ANIMAL, BIRD & TREE CHECKLIST mammal Checklist mammal Checklist

THIS CHECK LIST HAS BEEN COMPILED ACCORDING TO SPECIES SEEN AT MADIKWE HILLS, NOT ACCORDING TO WHAT SHOULD BE FOUND IN THE AREA. FAMILY COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME ✓ FAMILY COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME ✓ WHITE RHINO Cerototherium simum Rhinocerotidea CHACMA BABOON Papio ursinus BLACK RHINO Diceros bicornis Cercopithecidae VERVET MONKEY Cercopithecus aethiops Suidae WARTHOG Phacochoerus aethiopicus Leporidae SCRUB HARE Lepus saxatilis Hippopotimidae HIPPOPOTAMUS Hippopotamus amphibius TREE SQUIRREL Paraxerus cepapi Giraffidae SOUTHERN GIRAFFE Giraffa cameleopardalis Sciuridae GROUND SQUIRREL Xerus inauris BLUE WILDEBEEST Coochaetus taurinis SPOTTED HYENA Crocuta crocuta TSESSEBE Damaliscus lunatus Hyaenidae BROWN HYENA Hyaena brunnea COMMON OR GREY DUIKER Sylvicarpa grimmia Aardwolf Proteles cristata STEENBOK Raphicerus campestris CHEETAH Acinonyx jubatus IMPALA Aepyceros melampus LEOPARD Pantera pardus CAPE BUFFALO Syncerus caffer LION Panthera leo KUDU Tregalaphus strepsiceros Felidae Bovidae CARACAL Felis caracal BUSHBUCK Tregalaphus scriptus AFRICAN WILD CAT Felis lybica WATERBUCK Kobus ellipsiprymnus SERVAL Felis serval GEMSBOK / ORYX Oryx gazella WILD DOG Lycoan pictus Springbok Antidorcas marsupialis Canidae BLACK BACKED JACKAL Canis mesomelas ELAND Taurotragus oryx BAT EARED FOX Otocyon megalotis Kipspringer Oreotragus oreotragus Mustelidae HONEY BADGER Mellivora capensis REEDBUCK - common Redunca arundinum AFRICAN CIVET Civetticus vivetta Procaviidae ROCK DASSIE Procavia capensis SMALL SPOTTED GENET Genetta genetta Muridae BUSHVELD GERBIL Gerbilliscus leucogaster LARGE SPOTTED GENET Genetta tigrina Hystricidae PORCUPINE Hystrix africaeaustralis Viverridae BANDED MONGOOSE Mungos mungo Equidae ZEBRA Equus zebra DWARF MONGOOSE Helogale parvula Manidae PANGOLIN Manis temminickii slender MONGOOSE Pedetidae SPRINGHARE Pedetes capensis Orycteropodidae AARDVARK/ANT BEAR Orycteropus afer Elephantidae AFRICAN ELEPHANT Loxodonta africana Reptile & Amphibian Checklist TREE Checklist

COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME ✓ COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME ✓ REPTILES Mulberry Family Moraceae FLAP-NECKED CHAMELEON Chamaeleo dilepis LARGE-LEAVED ROCK FIG Ficus rotundifolio LEOPARD TORTOISE Stigmochelys pardalis CAPER FAMILY Capparaceae CAPE TERRAPIN Pelomedusa subrufa Shepherds Tree Boscia Albitrunca NILE CROCODILE Crocodylus niloticus Stink Shepherds Tree Boscia Foetida LIZARDS THORN TREE FAMILY Mimosaceae TREE AGAMA Agama atricollis Black Monkey Thorn Acacia Burkei ROCK AGAMA Agama atra Common Hook Thorn Acacia Caffra WATER LEGUAAN OR MONITOR Varanus niloticus Blue Thorn Acacia Erubescens ROCK LEGUAAN OR MONITOR Varanus.a. albigularis Camel Thorn Acacia Erioloba AMPHIBIANS Sweet Thorn Acacia Karoo AFRICAN BULLFROG Pyxicephalus edulis Black Thorn Acacia Mellifera FOAM NEST FROG Chiromantis xerampelina Knob Thorn Acacia Nigrescens BUBBLING KASSINA Kassina senegalensis Scented Thorn Acacia Nilotica Umbrella Thorn Acacia Tortilis SNAKES Sickel Bush Dichrostachys Cinerea PUFF ADDER Bitis arietans FLAMBOYANT FAMILY Caesalpinoideae SPOTTED BUSH SNAKE Philothamnus semivariegatus Weeping Wattle Peltophorum Africanum MOZAMBIQUE SPITTING COBRA Naja mossambica Cork Bush Mundulea Sericea BROWN HOUSE SNAKE Boaedon capensis Euphorbia Family Euphorbiaceae MOLE SNAKE Pseudaspis cana White-Berry Bush Flueggea Virosa HERALD OR RED-LIPPED SNAKE Crotaphopeltis hotamboeia Lavender Fever Berry Croton Gratissimus BLACK MAMBA Dendroaspis polylepis Tamboti Spirostachys Africana AFRICAN ROCK PYTHON Python sebae MANGO Family Anacardaceae YELLOW BELLIED SAND SNAKE Psammophis subtaeniatus MARULA Sclerocarya Birrea SOUTHERN TREE SNAKE (BOOMSLANG) Dispholidus typus KAREE Rhus Lancea MOUNTAIN KAREE Rhus Leptodictya SPIKE THORN Family Celastraceae COMMON SPIKE THORN Gymnosporia Buxifolia RED SPIKE THORN Gymnosporia Senegalensis LITCHI Family Sapindaceae JACKET PLUM Pappea Capensis TREE Checklist BIRD Checklist

COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME ✓ COMMON NAME ✓ DOGWOOD Family Rhamnaceae Apalis Bar-throated Avocet Pied BUFFALO THORN Ziziphus Mucronata Arrow marked RED IVORY Berchemia Zeyheri Babbler Southern pied GRAPE Family Vitaceae Acacia pied Barbet BUSHMAN’S GRAPE Rhoicissus Tridentata Crested LINDEN Family Tiliaceae European (bee-eater - eurasian) VELVET RAISIN Grewia Flava Southern carmine Bee-Eater SILVER RAISIN Grewia Monticola Little STAR-CHESTNUT Family Sterculiaceae White fronted Red-eyed COMMON WILD PEAR Dombeya Rotundifolia African red-eyed MILKWOOD Family Sapotaceae Bulbul Black eyed TRANSVAAL RED MILKWOOD Mimusops Zeyheri Dark-capped BUSHWILLOW Family Combretaceae Cape Red BUSHWILLOW Combretum Apiculatum Bunting Rock (bunting - cinnamon-breasted) RIVER BUSHWILLOW Combretum Erythrophylum Golden-breasted VELVET BUSHWILLOW Combretum Molle Bustard Kori Kurrichane (buttyonquail small) RUSSET BUSHWILLOW Combretum Hereroense ButtonQuail HARLEQUIN QUAIL LEADWOOD Combretum Imberbe Lizard LARGE FRUITED BUSHWILLOW Combretum Zeyheri Buzzard Steppe SILVER CLUSTER LEAF Terminalia Sericea Yellow Canary EBONY Family Ebonacea Yellow-eyed ( canary yellow-fronted) BLUE GUARRI Euclea Crispa Anteating SMALL LEAVED GUARRI Euclea Undulata Chat Familiar BLUE BUSH Diospyros Lycoides Mocking (Chat - Mocking Cliff) Rattling OLIVE Family Oleaceae Cisticola Fan-Tailed (Cisticola - Zitting) WILD OLIVE Olea Europea Africana Coot ReDKnobbed COOT BORAGE Family Boranginaceae Reed Cormorant PUZZLE BUSH Ehritia Rigida WHITE BREASTED VERBENA Family Verbenaceae Coucal Burchells SILVER PIPE STEM Vitex Zeyheri Courser Bronze-Winged GARDENIA Family Rubiaceae African Crake TRANSVAAL GARDENIA Gardenia Volkensii Black WILD MEDLAR Vangeuria Infausta BIRD Checklist BIRD Checklist

COMMON NAME ✓ COMMON NAME ✓ Crombec Long-Billed African Fish Black African Hawk Crow Pied BlAck Breasted EAGLE Black Booted Common Eagle Brown Snake Diderick Martial Great Spotted Steppe Cuckoo Jacobin Tawny Klaas Wahlbergs Striped (Cuckoo - Levaillants) Cattle Red Chested Egret Great White African Yellow Billed Crake Black Eremomela Yellow Bellied Crombec Long-Billed Falcon Lanner Black Melba (Green Winged Pytilia) Crow Pied Finch Red-Headed Darter (Darter - African) Scaly-Feathered Dikkop Spotted (Spotted Thick Knee) Finchlark Chestnut Backed (Chestnut-Backed Sparrow Lark) Cape Turtle Jamesons Firefinch Green Spotted (Dove - Emerald Spotted Wood) Red-Billed Laughing Greater Dove Flamingo Namaqua Lesser Red-Eyed Paradise (African Paradise) Rock (Feral Pigeon) Fiscal Drongo Fork-Tailed Fantailed (Grey Tit) Flycatcher African Black Marico Knob Billed / Comb Pallid (Pale) Duck WHITE FACE WHIStLING DUCK Black (Southern Black) AFRICAN SHELL DUCK Coqui Yellow-Billed Francolin Crested Natal Egyptian Goose Spurwinged gabar Goshawk Little banded (Shikra) Pale Chanting (Southern Pale) BIRD Checklist BIRD Checklist

COMMON NAME ✓ COMMON NAME ✓ Grebe little Korhaan Red-Crested Greenshank (Common Greenshank) Monotonous Guineafowl Helmeted Lark Rufousnaped Grey Headed Sabota Gull Lesser Black-Backed Lourie Grey (go away bird) Gymnogene (African Hawk Harrier) Bronze Mannikin Hamerkop sand Helmet Shrike White Moorhen Common Black-Crowned Night Red-Faced Mousebird Black Headed Speckled Heron Green Backed Neddicky Grey Fiery-Necked Greater Freckled Honeyguide NightjaR Lesser Mozambique Grey Rufous-Cheeked Hornbill Red-Billed Oriole Black-Headed Southern Yellow-Billed Osprey Sacred Ostrich Ibis Glossy African Scops Hadeda Barn Eastern Red-Footed Giant Eagle Greater Owl Marsh Kestrel Lesser Pearl-Spotted Rock Spotted Eagle Western Red-Footed White faced Jacana African Hoopoe African Brown-Hooded Giant Grey-Hooded Malachite Kingfisher Pied Pygmy Striped Woodland Black-Shouldered Kite Yellow Billed BIRD Checklist BIRD Checklist

COMMON NAME ✓ COMMON NAME ✓ Oxpecker Red-Billed oxpecker Crimson-Breasted Parrot Meyers Fiscal African Green Grey-Headed Bush Pigeon Rock Lesser Grey Shrike Buffy Long-Tailed Bushveld Orange-Breasted Bush Pipit Plain-Backed Red-Backed Striped White-Crowned Blacksmith (Blacksmith Lapwing) Snipe Ethiopian Crowned Cape Plover Three-banded Great Wattled (African Wattled Lapwing) House Pochard Southern Sparrow Southern Grey-Headed Pratincole Black-Winged Yellow-Throated (Yellow Throated Petronia) Black-Chested Weaver - White Browed Prinia Tawny-Flanked Hawk - Little Puffback Black back Spoonbill African Common Spur-fowl swainsons Quail Harlequin Burchell’s Quelea Red-Billed Glossy Redshank Starling Red-Winged Kalahari plum-Coloured Robin White-Browed Wattled White-Throated Stilt Black-Winged European Stonechat Roller Lilac-Breasted Abdims Purple Black Ruff Stork Marabou Sanderling White Double-Banded Yellow-Billed Sandgrouse Yellow-Throated Black Sandpiper Common Sunbird Marico Shoveller Cape White-Bellied BIRD Checklist BIRD Checklist

COMMON NAME ✓ COMMON NAME ✓ Greater Striped Black-Cheaked Lesser Striped Blue Swallow Pear-Breasted Waxbill Common Red-Breasted Orange-Breasted White-Throated Violet-Eared Palm Cape Swift Alpine Lesser Masked Little Red-Billed Buffalo Weaver Black-Crowned Red-Headed Tchagra Three-Streaked Masked Cape Spotted-Backed Teal Hottentot Wheatear Capped Red-Billed Whimbrel Common Groundscraper White eyed Cape Thrush Karoo Paradise Kurrichane Whydah Pin-Tailed Ashy Shaft-Tailed Cape Penduline Long-Tailed Tit Grey Penduline Widow Red-Collared Southern Black White-Winged Titbabbler CHESTNUT-VETED Purple (Purple Indigo Bird) Widowfinch Cape Steelblue (Village Indigo Bird) Vulture Lappetface Red-Billed Woodhoopoe White-Backed Scimitar-Billed Cape Common Scimitar Wagtail African Pied Bearded LESSER SWAMP Bennett’s Woodpecker Warbler Desert Barred Cardinal reed Golden-Tailed LODGE RESERVATIONS t +27 (0)18 350 9200 / +27 (0)11 781 5431 f +27 (0)86 509 5676 [email protected] GAME LODGE t +27 18 350 9200 f +27 18 350 9206 m +27 81 269 4595 [email protected] www.madikwehills.com

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