Greater Zandvlei Estuary Nature Reserve 

December 2007 Bird Count 

Spoonbill

 

Species	Presence	Species	Presence
GREBES	–	COUCALS	–
Great Crested Grebe	7	Burchell's Coucal	–
Dabchick	2	SWIFTS	–
PELICANS	–	Black Swift	–
White Pelican	–	Whiterumped Swift	–
CORMORANTS	–	Little Swift	P
Whitebreasted Cormorant	3	Alpine Swift	–
Cape Cormorant	–	MOUSEBIRDS	–
Reed Cormorant	39	Whitebacked Mousebird	P
DARTERS	–	KINGFISHERS	–
Darter	41	Pied Kingfisher	21
HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS	–	Giant Kingfisher	–
Grey Heron	5	Malachite Kingfisher	–
Blackheaded Heron	4	BARBETS	–
Purple Heron	–	Acacia Pied Barbet	–
Blackcrowned Night Heron	5	LARKS AND FINCHLARKS	–
Little Egret	6	Redcapped Lark	–
Yellow billed Egret	1	SWALLOWS AND MARTINS	–
Cattle Egret	–	European Swallow	–
Little Bittern	1	Whitethroated Swallow	P
IBIS AND SPOONBILLS	–	Greater Striped Swallow	–
Sacred Ibis	6	Pearlbreasted Swallow	–
Glossy Ibis	4	Black Sawwing	–
Hadeda Ibis	–	Rock Martin	P
African Spoonbill	1	Brownthroated Martin	–
FLAMINGOES	–	CROWS AND RAVENS	–
Greater Flamingo	–	Pied Crow	P
Lesser Flamingo	–	Whitenecked Raven	–
DUCKS AND GEESE	–	BULBULS	–
Whitefaced Duck	–	Cape Bulbul	P
Fulvous Duck	–	THRUSHES, CHATS, ALETHES, ROBINS AND ROCKJUMPERS	–
Egyptian Goose	67	Olive Thrush	–
Yellowbilled Duck	4	Cape Robin Chat	P
Red-billed Teal	–	Karoo Robin	–
Cape Teal	–	TITBABBLERS, WARBLERS, APALISES, CROMBECS, CISTICOLAS AND PRINIAS	–
Cape Shoveller	–	Cape Reed Warbler	P
Southern Pochard	–	African Sedge Warbler	P
Spurwinged Goose	1	Grassbird	–
KITES	–	Levaillant's Cisticola	P
Black Shouldered Kite	–	Spotted Prinia	P
Yellowbilled Kite	–	WAGTAILS, PIPITS AND LONGCLAWS	–
EAGLES	–	Cape Wagtail	P
African Fish Eagle	4	Grassveld Pipit	–
BUZZARDS	–	Orangethroated Longclaw	–
Steppe Buzzard	2	SHRIKES	–
GOSHAWKS AND SPARROWHAWKS	–	Fiscal Shrike	P
Redbreasted Sparrowhawk	–	Southern Boubou	–
Black Sparrowhawk	–	Bokmakierie	P
African Goshawk	1	STARLINGS	–
HARRIERS	–	European Starling	P
African Marsh Harrier	–	Redwing Starling	P
FALCONS AND KESTRELS	–	SUGARBIRDS AND SUNBIRDS	–
Peregrine Falcon	–	Malachite Sunbird	P
Lanner Falcon	–	Lesser Double collared Sunbird	P
Rock Kestrel	–	WHITE EYES	–
FRANCOLIN AND QUAIL	–	Cape White Eye	P
Cape Francolin	12	SPARROWS, WEAVERS, BISHOPS AND WIDOWS	–
GUINEAFOWL	–	House Sparrow	P
Helmeted Guineafowl	–	Cape Sparrow	P
RAIL, CRAKES, FLUFFTAILS, GALLINULES, MOORHENS AND COOTS	–	Cape Weaver	P
African Purple Swamp hen	1	Southern Masked Weaver	P
Moorhen	10	Red Bishop	–
Redknobbed Coot	35	Yellowrumped Widow	–
PLOVERS	–	WAXBILLS	–
Threebanded Plover	–	Common Waxbill	P
Blacksmith Lapwing	54	Pintailed Whydah	–
Ringed Plover	–	CANARIES, SISKINS, FINCHES AND BUNTINGS	–
Crowned Plover	–	Cape Canary	–
SNIPES, GODWITS, SANDPIPERS, STINTS, CURLEWS AND PHALAROPES	–	Bully Canary	–
Common Sandpiper	–	OTHER	–
Marsh Sandpiper	–	Mallard/Dutch Quacker	15
Greenshank	1	Common Peacock	1
AVOCETS AND STILTS	–	total species	62
Blackwinged Stilt	84	–	–
Pied Avocet	–	–	–
DIKKOPS	–	–	–
Spotted Thickknees	–	–	–
Water Thickknees	–	–	–
SKUAS, GULLS AND TERNS	–	–	–
Kelp Gull	6	–	–
Greyheaded Gull	–	–	–
Hartlaubs Gull	29	–	–
Caspian Tern	6	–	–
Common Tern	4	–	–
PIGEONS AND DOVES	–	–	–
Feral Pigeon	P	–	–
Rock Pigeon	–	–	–
Redeyed Dove	–	–	–
Cape Turtle Dove	P	–	–
Laughing Dove	P	–	–
Rameron Pigeon	–	–	–
CUCKOOS	–	–	–
Klaas's Cuckoo	–	–	–
Diederik Cuckoo	–	–	–