Zandvlei Estuary Nature Reserve 

September 2005 Bird Count 

photograph by Andrew Jenkins

White–necked Raven

 

Species	Presence	Species	Presence
Ocean birds	–	Raptors	–
Kelp Gull	13	Blackshouldered Kite	2
Greyheaded Gull	2	African Fish Eagle	2
Hartlaub's Gull	28	Steppe Buzzard	–
Caspian Tern	2	Redbreasted Sparrowhawk	–
Common Tern	–	Black Sparrowhawk	Yes
Swift Tern	–	African Goshawk	–
Inland water birds	–	African Marsh Harrier	Yes
–	–	Gymnogene	–
Greater Flamingo	–	Lanner Falcon	–
Lesser Flamingo	–	Peregrine Falcon	–
White Pelican	5	Doves, Cuckoos and coucals	–
Whitebreasted Cormorant	5	Feral Pigeon	Yes
Reed Cormorant	5	Laughing Dove	Yes
Cape Cormorant	–	Rock Pigeon	Yes
Darter	12	Rameron Pigeon	Yes
Grey Heron	3	Redeyed Dove	Yes
Blackheaded Heron	1	Cape Turtle Dove	Yes
Purple Heron	1	–	–
Little Egret	1	Burchell's Coucal	Yes
–	–	Klaas's Cuckoo	Yes
Yellow billed Egret	–	Aerial feeders, Mousebirds & hole nesters	–
African Spoonbill	1	Black Swift	Yes
Cattle Egret	1	Whitethroated Swallow	–
Night Heron	2	Pearlbreasted Swallow	–
Little Bittern	–	Greaterstriped Swallow	–
Sacred Ibis	5	Rock Martin	–
Glossy Ibis	6	Brownthroated Martin	–
Hadeda	4	Black Sawwing Swallow	–
–	–	Whiterumped Swift	Yes
Ducks & Wading birds	–	Little Swift	–
Great crested Grebe	2	Alpine Swift	Yes
Dabchick	1	European Swallow	–
Egyptian Goose	51+ 6chicks	Whitebacked Mousebird	Yes
–	–	Redfaced Mousebird	–
Yellowbilled Duck	4	Giant Kingfisher	–
Red-billed Teal	–	Malachite Kingfisher	1
Cape Teal	2	Pied Kingfisher	8
Cape Shoveller	4	Insect eaters (1) larks to robins	–
Purple Galinule	–	Pied Crow	2
Moorhen	9	Whitenecked Raven	–
Redknobbed Coot	22	Cape Bulbul	Yes
Threebanded Plover	1	Olive Thrush	–
Blacksmith Plover	5	Cape Robin	Yes
Greenshank	–	Cape Wagtail	Yes
Southern Pochard	–	Orange-throated Longclaw	–
–	–	Bokmakierie	–
Common Sandpiper	–	Insect eaters (2) warblers to starlings	–
Spurwing Goose	3	Cape Reed Warbler	Yes
Marsh Sandpiper	–	African Sedge Warbler	Yes
Avocet	100	African Marsh Warbler	–
Blackwinged Stilt	6	Grassbird	–
Kittlitz's Plover	–	Levailant's Cisticola	Yes
Curlew Sandpiper	–	Spotted Prinia	Yes
Mallard	3	Fiscal Shrike	Yes
South African Shelduck	–	Southern Boubou	–
Large terrestrial birds	–	European Starling	Yes
Water Dikkop	–	Redwing Starling	Yes
Spotted Dikkop	4	Peacock	Yes
Cape Francolin	5	Grassveld pipit	Yes
Helmeted Guineafowl	15	Red-capped Lark	Yes
Greywinged Francolin	–	House Crow	2
Nectar feeders	–	–Total Species	74
Malachite Sunbird	Yes	–	–
Orangebreasted Sunbird	–	–	–
Lesser Doublecollared Sunbird	Yes	–	–
Cape white-eye	Yes	–	–
Seedeaters	–	–	–
Cape Sparrow	Yes	–	–
Cape Weaver	Yes	–	–
Southern Masked Weaver	Yes	–	–
Yellowrumped Widow	Yes	–	–
Common Waxbill	Yes	–	–
Pintailed Whydah	Yes	–	–
Cape Canary	Yes	–	–
Bully Canary	–	–	–