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Kelp Gull Cape Cormorant

Year No. of pairs Year No. of pairs
2018 4 2012 2
Source: DFFE (unpublished record) 2015 8
Note: There was one nest 34.5072 S; 20.4486 E, one at Source: Crawford et al. (2016)
34.4858 S; 20.4893 E and two at 34.4808 S; 20.5019 E.
2 km west of Noetsie
Damara Tern Coordinates: 34.4524 S; 20.7162 E
Description: Noetsie is an overnight hut on a walking trail
Year No. of pairs at the east of the mouth of Klipdrifsfontein stream. Cliffs
c. 1990 c. 2 line the coast to the west and formed the breeding sites
2018 0 (Brooke et al. 1982).
Conservation status: It is protected, falling within DHNR.
Source: c. 1990 (Braby 2011, no date was specified); 2018 Species and numbers breeding: White-breasted Cormo-
(DFFE unpublished record) rant, Kelp Gull

Koppie Aleen White-breasted Cormorant
Coordinates: 34.4782 S; 20.5071 E
Description: An overnight hut on a walking trail that over- Year No. of pairs
looks the Indian Ocean with a sandy beach and rock out- 1949 4
crops. 1980 10
Conservation status: It is protected, falling within DHNR.
Species and numbers breeding: Kelp Gull 2012 0
Source: 1949, 1980 (Brooke et al. 1982); 2012 (Crawford
Kelp Gull et al. 2013)
Year No. of pairs
1984 1 Kelp Gull
1985 4 Year No. of pairs
2013 7 1955 2
2018 14 2012 0

Source: 2013 (Whittington et al. 2016); others (DFFE Source: 1955 (Crawford et al. 1982a), 2012 (Whittington
unpublished records) et al. 2016)
Note: Kelp Gulls bred on a rocky outcrop just west of the
hut at 34.4784 S; 20.5071 E Sterkfontein
Coordinates: 34.4662 S; 20.7965 E
Vaalkrans Description: Sea cliffs about 1.5 km west of Mosselbank.
Coordinates: 34.4620 S; 20.5656 E White-breasted Cormorants bred on ledges (Brooke et al.
Description: An overnight hut on a walking trail above a 1982).
cliff that overlooks the Indian Ocean. Conservation status: It is protected, falling within DHNR.
Conservation status: It is protected, falling within DHNR. Species and numbers breeding: White-breasted Cormo-
Species and numbers breeding: Cape Cormorant rant, Kelp Gull
White-breasted Cormorant

Year No. of pairs
1981 5
2012 0
Source: 1981 (Brooke et al. 1982); 2012 (Crawford et al.
2013)
Kelp Gull

Year No. of pairs
2012 6
Gravel plains at the west of DHNR where Damara Terns formerly
bred, 2018 (photo RJM Crawford) Source: 2012 (Whittington et al. 2016)

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