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

    Flamingo Pan (28002641)

    Free State
    Card 500234
    Compiler 24
    Location code 28002641Flamingo Pan (Free State)
    Start date 2008-01-23
    Season SSummer
    Start time 08:15
    End time 09:20
    Shoreline covered 75
    Openwater covered 100
    Total Species 8
    Total Count 4759
    Wetland Condition 2Partially full (mid tide for estuaries)
    Wetland Threats
    Count Condition 3Moderate
    Count Type 4Motor vehicle
    Nil Count (No birds present) 0There were CWAC species present
    Notes Because of flamingoes present, only c.75% of shore checked (i.e., with vehicle, for smaller birds, rest of shore scanned with scope on tripod.). Chestnut-banded Plover chicks (2) newly hatched - accompanied by pair of adults (S end of pan). Flamingoes massed along section of shore - counted in groups of 100.
    Survey notes


    Add additional observers
    Observer NumberNameOptions
    0B.D. Colahan
     

    Current data
    Ref #SpeciesCountBreeding
    Pairs    		Breeding
    indicator
    5Grebe, Black-necked
    (Podiceps nigricollis)    		470
    87Flamingo, Lesser
    (Phoeniconaias minor)    		45000
    98Teal, Cape
    (Anas capensis)    		30
    236Plover, Chestnut-banded
    (Charadrius pallidus)    		61Confirmed Breeding
    245Lapwing, Blacksmith
    (Vanellus armatus)    		60
    253Stint, Little
    (Calidris minuta)    		170
    256, Ruff
    (Calidris pugnax)    		10
    288Gull, Grey-headed
    (Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus)    		1790


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

    Sunday 14 December 2025 11:56
    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