Zandvlei Estuary Nature Reserve 

October 2006 Bird Count 

Glossy Ibis

 

Species	Presence	Species	Presence
Ocean birds	–	Raptors	–
Kelp Gull	3	Blackshouldered Kite	5
Greyheaded Gull	–	African Fish Eagle	1
Hartlaub's Gull	67	Steppe Buzzard	2
Caspian Tern	3	Redbreasted Sparrowhawk	1
Common Tern	–	Black Sparrowhawk	1
Swift Tern	–	African Goshawk	–
Little Tern	–	–	–
Inland water birds	–	African Marsh Harrier	1
Greater Flamingo	–	Gymnogene	–
Lesser Flamingo	–	Lanner Falcon	–
White Pelican	5	Peregrine Falcon	–
Whitebreasted Cormorant	4	Osprey	–
Reed Cormorant	12	Doves, Cuckoos and coucals	–
Cape Cormorant	7	Feral Pigeon	Yes
Darter	62	Laughing Dove	Yes
Grey Heron	9	Rock Pigeon	Yes
Blackheaded Heron	3	Rameron Pigeon	–
Purple Heron	1	Redeyed Dove	–
Little Egret	9	Cape Turtle Dove	Yes
Yellow billed Egret	–	Burchell's Coucal	–
African Spoonbill	–	Klaas's Cuckoo	Yes
Cattle Egret	2	Aerial feeders, Mousebirds & hole nesters	–
Night Heron	–	Black Swift	–
Little Bittern	–	Whitethroated Swallow	Yes
Sacred Ibis	14	Pearlbreasted Swallow	–
Glossy Ibis	18	Greaterstriped Swallow	–
Hadeda	9	Rock Martin	–
Ducks & Wading birds	–	Brownthroated Martin	Yes
Great crested Grebe	2	Black Sawwing Swallow	–
Dabchick	3	Whiterumped Swift	–
Egyptian Goose	80	Little Swift	–
Yellowbilled Duck	11	Alpine Swift	Yes
Red-billed Teal	–	European Swallow	Yes
Cape Teal	6	Whitebacked Mousebird	Yes
Cape Shoveller	2	Redfaced Mousebird	–
Purple Gallinule	1	Giant Kingfisher	–
Moorhen	8	Malachite Kingfisher	–
Redknobbed Coot	67	Pied Kingfisher	22
Crowned Plover	–	–	–
Threebanded Plover	3	Insect eaters (1) larks to robins	–
Blacksmith Plover	22	Pied Crow	3
Greenshank	–	Whitenecked Raven	–
Southern Pochard	–	Cape Bulbul	Yes
Common Sandpiper	2	Olive Thrush	–
Spurwing Goose	13	Cape Robin	Yes
Marsh Sandpiper	–	Cape Wagtail	Yes
Avocet	1	Orange-throated Longclaw	–
Blackwinged Stilt	5	Bokmakierie	Yes
Kittlitz's Plover	–	Insect eaters (2) warblers to starlings	–
Curlew Sandpiper	–	Cape Reed Warbler	Yes
Mallard	2	African Sedge Warbler	Yes
South African Shelduck	–	African Marsh Warbler	–
Large terrestrial birds	–	Grassbird	–
Water Dikkop	–	Levailant's Cisticola	Yes
Spotted Dikkop	4	Spotted Prinia	Yes
Cape Francolin	15	Fiscal Shrike	Yes
Helmeted Guineafowl	11	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	Yes
Cape white-eye	Yes	House Crow	–
–	–	Black Crow	–
Seedeaters	–	Total Species	74
Cape Sparrow	Yes	–	–
Cape Weaver	Yes	–	–
Southern Masked Weaver	Yes	–	–
Yellowrumped Widow	Yes	–	–
Common Waxbill	Yes	–	–
Pintailed Whydah	–	–	–
Cape Canary	–	–	–
Bully Canary	Yes	–	–