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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