The Cape Bird Club

Counts - Strandfontein - September 2011.

Juvenile Olive Thrush being fed.

Wind mild SW
Weather fine
Leader Dick Barnes

 

Species

Presence

Species

Presence

GREBES

-

COUCALS -
Great Crested

1

Burchell's Coucal

-

Blacknecked 98 OWLS -
Little (Dabchick) 147 Spotted Eagle Owl 1
PELICANS - SWIFTS  -
White Pelican - Black Swift -
CORMORANTS - Whiterumped Swift -
Whitebreasted Cormorant 55 Little Swift -
Cape Cormorant - Alpine Swift -
Reed Cormorant 2 MOUSEBIRDS -
DARTERS - Whitebacked Mousebird -
Darter  - Redfaced Mousebird -
STORKS, HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS - KINGFISHERS -
White Stork - - -
Grey Heron 8 Pied Kingfisher -
Blackheaded Heron 1 Giant Kingfisher -
Purple Heron - Malachite Kingfisher -
Blackcrowned Night Heron - BARBETS -
Little Egret - Acacia Pied Barbet -
Yellow billed Egret - LARKS AND FINCHLARKS  -
Cattle Egret 255 Redcapped Lark -
Little Bittern - SWALLOWS AND MARTINS  -
IBIS AND SPOONBILLS - Barn Swallow (European) 3
Sacred Ibis 99 Whitethroated Swallow 5
Glossy Ibis 151 Greater Striped Swallow -
Hadeda Ibis 15 Pearlbreasted Swallow -
African Spoonbill - Black Sawwing -
FLAMINGOES - Rock Martin -
Greater Flamingo 705 Brownthroated Martin 8
Lesser Flamingo - CROWS AND RAVENS -
DUCKS AND GEESE - Pied Crow 1
Spurwinged Goose

18

Whitenecked Raven -
Egyptian Goose 124 BULBULS  -
Shelduck 12 Cape Bulbul 5
Yellowbilled Duck 27 THRUSHES, CHATS, ALETHES, ROBINS AND ROCKJUMPERS -
Fulvous Duck - Olive Thrush -
Red-billed Teal 385 Cape Robin Chat 3
Cape Teal 322 Karoo Robin -
Cape Shoveller 192 TITBABBLERS, WARBLERS, APALISES, CROMBECS, CISTICOLAS AND PRINIAS -
Southern Pochard 235 Lesser Swamp Warbler (Cape Reed) 1
Whitefaced Duck - Little Rush Warbler (African Sedge)  14
Whitebacked Duck 1 African Marsh Warbler -
Maccoa 1 Grassbird -
KITES - Cisticola Zitting (Fantailed)  -
Black Shouldered Kite 2 Cisticola Levaillant's  28
Yellowbilled Kite - Cisticola Greybacked -
EAGLES - Karoo Prinia  (Spotted) 5
African Fish Eagle - WAGTAILS, PIPITS AND LONGCLAWS -
BUZZARDS - Cape Wagtail 11
Steppe Buzzard - African Pipit (Grassveld) 2
GOSHAWKS AND SPARROWHAWKS - Cape Longclaw 6
Redbreasted Sparrowhawk - SHRIKES -
Black Sparrowhawk - Common Fiscal -
African Goshawk

-

Fiscal Flycatcher -
HARRIERS - Bokmakierie -
African Marsh Harrier - STARLINGS -
FALCONS AND KESTRELS - Commom Starling 1
Peregrine Falcon - Redwing Starling 5
Lanner Falcon - SUGARBIRDS AND SUNBIRDS -
Rock Kestrel - Orangebreasted Sunbird -
FRANCOLIN AND QUAIL -  Southern Doublecollared Sunbird (Lesser) -
Cape Spurfowl (Francolin) 14 WHITE EYES -
GUINEAFOWL - Cape White Eye -
Helmeted Guineafowl 14 SPARROWS, WEAVERS, BISHOPS AND WIDOWS -
RAIL, CRAKES, FLUFFTAILS, GALLINULES, MOORHENS AND COOTS  - House Sparrow -
Black Crake 1 Cape Sparrow 1
African Purple Swamphen (Gallinule) 3 Cape Weaver 1
Moorhen 15 Southern Masked Weaver -
Redknobbed Coot 291 Red Bishop -
African Black Oystercatcher 14 Yellowrumped Widow 1
PLOVERS - WAXBILLS -
Threebanded Plover - Common Waxbill 7
Grey - Pintailed Whydah -
Kittlitz's - CANARIES, SISKINS, FINCHES AND BUNTINGS -
Blacksmith Lapwing 145 Cape Canary -
Ringed Plover  - Bully Canary (Brimstone) -
Crowned Plover - OTHER -
Turnstone -  Mallard/Dutch Quacker -
SNIPES, GODWITS, SANDPIPERS, STINTS, CURLEWS AND PHALAROPES, RUFF, STINT - Black Swan -
Common Sandpiper -

Yellow Wagtail

-
Wood -

total species

58
Marsh Sandpiper - - -
Curlew - - -
Greenshank 2 - -
Little Stint - - -
Ruff - - -
African Snipe - - -
AVOCETS AND STILTS - - -
Blackwinged Stilt 4 - -
Pied Avocet 127 - -
DIKKOPS - - -
Spotted Thickknees - - -
Water Thickknees  - - -
SKUAS, GULLS AND TERNS - - -
Kelp Gull 1619 - -
Greyheaded Gull - - -
Hartlaubs Gull 728 - -
Caspian Tern - - -
Swift Tern - - -
Sandwich Tern - - -
Common Tern - - -
Whitewinged - - -
PIGEONS AND DOVES - - -
Rock Dove (Feral Pigeon) - - -
Speckled  Pigeon (Rock Pigeon) 42 - -
Redeyed Dove 1 - -
Cape Turtle Dove 1 - -
Laughing Dove - - -
CUCKOOS - - -
Klaas's Cuckoo - - -
Diederik Cuckoo  - - -

                                                                                                                                                         

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