The Cape Bird Club
Counts – Strandfontein – May 2009
photograph by Ann Koeslag
Little Bittern
| Wind | mild |
| Weather | fine |
| Leader | Derek Longrigg |
|
Species |
Presence |
Species |
Presence |
|
GREBES |
– |
COUCALS | – |
| Great Crested |
– |
Burchell's Coucal |
– |
| Blacknecked | 101 | OWLS | – |
| Dabchick | 260 | Spotted Eagle Owl | – |
| PELICANS | – | SWIFTS | – |
| White Pelican | 2 | Black Swift | – |
| CORMORANTS | – | Whiterumped Swift | – |
| Whitebreasted Cormorant | 15 | Little Swift | – |
| Cape Cormorant | – | Alpine Swift | – |
| Reed Cormorant | 12 | MOUSEBIRDS | – |
| DARTERS | – | Whitebacked Mousebird | – |
| Darter | 14 | Redfaced Mousebird | – |
| HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS | – | KINGFISHERS | – |
| Grey Heron | 4 | Pied Kingfisher | 5 |
| Blackheaded Heron | 10 | Giant Kingfisher | – |
| Purple Heron | 1 | Malachite Kingfisher | – |
| Blackcrowned Night Heron | – | BARBETS | – |
| Little Egret | – | Acacia Pied Barbet | – |
| Yellow billed Egret | 2 | LARKS AND FINCHLARKS | – |
| Cattle Egret | 59 | Redcapped Lark | 3 |
| Little Bittern | – | SWALLOWS AND MARTINS | – |
| IBIS AND SPOONBILLS | – | European Swallow | – |
| Sacred Ibis | 128 | Whitethroated Swallow | – |
| Glossy Ibis | 19 | Greater Striped Swallow | – |
| Hadeda Ibis | 36 | Pearlbreasted Swallow | – |
| African Spoonbill | – | Black Sawwing | – |
| FLAMINGOES | – | Rock Martin | – |
| Greater Flamingo | 414 | Brownthroated Martin | – |
| Lesser Flamingo | – | CROWS AND RAVENS | – |
| DUCKS AND GEESE | – | Pied Crow | 6 |
| Spurwinged Goose |
4 |
Whitenecked Raven | – |
| Egyptian Goose | 93 | BULBULS | – |
| Shelduck | 6 | Cape Bulbul | 15 |
| Yellowbilled Duck | 115 | THRUSHES, CHATS, ALETHES, ROBINS AND ROCKJUMPERS | – |
| Fulvous Duck | 3 | Olive Thrush | – |
| Red-billed Teal | 309 | Cape Robin Chat | 2 |
| Cape Teal | 62 | Karoo Robin | – |
| Cape Shoveller | 754 | TITBABBLERS, WARBLERS, APALISES, CROMBECS, CISTICOLAS AND PRINIAS | – |
| Southern Pochard | 38 | Lesser Swamp Warbler (Cape Reed) | 10 |
| Whitefaced Duck | 14 | Little Rush Warbler (African Sedge) | 8 |
| Whitebacked Duck | – | African Marsh Warbler | – |
| Maccoa | 2 | Grassbird | – |
| KITES | – | Cisticola Zitting (Fantailed) | 1 |
| Black Shouldered Kite | 1 | Cisticola Levaillant's | 19 |
| Yellowbilled Kite | – | Cisticola Greybacked | – |
| EAGLES | – | Karoo Prinia (Spotted) | 2 |
| African Fish Eagle | – | WAGTAILS, PIPITS AND LONGCLAWS | – |
| BUZZARDS | – | Cape Wagtail | 20 |
| Jackal Buzzard | – | African Pipit (Grassveld) | 2 |
| GOSHAWKS AND SPARROWHAWKS | – | Cape Longclaw (Orangethroated) | 4 |
| Redbreasted Sparrowhawk | – | SHRIKES | – |
| Black Sparrowhawk | – | Fiscal Shrike | – |
| African Goshawk |
– |
Southern Boubou | – |
| HARRIERS | – | Bokmakierie | – |
| African Marsh Harrier | 2 | STARLINGS | – |
| FALCONS AND KESTRELS | – | Commom Starling | 120 |
| Peregrine Falcon | – | Redwing Starling | 2 |
| Lanner Falcon | – | SUGARBIRDS AND SUNBIRDS | – |
| Rock Kestrel | – | Malachite Sunbird | – |
| FRANCOLIN AND QUAIL | – | Southern Doublecollared Sunbird (Lesser) | 1 |
| Cape Spurfowl (Francolin) | 4 | WHITE EYES | – |
| GUINEAFOWL | – | Cape White Eye | – |
| Helmeted Guineafowl | – | SPARROWS, WEAVERS, BISHOPS AND WIDOWS | – |
| RAIL, CRAKES, FLUFFTAILS, GALLINULES, MOORHENS AND COOTS | – | House Sparrow | – |
| Black Crake | – | Cape Sparrow | – |
| African Purple Swamphen (Gallinule) | 14 | Cape Weaver | 3 |
| Moorhen | 105 | Southern Masked Weaver | – |
| Redknobbed Coot | 420 | Red Bishop | 6 |
| Black Oystercatcher | 7 | Yellowrumped Widow | – |
| PLOVERS | – | WAXBILLS | – |
| Threebanded Plover | – | Common Waxbill | 6 |
| Grey | – | Pintailed Whydah | – |
| Kittlitz's | – | CANARIES, SISKINS, FINCHES AND BUNTINGS | – |
| Blacksmith Lapwing | 63 | Cape Canary | 5 |
| 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 |
59 |
| Marsh Sandpiper | – | * Incomplete count (northeast section | – |
| Curlew | – | not counted) | – |
| Greenshank | – | – | – |
| Little Stint | – | – | – |
| Ruff | – | – | – |
| African Snipe | – | – | – |
| AVOCETS AND STILTS | – | – | – |
| Blackwinged Stilt | 193 | – | – |
| Pied Avocet | 5 | – | – |
| DIKKOPS | – | – | – |
| Spotted Thickknees | – | – | – |
| Water Thickknees | – | – | – |
| SKUAS, GULLS AND TERNS | – | – | – |
| Kelp Gull | 505 | – | – |
| Greyheaded Gull | – | – | – |
| Hartlaubs Gull | 288 | – | – |
| Caspian Tern | 2 | – | – |
| Swift Tern | – | – | – |
| Sandwich Tern | – | – | – |
| Common Tern | – | – | – |
| Whitewinged | – | – | – |
| PIGEONS AND DOVES | – | – | – |
| Rock Dove (Feral Pigeon) | – | – | – |
| Speckled Pigeon (Rock Pigeon) | 5 | – | – |
| Redeyed Dove | 3 | – | – |
| Cape Turtle Dove | – | – | – |
| Laughing Dove | – | – | – |
| CUCKOOS | – | – | – |
| Klaas's Cuckoo | – | – | – |
| Diederik Cuckoo | – | – | – |
