Blinkpan (Lothair) (26203020) | |
|---|---|
Mpumalanga | |
| CWAC status | REGISTERED-COUNTED REGULARLY |
| Authority | Barberton Bird Club |
| Management status | PRIVATE LAND |
| Conservation status | UNPROTECTED |
| IBA information | SA019 - CHRISSIE PANS |
| Ramsar information | |
| Heritage information | |
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Information |
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| Date_registered |
| 1992-02-07 |
| Brief_description |
| A salt pan of 95 ha, with a basin and shoreline of bare rock and sand; maximum recorded water depth 10-15 cm; surrounded by grassland, with one low sedge bed on the eastern shore. After one count in February 1992, there were counts from winter 1996 to winter 1997. Summer counts have yielded higher numbers and biomass of birds, but the total number of species recorded is similar in both seasons. Numbers of Greater Flamingo, and Egyptian and Spurwinged Geese, are higher in summer, when small numbers of Palearctic shorebirds occur; summer 1992 also produced a good count of Whitewinged Tern. Good winter counts of Curlew Sandpiper are recorded. The site is noteworthy for its small population of Chestnutbanded Plover. A count in September 1986 (D.G. Allan) included 25 Chestnutbanded and 4 Kittlitz's Plover (both species breeding), and 55 Crowned Crane roosting in the pan. Minor threats are livestock trampling, and fertilizer ingress after storms. |
| Spp | Common name | Taxonomic name | Min | Avg | Max | IBA | Subregional IBA | RAMSAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 256 | Calidris pugnax | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | ||||
| 269 | Avocet, Pied | Recurvirostra avosetta | 1 | 28.31 | 250 | 250 | 125 | 190 |
| 212 | Coot, Red-knobbed | Fulica cristata | 2 | 29.44 | 93 | |||
| 50 | Cormorant, Reed | Microcarbo africanus | 1 | 6.50 | 27 | |||
| 47 | Cormorant, White-breasted | Phalacrocorax lucidus | 1 | 20.25 | 42 | |||
| 214 | Crane, Grey Crowned | Balearica regulorum | 5 | 6.00 | 7 | |||
| 267 | Curlew, Eurasian | Numenius arquata | 2 | 2.00 | 2 | |||
| 103 | Duck, Maccoa | Oxyura maccoa | 12 | 12.00 | 12 | |||
| 10014 | Duck, Unidentified | N/A N/A | 16 | 45.50 | 75 | |||
| 104 | Duck, White-backed | Thalassornis leuconotus | 2 | 4.00 | 6 | |||
| 96 | Duck, Yellow-billed | Anas undulata | 2 | 17.92 | 106 | |||
| 58 | Egret, Great | Ardea alba | 3 | 4.00 | 5 | |||
| 60 | Egret, Intermediate | Ardea intermedia | 12 | 12.00 | 12 | |||
| 59 | Egret, Little | Egretta garzetta | 43 | 43.00 | 43 | |||
| 61 | Egret, Western Cattle | Bubulcus ibis | 1 | 13.00 | 39 | |||
| 86 | Flamingo, Greater | Phoenicopterus roseus | 1 | 120.36 | 900 | 625 | 750 | |
| 87 | Flamingo, Lesser | Phoeniconaias minor | 5 | 918.31 | 10800 | 10000 | 600 | |
| 89 | Goose, Egyptian | Alopochen aegyptiaca | 2 | 109.26 | 500 | |||
| 88 | Goose, Spur-winged | Plectropterus gambensis | 1 | 18.11 | 126 | |||
| 4 | Grebe, Great Crested | Podiceps cristatus | 2 | 8.00 | 16 | |||
| 6 | Grebe, Little | Tachybaptus ruficollis | 5 | 15.00 | 27 | |||
| 263 | Greenshank, Common | Tringa nebularia | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 288 | Gull, Grey-headed | Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus | 1 | 4.75 | 12 | |||
| 55 | Heron, Black-headed | Ardea melanocephala | 1 | 5.00 | 7 | |||
| 54 | Heron, Grey | Ardea cinerea | 1 | 3.33 | 21 | |||
| 81 | Ibis, African Sacred | Threskiornis aethiopicus | 1 | 11.00 | 21 | |||
| 83 | Ibis, Glossy | Plegadis falcinellus | 1 | 4.00 | 7 | |||
| 84 | Ibis, Hadada | Bostrychia hagedash | 1 | 3.33 | 7 | |||
| 82 | Ibis, Southern Bald | Geronticus calvus | 6 | 6.00 | 6 | |||
| 247 | Lapwing, African Wattled | Vanellus senegallus | 1 | 1.50 | 2 | |||
| 245 | Lapwing, Blacksmith | Vanellus armatus | 1 | 5.68 | 36 | |||
| 172 | Osprey, Western | Pandion haliaetus | 2 | 2.00 | 2 | |||
| 236 | Plover, Chestnut-banded | Charadrius pallidus | 1 | 3.13 | 7 | |||
| 237 | Plover, Kittlitz's | Charadrius pecuarius | 1 | 7.00 | 27 | |||
| 238 | Plover, Three-banded | Charadrius tricollaris | 1 | 2.00 | 4 | |||
| 102 | Pochard, Southern | Netta erythrophthalma | 2 | 38.00 | 107 | |||
| 258 | Sandpiper, Common | Actitis hypoleucos | 5 | 5.00 | 5 | |||
| 251 | Sandpiper, Curlew | Calidris ferruginea | 1 | 1.33 | 2 | |||
| 262 | Sandpiper, Marsh | Tringa stagnatilis | 4 | 5.00 | 6 | |||
| 264 | Sandpiper, Wood | Tringa glareola | 1 | 4.00 | 10 | |||
| 90 | Shelduck, South African | Tadorna cana | 4 | 4.00 | 4 | |||
| 94 | Shoveler, Cape | Spatula smithii | 2 | 18.09 | 102 | |||
| 250 | Snipe, African | Gallinago nigripennis | 3 | 3.00 | 3 | |||
| 85 | Spoonbill, African | Platalea alba | 1 | 3.86 | 16 | |||
| 270 | Stilt, Black-winged | Himantopus himantopus | 1 | 14.40 | 96 | |||
| 253 | Stint, Little | Calidris minuta | 1 | 123.33 | 1000 | |||
| 208 | Swamphen, African | Porphyrio madagascariensis | 5 | 5.00 | 5 | |||
| 99 | Teal, Blue-billed | Spatula hottentota | 3 | 3.00 | 3 | |||
| 98 | Teal, Cape | Anas capensis | 2 | 5.00 | 9 | |||
| 97 | Teal, Red-billed | Anas erythrorhyncha | 1 | 7.38 | 31 | |||
| 305 | Tern, Whiskered | Chlidonias hybrida | 7 | 7.00 | 7 | |||
| 304 | Tern, White-winged | Chlidonias leucopterus | 1 | 44.00 | 123 | |||
| 10008 | Wader, Unidentified | N/A N/A | 2 | 136.00 | 400 | |||
| 686 | Wagtail, Cape | Motacilla capensis | 1 | 4.00 | 19 |
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