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    Langebaan: ChurchHaven - Windmill (33111805)

    Western Cape
    Card 504782
    Compiler 10723
    Location code 33111805Langebaan: ChurchHaven - Windmill (Western Cape)
    Start date 2015-02-14
    Season SSummer
    Start time 10:35
    End time 07:00
    Shoreline covered 100
    Openwater covered 100
    Total Species 29
    Total Count 3701
    Wetland Condition 1Full (High tide for estuaries)
    Wetland Threats
    Count Condition 4Good
    Count Type 1On foot
    Nil Count (No birds present) 0There were CWAC species present
    Notes salt marsh was basically dry - with water only in the creeks and channels running through it - and then not deep. Birds were therefore more or less restricted to the shoreline where there were 3-4 roosts of birds on exposed sand banks on the edge of the water.
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    Current data
    Ref #SpeciesCountBreeding
    Pairs    		Breeding
    indicator
    48Cormorant, Cape
    (Phalacrocorax capensis)    		240
    51Cormorant, Crowned
    (Microcarbo coronatus)    		10
    54Heron, Grey
    (Ardea cinerea)    		10
    55Heron, Black-headed
    (Ardea melanocephala)    		10
    59Egret, Little
    (Egretta garzetta)    		120
    81Ibis, African Sacred
    (Threskiornis aethiopicus)    		40
    86Flamingo, Greater
    (Phoenicopterus roseus)    		2390
    231Oystercatcher, African
    (Haematopus moquini)    		30
    232Turnstone, Ruddy
    (Arenaria interpres)    		400
    233Plover, Common Ringed
    (Charadrius hiaticula)    		70
    235Plover, White-fronted
    (Charadrius marginatus)    		130
    237Plover, Kittlitz's
    (Charadrius pecuarius)    		20
    241Plover, Grey
    (Pluvialis squatarola)    		1710
    251Sandpiper, Curlew
    (Calidris ferruginea)    		22350
    253Stint, Little
    (Calidris minuta)    		80
    254Knot, Red
    (Calidris canutus)    		80
    255, Sanderling
    (Calidris alba)    		7500
    257Sandpiper, Terek
    (Xenus cinereus)    		10
    258Sandpiper, Common
    (Actitis hypoleucos)    		10
    263Greenshank, Common
    (Tringa nebularia)    		270
    268Whimbrel, Eurasian
    (Numenius phaeopus)    		120
    270Stilt, Black-winged
    (Himantopus himantopus)    		140
    287Gull, Kelp
    (Larus dominicanus)    		70
    289Gull, Hartlaub's
    (Chroicocephalus hartlaubii)    		220
    290Tern, Caspian
    (Hydroprogne caspia)    		10
    291Tern, Common
    (Sterna hirundo)    		790
    296Tern, Sandwich
    (Thalasseus sandvicensis)    		60
    298Tern, Greater Crested
    (Thalasseus bergii)    		40
    299Tern, Little
    (Sternula albifrons)    		80


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    Saturday 27 April 2024 03:10
    FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology
    Department of Biological Sciences - University of Cape Town

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