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

Rotterdam Pan (27572838)

Free State

CWAC status REGISTERED-COUNTED REGULARLY
Authority Nicolaas Lourens
Management status
Conservation status
IBA information
Ramsar information
Heritage information
View Cards
   

Information 

Date_registered
2026-09-04
Brief_description
Pan in natural depression. 8ha in extent. Large numbers of various waterbirds are regularly encountered there when pan has water in.

SppCommon nameTaxonomic nameMinAvgMaxIBASubregional
IBA
RAMSAR
212Coot, Red-knobbedFulica cristata112141.00170   
47Cormorant, White-breastedPhalacrocorax lucidus22.002   
203Crake, BlackZaporina flavirostra23.004
104Duck, White-backedThalassornis leuconotus18.5016   
100Duck, White-faced WhistlingDendrocygna viduata22.002   
96Duck, Yellow-billedAnas undulata517.5030   
61Egret, Western CattleArdea ibis22.002   
89Goose, EgyptianAlopochen aegyptiaca1624.5033   
88Goose, Spur-wingedPlectropterus gambensis1010.0010   
4Grebe, Great CrestedPodiceps cristatus11.502   
6Grebe, LittleTachybaptus ruficollis512.5020   
169Harrier, BlackCircus maurus11.001
55Heron, Black-headedArdea melanocephala1618.0020   
54Heron, GreyArdea cinerea11.001   
62Heron, SquaccoArdeola ralloides11.001   
81Ibis, African SacredThreskiornis aethiopicus11.001   
84Ibis, HadadaBostrychia hagedash27.0012   
245Lapwing, BlacksmithVanellus armatus814.0020   
210Moorhen, CommonGallinula chloropus56.508   
69Night Heron, Black-crownedNycticorax nycticorax11.001   
238Plover, Three-bandedAnarhynchus tricollaris22.002   
90Shelduck, South AfricanTadorna cana22.002   
94Shoveler, CapeAnas smithii1212.0012   
208Swamphen, AfricanPorphyrio madagascariensis22.002  
97Teal, Red-billedAnas erythrorhyncha1416.5019   
686Wagtail, CapeMotacilla capensis14.508
FITZ logo   Ramsar Wetlands International https://www.sanbi.org/

Tuesday 10 November 2026 03:54
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