19/05/2024
Our private 23-Day Rare Mammal and Birding Tour in South Africa from 5 to 27 April 2024 concluded recently! 🐆🦅🤠🚙💚
What a special adventure, covering 5,635km! So many awesome sightings and spectacular scenes from Welgevonden, Marakele NP, Magoebaskloof, Kruger NP, Wakkerstroom, Manyoni, Spionkop, Golden Gate NP, Marrick, Khoisan Karoo, Karoo NP, Garden Route NP, Pringle Bay and Table Mountain NP!
We saw 62 mammals species 🦒, 391 bird species 🐦⬛, 2 snakes 🐍 and many other reptiles and amphibians, and so many other treats.
Our mammal highlights:
1 Temminck’s Ground Pangolin, 5 Cheetah (including a hunt), 2 Cape Clawless Otters, 3 Leopards, many Lions, 4 African Wild Cats, 3 Cape Foxes, 3 Aardvarks, many Aardwolves, White Rhinos, Spotted Hyenas, 9 Cape Porcupines, 12 Suricate (Meerkat), Eastern Tock Sengi (Elephant Shrews), 6 mongoose species, 1 Rusty-spotted (Large-spotted) Genet, Cape Buffalo, Sable, Roan, Gemsbok (South African Oryx), Tsessebe (Topi), Klipspringer, Hippo, 3 reedbuck species, many Cape Hares, Bush Vlei Rat, etc.
Our bird highlights:
11 eagle species (including 3 Crowned Eagles, 3 Martial Eagles, Verreaux’s Eagles, African Hawk Eagles, Black-chested Snake), 4 owl species (including Pel’s Fishing and Verreaux’s), Black Harrier, 7 goshawk and sparrowhawk species, 4 vulture species (White-headed, Lappet-faced, Cape, White-backed), White Storks, 8 bustard species (including 2 Kori, 4 White-bellied, many Ludwig’s, many Blue Korhaans, 4 Karoo Korhaans), 6 Secretarybirds, Great Spotted Cuckoo, Mottled Spinetail, Green-capped Eremomela, 4 hornbill species (including Southern Ground Hornbill), Square-tailed Nightjar, Freckled Nightjar, Double-banded Courser, Double-banded Sandgrouse, Namaqua Sandgrouse, Lanner Falcon, Peregrine Falcon, 3 Secretarybirds, 4 Saddle-billed Storks, Jackal Buzzard, Blue Crane, Grey-crowned Crane, 5 stork species (including African Openbill), African Snipes drumming, Blue-billed Teal, Maccoa Duck, Black-necked Grebe, both flamingo species, 7 kingfisher species (including Half-collared and Giant), all 3 mousebird species, 6 woodpecker species (including Bearded and Olive), Knysna Turaco, Purple-crested Turaco, Black-throated Wattle Eye, 11 bushshrike species (including Gorgeous and Crimson-breasted), Rufous-eared Warbler, Yellow-bellied Eremomela, Common Quail, 11 lark species (including 3 Dusky, Pink-billed, Eastern long-billed, Karoo Long-billed, Large-billed, Spike-heeled, Eastern Clapper), Sickle-winged Chat, 6 canary species (including Black-headed Canary, White-throated Canary), 8 starling species (including Pale-winged Starling), 11 dove and pigeon species (including African Mourning and Tambourine), African Rail, Cape Sugarbird, Brown-backed Honeybird, Greater Honeyguide, Southern Pied Babbler, White-throated Robin Chat, Bearded Scrub Robin, Fairy Flycatcher, Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird, Pririt Batis, Blue-mantled Crested Flycatcher, Crested Guineafowl, Great Sparrow, Sociable Weaver, Red-headed Weaver, Quailfinch, Cape Penduline Tit, Village Indigobird, Dusky Indigobird, Black-faced Waxbill, Violet-eared Waxbill, Black-headed Canary, all 12 starling species, 9 sunbird species, 22 cisticola species, etc.
Our New Zealand client were simply delighted. 😁
