BIRDLIST: FREE STATE NATIONAL BOTANICAL GARDENS

May 2006
8 [ ] Dabchick
55 [ ] White-breasted Cormorant
58 [ ] Reed Cormorant
60 [ ] Darter
62 [ ] Grey Heron
63 [ ] Black-headed Heron
64 [ ] Goliath Heron
65 [ ] Purple Heron
66 [ ] Great White Egret
67 [ ] Little Egret
71 [ ] Cattle Egret
72 [ ] Squacco Heron
74 [ ] Green-backed Heron
76 [ ] Black-crowned Night Heron
81 [ ] Hamerkop
84 [ ] Black Stork
91 [ ] Sacred Ibis
93 [ ] Glossy Ibis
94 [ ] Hadeda Ibis
99 [ ] White-faced Duck
102 [ ] Egyptian Goose
103 [ ] South African Shelduck
104 [ ] Yellow-billed Duck
105 [ ] African Black Duck
106 [ ] Cape Teal
113 [ ] Southern Pochard
116 [ ] Spur-winged Goose
127 [ ] Black-shouldered Kite
149 [ ] Steppe Buzzard
155 [ ] Red-breasted Sparrowhawk
172 [ ] Lanner Falcon
183 [ ] Lesser Kestrel
193 [ ] Orange River Francolin
199 [ ] Swainson's Francolin
203 [ ] Helmeted Guineafowl
213 [ ] Black Crake
215 [ ] Baillon's Crake
226 [ ] Moorhen
228 [ ] Red-knobbed Coot
255 [ ] Crowned Plover
258 [ ] Blacksmith Plover
266 [ ] Wood Sandpiper
274 [ ] Little Stint
284 [ ] Ruff
295 [ ] Black-winged Stilt
297 [ ] Spotted Dikkop
349 [ ] Rock Pigeon
352 [ ] Red-eyed Dove
354 [ ] Cape Turtle Dove
355 [ ] Laughing Dove

377 [ ] Red-chested Cuckoo

386 [ ] Diederik Cuckoo
415 [ ] White-rumped Swift
417 [ ] Little Swift
418 [ ] Alpine Swift
424 [ ] Speckled Mousebird
425 [ ] White-backed Mousebird
426 [ ] Red-faced Mousebird
428 [ ] Pied Kingfisher
429 [ ] Giant Kingfisher
431 [ ] Malachite Kingfisher
438 [ ] European Bee-eater
447 [ ] Lilac-breasted Roller
451 [ ] African Hoopoe
452 [ ] Redbilled Woodhoopoe
454 [ ] Scimitar-billed Woodhoopoe
464 [ ] Blackcollared Barbet
465 [ ] Pied Barbet
473 [ ] Crested Barbet
476 [ ] Lesser Honeyguide
486 [ ] Cardinal Woodpecker
518 [ ] Barn Swallow
520 [ ] White-throated Swallow
526 [ ] Greater Striped Swallow
528 [ ] South African Cliff Swallow
529 [ ] Rock Martin
533 [ ] Brown-throated Martin
541 [ ] Fork-tailed Drongo
552 [ ] Ashy Tit
557 [ ] Cape Penduline Tit
567 [ ] Red-eyed Bulbul
577 [ ] Karoo Thrush
595 [ ] Ant-eating Chat
601 [ ] Cape Robin-Chat
614 [ ] Karoo Scrub-Robin
621 [ ] Titbabbler
622 [ ] Layard's Titbabbler
625 [ ] Icterine Warbler
631 [ ] African Marsh Warbler
635 [ ] Cape Reed Warbler
643 [ ] Willow Warbler
651 [ ] Long-billed Crombec
653 [ ] Yellow-bellied Eremomela
664 [ ] Fan-tailed Cisticola
669 [ ] Grey-backed Cisticola
677 [ ] Levaillant's Cisticola
681 [ ] Neddicky
685 [ ] Black-chested Prinia
689 [ ] Spotted Flycatcher
698 [ ] Fiscal Flycatcher

703 [ ] Pririt Batis

706 [ ] Fairy Flycatcher
710 [ ] Paradise Flycatcher
713 [ ] Cape Wagtail
732 [ ] Fiscal Shrike
746 [ ] Bokmakierie
757 [ ] European Starling
759 [ ] Pied Starling
760 [ ] Wattled Starling
764 [ ] Glossy Starling
769 [ ] Red-winged Starling
775 [ ] Malachite Sunbird
787 [ ] White-bellied Sunbird
796 [ ] Orange River White-eye
799 [ ] White-brwed Sparow weaver
801 [ ] House Sparrow
803 [ ] Cape Sparrow
804 [ ] Grey-headed Sparrow
814 [ ] Masked Weaver
824 [ ] Red Bishop
842 [ ] Red-billed Firefinch
846 [ ] Common Waxbill
852 [ ] Quail Finch
856 [ ] Red-headed Finch
860 [ ] Pin-tailed Whydah
870 [ ] Black-throated Canary
872 [ ] Cape Canary
878 [ ] Yellow Canary
879 [ ] White-throated Canary
884 [ ] Golden-breasted Bunting
885 [ ] Cape Bunting
886 [ ] Rock Bunting
TOTAL: 133 species
List compiled by:
Dawie de Swardt
Head: Department of Ornithology
National Museum
PO Box 266
BLOEMFONTEIN 9300
Phone: (051) 4479609 (W)
(051) 4476273 (Faks)
0836381604 (Cell)
Other observers:
Members of BirdLife Free State,
Bloemfontein

BIRDS RINGED AT FREE STATE NATIONAL BOTANICAL GARDENS

April May 2006
SPECIES
Whitebacked Mousebird
Hoopoe
Pied Barbet
Crested barbet
Lesser Honeyguide
Redeyed Bulbul
Olive Thrush
Cape Robin
Longbilled Crombec
Blackchested Prinia
Titbabbler
Fiscal Flycatcher
Fairy Flycatcher
Cape Wagtail
Fiscal Shrike
Wattled Starling
Malachite Sunbird
Whitebellied Sunbird
Dusky Sunbird
Cape White-eye
Cape Sparrow
Masked Weaver
Red Bishop
TOTAAL

2
3
2
1
1
17
12
2
1
3
2
4
3
2
2
1
16
6
1
9
2
1
2
95