eBird Field Checklist
Rondevlei Nature Reserve -- Cape Town
, Western Cape, ZA
ebird.org/hotspot/L958078
210 species (+22 other taxa) - Year-round, All years
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Waterfowl
White-faced Whistling-Duck
Fulvous Whistling-Duck
White-backed Duck
Knob-billed Duck
Egyptian Goose
South African Shelduck
Spur-winged Goose
Muscovy Duck
Blue-billed Teal
Cape Shoveler
African Black Duck
Yellow-billed Duck
Mallard
Yellow-billed Duck x Mallard (hybrid)
Cape Teal
Red-billed Duck
Southern Pochard
Maccoa Duck
Grouse, Quail, and Allies
Helmeted Guineafowl
Gray-winged Francolin
Common Quail
Cape Spurfowl
Flamingos
Greater Flamingo
Lesser Flamingo
flamingo sp.
Grebes
Little Grebe
Great Crested Grebe
Eared Grebe
Pigeons and Doves
Rock Pigeon
Speckled Pigeon
Columba sp.
Red-eyed Dove
Ring-necked Dove
Laughing Dove
Namaqua Dove
Cuckoos
White-browed Coucal
Dideric Cuckoo
Klaas's Cuckoo
African/Common Cuckoo
Nightjars
Fiery-necked Nightjar
Swifts
Alpine Swift
Common Swift
African Swift
Little Swift
White-rumped Swift
Apus/Tachymarptis sp.
African Palm Swift
large swift sp.
swift sp.
Rails, Gallinules, and Allies
African Rail
Spotted Crake
Eurasian Moorhen
Red-knobbed Coot
African Swamphen
Black Crake
Baillon's Crake
Cranes
Blue Crane
Shorebirds
Spotted Thick-knee
Water Thick-knee
Black-winged Stilt
Pied Avocet
African Oystercatcher
Black-bellied Plover
Common Ringed Plover
Three-banded Plover
Blacksmith Lapwing
Crowned Lapwing
Kittlitz's Plover
White-fronted Plover
Greater Painted-Snipe
African Jacana
Whimbrel
Eurasian Curlew
Bar-tailed Godwit
African Snipe
Common Sandpiper
Marsh Sandpiper
Wood Sandpiper
Common Greenshank
Ruff
Curlew Sandpiper
Little Stint
peep sp.
Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers
Gray-hooded Gull
Hartlaub's Gull
Kelp Gull
gull sp.
Little Tern
Caspian Tern
Whiskered Tern
White-winged Tern
Arctic Tern
Common Tern
Sterna sp.
Sandwich Tern
Great Crested Tern
tern sp.
Storks
White Stork
Cormorants and Anhingas
African Darter
Long-tailed Cormorant
Crowned Cormorant
Cape Cormorant
Great Cormorant
cormorant sp.
Pelicans
Great White Pelican
Pink-backed Pelican
Shoebill and Hammerkop
Hamerkop
Herons, Ibis, and Allies
Little Bittern
Black-crowned Night Heron
Black Heron
Little Egret
Squacco Heron
Western Cattle Egret
Great Egret
Yellow-billed Egret
Gray Heron
Purple Heron
Black-headed Heron
Goliath Heron
white egret sp.
Glossy Ibis
African Sacred Ibis
Hadada Ibis
African Spoonbill
Vultures, Hawks, and Allies
Black-winged Kite
African Harrier-Hawk
European Honey-buzzard
Booted Eagle
African Marsh Harrier
African Goshawk
Rufous-breasted Sparrowhawk
Black Goshawk
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Black Kite
African Fish-Eagle
Common Buzzard
Jackal Buzzard
Buteo sp.
Owls
Barn Owl
Spotted Eagle-Owl
Mousebirds
Speckled Mousebird
White-backed Mousebird
Red-faced Mousebird
mousebird sp.
Hoopoes
Eurasian Hoopoe
Kingfishers
Malachite Kingfisher
Pied Kingfisher
Barbets and Toucans
Pied Barbet
Honeyguides
Lesser Honeyguide
honeyguide sp.
Falcons and Caracaras
Rock Kestrel
Lanner Falcon
Peregrine Falcon
falcon sp.
Wattle-eyes and Batises
Cape Batis
Bushshrikes and Allies
Southern Boubou
Bokmakierie
Drongos
Fork-tailed Drongo
Monarch Flycatchers
African Paradise-Flycatcher
Shrikes
Red-backed Shrike
Southern Fiscal
Jays, Magpies, Crows, and Ravens
House Crow
Pied Crow
White-necked Raven
Larks
Red-capped Lark
Large-billed Lark
Crombecs, Longbills, and Allies
Cape Grassbird
Cisticolas and Allies
Bar-throated Apalis
Karoo Prinia
Red-headed Cisticola
Levaillant's Cisticola
Piping Cisticola
Zitting Cisticola
Cloud Cisticola
cisticola sp.
Reed Warblers and Allies
Common Reed Warbler
Lesser Swamp Warbler
Acrocephalus sp.
Grassbirds and Allies
Little Rush Warbler
Martins and Swallows
Black Sawwing
Banded Martin
Plain Martin
Bank Swallow
Rock Martin
Pearl-breasted Swallow
Barn Swallow
White-throated Swallow
Western House-Martin
Greater Striped Swallow
swallow sp.
Bulbuls
Sombre Greenbul
Cape Bulbul
Sylviid Warblers
Chestnut-vented Warbler
White-eyes, Yuhinas, and Allies
Cape White-eye
Starlings and Mynas
European Starling
Wattled Starling
Red-winged Starling
African Pied Starling
Thrushes
Olive Thrush
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Old World Flycatchers
African Dusky Flycatcher
Fiscal Flycatcher
Karoo Scrub-Robin
Cape Robin-Chat
African Stonechat
Capped Wheatear
Familiar Chat
Sugarbirds
Cape Sugarbird
Sunbirds and Spiderhunters
Orange-breasted Sunbird
Amethyst Sunbird
Malachite Sunbird
Southern Double-collared Sunbird
sunbird sp.
Weavers and Allies
Cape Weaver
Southern Masked-Weaver
Ploceus sp.
Southern Red Bishop
Yellow Bishop
Estrildids
Bronze Mannikin
Swee Waxbill
Common Waxbill
Indigobirds and Whydahs
Pin-tailed Whydah
Old World Sparrows
House Sparrow
Cape Sparrow
Southern Gray-headed Sparrow
Wagtails and Pipits
Cape Wagtail
African Pipit
Plain-backed Pipit
Orange-throated Longclaw
Finches, Euphonias, and Allies
Common Chaffinch
Brimstone Canary
Yellow Canary
Cape Canary
Old World Buntings
Cape Bunting
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