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Conservation status: This site does not have not any
protection.
Species and numbers breeding:
White-breasted Cormorant

Year No. of pairs
1998 a ?
2004 b > 100
2005 c > 100

a Luchansky (1998)
b Morais (2004)
c Morais (2005)

Ilha dos Pássaros A Kelp Gull nest on sand at Ilha dos Tigres, November 2005
(photo BM Dyer)
Coordinates: 8.951 S, 13.136 E
Description: An island inside Mussulo Bay with Cape Cormorant
mangroves present. It is surrounded by low marine Year No. of pairs
wetlands with small canals, and sand banks with sea grass. 2001 a c. 2000
Conservation status: It is an Integral Reserve (protected
under law) but without management, monitoring or 2005 b 2630
supervision. 2017 c 16038
Species and numbers breeding: 2020 d 94548
White-breasted Cormorant
a Simmons et al. (2006)
Year No. of pairs b Dyer (2007)
c Mendelsohn and Haraes (2018)
1998 a ? d Count from aerial photographs
2004 b > 100
2005 c > 100 White-breasted Cormorant
a Luchansky (1998) Year No. of pairs
b Morais (2004) 2001 a < 300
c Morais (2005) 2005 b 60
Ilha dos Tigres a Du Toit et al. (2006)
b Dyer (2007)
Coordinates: 16.60 S; 11.72 E
Description: A large (c. 30 km long, c. 6 km wide at widest Kelp Gull
point), remote, flat, sandy island off southern Angola that
forms the western border of Baia dos Tigres. It was con- Year No. of pairs
nected to the mainland prior to 1962 and supported a size- 2001 a >500
able town and fish processing industry that disappeared af- 2005 b 954
ter the connection to the mainland broke. An abundance of
fish continues to attract artisanal fishermen from Tômbua a Du Toit et al. (2003)
(Mendelsohn and Haraes 2018). It has minimal vegetation b Dyer (2007)
and some derelict buildings. Seabirds and seals breed only
at two discreet grouped sites, one in the north and the other Caspian Tern
in the south of the island with a very small group on a jetty
at the settlement Year No. of pairs
Conservation status: It does not have legal protection. 2005 a 88
However, there is a proposal for it to become a reserve. a
Species and numbers breeding: Dyer (2007)
Notes:
Great White Pelican The record of breeding by Cape Cormorant at Isla dos Tigres
in 2001 was the first for this species in Angola (Dean et al.
Year No. of pairs 2002). The 94,548 nests counted on aerial photographs
2002 a 80 taken in 2020 was c. 54% of the overall population of the
2020 b 141 species in 2020 (Makhado et al. 2024).
On a visit to Ilha dos Tigres in November 2005, ten Cape
a Kemper et al. (2007 Gannets (Morus capensis), one Grey-headed Gull (Larus
b Count from aerial photographs cirrocephalus) and nine Greater Crested (Swift) Terns

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