The Cape Bird Club
Counts – Strandfontein – October 2007
photograph by Morne Carstens
Orange throated Longclaw
| Wind | NW |
| Weather | partly cloudy |
| Leader | Dick Barnes |
|
Species |
Presence |
Species |
Presence |
|
GREBES |
– |
COUCALS | – |
| Great Crested |
1 |
Burchell's Coucal |
– |
| Blacknecked | 100 | OWLS | – |
| Dabchick | 67 | Spotted Eagle Owl | – |
| PELICANS | – | SWIFTS | – |
| White Pelican | 46 | Black Swift | – |
| CORMORANTS | – | Whiterumped Swift | – |
| Whitebreasted Cormorant | 46 | Little Swift | – |
| Cape Cormorant | 1 | Alpine Swift | – |
| Reed Cormorant | 12 | MOUSEBIRDS | – |
| DARTERS | – | Whitebacked Mousebird | – |
| Darter | – | Redfaced | – |
| HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS | – | KINGFISHERS | – |
| Grey Heron | 22 | Pied Kingfisher | 1 |
| Blackheaded Heron | 3 | Giant Kingfisher | – |
| Purple Heron | – | Malachite Kingfisher | – |
| Night Heron | 6 | BARBETS | – |
| Little Egret | 1 | Acacia Pied Barbet | – |
| Yellow billed Egret | – | LARKS AND FINCHLARKS | – |
| Cattle Egret | 48 | Redcapped Lark | – |
| Little Bittern | – | SWALLOWS AND MARTINS | – |
| IBIS AND SPOONBILLS | – | European Swallow | – |
| Sacred Ibis | 64 | Whitethroated Swallow | 10 |
| Glossy Ibis | 77 | Greater Striped Swallow | 1 |
| Hadeda Ibis | 31 | Pearlbreasted Swallow | – |
| African Spoonbill | – | Black Sawwing | – |
| FLAMINGOES | – | Rock Martin | – |
| Greater Flamingo | 3420 | Brownthroated Martin | – |
| Lesser Flamingo | – | CROWS AND RAVENS | – |
| DUCKS AND GEESE | – | Pied Crow | 5 |
| Spurwinged Goose |
9 |
Whitenecked Raven | – |
| Egyptian Goose | 50 | BULBULS | – |
| Fulvous Duck | – | Cape Bulbul | 12 |
| Shelduck | 1 | THRUSHES, CHATS, ALETHES, ROBINS AND ROCKJUMPERS | – |
| Yellowbilled Duck | 25 | Olive Thrush | – |
| Red-billed Teal | 30 | – | – |
| Cape Teal | 592 | Cape Robin Chat | 3 |
| Cape Shoveller | 118 | Karoo Robin | 1 |
| Southern Pochard | 72 | TITBABBLERS, WARBLERS, APALISES, CROMBECS, CISTICOLAS AND PRINIAS | – |
| Hotentot Teal | – | Cape Reed Warbler | 7 |
| Whitefaced Duck | – | African Sedge Warbler | 15 |
| Maccoa | 8 | African Marsh Warbler | – |
| KITES | – | Grassbird | – |
| Black Shouldered Kite | – | Longbilled Crombec | – |
| Yellowbilled Kite | – | Levaillant's Cisticola | 27 |
| EAGLES | – | Barthroated Apalis | 1 |
| African Fish Eagle | 1 | Spotted Prinia | 21 |
| BUZZARDS | – | WAGTAILS, PIPITS AND LONGCLAWS | – |
| Steppe Buzzard | – | Cape Wagtail | 11 |
| GOSHAWKS AND SPARROWHAWKS | – | Grassveld Pipit | 2 |
| Redbreasted Sparrowhawk | – | Orangethroated Longclaw | 1 |
| Black Sparrowhawk | – | SHRIKES | – |
| African Goshawk |
– |
Fiscal Shrike | – |
| HARRIERS | – | Southern Boubou | – |
| African Marsh Harrier | 1 | Bokmakierie | – |
| FALCONS AND KESTRELS | – | STARLINGS | – |
| Peregrine Falcon | – | European Starling | 21 |
| Lanner Falcon | – | Redwinged Starling | 5 |
| Rock Kestrel | – | SUGARBIRDS AND SUNBIRDS | – |
| FRANCOLIN AND QUAIL | – | Malachite Sunbird | – |
| Cape Francolin | 3 | Lesser Doublecollared Sunbird | – |
| GUINEAFOWL | – | WHITE EYES | – |
| Helmeted Guineafowl | 9 | Cape White Eye | 1 |
| RAIL, CRAKES, FLUFFTAILS, GALLINULES, MOORHENS AND COOTS | – | SPARROWS, WEAVERS, BISHOPS AND WIDOWS | – |
| Black Crake | – | House Sparrow | – |
| African Purple Swamp hen | 12 | Cape Sparrow | 2 |
| Moorhen | 51 | Cape Weaver | 3 |
| Redknobbed Coot | 730 | Southern Masked Weaver | – |
| Black Oystercatcher | 6 | Red Bishop | – |
| PLOVERS | – | Yellowrumped Widow | – |
| Threebanded Plover | – | WAXBILLS | – |
| Grey | – | Common Waxbill | 2 |
| Kittlitz's | 4 | Pintailed Whydah | – |
| Blacksmith Lapwing | 8 | CANARIES, SISKINS, FINCHES AND BUNTINGS | – |
| Ringed Plover | 2 | Cape Canary | – |
| Crowned Plover | – | Bully Canary | – |
| Turnstone | – | OTHER | – |
| SNIPES, GODWITS, SANDPIPERS, STINTS, CURLEWS AND PHALAROPES, RUFF, STINT | – | Mallard/Dutch Quacker | – |
| Terek Sandpiper | 1 | Ostrich | 3 |
| Wood Sandpiper | – |
total species |
69 |
| Marsh Sandpiper | – |
– |
– |
| Curlew | 1 | – | – |
| Greenshank | – | – | – |
| Little Stint | – | – | – |
| Ruff | – | – | – |
| African Snipe | – | – | – |
| AVOCETS AND STILTS | – | – | – |
| Blackwinged Stilt | 118 | – | – |
| Pied Avocet | 636 | – | – |
| DIKKOPS | – | – | – |
| Spotted Thickknees | – | – | – |
| Water Thickknees | 3 | – | – |
| SKUAS, GULLS AND TERNS | – | – | – |
| Kelp Gull | 2183 | – | – |
| Greyheaded Gull | – | – | – |
| Hartlaubs Gull | 531 | – | – |
| Caspian Tern | 4 | – | – |
| Swift Tern | 14 | – | – |
| Sandwich Tern | – | – | – |
| Common Tern | – | – | – |
| Whitewinged | – | – | – |
| PIGEONS AND DOVES | – | – | – |
| Feral Pigeon | – | – | – |
| Rock Pigeon | 9 | – | – |
| Redeyed Dove | 5 | – | – |
| Cape Turtle Dove | 4 | – | – |
| Laughing Dove | – | – | – |
| CUCKOOS | – | – | – |
| Klaas's Cuckoo | – | – | – |
| Diederik Cuckoo | – | – | – |
