Orange River: Fiddlers Creek - Border Post (28431736) | |
|---|---|
Northern Cape | |
| CWAC status | REGISTERED-COUNTED REGULARLY |
| Authority | Northern Cape Department of Tourism, Environment and Conservation |
| Management status | PRIVATE LAND |
| Conservation status | UNKNOWN |
| IBA information | |
| Ramsar information | |
| Heritage information | |
| View Cards | No |
Information |
|---|
| Date_registered |
| 2007-07-28 |
| Brief_description |
| A river section between the Fiddlers Creek camp site and the Noordoewer border bridge. The section is done by boat. |
| Spp | Common name | Taxonomic name | Min | Avg | Max | IBA | Subregional IBA | RAMSAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 212 | Coot, Red-knobbed | Fulica cristata | 3 | 5.50 | 8 | |||
| 50 | Cormorant, Reed | Microcarbo africanus | 4 | 15.11 | 42 | |||
| 47 | Cormorant, White-breasted | Phalacrocorax lucidus | 1 | 6.89 | 17 | |||
| 52 | Darter, African | Anhinga rufa | 4 | 39.40 | 113 | |||
| 95 | Duck, African Black | Anas sparsa | 1 | 2.50 | 5 | |||
| 96 | Duck, Yellow-billed | Anas undulata | 3 | 3.00 | 3 | |||
| 58 | Egret, Great | Ardea alba | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 59 | Egret, Little | Egretta garzetta | 1 | 2.90 | 9 | |||
| 149 | Fish Eagle, African | Haliaeetus vocifer | 2 | 3.00 | 4 | |||
| 10004 | Goose, Domestic | Anser anser domesticus | 1 | 21.50 | 42 | |||
| 89 | Goose, Egyptian | Alopochen aegyptiaca | 1 | 9.00 | 19 | |||
| 88 | Goose, Spur-winged | Plectropterus gambensis | 1 | 3.50 | 6 | |||
| 6 | Grebe, Little | Tachybaptus ruficollis | 1 | 4.00 | 7 | |||
| 55 | Heron, Black-headed | Ardea melanocephala | 5 | 5.00 | 5 | |||
| 56 | Heron, Goliath | Ardea goliath | 1 | 2.43 | 5 | |||
| 54 | Heron, Grey | Ardea cinerea | 1 | 5.67 | 14 | |||
| 62 | Heron, Squacco | Ardeola ralloides | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 81 | Ibis, African Sacred | Threskiornis aethiopicus | 1 | 8.50 | 28 | |||
| 84 | Ibis, Hadada | Bostrychia hagedash | 2 | 9.89 | 30 | |||
| 228 | Jacana, African | Actophilornis africanus | 1 | 1.50 | 2 | |||
| 395 | Kingfisher, Giant | Megaceryle maxima | 1 | 1.17 | 2 | |||
| 397 | Kingfisher, Malachite | Corythornis cristatus | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 394 | Kingfisher, Pied | Ceryle rudis | 3 | 9.67 | 19 | |||
| 245 | Lapwing, Blacksmith | Vanellus armatus | 3 | 16.11 | 39 | |||
| 248 | Lapwing, Long-toed | Vanellus crassirostris | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 210 | Moorhen, Common | Gallinula chloropus | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 238 | Plover, Three-banded | Charadrius tricollaris | 1 | 2.00 | 4 | |||
| 258 | Sandpiper, Common | Actitis hypoleucos | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 90 | Shelduck, South African | Tadorna cana | 2 | 2.00 | 2 | |||
| 98 | Teal, Cape | Anas capensis | 3 | 3.00 | 3 | |||
| 97 | Teal, Red-billed | Anas erythrorhyncha | 2 | 13.00 | 24 | |||
| 10008 | Wader, Unidentified | N/A N/A | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 686 | Wagtail, Cape | Motacilla capensis | 1 | 5.78 | 20 |
Thursday 18 December 2025 04:35
FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology
Department
of Biological Sciences - University of Cape Town
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