Birds and Mammals seen around
Cape Town, South Africa
October 15-21, 2008

Itinerary

October 16      Cape Town, Sir Lowry’s Pass, Hermanas, Stanford Vlei, Overberg, Napier, Bradesdorp, and de Hoop Nature Reserve.

October 17      De Hoop Nature Reserve and back to Cape Town

October 18      False Bay, Rooi Els for Rockjumper, Betty’s Bay, Harold Porter Botanical Garden, Stoney Point, Gordon’s Bay and Strand

October 19      Simon’s Town (Simonstown) Pelagic to Cape Point, Klaasonbosch (Knysna Warbler) and Strandfontein Sewage Works

October 20      Cape Town to West Coast National Park; stops at Tinie Versfeld Wildflower Reserve

October 21      Left for home; some stayed and visited Kirstenbosch Gardens

 

Birds
Common Ostrich Parasitic Jaeger Barn Swallow
Grey-winged Francolin Kelp Gull White-throated Swallow
Cape Spurfowl Grey-headed Gull Pearl-breasted Swallow
Common Quail Hartlaub’s Gull Greater Striped Swallow
Helmeted Guinea-fowl Caspian tern Rock Martin
Maccoa Duck Swift Tern Cape Bulbul
Egyptian Goose Sandwich Tern Sombre Greenbul
Spur-winged Goose Common Tern Cape Grassbird
Cape Teal Black-shouldered Kite Victorin’s Warbler
White-faced Whistling-Duck Black (Yellow-billed) Kite Long-billed Crombec
Mallard Cape Vulture Little Rush-Warbler
Yellow-billed Duck African Marsh Harrier Lesser Swamp-Warbler
Cape Shoveler Black Harrier Cape White-Eye
Red-billed Teal African Goshawk Grey-backed Cisticola
Southern Pochard Steppe Buzzard Levaillant’s Cisticola
Pied Barbet Jackal Buzzard Neddicky
African Hoopoe Verreaux’s Eagle Zitting Cisticola
European Bee-Eater Rock Kestrel Cloud Cisticola
White-backed Mousebird Lanner Falcon Karoo Prinia
Speckled Mousebird Peregrine Falcon Bar-throatde Apalis
Red-chested Cuckoo Little Grebe Karoo Lark
Alpine Swift Black-necked (Eared) Grebe Agulhas Long-billed Lark
African Black Swift Great Crested Grebe Red-capped Lark
Little Swift Cape Gannet Large-billed Lark
White-rumped Swift African Darter Cape Rock-Thrush
Spotted Eagle-Owl Reed Cormorant Olive Thrush
Rock Pigeon Crowned Cormorant Fiscal Flycatcher
Speckled Pigeon White-breasted Cormorant African Dusky Flycatcher
Laughing Dove Bank Cormorant Cape Robin-Chat
Cape Turtle-Dove Cape Cormorant Karoo Scrub-Robin
Red-eyed Dove Little Egret African Stonechat
Namaqua Dove Grey Heron Capped Wheatear
Denham’s Bustard Black-headed Heron Familiar Chat
Southern Black Korhaan Purple Heron Red-winged Starling
Blue Crane Cattle Egret Pied Starling
Black Crake Black-crowned Night-Heron Common Starling
African Purple Swamphen Hamerkop Orange-breasted Sunbird
Common Moorhen Greater Flamingo Amethyst Sunbird
Red-knobbed Coot Lesser Flamingo Malachite Sunbird
Namaqua Sandgrouse Glossy Ibis Southern Double-collared Sunbird
Bar-tailed Godwit Hadada Ibis Cape Sugarbird
Whimbrel African Spoonbill Cape Weaver
Eurasian Curlew Sacred Ibis Southern Masked Weaver
Common Greenshank Great White Pelican Southern red Bishop
Common Sandpiper African Penguin Yellow Bishop
Ruddy Turnstone Shy Albatross Swee Waxbill
Red Knot Southern Giant Petrel Common Waxbill
Sanderling White-chinned Petrel Pin-tailed Wydah
Little Stint Sooty Shearwater House Sparrow
Curlew Sandpiper Fork-tailed Drongo Cape Sparrow
Spotted Thick-knee African Paradise Flycatcher Cape Wagtail
African Black Oystercatcher Southern Boubou Cape Longclaw
Black-winged Stilt Bokmakierie African Pipit
Pied Avocet Cape Batis Common Chaffinch
Grey Plover House Crow Cape Canary
Ringed Plover Cape Crow Yellow Canary
Kittlitz’s Plover Pied Crow Brimstone Canary
Three-banded Plover White-necked Raven White-throated Canary
White-fronted Plover Common Fiscal Cape Siskin
Blacksmith Plover Cape Rockjumper Cape Bunting
Crwoned Plover Brown-throated Martin
Subantarctic Skua Banded Martin
Mammals
Striped Mouse Cape mongoose Eland
Brown Rat Cape Mountain Zebra Cape Fur Seal
Cape Molerat Bontebok Southern Right Whale
Rock Hyrax Common Duiker Dusky Dolphin
Chacma Baboon Steenbok
Yellow Mongoose Grey Rhebock
Reptiles and Amphibians
Angulate Tortoise Rock Lizard


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