Cape Town
Orange-breasted Sunbird, Bronze mannikinc Cape Sugarbird, Cape Spurfowl, Lemon Dove, Southern Boubou, Spotted Eagle-Owl, Cape Canary, Forest Canary, Cape Robin-Chat, Karoo Prinia, Swee Waxbil, Southern double collared sunbird and various raptors possible in the skies above Kirstenbosch.
Cape Teal, Cape Shoveler, Maccoa Duck, South African Shelduck, and many others. Greater Flamingo, African Spoonbill, Great White Pelican, African Oystercatcher, African Swamphen, Water, Spotted Thick-knees, African Marsh Harrier, Little Rush, African Reed, Lesser Swamp Warblers, Malachite Kingfisher, Cape Grassbird, Grey-backed Cisticola, Yellow Bishop, Fiscal Flycatcher, and Bokmakierie, as well as Red-faced and White-backed Mousebirds
Southern boubou, Verreaux’s eagle, Neddicky, Orange breasted sunbird, Cape sugarbird, Cape grassbird
Cape West Coast
Cape Clapper Lark , Southern Black Korhaan, Grey-backed Cisticola, Cape Grassbird, Grey-winged Francolin, Bokmakierie, Blue Crane, African Hoopoe, Pied Starling, Capped Wheatear, Red-capped Lark, Little Rush Warbler and Yellow Bishop. Cape Longclaw, Capped Wheatear, Large-billed Lark
Bank, Cape, and Crowned Cormorants, African Oystercatcher, Kelp gull, Hartlaubs gull, Caspian Terns, Swif terns
Black Harrier , Cape Penduline Tit, Grey Tit, Cape Bulbul, White-backed Mousebird, Southern Black Korhaan, Common Ostrich . Shorebirds include impressive numbers of Curlew Sandpiper, Whimbrel, Eurasian Curlew, Red Knot, Bar-tailed Godwit, Common Greenshank, Marsh Sandpiper, Grey Plover, Chestnut-banded Plover, Greater and Lesser Flamingos, and a host of others. Several shorebird species such as Common Redshank that are genuine vagrants to South Africa are actually regular here at the Langebaan Lagoon in the West Coast National Park. We can also visit a freshwater wetland within the national park for a suite of new species, including African Rail (with luck), Black Crake, African Swamphen, several waterfowl, Brown-throated Martin, Sand Martin (late summer), reed-associated warblers, and many more.
Overberg
Cape Rockjumper, Cape Siskin, Orange-breasted Sunbird, Malachite Sunbird, Cape Rock Thrush, Neddicky, Ground Woodpecker, Cape Grassbird ,Verreaux’s Eagle, Peregrine Falcon, Jackal Buzzard, and Rock Kestrel, Yellow Bishop, Cape Sugarbird, Cape Bulbul, Grey-backed Cisticola, and Karoo Prinia.
African black footed penguins, Bank cormorants, Cape cormorants, Crowned, and White-breasted Cormorant, African Oystercatcher, Kelp gull, Hatrluabs gulls, White fronted plovers.
Victorin’s Warbler, along with Cape and Brimstone Canaries, Cape Spurfowl, Cape Batis, Cape Bulbul, Cape Robin-Chat, Fiscal Flycatcher, Southern Boubou, Black Saw-wing, African Paradise Flycatcher , Southern Double-collared Sunbird, Swee Waxbill, Blue-mantled Crested Flycatcher and Olive Woodpecker are rare but you never know your luck in the field.
Blue crane, African Dusky Flycatcher, Sombre Greenbul, Cape Robin-Chat, Grey-headed Sparrow , Olive Thrush, The African Fish Eagle, Black Sparrowhawk, African Goshawk, African Harrier-Hawk
Southern Overberg
Denham’s Bustard, Secretarybird, African Fish Eagle , Spur-winged Goose, Cape Shoveler, African Black Duck , Malachite Sunbird, African Pipit , Acacia Pied Barbet, Klaas’s Cuckoo, Red-faced Mousebird, Pearl-breasted Swallow, Blue crane , Capped wheatear, Karoo Korhaan, Grey backed cisticola, Brimstone Canary, Olive Woodpecker,Knysna woodpecker, Booted Eagle, African Harrier-Hawk, Black Harrier, Cape clapper lark, Large billed lark, Red -capped lark, Agulhas long billed lark, Cape vulture, Bokmakierie, Damara tern, Secretary bird
