The Cape Bird Club
Counts - Strandfontein - April 2011
photograph by Greg Morgan
African Purple Swamphen.
| Wind | mild SE |
| Weather | fine |
| Leader | Dick Barnes |
|
Species |
Presence |
Species |
Presence |
|
GREBES |
- |
COUCALS | - |
| Great Crested |
3 |
Burchell's Coucal |
- |
| Blacknecked | - | OWLS | - |
| Little (Dabchick) | 383 | Spotted Eagle Owl | - |
| PELICANS | - | SWIFTS | - |
| White Pelican | 25 | Black Swift | - |
| CORMORANTS | - | Whiterumped Swift | - |
| Whitebreasted Cormorant | 201 | Little Swift | - |
| Cape Cormorant | - | Alpine Swift | - |
| Reed Cormorant | 62 | MOUSEBIRDS | - |
| DARTERS | - | Whitebacked Mousebird | - |
| Darter | 10 | Redfaced Mousebird | - |
| STORKS, HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS | - | KINGFISHERS | - |
| White Stork | - | - | - |
| Grey Heron | 12 | Pied Kingfisher | 3 |
| Blackheaded Heron | 13 | Giant Kingfisher | - |
| Purple Heron | 2 | Malachite Kingfisher | - |
| Blackcrowned Night Heron | 1 | BARBETS | - |
| Little Egret | 13 | Acacia Pied Barbet | - |
| Yellow billed Egret | 1 | LARKS AND FINCHLARKS | - |
| Cattle Egret | 104 | Redcapped Lark | - |
| Little Bittern | - | SWALLOWS AND MARTINS | - |
| IBIS AND SPOONBILLS | - | Barn Swallow (European) | - |
| Sacred Ibis | 171 | Whitethroated Swallow | - |
| Glossy Ibis | 33 | Greater Striped Swallow | - |
| Hadeda Ibis | 36 | Pearlbreasted Swallow | - |
| African Spoonbill | - | Black Sawwing | - |
| FLAMINGOES | - | Rock Martin | - |
| Greater Flamingo | 1080 | Brownthroated Martin | 1 |
| Lesser Flamingo | - | CROWS AND RAVENS | - |
| DUCKS AND GEESE | - | Pied Crow | 5 |
| Spurwinged Goose |
43 |
Whitenecked Raven | - |
| Egyptian Goose | 269 | BULBULS | - |
| Shelduck | 2 | Cape Bulbul | 26 |
| Yellowbilled Duck | 185 | THRUSHES, CHATS, ALETHES, ROBINS AND ROCKJUMPERS | - |
| Fulvous Duck | - | Olive Thrush | - |
| Red-billed Teal | 18 | Cape Robin Chat | 1 |
| Cape Teal | 249 | Karoo Robin | 1 |
| Cape Shoveller | 230 | TITBABBLERS, WARBLERS, APALISES, CROMBECS, CISTICOLAS AND PRINIAS | - |
| Southern Pochard | 2 | Lesser Swamp Warbler (Cape Reed) | 5 |
| Hottentot Teal | - | Little Rush Warbler (African Sedge) | 5 |
| African Black Duck | 1 | African Marsh Warbler | - |
| Maccoa | 1 | Grassbird | - |
| KITES | - | Cisticola Zitting (Fantailed) | - |
| Black Shouldered Kite | 3 | Cisticola Levaillant's | 26 |
| Yellowbilled Kite | - | Cisticola Greybacked | 1 |
| EAGLES | - | Karoo Prinia (Spotted) | 2 |
| African Fish Eagle | 2 | WAGTAILS, PIPITS AND LONGCLAWS | - |
| BUZZARDS | - | Cape Wagtail | 28 |
| Steppe Buzzard | 1 | African Pipit (Grassveld) | 3 |
| GOSHAWKS AND SPARROWHAWKS | - | Cape Longclaw | 5 |
| Redbreasted Sparrowhawk | - | SHRIKES | - |
| Black Sparrowhawk | - | Common Fiscal | 2 |
| African Goshawk |
- |
Fiscal Flycatcher | 1 |
| HARRIERS | - | Bokmakierie | - |
| African Marsh Harrier | 10 | STARLINGS | - |
| FALCONS AND KESTRELS | - | Commom Starling | 135 |
| Peregrine Falcon | 1 | Redwing Starling | 2 |
| Lanner Falcon | - | SUGARBIRDS AND SUNBIRDS | - |
| Rock Kestrel | - | Orangebreasted Sunbird | - |
| FRANCOLIN AND QUAIL | - | Southern Doublecollared Sunbird (Lesser) | 3 |
| Cape Spurfowl (Francolin) | 21 | WHITE EYES | - |
| GUINEAFOWL | - | Cape White Eye | 10 |
| Helmeted Guineafowl | 35 | SPARROWS, WEAVERS, BISHOPS AND WIDOWS | - |
| RAIL, CRAKES, FLUFFTAILS, GALLINULES, MOORHENS AND COOTS | - | House Sparrow | - |
| Black Crake | - | Cape Sparrow | 19 |
| African Purple Swamphen (Gallinule) | 6 | Cape Weaver | 1 |
| Moorhen | 101 | Southern Masked Weaver | - |
| Redknobbed Coot | 268 | Red Bishop | - |
| African Black Oystercatcher | 6 | Yellowrumped Widow | 8 |
| PLOVERS | - | WAXBILLS | - |
| Threebanded Plover | - | Common Waxbill | 4 |
| Grey | - | Pintailed Whydah | - |
| Kittlitz's | - | CANARIES, SISKINS, FINCHES AND BUNTINGS | - |
| Blacksmith Lapwing | 63 | Cape Canary | 10 |
| Ringed Plover | 14 | Bully Canary (Brimstone) | 1 |
| Crowned Plover | - | OTHER | - |
| Turnstone | - | Mallard/Dutch Quacker | 1 |
| SNIPES, GODWITS, SANDPIPERS, STINTS, CURLEWS AND PHALAROPES, RUFF, STINT | - | Black Swan | - |
| Common Sandpiper | - |
Yellow Wagtail |
- |
| Wood | - |
total species |
78 |
| Marsh Sandpiper | - | - | - |
| Curlew | 1 | - | - |
| Greenshank | - | - | - |
| Little Stint | 105 | - | - |
| Ruff | - | - | - |
| African Snipe | - | - | - |
| AVOCETS AND STILTS | - | - | - |
| Blackwinged Stilt | 99 | - | - |
| Pied Avocet | 223 | - | - |
| DIKKOPS | - | - | - |
| Spotted Thickknees | - | - | - |
| Water Thickknees | - | - | - |
| SKUAS, GULLS AND TERNS | - | - | - |
| Kelp Gull | 936 | - | - |
| Greyheaded Gull | - | - | - |
| Hartlaubs Gull | 137 | - | - |
| Caspian Tern | 2 | - | - |
| Swift Tern | 22 | - | - |
| Sandwich Tern | - | - | - |
| Common Tern | 40 | - | - |
| Whitewinged | - | - | - |
| PIGEONS AND DOVES | - | - | - |
| Rock Dove (Feral Pigeon) | - | - | - |
| Speckled Pigeon (Rock Pigeon) | 8 | - | - |
| Redeyed Dove | 2 | - | - |
| Cape Turtle Dove | 3 | - | - |
| Laughing Dove | - | - | - |
| CUCKOOS | - | - | - |
| Klaas's Cuckoo | - | - | - |
| Diederik Cuckoo | - | - | - |
