Birdwatching Holidays in Spain, Morocco & more…
BOLETAS Birdwatching centre
22192 Loporzano (Huesca) – Spain
tel/fax 00 34 974 262027 or 01162 889318
e.mail:
WWW.BIRDINGSPAIN.COM
Josele J. Saiz - NIF 38491538A
NAMIBIA – November 18th to Dec 1st
264 Bird Species recorded
Leaders - Josele J. Saiz & Neil Macleod
Party & favourite bird
Nancy Cooke – Double-banded Courser
Steve Leibher – Spotted Thick-knee
Joan Ward – African Scops Owl
Neal Ward – Green Pigeon
Janet Moore – Paradise Flycatcher
John Moore – Dideric Cuckoo
Mike Ridgard – Rufous –eared Warbler
Val Ridgard – Klaas Cuckoo
Itinerary
Day 1- 18/11 - Gatwick – Windhoek – Nambia
Day 2- 19/11 – Windhoek airport , Gammans sewage works
Day 3- 20/11 – Windhoek , C-33 road through Bosua Pass . Namib Desert , Walvis Bay
Day 4- 21/11 – Walvis Bay lagoon, Salt works, Road Bank , Sewage works
Day 5- 22/11 – Walvis Bay lagoon, Salt Works, Namib desert Dunes
Day 6- 23/11 - Walvis Bay – Swakopmund salt pans , Karibib golf course , Spitzkopfe mountains , Omaruru
Day 7- 24/11 - Omaruru area
Day 8- 25/11 - Omaruru , Outjo , Etosha National Park ( Okaukuejo rest camp)
Day 9- 26/11 - Etosha National park – Okaukuejo Area
Day 10-27/11 - Etosha N.P. Okaukuejo, Halali , Namutoni rest camp
Day 11-28/11 - Etosha National Park , Namutoni area
Day 12-29/11 - Namutoni , Otjikto Laake, Otjiwarongo
Day 13-30/11 - Otjiwarongo , Okahanja , Windhoek
Day 14- 1/12 - Windhoek . Dann Viljoen Reserve , Windhoek airport
BIRDLIST FOR NAMIBIA – Nov 18th to Dec 1st
SPECIES /Scientific Name
/ No of days out of 10 recorded / Total tour countedC.= Common
LC = Locally Common
H.= Heard only
N/C.= No count
1 / Ostrich / Struthio camelus australis / 5 / 50+
2 / Jackass Penguin / Spheniscus demersus / 1 / 1
3 / Little Grebe / Tachybaptus ruficollis / 4 / LC
4 / Great Crested Grebe / Podiceps cristatus / 2 / 100+
5 / Black-necked (Eared) Grebe / Podiceps nigricollis / 2 / 50
6 / Wilsom´s Storm Petrel / Oceanites oceanicus / 1 / 1
7 / Great White Pelican / Pelecanus onocrotalus / 3 / N/C
8 / Cape Gannet / Morus capensis / 2 / 40+
9 / White-breasted (Great) Cormorant / Phalacrocorax carbo lucidus / 6 / LC
10 / Cape Cormorant / Phalacrocorax capensis / 3 / 3000
11 / Long-tailed Cormorant (Reed) / Phalacrocorax africanus / 3 / 25+
12 / Crowned Cormorant / Phalacrocorax africanus coronatus / 1 / 3
13 / African Darter / Anhinga melanogaster rufa / 2 / 15+
14 / Grey Heron / Ardea cinerea / 7 / C
15 / Black-headed Heron / Ardea melanocephala / 7 / 10+
16 / Little Egret / Egretta garzetta / 3 / 10+
17 / Squacco Heron / Ardeola ralloides / 3 / 30+
18 / Cattle Egret / Bubulcus ibis / 6 / L/C
19 / Striated Heron / Butorides striatus / 1 / 1
20 / Black-crowned Night-heron / Nycticorax nycticorax / 3 / 10+
21 / Hamerkop / Scopus umbretta / 3 / 6
22 / Woolly necked Stork / Ciconia episcopus / 2 / 1
23 / Marabou Stork / Leptoptilos crumeniferus / 3 / 7+
24 / African Spoonbill / Platalea alba / 2 / 1
25 / Greater Flamingo / Phoenicopterus ruber / 3 / L/C
26 / Lesser Flamingo / Phoenicopterus minor / 2 / L/C
27 / White-faced Whistling Duck / Dendrocygna viduata / 1 / 20+
28 / Egyptian Goose / Alopochen aegyptiacus / 8 / L/C
29 / South African Shelduck / Tadorna cana / 2 / 30+
30 / Comb billed duck / Sarkidiornus melanotos / 2 / 6
31 / Cape Teal / Anas capensis / 4 / 20+
32 / Red-billed Duck / Anas erythrorhyncha / 6 / L/C
33 / Hottentot Teal / Anas hottentota / 2 / 10+
34 / Cape Shoveler / Anas smithii / 1 / 3
35 / Southern Pochard / Netta erythrophthalma / 1 / 20
36 / Maccoa Duck / Oxyura macooa / 1 / 4
37 / Black-shouldered Kite / Elanus caeruleus / 6 / 15+
38 / White-backed Vulture / bengalensis africanus / 7 / 70+
39 / White-headed Vulture / Trigonoceps occipitalis / 1 / 1
40 / Lappet-faced Vulture / Torgos tracheliotus / 4 / 10+
41 / Black-breasted Snake-Eagle / Circaetus gallicus pectoralis / 6 / 7
42 / Brown Snake-Eagle / Circaetus cinereus / 1 / 2
43 / Bateleur / Terathopius ecaudatus / 3 / 3
44 / Black Harrier / Circus maurus / 1 / 1
45 / Pale Chanting Goshawk / Melierax canorus / 9 / 20+
46 / Gabar Goshawk / Micronisus gabar / 6 / 10+
47 / Steppe Buzzard / Buteo buteo vulpinus / 6 / 4
48 / Honney Buzzard / Pernis apivorus / 2 / 2
49 / Augur Buzzard / Buteo auger augur / 1 / 1
50 / Tawny Eagle / Aquila rapax / 3 / 6
51 / Wahlberg's Eagle / Aquila wahlbergi / 1 / 1
52 / Verreaux's Eagle / Aquila verreauxii / 3 / 7
53 / African Hawk-eagle / Hieraaetus fasciatus spilogaster / 1 / 3
54 / Martial Eagle / Pollomaetus billicosus / 3 / 3
55 / Secretary Bird / Sagittarius serpentarius / 2 / 2
56 / Pygmy Falcon / Polihierax semitorquatus / 4 / 1
57 / Eurarasian (Common) Kestrel / Falco tinnunculus / 5 / N/C
58 / Greater Kestrel / Falco rupicoloides / 2 / 4
59 / Red-necked Falcon / Falco chicquera / 1 / 1
60 / Lanner Falcon / Falco biarmicus / 3 / 5
61 / Peregrine Falcon / Falco peregrinus / 1 / 2
62 / Orange River Francolin / Francolinus levaillantoides / 1 / 1
63 / Red-billed Francolin / Francolinus adspersus / 7 / L/C
64 / Helmeted Guineafowl / Numida meleagris mitrata / 8 / L/C
65 / Blue Crane / Anthropoides paradisea / 1 / 2
66 / Black Crake / Amaurornis flavirostris / 3 / 3
67 / African (Purple) Swamphen / Porphyrio porphyrio madagascariensis / 3 / 6
68 / Common Moorhen / Gallinula chloropus / 7 / N/C
69 / Red-knobbed Coot / Fulica cristata / 3 / N/C
70 / Kori Bustard / Ardeotis kori / 4 / 5
71 / Rueppell's Bustard / Eupodotis rueppellii / 2 / 15+
72 / Red-crested Bustard / Eupodotis ruficrista / 4 / N/C
73 / White-quilled (Northern Black) Bustard / Eupodotis afraoides / 3 / 10+
74 / African Jacana / Actophilornis africanus / 4 / 15+
75 / Black Painted Snipe / Rostratula benghalensis / 1 / 1
76 / (African) Black Oystercatcher / Haematopus moquini / 1 / 3
77 / Black-winged Stilt / Himantopus himantopus / 8 / N/C
78 / Pied Avocet / Recurvirostra avosetta / 4 / L/C
79 / Spotted Thick-knee (Dikkop) / Burhinus capensis / 2 / 2
80 / Burchel´s Courser / Cursorius cursor rufus / 2 / 5
81 / Double-banded Courser / Smutsornis africanus / 4 / 12
82 / Blacksmith Plover / Vanellus armatus / 9 / L/C
83 / Crowned Lapwing / Vanellus coronatus / 6 / L/C
84 / Grey (Black-bellied) Plover / Pluvialis squatarola / 3 / 20+
85 / (Common) Ringed Plover / Charadrius hiaticula / 3 / N/C
86 / Kittlitz's Plover / Charadrius pecuarius / 2 / 20+
87 / Three-banded Plover / Charadrius tricollaris / 8 / L/C
88 / White-fronted Plover / Charadrius marginatus / 2 / L/C
89 / Chestnut-banded Plover / Charadrius pallidus / 2 / 10+
90 / Bar-tailed Godwit / Limosa lapponica / 3 / 30+
91 / Whimbrel / Numenius phaeopus / 1 / 6
92 / Marsh Sandpiper / Tringa stagnatilis / 1 / 1
93 / Common Greenshank / Tringa nebularia / 2 / 20+
94 / Wood Sandpiper / Tringa glareola / 5 / 30+
95 / Pectoral Sanpiper / Calidris pectoralis / 1 / 1
96 / Common Sandpiper / Actitis hypoleucos / 6 / N/C
97 / Ruddy Turnstone / Arenaria interpres / 2 / N/C
98 / Red Knot / Calidris canutus / 2 / 5
99 / Sanderling / Calidris alba / 3 / 500+
100 / Little Stint / Calidris minuta / 5 / L/C
101 / Curlew Sandpiper / Calidris ferruginea / 2 / L/C
102 / Ruff / Philomachus pugnax / 10 / L/C
103 / Red-necked Phalarope / Phalaropus lobatus / 2 / 24 maximum
104 / Pomarine Skua (Jaeger) / Stercorarius pomarinus / 1 / 1
105 / Kelp (Cape) Gull / Larus dominicanus / 2 / N/C
106 / Grey-headed Gull / Larus cirrocephalus / 1 / 3
107 / Hartlaub's Gull / Larus hartlaubii / 3 / 1000+
108 / Caspian Tern / Sterna caspia / 3 / 4
109 / Sandwich Tern / Sterna sandvicensis / 3 / N/C
110 / Great Crested (Swift) Tern / Sterna bergii / 3 / L/C
111 / Common Tern / Sterna hirundo / 3 / L/C
112 / Damara Tern / Sterna balaenarum / 3 / 40+
113 / Whiskered Tern / Chlidonias hybridus / 2 / 12
114 / White Winged Tern / Chlidonias niger / 1 / 2
115 / Namaqua Sandgrouse / Pterocles namaqua / 5 / 200+
116 / Double-banded Sandgrouse / Pterocles bicinctus / 1 / 350+
117 / Burchel´s Sandgrouse / Pterocles burchelli / 1 / 25+
118 + / Speckled Pigeon / Columba guinea / 3 / L/C
119 / Cape Turtle(Ring-necked) Dove / Streptopelia capicola / 9 / N/C
120 / Laughing Dove / Streptopelia senegalensis / 13 / N/C
121 / Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove / Turtur chalcospilos / 2 / 10+
122 / Namaqua Dove / Oena capensis / 8 / L/C
123 / African Green Pigeon / Treron australis calva / 1 / 8
124 / Rosy-faced Lovebird / Agapornis roseicollis / 3 / 20+
125 / Meyer's Parrot / Poicephalus meyeri / 1 / 2
126 / Rueppell's Parrot / Poicephalus rueppellii / 1 / 2
127 / Grey Go-away-bird (Lourie) / Corythaixoides concolor / 8 / L/C
128 / Levaillant´s Cuckoo / Clamator Levailantii / 1 / 1
129 / Black Cuckoo / Cuculus clamosus / 2 / 4
130 / African Cuckoo / Cuculus canorus gularis / 4 / 10+
131 / Klass Cuckoo / Chyrsococcyx klaas / 2 / 3
132 / Dideric Cuckoo / Chirsoccocyx caprius / 3 / 5
133 / African Scops-owl / Otus senegalensis / 1 / 1
134 / Verreaux's Eagle Owl / Bubo lacteus / 2 / 1
135 / Pearl-spotted Owlet / Glaucidium perlatum / 5 / 10+
136 / Southern White-faced Owl / Glaucidium capense / 3 / 10+
137 / Rufous-cheeked Nightjar / Caprimulgus rufigena / 2 / 20+
138 / African Palm-swift / Cypsiurus parvus / 9 / L/C
139 / Alpine Swift / Tachymarptis melba / 6 / L/C
140 / Common Swift / Apus apus / 2 / 30+
141 / Bradfield's Swift / Apus bradfieldi / 1 / 70+
142 / Little Swift / Apus affinis / 9 / L/C
143 / White-rumped Swift / Apus caffer / 6 / 70+
144 / White-backed Mousebird / Colius colius / 2 / 10+
145 / Red-faced Mousebird / Urocolius indicus / 1 / 5
146 / Pied Kingfisher / Ceryle rudis / 1 / 1
147 / Swallow-tailed Bee-eater / Merops hirundineus / 8 / 35+
148 / European Bee-eater / Merops apiaster / 5 / 20+
149 / Lilac-breasted Roller / Coracias caudata / 2 / 7
150 / Rufous-crowned (Purple) Roller / Coracias naevia / 5 / 15+
151 / African Hoopoe / Upupa africana / 8 / 10+
152 / Green Woodhoopoe / Phoeniculus purpureus / 1 / 1
153 / Common (Greater) Scimitar-bill / Rhinopomastus cyanomelas / 5 / 14
154 / Monteiro's Hornbill / Tockus monteiri / 3 / 15+
155 / Damara Red-billed Hornbill / Tockus demarensis / 2 / 15+
156 / Southern Red-billed Hornbill / Tockus rufirostris / 4 / 12
157 / Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill / Tockus flavirostris / 6 / L/C
158 / African Grey Hornbill / Tockus nasutus / 3 / 7
159 / Pied (Acacia Pied) Barbet / Tricholaema leucomelas / 7 / L/C
160 / Golden Tailed Woodpecker / Campethera abingoni / 2 / 3
161 / Bearded Woodpecker / Dendropicos namaquus / 1 / 2
162 / Bennet´s Woodpecker / Campethera nubica benettii / 1 / H
163 / Fawn-coloured Lark / Mirafra africanoides / 1 / 3
164 / Sabota Lark / Mirafra sabota / 4 / L/C
Bradfield's Lark (ss of Sabota) / Mirafra sabota naevia / 3 / 10+
165 / Karoo Long-billed Lark / Certhilauda subcoronata / 1 / 2 (not a Benguela Lark)
166 / Dune Lark / Certhilauda erythrochlamys / 1 / 6
167 / Spike-heeled Lark / Chersomanes albofasciata / 3 / 10+
168 / Grey-backed Sparrow-lark / Eremopterix verticalis / 4 / L/C
169 / Gray's Lark / Ammomanes grayi / 2 / 7
170 / Red-capped Lark / Calandrella cinerea / 3 / L/C
171 / Pink-billed Lark / Spizocorys conirostris / 2 / 30+
172 / Rock Martin / Hirundo fuligula / 10 / LC
173 / Eurasian (Barn) Swallow / Hirundo rustica / 10 / N/C
174 / White-throated Swallow / Hirundo albigularis / 1 / 2
175 / Lesser Stripped Swallow / Hirundo abyssinica / 1 / 2
176 / Greater Striped Swallow / Hirundo cucullata / 7 / 100+