Zandvlei Estuary Nature Reserve 

November 2004 Bird Count 

Species	Presence	Species	Presence
Ocean birds	–	Raptors	–
Kelp Gull	1	Blackshouldered Kite	1
Greyheaded Gull	–	African Fish Eagle	1
Hartlaub's Gull	6	Steppe Buzzard	–
Caspian Tern	1	Redbreasted Sparrowhawk	–
Common Tern	2	Black Sparrowhawk	–
Swift Tern	–	African Goshawk	–
Inland water birds	–	African Marsh Harrier	–
Greater Flamingo	–	Lanner Falcon	–
Lesser Flamingo	–	Peregrine Falcon	1
White Pelican	–	Doves and coucals	–
Whitebreasted Cormorant	–	Feral Pigeon	Yes
Reed Cormorant	5	Laughing Dove	Yes
Cape Cormorant	–	Rock Pigeon	Yes
Darter	19	Rameron Pigeon	3
Grey Heron	4	Redeyed Dove	Yes
Blackheaded Heron	2	Cape Turtle Dove	Yes
Purple Heron	1	Laughing Dove	Yes
–	–	Klaas's Cuckoo	Yes
–	–	Diederik Cuckoo	–
Little Egret	1	Burchell's Coucal	–
Yellow billed Egret	–	Aerial feeders, Mousebirds & hole nesters	–
African Spoonbill	–	Black Swift	Yes
Cattle Egret	1	Whitethroated Swallow	Yes
Night Heron	1	Pearlbreasted Swallow	–
Little Bittern	1	Greaterstriped Swallow	Yes
Sacred Ibis	2	Rock Martin	–
Glossy Ibis	6	Brownthroated Martin	Yes
Hadeda	3	Black Sawwing Swallow	–
–	–	Whiterumped Swift	–
Ducks & Wading birds	–	Little Swift	–
Great crested Grebe	2	Alpine Swift	Yes
Dabchick	1	European Swallow	–
Egyptian Goose	12	Whitebacked Mousebird	Yes
Yellowbilled Duck	3 + chicks	Giant Kingfisher	–
Red-billed Teal	–	Malachite Kingfisher	1
Cape Teal	4	Pied Kingfisher	8
Cape Shoveller	5	Insect eaters (1) larks to robins	–
Purple Galinule	1	Pied Crow	1
Moorhen	1	Whitenecked Raven	–
Redknobbed Coot	142	Cape Bulbul	Yes
Threebanded Plover	1	Olive Thrush	–
Blacksmith Plover	4	Cape Robin	Yes
Greenshank	1	Cape Wagtail	Yes
Southern Pochard	–	Orange-throated Longclaw	–
–	–	Bokmakierie	Yes
–	–	Red capped Lark	Yes
Common Sandpiper	2	Insect eaters (2) warblers to starlings	–
Spurwing Goose	1	Cape Reed Warbler	Yes
Marsh Sandpiper	–	African Sedge Warbler	Yes
Avocet	1	African Marsh Warbler	–
Blackwinged Stilt	9	Grassbird	–
Kittlitz's Plover	–	Levailant's Cisticola	Yes
Curlew Sandpiper	–	Spotted Prinia	Yes
Mallard	8 + chicks	Fiscal Shrike	Yes
–	–	Southern Boubou	–
–	–	Greywinged Cisticola	–
Large terrestrial birds	–	European Starling	Yes
Water Dikkop	1	Redwing Starling	Yes
Spotted Dikkop	4	Total Species	77
Cape Francolin	6	–	–
Helmeted Guineafowl	4	–	–
Greyheaded 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	–	–	–