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| 13 march 2011 - milnerton sewage works |
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A quick early morning visit to our local sewage works didn't yield anything hugely exciting apart from a very skittish Willow Warbler which is quite unusual down on the Cape Peninsula and was a great addition to the challenge list. It has certainly been a good few years since we have last encountered one down here. Apart from that, just the usual species were present in good numbers and allowed some reasonable photographic opportunities. |
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| Yellow-billed Duck |
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| Little Stint |
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| Blacksmith Lapwing |
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| Greater Striped Swallow |
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| Levaillant's Cisticola |
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| Cape Wagtail |
| Full list of species recorded at Milnerton Sewage Works | |
| Links to pages with additional photos highlighted in red | |
| Common Name | Scientific Name |
| Birds - 54 species | |
| Cape Spurfowl | Pternistis capensis |
| Helmeted Guineafowl | Numida meleagris |
| Egyptian Goose | Alopochen aegyptiaca |
| Cape Teal | Anas capensis |
| Yellow-billed Duck | Anas undulata |
| Cape Shoveler | Anas smithii |
| Red-billed Teal | Anas erythrorhyncha |
| Malachite Kingfisher | Alcedo cristata |
| Pied Kingfisher | Ceryle rudis |
| Little Swift | Apus affinis |
| White-rumped Swift | Apus caffer |
| Speckled Pigeon | Columba guinea |
| Red-eyed Dove | Streptopelia semitorquata |
| Common Moorhen | Gallinula chloropus |
| Red-knobbed Coot | Fulica cristata |
| Wood Sandpiper | Tringa glareola |
| Little Stint | Calidris minuta |
| Water Thick-knee | Burhinus vermiculatus |
| Three-banded Plover | Charadrius tricollaris |
| Blacksmith Lapwing | Vanellus armatus |
| Grey-headed Gull | Larus cirrocephalus |
| Hartlaub's Gull | Larus hartlaubii |
| Little Grebe | Tachybaptus ruficollis |
| African Darter | Anhinga rufa |
| Reed Cormorant | Phalacrocorax africanus |
| Little Egret | Egretta garzetta |
| Yellow-billed Egret | Egretta intermedia |
| Grey Heron | Ardea cinerea |
| Black-headed Heron | Ardea melanocephala |
| Black-crowned Night Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax |
| Hadeda Ibis | Bostrychia hagedash |
| African Sacred Ibis | Threskiornis aethiopicus |
| Pied Crow | Corvus albus |
| Brown-throated Martin | Riparia paludicola |
| Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica |
| White-throated Swallow | Hirundo albigularis |
| Greater Striped Swallow | Hirundo cucullata |
| Cape Bulbul | Pycnonotus capensis |
| Little Rush Warbler | Bradypterus baboecala |
| African Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus baeticatus |
| Lesser Swamp Warbler | Acrocephalus gracilirostris |
| Willow Warbler | Phylloscopus trochilus |
| Cape White-eye | Zosterops capensis |
| Levaillant's Cisticola | Cisticola tinniens |
| Karoo Prinia | Prinia maculosa |
| Cape Robin-Chat | Cossypha caffra |
| Common Starling | Sturnus vulgaris |
| Southern Double-collared Sunbird | Cinnyris chalybeus |
| Cape Weaver | Ploceus capensis |
| Southern Red Bishop | Euplectes orix |
| Common Waxbill | Estrilda astrild |
| Cape Sparrow | Passer melanurus |
| Cape Wagtail | Motacilla capensis |
| Cape Canary | Serinus canicollis |