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

    Premier Dam (25482851)

    Gauteng
    Card 500172
    Compiler 613
    Location code 25482851Premier Dam (Gauteng)
    Start date 2008-01-24
    Season SSummer
    Start time 06:50
    End time 08:51
    Shoreline covered 70
    Openwater covered 80
    Total Species 22
    Total Count 96
    Wetland Condition 1Full (High tide for estuaries)
    Wetland Threats
    Count Condition 3Moderate
    Count Type 2by Boat
    Nil Count (No birds present) 0There were CWAC species present
    Notes Entrance to Bronkhorstspruit River choked with 100m wide raft of Water Hyacinth making access impossible. Only main dam and Wilge River were counted. Wilge River in flood. Species sheet Notes
    Survey notes


    Add additional observers
    Observer NumberNameOptions
    0C. Whittington-Jones
     
    0S. West
     

    Current data
    Ref #SpeciesCountBreeding
    Pairs    		Breeding
    indicator
    47Cormorant, White-breasted
    (Phalacrocorax lucidus)    		40
    52Darter, African
    (Anhinga rufa)    		30
    58Egret, Great
    (Ardea alba)    		10
    61Egret, Western Cattle
    (Bubulcus ibis)    		70
    64Heron, Black
    (Egretta ardesiaca)    		20
    67Bittern, Little
    (Ixobrychus minutus)    		10
    84Ibis, Hadada
    (Bostrychia hagedash)    		60
    88Goose, Spur-winged
    (Plectropterus gambensis)    		20
    89Goose, Egyptian
    (Alopochen aegyptiaca)    		120
    96Duck, Yellow-billed
    (Anas undulata)    		180
    149Fish Eagle, African
    (Haliaeetus vocifer)    		10
    197Rail, African
    (Rallus caerulescens)    		10
    203Crake, Black
    (Zaporina flavirostra)    		20
    208Swamphen, African
    (Porphyrio madagascariensis)    		10
    210Moorhen, Common
    (Gallinula chloropus)    		20
    212Coot, Red-knobbed
    (Fulica cristata)    		10
    228Jacana, African
    (Actophilornis africanus)    		10
    245Lapwing, Blacksmith
    (Vanellus armatus)    		140
    394Kingfisher, Pied
    (Ceryle rudis)    		120
    397Kingfisher, Malachite
    (Corythornis cristatus)    		10
    686Wagtail, Cape
    (Motacilla capensis)    		20
    10014Duck, Unidentified
    (Anas sp.)    		20


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

    Sunday 28 December 2025 02:52
    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