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Hondeklipbaai Conservation status: It falls within Namaqua National
Coordinates: 30.32 S; 17.27 E Park and is protected.
Description: A small harbour with some old buildings Species and numbers breeding: These are shown on the
along the coast, including a turret, on the outside of following table.
which Crowned Cormorants have nested on ledges.
Conservation status: Not protected. Year White-breasted Cormorant
Species and numbers breeding: These are shown on the
following table. 1980 7
1988 7
Year Crowned Cormorant 2012 1
2018 22 2018 0
2019 0
Wreck of Namaqua
Wreck of Aristea Coordinates: 30.92 S; 17.60 E
Coordinates: 30.35 S; 17.28 E Description: A portion of the Namaqua wreck on a rocky
Description: An old wreck that lies on a rocky coastline shore.
south of Hondeklipbaai. Conservation status: It is not protected.
Conservation status: Not protected and accessible to the Species and numbers breeding: These are shown on the
public. following table.
Species and numbers breeding: These are shown on the
following table. Year White-breasted Cormorant
1996 √
Year White-breasted Cormorant
2012 4
2018 6 2013 8
2019 0 2019 7

Strandfontein Point References
Coordinates: 30.55 S; 17.41 E
Description: A rocky point at which Cape Fur Seals breed. Anderson MD, Kolberg H, Anderson PC, Dini J, Abrahams A.
Cape Cormorants nest nearby. 2003. Waterbird populations at the Orange River mouth from
Conservation status: It falls within Namaqua National 1980–2001: a reassessment of its Ramsar status. Ostrich
Park and is protected. 74: 159–172.
Species and numbers breeding: These are shown on the Barnes KN, Anderson MD. 1998. Important bird areas of the
following table. Northern Cape. In: Barnes K (ed.). The Important Bird Areas
of Southern Africa, BirdLife South Africa, Johannesburg,
103–122.
Year Cape Cormorant Bornman TG, Adams JB. 2010. Response of a hypersaline salt
2015 37 marsh to a large flood and rainfall event along the west coast
of southern Africa. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 87:
2017 52 378–386.
2020 35 Braby J. 2011. The biology and conservation of the Damara Tern in
Namibia. PhD thesis, University of Cape Town, South Africa,
2 km north of Groen River 233 pp.
Coordinates: 30.83 S; 17.56 E Brooke RK, Cooper J, Shelton PA, Crawford RJM. 1982. Taxonomy,
distribution, population size, breeding and conservation of
Description: A large rock on the coastline. the White-breasted Cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo, on the
southern African coast. Le Gerfaut 72: 189–220.
Cooper J. 1981. Biology of the Bank Cormorant, part 1: distribution,
population size, movements and conservation. Ostrich 52:
208–215.
Cooper J, Brooke RK, Shelton PA, Crawford RJM. 1982.
Distribution, population size and conservation of the Cape
Cormorant Phalacrocorax capensis. Fisheries Bulletin South
Africa 16: 121–143.
Cooper J, Brooke RK, Cyrus DP, Martin AP, Taylor RH, Williams AJ.
1992. Distribution, population size and conservation of the
Caspian Tern Sterna caspia in southern Africa. Ostrich 63:
58–67.
Crawford RJM. 2007. Trends in numbers of three cormorants
Phalacrocorax spp. breeding in South Africa’s Western
Cape Province. In: Kirkman SP (ed.). Final Report of the
BCLME (Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem) Project
on Top Predators as Biological Indicators of Ecosystem
The turret at Hondeklipbaai harbour where Crowned Cormorants Change in the BCLME. Avian Demography Unit, Cape Town,
nested, 2019 (photo L Geldenhuys) pp 173–178.

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