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Millstream Farm Bird List Common Name no. Common Name no. Sighting Sighting Confirmed Confirmed Roberts VII Roberts VII Great Crested Grebe (r) 6 African Goshawk 160 Little Grebe 8 Pallid Harrier 167 White-breasted Cormorant 55 African Harrier-Hawk 169 Reed Cormorant 58 Amur Falcon (s) 180 African Darter 60 Rock Kestrel 181 Grey Heron 62 Greater Kestrel 182 Black-headed Heron 63 Grey-winged Francolin 190 Purple Heron 65 Red-winged Francolin 192 Great Egret 66 Natal Spurfowl 196 Little Egret 67 Swainson's Spurfowl (r) 199 Yellow-billed Egret 68 Common Quail 200 Cattle Egret 71 Helmeted Guineafowl 203 Green-backed Heron 74 Wattled Crane (r) 207 Little Bittern 78 Blue Crane 208 Hamerkop 81 Grey Crowned Crane (r) 209 White Stork (s) 83 African Rail 210 Black Stork (s) 84 Black Crake 213 Woolly-necked Stork (s) 86 Red-chested Flufftail 217 African Sacred Ibis 91 Buff-spotted Flufftail 218 Southern Bald Ibis 92 African Purple Swamphen 223 Glossy Ibis (r) 93 Common Moorhen 226 Hadeda Ibis 94 Red-knobbed Coot 228 African Spoonbill 95 Denham's Bustard (r) 231 White-backed Duck 101 Common Ringed Plover 245 Egyptian Goose 102 Three-banded Plover 249 Yellow-billed Duck 104 Crowned Lapwing 255 African Black Duck 105 Blacksmith Lapwing 258 Cape Shoveler (r) 112 African Wattled Lapwing 260 Southern Pochard (r) 113 Common Sandpiper (s) 264 Comb Duck (r) 115 Wood Sandpiper (s) 266 Spur-winged Goose 116 Marsh Sandpiper (s) 269 Maccoa Duck (r) 117 Common Greenshank (s) 270 Secretarybird 118 Curlew Sandpiper (s) 272 White-backed Vulture 123 African Snipe (s) 286 Yellow-billed Kite/Black Kite (s) 126 Black-winged Stilt (s) 295 Black-winged Kite 127 Spotted Thick-knee 297 Verreaux's Eagle (r) 131 Whiskered Tern (s) 338 Long-crested Eagle 139 White-winged Tern (s) 339 Martial Eagle (r) 140 Rock Dove (Feral pigeon) 348 Brown Snake Eagle 142 Speckled Pigeon 349 African Fish-Eagle 148 African Olive-Pigeon 350 Steppe Buzzard (s) 149 Red-eyed Dove 352 Jackal Buzzard 152 Cape Turtle-Dove 354 Lizard Buzzard 154 Laughing Dove 355 Rufous-chested Sparrowhawk 155 Namaqua Dove (r) 356 Black Sparrowhawk 158 Red-chested Cuckoo (s) 377 Millstream Farm Bird List Common Name no. Common Name no. Sighting Sighting Confirmed Confirmed Roberts VII Roberts VII Black Cuckoo (s) 378 Cape Rock-Thrush 581 Klaas's Cuckoo (r)(s) 385 Sentinel Rock-Thrush 582 Diderick Cuckoo (s) 386 Buff-streaked Chat 588 Burchell's Coucal (r) 391 Mocking Cliff-Chat 593 Marsh Owl 395 Ant-eating Chat 595 Cape Eagle-Owl 400 African Stonechat 596 Spotted Eagle-Owl 401 Red-capped Robin-Chat (r) 600 Fiery-necked Nightjar 405 Cape Robin-Chat 601 Common Swift (s) 411 White-browed Scrub-Robin 613 White-rumped Swift (s) 415 African Reed-Warbler 631 Little Swift (s) 417 Lesser Swamp-Warbler 635 Alpine Swift (s) 418 Dark-capped Yellow Warbler 637 Speckled Mousebird 424 Little Rush-Warbler 638 Red-faced Mousebird (r) 426 Willow Warbler 643 Pied Kingfisher 428 Bar-throated Apalis 645 Giant Kingfisher 429 Long-billed Crombec 651 Half-collared Kingfisher 430 Cape Grassbird 661 Malachite Kingfisher 431 Zitting Cisticola 664 Brown-hooded Kingfisher (r) 435 Cloud Cisticola 666 European Bee-eater (s) 438 Wing-snapping Cisticola 667 Swallow-tailed Bee-eater (s) 445 Wailing Cisticola 670 Lilac-breasted Roller (r)(s) 447 Rufous-winged Cisticola 675 African Hoopoe 451 Levaillant's Cisticola 677 Crested Barbet (r) 473 Lazy Cisticola 679 Greater Honey Guide 474 Neddicky 681 Brown-backed Honeybird 478 Tawny-flanked Prinia 683 Ground Woodpecker (r) 480 Drakensberg Prinia 686b Cardinal Woodpecker (r) 486 Spotted Flycatcher 689 Red-throated Wryneck 489 African Dusky Flycatcher 690 Rufous-naped Lark 494 Fiscal Flycatcher 698 Rudds Lark 499 Cape Batis 700 Barn Swallow 518 African Paradise Flycatcher 710 White-throated Swallow 520 Cape Wagtail 713 Greater Striped Swallow 526 African Pipit 716 Rock Martin 529 Plain-backed Pipit 718 Common House-Martin 530 Yellow-breasted Pipit 725 Brown-throated Martin 533 Cape Longclaw 727 Banded Martin 534 Common Fiscal Shrike 732 Fork-tailed Drongo 541 Red-backed Shrike (s) (r) 733 Black-headed Oriole 545 Southern Boubou 736 Cape Crow 547 Bokmakierie 746 Arrowmarked Babbler (r) 560 Grey-headed Bush-Shrike (r) 751 Dark-capped Bulbul 568 Common Myna (feral) 758 Kurrichane Thrush (r) 576 Pied Starling 759 Olive Thrush 577 Cape Starling (r) 764 Groundscraper Thrush 580 Red-winged Starling 769 Millstream Farm Bird List Common Name no. Common Name no. Sighting Sighting Confirmed Confirmed Roberts VII Roberts VII Gurney's Sugarbird (r)(s) 774 Yellow Bishop 827 Malachite Sunbird 775 Fan-tailed Widowbird (r) 828 Greater Dble.-Collared Sunbird 785 White-winged Widowbird 829 Amethyst Sunbird 792 Red-collared Widowbird 831 Cape White-eye 796 Long-tailed Widowbird 832 House Sparrow 801 Common Waxbill 846 Cape Sparrow 803 Swee Waxbill 850 Southern Grey-headed Sparrow 804 African Quailfinch 852 Thick-billed Weaver 807 Pin-tailed Whydah 860 Village Weaver 811 Long-tailed Paradise-Whydah 862 Cape Weaver 813 Yellow-fronted Canary 869 Southern Masked-Weaver 814 Cape Canary 872 Golden weaver 816 Streaky-headed Seedeater 881 Red-billed Quelea (r) 821 Golden-breasted Bunting 884 Southern Red Bishop 824 Cinnamon-breasted Bunting 886 Yellow-crowned Bishop 826 Yellow Bishop 827 KEY: (r) = Locally rare (s) = Seasonal or Summer migrant NOTE: Hard Copies Available at Reception. Last update: May 2020 Please help us keep this list updated by reporting sightings of any other birds to reception. Happy Birding! .
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