Surfbirds Life and Year List Rankings

Southern Africa Life List Rankings Showing Records 1 through 50 of 97 Total Records NEXT Go to Birding-Africa.com for full listing details and to download a checklist. Rank Name Nationality Total Highlights 1 eddy smith rsa 875 snowy egret june 2002. 2 Jonathan Rossouw South African 871 End of 2003 3 Glen Valentine South African 866 Elegant Tern-Jan 06, Souza's Shrike-Jan 06, Barau's Petrel-Oct 05. Burchell's Courser, African Broadbill, Cinnamon-breasted Warbler and all ten SA bustards-Aug 07. All with Rockjumper Birding Tours 4 Keith Valentine South Africa 864 5 Keith Valentine South African 862 6 Patrick Cardwell South African 862 Egyptian Vulture, Bittern, White-winged Flufftail, Bearded Vulture 7 David Hoddinott / Rockjumper Birding Tours South African 861 Macaroni Penguin - SA Mar09, Buff-breasted Sandpiper - SA Feb08, White-faced Storm Petrel - SA Jun07, Wilson's Phalarope - SA May07, Shelley's Sunbird - Namibia Dec 05, Barau's Petrel, Red-footed Booby, White-tailed Tropicbird - on pelagic off Northern KwaZulu-Natal South Africa Nov 05, Eleonora's Falcon, Broad-tailed Paradise-Whydah, Olive-headed Weaver - Mozambique 2005, Rockjumper Birding Tours 8 Adam Riley South African 855 White-winged Flufftail in December 2003 - 9th and final flufftail seen! 9 Margie & Barry Hawthorne South African 843 Revised numbers from Roberts VII 10 Callan Cohen South African 843 11 Claire Spottiswoode South African 837 12 Peter Carnall South African 830 Whitewinged Flufftail-Mar2005/Spectacled Petrel-Cape pelagic Dec 2004/Asiatic Dowitcher 21/11/04.American Purple Gallinule-Natal 30/10/04.Grey Wagtail-Magoebaskloof 31/1/04.Blackrumped Buttonquail-Natal 07/02/04. 13 Jenny Norman South African 825 Barau's Petrel, Red-footed Booby, Heuglin's Gull, Spectacled Petrel, Asian Dowitcher - a first for SA. 14 D�wald Swanepoel South African 793 Racket-tailed Roller, Thick-billed Cuckoo 15 Giles Mulholland South African 778 17 August 2001 16 Dominic Rollinson South Africa 770 Heuglins Gull, Shelleys Sunbird, Whitefaced Storm Petrel, Taita Falcon, Eleonoras Falcon, Twinspot Indigobird 17 Martin Benadie South African 765 Jul2006: juv. Grey-headed Albatross on Cape Pelagic, Aug2006: African Broadbill at Tembe, RSA 18 Andre Bernon South African 762 Western Marsh Harrier, Black-tailed Godwits, Shelleys Sunbird, Grey Wagtail, American&Pacific Golden Plover, Spectacled Petrel, Sooty Tern, Heuglins Gull, Eleonora's Falcon, Tree Pipit, Anchieta's Tchagra, Twinspot Indigobird. 19 Hanno Langenhoven South African 761 Rudd's Lark, Neergaard's Sunbird 20 Peter Bijlmakers Dutch 734 Dickinson's Kestrel 21 Stephen Blaber British/Australian 726 22 Petri Hottola Finnish 725 No visits to Zimbabwe, yet. 23 Gerhardt Streicher South African 713 Anchieta Tjagra,Aberfoyle Tea Estate Zimbabwe, Dec 2003 24 Peter Kaestner USA 712 Jan 2006 Olive Tree Warbler, Mahango, Namibia 25 Hans Schouwink South African 710 26 Andrew Kruger South African 696 Arnot's Chat 27 Claes-Göran Cederlund Swedish 688 Str.breasted,Buff sp. & Red-chested Flufftails,Zim. -97 28 Mark Beevers British 679 Based on a 18 day trip in 2001 in South Africa and a 37 day trip covering South Africa, Botswana and Namibia, the latter led by David Hoddinot. 29 Jan Pienaar South African 668 Mountain Pipit (Feb 08), Crab Plover, Green Malkoha, Pacific Golden Plover & Pel's Fishing Owl (South Africa Mar 08), Dune Lark & White-tailed Shrike (Nam May 08), Red-winged Francolin and Buff-spotted Flufftail (July 08). All with Rockjumper Birding Tours 30 Jean-Pierre Le Roux South-African 666 Ellegant Tern, Bat Hawk, Broad-Billed Roller, Drakensberg Rockjumper 31 Richard Hurt South African 666 32 James Bray British 656 Seen during course of 4 trips to Southern Africa. Latest, trip to Namibia and Botswana, Oct/Nov 08. Highlights Hartlaub's Francolin, Rockrunner, Benguela Long-billed Lark, Burchell's Courser. Black-fronted Bush-shrike and Bat Hawk in Magoebaskloof, White-breasted Cuckoo-Shrike and Racket-tailed Roller in Kruger, 4sp of parrot in one day, Neergard's Sunbird nr Tembe and 414 species in SA in Sept. '06. Travelled round Kalahari, Cape, and KZN in 2004/05 and saw 517 species. Brown Firefinch, Pel's, Slaty Egret, Dickinson's Kestrel in Botswana and Zimbabwe 1999 33 Warwick Board South African 651 Damara Rockrunner, Rock Pipit, Great Swamp Warbler, Sharp-tailed Starling, Whitebacked Nightheron, Pallid Harrier, Eastern Nicator, Stierling's Wren-Warbler, Rufous-winged Cisticola, Monotonous Lark 34 Dave Sargeant British 645 Last upd: Sep-02. Highlights: White-winged Flufftail, Blue Swallow. 35 Gareth Hazell South African 639 Barrats Warbler, Sabie Area 36 Steve Woodhall SA 637 of 666 South African species Coeliades anchises - One-pip Policeman 37 Kees (C).J.G. Scharringa Netherlands 634 38 James Rawdon South African 631 Peregrine Falcon & Lazy Cisticola, January 2004 39 Steeman Chris Belgium 631 40 Clayton Burne British 617 As of Sept 2003 41 Stefani Gerber South Africa 615 Narina Trogon-Ndumo Dec 2001 42 paul gerber rsa 610 white-winged flufftail-oct 2006, narina trogon- sept.2007, francklin gull- august 2008 43 Garry George USA 596 Pel's Fishing Owl, Rudd's Lark, Swamp Nightjar, Finfoot, Hottentot Buttonquail 44 Michael Rumberger German 582 45 Kevin Vang Australia/Norway/USA 576 See Africa Section and Photo Galleries on our BIRD EXPLORERS WEBSITE. 46 John Dempsey English 560 Dickinson's Kestrel, Taita falcon, Hartlaubs Franklin, 47 Keith Betton British 555 48 Gielie Swart South Africa 552 Bronze Sunbird Troutbeck Inn Zimbabwe 49 mike kingaby south african 550 50 Colin Summersgill South African 531 African Finfoot at Enseleni NR 17-08-2001 Not entered in these rankings and want to enter yourself? 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