Great Fish River Estuary (33292707) | |
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Eastern Cape | |
| CWAC status | REGISTERED-COUNTED REGULARLY |
| Authority | Private |
| Management status | PROVINCIAL GAME/NATURE RESERVE |
| Conservation status | PROTECTED |
| IBA information | |
| Ramsar information | |
| Heritage information | |
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Information |
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| Date_registered |
| 1994-01-08 |
| Brief_description |
| The estuary of the Great Fish River, with open shoreline and some short fringing vegetation. A good variety of waterbirds occurs, including African Black Oyster- catcher and 15 Palearctic shorebird species. Duck numbers average higher in winter, as do numbers of Whitefronted and Threebanded Plovers, and Blackwinged Stilt; numbers of Whitebreasted Cormorant and Egyptian Goose normally higher in summer. Good numbers of Common Tern occur erratically in summer. Sedimentation, and tourism and recreational activities, are important threats; pollution by fertilizers may also be a problem. |
| Spp | Common name | Taxonomic name | Min | Avg | Max | IBA | Subregional IBA | RAMSAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 72 | Scopus umbretta | 1 | 1.20 | 2 | ||||
| 255 | Calidris alba | 8 | 34.41 | 140 | ||||
| 256 | Calidris pugnax | 1 | 65.53 | 320 | ||||
| 269 | Avocet, Pied | Recurvirostra avosetta | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 212 | Coot, Red-knobbed | Fulica cristata | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 48 | Cormorant, Cape | Phalacrocorax capensis | 1 | 2.60 | 5 | |||
| 50 | Cormorant, Reed | Microcarbo africanus | 1 | 2.92 | 10 | |||
| 47 | Cormorant, White-breasted | Phalacrocorax lucidus | 7 | 15.54 | 30 | |||
| 267 | Curlew, Eurasian | Numenius arquata | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 52 | Darter, African | Anhinga rufa | 1 | 3.19 | 7 | |||
| 95 | Duck, African Black | Anas sparsa | 1 | 2.25 | 4 | |||
| 100 | Duck, White-faced Whistling | Dendrocygna viduata | 54 | 54.00 | 54 | |||
| 96 | Duck, Yellow-billed | Anas undulata | 2 | 37.04 | 242 | |||
| 149 | Eagle, African Fish | Haliaeetus vocifer | 1 | 2.91 | 6 | |||
| 60 | Egret, Intermediate | Ardea intermedia | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 59 | Egret, Little | Egretta garzetta | 1 | 1.45 | 3 | |||
| 61 | Egret, Western Cattle | Bubulcus ibis | 1 | 15.63 | 70 | |||
| 266 | Godwit, Bar-tailed | Limosa lapponica | 1 | 2.00 | 3 | |||
| 89 | Goose, Egyptian | Alopochen aegyptiaca | 6 | 19.93 | 73 | |||
| 88 | Goose, Spur-winged | Plectropterus gambensis | 1 | 4.67 | 27 | |||
| 6 | Grebe, Little | Tachybaptus ruficollis | 2 | 4.00 | 6 | |||
| 263 | Greenshank, Common | Tringa nebularia | 1 | 22.63 | 67 | |||
| 288 | Gull, Grey-headed | Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus | 1 | 2.43 | 4 | |||
| 287 | Gull, Kelp | Larus dominicanus | 3 | 17.54 | 32 | |||
| 167 | Harrier, African Marsh | Circus ranivorus | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 169 | Harrier, Black | Circus maurus | 1 | 1.50 | 2 | |||
| 55 | Heron, Black-headed | Ardea melanocephala | 1 | 3.73 | 13 | |||
| 56 | Heron, Goliath | Ardea goliath | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 54 | Heron, Grey | Ardea cinerea | 1 | 6.40 | 21 | |||
| 81 | Ibis, African Sacred | Threskiornis aethiopicus | 2 | 10.62 | 23 | |||
| 84 | Ibis, Hadada | Bostrychia hagedash | 1 | 3.92 | 9 | |||
| 395 | Kingfisher, Giant | Megaceryle maxima | 3 | 3.00 | 3 | |||
| 396 | Kingfisher, Half-collared | Alcedo semitorquata | 2 | 2.00 | 2 | |||
| 397 | Kingfisher, Malachite | Corythornis cristatus | 1 | 1.10 | 2 | |||
| 394 | Kingfisher, Pied | Ceryle rudis | 1 | 2.79 | 8 | |||
| 245 | Lapwing, Blacksmith | Vanellus armatus | 2 | 13.21 | 39 | |||
| 509 | Martin, Brown-throated | Riparia paludicola | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 210 | Moorhen, Common | Gallinula chloropus | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 172 | Osprey, Western | Pandion haliaetus | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 231 | Oystercatcher, African | Haematopus moquini | 2 | 5.04 | 13 | |||
| 236 | Plover, Chestnut-banded | Charadrius pallidus | 8 | 8.00 | 8 | |||
| 233 | Plover, Common Ringed | Charadrius hiaticula | 7 | 26.40 | 43 | |||
| 241 | Plover, Grey | Pluvialis squatarola | 1 | 5.04 | 19 | |||
| 237 | Plover, Kittlitz's | Charadrius pecuarius | 1 | 2.43 | 10 | |||
| 238 | Plover, Three-banded | Charadrius tricollaris | 1 | 6.67 | 21 | |||
| 235 | Plover, White-fronted | Charadrius marginatus | 5 | 32.86 | 83 | |||
| 261 | Redshank, Common | Tringa totanus | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 258 | Sandpiper, Common | Actitis hypoleucos | 1 | 9.37 | 32 | |||
| 251 | Sandpiper, Curlew | Calidris ferruginea | 1 | 7.36 | 24 | |||
| 262 | Sandpiper, Marsh | Tringa stagnatilis | 1 | 3.45 | 14 | |||
| 257 | Sandpiper, Terek | Xenus cinereus | 1 | 5.63 | 15 | |||
| 264 | Sandpiper, Wood | Tringa glareola | 1 | 5.83 | 24 | |||
| 90 | Shelduck, South African | Tadorna cana | 1 | 20.88 | 56 | |||
| 94 | Shoveler, Cape | Spatula smithii | 1 | 3.75 | 10 | |||
| 85 | Spoonbill, African | Platalea alba | 1 | 3.82 | 7 | |||
| 270 | Stilt, Black-winged | Himantopus himantopus | 2 | 27.96 | 96 | |||
| 253 | Stint, Little | Calidris minuta | 11 | 47.18 | 85 | |||
| 79 | Stork, Black | Ciconia nigra | 2 | 2.00 | 2 | |||
| 208 | Swamphen, African | Porphyrio madagascariensis | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 98 | Teal, Cape | Anas capensis | 2 | 2.00 | 2 | |||
| 97 | Teal, Red-billed | Anas erythrorhyncha | 1 | 9.71 | 45 | |||
| 290 | Tern, Caspian | Hydroprogne caspia | 1 | 1.64 | 3 | |||
| 291 | Tern, Common | Sterna hirundo | 1 | 265.44 | 1800 | 1800 | ||
| 298 | Tern, Greater Crested | Thalasseus bergii | 1 | 8.48 | 37 | |||
| 299 | Tern, Little | Sternula albifrons | 5 | 13.92 | 53 | |||
| 293 | Tern, Roseate | Sterna dougallii | 2 | 8.50 | 15 | 8 | ||
| 296 | Tern, Sandwich | Thalasseus sandvicensis | 2 | 41.92 | 190 | |||
| 274 | Thick-knee, Water | Burhinus vermiculatus | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 232 | Turnstone, Ruddy | Arenaria interpres | 1 | 3.71 | 11 | |||
| 686 | Wagtail, Cape | Motacilla capensis | 1 | 8.25 | 40 | |||
| 268 | Whimbrel, Eurasian | Numenius phaeopus | 3 | 14.29 | 37 |
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