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Voeleiland. Numbers of pairs of each species to have done 2007 0
so are indicated on the following table.
2011 7
Bank Crowned
Year Kelp Gull 2012 7
Cormorant Cormorant 2015 5
1976 4 2016 3
1978 32 2017 7
1992 47 2018 2
1996 47 2019 3
2000 49
2006 20 Hospital Rock
2011 15 0 1 Coordinates: 32.9563 S; 17.8740 E
2012 15 0 Description: A small island off a point inshore of Jacob’s
Reef that can be accessed by wading across from the
2013 0 mainland at low tide (Kriel et al. 1980).
2014 18 0 Conservation status: It is not protected.
2015 20 0 Species and numbers breeding: Bank Cormorants for-
merly bred at the rock but ceased to do so in 2016. Num-
2016 18 0 bers of pairs recorded breeding at the island are shown on
2018 2 0 the following table.
2019 2 0 Bank
Year Cormorant
Kersefontein 1978 31
Coordinates: 32.9054 S; 18.3203 E
Description: Trees along the lower Berg River on the farm 1996 24
Kersefontein. 2000 8
Conservation status: It is not protected. 2003 0
Species and numbers breeding: White-breasted Cormo-
rant bred at the site. Numbers of pairs to have done so are 2006 5
indicated on the following table. 2011 4
White-breasted 2012 4
Year
Cormorant 2015 2
1958 6 2016 0
1962 12 2017 0
1964 9 2018 0
1980 1 2019 0
2012 0
Malgas Island
Coordinates: 33.0384 S; 17.9380 E
Jacob’s Reef
Coordinates: 32.9554 S; 17.8608 E Description: An island at the north of Saldanha Bay, it
Description: A small, low-lying island that may be washed has an area of c. 9 ha and rises to about 7 m above sea
by heavy seas. It is mostly occupied by Cape Fur Seals level. It has a jetty, a habitable house, additional
(Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus). Bank Cormorants bred accommodation for staff, several disused buildings and a
on a high rock (Crawford et al. 1995a). shed that was used to store seabird guano on its northeast.
Conservation status: It was gazetted as the Jacob’s Rock Large boulders are scattered over and around the shores
Provincial Nature Reserve in 1988 (Province of the Cape of the island. Penguins have nested under these and
of Good Hope 1988). under buildings (Rand 1963). Gannets bred on the island’s
Species and numbers breeding: African Penguin occ- interior. A sea wall was built in the south to shelter gannets
breeding there against large swells. Crowned Cormorants
asionally nested at the island (Rand 1960) but no longer
does (Crawford et al. 1995a). Numbers of pairs of Bank often nested on stacked nests inside the gannet colony
Cormorant breeding at the island are shown on the follow- and Cape Cormorants on the ground outside it. More
ing table. recently Crowned Cormorants have bred in the guano
shed to avoid predation by pelicans. Bank Cormorants bred
Bank on large rocks near the sea to the east of the buildings.
Year
Cormorant There were 22 records of Australasian Gannet
1994 1 (Morus serrator) at Malgas Island between 1987 and
1996 5 2021 (Dyer 1990, Dyer et al. 2001, BMD unpubl.).
Seabird guano was collected at Malgas Island in
2000 2 83 years between 1897 and 1985, the total quantity removed
2003 0 from the island in this time being 45,767 metric tons, which
2006 0 over that period was the largest quantity removed from a
South African island (Tom et al. 2024).

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