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West
Coast:
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'The
gulls’ gab and rabble on the boat-bobbing sea ... scamper
of sanderlings, curlew cry ... he got a little telescope
to look at birds...'.
Dylan
Thomas, Under Milk Wood
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The
southwestern Cape’s western seaboard, stretching along
the Atlantic shores from Cape Town
northwards to the Olifants River, is best known for its superb
beaches, bountiful sealife, internationally recognized coastal
wetlands, and spring wildflower displays that are nothing short
of spectacular. Birding is excellent: there is an abundance
of migrant waders and other waterbirds, and rewarding ‘strandveld’
birding. Highlights range from the quiet elegance of a Black
Harrier quartering low over the scrublands of the West Coast
National Park, to the frenzied activity of the Cape
Gannet colony at Lambert’s Bay.
Top
Birds
Black
Harrier, Grey-wing Francolin, Southern Black
Korhaan,
Chestnut-banded Plover,
Cape Long-billed Lark, Clapper Lark, Southern
Grey Tit, Sickle-winged Chat, Cape Penduline
Tit,
Cloud Cisticola, Protea Canary,
and a host of waders.
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