The Cape Bird Club
Counts – Strandfontein – November 2007
photograph by Morne Carstens
Kelp Gull
| Wind | light NW |
| Weather | good |
| Leader | Dick Barnes |
|
Species |
Presence |
Species |
Presence |
|
GREBES |
– |
COUCALS | – |
| Great Crested |
1 |
Burchell's Coucal |
– |
| Blacknecked | 43 | OWLS | – |
| Dabchick | 293 | Spotted Eagle Owl | – |
| PELICANS | – | SWIFTS | – |
| White Pelican | 14 | Black Swift | 16 |
| CORMORANTS | – | Whiterumped Swift | – |
| Whitebreasted Cormorant | 73 | Little Swift | 20 |
| Cape Cormorant | – | Alpine Swift | 2 |
| Reed Cormorant | 16 | MOUSEBIRDS | – |
| DARTERS | – | Whitebacked Mousebird | – |
| Darter | 1 | Redfaced | – |
| HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS | – | KINGFISHERS | – |
| Grey Heron | 22 | Pied Kingfisher | – |
| Blackheaded Heron | 6 | Giant Kingfisher | – |
| Purple Heron | 3 | Malachite Kingfisher | – |
| Night Heron | 9 | BARBETS | – |
| Little Egret | – | Acacia Pied Barbet | – |
| Yellow billed Egret | – | LARKS AND FINCHLARKS | – |
| Cattle Egret | 20 | Redcapped Lark | – |
| Little Bittern | – | SWALLOWS AND MARTINS | – |
| IBIS AND SPOONBILLS | – | European Swallow | – |
| Sacred Ibis | 91 | Whitethroated Swallow | 8 |
| Glossy Ibis | 183 | Greater Striped Swallow | – |
| Hadeda Ibis | 21 | Pearlbreasted Swallow | – |
| African Spoonbill | – | Black Sawwing | – |
| FLAMINGOES | – | Rock Martin | – |
| Greater Flamingo | 3236 | Brownthroated Martin | – |
| Lesser Flamingo | – | CROWS AND RAVENS | – |
| DUCKS AND GEESE | – | Pied Crow | 13 |
| Spurwinged Goose |
15 |
Whitenecked Raven | – |
| Egyptian Goose | 143 | BULBULS | – |
| Fulvous Duck | – | Cape Bulbul | 13 |
| Shelduck | 21 | THRUSHES, CHATS, ALETHES, ROBINS AND ROCKJUMPERS | – |
| Yellowbilled Duck | 52 | Olive Thrush | – |
| Red-billed Teal | 165 | – | – |
| Cape Teal | 847 | Cape Robin Chat | 2 |
| Cape Shoveller | 814 | Karoo Robin | – |
| Southern Pochard | 63 | TITBABBLERS, WARBLERS, APALISES, CROMBECS, CISTICOLAS AND PRINIAS | – |
| African Black Duck | 2 | Cape Reed Warbler | 9 |
| Whitefaced Duck | – | African Sedge Warbler | 21 |
| Maccoa | 19 | African Marsh Warbler | – |
| KITES | – | Grassbird | – |
| Black Shouldered Kite | 1 | Longbilled Crombec | – |
| Yellowbilled Kite | – | Levaillant's Cisticola | 20 |
| EAGLES | – | Greybacked | – |
| African Fish Eagle | – | Spotted Prinia | 21 |
| BUZZARDS | – | WAGTAILS, PIPITS AND LONGCLAWS | – |
| Steppe Buzzard | – | Cape Wagtail | 19 |
| GOSHAWKS AND SPARROWHAWKS | – | Grassveld Pipit | 7 |
| Redbreasted Sparrowhawk | – | Orangethroated Longclaw | 1 |
| Black Sparrowhawk | – | SHRIKES | – |
| African Goshawk |
– |
Fiscal Shrike | – |
| HARRIERS | – | Southern Boubou | 1 |
| African Marsh Harrier | 1 | Bokmakierie | 1 |
| FALCONS AND KESTRELS | – | STARLINGS | – |
| Peregrine Falcon | – | European Starling | 8 |
| Lanner Falcon | – | Redwinged Starling | 17 |
| Rock Kestrel | – | SUGARBIRDS AND SUNBIRDS | – |
| FRANCOLIN AND QUAIL | – | Malachite Sunbird | – |
| Cape Francolin | 5 | Lesser Doublecollared Sunbird | – |
| GUINEAFOWL | – | WHITE EYES | – |
| Helmeted Guineafowl | 9 | Cape White Eye | 2 |
| RAIL, CRAKES, FLUFFTAILS, GALLINULES, MOORHENS AND COOTS | – | SPARROWS, WEAVERS, BISHOPS AND WIDOWS | – |
| Black Crake | – | House Sparrow | – |
| African Purple Swamp hen | 15 | Cape Sparrow | 5 |
| Moorhen | 40 | Cape Weaver | 2 |
| Redknobbed Coot | 206 | Southern Masked Weaver | 2 |
| Black Oystercatcher | 4 | Red Bishop | – |
| PLOVERS | – | Yellowrumped Widow | – |
| Threebanded Plover | 2 | WAXBILLS | – |
| Grey | – | Common Waxbill | – |
| Kittlitz's | 2 | Pintailed Whydah | – |
| Blacksmith Lapwing | 64 | 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 | – | Ostrich | 4 |
| Wood | – |
total species |
66 |
| Marsh Sandpiper | – |
– |
– |
| Curlew | – | – | – |
| Greenshank | 8 | – | – |
| Little Stint | – | – | – |
| Ruff | – | – | – |
| African Snipe | – | – | – |
| AVOCETS AND STILTS | – | – | – |
| Blackwinged Stilt | 284 | – | – |
| Pied Avocet | 626 | – | – |
| DIKKOPS | – | – | – |
| Spotted Thickknees | – | – | – |
| Water Thickknees | 3 | – | – |
| SKUAS, GULLS AND TERNS | – | – | – |
| Kelp Gull | 1776 | – | – |
| Greyheaded Gull | – | – | – |
| Hartlaubs Gull | 1103 | – | – |
| Caspian Tern | – | – | – |
| Swift Tern | 80 | – | – |
| Sandwich Tern | 20 | – | – |
| Common Tern | – | – | – |
| Whitewinged | – | – | – |
| PIGEONS AND DOVES | – | – | – |
| Feral Pigeon | – | – | – |
| Rock Pigeon | 41 | – | – |
| Redeyed Dove | 5 | – | – |
| Cape Turtle Dove | 6 | – | – |
| Laughing Dove | – | – | – |
| CUCKOOS | – | – | – |
| Klaas's Cuckoo | – | – | – |
| Diederik Cuckoo | – | – | – |
