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

    Berg River 13: Springersbaai Floodplain (32481813)

    Western Cape
    Card 511335
    Compiler 21274
    Location code 32481813Berg River 13: Springersbaai Floodplain (Western Cape)
    Start date 2023-07-17
    Season WWinter
    Start time 10:05
    End time 10:50
    Shoreline covered 100
    Openwater covered 100
    Total Species 32
    Total Count 155
    Wetland Condition 3Very little standing water (low tide for estuaries
    Wetland Threats 6Agriculture along drying margings
    Count Condition 5Ideal
    Count Type 5Mixed
    Nil Count (No birds present) 0There were CWAC species present
    Notes Count by vehicle/ on foot. Floodplain and parts of surrounding agricultural land (much of it transformed estuarine functional zone) flooded. Some of Kittlitz's Plover in flooded field colour-ringed.
    Survey notes


    Add additional observers
    Observer NumberNameOptions
    0Jessica Wilmot
     

    Current data
    Ref #SpeciesCountBreeding
    Pairs    		Breeding
    indicator
    6Grebe, Little
    (Tachybaptus ruficollis)    		20
    47Cormorant, White-breasted
    (Phalacrocorax lucidus)    		30
    48Cormorant, Cape
    (Phalacrocorax capensis)    		30
    50Cormorant, Reed
    (Microcarbo africanus)    		70
    52Darter, African
    (Anhinga rufa)    		10
    59Egret, Little
    (Egretta garzetta)    		30
    81Ibis, African Sacred
    (Threskiornis aethiopicus)    		20
    84Ibis, Hadada
    (Bostrychia hagedash)    		250
    88Goose, Spur-winged
    (Plectropterus gambensis)    		40
    89Goose, Egyptian
    (Alopochen aegyptiaca)    		20
    90Shelduck, South African
    (Tadorna cana)    		10
    94Shoveler, Cape
    (Anas smithii)    		40
    96Duck, Yellow-billed
    (Anas undulata)    		20
    98Teal, Cape
    (Anas capensis)    		20
    167Harrier, African Marsh
    (Circus ranivorus)    		31Probably Breeding
    212Coot, Red-knobbed
    (Fulica cristata)    		200
    237Plover, Kittlitz's
    (Charadrius pecuarius)    		150
    238Plover, Three-banded
    (Charadrius tricollaris)    		10
    245Lapwing, Blacksmith
    (Vanellus armatus)    		20
    251Sandpiper, Curlew
    (Calidris ferruginea)    		100
    253Stint, Little
    (Calidris minuta)    		150
    263Greenshank, Common
    (Tringa nebularia)    		20
    267Curlew, Eurasian
    (Numenius arquata)    		10
    268Whimbrel, Eurasian
    (Numenius phaeopus)    		10
    269Avocet, Pied
    (Recurvirostra avosetta)    		30
    270Stilt, Black-winged
    (Himantopus himantopus)    		60
    287Gull, Kelp
    (Larus dominicanus)    		10
    289Gull, Hartlaub's
    (Chroicocephalus hartlaubii)    		40
    291Tern, Common
    (Sterna hirundo)    		20
    298Tern, Greater Crested
    (Thalasseus bergii)    		20
    394Kingfisher, Pied
    (Ceryle rudis)    		00
    686Wagtail, Cape
    (Motacilla capensis)    		60


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

    Sunday 02 November 2025 07:40
    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