| Top 10 Birds for each
area:-
1. Afton Grove - Hadeda
Ibis, African Speckled Pigeon, Redeyed Dove, Southern
Boubou, Cape Robin, Cape Batis, Dusky Flycatcher,
Cape Whiteye, Cape Canary, Chaffinch.
2. Wetland - Grey Heron,
Little Bittern, Egyptian Goose, African Marsh
Harrier, Spotted Dikkop, Blacksmith Plover, Burchell's
Coucal, African Sedge Warbler, Le Vaillant's Cisticola,
Karoo Prinia.
3. Back Hill, Glencairn - Jackal
Buzzard, Grassbird, Cape Rock Thrush, Familiar
Chat, Greybacked Cisticola, Neddicky, Malachite
Sunbird, Orangebreasted 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 Sawwing Swallow (Summer).
5. Kommetjie, The Kom - White
Breasted Cormorant, Cape Cormorant, Bank Cormorant,
Crowned Cormorant, African Black Oystercatcher,
Whitefronted Sandplover, Sandwich Tern, Common
Tern, Arctic Tern, Antarctic Tern.
6. Kommetjie, Wildevoel Sewerage Works
- Blackcrowned Night Heron, Cape Shoveller, Southern
Pochard, Cape Teal, Maccoa Duck, African Fish
Eagle, Water Dikkop, Ethiopian Snipe, Southern
Masked Weaver, Pintailed Whydah.
7a. Glencairn Vlei - Grey Heron,
Little Egret, Hamerkop, Painted Snipe, Yellowbilled
Duck, African Black Duck, Cape Reed Warbler, African
Sedge Warbler, Le Vaillant's Cisticola.
7b. Glencairn Coastal (winter)
- (N&S) Giant Petrel, Whitechinned Petrel,
Sooty Shearwater, Cape Gannet, Cape Cormorant,
Subantarctic Skua, Arctic Skua, Swift Tern, Sandwich
Tern, Common Tern.
8. Boulders Penguin Colony, Simonstown
- African Jackass Penguin, Cape Cormorant, Bank
Cormorant, Crowned Cormorant, African Black Oystercatcher,
Whitebacked Mousebird, Southern Boubou, Cape Bulbul,
Malachite Sunbird, Bully Canary.
9. Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve
- Peregrine Falcon, Rock Kestrel, Hottentot Buttonquail,
Ground Woodpecker, Cape Bulbul, Bokmakerie, Fantailed
Cisticola, Greybacked Cisticola, Cape Sugarbird,
Cape Siskin.
10. Silvermine Nature Reserve
- Steppe Buzzard, Whitenecked Raven, Ground Woodpecker,
Cape Bulbul, Cape Rock Thrush, Grassbird, Cape
Sugarbird, Malachite Sunbird, Orangebreasted Sunbird,
Lesser Doublecollared Sunbird.
11. Arboretum, Tokai Plantation
- Steppe Buzzard, Forest Buzzard, Honey Buzzard,
Black Sparrowhawk, Redbreasted Sparrowhawk, Paradise
Flycatcher, Cape Batis, Forest Canary, Cape Canary,
Chaffinch.
12. Rondevlei - White Pelican,
Reed Cormorant, Darter, Purple Heron, Little Bittern,
Ethiopian Snipe, Malachite Kingfisher, Cape Bulbul,
Southern Boubou, Yellowrumped Widow.
13. Strandfontein Sewerage Works
- Blacknecked Grebe, African Spoonbill, Greater
Flamingo, South African Shelduck, Cape Shoveller,
Maccoa Duck, Southern Pochard, African Marsh Harrier,
Whitewinged Tern, Whitethroated Swallow.
14. Pelagic Trips (Simonstown Departure)
- Royal Albatross, Wandering Albatross, Shy Albatross,
Blackbrowed Albatross, Yellownosed Albatross,
(N&S) Giant Petrel, Pintado Petrel, Whitechinned
Petrel, Broadbilled Prion, Wilson's Storm Petrel.
15. Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens
- African Goshawk, Redbreasted Sparrowhawk, Spotted
Eagle Owl, Rameron Pigeon, Cinnamon Dove, Cape
Batis, Cape Francolin, Sombre Bulbul, Knysna Warbler,
Forest Canary.
16. Constantia Greenbelts -
Rameron Pigeon, Cinnammon Dove, Wood Owl, Redchested
Cuckoo, Buffspotted Flufftail, Burchell's Coucal,
Barthroated Apalis, Knysna Warbler, Swee Waxbill,
Chaffinch.
17. Cape Flats, Philippi Farmlands (winter)
- Great White Egret, South African Shelduck, Knob-billed
Duck, Whitefaced Duck, Fulvous Duck, African Black
Duck, Orangethroated Longclaw, Ethiopian Snipe,
Pintailed Whydah, Capped Wheatear.
RECOMMENDED READING
> South African Birdfinder - Cohen, Spottiswoode
& Rossouw - Struik Publishing.
> Sasol Birds of Southern Africa - 3rd Edition
- Sinclair, Hockey & Tarboton |
