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Caspian Tern

Year No. of pairs
2021 157
Grey-headed Gull

Year No. of pairs
2021 64

R Taylor, K Jolliffe, S Mfeka and T Nkosi (pers. obs.)
References (additional to Table 2)

Great White Pelicans at Selley’s Lakes, August 2015 (photo MB Bowker MB, Downs CT. 2008b. Fluctuations in numbers of Great
Bowker) White Pelicans at Lake St Lucia in response to changing
water-levels. African Journal of Ecology 46: 282–290.
Grey-headed Gull Bowker MB, Downs CT. 2008c. The status of habitat of Great
White Pelicans and Pink-backed Pelicans in northeastern
Year No. of pairs KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a review. African Zoology 43:
90–98.
2003 c 95 Crawford RJM, Boonstra HGvD. 1994. Counts of moulting and
2011 68 breeding Jackass Penguins – a comparison at Robben

a Berruti (1980) Island, 1988–1993. Marine Ornithology 22: 213–219.
b Bowker and Downs (2008a) Crawford RJM, Randall RM, Whittington PA, Waller LJ, Dyer BM,
c McInnes and Allan (2011) Allan DG, Fox C, Martin AP, Upfold L, Visagie J, Bachoo S,
Bowker M, Downs CT, Fox R, Huisamen J, Makhado AB,
Other records EKZN Wildlife (unpubl.) Oosthuizen WH, Ryan PG, Taylor RH, Turpie JK. 2013.
Meni Swamp outlet South Africa's coastal-breeding white-breasted cormorants:
Coordinates: 27.89 S; 32.57 E population trends, breeding season and movements, and
Description: This is a reed and sedge covered swamp diet. African Journal of Marine Science 35: 473–490.
north of Lake St Lucia, immediately inland of the coastal Hockey PAR, Dean WRJ, Ryan PG. (eds). 2005. Roberts Birds of
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dunes. Along the swamp’s western margin there is a strip Southern Africa, 7 Edition. Cape Town; John Voelcker Bird
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of freshwater swamp forest. It is fed by groundwater seep- Johnson DN, Barnes KN, Taylor B. 1998. Important bird areas of
age from the adjacent sand deposits. At the southern point KwaZulu-Natal. In Barnes KN (ed.) The Important Bird Areas
of this swampland a small stream exits, flowing into Selley’s of Southern Africa, BirdLife South Africa, Johannesburg:
Lakes. There are a few Ficus trichopoda trees in this outlet, 141–196.
in which cormorants nested in 2021. It is a very remote Nanni G, Taylor R, Bowker M. 2013. St Lucia aerial bird count -
site (RH Taylor pers. obs.). 19 August 2013. Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife, Unpublished
Species and numbers breeding: Report.
White-breasted Cormorant
Year No. of pairs
2021 130
RH Taylor (pers. obs.)

False Bay North
Coordinates: 27.88 S; 32.42 E
Description: A flooded wetland that sometimes has islands
and emergent vegetation.
Species and numbers breeding: Great White Pelicans nesting at False Bay North in 2021 (photo
Great White Pelican S Mfeka, EKZN Wildlife)
Year No. of pairs
2013 √
2021 1000
About 500 adult pelicans were at the site in September
2022 and 203 juvenile pelicans were being fed there by
adults 18 December 2022 (C Fox unpubl.).

White-breasted Cormorant
Year No. of pairs
Great White Pelicans congregating in the Meni Swamp outlet,
2022 24 February 2020 (photo RH Taylor)

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