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Kelp Gull

Bar None Chatty Redhouse Brickfields Tippers Fishwater
Year Total
saltpans saltpans saltpans Island Creek Flats
No. of pairs
1971 a 140 140
1978 b 102
1982 c 262
1983 b 354
1984 d 459
1985 d 505
1986 d 505
1987 b 440
1988 b 409
1989 b 443
1990 b 347
1991 b 481
1992 b 499
1993 b 454
1994 b 467
1995 b 448
1996 b 560
1997 b 367
1998 b 432
1999 b 494
2000 b 378 38 g 416
g
2001 b 326 56 g 382
g
g
2002 b 504 117 g 621
2003 b 2 2 466 213 683
2004 e 343 258 g 601
g
2005 b 334 243 g 577
g
2006 b 1 g 324 265 20 610
g
g
2007 b 1 g 60 674
2010 g 0 2 99 235 389 12 737
2013 f, g 1 2 112 229 498 26 868
2016 g 0 1 6 124 685 816
2017 g 0 1 5 82 505 593
2019 g 0 0 184 573 757
2020 g 0 2 0 159 507 12 680
a Crawford et al. (1982)
b Crawford et al. (2009)
c Randall RM (in litt.)
d Martin and Randall (1987)
e Whittington et al. (2006)
f Whittington et al. (2016)
g Martin AP (unpubl.)

Notes: Kelp Gulls nested every year at Swartkops. From eventually the Redhouse Saltpan colony was abandoned
2000, the nests on the Redhouse Saltpan were regularly and the majority of the Kelp Gulls started breeding at the
raided by people removing eggs and chicks. This resulted Tippers Creek colony where nests are often inundated
in more pairs breeding on the Brickfields Island and by high spring tides (Whittington et al 2006; AP Martin
unpubl.).

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