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    Zandvlei: Westlake Wetlands (34071827)

    Western Cape
    Card 507031
    Compiler 10691
    Location code 34071827Zandvlei: Westlake Wetlands (Western Cape)
    Start date 2018-04-21
    Season OOther
    Start time 08:20
    End time 09:45
    Shoreline covered 60
    Openwater covered 65
    Total Species 18
    Total Count 269
    Wetland Condition 2Partially full (mid tide for estuaries)
    Wetland Threats
    Count Condition 4Good
    Count Type 1On foot
    Nil Count (No birds present) 0There were CWAC species present
    Notes "The inflow if the water under the railway bridge was 1 metre per 10 seconds. The mouth of the estuary was closed. We noted that the Keysers River is blocked with invasive water vegetation all the way back past the Military Road bridge. The booms across the Westlake River and the inlets to the Rutter Road Pond are keeping the invasives deflecting in the confluence to be directed into the railway bridge canal into the main waterbody of Zandvlei. The Citys 2 Invasive Species Unit - River Wardens, are now without work after failure of budget allocations in the Citys Procurment Dept for the unit for the 2017 - 2018 financial year. A Zandvlei Trust project kept them employed via funding for an extended project for the Westlake Wetlands. These 2 men have 5 years of skills and knowledge learnt and applied in the area on a daily basis and are now unemployed. We saw a canoeist in a K1 investigating the wetlands who seemed to know his way around, he asked if we saw the Malachite Kingfisher when we spoke to him."
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    Add additional observers
    Observer NumberNameOptions
    0Barry Parker
     
    0Felicity Ellmore
     
    0Linda Hibbin
     
    0Mark Arendse
     
    0Mark Isaacs
     

    Current data
    Ref #SpeciesCountBreeding
    Pairs    		Breeding
    indicator
    47Cormorant, White-breasted
    (Phalacrocorax lucidus)    		160
    50Cormorant, Reed
    (Microcarbo africanus)    		280
    52Darter, African
    (Anhinga rufa)    		90
    55Heron, Black-headed
    (Ardea melanocephala)    		20
    81Ibis, African Sacred
    (Threskiornis aethiopicus)    		80
    84Ibis, Hadada
    (Bostrychia hagedash)    		190
    88Goose, Spur-winged
    (Plectropterus gambensis)    		180
    96Duck, Yellow-billed
    (Anas undulata)    		620
    208Swamphen, African
    (Porphyrio madagascariensis)    		10
    210Moorhen, Common
    (Gallinula chloropus)    		310
    212Coot, Red-knobbed
    (Fulica cristata)    		10
    245Lapwing, Blacksmith
    (Vanellus armatus)    		70
    287Gull, Kelp
    (Larus dominicanus)    		10
    289Gull, Hartlaub's
    (Chroicocephalus hartlaubii)    		60
    394Kingfisher, Pied
    (Ceryle rudis)    		90
    397Kingfisher, Malachite
    (Corythornis cristatus)    		20
    1016, Mallard
    (Anas platyrhynchos)    		50
    10004Goose, Domestic
    (Anser anser)    		440


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    Wednesday 01 May 2024 03:16
    FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology
    Department of Biological Sciences - University of Cape Town

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