The Cape Bird Club
Counts – Strandfontein – October 2008
photograph by Mathew Orolowitz
Spotted Thicknee
| Wind | mod SE |
| Weather | overcast |
| Leader | Dick Barnes |
|
Species |
Presence |
Species |
Presence |
|
GREBES |
– |
COUCALS | – |
| Great Crested |
5 |
Hoopoe |
1 |
| Blacknecked | 734 | OWLS | – |
| Dabchick | 33 | Spotted Eagle Owl | – |
| PELICANS | – | SWIFTS | – |
| White Pelican | 17 | Black Swift | – |
| CORMORANTS | – | Whiterumped Swift | 1 |
| Whitebreasted Cormorant | 38 | Little Swift | – |
| Cape Cormorant | – | Alpine Swift | – |
| Reed Cormorant | 18 | MOUSEBIRDS | – |
| DARTERS | – | Whitebacked Mousebird | 1 |
| Darter | – | Redfaced | – |
| HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS | – | KINGFISHERS | – |
| Grey Heron | 11 | Pied Kingfisher | – |
| Blackheaded Heron | 6 | Giant Kingfisher | – |
| Purple Heron | 1 | Malachite Kingfisher | – |
| Blackcrowned Night Heron | 1 | BARBETS | – |
| Little Egret | 2 | Acacia Pied Barbet | – |
| Yellow billed Egret | – | LARKS AND FINCHLARKS | – |
| Cattle Egret | 142 | Redcapped Lark | – |
| Little Bittern | – | SWALLOWS AND MARTINS | – |
| IBIS AND SPOONBILLS | – | European Swallow | – |
| Sacred Ibis | 50 | Whitethroated Swallow | 1 |
| Glossy Ibis | 34 | Greater Striped Swallow | 7 |
| Hadeda Ibis | 15 | Pearlbreasted Swallow | – |
| African Spoonbill | – | Black Sawwing | – |
| FLAMINGOES | – | Rock Martin | – |
| Greater Flamingo | 731 | Brownthroated Martin | 1 |
| Lesser Flamingo | – | CROWS AND RAVENS | – |
| DUCKS AND GEESE | – | Pied Crow | 9 |
| Spurwinged Goose |
8 |
Whitenecked Raven | – |
| Egyptian Goose | 41 | BULBULS | – |
| Combduck | 2 | Cape Bulbul | 6 |
| Yellowbilled Duck | 84 | THRUSHES, CHATS, ALETHES, ROBINS AND ROCKJUMPERS | – |
| Northern Shoveller | 1 | Olive Thrush | – |
| Red-billed Teal | 106 | Cape Robin Chat | 8 |
| Cape Teal | 295 | Karoo Robin | – |
| Cape Shoveller | 264 | TITBABBLERS, WARBLERS, APALISES, CROMBECS, CISTICOLAS AND PRINIAS | – |
| Southern Pochard | 68 | Cape Reed Warbler | 2 |
| Whitefaced Duck | – | African Sedge Warbler | 14 |
| Whitebacked Duck | 3 | African Marsh Warbler | – |
| Maccoa | 8 | Grassbird | – |
| KITES | – | Fantailed | – |
| Black Shouldered Kite | – | Levaillant's Cisticola | 16 |
| Yellowbilled Kite | – | Greybacked | – |
| EAGLES | – | Spotted Prinia | 7 |
| African Fish Eagle | – | WAGTAILS, PIPITS AND LONGCLAWS | – |
| BUZZARDS | – | Cape Wagtail | 22 |
| Jackal Buzzard | – | Grassveld Pipit | – |
| GOSHAWKS AND SPARROWHAWKS | – | Orangethroated Longclaw | 2 |
| Redbreasted Sparrowhawk | – | SHRIKES | – |
| Black Sparrowhawk | – | Fiscal Shrike | – |
| African Goshawk |
– |
Southern Boubou | – |
| HARRIERS | – | Bokmakierie | 1 |
| African Marsh Harrier | 1 | STARLINGS | – |
| FALCONS AND KESTRELS | – | Commom Starling | 1 |
| Peregrine Falcon | 1 | Redwing Starling | – |
| Lanner Falcon | – | SUGARBIRDS AND SUNBIRDS | – |
| Rock Kestrel | 1 | Malachite Sunbird | – |
| FRANCOLIN AND QUAIL | – | Lesser Double collared Sunbird | 1 |
| Cape Francolin | 10 | WHITE EYES | – |
| GUINEAFOWL | – | Cape White Eye | 2 |
| Helmeted Guineafowl | 16 | SPARROWS, WEAVERS, BISHOPS AND WIDOWS | – |
| RAIL, CRAKES, FLUFFTAILS, GALLINULES, MOORHENS AND COOTS | – | House Sparrow | 2 |
| Black Crake | 2 | Cape Sparrow | 2 |
| African Purple Swamp hen | 11 | Cape Weaver | 1 |
| Moorhen | 28 | Southern Masked Weaver | – |
| Redknobbed Coot | 540 | Red Bishop | 2 |
| Black Oystercatcher | 5 | Yellowrumped Widow | – |
| PLOVERS | – | WAXBILLS | – |
| Threebanded Plover | 1 | Common Waxbill | 1 |
| Grey | – | Pintailed Whydah | – |
| Kittlitz's | – | CANARIES, SISKINS, FINCHES AND BUNTINGS | – |
| Blacksmith Lapwing | 42 | Cape Canary | 3 |
| Ringed Plover | – | Bully Canary | – |
| Crowned Plover | – | OTHER | – |
| Turnstone | – | Mallard/Dutch Quacker | – |
| SNIPES, GODWITS, SANDPIPERS, STINTS, CURLEWS AND PHALAROPES, RUFF, STINT | – | Ostrich | 1 |
| Common Sandpiper | – |
total species |
75 |
| Wood | – | – | – |
| Marsh Sandpiper | – | – | – |
| Curlew | – | – | – |
| Greenshank | 2 | – | – |
| Little Stint | – | – | – |
| Ruff | – | – | – |
| African Snipe | – | – | – |
| AVOCETS AND STILTS | – | – | – |
| Blackwinged Stilt | 22 | – | – |
| Pied Avocet | 85 | – | – |
| DIKKOPS | – | – | – |
| Spotted Thickknees | 1 | – | – |
| Water Thickknees | – | – | – |
| SKUAS, GULLS AND TERNS | – | – | – |
| Kelp Gull | 1535 | – | – |
| Greyheaded Gull | 1 | – | – |
| Hartlaubs Gull | 949 | – | – |
| Caspian Tern | – | – | – |
| Swift Tern | 78 | – | – |
| Sandwich Tern | – | – | – |
| Common Tern | 16 | – | – |
| Whitewinged | – | – | – |
| PIGEONS AND DOVES | – | – | – |
| Feral Pigeon | – | – | – |
| Rock Pigeon | 21 | – | – |
| Redeyed Dove | 1 | – | – |
| Cape Turtle Dove | 2 | – | – |
| Laughing Dove | – | – | – |
| CUCKOOS | – | – | – |
| Klaas's Cuckoo | – | – | – |
| Diederik Cuckoo | – | – | – |
