Faugh A Ballagh (30522438) | |
|---|---|
Northern Cape | |
| CWAC status | REGISTERED-COUNTED REGULARLY |
| Authority | Northern Cape Department of Tourism, Environment and Conservation |
| Management status | UNKNOWN |
| Conservation status | UNKNOWN |
| IBA information | SA037 - PLATBERG-KAROO CONSERVANCY |
| Ramsar information | |
| Heritage information | |
| View Cards | No |
Information |
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| Date_registered |
| 1996-07-24 |
| Brief_description |
| A large farm dam on the Seekoei River, with an open shoreline but extensive Phragmites reedbeds towards the inlet. When the water level is low, good foraging habitat for shorebirds is exposed. Counts were made in winter 1996, summer 1997, and winter 1997 when the water level was low. In summer only nine species were recorded, Egyptian Goose and South African Shelduck being more numerous than in winter, while numbers of four other waterfowl species peaked in winter. In winter 1997, peak numbers of all six shorebird species were counted, including 42 Avocet; of these species, only Kittlitz's Plover was recorded in summer 1997. Good numbers of Cape Wagtail occur in winter. Other species of note are Osprey and Caspian Tern. Overhead powerlines are an important threat; mild threats are livestock grazing and trampling, barrage construction, and angling. |
| Spp | Common name | Taxonomic name | Min | Avg | Max | IBA | Subregional IBA | RAMSAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 72 | Scopus umbretta | 1 | 1.50 | 2 | ||||
| 256 | Calidris pugnax | 20 | 97.33 | 184 | ||||
| 269 | Avocet, Pied | Recurvirostra avosetta | 2 | 16.00 | 42 | |||
| 212 | Coot, Red-knobbed | Fulica cristata | 1 | 496.67 | 2772 | 2500 | ||
| 50 | Cormorant, Reed | Microcarbo africanus | 1 | 10.91 | 43 | |||
| 47 | Cormorant, White-breasted | Phalacrocorax lucidus | 1 | 13.70 | 54 | |||
| 95 | Duck, African Black | Anas sparsa | 5 | 5.00 | 5 | |||
| 103 | Duck, Maccoa | Oxyura maccoa | 2 | 10.75 | 28 | |||
| 96 | Duck, Yellow-billed | Anas undulata | 2 | 137.87 | 357 | |||
| 58 | Egret, Great | Ardea alba | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 59 | Egret, Little | Egretta garzetta | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 149 | Fish Eagle, African | Haliaeetus vocifer | 1 | 2.00 | 5 | |||
| 86 | Flamingo, Greater | Phoenicopterus roseus | 1 | 3.50 | 6 | |||
| 87 | Flamingo, Lesser | Phoeniconaias minor | 50 | 50.00 | 50 | |||
| 89 | Goose, Egyptian | Alopochen aegyptiaca | 9 | 97.20 | 320 | |||
| 88 | Goose, Spur-winged | Plectropterus gambensis | 1 | 15.31 | 78 | |||
| 4 | Grebe, Great Crested | Podiceps cristatus | 1 | 9.50 | 30 | 25 | ||
| 6 | Grebe, Little | Tachybaptus ruficollis | 3 | 13.14 | 36 | |||
| 263 | Greenshank, Common | Tringa nebularia | 1 | 5.00 | 15 | |||
| 288 | Gull, Grey-headed | Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus | 6 | 6.00 | 6 | |||
| 55 | Heron, Black-headed | Ardea melanocephala | 2 | 2.00 | 2 | |||
| 56 | Heron, Goliath | Ardea goliath | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 54 | Heron, Grey | Ardea cinerea | 1 | 7.33 | 23 | |||
| 81 | Ibis, African Sacred | Threskiornis aethiopicus | 1 | 6.82 | 28 | |||
| 83 | Ibis, Glossy | Plegadis falcinellus | 5 | 8.00 | 11 | |||
| 84 | Ibis, Hadada | Bostrychia hagedash | 1 | 5.14 | 25 | |||
| 397 | Kingfisher, Malachite | Corythornis cristatus | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 394 | Kingfisher, Pied | Ceryle rudis | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 245 | Lapwing, Blacksmith | Vanellus armatus | 5 | 34.67 | 217 | |||
| 509 | Martin, Brown-throated | Riparia paludicola | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 172 | Osprey, Western | Pandion haliaetus | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 42 | Pelican, Great White | Pelecanus onocrotalus | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 233 | Plover, Common Ringed | Charadrius hiaticula | 6 | 6.00 | 6 | |||
| 237 | Plover, Kittlitz's | Charadrius pecuarius | 1 | 18.43 | 61 | |||
| 238 | Plover, Three-banded | Charadrius tricollaris | 1 | 13.10 | 35 | |||
| 102 | Pochard, Southern | Netta erythrophthalma | 5 | 5.00 | 5 | |||
| 258 | Sandpiper, Common | Actitis hypoleucos | 17 | 17.00 | 17 | |||
| 251 | Sandpiper, Curlew | Calidris ferruginea | 1 | 1.50 | 2 | |||
| 262 | Sandpiper, Marsh | Tringa stagnatilis | 3 | 36.00 | 79 | |||
| 90 | Shelduck, South African | Tadorna cana | 2 | 49.71 | 181 | |||
| 94 | Shoveler, Cape | Anas smithii | 2 | 8.45 | 22 | |||
| 250 | Snipe, African | Gallinago nigripennis | 4 | 4.00 | 4 | |||
| 85 | Spoonbill, African | Platalea alba | 1 | 6.30 | 23 | |||
| 270 | Stilt, Black-winged | Himantopus himantopus | 1 | 32.64 | 155 | |||
| 253 | Stint, Little | Calidris minuta | 7 | 82.00 | 239 | |||
| 76 | Stork, Yellow-billed | Mycteria ibis | 4 | 4.00 | 4 | |||
| 99 | Teal, Blue-billed | Anas hottentota | 4 | 4.00 | 4 | |||
| 98 | Teal, Cape | Anas capensis | 1 | 8.80 | 21 | |||
| 97 | Teal, Red-billed | Anas erythrorhyncha | 2 | 9.25 | 31 | |||
| 290 | Tern, Caspian | Hydroprogne caspia | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 305 | Tern, Whiskered | Chlidonias hybrida | 3 | 3.00 | 3 | |||
| 304 | Tern, White-winged | Chlidonias leucopterus | 3 | 4.00 | 5 | |||
| 10008 | Wader, Unidentified | N/A N/A | 162 | 162.00 | 162 | |||
| 686 | Wagtail, Cape | Motacilla capensis | 2 | 44.13 | 142 |
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