Rietvlei Wetland Reserve: Combined (33521830) | |
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Western Cape | |
| CWAC status | DISCONTINUED |
| Authority | City of Cape Town Biodiversity Management Branch & Private |
| Management status | TOWN COUNCIL PROPERTY |
| Conservation status | PROTECTED |
| IBA information | SA111 - RIETVLEI WETLAND RESERVE |
| Ramsar information | |
| Heritage information | |
| View Cards | Click here |
Information |
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| Date_registered |
| 2006-03-24 |
| Brief_description |
| An IBA. Natural pan and excavated vleis; water levels very variable; much emergent sedge plus mud and sand. Also sewage ponds with Phragmites and Typha. Bird numbers high; globally significant numbers of Cape Shoveller (highest 1995-96), Kelp Gull (1994 and 1995 winters) and Hartlaub's Gull; nationally significant numbers of African Spoonbill, Yellowbilled Duck (winter 1995), African Black Oystercatcher, and Avocet (summer 1993). Highest counts of grebes, pelicans, cormorants, Darter, Redknobbed Coot and Kelp Gull in winter; of geese, Hartlaub's Gull and Cape Wagtail in summer, when shorebird counts also high. Little Bittern resident; African Rail, Baillon's Crake and Painted Snipe occur. Threats include spread of alien vegetation, especially Paspalum vaginatum, siltation, eutrophication and urbanisation. This section comprises the whole Rietvlei wetland are prior to the splitting of the count sections. |
| Spp | Common name | Taxonomic name | Min | Avg | Max | IBA | Subregional IBA | RAMSAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1016 | Anas platyrhynchos | 2 | 8.17 | 23 | ||||
| 10015 | Anas hybrid | 3 | 3.00 | 3 | ||||
| 255 | Calidris alba | 4 | 21.67 | 40 | ||||
| 256 | Calidris pugnax | 1 | 319.63 | 1161 | ||||
| 269 | Avocet, Pied | Recurvirostra avosetta | 3 | 133.00 | 669 | 250 | 125 | 190 |
| 67 | Bittern, Little | Ixobrychus minutus | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 212 | Coot, Red-knobbed | Fulica cristata | 16 | 357.83 | 1417 | |||
| 49 | Cormorant, Bank | Phalacrocorax neglectus | 3 | 3.00 | 3 | |||
| 48 | Cormorant, Cape | Phalacrocorax capensis | 1 | 2.20 | 6 | |||
| 50 | Cormorant, Reed | Microcarbo africanus | 3 | 12.71 | 30 | |||
| 47 | Cormorant, White-breasted | Phalacrocorax lucidus | 2 | 49.44 | 112 | |||
| 203 | Crake, Black | Zapornia flavirostra | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 216 | Crane, Blue | Grus paradisea | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 267 | Curlew, Eurasian | Numenius arquata | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 52 | Darter, African | Anhinga rufa | 3 | 22.56 | 73 | |||
| 10006 | Duck, Domestic | Anas platyrhynchos | 1 | 3.20 | 9 | |||
| 10005 | Duck, Hybrid | Anas hybrid | 2 | 2.00 | 2 | |||
| 91 | Duck, Knob-billed | Sarkidiornis melanotos | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 103 | Duck, Maccoa | Oxyura maccoa | 1 | 1.50 | 2 | |||
| 10014 | Duck, Unidentified | N/A N/A | 1 | 35.50 | 70 | |||
| 104 | Duck, White-backed | Thalassornis leuconotus | 2 | 13.00 | 27 | |||
| 96 | Duck, Yellow-billed | Anas undulata | 9 | 174.11 | 1113 | 850 | 1000 | |
| 149 | Eagle, African Fish | Haliaeetus vocifer | 1 | 2.33 | 4 | |||
| 60 | Egret, Intermediate | Ardea intermedia | 1 | 6.54 | 14 | |||
| 59 | Egret, Little | Egretta garzetta | 1 | 4.69 | 8 | |||
| 61 | Egret, Western Cattle | Bubulcus ibis | 1 | 7.83 | 24 | |||
| 86 | Flamingo, Greater | Phoenicopterus roseus | 9 | 44.00 | 130 | |||
| 266 | Godwit, Bar-tailed | Limosa lapponica | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 10004 | Goose, Domestic | Anser anser | 1 | 44.00 | 87 | |||
| 89 | Goose, Egyptian | Alopochen aegyptiaca | 33 | 597.47 | 1378 | |||
| 88 | Goose, Spur-winged | Plectropterus gambensis | 1 | 19.33 | 84 | |||
| 4 | Grebe, Great Crested | Podiceps cristatus | 2 | 13.23 | 42 | 25 | ||
| 6 | Grebe, Little | Tachybaptus ruficollis | 2 | 11.86 | 27 | |||
| 263 | Greenshank, Common | Tringa nebularia | 1 | 2.86 | 7 | |||
| 932 | Gull, Franklin's | Leucophaeus pipixcan | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 288 | Gull, Grey-headed | Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus | 1 | 2.83 | 9 | |||
| 289 | Gull, Hartlaub's | Chroicocephalus hartlaubii | 13 | 347.56 | 1331 | 250 | 125 | 300 |
| 287 | Gull, Kelp | Larus dominicanus | 8 | 100.33 | 420 | 300 | 150 | |
| 167 | Harrier, African Marsh | Circus ranivorus | 1 | 1.70 | 3 | |||
| 69 | Heron, Black-crowned Night | Nycticorax nycticorax | 1 | 6.90 | 18 | |||
| 55 | Heron, Black-headed | Ardea melanocephala | 2 | 6.50 | 20 | |||
| 54 | Heron, Grey | Ardea cinerea | 1 | 16.33 | 41 | |||
| 57 | Heron, Purple | Ardea purpurea | 1 | 4.25 | 10 | |||
| 10011 | Heron, Unidentified | N/A N/A | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 81 | Ibis, African Sacred | Threskiornis aethiopicus | 1 | 22.33 | 57 | |||
| 83 | Ibis, Glossy | Plegadis falcinellus | 1 | 24.21 | 69 | |||
| 84 | Ibis, Hadada | Bostrychia hagedash | 1 | 1.71 | 4 | |||
| 395 | Kingfisher, Giant | Megaceryle maxima | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 397 | Kingfisher, Malachite | Corythornis cristatus | 1 | 1.60 | 3 | |||
| 394 | Kingfisher, Pied | Ceryle rudis | 1 | 4.91 | 9 | |||
| 254 | Knot, Red | Calidris canutus | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 245 | Lapwing, Blacksmith | Vanellus armatus | 8 | 135.00 | 384 | |||
| 509 | Martin, Brown-throated | Riparia paludicola | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 210 | Moorhen, Common | Gallinula chloropus | 2 | 18.43 | 65 | |||
| 231 | Oystercatcher, African | Haematopus moquini | 2 | 14.43 | 33 | 24 | ||
| 230 | Painted-snipe, Greater | Rostratula benghalensis | 4 | 4.00 | 4 | |||
| 42 | Pelican, Great White | Pelecanus onocrotalus | 3 | 70.94 | 220 | |||
| 233 | Plover, Common Ringed | Charadrius hiaticula | 1 | 33.33 | 100 | |||
| 237 | Plover, Kittlitz's | Charadrius pecuarius | 1 | 83.25 | 434 | |||
| 238 | Plover, Three-banded | Charadrius tricollaris | 1 | 6.92 | 12 | |||
| 235 | Plover, White-fronted | Charadrius marginatus | 2 | 2.50 | 3 | |||
| 102 | Pochard, Southern | Netta erythrophthalma | 1 | 6.83 | 20 | |||
| 258 | Sandpiper, Common | Actitis hypoleucos | 1 | 1.40 | 2 | |||
| 251 | Sandpiper, Curlew | Calidris ferruginea | 1 | 306.10 | 1435 | |||
| 262 | Sandpiper, Marsh | Tringa stagnatilis | 1 | 56.14 | 200 | |||
| 264 | Sandpiper, Wood | Tringa glareola | 4 | 18.83 | 30 | |||
| 90 | Shelduck, South African | Tadorna cana | 1 | 11.60 | 35 | |||
| 94 | Shoveler, Cape | Spatula smithii | 11 | 173.13 | 506 | 350 | 175 | 350 |
| 250 | Snipe, African | Gallinago nigripennis | 1 | 4.17 | 14 | |||
| 85 | Spoonbill, African | Platalea alba | 1 | 14.31 | 87 | 75 | ||
| 270 | Stilt, Black-winged | Himantopus himantopus | 4 | 50.44 | 101 | |||
| 253 | Stint, Little | Calidris minuta | 17 | 572.44 | 1501 | |||
| 208 | Swamphen, African | Porphyrio madagascariensis | 1 | 3.27 | 6 | |||
| 99 | Teal, Blue-billed | Spatula hottentota | 1 | 3.00 | 5 | |||
| 98 | Teal, Cape | Anas capensis | 4 | 19.75 | 84 | |||
| 97 | Teal, Red-billed | Anas erythrorhyncha | 2 | 92.50 | 688 | |||
| 290 | Tern, Caspian | Hydroprogne caspia | 1 | 3.85 | 8 | |||
| 291 | Tern, Common | Sterna hirundo | 1 | 40.55 | 180 | |||
| 298 | Tern, Greater Crested | Thalasseus bergii | 1 | 3.22 | 12 | |||
| 296 | Tern, Sandwich | Thalasseus sandvicensis | 1 | 6.29 | 17 | |||
| 10009 | Tern, Unidentified | N/A N/A | 2 | 4.33 | 9 | |||
| 304 | Tern, White-winged | Chlidonias leucopterus | 1 | 208.22 | 804 | |||
| 274 | Thick-knee, Water | Burhinus vermiculatus | 2 | 5.00 | 9 | |||
| 10008 | Wader, Unidentified | N/A N/A | 300 | 300.00 | 300 | |||
| 686 | Wagtail, Cape | Motacilla capensis | 4 | 57.81 | 121 | |||
| 268 | Whimbrel, Eurasian | Numenius phaeopus | 1 | 1.00 | 1 |
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