Three UK ringers, Les and I undertook 2 weeks of intense ringing, the first week being based at (this blog, ebird report), and the second week at Nuwejaarsrivier.
Three UK ringers, Les and I undertook 2 weeks of intense ringing, the first week being based at Botuin. Sites we ringed at: Botuin, Gifberg farm loop, Maskam farm, and Vanrhynsdorp sewage works
399 birds of 53 species caught on trip [on the way to Botuin, we ringed a few rehab birds!]
Count English
1 Yellow-billed Duck
11 Cape Teal
2 Pale Chanting Goshawk
1 Cape Spurfowl
2 Three-banded Plover
1 Blacksmith Lapwing
1 Speckled Pigeon
2 Red-eyed Dove
1 Cape Turtle Dove
48 Laughing Dove
8 White-backed Mousebird
1 Red-faced Mousebird
1 Malachite Kingfisher
1 Hoopoe
1 Karoo Lark
3 Large-billed Lark
1 Red-capped Lark
1 Rock Martin
1 Brown-throated Martin
6 Red-eyed Bulbul
3 Karoo Chat
3 Familiar Chat
3 Ant-eating Chat
1 Stonechat
2 Cape Robin-chat
9 Karoo Scrub Robin
2 Yellow-bellied Eremomela
2 Rufous-eared Warbler
2 Grey-backed Cisticola
3 Levaillant’s Cisticola
4 Namaqua Warbler
4 Chestnut-vented Tit-babbler
2 Fiscal Flycatcher
1 Fairy Flycatcher
8 Cape Wagtail
3 Common Fiscal
3 Bokmakierie
3 Common Starling
1 Pied Starling
3 Southern Double-collared Sunbird
10 House Sparrow
70 Cape Sparrow
35 Cape Weaver
48 Southern Masked Weaver
24 Southern Red Bishop
2 Common Waxbill
1 Cape Siskin
9 White-throated Canary
2 Yellow Canary
1 Streaky-headed Canary
21 Cape Bunting
13 Cape White-eye
7 Karoo Prinia
