Lake Banagher: West (26203021) | |
|---|---|
Mpumalanga | |
| CWAC status | REGISTERED-COUNTED REGULARLY |
| Authority | Barberton Bird Club |
| Management status | PRIVATE FARM |
| 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 20 ha sedge pan; open water with dense submergents; dense fringing emergent Schoenoplectus sedges, with other sedges and Leersia grass on the waterlogged shore. Counts were made in February 1992, and from winter 1996 to winter 1997. These show small to good numbers of a reasonable variety of species. Counts of Southern Pochard are good in both seasons; numbers of all other waterfowl have peaked in winter (note the good count of Whitebacked Duck), when Dabchick and Redknobbed Coot are also more numerous; Purple Gallinule is recorded only in winter. Earlier counts (D.G. Allan) recorded 650-1400+ birds of 42 species, including 13 Great Crested Grebe, 31 Whitebacked Duck, 600 Red-knobbed Coot (breeding) and 20 Ethiopian Snipe (August 1985), 107 Dabchick, 350 Southern Pochard and 332 Redknobbed Coot (February 1986), and 31 Cape Teal, 49 Blackwinged Stilt, c. 1000 Ruff and many other shorebirds (September 1986). Threats include severe damage to vegetation by cattle, water abstraction, introduction of alien fish, and waterfowl hunting; there are some alien plantations in the catchment. |
| Spp | Common name | Taxonomic name | Min | Avg | Max | IBA | Subregional IBA | RAMSAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 256 | Calidris pugnax | 50 | 50.00 | 50 | ||||
| 269 | Avocet, Pied | Recurvirostra avosetta | 2 | 4.50 | 7 | |||
| 212 | Coot, Red-knobbed | Fulica cristata | 4 | 199.68 | 1068 | |||
| 50 | Cormorant, Reed | Microcarbo africanus | 1 | 7.00 | 34 | |||
| 47 | Cormorant, White-breasted | Phalacrocorax lucidus | 1 | 3.43 | 15 | |||
| 214 | Crane, Grey Crowned | Balearica regulorum | 1 | 18.00 | 35 | |||
| 10006 | Duck, Domestic | Anas platyrhynchos | 11 | 11.00 | 11 | |||
| 101 | Duck, Fulvous Whistling | Dendrocygna bicolor | 7 | 7.50 | 8 | |||
| 103 | Duck, Maccoa | Oxyura maccoa | 8 | 12.33 | 20 | |||
| 104 | Duck, White-backed | Thalassornis leuconotus | 1 | 19.70 | 71 | |||
| 96 | Duck, Yellow-billed | Anas undulata | 1 | 20.67 | 162 | |||
| 58 | Egret, Great | Ardea alba | 1 | 1.67 | 3 | |||
| 60 | Egret, Intermediate | Ardea intermedia | 1 | 1.33 | 2 | |||
| 59 | Egret, Little | Egretta garzetta | 1 | 1.33 | 2 | |||
| 61 | Egret, Western Cattle | Bubulcus ibis | 1 | 6.60 | 18 | |||
| 86 | Flamingo, Greater | Phoenicopterus roseus | 5 | 17.33 | 34 | |||
| 87 | Flamingo, Lesser | Phoeniconaias minor | 5 | 5.00 | 5 | |||
| 89 | Goose, Egyptian | Alopochen aegyptiaca | 1 | 24.20 | 112 | |||
| 88 | Goose, Spur-winged | Plectropterus gambensis | 1 | 10.75 | 99 | |||
| 4 | Grebe, Great Crested | Podiceps cristatus | 5 | 9.78 | 18 | |||
| 6 | Grebe, Little | Tachybaptus ruficollis | 1 | 28.75 | 103 | |||
| 263 | Greenshank, Common | Tringa nebularia | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 288 | Gull, Grey-headed | Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus | 1 | 4.00 | 9 | |||
| 69 | Heron, Black-crowned Night | Nycticorax nycticorax | 3 | 5.00 | 7 | |||
| 55 | Heron, Black-headed | Ardea melanocephala | 1 | 1.71 | 3 | |||
| 54 | Heron, Grey | Ardea cinerea | 1 | 2.73 | 9 | |||
| 57 | Heron, Purple | Ardea purpurea | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 62 | Heron, Squacco | Ardeola ralloides | 3 | 3.00 | 3 | |||
| 81 | Ibis, African Sacred | Threskiornis aethiopicus | 1 | 3.83 | 11 | |||
| 83 | Ibis, Glossy | Plegadis falcinellus | 1 | 8.67 | 27 | |||
| 84 | Ibis, Hadada | Bostrychia hagedash | 1 | 5.30 | 10 | |||
| 397 | Kingfisher, Malachite | Corythornis cristatus | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 394 | Kingfisher, Pied | Ceryle rudis | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 245 | Lapwing, Blacksmith | Vanellus armatus | 1 | 6.76 | 26 | |||
| 509 | Martin, Brown-throated | Riparia paludicola | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 210 | Moorhen, Common | Gallinula chloropus | 1 | 2.00 | 3 | |||
| 172 | Osprey, Western | Pandion haliaetus | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 237 | Plover, Kittlitz's | Charadrius pecuarius | 2 | 4.00 | 5 | |||
| 238 | Plover, Three-banded | Charadrius tricollaris | 1 | 3.25 | 8 | |||
| 102 | Pochard, Southern | Netta erythrophthalma | 1 | 25.57 | 100 | |||
| 262 | Sandpiper, Marsh | Tringa stagnatilis | 2 | 2.00 | 2 | |||
| 264 | Sandpiper, Wood | Tringa glareola | 1 | 2.33 | 4 | |||
| 90 | Shelduck, South African | Tadorna cana | 2 | 2.00 | 2 | |||
| 94 | Shoveler, Cape | Spatula smithii | 1 | 9.87 | 47 | |||
| 250 | Snipe, African | Gallinago nigripennis | 1 | 6.25 | 20 | |||
| 85 | Spoonbill, African | Platalea alba | 2 | 5.22 | 15 | |||
| 270 | Stilt, Black-winged | Himantopus himantopus | 2 | 8.44 | 29 | |||
| 253 | Stint, Little | Calidris minuta | 11 | 11.00 | 11 | |||
| 76 | Stork, Yellow-billed | Mycteria ibis | 2 | 2.00 | 2 | |||
| 208 | Swamphen, African | Porphyrio madagascariensis | 2 | 2.00 | 2 | |||
| 99 | Teal, Blue-billed | Spatula hottentota | 2 | 7.75 | 17 | |||
| 97 | Teal, Red-billed | Anas erythrorhyncha | 2 | 7.00 | 39 | |||
| 305 | Tern, Whiskered | Chlidonias hybrida | 4 | 19.40 | 34 | |||
| 304 | Tern, White-winged | Chlidonias leucopterus | 8 | 118.00 | 312 | |||
| 10008 | Wader, Unidentified | N/A N/A | 100 | 100.00 | 100 | |||
| 686 | Wagtail, Cape | Motacilla capensis | 1 | 22.25 | 116 |
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