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Table 1: Numbers of Great White Pelicans (pairs) breeding at coastal localities in southern Africa, 1604–2021. Also shown are values
recorded by Kemper et al. (2007), maxima observed at localities from 2018–2022, the most recent values for each locality, the years of
those observations, and their % contribution to the sum of the most recent counts. Values for subsites of Lake St Lucia are shown in red
and summed under the Lake St Lucia column. ‘√’ signifies that breeding occurred at a locality but the numbers were not ascertained; ‘#’
that breeding was assumed; ‘?’ that breeding may have taken place

Year Angola Ilha dos Tiges Namibia Bird Rock Platform Sandwich Harbour South Africa Jutten Island Vondeling Island Dassen Island Robben Island Seal Is, False Bay Dyer Island Quoin Rock Lake St Lucia Lane Island Bird Island, St Lucia Selley's Lakes North False Bay Overall total

Number of pairs

1604 #
1607 #
1610 #
1869 √
1894 √
1895 √
1896 √
1897 √
1898 √ √
1899 √
1900 √
1901 √
1902 √
1913 √
1919 √
1930 √
1933 √
1931 22
1933 √ 1000 1000
1937 √
1947 √
1949 375 375
1950 15 1000 1000 1015
1951 26 √ √
1952 500 500
1953 √ √ √
1954 1000 1000
1955 500 500
1956 135 25 26 √ √
1957 √ √
1958 800 800
1959 725 225 500
1960 0
1961 √ √
1962 ? ?
1963 500 500
1964 600 600
1965 500 500
1966 1500 1500
1967 524 0
1968 1500 1500
1969 300 1100 1100
1970 300 1350 1350
1971 300 163 0 0 0 0 1000 1000 1463
1972 1750 1750
1973 1117 17 1100
1974 275 1750 1750
1975 1500 1500
1976 96 1750 1750

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