Raapenberg Bird Sanctuary: Pans (33561828) | |
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Western Cape | |
| CWAC status | REGISTERED-COUNTED IRREGULARLY |
| Authority | Private |
| Management status | LOCAL GAME/NATURE RESERVE |
| Conservation status | PROTECTED |
| IBA information | |
| Ramsar information | |
| Heritage information | |
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Information |
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| Date_registered |
| 1994-01-22 |
| Brief_description |
| A pan on the floodplain of the Black River; has deeply flooded, dense fringing Phragmites and some Typha; also some seasonal reedy habitat. In summer, the site attracts good numbers of Yellowbilled Duck (one high count), Blacksmith Plover, and Kelp and Hartlaub's Gulls; Moorhen is a fairly common resident, and the site also holds Purple Gallinule and Black Crake; Little Bittern should occur. The site is threatened by the proposed widening of the Black River channel, and also by eutrophication, pollution by sewage and industrial waste, hunting and trapping, vegetation cutting, and by the encroachment of alien vegetation. |
| Spp | Common name | Taxonomic name | Min | Avg | Max | IBA | Subregional IBA | RAMSAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1016 | Anas platyrhynchos | 2 | 5.00 | 8 | ||||
| 10015 | Anas hybrid | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | ||||
| 269 | Avocet, Pied | Recurvirostra avosetta | 4 | 4.00 | 4 | |||
| 212 | Coot, Red-knobbed | Fulica cristata | 1 | 33.12 | 150 | |||
| 50 | Cormorant, Reed | Microcarbo africanus | 1 | 5.91 | 17 | |||
| 47 | Cormorant, White-breasted | Phalacrocorax lucidus | 1 | 2.33 | 4 | |||
| 52 | Darter, African | Anhinga rufa | 1 | 3.75 | 9 | |||
| 95 | Duck, African Black | Anas sparsa | 1 | 2.60 | 5 | |||
| 10006 | Duck, Domestic | Anas platyrhynchos | 1 | 1.33 | 2 | |||
| 10005 | Duck, Hybrid | Anas hybrid | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 91 | Duck, Knob-billed | Sarkidiornis melanotos | 2 | 2.00 | 2 | |||
| 103 | Duck, Maccoa | Oxyura maccoa | 3 | 3.00 | 3 | |||
| 10014 | Duck, Unidentified | N/A N/A | 2 | 4.50 | 7 | |||
| 104 | Duck, White-backed | Thalassornis leuconotus | 2 | 5.57 | 12 | |||
| 100 | Duck, White-faced Whistling | Dendrocygna viduata | 1 | 13.57 | 30 | |||
| 96 | Duck, Yellow-billed | Anas undulata | 5 | 35.00 | 165 | |||
| 60 | Egret, Intermediate | Ardea intermedia | 1 | 2.00 | 4 | |||
| 59 | Egret, Little | Egretta garzetta | 1 | 3.71 | 9 | |||
| 61 | Egret, Western Cattle | Bubulcus ibis | 1 | 9.91 | 70 | |||
| 10004 | Goose, Domestic | Anser anser | 4 | 4.00 | 4 | |||
| 89 | Goose, Egyptian | Alopochen aegyptiaca | 1 | 8.55 | 23 | |||
| 88 | Goose, Spur-winged | Plectropterus gambensis | 1 | 1.33 | 2 | |||
| 6 | Grebe, Little | Tachybaptus ruficollis | 1 | 2.63 | 4 | |||
| 263 | Greenshank, Common | Tringa nebularia | 4 | 4.00 | 4 | |||
| 288 | Gull, Grey-headed | Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 289 | Gull, Hartlaub's | Chroicocephalus hartlaubii | 18 | 87.94 | 226 | 125 | ||
| 287 | Gull, Kelp | Larus dominicanus | 1 | 16.55 | 66 | |||
| 69 | Heron, Black-crowned Night | Nycticorax nycticorax | 1 | 11.00 | 18 | |||
| 55 | Heron, Black-headed | Ardea melanocephala | 1 | 1.80 | 4 | |||
| 54 | Heron, Grey | Ardea cinerea | 1 | 3.22 | 8 | |||
| 57 | Heron, Purple | Ardea purpurea | 1 | 2.20 | 4 | |||
| 81 | Ibis, African Sacred | Threskiornis aethiopicus | 1 | 7.06 | 23 | |||
| 83 | Ibis, Glossy | Plegadis falcinellus | 1 | 3.75 | 8 | |||
| 84 | Ibis, Hadada | Bostrychia hagedash | 2 | 5.00 | 12 | |||
| 395 | Kingfisher, Giant | Megaceryle maxima | 1 | 1.75 | 3 | |||
| 397 | Kingfisher, Malachite | Corythornis cristatus | 1 | 1.33 | 2 | |||
| 394 | Kingfisher, Pied | Ceryle rudis | 1 | 1.71 | 3 | |||
| 245 | Lapwing, Blacksmith | Vanellus armatus | 1 | 26.90 | 151 | |||
| 210 | Moorhen, Common | Gallinula chloropus | 1 | 7.37 | 20 | |||
| 42 | Pelican, Great White | Pelecanus onocrotalus | 1 | 1.25 | 2 | |||
| 238 | Plover, Three-banded | Charadrius tricollaris | 1 | 2.80 | 7 | |||
| 102 | Pochard, Southern | Netta erythrophthalma | 4 | 9.00 | 17 | |||
| 251 | Sandpiper, Curlew | Calidris ferruginea | 4 | 4.00 | 4 | |||
| 262 | Sandpiper, Marsh | Tringa stagnatilis | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 264 | Sandpiper, Wood | Tringa glareola | 9 | 9.00 | 9 | |||
| 94 | Shoveler, Cape | Spatula smithii | 3 | 12.35 | 30 | |||
| 250 | Snipe, African | Gallinago nigripennis | 1 | 4.67 | 10 | |||
| 85 | Spoonbill, African | Platalea alba | 1 | 2.30 | 9 | |||
| 270 | Stilt, Black-winged | Himantopus himantopus | 2 | 5.44 | 18 | |||
| 208 | Swamphen, African | Porphyrio madagascariensis | 1 | 1.82 | 7 | |||
| 98 | Teal, Cape | Anas capensis | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 97 | Teal, Red-billed | Anas erythrorhyncha | 1 | 13.61 | 59 | |||
| 291 | Tern, Common | Sterna hirundo | 2 | 2.00 | 2 | |||
| 274 | Thick-knee, Water | Burhinus vermiculatus | 2 | 3.67 | 5 | |||
| 686 | Wagtail, Cape | Motacilla capensis | 1 | 3.33 | 10 |
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