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African Great White Cape Cape Bank White-breasted Kelp
Year
Penguin Pelican Gannet Cormorant Cormorant Cormorant Gull
2009 0
2010 0
2011 0 26
2012 31 0 1 22 1 1
2013 52 0 0
2014 58 0 16 0 0
2015 43 0 0 14 0 0
2016 41 0 0 29 0 0
2017 0 14 0
2018 0
2019 44 0 2

Wolfgat Nature Reserve Monwabesi
Coordinates: 34.0741 S; 18.6877 E Coordinates: 34.0741 S; 18.6877 E
Description: Birds bred on limestone cliffs behind a beach. Description: Birds bred on limestone cliffs behind a beach.
Conservation status: It is a nature reserve administered Conservation status: It is in a conservation area that has
by the City of Cape Town. heavy pressure from neighbouring communities.
Species and numbers breeding: Crowned Cormorant Species and numbers breeding: Numbers of Kelp Gull
and Kelp Gull have bred in the reserve. White-breasted pairs that bred are indicated on the following table.
Cormorant may have done so in the 1940s. Numbers of
pairs that nested are indicated on the following table. Kelp
Year
Gull
White- 2012 50
Crowned
Year breasted Cormorant Kelp 2013 0
Gull
Cormorant 2014 0
1940s ? 1 2015 0
1953 3 2016 0
1959 √ 2017 0
1960 7 2020 0
1961 √
1962 >20 Paardevlei
1963 89 Coordinates: 34.0872 S; 18.8134 E
1965 32 Description: Paardevlei lake and wetland lie north of
1966 100 False Bay. Trees grow on vegetated islands. A nature walk
1967 150 circumnavigates the lake.
1968 >7 Conservation status: It is near the Lourens River Protect-
ed Natural Environment.
1970 130 Species and numbers breeding: White-breasted Cormo-
1972 50 rant nested between 1981 and 1990. Numbers of pairs ob-
1973 >7 served are indicated on the following table.
1976 >3
1978 249 White-breasted
1979 200 Year Cormorant
1986 200 1981 9
1987 134 1986 1
1988 137 1987 2
2011 0 1988 2
2012 0 0 1250 1989 1
2013 0 926 1990 1
2014 0 0 2011 0
2015 0 0 2012 0
2016 0 0 2013 0
2017 0 0 2014 0
2018 0 2015 0
2019 0 2016 0
2020 0 2017 0

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