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Seaview Garden Bird List SEAVIEW GARDEN BIRD LIST African Penguin Spheniscus demersus (U) Grey Heron Ardea cinerea (C) Cape Gannet Morus capensis (C) Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala (C) White-breasted Cormorant Phalacrocorax lucidus (C) Little Egret Egretta garzetta (C) Cape Cormorant Phalacrocorax capensis (U) Black-crowned Night-Heron Nycticorax nycticorax (C) Ibis Hadeda Bostrychia hagedash (C) Jackal Buzzard Buteo rufofuscus (C) Egyptian Goose Alopophen aegyptiaca (C) African Marsh-Harrier Circus ranivorus (U) Yellow-billed Duck Anas undulata (U) African Goshawk Accipiter tachiro (R) Long-crested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis (R) Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus (U) Helmeted Guineafowl Common Ringed Plover Numida meleagris (C) Charadrius hiaticula (C) Three-banded Plover Grey-winged Francolin Charadrius hiaticula (C) Scleroptila levaillantii (U) White-fronted Plover Charadrius marginatus (C) Black Crake Amaurornis flavirostra (R) Crowned Lapwing African Black Oystercatcher Vanellus coronatus (C) Haematopus moquini (C) Common Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus (C) Blacksmith Lapwing Vanellus armatus (C) Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata (U) Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea (U) Common Sandpiper Acitis hypoleucos (U) Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres (C) Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia (C) Spotted Thick-knee Burhinus capensis (C) Kelp Gull Common Tern Larus dominicanus (C) Sterna hirundo (C) Caspian Tern Speckled Pigeon Sterna caspia (C) Columba guinea (C) Swift Tern Sterna bergii (C) Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata (C) Sandwich Tern Sterna sandvicensis (C) Cape Turtle-Dove Streptopelia capicola (C) Laughing Dove Common Swift Streptopelia capicola (C) Apus apus (C) White-rumped Swift Red-chested Cuckoo Apus caffer (C) Cuculus solitaries (R) Diderick Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius (R) Speckled Mousebird Colius striatus (C) Burchell’s Coucal Centropus burchellii (U) Giant Kingfisher Megaceryle maximus (U) Pied Kingfisher Lesser Striped Swallow Ceryla rudis (C) Hirundo abyssinica (C) Brown-hooded Kingfisher Halcyon albiventris (U) Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica (C) Brown-throated Martin African Hoopoe Riparia paludicola (C) Upupa africana (C) Pied Crow Corvus albus (C) Greater Striped Swallow Hirundo cucullata (C) Cape Robin-Chat Cape Bulbul Cossypha caffra (C) Pycnonotus capensis (C) Knysna Warbler Bradypterus sylvaticus (R) Dark-capped Bulbul Pycnonotus tricolor (C) Cape Grassbird Sphenoeacus afer (U) Sombre Greenbul Andropadus importunus (C) Bar-throated Apalis Apalis thoracica (C) Olive thrush Turdus olivadeus (C) Levaillant’s Cisticola Cape Wagtail Cisticola tinniens (C) Motacilla capensis (C) Cape Longclaw Karoo Prinia Macronyx capensis (U) Prinia maculosa (C) Fiscal Flycatcher Common Fiscal Sigelus silens (C) Lanius collaris (C) Cape White-eye Southern Boubou Zosterops virens (C) Laniarius ferrugineus (C) Collared Sunbird Cape Glossy Starling Hedydipna collaris (C) Lamprotornis nitens (C) Greater Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris afer (C) Black-bellied Starling Lamprotornis corruscus (U) Southern Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris chalybeus (C) European Starling Sturnus vulgaris (C) Amethyst Sunbird Malachite Sunbird Chalcomitra amethystina (C) Nectarinia famosa (C) House Sparrow Passer domesticus (C) Cape weaver Ploceus capensis (C) Cape Sparrow Passer melanurus (C) Southern Red Bishop Euplectes orix (C) Southern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer diffusus (C) Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild (C) Southern-masked Weaver Ploceus velatus (C) African (Blue-billed) F irefinch Lagonostica rubricata (C) Bronze Mannikin Spermestes cucullatus (C) Streaky-headed Seedeater Crithagra gularis (C) African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis (U) .
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