Port Nolloth Salt Pan (29141652) | |
|---|---|
Northern Cape | |
| CWAC status | NEWLY REGISTERED |
| Authority | Northern Cape Department of Tourism, Environment and Conservation |
| Management status | TOWN COUNCIL PROPERTY |
| Conservation status | UNPROTECTED |
| IBA information | |
| Ramsar information | |
| Heritage information | |
| View Cards | No |
Information |
|---|
| Date_registered |
| 2007-07-14 |
| Brief_description |
| This site comprises the salt pan just towards the north of Port Nolloth. |
| Spp | Common name | Taxonomic name | Min | Avg | Max | IBA | Subregional IBA | RAMSAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 256 | Calidris pugnax | 1 | 7.82 | 21 | ||||
| 4150 | Albatross, Shy | Thalassarche cauta | 5 | 5.00 | 5 | |||
| 269 | Avocet, Pied | Recurvirostra avosetta | 2 | 8.92 | 48 | |||
| 212 | Coot, Red-knobbed | Fulica cristata | 1 | 4.24 | 12 | |||
| 10014 | Duck, Unidentified | Anas sp. | 6 | 6.00 | 6 | |||
| 96 | Duck, Yellow-billed | Anas undulata | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 59 | Egret, Little | Egretta garzetta | 1 | 5.00 | 12 | |||
| 86 | Flamingo, Greater | Phoenicopterus roseus | 4 | 18.00 | 32 | |||
| 87 | Flamingo, Lesser | Phoeniconaias minor | 3 | 25.22 | 63 | |||
| 10016 | Flamingo, Unidentified | Phoeniconaias sp. | 27 | 27.00 | 27 | |||
| 89 | Goose, Egyptian | Alopochen aegyptiaca | 1 | 1.67 | 2 | |||
| 6 | Grebe, Little | Tachybaptus ruficollis | 1 | 1.86 | 5 | |||
| 263 | Greenshank, Common | Tringa nebularia | 1 | 9.33 | 14 | |||
| 2062 | Gull, Great Black-backed | Larus marinus | 2 | 2.00 | 2 | |||
| 288 | Gull, Grey-headed | Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus | 1 | 1.33 | 2 | |||
| 289 | Gull, Hartlaub's | Chroicocephalus hartlaubii | 1 | 86.32 | 369 | 250 | 125 | 300 |
| 287 | Gull, Kelp | Larus dominicanus | 1 | 31.30 | 109 | |||
| 55 | Heron, Black-headed | Ardea melanocephala | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 54 | Heron, Grey | Ardea cinerea | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 81 | Ibis, African Sacred | Threskiornis aethiopicus | 3 | 3.00 | 3 | |||
| 394 | Kingfisher, Pied | Ceryle rudis | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 247 | Lapwing, African Wattled | Vanellus senegallus | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 245 | Lapwing, Blacksmith | Vanellus armatus | 1 | 4.42 | 11 | |||
| 210 | Moorhen, Common | Gallinula chloropus | 1 | 4.67 | 7 | |||
| 211 | Moorhen, Lesser | Paragallinula angulata | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 233 | Plover, Common Ringed | Charadrius hiaticula | 13 | 13.00 | 13 | |||
| 237 | Plover, Kittlitz's | Charadrius pecuarius | 1 | 11.40 | 43 | |||
| 238 | Plover, Three-banded | Charadrius tricollaris | 1 | 3.00 | 10 | |||
| 235 | Plover, White-fronted | Charadrius marginatus | 1 | 15.48 | 94 | |||
| 251 | Sandpiper, Curlew | Calidris ferruginea | 1 | 98.50 | 251 | |||
| 262 | Sandpiper, Marsh | Tringa stagnatilis | 2 | 2.00 | 2 | |||
| 264 | Sandpiper, Wood | Tringa glareola | 3 | 3.00 | 3 | |||
| 90 | Shelduck, South African | Tadorna cana | 1 | 5.91 | 12 | |||
| 94 | Shoveler, Cape | Anas smithii | 1 | 7.33 | 28 | |||
| 270 | Stilt, Black-winged | Himantopus himantopus | 2 | 4.25 | 11 | |||
| 253 | Stint, Little | Calidris minuta | 1 | 8.00 | 18 | |||
| 98 | Teal, Cape | Anas capensis | 1 | 11.90 | 29 | |||
| 294 | Tern, Arctic | Sterna paradisaea | 3 | 3.00 | 3 | |||
| 10009 | Tern, Unidentified | N/A N/A | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 10008 | Wader, Unidentified | N/A N/A | 1 | 12.00 | 52 | |||
| 685 | Wagtail, African Pied | Motacilla aguimp | 1 | 1.50 | 2 | |||
| 686 | Wagtail, Cape | Motacilla capensis | 1 | 4.22 | 12 |
Thursday 02 January 2025 04:26
FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology
Department
of Biological Sciences - University of Cape Town
This work is licensed under a
Creative
Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License