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White-breasted Conservation status: It is not protected but access is
Year
Cormorant restricted.
1949 13 Species and numbers breeding: White-breasted Cor-
morant, Kelp and Hartlaub’s gulls and Caspian Tern have
1950 c.20 nested at the saltworks. Maxima observed were 27 pairs of
1951 √ White-breasted Cormorant in 2018, 1,223 pairs of Kelp Gull
2012 7 in 2017, 100 pairs of Hartlaub’s Gull in 2015 and 85 pairs of
Caspian Tern in 2012. Details of numbers of pairs breeding
2013 0 in different years are shown on the following table.
2015 0
2017 0 White- Kelp Hartlaub's Caspian
Year breasted Gull Gull Tern
Cormorant
Near Bobbejaanberg
Coordinates: 32.3466 S, 18.3241 E 2007 51
Description: A pan south of Elands Bay and west of 2011 649 69
Bobbejaanberg. 2012 698 85
Conservation status: It is not protected. 2013 615 60
Species and numbers breeding: Two pairs of Kelp Gull
nested there in November 2022 (L Upfold unpubl.). 2014 773 50
2015 1053 100 22
Rocher Pan 2016 919
Coordinates: 32.6219 S, 18.2926 E 2017 1223 17
Description: Dead Eucalyptus trees on a farm near
Rocher Pan Nature Reserve east of the road between 2018 27 1113 0
Elands Bay and Dwarskersbos. Note: About 20 pairs of Sacred Ibis (Threskiornis aethiopi-
Conservation status: It is not protected. cus) bred at the saltworks in 2018 (DFFE unpublished
Species and numbers breeding: Almost 200 pairs of record).
White-breasted Cormorant nested in trees in 2002 but their
numbers dwindled and none did in 2021. Details of num- Berg River mouth
bers of pairs breeding in different years are shown on the Coordinates: 32.7709 S, 18.1443 E
following table. Description: Seabirds bred at an old platform off the coast
to the north of the Berg River mouth, which may have been
White-breasted part of a former jetty, and at a beacon on the southern
Year
Cormorant harbour wall at the entrance to Velddrif harbour.
2002 198 Conservation status: It is not protected.
2004 133 Species and numbers breeding: Cape and White-breast-
ed cormorants. Maxima observed were 19 pairs of Cape
2005 80 Cormorant in 2013 and 2014 (Crawford et al. 2016) and
2006 46 60 pairs of White-breasted Cormorant in 1980 (Brooke et
2007 37 al. 1982). Details of numbers of pairs breeding in differ-
ent years are shown on the following table. White-breasted
2008 21 Cormorants decreased after 1980 perhaps as a result of
2009 40 much of the platform having disintegrated.
2010 46 Cape White-breasted
2011 13 Year Cormorant Cormorant
2012 56 1978 17
2014 44 1980 60
2015 48 2010 28
2016 56 2011 32
2017 42 2012 34
2018 24 2013 19
2021 0 2014 19 35
2015 15 30
Velddrif saltworks 2016 13
Coordinates: 32.7310 S, 18.2046 E
Description: It is a saltworks east of the coastal road 2017 11 31
between Dwarskersbos and Velddrif operated by Velddrift 2018 13 36
Salt Company. Birds nested between pans and on islands 2019 10
in salt pans.
2021 4 2

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