Mavuya Pan (28303212) | |
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KwaZulu-Natal | |
| CWAC status | REGISTERED-COUNTED REGULARLY |
| Authority | Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife |
| Management status | UNKNOWN |
| Conservation status | UNKNOWN |
| IBA information | |
| Ramsar information | |
| Heritage information | |
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Information |
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| Date_registered |
| 1994-07-22 |
| Brief_description |
| A semi-permanent freshwater pan with fringing and emergent vegetation and variably extensive Nymphaea cover; a causeway crosses the pan at its narrowest (central) point. Compared to summer totals, winter counts of the commoner bird species are high, often because of exceptionally good counts in a single winter: Reed Cormorant, African Spoonbill, Grey Heron, Great White Heron, Egyptian Goose and Yellowbilled Stork in 1994; Yellowbilled Egret, Cattle Egret and Spurwinged Goose in 1995 (note high biomass figure due to Spurwing numbers); Whitebacked Duck and Redbilled Teal in 1997. Blackwinged Stilt is recorded only in winter. Variation in African Jacana numbers presumably reflects variations in floating vegetation cover. Potential threats are duck hunting and the replacement of grassland by sugar cane. |
| Spp | Common name | Taxonomic name | Min | Avg | Max | IBA | Subregional IBA | RAMSAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 72 | Scopus umbretta | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | ||||
| 256 | Calidris pugnax | 1 | 59.33 | 116 | ||||
| 269 | Avocet, Pied | Recurvirostra avosetta | 4 | 5.00 | 6 | |||
| 212 | Coot, Red-knobbed | Fulica cristata | 1 | 38.50 | 136 | |||
| 50 | Cormorant, Reed | Microcarbo africanus | 1 | 10.68 | 65 | |||
| 47 | Cormorant, White-breasted | Phalacrocorax lucidus | 1 | 1.33 | 3 | |||
| 203 | Crake, Black | Zaporina flavirostra | 1 | 2.60 | 8 | |||
| 52 | Darter, African | Anhinga rufa | 1 | 2.55 | 8 | |||
| 101 | Duck, Fulvous Whistling | Dendrocygna bicolor | 3 | 56.10 | 264 | |||
| 91 | Duck, Knob-billed | Sarkidiornis melanotos | 3 | 3.00 | 3 | |||
| 10014 | Duck, Unidentified | Anas sp. | 2 | 17.50 | 70 | |||
| 104 | Duck, White-backed | Thalassornis leuconotus | 1 | 38.88 | 162 | 110 | ||
| 100 | Duck, White-faced Whistling | Dendrocygna viduata | 1 | 77.86 | 574 | |||
| 96 | Duck, Yellow-billed | Anas undulata | 1 | 16.83 | 83 | |||
| 58 | Egret, Great | Ardea alba | 1 | 10.50 | 119 | |||
| 60 | Egret, Intermediate | Ardea intermedia | 3 | 18.75 | 40 | |||
| 59 | Egret, Little | Egretta garzetta | 1 | 3.60 | 22 | |||
| 61 | Egret, Western Cattle | Bubulcus ibis | 1 | 21.56 | 150 | |||
| 149 | Fish Eagle, African | Haliaeetus vocifer | 1 | 1.57 | 4 | |||
| 92 | Goose, African Pygmy | Nettapus auritus | 1 | 16.80 | 90 | |||
| 89 | Goose, Egyptian | Alopochen aegyptiaca | 1 | 12.06 | 84 | |||
| 88 | Goose, Spur-winged | Plectropterus gambensis | 1 | 102.17 | 979 | 710 | ||
| 6 | Grebe, Little | Tachybaptus ruficollis | 1 | 9.47 | 33 | |||
| 263 | Greenshank, Common | Tringa nebularia | 2 | 4.75 | 8 | |||
| 167 | Harrier, African Marsh | Circus ranivorus | 1 | 1.08 | 2 | |||
| 64 | Heron, Black | Egretta ardesiaca | 3 | 3.00 | 3 | |||
| 55 | Heron, Black-headed | Ardea melanocephala | 1 | 1.40 | 2 | |||
| 56 | Heron, Goliath | Ardea goliath | 1 | 1.46 | 3 | |||
| 54 | Heron, Grey | Ardea cinerea | 1 | 4.20 | 11 | |||
| 57 | Heron, Purple | Ardea purpurea | 1 | 2.45 | 5 | |||
| 62 | Heron, Squacco | Ardeola ralloides | 1 | 3.00 | 13 | |||
| 81 | Ibis, African Sacred | Threskiornis aethiopicus | 1 | 1.67 | 4 | |||
| 83 | Ibis, Glossy | Plegadis falcinellus | 1 | 3.71 | 12 | |||
| 228 | Jacana, African | Actophilornis africanus | 1 | 28.41 | 96 | |||
| 229 | Jacana, Lesser | Microparra capensis | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 397 | Kingfisher, Malachite | Corythornis cristatus | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 394 | Kingfisher, Pied | Ceryle rudis | 1 | 1.53 | 3 | |||
| 247 | Lapwing, African Wattled | Vanellus senegallus | 2 | 4.33 | 6 | |||
| 245 | Lapwing, Blacksmith | Vanellus armatus | 1 | 3.25 | 9 | |||
| 210 | Moorhen, Common | Gallinula chloropus | 1 | 17.87 | 156 | |||
| 172 | Osprey, Western | Pandion haliaetus | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 42 | Pelican, Great White | Pelecanus onocrotalus | 5 | 18.00 | 31 | |||
| 41 | Pelican, Pink-backed | Pelecanus rufescens | 1 | 3.00 | 4 | |||
| 238 | Plover, Three-banded | Charadrius tricollaris | 1 | 2.67 | 6 | |||
| 102 | Pochard, Southern | Netta erythrophthalma | 1 | 5.25 | 15 | |||
| 281 | Pratincole, Collared | Glareola pratincola | 2 | 5.67 | 8 | |||
| 197 | Rail, African | Rallus caerulescens | 1 | 1.25 | 2 | -1 | ||
| 258 | Sandpiper, Common | Actitis hypoleucos | 3 | 3.00 | 3 | |||
| 251 | Sandpiper, Curlew | Calidris ferruginea | 113 | 113.00 | 113 | |||
| 94 | Shoveler, Cape | Anas smithii | 2 | 2.00 | 2 | |||
| 85 | Spoonbill, African | Platalea alba | 1 | 14.00 | 39 | |||
| 270 | Stilt, Black-winged | Himantopus himantopus | 3 | 18.11 | 54 | |||
| 75 | Stork, Saddle-billed | Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 80 | Stork, White | Ciconia ciconia | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 77 | Stork, Woolly-necked | Ciconia episcopus | 1 | 3.00 | 5 | |||
| 76 | Stork, Yellow-billed | Mycteria ibis | 7 | 19.00 | 31 | |||
| 208 | Swamphen, African | Porphyrio madagascariensis | 1 | 10.50 | 36 | |||
| 99 | Teal, Blue-billed | Anas hottentota | 1 | 9.40 | 36 | |||
| 97 | Teal, Red-billed | Anas erythrorhyncha | 3 | 8.60 | 22 | |||
| 290 | Tern, Caspian | Hydroprogne caspia | 1 | 2.50 | 4 | |||
| 298 | Tern, Greater Crested | Thalasseus bergii | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 299 | Tern, Little | Sternula albifrons | 3 | 4.00 | 5 | |||
| 10009 | Tern, Unidentified | N/A N/A | 2 | 3.00 | 4 | |||
| 305 | Tern, Whiskered | Chlidonias hybrida | 5 | 8.00 | 11 | |||
| 304 | Tern, White-winged | Chlidonias leucopterus | 1 | 4.67 | 12 | |||
| 10008 | Wader, Unidentified | N/A N/A | 1 | 4.91 | 24 | |||
| 686 | Wagtail, Cape | Motacilla capensis | 1 | 1.00 | 1 |
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