Apart from the African oystercatchers, there are eight other species around: several greater flamingos (phoenicopterus roseus) in the water, one black-winged stilt (himantopus himantopus) in the water on the right side, hartlaubs gulls (chroicocephalus hartlaubii) and grey-headed gulls (chroicocephalus cirrocephalus) the majority of the gulls are hartlaubs but there are a few grey-headed, one is clearly seen at the edge of the water on the left , sandwich terns (thalasseus sandvicensis), greater crested terns (thalasseus bergii) and common terns (sterna hirundo) the majority of the terns are sandwich, there is a small group of greater crested at the far left, and the few clearly smaller terns are common; finally, the duck at the far right side is a cape shoveler (spatula smithii).