Email: CS/ADU no: Password:  
  Forgot/Reset password

    Nylsvley Nature Reserve (24392841)

    Limpopo
    Card 4926
    Compiler 1377
    Location code 24392841Nylsvley Nature Reserve (Limpopo)
    Start date 2003-01-18
    Season SSummer
    Start time 07:30:00
    End time 13:00:00
    Shoreline covered 60
    Openwater covered 60
    Total Species 28
    Total Count 801
    Wetland Condition 3Very little standing water (low tide for estuaries
    Wetland Threats
    Count Condition 4Good
    Count Type 5Mixed
    Nil Count (No birds present) 0There were CWAC species present
    Notes 1
    Survey notes


    Add additional observers
    Observer NumberNameOptions

    Current data
    Ref #SpeciesCountBreeding
    Pairs    		Breeding
    indicator
    6Grebe, Little
    (Tachybaptus ruficollis)    		10
    50Cormorant, Reed
    (Microcarbo africanus)    		10
    54Heron, Grey
    (Ardea cinerea)    		30
    55Heron, Black-headed
    (Ardea melanocephala)    		300
    57Heron, Purple
    (Ardea purpurea)    		30
    58Egret, Great
    (Ardea alba)    		170
    60Egret, Intermediate [x]
    (Ardea intermedia)    		130
    61Egret, Western Cattle
    (Bubulcus ibis)    		4730
    62Heron, Squacco
    (Ardeola ralloides)    		20
    63Heron, Striated
    (Butorides striata)    		10
    72, Hamerkop
    (Scopus umbretta)    		20
    76Stork, Yellow-billed
    (Mycteria ibis)    		10
    79Stork, Black
    (Ciconia nigra)    		20
    81Ibis, African Sacred
    (Threskiornis aethiopicus)    		50
    88Goose, Spur-winged
    (Plectropterus gambensis)    		320
    89Goose, Egyptian
    (Alopochen aegyptiaca)    		80
    91Duck, Knob-billed
    (Sarkidiornis melanotos)    		20
    96Duck, Yellow-billed
    (Anas undulata)    		30
    97Teal, Red-billed
    (Anas erythrorhyncha)    		30
    100Duck, White-faced Whistling
    (Dendrocygna viduata)    		170
    102Pochard, Southern
    (Netta erythrophthalma)    		20
    149Fish Eagle, African
    (Haliaeetus vocifer)    		50Probably Breeding
    203Crake, Black
    (Zaporina flavirostra)    		30
    228Jacana, African
    (Actophilornis africanus)    		600
    245Lapwing, Blacksmith
    (Vanellus armatus)    		1010Confirmed Breeding
    247Lapwing, African Wattled
    (Vanellus senegallus)    		60
    250Snipe, African
    (Gallinago nigripennis)    		40
    397Kingfisher, Malachite
    (Corythornis cristatus)    		10


    FITZ logo   Ramsar Wetlands International http://www.sanbi.org/

    Tuesday 16 December 2025 08:07
    FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology
    Department of Biological Sciences - University of Cape Town

    Creative Commons License
    This work is licensed under a
    Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License