Birds around Johannesburg
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Every measure here is worked out per 5 degree square, so this covers the wider area around Johannesburg (-30° to -25° latitude, 25° to 30° longitude, about 550 km across), not the city alone. Counts are shares of all birds records in the same weeks, so busier stations do not inflate them (methods).
Arrived in the last four weeks
- Common Ringed Plover around 12 October
- Common Cuckoo around 12 October
- Garden Warbler around 12 October
- Common Greenshank around 12 October
Expected in the next six weeks
- Hadada Ibis around 17 November
- Red-chested Cuckoo around 17 November (weak evidence)
- Laughing Dove around 24 November
- Eurasian Hoopoe around 24 November
- Alpine Swift around 1 December
- Diederik Cuckoo around 1 December (weak evidence)
- Common Swift around 8 December
Dates are last year's first regular records after at least six weeks away, with each species' own uncertainty on its page. Each species page can email you when it turns up.
Most recorded, last eight weeks
| Species | Records | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|
| Laughing Dove Streptopelia senegalensis | 26,717 | 177.6 |
| Cape Robin-Chat Cossypha caffra | 24,459 | 162.6 |
| Hadada Ibis Bostrychia hagedash | 12,424 | 82.6 |
| House Sparrow Passer domesticus | 10,500 | 69.8 |
| Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata | 10,475 | 69.6 |
| Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus | 9,189 | 61.1 |
| Cape White-eye Zosterops virens | 6,551 | 43.6 |
| Ring-necked Dove Streptopelia capicola | 4,432 | 29.5 |
| Common House-Martin Delichon urbicum | 4,172 | 27.7 |
| Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris | 3,176 | 21.1 |
| Common Myna Acridotheres tristis | 3,054 | 20.3 |
| Eurasian Hoopoe Upupa epops | 2,369 | 15.8 |
| White-breasted Sunbird Cinnyris talatala | 2,303 | 15.3 |
| Rosy-faced Lovebird Agapornis roseicollis | 1,501 | 10.0 |
| Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata | 1,463 | 9.7 |
How well this area is covered
Watched in 12 of the last 12 weeks for birds (enough records to count; unwatched weeks say nothing about absence). Active stations here in the last 30 days: 7 BirdWeather. Add a station to fill the gap.