Zandvlei Estuary Nature Reserve 

January 2006 Bird Count 

photograph by Georges Delpierre

Rock Kestrel

 

Species	Presence	Species	Presence
Ocean birds	–	Raptors	–
Kelp Gull	4	Blackshouldered Kite	1
Greyheaded Gull	1	African Fish Eagle	2
Hartlaub's Gull	22	Steppe Buzzard	1
Caspian Tern	18	Redbreasted Sparrowhawk	–
Common Tern	4	Black Sparrowhawk	–
Swift Tern	–	African Goshawk	–
Inland water birds	–	African Marsh Harrier	1
Greater Flamingo	–	Gymnogene	–
Lesser Flamingo	–	Lanner Falcon	–
White Pelican	–	Peregrine Falcon	–
Whitebreasted Cormorant	9	Osprey	–
Reed Cormorant	19	Doves, Cuckoos and coucals	–
Cape Cormorant	–	Feral Pigeon	Yes
Darter	10	Laughing Dove	Yes
Grey Heron	11	Rock Pigeon	Yes
Blackheaded Heron	1	Rameron Pigeon	–
Purple Heron	–	Redeyed Dove	Yes
Little Egret	12	Cape Turtle Dove	Yes
Yellow billed Egret	–	Burchell's Coucal	Yes
African Spoonbill	2	Klaas's Cuckoo	–
Cattle Egret	1	Aerial feeders, Mousebirds & hole nesters	–
Night Heron	4	Black Swift	–
Little Bittern	1	Whitethroated Swallow	Yes
Sacred Ibis	3	Pearlbreasted Swallow	–
Glossy Ibis	–	Greaterstriped Swallow	Yes
Hadeda	1	Rock Martin	–
Ducks & Wading birds	–	Brownthroated Martin	–
Great crested Grebe	9	Black Sawwing Swallow	–
Dabchick	2	Whiterumped Swift	–
Egyptian Goose	5+9 juven.	Little Swift	Yes
Yellowbilled Duck	5+3 juven.	Alpine Swift	Yes
Red-billed Teal	–	European Swallow	–
Cape Teal	23	Whitebacked Mousebird	Yes
Cape Shoveller	–	Redfaced Mousebird	–
Purple Galinule	1	Giant Kingfisher	–
Moorhen	4	Malachite Kingfisher	1
Redknobbed Coot	237	Pied Kingfisher	4
Threebanded Plover	4	Insect eaters (1) larks to robins	–
Blacksmith Plover	40	Pied Crow	Yes
Greenshank	2	Whitenecked Raven	–
Southern Pochard	–	Cape Bulbul	Yes
Common Sandpiper	–	Olive Thrush	Yes
Spurwing Goose	–	Cape Robin	Yes
Marsh Sandpiper	–	Cape Wagtail	Yes
Avocet	170	Orange-throated Longclaw	–
Blackwinged Stilt	33	Bokmakierie	–
Kittlitz's Plover	–	Insect eaters (2) warblers to starlings	–
Curlew Sandpiper	–	Cape Reed Warbler	Yes
Mallard	–	African Sedge Warbler	Yes
South African Shelduck	–	African Marsh Warbler	–
Large terrestrial birds	–	Grassbird	–
Water Dikkop	1	Levailant's Cisticola	Yes
Spotted Dikkop	–	Spotted Prinia	Yes
Cape Francolin	10	Fiscal Shrike	Yes
Helmeted Guineafowl	3+24 juven.	Southern Boubou	Yes
Greywinged Francolin	–	European Starling	Yes
Nectar feeders	–	Redwing Starling	Yes
Malachite Sunbird	–	Peacock	Yes
Orangebreasted Sunbird	–	Grassveld pipit	–
Lesser Doublecollared Sunbird	Yes	Red-capped Lark	–
Cape white-eye	Yes	House Crow	–
Seedeaters	–	Total Species	72
Cape Sparrow	Yes	–	–
Cape Weaver	–	–	–
Southern Masked Weaver	Yes	–	–
Yellowrumped Widow	–	–	–
Common Waxbill	Yes	–	–
Pintailed Whydah	Yes	–	–
Cape Canary	Yes	–	–
Bully Canary	Yes	–	–