Du Toit's Pan (28462448) | |
|---|---|
Northern Cape | |
| CWAC status | REGISTERED-COUNTED REGULARLY |
| Authority | Northern Cape Department of Tourism, Environment and Conservation |
| Management status | UNKNOWN |
| Conservation status | UNKNOWN |
| IBA information | |
| Ramsar information | |
| Heritage information | |
| View Cards | No |
Information |
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| Date_registered |
| 1996-01-23 |
| Brief_description |
| A pan in a mining area near Kimberley; receives water from mines and a sewage farm. Comprises two pans separated by Phragmites reedbeds; one has open water and reeds, the other has mudflats when water is low. Counts have been in progress since summer 1996 and have identified 30 waterbird species. The summer 1997 count totalled only 75 birds, whereas in summer 1996, 643 birds were counted, including the maximum counts of all the Palearctic shorebirds except Little Stint, and also the maxima for Blackwinged Stilt, Whitewinged Tern, Yellowbilled Duck, Cape and Redbilled Teal, and Cape Shoveller. Numbers of Dabchick, Reed Cormorant, Darter, Moorhen and Redknobbed Coot peak in winter, and the only record of Lesser Flamingo, 289 birds, was in winter 1996. Bird movements occur between this pan and other wetlands in the Kimberley area, including Kamfers Dam. An important threat is pollution from sewage; mild threats are reed encroachment, and boating on the open pan. |
| Spp | Common name | Taxonomic name | Min | Avg | Max | IBA | Subregional IBA | RAMSAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 256 | Calidris pugnax | 2 | 270.60 | 1102 | ||||
| 269 | Avocet, Pied | Recurvirostra avosetta | 1 | 2.25 | 5 | |||
| 67 | Bittern, Little | Ixobrychus minutus | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 212 | Coot, Red-knobbed | Fulica cristata | 2 | 64.13 | 188 | |||
| 50 | Cormorant, Reed | Microcarbo africanus | 1 | 6.29 | 19 | |||
| 47 | Cormorant, White-breasted | Phalacrocorax lucidus | 1 | 4.50 | 13 | |||
| 52 | Darter, African | Anhinga rufa | 1 | 4.29 | 12 | |||
| 95 | Duck, African Black | Anas sparsa | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 91 | Duck, Knob-billed | Sarkidiornis melanotos | 3 | 3.00 | 3 | |||
| 96 | Duck, Yellow-billed | Anas undulata | 3 | 17.89 | 72 | |||
| 61 | Egret, Western Cattle | Bubulcus ibis | 1 | 10.25 | 24 | |||
| 149 | Fish Eagle, African | Haliaeetus vocifer | 1 | 1.33 | 2 | |||
| 87 | Flamingo, Lesser | Phoeniconaias minor | 289 | 289.00 | 289 | |||
| 10004 | Goose, Domestic | Anser anser domesticus | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 89 | Goose, Egyptian | Alopochen aegyptiaca | 3 | 4.00 | 5 | |||
| 88 | Goose, Spur-winged | Plectropterus gambensis | 2 | 2.00 | 2 | |||
| 6 | Grebe, Little | Tachybaptus ruficollis | 3 | 15.50 | 27 | |||
| 288 | Gull, Grey-headed | Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus | 1 | 5.25 | 12 | |||
| 55 | Heron, Black-headed | Ardea melanocephala | 2 | 2.00 | 2 | |||
| 56 | Heron, Goliath | Ardea goliath | 1 | 1.67 | 4 | |||
| 57 | Heron, Purple | Ardea purpurea | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 245 | Lapwing, Blacksmith | Vanellus armatus | 2 | 6.43 | 11 | |||
| 509 | Martin, Brown-throated | Riparia paludicola | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 210 | Moorhen, Common | Gallinula chloropus | 1 | 7.10 | 23 | |||
| 237 | Plover, Kittlitz's | Charadrius pecuarius | 11 | 11.00 | 11 | |||
| 238 | Plover, Three-banded | Charadrius tricollaris | 1 | 3.50 | 9 | |||
| 102 | Pochard, Southern | Netta erythrophthalma | 1 | 4.50 | 7 | |||
| 251 | Sandpiper, Curlew | Calidris ferruginea | 3 | 21.00 | 37 | |||
| 262 | Sandpiper, Marsh | Tringa stagnatilis | 1 | 19.20 | 66 | |||
| 264 | Sandpiper, Wood | Tringa glareola | 1 | 1.67 | 3 | |||
| 90 | Shelduck, South African | Tadorna cana | 1 | 3.38 | 8 | |||
| 94 | Shoveler, Cape | Anas smithii | 2 | 6.20 | 20 | |||
| 270 | Stilt, Black-winged | Himantopus himantopus | 2 | 13.75 | 51 | |||
| 253 | Stint, Little | Calidris minuta | 4 | 31.75 | 90 | |||
| 99 | Teal, Blue-billed | Anas hottentota | 15 | 15.00 | 15 | |||
| 98 | Teal, Cape | Anas capensis | 2 | 9.60 | 26 | |||
| 97 | Teal, Red-billed | Anas erythrorhyncha | 1 | 16.33 | 43 | |||
| 304 | Tern, White-winged | Chlidonias leucopterus | 137 | 137.00 | 137 | |||
| 10008 | Wader, Unidentified | N/A N/A | 1 | 1.67 | 3 | |||
| 686 | Wagtail, Cape | Motacilla capensis | 1 | 2.33 | 4 |
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