Zandvlei Estuary Nature Reserve 

March 2006 Bird Count 

Purple Heron

 

Species	Presence	Species	Presence
Ocean birds	–	Raptors	–
Kelp Gull	3	Blackshouldered Kite	1
Greyheaded Gull	–	African Fish Eagle	1
Hartlaub's Gull	12	Steppe Buzzard	1
Caspian Tern	18	Redbreasted Sparrowhawk	–
Common Tern	4	Black Sparrowhawk	–
Swift Tern	–	African Goshawk	–
Inland water birds	–	African Marsh Harrier	–
Greater Flamingo	–	Gymnogene	–
Lesser Flamingo	–	Lanner Falcon	–
White Pelican	–	Peregrine Falcon	–
Whitebreasted Cormorant	11	Osprey	–
Reed Cormorant	39	Doves, Cuckoos and coucals	–
Cape Cormorant	–	Feral Pigeon	Yes
Darter	16	Laughing Dove	Yes
Grey Heron	6	Rock Pigeon	–
Blackheaded Heron	–	Rameron Pigeon	–
Purple Heron	1	Redeyed Dove	Yes
Little Egret	8	Cape Turtle Dove	Yes
Yellow billed Egret	–	Burchell's Coucal	Yes
African Spoonbill	1	Klaas's Cuckoo	Yes
Cattle Egret	–	Aerial feeders, Mousebirds & hole nesters	–
Night Heron	5	Black Swift	–
Little Bittern	1	Whitethroated Swallow	Yes
Sacred Ibis	3	Pearlbreasted Swallow	–
Glossy Ibis	16	Greaterstriped Swallow	Yes
Hadeda	–	Rock Martin	–
Ducks & Wading birds	–	Brownthroated Martin	–
Great crested Grebe	3	Black Sawwing Swallow	–
Dabchick	5	Whiterumped Swift	–
Egyptian Goose	21	Little Swift	Yes
Yellowbilled Duck	4	Alpine Swift	Yes
Red-billed Teal	–	European Swallow	–
Cape Teal	3	Whitebacked Mousebird	Yes
Cape Shoveller	–	Redfaced Mousebird	–
Purple Galinule	3	Giant Kingfisher	1
Moorhen	9	Malachite Kingfisher	1
Redknobbed Coot	450	Pied Kingfisher	6
Threebanded Plover	2	Insect eaters (1) larks to robins	–
Blacksmith Plover	2	Pied Crow	Yes
Greenshank	–	Whitenecked Raven	–
Southern Pochard	–	Cape Bulbul	Yes
Common Sandpiper	–	Olive Thrush	Yes
Spurwing Goose	–	Cape Robin	Yes
Marsh Sandpiper	–	Cape Wagtail	Yes
Avocet	–	Orange-throated Longclaw	–
Blackwinged Stilt	10	Bokmakierie	–
Kittlitz's Plover	–	Insect eaters (2) warblers to starlings	–
Curlew Sandpiper	–	Cape Reed Warbler	Yes
Mallard	11	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	14	Fiscal Shrike	Yes
Helmeted Guineafowl	38	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	70
Cape Sparrow	Yes	–	–
Cape Weaver	Yes	–	–
Southern Masked Weaver	Yes	–	–
Yellowrumped Widow	–	–	–
Common Waxbill	Yes	–	–
Pintailed Whydah	Yes	–	–
Cape Canary	Yes	–	–
Bully Canary	Yes	–	–