Zandvlei Estuary Nature Reserve 

August 2005 Bird Count 

photograph by Ann Koeslag

White Pelican

 

Species	Presence	Species	Presence
Ocean birds	–	Raptors	–
Kelp Gull	4	Blackshouldered Kite	1
Greyheaded Gull	–	African Fish Eagle	1
Hartlaub's Gull	25	Steppe Buzzard	–
Caspian Tern	3	Redbreasted Sparrowhawk	–
Common Tern	–	Black Sparrowhawk	–
Swift Tern	–	African Goshawk	–
Inland water birds	–	African Marsh Harrier	–
–	–	Gymnogene	–
Greater Flamingo	–	Lanner Falcon	–
Lesser Flamingo	–	Peregrine Falcon	–
White Pelican	8	Doves, Cuckoos and coucals	–
Whitebreasted Cormorant	14	Feral Pigeon	Yes
Reed Cormorant	10	Laughing Dove	–
Cape Cormorant	–	Rock Pigeon	–
Darter	44 incl 7 imm.	Rameron Pigeon	–
Grey Heron	3	Redeyed Dove	Yes
Blackheaded Heron	1	Cape Turtle Dove	Yes
Purple Heron	–	Laughing Dove	–
Little Egret	4	Burchell's Coucal	Yes
–	–	Klaas's Cuckoo	Yes
Yellow billed Egret	–	Aerial feeders, Mousebirds & hole nesters	–
African Spoonbill	1	Black Swift	Yes
Cattle Egret	–	Whitethroated Swallow	–
Night Heron	12	Pearlbreasted Swallow	–
Little Bittern	–	Greaterstriped Swallow	–
Sacred Ibis	1	Rock Martin	–
Glossy Ibis	–	Brownthroated Martin	–
Hadeda	17	Black Sawwing Swallow	–
–	–	Whiterumped Swift	–
Ducks & Wading birds	–	Little Swift	–
Great crested Grebe	5	Alpine Swift	Yes
Dabchick	2	European Swallow	Yes
Egyptian Goose	53	Whitebacked Mousebird	Yes
–	–	Redfaced Mousebird	–
Yellowbilled Duck	17	Giant Kingfisher	–
Red-billed Teal	20	Malachite Kingfisher	2
Cape Teal	–	Pied Kingfisher	2
Cape Shoveller	6	Insect eaters (1) larks to robins	–
Purple Galinule	–	Pied Crow	Yes
Moorhen	7	Whitenecked Raven	–
Redknobbed Coot	33	Cape Bulbul	Yes
Threebanded Plover	2	Olive Thrush	–
Blacksmith Plover	1	Cape Robin	Yes
Greenshank	–	Cape Wagtail	Yes
Southern Pochard	–	Orange-throated Longclaw	–
–	–	Bokmakierie	Yes
Common Sandpiper	–	Insect eaters (2) warblers to starlings	–
Spurwing Goose	3	Cape Reed Warbler	Yes
Marsh Sandpiper	–	African Sedge Warbler	Yes
Avocet	78	African Marsh Warbler	–
Blackwinged Stilt	4	Grassbird	–
Kittlitz's Plover	–	Levailant's Cisticola	Yes
Curlew Sandpiper	–	Spotted Prinia	Yes
Mallard	3	Fiscal Shrike	Yes
South African Shelduck	–	Southern Boubou	–
Large terrestrial birds	–	European Starling	Yes
Water Dikkop	–	Redwing Starling	Yes
Spotted Dikkop	4	Peacock	Yes
Cape Francolin	12	Grassveld pipit	Yes
Helmeted Guineafowl	12	Total Species	67
Greywinged Francolin	–	–	–
Nectar feeders	–	–	–
Malachite Sunbird	–	–	–
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	–	–