Zandvlei Estuary Nature Reserve 

March 2005 Bird Count 

                          photograph by Heather Howell
White Pelicans

 

Species	Presence	Species	Presence
Ocean birds	–	Raptors	–
Kelp Gull	6	Blackshouldered Kite	2
Greyheaded Gull	1	African Fish Eagle	1
Hartlaub's Gull	13	Steppe Buzzard	–
Caspian Tern	3	Redbreasted Sparrowhawk	–
Common Tern	3	Black Sparrowhawk	–
Swift Tern	–	African Goshawk	–
Inland water birds	–	African Marsh Harrier	1
Greater Flamingo	–	Peregrine Falcon	1
Lesser Flamingo	–	Doves and coucals	–
White Pelican	–	Feral Pigeon	Yes
Whitebreasted Cormorant	2	Laughing Dove	Yes
Reed Cormorant	9	Rock Pigeon	Yes
Cape Cormorant	–	Rameron Pigeon	–
Darter	16	Redeyed Dove	Yes
Grey Heron	5	Cape Turtle Dove	Yes
Blackheaded Heron	1	Klass's Cuckoo	–
Purple Heron	1	Burchell's Coucal	Yes
Little Egret	6	Aerial feeders, Mousebirds & hole nesters	–
Yellow billed Egret	–	Black Swift	–
African Spoonbill	6	Whitethroated Swallow	–
Cattle Egret	–	Pearlbreasted Swallow	–
Night Heron	10 (1 juv)	Greaterstriped Swallow	Yes
Little Bittern	1	Rock Martin	–
Sacred Ibis	4	Brownthroated Martin	–
Glossy Ibis	–	Black Sawwing Swallow	Yes
Hadeda	4	Whiterumped Swift	–
Ducks & Wading birds	–	Little Swift	–
Great crested Grebe	4	Alpine Swift	Yes
Dabchick	–	European Swallow	Yes
Egyptian Goose	13	Whitebacked Mousebird	Yes
Yellowbilled Duck	5	Giant Kingfisher	1
Red-billed Teal	–	Malachite Kingfisher	1
Cape Teal	6	Pied Kingfisher	8
Cape Shoveller	1	Insect eaters (1) larks to robins	–
Purple Galinule	1	Pied Crow	Yes
Moorhen	12	Whitenecked Raven	–
Redknobbed Coot	291 (1 juv)	Cape Bulbul	Yes
Threebanded Plover	10	Olive Thrush	–
Blacksmith Plover	11	Cape Robin	Yes
Greenshank	–	Cape Wagtail	Yes
Southern Pochard	–	Orange-throated Longclaw	–
–	–	Bokmakierie	Yes
Common Sandpiper	–	Insect eaters (2) warblers to starlings	–
Spurwing Goose	–	Cape Reed Warbler	Yes
Marsh Sandpiper	–	African Sedge Warbler	Yes
Avocet	–	African Marsh Warbler	Yes
Blackwinged Stilt	–	Grassbird	–
Kittlitz's Plover	–	Levailant's Cisticola	Yes
Curlew Sandpiper	–	Spotted Prinia	Yes
Mallard	4 hybrid	Fiscal Shrike	Yes
–	–	Southern Boubou	–
Large terrestrial birds	–	European Starling	Yes
Water Dikkop	–	Redwing Starling	–
Spotted Dikkop	2	Peacock	1
Cape Francolin	10	Black Swan	1
Helmeted Guineafowl	26	Total Species	66
Greywinged Francolin	–	–	–
Nectar feeders	–	–	–
Malachite Sunbird	–	–	–
Orangebreasted Sunbird	–	–	–
Lesser Doublecollared Sunbird	Yes	–	–
Cape white-eye	–	–	–
Seedeaters	–	–	–
Cape Sparrow	–	–	–
Cape Weaver	–	–	–
Southern Masked Weaver	Yes	–	–
Yellowrumped Widow	–	–	–
Common Waxbill	Yes	–	–
Pintailed Whydah	–	–	–
Cape Canary	–	–	–
Bully Canary	–	–	–