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Table 1: Numbers of Greater Crested Terns (pairs) breeding in southern Africa, 1923–2022: (b) Vondeling Island to Bird Island (Algoa Bay). ‘√’ signifies that breeding occurred at a site but the numbers

Bird Island 0 0 0

Stag Island 113 100 0 0 0 0

Seal Island 0 248 101 222 668 660

Coega River Estuary and Saltworks

Chatty Saltpan, Swartkops River

Seal Island, Mossel Bay c. 200

Dyer Island 0 0 0 100 0 44 0 0 67 164 200 26 410 375 763 994 0 648 1206

Danger Point Abalone Farm 0

Strandfontein Sewerage Works 121 116 0 0 0 828 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Somerset Hospital 0

Cape Town waterfront 0

were not ascertained; ‘?’ that breeding may have taken place.
Robben Island √ √ √ c. 600 min 75 133 √ 200 350 906 1250 2252 1376 845 299 690 956 1458 2382 1421 1613 20 0 1138 0 0 535 1500 39

Koeberg 0 0 0 0 0 0 437 550 2

Dassen Island 0 50 3038 1 0 0 105 473 1235 0 336 0 0 2497 4192 3733 3900 0 4200

Caspian Island 0 530 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Vondeling Island 0 0 0 0 0 80 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Year 1923 1951 1952 1953 1960 1970 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

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