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Gouritz River Conservation status: In 1988, it was established as a
Coordinates: 34.3406 S; 21.8802 E provincial nature reserve (Province of the Cape of Good
Description: The river mouth has a sandy spit on its west Hope 1988), which is managed by CapeNature.
bank and sea cliffs on the adjacent eastern shore. Species breeding: African Penguin, Greater Crested Tern
Conservation status: Some of the eastern cliffs are Numbers breeding: Greater Crested Tern
protected in Kanon Private Nature Reserve.
Species and numbers breeding: Kelp Gull Greater Crested Tern
Kelp Gull Year No. of pairs
Year No. of pairs 1923 c. 200
1976 1 Source: Rand (1963), Cooper et al (1990)
Source: Crawford et al. (1982a)
Note: A photo of the island in Gilchrist (1914) shows White-
Fransmanshoek, Vlees Point breasted Cormorants roosting on a large rock at the island.
Coordinates: 34.3004 S; 21.9443 E African Penguins were recorded at the island in 1497
Description: A rocky point near Vleesbaai. and bred there in 1576 (Shelton et al. 1984) and in 1923
Conservation status: It is within Fransmanshoek (Shaughnessy and Shaughnessy 1978). About 130
Conservancy, which was established in 1994 and aims penguins were on the shoreline c. 1914 (Shaughnessy
to conserve, protect, and maintain the biodiversity of the and Shaughnessy 1978) and c. 25 near the centre of the
conservancy. island in 1926, when breeding may have occurred. It no
Species and numbers breeding: Kelp Gull longer does (Shelton et al. 1984, PGK unpubl. 2007–
2015). A halfmoon asbestos pipe (50cm long x 25 cm high
Kelp Gull x 2.5cm thick) was wedged tightly underneath a high rock
near the centre of the island by PGK on 25 October 2009
Year No. of pairs in an attempt to provide breeding habitat for penguins.
1979 49 Unfortunately, strong seas had swept it away by 11 April
2011, when the island was next visited.
Source: Crawford et al. (1982a)
References
Pinnacle Point
Coordinates: 34.2084 S; 22.0885 E Barnes KN. 1998. Important bird areas of the Eastern Cape. In:
Description: Rocky cliffs at the point, which is west of Barnes K (ed.). The Important Bird Areas of Southern Africa.
Mossel Bay. BirdLife South Africa, Johannesburg, 197–218.
Conservation status: Not protected. BirdLife South Africa. 2016. Proposal to re-establish an African
Species and numbers breeding: Kelp Gull Penguin colony at De Hoop Nature Reserve. BirdLife South
Africa, Cape Town: 18 pp.
Kelp Gull Braby J. 2011. The biology and conservation of the Damara Tern in
Namibia. PhD thesis, University of Cape Town, South Africa,
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Source: Whittington et al. (2016) the White-breasted Cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo, on the
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Cliffs west of Mossel Bay Brooke RK, Allan DG, Cooper J, Cyrus DP, Dean WRJ, Dyer
BM, Martin AP, Taylor RH. 1999. Breeding distribution,
Coordinates: 34.1933 S; 22.1403 E population size and conservation of Grey-headed Gull
Description: White-breasted Cormorants bred on cliff Larus cirrocephalus in southern Africa. Ostrich 70: 157–163.
ledges (Brooke et al. 1982) Cooper J. 1981. Biology of the Bank Cormorant, part 1: distribution,
Conservation status: Not protected. population size, movements and conservation. Ostrich 52:
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Year No. of pairs Cooper J, Crawford RJM, Suter W, Williams AJ. 1990.
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2012 1 Cooper J, Brooke RK, Cyrus DP, Martin AP, Taylor RH, Williams AJ.
1992. Distribution, population size and conservation of the
Source: Brooke et al. (1982), Crawford et al (2013) Caspian Tern Sterna caspia in southern Africa. Ostrich 63:
58–67.
Seal Island, Mossel Bay Crawford RJM, Cooper J, Shelton PA. 1982a. Distribution,
Coordinates: 34.1508 S;22.1197 E population size, breeding and conservation of the Kelp Gull
Description: A small, barren, rocky island c. 0.4 ha in in southern Africa. Ostrich 53: 164–177.
extent that is fully covered by Cape Fur Seals (Rand 1963, Crawford RJM, Shelton PA, Brooke RK, Cooper J. 1982b.
Shelton et al. 1984). Taxonomy, distribution, population size and conservation

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