Top 10 Birds for each
area:-
1. Afton Grove - Hadeda
Ibis, African Speckled Pigeon, Red-eyed Dove, Southern
Boubou, Cape Robin, Cape Batis, African
Dusky Flycatcher, Cape White-eye, Cape Canary,
Common Chaffinch.
2. Wetland Grey Heron, Little
Bittern, Egyptian Goose, African Marsh Harrier, Spotted
Thick-knee, Blacksmith Lapwing,
Burchell's Coucal, Little Rush Warbler,
Le Vaillant's Cisticola, Spotted Prinia.
3. Back Hill, Glencairn - Jackal Buzzard,
Grassbird, Cape Rock Thrush, Familiar Chat, Grey-backed Cisticola,
Neddicky, Malachite Sunbird, Orange-breasted Sunbird, Cape Bunting,
Cape Siskin.
4. Sunbird Trail (Lower Silvermine River)
- Verreaux's Eagle, Jackal Buzzard, African Olive Pigeon,
Sombre Greenbul, Klaas' Cuckoo (Summer), Cape Sugarbird,
Grassbird, Bokmakerie, Cape Weaver, Black Saw-wing Swallow (Summer).
5. Kommetjie, The Kom - White Breasted Cormorant,
Cape Cormorant, Bank Cormorant, Crowned Cormorant, African Black
Oystercatcher, White-fronted Sand Plover,
Sandwich Tern, Common Tern, Arctic Tern, Antarctic Tern.
6. Kommetjie, Wildevoel Sewerage Works - Black-crowned
Night Heron, Cape Shoveller, Southern Pochard, Cape Teal, Maccoa Duck,
African Fish Eagle, Water Thick-knee, Greater
Painted Snipe, Southern Masked Weaver, Pin-tailed Whydah.
7a. Glencairn Vlei - Grey Heron, Little Egret, Hamerkop,
Greater Painted Snipe, Yellow-billed Duck, African Black Duck,
Lesser Swamp Warbler, Little Rush Warbler, Le Vaillant's Cisticola.
7b. Glencairn Coastal (winter) - (N&S) Giant Petrel,
White-chinned Petrel, Sooty Shearwater, Cape Gannet, Cape Cormorant,
Sub-antarctic Skua, Arctic Skua, Swift Tern, Sandwich Tern, Common Tern.
8. Boulders Penguin Colony, Simonstown - African Penguin,
Cape Cormorant, Bank Cormorant, Crowned Cormorant, African Black Oystercatcher,
White-backed Mousebird, Southern Boubou, Cape Bulbul, Malachite Sunbird, Brimstone Canary.
9. Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve - Peregrine Falcon,
Rock Kestrel, Hottentot Buttonquail, Ground Woodpecker, Cape Bulbul, Bokmakierie
,Zitting Cisticola, Grey-backed Cisticola, Cape Sugarbird, Cape Siskin.
10. Silvermine Nature Reserve - Steppe Buzzard, White-necked Raven,
Ground Woodpecker, Cape Bulbul, Cape Rock Thrush, Grassbird, Cape Sugarbird, Malachite
Sunbird, Orange-breasted Sunbird, Lesser Double-collared Sunbird.
11. Arboretum, Tokai Plantation - Steppe Buzzard, Forest Buzzard,
Honey Buzzard, Black Sparrowhawk, Rufous-chested Sparrowhawk, African Paradise
Flycatcher, Cape Batis, Forest Canary, Cape Canary, Common Chaffinch.
12. Rondevlei - Great White Pelican,
Reed Cormorant, African Darter, Purple Heron, Little Bittern, Ethiopian
Snipe, Malachite Kingfisher, Cape Bulbul, Southern Boubou, Yellow Bishop.
13. Strandfontein Sewerage Works - Black-necked Grebe,
African Spoonbill, Greater Flamingo, South African Shelduck, Cape Shoveller,
Maccoa Duck, Southern Pochard, African Marsh Harrier, White-winged Tern,
White-throated Swallow.
14. Pelagic Trips (Simonstown Departure) -
Royal Albatross (2 sps.), Wandering Albatross, Shy Albatross, Black-browed
Albatross, Yellow-nosed Albatross (2 sps.), (N&S) Giant Petrel, Pintado Petrel,
White-chinned Petrel, Broad-billed Prion, Wilson's Storm Petrel.
15. Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens - African Goshawk,
Rufous-chested Sparrowhawk, Spotted Eagle Owl, African Olive Pigeon,
Lemon Dove, Cape Batis, Cape Francolin, Sombre Bulbul, Knysna Warbler,
Forest Canary.
16. Constantia Greenbelts - African Olive Pigeon,
Lemon Dove, Wood Owl, Red-chested Cuckoo, Buff-spotted Flufftail,
Burchell's Coucal, Barthroated Apalis, Knysna Warbler, Swee Waxbill,
Common Chaffinch.
17. Cape Flats, Philippi Farmlands (winter) - Great Egret,
South African Shelduck, Knob-billed Duck, White-faced Duck, Fulvous Duck,
African Black Duck, Cape Longclaw, Greater Painted Snipe, Pin-tailed Whydah,
Capped Wheatear.
RECOMMENDED READING
> South African Birdfinder - Cohen, Spottiswoode
& Rossouw - Struik Publishing.
> Sasol Birds of Southern Africa - 3rd Edition
- Sinclair, Hockey & Tarboton |
