Zandvlei Estuary Nature Reserve 

August 2004 Bird Count 

 

Species	Presence	Species	Presence
Ocean birds	–	Raptors	–
Kelp Gull	10	Blackshouldered Kite	–
Greyheaded Gull	–	African Fish Eagle	1
Hartlaub's Gull	21	Steppe Buzzard	–
Caspian Tern	2	Redbreasted Sparrowhawk	–
Common Tern	–	Black Sparrowhawk	–
Swift Tern	–	African Goshawk	–
Inland water birds	–	African Marsh Harrier	1
Greater Flamingo	1	Lanner Falcon	–
Lesser Flamingo	–	Peregrine Falcon	–
–	–	Gymnogene	–
White Pelican	1	Doves and coucals	–
Whitebreasted Cormorant	5	Feral Pigeon	Yes
Reed Cormorant	15	Laughing Dove	Yes
Cape Cormorant	–	Rock Pigeon	Yes
Darter	13	Rameron Pigeon	–
Grey Heron	1	Redeyed Dove	Yes
Blackheaded Heron	2	Cape Turtle Dove	Yes
Purple Heron	1	Laughing Dove	Yes
Little Egret	1	Burchell's Coucal	Yes
–	–	Klaas's Cuckoo	–
Yellow billed Egret	–	Aerial feeders, Mousebirds & hole nesters	–
African Spoonbill	–	Black Swift	–
Cattle Egret	3	Whitethroated Swallow	Yes
Night Heron	1	Pearlbreasted Swallow	–
Little Bittern	–	Greaterstriped Swallow	–
Sacred Ibis	12	Rock Martin	–
Glossy Ibis	1	Brownthroated Martin	Yes
Hadeda	3	Black Sawwing Swallow	–
–	–	Whiterumped Swift	–
Ducks & Wading birds	–	Little Swift	–
Great crested Grebe	4	Alpine Swift	Yes
Blacknecked Grebe	–	European Swallow	–
Dabchick	4	Whitebacked Mousebird	Yes
Egyptian Goose	21	Giant Kingfisher	–
Yellowbilled Duck	6+11 chicks	Malachite Kingfisher	2
Red-billed Teal	–	Pied Kingfisher	6
Cape Teal	18	–	–
Cape Shoveller	9	Insect eaters (1) larks to robins	–
Purple Galinule	–	Pied Crow	2
Moorhen	6	Whitenecked Raven	–
Redknobbed Coot	64	Cape Bulbul	Yes
Threebanded Plover	2	Olive Thrush	–
Blacksmith Plover	5	Cape Robin	Yes
Greenshank	–	Cape Wagtail	–
Southern Pochard	–	Orange-throated Longclaw	Yes
Crowned Plover	1	Bokmakierie	Yes
–	–	Red–capped Lark	Yes
Common Sandpiper	–	Insect eaters (2) warblers to starlings	–
Spurwing Goose	–	Cape Reed Warbler	Yes
Marsh Sandpiper	1	African Sedge Warbler	Yes
Avocet	80	African Marsh Warbler	–
Blackwinged Stilt	10	Grassbird	–
Kittlitz's Plover	2	Levailant's Cisticola	Yes
Curlew Sandpiper	–	Spotted Prinia	Yes
Mallard	4	Fiscal Shrike	Yes
–	–	Southern Boubou	Yes
Large terrestrial birds	–	European Starling	Yes
Water Dikkop	–	Redwing Starling	Yes
Spotted Dikkop	4	Total Species	75
Cape Francolin	12	–	–
Helmeted Guineafowl	9	–	–
Greywing Francolin	–	–	–
Nectar feeders	–	–	–
Malachite Sunbird	Yes	–	–
Orangebreasted Sunbird	–	–	–
Lesser Doublecollared Sunbird	Yes	–	–
Cape white-eye	Yes	–	–
Seedeaters	–	–	–
Cape Sparrow	Yes	–	–
Cape Weaver	Yes	–	–
Southern Masked Weaver	Yes	–	–
Yellowrumped Widow	Yes	–	–
Common Waxbill	Yes	–	–
Pintailed Whydah	Yes	–	–
Cape Canary	–	–	–
Bully Canary	Yes	–	–