Birds Around Woodbridge Island / Table Bay Nature Reserve
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Grey Heron : Image Copyright Vernon Chalmers |
Woodbridge Island / Table Bay Nature Reserve Cape Town Bird Species Index
Photographer: Vernon Chalmers
"A total of 201 species has been recorded at Rietvlei Wetland / Table Bay Nature Reserve during SABAP2, of which 102 species are waterbirds and 76 are regularly present." Source: Birdlife SA
I've updated my 'Woodbridge Island Bird Species Index' to 70 species personally photographed around Woodbridge Island / Table Bay Nature Reserve (In-flight, perched and swimming):
About Woodbridge Island Photography
About Woodbridge Island Photography
Canon EOS Cameras used for the Woodbridge Island Bird Species Index
Canon EF Telephoto Lenses used for the Woodbridge Island Bird Species Index
I've updated my 'Woodbridge Island Bird Species Index' to 70 species personally photographed around Woodbridge Island / Table Bay Nature Reserve (In-flight, perched and swimming):
- African Black Duck (Anas sparsa)
- African Black Oystercatcher (Haematopus moquini)
- African Darters (Anhinga rufa)
- African Spoonbill (Platalea alba)
- African Swamphen (Porphyrio madagascariensis)
- Black-Crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)
- Blacksmith Plover (Vanellus armatus)
- Black-headed heron (Ardea melanocephala)
- Black-Winged kite (Elanus caeruleus)
- Black-Winged Stilt ((Himantopus himantopus)
- Cape Bulbul (Pycnonotus capensis)
- Cape Canary (Serinus canicollis)
- Cape Reed warbler (Acrocephalus gracilirostris)
- Cape Wagtail (Motacilla capensis)
- Cape Shoveller Duck (Spatula smithii)
- Cape Sparrow (Passer melanurus)
- Cape Spurfowl (Pternistis capensis)
- Cape Teal Duck (Anas capensis)
- Caspian Tern (Hydroprogne caspia)
- Cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis)
- Common Greenshank (Tringa nebularia)
- Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus)
- Common Waxbill (Estrilda astrild)
- Common Shelduck (Tadorna tadorna)
- Eastern White Pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus)
- European / Common Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)
- Egyptian Geese (Alopochen aegyptiaca)
- Fiscal Shrike (Lanius collaris)
- Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus)
- Giant Kingfisher (Megaceryle maxima)
- Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea)
- Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus)
- Greater Flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus)
- Hadeda Ibis (Bostrychia hagedash)
- Helmeted Guineafowl (Numida meleagris)
- Hartlaub's (King) Gull (Chroicocephalus hartlaubii)
- Jackal buzzard (Buteo rufofuscus)
- Kelp / Cape Gull (Larus dominicanus)
- Lesser flamingo (Phoenicoparrus minor)
- Levaillant's Cisticola (Cisticola tinniens)
- Little Bittern (Ixobrychus minutus)
- Little Egrets (Egretta garzetta)
- Little Grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis)
- Malachite Kingfisher (Alcedo cristata)
- Mallard Ducks (Anas platyrhynchos)
- Mandarin Duck (Aix galericulata)
- Olive Thrush (Turdus olivaceus)
- Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus)
- Pied Crow (Corvus albus)
- Pied Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta
- Pied Kingfishers (Ceryle rudis)
- Pin-Tailed Whydah (Vidua macroura)
- Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea)
- Red-Billed Teal Duck (Anas erythrorhyncha)
- Red-Knobbed Coot (Fulica cristata)
- Red Eyed Dove (Streptopelia semitorquata)
- Red-Winged Starling (Onychognathus morio)
- Reed Cormorant (Microcarbo africanus)
- Rock Pigeon (Columba guinea)
- Sacred Ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus)
- Sandwich Tern (Thalasseus sandvicensis)
- Southern Masked Weaver (Ploceus velatus)
- Southern Red Bishop (Euplectes orix)
- Swift Tern (Sterna bergii)
- Spur-winged goose (Plectropterus gambensis)
- Three-banded plover (Charadrius tricollaris)
- Water thick-knee (Burhinus vermiculatus)
- White-breasted Cormorants (Phalacrocorax lucidus)
- White-Throated Swallow (Hirundo albigularis)
- Yellow-billed Ducks (Anas undulata)
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Cape Teal Ducks in Flight : Woodbridge Island Bird Species Index - Milnerton | Cape Town |
About Woodbridge Island Photography
About Woodbridge Island Photography
Canon EOS Cameras used for the Woodbridge Island Bird Species Index
- Canon EOS 700D
- Canon EOS 70D
- Canon EOS 7D Mark II
- Canon EOS 6D
- Canon EOS R
- Canon EOS R6
Canon EF Telephoto Lenses used for the Woodbridge Island Bird Species Index
- Canon RF 800mm f/11 IS STM lens
- Canon RF 600mm f/11 IS STM lens
- Canon EF 400mm f/5.6L USM lens
- Canon EF 100-400mm f/4-5.6L IS USM II lens
- Canon EF 100-400mm f/4-5.6L IS USM lens
- Canon EF 300mm f/2.8L IS II USM lens
- Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6L IS USM lens
- Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM lens
Reference for Woodbridge Island | Table Bay Nature Reserve Bird Species
Bird Identification / Recording Woodbridge Island | Table Bay Nature Reserve
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Birds of South Africa (Sappi) Saartjie Kidson & Herman van Niekerk |
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Helmeted Guineafowl (Numida meleagris) |