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Numbers (pairs) of different seabird species breeding at Robben Island, 1949–2022

African Penguin Cormorant Cormorant White- Cormorant Cormorant Gull Gull Grey- headed Gull Tern Tern
Year Cape Bank breasted Crowned Kelp Hartlaub's Greater Crested Caspian

1949 √ 10
1950 √ √
1951 √ √ √
1952 √ √
1953 400 1 √
1956 0 0 20+
1960 55 1000 c. 600
1963 √
1968 229
1970 301 min 75
1971 1102
1972 66
1973 225
1974 2225 133
1975 √ 298 √
1976 50 443 200
1978 0 64 150
1979 0 73 41 4309 350
1980 0 59 68 3599 906
1981 0 970
1982 0 72
1983 9 0 0
1984 24 0 0 500 1250
1985 103 2 97 0 500
1986 227 0 83 0 2252
1987 476 0 89 319 0 2738 1376
1988 849 0 108 405 0 2231 845
1989 829 0 107 355 0 3835 299
1990 1278 0 134 323 0 3062 690
1991 1879 6 131 206 0 941 1 956
1992 2027 4 108 300 0 1405 2 1458
1993 2176 0 115 0 317 0 936 0 2382
1994 2799 0 100 0 261 0 1839 3 1421
1995 2279 0 73 0 268 0 2999 1 1613
1996 3097 0 89 0 290 0 2165 0 20
1997 3336 0 106 0 253 0 0 0 0
1998 3467 0 104 0 176 0 2 0 1138
1999 4399 0 101 0 87 0 1569 0 0
2000 5407 0 120 0 50 4 1 0 0
2001 6427 3 68 0 100 15 0 0 535
2002 7099 0 65 0 66 50 664 0 1500
2003 5968 0 85 0 66 80 1550 0 39
2004 7798 166 99 2 132 63 1172 3 0
2005 7152 379 61 1 99 167 0 0 3
2006 5868 616 136 0 138 274 21 0 1
2007 5935 1658 121 0 42 494 1915 0 4785 0
2008 4215 118 0 35 652 3243 3 10200 0
2009 2415 1735 106 0 74 751 1300 1 12986 0
2010 2628 1929 114 0 58 978 0 7770 1
2011 1817 983 147 0 93 2509 2835 8 5991 1
2012 1669 2166 93 0 69 1399 1100 4 5350 1
2013 1364 918 125 0 106 1251 1046 2 6000 1
2014 1016 741 64 0 46 3395 1300 4 8200 1
2015 1216 1178 56 0 120 1538 1419 4 7600 1
2016 1355 1401 63 0 156 1920 1735 2 3326 1
2017 1440 1374 54 0 125 1676 0 0 2000 1
2018 1389 766 38 0 130 2069 1744 2 3950 1
2019 1190 682 30 0 2829 3229 4 0
2020 3497
2021 1007 39 8 52
2022 991 √

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