Zandvlei Estuary Nature Reserve 

September 2006 Bird Count 

photograph by Ann Koeslag

Little Egret

 

Species	Presence	Species	Presence
Ocean birds	–	Raptors	–
Kelp Gull	5	Blackshouldered Kite	2
Greyheaded Gull	1	African Fish Eagle	1
Hartlaub's Gull	92	Steppe Buzzard	–
Caspian Tern	4	Redbreasted Sparrowhawk	–
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	4	Peregrine Falcon	–
Whitebreasted Cormorant	6	Osprey	–
Reed Cormorant	5	Doves, Cuckoos and coucals	–
Cape Cormorant	16	Feral Pigeon	Yes
Darter	58	Laughing Dove	Yes
Grey Heron	2	Rock Pigeon	–
Blackheaded Heron	2	Rameron Pigeon	–
Purple Heron	1	Redeyed Dove	–
Little Egret	3	Cape Turtle Dove	Yes
Yellow billed Egret	–	Burchell's Coucal	–
African Spoonbill	1	Klaas's Cuckoo	–
Cattle Egret	1	Aerial feeders, Mousebirds & hole nesters	–
Night Heron	1	Black Swift	–
Little Bittern	1	Whitethroated Swallow	Yes
Sacred Ibis	3	Pearlbreasted Swallow	–
Glossy Ibis	4	Greaterstriped Swallow	–
Hadeda	7	Rock Martin	–
Ducks & Wading birds	–	Brownthroated Martin	Yes
Great crested Grebe	2	Black Sawwing Swallow	–
Dabchick	5	Whiterumped Swift	–
Egyptian Goose	61	Little Swift	–
Yellowbilled Duck	14	Alpine Swift	Yes
Red-billed Teal	2	European Swallow	Yes
Cape Teal	3	Whitebacked Mousebird	Yes
Cape Shoveller	8	Redfaced Mousebird	–
Purple Gallinule	1	Giant Kingfisher	–
Moorhen	5	Malachite Kingfisher	3
Redknobbed Coot	54	Pied Kingfisher	9
Crowned Plover	–	–	–
Threebanded Plover	3	Insect eaters (1) larks to robins	–
Blacksmith Plover	10	Pied Crow	4
Greenshank	1	Whitenecked Raven	–
Southern Pochard	–	Cape Bulbul	Yes
Common Sandpiper	–	Olive Thrush	Yes
Spurwing Goose	13	Cape Robin	Yes
Marsh Sandpiper	–	Cape Wagtail	Yes
Avocet	1	Orange-throated Longclaw	–
Blackwinged Stilt	10	Bokmakierie	Yes
Kittlitz's Plover	–	Insect eaters (2) warblers to starlings	–
Curlew Sandpiper	–	Cape Reed Warbler	Yes
Mallard	4	African Sedge Warbler	Yes
South African Shelduck	–	African Marsh Warbler	–
Large terrestrial birds	–	Grassbird	Yes
Water Dikkop	3	Levailant's Cisticola	Yes
Spotted Dikkop	5	Spotted Prinia	Yes
Cape Francolin	7	Fiscal Shrike	Yes
Helmeted Guineafowl	16	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	–
–	–	Black Crow	–
Seedeaters	–	Total Species	78
Cape Sparrow	Yes	–	–
Cape Weaver	Yes	–	–
Southern Masked Weaver	Yes	–	–
Yellowrumped Widow	Yes	–	–
Common Waxbill	Yes	–	–
Pintailed Whydah	–	–	–
Cape Canary	–	–	–
Bully Canary	–	–	–