingfisher | – |
| Purple Heron | 2 | Malachite Kingfisher | 1 |
| Blackcrowned Night Heron | – | BARBETS | – |
| Little Egret | 1 | Acacia Pied Barbet | – |
| Yellow billed Egret | – | LARKS AND FINCHLARKS | – |
| Cattle Egret | 334 | Redcapped Lark | – |
| Squacco Heron | – | SWALLOWS AND MARTINS | – |
| IBIS AND SPOONBILLS | – | European Swallow | 12 |
| Sacred Ibis | 116 | Whitethroated Swallow | – |
| Glossy Ibis | 103 | Greater Striped Swallow | – |
| Hadeda Ibis | 20 | Pearlbreasted Swallow | – |
| African Spoonbill | 1 | Black Sawwing | – |
| FLAMINGOES | – | Rock Martin | 6 |
| Greater Flamingo | 1117 | Brownthroated Martin | 302 |
| Lesser Flamingo | – | CROWS AND RAVENS | – |
| DUCKS AND GEESE | – | Pied Crow | 6 |
| Spurwinged Goose |
23 |
Whitenecked Raven | – |
| Egyptian Goose | 377 | BULBULS | – |
| Fulvous Duck |
– |
Cape Bulbul | 19 |
| Shelduck | 13 | THRUSHES, CHATS, ALETHES, ROBINS AND ROCKJUMPERS | – |
| Yellowbilled Duck | 286 | Olive Thrush | – |
| Red-billed Teal | 293 | – | – |
| Cape Teal | 410 | Cape Robin Chat | 3 |
| Cape Shoveller | 456 | Stone Chat | 1 |
| Southern Pochard | 45 | TITBABBLERS, WARBLERS, APALISES, CROMBECS, CISTICOLAS AND PRINIAS | – |
| Hotentot Teal | – | Cape Reed Warbler | 17 |
| Whitebacked Duck | 2 | African Sedge Warbler | 11 |
| Maccoa | 111 | African Marsh Warbler | – |
| KITES | – | Grassbird | – |
| Black Shouldered Kite | 4 | Fantailed | – |
| Yellowbilled Kite | – | Levaillant's Cisticola | 19 |
| EAGLES | – | Greybacked | – |
| African Fish Eagle | – | Spotted Prinia | 5 |
| BUZZARDS | – | WAGTAILS, PIPITS AND LONGCLAWS | – |
| Steppe Buzzard | 4 | Cape Wagtail | 17 |
| GOSHAWKS AND SPARROWHAWKS | – | Grassveld Pipit | 1 |
| Redbreasted Sparrowhawk | – | Orangethroated Longclaw | 1 |
| Black Sparrowhawk | – | SHRIKES | – |
| African Goshawk |
– |
Fiscal Shrike | – |
| HARRIERS | – | Southern Boubou | – |
| African Marsh Harrier | 4 | Bokmakierie | – |
| FALCONS AND KESTRELS | – | STARLINGS | – |
| Peregrine Falcon | – | European Starling | 147 |
| Lanner Falcon | – | Redwinged Starling | 1 |
| Rock Kestrel | – | SUGARBIRDS AND SUNBIRDS | – |
| FRANCOLIN AND QUAIL | – | Malachite Sunbird | 1 |
| Cape Francolin | – | Lesser Double collared Sunbird | 1 |
| GUINEAFOWL | – | WHITE EYES | – |
| Helmeted Guineafowl | 117 | Cape White Eye | – |
| RAIL, CRAKES, FLUFFTAILS, GALLINULES, MOORHENS AND COOTS | – | SPARROWS, WEAVERS, BISHOPS AND WIDOWS | – |
| Black Crake | – | House Sparrow | – |
| African Purple Swamp hen | 20 | Cape Sparrow | – |
| Moorhen | 218 | Cape Weaver | 18 |
| Redknobbed Coot | 1249 | Southern Masked Weaver | 1 |
| Black Oystercatcher | 1 | Red Bishop | 6 |
| PLOVERS | – | Yellowrumped Widow | – |
| Threebanded Plover | – | WAXBILLS | – |
| Grey | – | Common Waxbill | – |
| Kittlitz's | 1 | Pintailed Whydah | – |
| Blacksmith Lapwing | 107 | CANARIES, SISKINS, FINCHES AND BUNTINGS | – |
| Ringed Plover | – | Cape Canary | – |
| Crowned Plover | – | Bully Canary | – |
| Turnstone | – | OTHER | – |
| SNIPES, GODWITS, SANDPIPERS, STINTS, CURLEWS AND PHALAROPES, RUFF, STINT | – | Mallard/Dutch Quacker | – |
| Common Sandpiper | – | Common Peacock | – |
| Wood | – |
total species |
72 |
| Marsh Sandpiper | – |
– |
– |
| Curlew | – | – | – |
| Greenshank | 2 | – | – |
| Little Stint | – | – | – |
| Ruff | – | – | – |
| American Blackwinged Stilt | – | – | – |
| AVOCETS AND STILTS | – | – | – |
| Blackwinged Stilt | 363 | – | – |
| Pied Avocet | 52 | – | – |
| DIKKOPS | – | – | – |
| Spotted Thickknees | – | – | – |
| Water Thickknees | – | – | – |
| SKUAS, GULLS AND TERNS | – | – | – |
| Kelp Gull | 1458 | – | – |
| Greyheaded Gull | – | – | – |
| Hartlaubs Gull | 200 | – | – |
| Caspian Tern | – | – | – |
| Swft Tern | 10 | – | – |
| Sandwich Tern | 2 | – | – |
| Common Tern | 15 | – | – |
| Whitewinged | – | – | – |
| PIGEONS AND DOVES | – | – | – |
| Feral Pigeon | 4 | – | – |
| Rock Pigeon | 22 | – | – |
| Redeyed Dove | 10 | – | – |
| Cape Turtle Dove | 2 | – | – |
| Laughing Dove | – | – | – |
| CUCKOOS | – | – | – |
| Klaas's Cuckoo | – | – | – |
| Diederik Cuckoo | – | – | – |
