|
The Cape Bird Club
Counts - Strandfontein
- June 2011

photograph by Graham Pringle.
White Pelican in breeding plumage.
| Wind |
none |
| Weather |
clear |
| Leader |
Dick Barnes |
|
Species
|
Presence
|
Species
|
Presence
|
|
GREBES
|
- |
COUCALS |
- |
| Great
Crested |
5 |
Burchell's Coucal |
1 |
| Blacknecked |
- |
OWLS |
- |
| Little (Dabchick) |
816 |
Spotted Eagle Owl |
- |
| PELICANS |
- |
SWIFTS |
- |
| White Pelican |
5 |
Black Swift |
- |
| CORMORANTS |
- |
Whiterumped Swift |
- |
| Whitebreasted
Cormorant |
55 |
Little Swift |
- |
| Cape Cormorant |
- |
Alpine Swift |
- |
| Reed Cormorant |
6 |
MOUSEBIRDS |
- |
| DARTERS |
- |
Speckled Mousebird |
3 |
| Darter |
10 |
Redfaced Mousebird |
- |
| STORKS,
HERONS,
EGRETS AND BITTERNS |
- |
KINGFISHERS |
- |
| White Stork |
- |
- |
- |
| Grey Heron |
15 |
Pied Kingfisher |
1 |
| Blackheaded Heron |
19 |
Giant Kingfisher |
- |
| Purple Heron |
2 |
Malachite Kingfisher |
1 |
| Blackcrowned Night
Heron |
1 |
BARBETS |
- |
| Little Egret |
1 |
Acacia Pied Barbet |
- |
| Yellowbilled Egret |
- |
LARKS
AND FINCHLARKS |
- |
| Cattle Egret |
361 |
Redcapped Lark |
- |
| Little Bittern |
- |
SWALLOWS
AND MARTINS |
- |
| IBIS
AND SPOONBILLS |
- |
Barn Swallow (European) |
- |
| Sacred Ibis |
83 |
Whitethroated
Swallow |
- |
| Glossy Ibis |
92 |
Greater Striped
Swallow |
- |
| Hadeda Ibis |
36 |
Pearlbreasted
Swallow |
- |
| African Spoonbill |
8 |
Black Sawwing |
- |
| FLAMINGOES |
- |
Rock Martin |
- |
| Greater Flamingo |
261 |
Brownthroated Martin |
1 |
| Lesser Flamingo |
- |
CROWS
AND RAVENS |
- |
| DUCKS
AND GEESE |
- |
Pied Crow |
10 |
| Spurwinged Goose |
90 |
Whitenecked Raven |
3 |
| Egyptian Goose |
241 |
BULBULS |
- |
| Shelduck |
6 |
Cape Bulbul |
17 |
| Yellowbilled Duck |
268 |
THRUSHES,
CHATS, ALETHES, ROBINS AND ROCKJUMPERS |
- |
| Fulvous Duck |
- |
Olive Thrush |
- |
| Red-billed Teal |
125 |
Cape Robin Chat |
4 |
| Cape Teal |
103 |
Karoo Robin |
1 |
| Cape Shoveller |
84 |
TITBABBLERS,
WARBLERS, APALISES, CROMBECS, CISTICOLAS AND PRINIAS |
- |
| Southern Pochard |
34 |
Lesser Swamp Warbler
(Cape Reed) |
7 |
| Hottentot Teal |
- |
Little Rush
Warbler (African Sedge) |
16 |
| African Black Duck |
- |
African
Marsh Warbler |
- |
| Maccoa |
5 |
Barthroated
Apalis |
1 |
| KITES |
- |
Cisticola
Zitting (Fantailed) |
2 |
| Black Shouldered
Kite |
- |
Cisticola Levaillant's |
39 |
| Yellowbilled Kite |
- |
Cisticola Greybacked |
1 |
| EAGLES |
- |
Karoo Prinia
(Spotted) |
7 |
| African Fish Eagle |
- |
WAGTAILS,
PIPITS AND LONGCLAWS |
- |
| BUZZARDS |
- |
Cape
Wagtail |
16 |
| Steppe Buzzard |
- |
African Pipit (Grassveld) |
4 |
| GOSHAWKS
AND SPARROWHAWKS |
- |
Cape Longclaw |
1 |
| Redbreasted
Sparrowhawk |
- |
SHRIKES |
- |
| Black Sparrowhawk |
- |
Common Fiscal |
- |
| African Goshawk |
- |
Fiscal
Flycatcher |
- |
| HARRIERS |
- |
Bokmakierie |
2 |
| African Marsh
Harrier |
5 |
STARLINGS |
- |
| FALCONS
AND KESTRELS |
- |
Commom Starling |
6 |
| Peregrine Falcon |
1 |
Redwing
Starling |
2 |
| Lanner Falcon |
- |
SUGARBIRDS
AND SUNBIRDS |
- |
| Rock Kestrel |
- |
Orangebreasted
Sunbird |
- |
| FRANCOLIN
AND QUAIL |
- |
Southern
Doublecollared Sunbird (Lesser) |
5 |
| Cape Spurfowl (Francolin) |
19 |
WHITE
EYES |
- |
| GUINEAFOWL |
- |
Cape White Eye |
2 |
| Helmeted
Guineafowl |
54 |
SPARROWS,
WEAVERS, BISHOPS AND WIDOWS |
- |
| RAIL,
CRAKES, FLUFFTAILS, GALLINULES, MOORHENS AND COOTS |
- |
House Sparrow |
- |
| Black
Crake |
- |
Cape
Sparrow |
3 |
| African
Purple Swamphen (Gallinule) |
10 |
Cape
Weaver |
6 |
| Moorhen |
76 |
Southern
Masked Weaver |
- |
| Redknobbed
Coot |
398 |
Red
Bishop |
- |
| African
Black
Oystercatcher |
34 |
Yellowrumped
Widow |
- |
| PLOVERS |
- |
WAXBILLS |
- |
| Threebanded
Plover |
- |
Common
Waxbill |
- |
| Grey |
- |
Pintailed Whydah |
- |
| Kittlitz's |
- |
CANARIES,
SISKINS, FINCHES AND BUNTINGS |
- |
| Blacksmith
Lapwing |
168 |
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
|
64 |
| Marsh
Sandpiper |
- |
- |
- |
| Curlew |
- |
- |
- |
| Greenshank |
1 |
- |
- |
| Little
Stint |
- |
- |
- |
| Ruff |
- |
- |
- |
| African Snipe |
- |
- |
- |
| AVOCETS
AND STILTS |
- |
- |
- |
| Blackwinged Stilt |
127 |
- |
- |
| Pied Avocet |
183 |
- |
- |
| DIKKOPS |
- |
- |
- |
| Spotted Thickknees |
- |
- |
- |
| Water
Thickknees |
- |
- |
- |
| SKUAS,
GULLS AND TERNS |
- |
- |
- |
| Kelp Gull |
617 |
- |
- |
| Greyheaded Gull |
- |
- |
- |
| Hartlaubs Gull |
1402 |
- |
- |
| Caspian Tern |
- |
- |
- |
| Swift Tern |
- |
- |
- |
| Sandwich Tern |
- |
- |
- |
| Common Tern |
- |
- |
- |
| Whitewinged |
- |
- |
- |
| PIGEONS
AND DOVES |
- |
- |
- |
| Rock Dove (Feral Pigeon) |
- |
- |
- |
| Speckled
Pigeon (Rock Pigeon) |
40 |
- |
- |
| Redeyed Dove |
- |
- |
- |
| Cape Turtle Dove |
- |
- |
- |
| Laughing Dove |
- |
- |
- |
| CUCKOOS |
- |
- |
- |
| Klaas's Cuckoo |
- |
- |
- |
| Diederik
Cuckoo |
- |
- |
- |
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