Zandvlei Estuary Nature Reserve 

December 2003 Bird Count 

Species	Presence	Species	Presence
Ocean birds	–	Raptors	–
Kelp Gull	12	Blackshouldered Kite	1
Greyheaded Gull	1	African Fish Eagle	2
Hartlaub's Gull	10	Steppe Buzzard	1
Caspian Tern	3	Redbreasted Sparrowhawk	–
Common Tern	1	Black Sparrowhawk	1
Swift Tern	–	African Goshawk	–
Inland water birds	–	African Marsh Harrier	1
Greater Flamingo	26	Lanner Falcon	–
Lesser Flamingo	–	Peregrine Falcon	–
White Pelican	8	Doves and coucals	–
Whitebreasted Cormorant	8	Feral Pigeon	Yes
Reed Cormorant	2	Laughing Dove	Yes
Cape Cormorant	–	Rock Pigeon	Yes
Darter	5	Rameron Pigeon	Yes
Grey Heron	4	Redeyed Dove	Yes
Blackheaded Heron	4	Cape Turtle Dove	Yes
Purple Heron	1	Laughing Dove	Yes
–	–	Klaas's Cuckoo	–
Little Egret	1	Burchell's Coucal	–
Yellow billed Egret	1	Aerial feeders, Mousebirds & hole nesters	–
African Spoonbill	1	Black Swift	Yes
Cattle Egret	1	Whitethroated Swallow	Yes
Night Heron	7	Pearlbreasted Swallow	Yes
Little Bittern	1	Greaterstriped Swallow	Yes
Sacred Ibis	1	Rock Martin	Yes
Glossy Ibis	1	Brownthroated Martin	–
Hadeda	1	Black Sawwing Swallow	–
–	–	Whiterumped Swift	Yes
Ducks & Wading birds	–	Little Swift	–
Great crested Grebe	2	Alpine Swift	Yes
Dabchick	–	European Swallow	Yes
Egyptian Goose	8	Whitebacked Mousebird	Yes
–	–	Redfaced Mousebird	–
Yellowbilled Duck	5	Giant Kingfisher	–
Red-billed Teal	–	Malachite Kingfisher	1
Cape Teal	41	Pied Kingfisher	9
Cape Shoveller	2	Insect eaters (1) larks to robins	–
Purple Galinule	–	Pied Crow	–
Moorhen	4	Whitenecked Raven	–
Redknobbed Coot	348	Cape Bulbul	Yes
Threebanded Plover	2	Olive Thrush	–
Blacksmith Plover	13	Cape Robin	–
Greenshank	2	Cape Wagtail	–
Southern Pochard	–	Orange-throated Longclaw	–
–	–	Bokmakierie	–
Common Sandpiper	1	Insect eaters (2) warblers to starlings	–
Spurwing Goose	–	Cape Reed Warbler	Yes
Marsh Sandpiper	–	African Sedge Warbler	Yes
Avocet	18	African Marsh Warbler	Yes
Blackwinged Stilt	13	Grassbird	–
Kittlitz's Plover	–	Levailant's Cisticola	Yes
Curlew Sandpiper	–	Spotted Prinia	Yes
Mallard	–	Fiscal Shrike	Yes
–	–	Southern Boubou	–
Large terrestrial birds	–	European Starling	Yes
Water Dikkop	–	Redwing Starling	Yes
Spotted Dikkop	6	Total Species	79
Cape Francolin	3	–	–
Helmeted Guineafowl	3	–	–
Greywinged Francolin	–	–	–
Nectar feeders	–	–	–
Malachite Sunbird	–	–	–
Orangebreasted Sunbird	–	–	–
Lesser Doublecollared Sunbird	Yes	–	–
Cape white-eye	Yes	–	–
Seedeaters	–	–	–
Cape Sparrow	–	–	–
Cape Weaver	Yes	–	–
Southern Masked Weaver	Yes	–	–
Yellowrumped Widow	Yes	–	–
Common Waxbill	Yes	–	–
Pintailed Whydah	Yes	–	–
Cape Canary	Yes	–	–
Bully Canary	Yes	–	–