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BIRDS OF THE WESTERN CAPE PHOTO GALLERY.

This photo gallery represents species that occur in the geographical boundaries of the Western Cape, currently over 500 species.
This includes resident, migrant, rare and vagrant species.
This geographic region contains many varied habitats and as such, some species may be common in a particular habitat, but absent from others.

Species are alpha indexed in separate pages by English family names. A-B, C, D-E etc. 

The gallery here covers species families C. As we develop and finish other families, separate pages will be added.

Click on the relevant tab ie: ‘C1’ = Camaroptera – Cisticola. ‘C2″ = Coot – Curlew.

These pages viewed on small devices ie tablets or cell phones show a white strip across the images. This is unavoidable and a symptom of the software. To see the full image without the strip just tap on the image for a full screen display.

Photographers have given permission to use any of these photos for education purposes only.
For Commercial use the copyright resides with the photographer.

GREEN-BACKED CAMAROPTERA  – Graham Pringle

BLACK-HEADED CANARY – Otto Schmidt

BLACK-THROATED CANARY – Otto Schmidt, Lesley Bust

BRIMSTONE CANARY – Otto Schmidt

CAPE CANARY – Daryl de Beer, Ian-Malcolm Rijsdijk

FOREST CANARY – Myburgh Brink, Graham Pringle

WHITE-THROATED CANARY – Lynette de Beer

YELLOW CANARY – Peter Hills, Derek Longrigg

YELLOW-FRONTED CANARY – Michael Mason

COMMON CHAFFINCH – Otto Schmidt, Ian-Malcolm Rijsdijk, Lesley Bust

ANT-EATING CHAT – Peter Hills, Lesley Bust

FAMILIAR CHAT – Graham Pringle, Ian-Malcolm Rijsdijk

KAROO CHAT – Graham Pringle, Lesley Bust

SICKLE-WINGED CHAT – Otto Schmidt

TRACTRAC CHAT – Otto Schmidt

CLOUD CISTICOLA – Ian-Malcolm Rijsdijk

GREY-BACKED CISTICOLA – Gerald Wingate, Daryl de Beer

LEVAILLANT’S CISTICOLA – Otto Schmidt, Graham Pringle

ZITTING CISTICOLA – Graham Pringle, Ian-Malcolm Rijsdijk

RED-KNOBBED COOT – Otto Schmidt

BANK CORMORANT – Graham Pringle, Patrick Cardwell

CAPE CORMORANT – Otto Schmidt

CROWNED CORMORANT – Otto Schmidt, Ian-Malcolm Rijsdijk

REED CORMORANT – Graham Pringle

WHITE-BREASTED CORMORANT – Greg Morgan

BURCHELL’S COUCAL – John Magner

BURCHELL’S COURSER – Lesley Bust

DOUBLE-BANDED COURSER – Frank Hallett, Lesley Bust

TEMMINCK’S COURSER – Otto Schmidt

AFRICAN CRAKE – Otto Schmidt

BAILLON’S CRAKE – Lesley Bust, Garret Skead

BLACK CRAKE – John Fincham

LITTLE CRAKE – Otto Schmidt

SPOTTED CRAKE – Michael Mason

BLUE CRANE – Daryl de Beer

LONG-BILLED CROMBEC – Gerald Wingate

CAPE (BLACK) CROW – Lynette de Beer

HOUSE CROW – Mike Buckham

PIED CROW – Daryl de Beer

AFRICAN EMERALD CUCKOO – Peter Hills

BLACK CUCKOO – Otto Schmidt

DIDERICK CUCKOO – Peter Hills, Otto Schmidt

GREAT SPOTTED CUCKOO – Patrick Cardwell

JACOBIN CUCKOO – Lesley Bust

KLAAS’S CUCKOO – Otto Schmidt, Ian-Malcolm Rijsdijk, Jessie Blackshaw

RED-CHESTED CUCKOO – Graham Pringle, Ian-Malcolm Rijsdijk, Otto Schmidt

BLACK CUCKOOSHRIKE – Otto Schmidt

GREY CUCKOOSHRIKE – Lesley Bust

EURASIAN CURLEW – Lynette de Beer, Patrick Cardwell