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    Onrus River Estuary (34241910)

    Western Cape
    Card 512122
    Compiler 430
    Location code 34241910Onrus River Estuary (Western Cape)
    Start date 2022-02-08
    Season SSummer
    Start time 16:20
    End time 16:50
    Shoreline covered 10
    Openwater covered 80
    Total Species 6
    Total Count 19
    Wetland Condition 0
    Wetland Threats 3Overgrown by alien vegetation
    Count Condition 5Ideal
    Count Type 1On foot
    Nil Count (No birds present) 0There were CWAC species present
    Notes From an email: You will recall that I have twice reported nil CWAC counts at the lagoon. Look at what we had recorded casually over the last two days. I am working on a report for the newsletter. Species recorded by Johan van der Westhuizen at the lagoon on Monday 30 May: Levaillant's Cisticola, Reed Cormorant, White-faced Whistling Duck, Yellow-billed Duck, Little Egret, Western Cattle Egret, Egyptian Goose, Hadeda, Sacred Ibis, Common Moorhen, African Swamphen and Lesser Swamp Warbler. Other species: Southern Fiscal, Cape Weaver. Additional species recorded on Tuesday 31 May: Red-knobbed Coot, African Darter, Black-crowned Night Heron, Black-headed Heron, Grey Heron, Pied Kingfisher and Little Rush Warbler.
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    Current data
    Ref #SpeciesCountBreeding
    Pairs    		Breeding
    indicator
    61Egret, Western Cattle
    (Bubulcus ibis)    		60
    81Ibis, African Sacred
    (Threskiornis aethiopicus)    		60
    84Ibis, Hadada
    (Bostrychia hagedash)    		20
    89Goose, Egyptian
    (Alopochen aegyptiaca)    		10
    394Kingfisher, Pied
    (Ceryle rudis)    		20
    686Wagtail, Cape
    (Motacilla capensis)    		20Probably Breeding


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    Tuesday 26 May 2026 02:47
    FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology
    Department of Biological Sciences - University of Cape Town

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