The Cape Bird Club

Counts – Strandfontein – November 2008


photograph by Mathew Orolowitz

Neddicky

Wind light SE
Weather fine
Leader Dick Barnes

 

Species

Presence

Species

Presence

GREBES

COUCALS
Great Crested

6

Burchell's Coucal

Blacknecked 12 OWLS
Dabchick 170 Spotted Eagle Owl
PELICANS SWIFTS 
White Pelican 7 Black Swift
CORMORANTS Whiterumped Swift
Whitebreasted Cormorant 102 Little Swift
Cape Cormorant Alpine Swift
Reed Cormorant 14 MOUSEBIRDS
DARTERS Whitebacked Mousebird
Darter  Redfaced
HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS KINGFISHERS
Grey Heron 29 Pied Kingfisher 2
Blackheaded Heron 3 Giant Kingfisher
Purple Heron Malachite Kingfisher
Blackcrowned Night Heron 3 BARBETS
Little Egret 1 Acacia Pied Barbet
Yellow billed Egret LARKS AND FINCHLARKS 
Cattle Egret 54 Redcapped Lark
Little Bittern SWALLOWS AND MARTINS 
IBIS AND SPOONBILLS European Swallow  2
Sacred Ibis 92 Whitethroated Swallow 6
Glossy Ibis 82 Greater Striped Swallow
Hadeda Ibis 14 Pearlbreasted Swallow
African Spoonbill Black Sawwing
FLAMINGOES Rock Martin
Greater Flamingo 444 Brownthroated Martin
Lesser Flamingo CROWS AND RAVENS
DUCKS AND GEESE Pied Crow 4
Spurwinged Goose

1

Whitenecked Raven
Egyptian Goose 64 BULBULS 
Shelduck 2 Cape Bulbul 2
Yellowbilled Duck 91 THRUSHES, CHATS, ALETHES, ROBINS AND ROCKJUMPERS
Hotentot Teal Olive Thrush
Red-billed Teal 239 Cape Robin Chat 1
Cape Teal 301 Karoo Robin
Cape Shoveller 583 TITBABBLERS, WARBLERS, APALISES, CROMBECS, CISTICOLAS AND PRINIAS
Southern Pochard 185 Cape Reed Warbler 2
Whitefaced Duck African Sedge Warbler 17
Whitebacked Duck 4 African Marsh Warbler
Maccoa 20 Grassbird 2
KITES Fantailed 7
Black Shouldered Kite Levaillant's Cisticola 14
Yellowbilled Kite Greybacked
EAGLES Spotted Prinia 5
African Fish Eagle WAGTAILS, PIPITS AND LONGCLAWS
BUZZARDS Cape Wagtail 7
Jackal Buzzard Grassveld Pipit 2
GOSHAWKS AND SPARROWHAWKS Orangethroated Longclaw
Redbreasted Sparrowhawk SHRIKES
Black Sparrowhawk Fiscal Shrike 1
African Goshawk

Southern Boubou
HARRIERS Bokmakierie
African Marsh Harrier STARLINGS
FALCONS AND KESTRELS Commom Starling 15
Peregrine Falcon Redwing Starling 7
Lanner Falcon SUGARBIRDS AND SUNBIRDS
Rock Kestrel Malachite Sunbird
FRANCOLIN AND QUAIL Lesser Double collared Sunbird
Cape Francolin 7 WHITE EYES
GUINEAFOWL Cape White Eye
Helmeted Guineafowl 5 SPARROWS, WEAVERS, BISHOPS AND WIDOWS
RAIL, CRAKES, FLUFFTAILS, GALLINULES, MOORHENS AND COOTS  House Sparrow
Black Crake Cape Sparrow 5
African Purple Swamp hen 9 Cape Weaver
Moorhen 36 Southern Masked Weaver 1
Redknobbed Coot 434 Red Bishop
Black Oystercatcher 16 Yellowrumped Widow
PLOVERS WAXBILLS
Threebanded Plover 1 Common Waxbill 4
Grey Pintailed Whydah
Kittlitz's CANARIES, SISKINS, FINCHES AND BUNTINGS
Blacksmith Lapwing 140 Cape Canary
Ringed Plover  Bully Canary
Crowned Plover OTHER
Turnstone  Mallard/Dutch Quacker
SNIPES, GODWITS, SANDPIPERS, STINTS, CURLEWS AND PHALAROPES, RUFF, STINT Ostrich 2
Common Sandpiper

total species

61
Wood
Marsh Sandpiper
Curlew
Greenshank 4
Little Stint
Blacktailed Godwit 1
African Snipe
AVOCETS AND STILTS
Blackwinged Stilt 189
Pied Avocet 11
DIKKOPS
Spotted Thickknees 1
Water Thickknees 
SKUAS, GULLS AND TERNS
Kelp Gull 1340
Greyheaded Gull
Hartlaubs Gull 2325
Caspian Tern
Swift Tern 305
Sandwich Tern 2
Common Tern
Whitewinged
PIGEONS AND DOVES
Feral Pigeon
Rock Pigeon 14
Redeyed Dove 4
Namaqua Dove 2
Laughing Dove
CUCKOOS
Klaas's Cuckoo
Diederik Cuckoo 

                                                                                                                                                         

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