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Panfontein (26432800)

Gauteng

CWAC status REGISTERED-COUNTED REGULARLY
Authority Sky Sand Mine owned by Everite
Management status
Conservation status UNPROTECTED
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Date_registered
2020-10-09
Brief_description
Pan is fed by a spring situated amongst a clump of Populier trees. Spring has never dried up, according to Manager Peet Herbts, Bad part is the Suikerbosch Treatment Plant of Rand Water dumps the overflow from their settling ponds into the system from time to time. The pan is situated in grassland with a fair amount of exotic trees around it and a fair amount of reeds in the pan.

SppCommon nameTaxonomic nameMinAvgMaxIBASubregional
IBA
RAMSAR
72, HamerkopScopus umbretta11.001   
256, RuffCalidris pugnax100100.00100  
269Avocet, PiedRecurvirostra avosetta114.2028   
212Coot, Red-knobbedFulica cristata1658.67230   
50Cormorant, ReedMicrocarbo africanus16.7513   
47Cormorant, White-breastedPhalacrocorax lucidus13.676   
203Crake, BlackZaporina flavirostra33.003
52Darter, AfricanAnhinga rufa17.7510   
10014Duck, UnidentifiedAnas sp.99.009
100Duck, White-faced WhistlingDendrocygna viduata28.5028   
96Duck, Yellow-billedAnas undulata221.8862   
58Egret, GreatArdea alba11.001   
60Egret, IntermediateArdea intermedia11.001   
59Egret, LittleEgretta garzetta11.803   
61Egret, Western CattleBubulcus ibis19.0017   
149Fish Eagle, AfricanHaliaeetus vocifer11.001
86Flamingo, GreaterPhoenicopterus roseus1339.8088   
87Flamingo, LesserPhoeniconaias minor9106.60383   
89Goose, EgyptianAlopochen aegyptiaca631.89145   
88Goose, Spur-wingedPlectropterus gambensis46.2011   
5Grebe, Black-neckedPodiceps nigricollis11.001   
4Grebe, Great CrestedPodiceps cristatus33.504   
6Grebe, LittleTachybaptus ruficollis38.0017   
263Greenshank, CommonTringa nebularia44.004   
288Gull, Grey-headedChroicocephalus cirrocephalus617.0025   
64Heron, BlackEgretta ardesiaca33.505   
55Heron, Black-headedArdea melanocephala12.575   
56Heron, GoliathArdea goliath11.863   
54Heron, GreyArdea cinerea12.174   
57Heron, PurpleArdea purpurea22.002   
62Heron, SquaccoArdeola ralloides12.503   
81Ibis, African SacredThreskiornis aethiopicus13.757   
83Ibis, GlossyPlegadis falcinellus635.0064   
84Ibis, HadadaBostrychia hagedash38.6321   
396Kingfisher, Half-collaredAlcedo semitorquata22.002
397Kingfisher, MalachiteCorythornis cristatus34.506
247Lapwing, African WattledVanellus senegallus11.001   
245Lapwing, BlacksmithVanellus armatus1635.3368   
210Moorhen, CommonGallinula chloropus28.0019   
361Owl, MarshAsio capensis11.001
237Plover, Kittlitz'sCharadrius pecuarius212.6724   
238Plover, Three-bandedCharadrius tricollaris1414.5015   
102Pochard, SouthernNetta erythrophthalma25.008   
258Sandpiper, CommonActitis hypoleucos11.001  
262Sandpiper, MarshTringa stagnatilis14.007   
90Shelduck, South AfricanTadorna cana416.0047   
94Shoveler, CapeAnas smithii417.1353   
250Snipe, AfricanGallinago nigripennis22.803   
85Spoonbill, AfricanPlatalea alba11.804   
270Stilt, Black-wingedHimantopus himantopus16.8011   
253Stint, LittleCalidris minuta66.006   
76Stork, Yellow-billedMycteria ibis35.256   
208Swamphen, AfricanPorphyrio madagascariensis13.005  
99Teal, Blue-billedAnas hottentota312.0021   
98Teal, CapeAnas capensis49.8016   
97Teal, Red-billedAnas erythrorhyncha410.3323   
290Tern, CaspianHydroprogne caspia11.502   
305Tern, WhiskeredChlidonias hybrida17.6715   
304Tern, White-wingedChlidonias leucopterus16.6716   
686Wagtail, CapeMotacilla capensis26.1424
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Monday 09 December 2024 06:54
FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology
Department of Biological Sciences - University of Cape Town

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