Tim's Blog

here is our sightings list from just 4 days!

Birds 42 spp:

Dark capped bulbul
white breasted cormorant
black crake
emerald spotted dove
fork tailed drongo
comb duck
white faced duck
steppe eagle
crested francolin
grey go-away-bird
egyptian goose
helmeted guineafowl
african hoopoe
southern ground hornbill
african grey hornbill
southern yellow-billed hornbill
hadeda ibis
african jacana
pied kingfisher
woodland kingfisher
red-crested koorhaan
blacksmith lapwing
crowned lapwing
red-billed quelea
lilac-breasted roller
common sandpiper
african scops-owl
magpie shrike
red-backed shrike
brown snake-eagle
swainsons spurfowl
black-bellied starling
marabou stork
spotted eagle-owl
barn swallow
water thick-knee
kurrichane thrush
white-backed vulture
blue waxbill
southern masked weaver
long tailed paradise whydah

mammals 23spp:

blue wildebeest
cape buffalo
bushbuck
chacma baboon
dwarf mongoose
water mongoose
elephant
giraffe
hippopotamous
impala
kudu
leopard
burchell’s zebra
scrub hare
slender mongoose
spotted hyaena
steenbuck
tree squirrel
vervet monkey
wart hog
waterbuck
white rhino
wild dog

reptiles 4spp:

blue headed tree agama
crocodile
leopard tortoise
serrated hinged terrapin