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Spingfield Soutpan
Coordinates: 34.7238 S; 19.9206 E
Description: A saltworks southwest of Nuwejaars River
where White-breasted Cormorant and Kelp Gull may nest
between evaporation pans.
Conservation status: It is within Agulhas National Park.
Species and numbers breeding:
White-breasted Cormorant
Year No. of pairs
2018 41

Source: 2018 (DFFE unpubl.) Preekstoel, Kleinmond (photo BM Dyer)
Kelp Gull Crowned Cormorant
Year No. of pairs Year No. of pairs
2018 21 1985 5

Source: 2018 (DFFE unpubl.) Source: Cooper and Brooke (1986)

Soetendals Vlei References
Coordinates: 34.7140 S; 19.9830 E
Description: A vlei fed by Nuwejaars River that empties Barnes KN. 1998. Important bird areas of the Western Cape. In:
into Heuningnes River, which enters the Indian Ocean at Barnes K (ed.). The Important Bird Areas of Southern Africa.
De Mond, east of Cape Agulhas. BirdLife South Africa; Johannesburg: 219–267.
Conservation status: It is adjacent to Agulhas National Berruti A. 1985. Cape Gannets Sula capensis ashore at Dyer
Park. and Robben islands, southwestern Cape, South Africa.
Species and numbers breeding: Cormorant 13: 71−72.
Grey-headed Gull Braby J. 2011. The biology and conservation of the Damara Tern in
Namibia. PhD thesis, University of Cape Town, South Africa:
Year No. of pairs 233 pp.
Broni SC. 1982. First recorded mainland breeding by the Jackass
1865 1 Penguin Spheniscus demersus. Cormorant 10: 120.
2018 0 Brooke RK, Cooper J, Shelton PA, Crawford RJM. 1982. Taxonomy,
Source: 1865 (Brooke et al 1999); 2018 (DFFE unpubl.) distribution, population size, breeding and conservation of
the White-breasted Cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo, on the
Miesho Maru No. 38 wreck southern African coast. Le Gerfaut 72: 189–220.
Coordinates: 34.8298 S; 19.9840 E Brooke RK, Allan DG, Cooper J, Cyrus DP, Dean WRJ, Dyer
Description: A wreck c. 3 km west of Cape Agulhas, on BM, Martin AP, Taylor RH. 1999. Breeding distribution,
population size and conservation of Grey-headed Gull Larus
which three species of cormorant bred (Cooper and Brooke cirrocephalus in southern Africa. Ostrich 70: 157–163.
1986). Coetzee JC, van der Lingen CD, Hutchings L, Fairweather TP.
Conservation status: It is not protected. 2008. Has the fishery contributed to a major shift in the
Species and numbers breeding: Three species of cor- distribution of South African sardine? ICES Journal of Marine
morant were breeding at the wreck in 1985 (Cooper and Science 65: 1676–1688.
Brooke 1986). On a visit to the site on 20 January 2023, no Cooper J. 1981. Biology of the Bank Cormorant, part 1: distribution,
breeding was observed but cormorants were roosting on population size, movements and conservation. Ostrich 52:
the wreck (M Masotla, unpubl.). 208–215.
Cape Cormorant Cooper J, Brooke RK. 1986. Cormorants breeding on a wrecked
ship near Cape Agulhas, South Africa. Cormorant 13: 178–
Year No. of pairs 179.
Cooper J, Brooke RK, Shelton PA, Crawford RJM. 1982.
1985 43 Distribution, population size and conservation of the Cape
Cormorant Phalacrocorax capensis. Fisheries Bulletin South
Source: Cooper and Brooke (1986) Africa 16: 121–143.
Cooper J, Crawford RJM, Suter W, Williams AJ. 1990.
White-breasted Cormorant Distribution, population size and conservation of the Swift
Tern Sterna bergii in southern Africa. Ostrich 61: 56–65.
Year No. of pairs Cooper J, Brooke RK, Cyrus DP, Martin AP, Taylor RH, Williams
1985 5 AJ. 1992. Distribution, population size and conservation of
the Caspian Tern Sterna caspia in southern Africa. Ostrich
Source: Cooper and Brooke (1986) 63: 58–67.

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