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Introduction
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The Western Cape is an extraordinarily biodiverse region, and an indispensable destination for the ecotourist in southern Africa.

The region is well known among international and local birders alike for the remarkable suite of birds that is found here and nowhere else in the world: a staggering 42 of South Africa's 53 endemic bird species occur here, as well as three-quarters of southern Africa's 181.

The region offers representatives from seven of Africa's ten endemic and near-endemic bird families: Ostrich, Hamerkop, Guineafowl, Secretarybird, Mousebirds, Turacos, Woodhoopoes, African Barbets and Sugarbirds.

Complementing this unique birdlife is the scenic and botanical wealth of the Cape, which is now acknowledged to contain two of the African continent's four biodiversity hotspots as defined by Conservation International.

To have a better idea of this unique birdlife, we have set up a list of observed birds at and around Ons Genot by our guests.
Birds Spotted at Ons Genot & surroundings
Name Spotted by Etienne Bombeke
(Belgium)		Spotted by Allen Walley
(UK)		Photo
With special thanks to
Djuma Game Reserve,
ZestForBirds, WildLifePics
Dabchick
*
Whitebreasted Cormorant
*
Purple Heron *

Grey Heron
*
Cattle Egret
*
Sacred Ibis * *
Hadeda Ibis * *
Egyptian Goose * *
Steppe Buzzard
*
Yellow Billed Kite
*
Lanner Falcon
*
Cape Francolin *

Helmeted Guineafowl **
Redknobbed Coot **
Blacksmith Plover **
Spotted Dikkop
*
Laughing Dove **
Cape turtle Dove
*
Pied Kingfisher
*
Pied Crow
*
Cape Bulbul **
Olive Thrush *

Familiar Chat
*
Cape Robin *

Fiscal Flycatcher *

African Paradise Flycatcher**
Cape White-eye **
Fiscal Shrike **
European Starling *

Malachite Sunbird *

Lesser Doublecollared Sunbird**
Cape Sparrow **
Southern Masked Weaver **
Cape Weaver **
Southern Red Bishop *
Pintailed Widow **
Common Waxbill *

Cape Canary **
Birds Spotted within a radius of 75kms around Ons Genot
NameSpotted by E.Bombeke
(Belgium)		Spotted by F. Walley
(UK)		Photo
Dabchick *

Jackass Penguin
*
Cape Cormarant
*
African Darter
*
Eastern White Pelican
*
Blackheaded Heron *

Yellowbilled Egret *

Little Egret
*
Black Stork
*
White Stork
*
Black Harrier
*
African Spoonbill
*
Glossy Ibis *

South African Shelduck
*
Maccoa Duck
*
Mallard *

Yellow Billed Duck
*
African Black Duck
*
Cape Shoveller
*
Cape Teal
*
African Fish Eagle
*
Jackel Buzzard
*
Black Shouldered Kite
*
Rock (common) Kestrel
*
Cape Francolin
*
Ostrich **
Moorhen
*
African Black Oystercatcher
*
Blackwinged Stilt
*
Three Banded Plover
*
Whitefronted Plover *

Crowned Plover **
Curlew Sandpiper
*
Ruddy Turnstone
*
Common Sandpiper
*
Swift Tern **
Common Tern
*
White Winged Tern
*
Rock Pigeon *
Rameron Pigeon
*
Cape turtle Dove *

Namaqua Dove
*
Spotted Eagle Owl
*
Alpine Swift **
Speckled Mousebird
*
Malachite Kingfisher
*
European Bee-eater
*
African Hoopoe *

Greater Striped Swallow*

White Throated Swallow
*
House Martin *

Banded Martin
*
Pied Crow *

Whitenecked Raven *

Black Crow *

Olive Thrush
*
Levaillant's Cisticola
*
Spotted Prinia *

Cape Batis
*
Cape Wagtail **
Redwinged Starling **
Malachite Sunbird
*
Cape Sugarbird **
Orangebreasted Sunbird **
Lesser Doublecollared Sunbird*

Yellow Weaver
*
Yellowrumped Widow *
Pintailed Widow *
Swee Waxbill
*
Common Waxbill
*
Cape Bunting
*