Watermead Dam (29502935) | |
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KwaZulu-Natal | |
| CWAC status | REGISTERED-COUNTED REGULARLY |
| Authority | Private |
| Management status | UNKNOWN |
| Conservation status | UNKNOWN |
| IBA information | |
| Ramsar information | |
| Heritage information | |
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Information |
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| Date_registered |
| 1993-01-16 |
| Brief_description |
| A large farm dam; inlet has some good Phragmites/Typha beds and variably extensive sedges and flooded grass, depending on water level. Supports generally small numbers of a good variety of waterbirds; summer 1993 numbers particularly high, with maximum counts of Dabchick, Whitebacked and Yellowbilled Ducks, Cape Shoveller, Southern Pochard, Moorhen, Redknobbed Coot and Ruff. Counts show downward trend in numbers of Yellow- billed Duck, Egyptian Goose and Blacksmith Plover, and an upward trend in Reed Cormorant. Total count and number of species also show some decline. High biomass in winter 1994 due to large count of Spurwinged Goose, plus good number of Yellowbilled Duck. Purple Gallinule resident in marshy areas, where Moorhen is common and Baillon's Crake has occurred. No threats have been identified. |
| Spp | Common name | Taxonomic name | Min | Avg | Max | IBA | Subregional IBA | RAMSAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 256 | Calidris pugnax | 5 | 34.25 | 94 | ||||
| 72 | Scopus umbretta | 1 | 2.00 | 3 | ||||
| 67 | Bittern, Little | Ixobrychus minutus | 2 | 3.00 | 4 | |||
| 212 | Coot, Red-knobbed | Fulica cristata | 9 | 243.83 | 1165 | |||
| 50 | Cormorant, Reed | Microcarbo africanus | 1 | 8.44 | 29 | |||
| 47 | Cormorant, White-breasted | Phalacrocorax lucidus | 1 | 3.33 | 10 | |||
| 203 | Crake, Black | Zaporina flavirostra | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 198 | Crake, Corn | Crex crex | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 214 | Crane, Grey Crowned | Balearica regulorum | 1 | 4.41 | 35 | |||
| 52 | Darter, African | Anhinga rufa | 1 | 3.24 | 9 | |||
| 95 | Duck, African Black | Anas sparsa | 1 | 13.75 | 48 | |||
| 103 | Duck, Maccoa | Oxyura maccoa | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 104 | Duck, White-backed | Thalassornis leuconotus | 1 | 13.32 | 52 | |||
| 100 | Duck, White-faced Whistling | Dendrocygna viduata | 1 | 7.00 | 22 | |||
| 96 | Duck, Yellow-billed | Anas undulata | 12 | 120.90 | 430 | |||
| 58 | Egret, Great | Ardea alba | 2 | 3.67 | 5 | |||
| 60 | Egret, Intermediate [x] | Ardea intermedia | 1 | 4.09 | 15 | |||
| 59 | Egret, Little | Egretta garzetta | 1 | 3.00 | 5 | |||
| 61 | Egret, Western Cattle | Bubulcus ibis | 2 | 46.47 | 180 | |||
| 14799 | Egret, Yellow-billed | Egretta brachyrhyncha | 2 | 4.00 | 6 | |||
| 149 | Fish Eagle, African | Haliaeetus vocifer | 1 | 1.73 | 4 | |||
| 92 | Goose, African Pygmy | Nettapus auritus | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 89 | Goose, Egyptian | Alopochen aegyptiaca | 1 | 36.02 | 188 | |||
| 88 | Goose, Spur-winged | Plectropterus gambensis | 1 | 26.10 | 158 | |||
| 6 | Grebe, Little | Tachybaptus ruficollis | 5 | 45.52 | 191 | |||
| 263 | Greenshank, Common | Tringa nebularia | 1 | 5.33 | 12 | |||
| 288 | Gull, Grey-headed | Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 167 | Harrier, African Marsh | Circus ranivorus | 1 | 1.13 | 2 | |||
| 55 | Heron, Black-headed | Ardea melanocephala | 1 | 1.96 | 4 | |||
| 56 | Heron, Goliath | Ardea goliath | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 54 | Heron, Grey | Ardea cinerea | 1 | 3.86 | 15 | |||
| 62 | Heron, Squacco | Ardeola ralloides | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 81 | Ibis, African Sacred | Threskiornis aethiopicus | 1 | 3.23 | 15 | |||
| 83 | Ibis, Glossy | Plegadis falcinellus | 1 | 2.00 | 3 | |||
| 84 | Ibis, Hadada | Bostrychia hagedash | 1 | 6.05 | 34 | |||
| 228 | Jacana, African | Actophilornis africanus | 1 | 1.67 | 2 | |||
| 395 | Kingfisher, Giant | Megaceryle maxima | 1 | 1.71 | 4 | |||
| 397 | Kingfisher, Malachite | Corythornis cristatus | 1 | 1.30 | 3 | |||
| 394 | Kingfisher, Pied | Ceryle rudis | 1 | 2.00 | 5 | |||
| 245 | Lapwing, Blacksmith | Vanellus armatus | 1 | 14.06 | 53 | |||
| 509 | Martin, Brown-throated | Riparia paludicola | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 210 | Moorhen, Common | Gallinula chloropus | 1 | 21.68 | 79 | |||
| 211 | Moorhen, Lesser | Paragallinula angulata | 1 | 1.33 | 2 | |||
| 69 | Night Heron, Black-crowned | Nycticorax nycticorax | 1 | 1.33 | 2 | |||
| 172 | Osprey, Western | Pandion haliaetus | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 361 | Owl, Marsh | Asio capensis | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 237 | Plover, Kittlitz's | Charadrius pecuarius | 1 | 1.75 | 3 | |||
| 238 | Plover, Three-banded | Charadrius tricollaris | 1 | 6.67 | 24 | |||
| 102 | Pochard, Southern | Netta erythrophthalma | 1 | 13.58 | 103 | |||
| 197 | Rail, African | Rallus caerulescens | 1 | 1.67 | 3 | -1 | ||
| 258 | Sandpiper, Common | Actitis hypoleucos | 1 | 2.33 | 4 | |||
| 262 | Sandpiper, Marsh | Tringa stagnatilis | 2 | 2.00 | 2 | |||
| 264 | Sandpiper, Wood | Tringa glareola | 1 | 5.25 | 25 | |||
| 90 | Shelduck, South African | Tadorna cana | 1 | 7.29 | 42 | |||
| 94 | Shoveler, Cape | Anas smithii | 1 | 10.25 | 39 | |||
| 250 | Snipe, African | Gallinago nigripennis | 1 | 3.50 | 11 | |||
| 85 | Spoonbill, African | Platalea alba | 1 | 1.50 | 3 | |||
| 270 | Stilt, Black-winged | Himantopus himantopus | 1 | 8.82 | 22 | |||
| 80 | Stork, White | Ciconia ciconia | 1 | 6.83 | 15 | 1 | ||
| 208 | Swamphen, African | Porphyrio madagascariensis | 1 | 1.50 | 4 | |||
| 99 | Teal, Blue-billed | Anas hottentota | 1 | 5.00 | 16 | |||
| 98 | Teal, Cape | Anas capensis | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 97 | Teal, Red-billed | Anas erythrorhyncha | 1 | 6.10 | 33 | |||
| 290 | Tern, Caspian | Hydroprogne caspia | 2 | 2.00 | 2 | |||
| 305 | Tern, Whiskered | Chlidonias hybrida | 1 | 7.00 | 40 | |||
| 304 | Tern, White-winged | Chlidonias leucopterus | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | |||
| 685 | Wagtail, African Pied | Motacilla aguimp | 2 | 2.00 | 2 | |||
| 686 | Wagtail, Cape | Motacilla capensis | 1 | 4.10 | 17 |
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