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):
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)