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    Nylsvley Nature Reserve (24392841)

    Limpopo
    Card 506196
    Compiler 1511
    Location code 24392841Nylsvley Nature Reserve (Limpopo)
    Start date 2016-07-16
    Season WWinter
    Start time 07:45
    End time 17:45
    Shoreline covered 80
    Openwater covered 100
    Total Species 4
    Total Count 8
    Wetland Condition 5Dry
    Wetland Threats
    Count Condition 1Bad
    Count Type 5Mixed
    Nil Count (No birds present) 0There were CWAC species present
    Notes I have noted the count conditions as "bad", because the habitat at the moment is not conducive to water birds. We did not see any open water and any puddles which may have been there are completely dry. Visibility was good. The evenings and mornings were cold, but during the day it warmed up. Because we saw so few birds, we took the opportunity to visit the proposed sites for the Volspruit mine. There was no sign of any activity, but I have contact numbers. There is extensive agriculture in the vicinity as well as game farms, some of which have gone to huge expense to fence their properties. It would be wise to contact these farmers in regard to proposed mine. The single Eqyptian Goose was flying over in the evening, obviously going to somewhere else. The African Fish-Eagle was on the nest and assumed to be breeding.
    Survey notes


    Add additional observers
    Observer NumberNameOptions
    0V Engelbrecht
     
    1750Alan Forsyth
     
    1926Alison Hanson
     
    2094Bev Carstens
     
    2256Jeanne THOMAS
     
    6624Joan Strugnell
     

    Current data
    Ref #SpeciesCountBreeding
    Pairs    		Breeding
    indicator
    89Goose, Egyptian
    (Alopochen aegyptiaca)    		10
    149Fish Eagle, African
    (Haliaeetus vocifer)    		10Probably Breeding
    245Lapwing, Blacksmith
    (Vanellus armatus)    		50
    247Lapwing, African Wattled
    (Vanellus senegallus)    		10


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    Tuesday 16 December 2025 08:06
    FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology
    Department of Biological Sciences - University of Cape Town

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