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#1 02-01-2011 15:35:36

Safari Ranger
Bird Sighting of the Year

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Location:  : Nelspruit
Registered: 11-08-2010
Favourite Bird: African Crowned Eagle

2011 - GBT Sightings Year List

2011 - GBT Sightings Year List
Birds seen and not necessarily photographed can be removed from this list

Pheasants, Fowls & Allies
Chukar Partridge
Blue Quail
Indian Peafowl

Ducks, Geese and Swans
Mute Swan
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Garganey
Tufted Duck

Penguins
King Penguin
Gentoo Penguin
Southern Rockhopper Penguin
Northern Rockhopper Penguin
Macaroni Penguin
Little Penguin
Magellanic Penguin

Albatrosses
Laysan Albatross
Wandering Albatross
Tristan Albatross
Amsterdam Albatross
Southern Royal Albatross
Northern Royal Albatross
Sooty Albatross
Light-mantled Albatross
White-capped Albatross
Chatham Albatross
Salvin's Albatross
Grey-headed Albatross
Buller's Albatross

Petrels and Shearwaters
Southern Giant Petrel
Northern Giant Petrel
Southern Fulmar
Antarctic Petrel
Pintado Petrel
Blue Petrel
Broad-billed Prion
Salvin's Prion
Antarctic Prion
Slender-billed Prion
Fairy Prion
Kerguelen Petrel
Great-winged Petrel
White-headed Petrel
Atlantic Petrel
Soft-plumaged Petrel
Barau's Petrel
Grey Petrel
Spectacled Petrel
Streaked Shearwater
Wedge-tailed Shearwater
Balearic Shearwater
Tropical Shearwater
Little Shearwater
Flesh-footed Shearwater
Bulwer's Petrel
Jouanin's Petrel

Storm Petrels
Grey-backed Storm Petrel
White-faced Storm Petrel
White-bellied Storm Petrel
Black-bellied Storm Petrel
Band-rumped Storm Petrel
Swinhoe's Storm Petrel
Leach's Storm Petrel
Matsudaira's Storm Petrel

Tropicbirds
Red-billed Tropicbird
Red-tailed Tropicbird
White-tailed Tropicbird

Herons and Bitterns
Eurasian Bittern
Malagasy Pond Heron
Rufous-bellied Heron
Slaty Egret
Little Blue Heron
Snowy Egret
Western Reef Heron

Frigatebirds
Lesser Frigatebird

Gannets and Boobies
Australasian Gannet
Masked Booby
Red-footed Booby
Brown Booby

Kites, Hawks and Eagles
Bearded Vulture
Egyptian Vulture
Rüppell's Vulture
Rufous-chested Sparrowhawk
Long-legged Buzzard

Caracaras and Falcons
Dickinson's Kestrel
Eleonora's Falcon
Sooty Falcon

Flufftails
Buff-spotted Flufftail
Striped Flufftail

Rails, Crakes and Coots
Baillon's Crake
Spotted Crake
Striped Crake
(American) Purple Gallinule

Buttonquail
Hottentot Buttonquail
Black-rumped Buttonquail

Snowy Sheathbill

Oystercatchers
Eurasian Oystercatcher

Crab Plover

Plovers
Long-toed Lapwing
Spur-winged Lapwing
Pacific Golden Plover
American Golden Plover
Little Ringed Plover

Sandpipers and Snipes
Great Snipe
Asian Dowitcher
Black-tailed Godwit
Hudsonian Godwit
Spotted Redshank
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Great Knot
Red-necked Stint
Temminck's Stint
Long-toed Stint
White-rumped Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Dunlin
Broad-billed Sandpiper
Wilson's Phalarope

Coursers and Pratincoles
Rock Pratincole

Gulls, Terns and Skimmers
Brown Noddy
Lesser Noddy
African Skimmer
Black-legged Kittiwake
Slender-billed Gull
Black-headed Gull
Gull-billed Tern
Royal Tern
Elegant Tern
Bridled Tern
Sooty Tern
Black-naped Tern
White-cheeked Tern

Skuas
South Polar Skua
Long-tailed Jaeger

Pigeons and Doves
European Turtle Dove

Parrots
Black-cheeked Lovebird

Turacos
Schalow's Turaco
Ross's Turaco

Cuckoos
Coppery-tailed Coucal
Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo
Lesser Cuckoo
Madagascar Cuckoo

Owls
Pel's Fishing Owl

Swifts
Pallid Swift

Bee-eaters
White-throated Bee-eater
Böhm's Bee-eater

Hornbills
Bradfield's Hornbill

African Barbets
Green Tinkerbird

Bushshrikes
Swamp Boubou

Shrikes
Souza's Shrike
Isabelline Shrike

Crows and Jays
House Crow

Tits and Chickadees
Rufous-bellied Tit

Larks
Cape Clapper Lark
Barlow's Lark
Red Lark
Eastern Long-billed Lark
Cape Long-billed Lark
Agulhas Long-billed Lark
Sclater's Lark
Black-eared Sparrow-Lark

Swallows and Martins
White-headed Saw-wing
Mascarene Martin
Angola Swallow
Blue Swallow
Red-rumped Swallow

Reed Warblers and Allies
Basra Reed Warbler
Greater Swamp Warbler

Grassbirds and Allies
Knysna Warbler

Cisticolas and Allies
Luapula Cisticola
Chirping Cisticola
Black-headed Apalis
Cinnamon-breasted Warbler

Family uncertain
Red-capped Crombec
Victorin's Warbler

Babblers and Parrotbills
Hartlaub's Babbler

Sylviid Babblers
Eurasian Blackcap

Hyliotas
Yellow-bellied Hyliota

Starlings
Rose-coloured Starling
Sharp-tailed Starling

Thrushes
White-chested Alethe

Chats and Old World Flycatchers
Common Redstart
Whinchat
Isabelline Wheatear
Northern Wheatear
Pied Wheatear
Sentinel Rock Thrush

Sunbirds
Neergaard's Sunbird
Shelley's Sunbird

Weavers and Widowbirds
Cardinal Quelea
Red-headed Quelea

Waxbills, Munias and Allies
Brown Firefinch

Wagtails and Pipits
Citrine Wagtail
Golden Pipit
Mountain Pipit
Long-tailed Pipit
Red-throated Pipit
Short-tailed Pipit

Finches and Canaries
Common Chaffinch
Drakensberg Siskin

Last edited by Safari Ranger (16-05-2011 20:47:01)


Keep looking up... you may see a bird or just choose to praise God!
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#2 02-01-2011 17:35:29

Jay
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Location:  : West Coast, South Africa
Registered: 03-05-2008
Favourite Bird: African Fish Eagle

Re: 2011 - GBT Sightings Year List

wow, you on the ball eh, SR wink

okay, seen since yesterday:
Helmeted Guineafowl
Common Starling
Southern Grey-headed Sparrow
Cape Robin-chat
Karoo Prinia
Karoo Scrub-robin
Cape Weaver
Steppe Buzzard
Jackal Buzzard
YBK
Black-shouldered Kite
Blue Crane
Greater Flamingo
Lesser Flamingo
Black-necked Grebe
Hartlaub's Gull
Kelp Gull
Common Sandpiper
Curlew Sandpiper
Sacred Ibis
Rock Kestrel
Pied Crow


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Treat the Earth and all that dwell therein with respect.Remain close to the Great Spirit 
      Show great respect for your fellow beings. Work together for the benefit of all Mankind 
      Give assistance and kindness wherever needed. Do what you know to be right 
      Look after the well-being of Mind and Body. Dedicate a share of your efforts to the greater Good 
      Be truthful and honest at all times. Take full responsibility for your actions.
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#3 02-01-2011 18:21:13

Yolandé
Member

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Location:  : Krugersdorp, South Africa
Registered: 18-11-2008
Favourite Bird: Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill & African Crowned Eagle

Re: 2011 - GBT Sightings Year List

Okay my 2c worth:

Black-throated Canary
African Pipit
Yellow Wagtail
Cape Wagtail
Common Waxbill
Red-collared Widowbird
White-winged Widowbird
Red Bishop
Yellow-crowned Bishop
SMasked Weaver
Thickbilled Weaver
Cape & House Sparrows
Afr Stonechat
White-bellied Sunbird
Karoo Thrush
Red-winged and Cape Glossy Starlings
Tawny flanked Prinia
Cape white eye
Levaillants, Zitting & Cloud Cisticola
Lesser and Little Rush Warbler
Greater Striped Swallows
Brown-throated Martin
Rufous-naped Lark
Green Woodhoopoe
Afr Hoepoe
Malachite Kingfisher
Mousebirds:speckled & Red faced
Little Swift
Spotted Eagle Owl
Barn Owl
Diderick and Red-chested Cuckoo
Red-eyed, Ferral, Laughing, Cape turtle dove
Wattled, Crowned and Blacksmith Lapwings
Spotted Thick knee
Red-headed Finch
Purple Swamphen
Red-knobbed Coot
White-breasted cormorant
Goliath, Grey and black-headed Herons
Little Egret
Cattle Egret
Great Crested and Little Grebe
White-faced Ducks
Spur-winged Goose


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#4 02-01-2011 21:39:20

Safari Ranger
Bird Sighting of the Year

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Location:  : Nelspruit
Registered: 11-08-2010
Favourite Bird: African Crowned Eagle

Re: 2011 - GBT Sightings Year List

Thank you ladies, this is a great start. The list has been updated and I have removed a few of my own as well.


Keep looking up... you may see a bird or just choose to praise God!
www.krugerparksafari.com

BORN TO BIRDWATCH
FORCED TO WORK!!
 

#5 02-01-2011 21:41:57

Safari Ranger
Bird Sighting of the Year

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Location:  : Nelspruit
Registered: 11-08-2010
Favourite Bird: African Crowned Eagle

Re: 2011 - GBT Sightings Year List

PLEASE PLEASE, if submitting several different sightings please try to keep birds from the same families together, and if you can list your birds in the order of the list then this will help me tremendously in deleting birds from the list quickly.

Last edited by Safari Ranger (02-01-2011 21:43:21)


Keep looking up... you may see a bird or just choose to praise God!
www.krugerparksafari.com

BORN TO BIRDWATCH
FORCED TO WORK!!
 

#6 03-01-2011 08:12:10

DotDaan
Member

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Location:  : Here and there
Registered: 11-11-2008
Favourite Bird: Martial Eagle

Re: 2011 - GBT Sightings Year List

Howdy.. you can take of the following from my sightings in the last few days

Cape Vulture
Long Tailed Widowbird
Red Billed Quelea
Pin Tailed Whydah


I can levitate birds, but no one seems to care.
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#7 03-01-2011 08:24:50

wildtuinman
Bird Sighting of the Year

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Location:  : Vêr in die wêreld, Kitty
Registered: 15-08-2008
Favourite Bird: Pearl-Spotted Owlet

Re: 2011 - GBT Sightings Year List

Where did you tjack Cape Vulture???!!!

 

#8 03-01-2011 08:27:57

DotDaan
Member

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Location:  : Here and there
Registered: 11-11-2008
Favourite Bird: Martial Eagle

Re: 2011 - GBT Sightings Year List

Cradle of Human kind on New years day..


I can levitate birds, but no one seems to care.
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#9 03-01-2011 08:28:58

wildtuinman
Bird Sighting of the Year

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Location:  : Vêr in die wêreld, Kitty
Registered: 15-08-2008
Favourite Bird: Pearl-Spotted Owlet

Re: 2011 - GBT Sightings Year List

I took one photo this year so far: Goliath Heron. lol

 

#10 03-01-2011 08:31:46

wildtuinman
Bird Sighting of the Year

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Location:  : Vêr in die wêreld, Kitty
Registered: 15-08-2008
Favourite Bird: Pearl-Spotted Owlet

Re: 2011 - GBT Sightings Year List

DotDaan wrote:

Cradle of Human kind on New years day..

Nice! And it counts for your Gauteng list as well as the Gauteng Challenge! big_smile

 

#11 03-01-2011 08:33:14

DotDaan
Member

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Location:  : Here and there
Registered: 11-11-2008
Favourite Bird: Martial Eagle

Re: 2011 - GBT Sightings Year List

Is the new 2011 list up yet?


I can levitate birds, but no one seems to care.
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Facebook :www.facebook.com/vandenberghimages
 

#12 03-01-2011 08:45:21

Laine
Admin

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Location:  : Joburg, South Africa
Registered: 05-05-2008
Favourite Bird: Fairy Flycatcher

Re: 2011 - GBT Sightings Year List

SR!  You are on the ball!  cool

 

#13 03-01-2011 08:49:33

Lizet
Member

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Location:  : Pretoria
Registered: 15-01-2010

Re: 2011 - GBT Sightings Year List

Honey Buzzard - low level overhead yesterday in the garden, almost had a fit, couldn't get the camera in time...

 

#14 03-01-2011 08:58:43

wildtuinman
Bird Sighting of the Year

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Location:  : Vêr in die wêreld, Kitty
Registered: 15-08-2008
Favourite Bird: Pearl-Spotted Owlet

Re: 2011 - GBT Sightings Year List

Awesome garden sighting! Glad to hear the Honey-buzzard is still around in that area!

 

#15 03-01-2011 09:09:50

Lizet
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Location:  : Pretoria
Registered: 15-01-2010

Re: 2011 - GBT Sightings Year List

Yip it's still around, this will be the third sighting this summer around here but the first time it came so close. Now I already see myself waiting for the fly past! every evening! lollol

 


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