Protected heritage site · Gauteng
Plovers Lake
Plovers Lake is a protected heritage site in Gauteng, about 37 km north-west of Johannesburg. It covers 0,06 km² — number 9 by size of the 15 Gauteng areas with a recorded size.
0,1km² recorded size
—year established
—elevation of the point
37 kmnorth-west of Johannesburg
Facts
- Type
- Protected heritage site (protected area, paleontological site)
- Province
- Gauteng
- Local municipality
- Mogale City
- Size
- 0,06 km² · 6 ha
- Rank by size
- 102 of 115 nationally · 9 in Gauteng
- Designations
- national heritage site of South Africa
- Part of
- Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai, and Environs
- Coordinates
- -25.9775, 27.7767
- Nearest large town
- Johannesburg, 37 km north-west
- Wikipedia articles
- 7 languages
Sources: Wikidata Q7205179 · Natural Earth (province outline)
Nearby
- Minnaar's CavesProtected heritage site · 0 km²1 km south
- Bothongo Rhino & Lion Nature ReserveNature reserve2 km north-east
DrimolenProtected heritage site · 0 km²2 km north-west
Coopers CaveProtected heritage site · 0 km²5 km south-west- SwartkransProtected heritage site6 km north
SterkfonteinProtected heritage site6 km south-west
GBIF records within 2 km
Wildlife recorded around Plovers Lake
81 mammal and 1 268 bird occurrence records within 2 km of the reserve's point. Species with the most records first; the number is records, not animals.
Mammals
- Australopithecus robustus21
- Yellow MongooseCynictis penicillata11
- SpringbokAntidorcas marsupialis5
- South African Ground SquirrelXerus inauris4
- Roan AntelopeHippotragus equinus4
- African BuffaloSyncerus caffer4
- Common Wart-hogPhacochoerus africanus4
- BontebokDamaliscus pygargus3
- Blue WildebeestConnochaetes taurinus3
- Black WildebeestConnochaetes gnou3
- GemsbokOryx gazella3
- Common ElandTaurotragus oryx3
- ImpalaAepyceros melampus2
Birds
- Southern Masked WeaverPloceus velatus41
- African Sacred IbisThreskiornis aethiopicus40
- Common OstrichStruthio camelus39
- Blacksmith LapwingVanellus armatus37
- Pied CrowCorvus albus30
- Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca30
- African Wattled LapwingVanellus senegallus28
- African StonechatSaxicola torquatus25
- Hadada IbisBostrychia hagedash24
- Cattle EgretBubulcus ibis23
- Southern FiscalLanius collaris23
- Helmeted GuineafowlNumida meleagris22
- Crowned LapwingVanellus coronatus22
- Mocking Cliff ChatThamnolaea cinnamomeiventris21
Source: GBIF.org occurrence data (records within the radius; licences of the publishing datasets apply). All wildlife.