Selection of birds from Western Cape South Africa

I have been trying to catalogue the birds I saw on my recent trip to Cape Town and have created this page.

It is still a work in progress and I hope my young birdwatching friends Pierre and Gregory in Cape Town will help me to check and identify the birds (I would be pleased for anyone to help me with this project).

Although this was not a birdwatching trip there were plenty of opportunities to see and photograph a large selection of birds in very pleasant conditions.

Birds photographed on visit to Cape Town in February/March 2018

Photo to be added = still to find in library
Name only = identified but not photographed

Order taken from:
Pocket Guide to Birds of Southern Africa
Burger Cillié
Ulrich Oberprieler

Group 1: Flying waterbirds

Kelp Gull

Hartlaub Gull

Swift Tern

Common Tern

Swift Tern

 

Group 2: Swimming and diving waterbirds

Cape Cormorant

Bank Cormorant

African Penguin

Great White Pelican

Yellow-billed Duck

Egyptian Geese (with Common Greenshank)

Spur-winged Goose

African Black Duck

Cape Teal
Red-knobbed Coot

Common Moorhen

Photo to be added
Little Grebe

Group 3: Larger birds with long legs

Grey Heron

Black-headed Heron

Little Egret

Western Cattle Egret

Greater Flamingo

Maribou Stork

African Sacred Ibis

Glossy Ibis

Hadeda Ibis

Grey Crowned Crane

Group 4: Smaller birds with long legs

Spotted Thick-knee

Water Thick-knee

Three-banded Plover

Blacksmith Lapwing

Common Greenshank

Bar-tailed godwit and little stints

Curlew Sandpiper
Red Knot
Little Stint
Sanderling

African Black Oystercatcher

Pied Avocet

Black-winged Stilt 

Group 5: Gamebirds (Fowl-like birds)

Helmeted Guineafowl

 

Group 6: Birds of prey (raptors)

African Marsh Harrier

Rock Kestrel

Unidentified

Unidentified

Spotted Eagle-Owl

 

Group 7: Fruit-eaters

Knysna Turaco

Group 8: Birds with long straight bills

Group 9: Birds with long decurved bills

? Hornbill

? Female Southern or Greater Double-collared Sunbird

Group 10: Aerial insectivores

Barn Swallows

 

Group 11a: Insectivores with stout bills

Unidentified

White-necked Raven

 

Group 11b: Insectivores with medium-sized bills

Long-billed Pipit

Cape Wagtail

Cape Bulbul

Cape Grassbird

Cape Robin-Chat

Olive Thrush

Fiscal ? Flycatcher

Red-winged Starling

Group 11c: Small insectivores with tiny bills

Cape White-eye ?

Karoo Prinia

Group 12: Seed-eaters

Cape Sparrow

Common Waxbill

Pin-tailed Whydah

Cape Bunting

White-throated Canary

 

Still to be identified (some very poor photographs but included for indentification)

Swee Waxbill

Cape Batis ?