Diepsloot Nature Reserve (25572800) | |
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Gauteng | |
CWAC status | REGISTERED-COUNTED REGULARLY |
Authority | Private |
Management status | LOCAL GAME/NATURE RESERVE |
Conservation status | PROTECTED |
IBA information | SA018- Magaliesberg & Witwatersberg |
Ramsar information | |
Heritage information | |
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Information |
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Date_registered |
1993-07-01 |
Brief_description |
Includes 11 small dams and pans of the Johannesburg Northern Sewage Works. Diepsloot is a sewage farm with cattle pastures, maize and large reedbeds. Waterbirds are numerous and varied, with peak numbers of cormorants, Darter, egrets, Sacred and Glossy Ibises, and most shorebirds, occurring in summer, and of Dabchick, Hadeda, Southern Pochard, Spurwinged Goose, Red- knobbed Coot and Wattled Plover in winter; Egyptian Goose is common all year. There were exceptionally high winter counts of Whitefaced Duck in 1994 and of Yellowbilled Duck in 1996 and 1997. Little Bittern, Redchested Flufftail, Black Crake and Purple Gallinule occur. There appears to be an overall decline in species numbers and winter count totals. Threats include cattle grazing / trampling, informal housing, and poaching. |
Spp | Common name | Taxonomic name | Min | Avg | Max | IBA | Subregional IBA | RAMSAR |
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72 | , Hamerkop | Scopus umbretta | 1 | 1.89 | 4 | |||
1016 | , Mallard | Anas platyrhynchos | 1 | 1.33 | 2 | |||
256 | , Ruff | Calidris pugnax | 27 | 27.00 | 27 | |||
67 | Bittern, Little | Ixobrychus minutus | 1 | 2.00 | 4 | |||
212 | Coot, Red-knobbed | Fulica cristata | 17 | 99.30 | 252 | |||
50 | Cormorant, Reed | Microcarbo africanus | 1 | 21.97 | 96 | |||
47 | Cormorant, White-breasted | Phalacrocorax lucidus | 1 | 8.24 | 42 | |||
199 | Crake, African | Crex egregia | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | -1 | ||
203 | Crake, Black | Zaporina flavirostra | 1 | 4.77 | 14 | |||
52 | Darter, African | Anhinga rufa | 1 | 15.00 | 41 | |||
95 | Duck, African Black | Anas sparsa | 1 | 2.92 | 10 | |||
10006 | Duck, Domestic | Anas platyrhynchos domesticus | 1 | 1.50 | 2 | |||
101 | Duck, Fulvous Whistling | Dendrocygna bicolor | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
10005 | Duck, Hybrid | Anas hybrid | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
91 | Duck, Knob-billed | Sarkidiornis melanotos | 1 | 5.36 | 20 | |||
103 | Duck, Maccoa | Oxyura maccoa | 1 | 1.67 | 2 | |||
1298 | Duck, Tufted | Aythya fuligula | 2 | 2.00 | 2 | |||
104 | Duck, White-backed | Thalassornis leuconotus | 3 | 3.00 | 3 | |||
100 | Duck, White-faced Whistling | Dendrocygna viduata | 2 | 66.93 | 672 | |||
96 | Duck, Yellow-billed | Anas undulata | 9 | 105.70 | 245 | |||
58 | Egret, Great | Ardea alba | 1 | 1.44 | 3 | |||
60 | Egret, Intermediate | Ardea intermedia | 1 | 2.06 | 5 | |||
59 | Egret, Little | Egretta garzetta | 1 | 2.29 | 6 | |||
61 | Egret, Western Cattle | Bubulcus ibis | 1 | 61.83 | 364 | |||
149 | Fish Eagle, African | Haliaeetus vocifer | 1 | 1.41 | 3 | |||
205 | Flufftail, Red-chested | Sarothrura rufa | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
89 | Goose, Egyptian | Alopochen aegyptiaca | 35 | 170.91 | 449 | |||
88 | Goose, Spur-winged | Plectropterus gambensis | 1 | 24.50 | 106 | |||
5 | Grebe, Black-necked | Podiceps nigricollis | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
4 | Grebe, Great Crested | Podiceps cristatus | 1 | 3.18 | 9 | |||
6 | Grebe, Little | Tachybaptus ruficollis | 1 | 35.21 | 90 | |||
263 | Greenshank, Common | Tringa nebularia | 2 | 2.00 | 2 | |||
288 | Gull, Grey-headed | Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus | 2 | 15.33 | 65 | |||
10010 | Gull, Unidentified | Lanus sp. | 2 | 2.00 | 2 | |||
167 | Harrier, African Marsh | Circus ranivorus | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
64 | Heron, Black | Egretta ardesiaca | 1 | 1.50 | 4 | |||
55 | Heron, Black-headed | Ardea melanocephala | 1 | 6.21 | 24 | |||
56 | Heron, Goliath | Ardea goliath | 1 | 2.09 | 6 | |||
54 | Heron, Grey | Ardea cinerea | 1 | 2.59 | 10 | |||
57 | Heron, Purple | Ardea purpurea | 1 | 1.86 | 5 | |||
62 | Heron, Squacco | Ardeola ralloides | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
63 | Heron, Striated | Butorides striata | 1 | 1.88 | 7 | |||
81 | Ibis, African Sacred | Threskiornis aethiopicus | 1 | 71.57 | 322 | |||
83 | Ibis, Glossy | Plegadis falcinellus | 1 | 48.00 | 223 | |||
84 | Ibis, Hadada | Bostrychia hagedash | 4 | 154.35 | 526 | 500 | ||
228 | Jacana, African | Actophilornis africanus | 1 | 1.40 | 2 | |||
395 | Kingfisher, Giant | Megaceryle maxima | 1 | 1.63 | 2 | |||
397 | Kingfisher, Malachite | Corythornis cristatus | 1 | 1.50 | 3 | |||
394 | Kingfisher, Pied | Ceryle rudis | 1 | 1.89 | 4 | |||
247 | Lapwing, African Wattled | Vanellus senegallus | 1 | 28.32 | 90 | |||
245 | Lapwing, Blacksmith | Vanellus armatus | 10 | 52.68 | 191 | |||
509 | Martin, Brown-throated | Riparia paludicola | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
210 | Moorhen, Common | Gallinula chloropus | 6 | 17.83 | 43 | |||
211 | Moorhen, Lesser | Paragallinula angulata | 9 | 9.00 | 9 | |||
69 | Night Heron, Black-crowned | Nycticorax nycticorax | 1 | 1.75 | 2 | |||
74 | Openbill, African | Anastomus lamelligerus | 2 | 2.00 | 2 | |||
361 | Owl, Marsh | Asio capensis | 1 | 1.40 | 3 | |||
886 | Pintail, Northern | Anas acuta | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
238 | Plover, Three-banded | Charadrius tricollaris | 1 | 4.27 | 13 | |||
1332 | Pochard, Red-crested | Netta rufina | 1 | 3.17 | 4 | |||
102 | Pochard, Southern | Netta erythrophthalma | 1 | 19.53 | 75 | |||
197 | Rail, African | Rallus caerulescens | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | -1 | ||
258 | Sandpiper, Common | Actitis hypoleucos | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
262 | Sandpiper, Marsh | Tringa stagnatilis | 1 | 1.33 | 2 | |||
264 | Sandpiper, Wood | Tringa glareola | 1 | 2.92 | 8 | |||
90 | Shelduck, South African | Tadorna cana | 1 | 1.33 | 2 | |||
1340 | Shelduck, Ruddy | Tadorna ferruginea | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
94 | Shoveler, Cape | Anas smithii | 1 | 8.00 | 31 | |||
250 | Snipe, African | Gallinago nigripennis | 1 | 2.27 | 6 | |||
85 | Spoonbill, African | Platalea alba | 1 | 2.17 | 5 | |||
270 | Stilt, Black-winged | Himantopus himantopus | 2 | 3.00 | 4 | |||
208 | Swamphen, African | Porphyrio madagascariensis | 1 | 7.44 | 17 | |||
10007 | Swan, Black | Cygnus atratus | 2 | 2.00 | 2 | |||
99 | Teal, Blue-billed | Anas hottentota | 1 | 2.00 | 4 | |||
98 | Teal, Cape | Anas capensis | 1 | 2.25 | 4 | |||
97 | Teal, Red-billed | Anas erythrorhyncha | 1 | 3.00 | 5 | |||
305 | Tern, Whiskered | Chlidonias hybrida | 1 | 1.50 | 2 | |||
304 | Tern, White-winged | Chlidonias leucopterus | 1 | 62.25 | 163 | |||
274 | Thick-knee, Water | Burhinus vermiculatus | 2 | 2.00 | 2 | |||
10008 | Wader, Unidentified | N/A N/A | 1 | 3.00 | 5 | |||
685 | Wagtail, African Pied | Motacilla aguimp | 1 | 1.50 | 2 | |||
686 | Wagtail, Cape | Motacilla capensis | 1 | 3.81 | 9 | |||
689 | Wagtail, Western Yellow | Motacilla flava | 1 | 1.33 | 2 |