Madikwe Game Reserve: Species List

Birds

Specie Seen Location Apalis, Barthroated Avocet Babbler, Arrowmarked Barbet, Pied Barbet, Blackcollared Barbet, Crested Barbet, Pied Barbet, Yellowfronted Tinked Bateleur Batis, Chinspot Bee-eater, Bluecheeked Bee-eater, Carmine Bee-eater, European Bee-eater, Little Bee-eater, Olive Bee-eater, Swallowtailed Bee-eater, Whitefronted Bishop, Golden Bittern, Dwarf Boubou, Southern Brubru Buffalo-weaver, Redbilled Bulbul, Blackeyed Bulbul, Redeyed Bunting, Cape Bunting, Goldenbreasted Bunting, larklike Bunting, Rock Bushshrike, Greyheaded Bushshrike, Orangebreasted Bustard, Kori Buttonquail, Kurrichane Buzzard, Lizard Buzzard, Steppe Canary, Blackthroated Canary, Streakyheaded Canary, Yelloweyed Chat, Anteating Chat, Fimiliar Chat, Mocking

Chat, Stone Cisticola, Desert Cisticola, Fantailed Cisticola, Lazy Cisticola, Rattling Cisticola, Tinking Coot, Redknobbed Cormorant, Reed Cormorant, Whitebreasted Coucal, Burchell’s Courser, Bronzewinged Courser, Burchell’s Courser, Doublebanded Courser, Temminck’s Crake, Black Crake, Corn Crombec, Longbilled Crow, Black Crow, Pied Cuckoo, African Cuckoo, Black Cuckoo, Diederik Cuckoo, Great Spotted Cuckoo, Jacobin Cuckoo, Klaas’s Cuckoo, Redchested Cuckoo, Striped Cuckooshrike, Black Dabchick Darter Dikkop, Spotted Dove, Cape Turtle Dove, Laughing Dove, Namaqua Dove, Redeyed Drongo, Folktailed Duck, Whitefaced Duck, African Black Duck, Fulvous Duck, Knobbilled Duck, Maccoa Duck, Yellowbilled Eagle, African Hawk Eagle, Black Eagle, Blackbreasted Snake Eagle, Brown Snake Eagle, Fish Eagle, Lesser Spotted Eagle, Martial

Eagle, Steppe Eagle, Tawny Eagle, Whalberg’s Egret, Black Egret, Cattle Egret, Great White Egret, Little Eremomela, Burntnecked Eremomela, Yellowbellied Falcon, Lanner Falcon, Peregrine Finch, Lanner Finch, Cutthraot Finch, Melba Finch, Quail Finch, Redheaded Finch, Scalyfeathered Finchlark, Chestnutbacked Finchlark, Greybacked Finfoot, African Firefinch, Jameson’s Firefinch, Redbilled Flamingo, Lesser Flycatcher, Black Flycatcher, Fairy Flycatcher, Fantailed Flycatcher, Fiscal Flycatcher, Marico Flycatcher, Paradise Flycatcher, Spotted Francolin, Coqui Francolin, Crested Francolin, Natal Francolin, Swainson’s Garganey Goose, Egyptian Goose, Spurwinged Goshawk, Gaber Goshawk, Little Banded Goshawk, Pale Chanting Grebe, Great Crested Greenshank Guineafowl, Helmeted Gull, Greyheaded Gymnogene Hammerkop Harrier, African Marsh Harrier, Montagu’s Heron, Blackcrowned Night

Heron, Blackheaded Heron, Greenbacked Heron, Grey Heron, Squacco Hobby, European honeyguide, Greater Honeyguide, Lesser Honeyguide, Sharpbilled Hoopoe, African Hornbill, Grey Hornbill, Ground Hornbill, Redbilled Hornbill, Yellowbilled Ibis, Glossy Ibis, Hadeda Ibis, Sacred Jacana, African Kestrel, Greater Kestrel, Lesser Kestrel, Rock Kingfisher, African Pygmy Kingfisher, Brownhooded Kingfisher, Giant Kingfisher, Greyhooded Kingfisher, Malachite Kingfisher, Pied Kingfisher, Striped Kingfisher, Woodland Kite, Blackshouldered Kite, Yellowbilled Korhaan, Black Korhaan, Redcrested Lark, Dusky Lark, Flapped Lark, Melodius Lark, Monotonous Lark, Redcapped Lark, Rufousnaped Lark, Sabota Lark, Spikeheeled Lourie, Grey Martin, Banded Martin, House Martin, Rock Martin, Sand Moorhen Moorhen, Lesser Mousebird, Redfaced Neddicky

Nightjar, European Nightjar, Fierynecked Nightjar, Freckled Nightjar, Pennantwinged Nightjar, Rufouscheeked Oriole, Blackheaded Oriole, European Golden Ostrich Owl, Barn Owl, Giant Eagle Owl, Grass Owl, Marsh Owl, Pearspotted Owl, Scops Owl, Spotted Eagle Owl, Whitefaced Oxpecker, Redbilled Parrot, Meyer’s Pigeon, Green Pigeon, Rock Pipit, Buffy Pipit, Pipit, Longbilled Pipit, Richard’s Pipit, Striped Plover, Blacksmith Plover, Caspian Plover, Crowned Plover, Kittlitz’s Plover, Threebanded Plover, Wattled Pochard, Southern Pratincole, Blackwinged Prinia, Blackchested Prinia, Tawnyflanked Puffneck Quil, Common Quil, Harlequin Quelea, Redbilled Robin, Kalahari Robin, Whitebrowed Scrub Robin, European Robin, Lilacbreasted Robin, Purple Ruff Sandgrouse, Doublebanded Sandgrouse, Namaqua Sandgrouse, Yellowthroated Sandpiper, Common

Sandpiper, Curlew Sandpiper, Marsh Sandpiper, Wood Scimitarbill, Greater Secretary Bird Shelduck, South African Shrike, Crimsonbreasted Shrike, Fiscal Shrike, Lesser Grey Shrike, Longtailed Shrike, Redbacked Shirke, White Helmet Shrike, Whitecrowned Snipe, Painted Sparrow, Cape Sparrow, Great Sparrow, Greyheaded Sparrow, House Sparrow, Yellowthroated Sparrow, Little Sparrow, Ovambo Sparrow-Weaver, Whitebrowed Spoonbill, African Starling, Burchell’s Starling, Cape Glossy Starling, Greater blue-eared Starling, Plumcloloured Starling, Redwinged Starling, Wattled Stilt, Blackwinged Stint, Little Stork, Abdims Stork, Black Stork, Marabou Stork, White Stork, Yeloowbilled Swallow, European Swallow, Lesser Striped Swallow, Greater Striped Swallow, Pearlbreasted Swallow, Redbreasted Swift, African Black Swift, Alpine Swift, European Swift, Little Swift, Palm Swift, Whiterumped Tchagra, Blackcrowned Tchagra, Threestreaked

Teal, Hottentot Teal, Redbilled Thrush, Cape Rock Thrush, Groundscraper Thrush, Kurrichane Thrush, Olive Thrush, Shorttoed Rock Tit, Ashy Tit, Cape Penduline Tit, Southern Black Titbabbler Vulture, Cape Vulture, Egyptian Vulture, Hooded Vulture, Lappetfaced Vulture, Whitebacked Wagtail, Cape Warbler, Cape Warbler, Barred Warbler, European Marsh Warbler, Golden Warbler, Greybacked bleating Warbler, Icterine Warbler, Olivetree Warbler, Willow Waxbill, Blackcheeked Waxbill, Blue Waxbill, Common Waxbill, Violeteared Weaver, Lesser Masked Weaver, Masked Weaver, Redheaded Weaver, Spottedbacked Wheatear, Capped White-eye, Cape Whitethroat, Common Whydah, Paradise Whydah, Pintailed Whydah, Shafttailed Widow, Whitewinged Widowfinch, Purple Widowfinch, Steelblue Woodhoopoe, Redbilled Woodpecker, Bearded Woodpecker, Bennet’s Woodpecker, Bardinal Woodpecker, Goldentailed

Mammals

Specie Seen Location Aardwolf Antbear(Aardvark) Baboon, Chacma Badger, Honey Bat, Cape Serotine Bat, Common Slit-faced Bat, Egyptian Free-tailed Bat, Geoffroy’s Horseshoe Bat, Schreibers’ Long-Fingered Bat, Short-Eared Trident Bat, Straw-coloured flting fox Bat, Sundevall’s Leaf-nosed Bat, Yellow House Buffalo Bushbaby, Lesser Bushbuck Bushpig Caracal Cat, African Wild Civet, African Dassie, Rock Dog, Wild Dormouse, Woodland Duiker, Common(Grey) Eland Elephant Fox, Bat-Eared Gemsbok Genet, Large-Spotted Gennet, Small-Spotted Gerbil, Bushveld Gerbil, Hairy-Footed Gerbil, Highveld

Giraffe Hare, Scrub Hartebeest, Red Hedgehog, South African Hippopotamus Hyaena, Brown Hyaena, Spotted Jackal, Black-Backed Klipspringer Kudu Molerat, Common Mongoose, Banded Mongoose, Dwarf Mongoose, Selous’ Mongoose, Slender Mongoose, Yellow Monkey, Vervet Mouse, Fat Mouse, Grey Climbing Mouse, Multimammate Mouse, Namaqua Rock Mouse, Pouched Mouse,Single-striped Mouse, Spiny Mouse, Striped Mouse, Tree Otter, Cape Clawless Pangolin Polecat, Striped Porcupine Rabbit, Jamesons’ Red Rock Rat, Angoni Vlei Rat, House Rat, Red Veld Reedbuck, Common Reedbuck, Mountain Rhinoceros, , White Sable Antelope Serval Shrew, Lesser Red Musk

Shrew, Short-snouted Elephant Shrew, Swamp Musk Springbok Springhare Squirrel, Ground Squirrel, Tree Steenbok Tsessebe Warthog Waterbuck Weasel, Striped Wildebeest, Blue Zebra, Burchell’s

Reptiles

Specie Seen Location Adder, Horned Adder, Puff Black Mumba Bommslang Bush Snake, Spotted Cobra, Cape Cobra, Egyptian or Snouted Cobra, Mozambique Spitting Egg-Eater, Common or Rhombic File Snake, Cape House Snake, Brown Mole Snake Python, Southern african Rock Skaapsteker, Striped Stiletto Snake, Southern or Bibron’s Tiger Snake Vine, Twig or Bird Snake Water Snake, Brown Wolf Snake, Cape Agama, Rock or Ground Agama, Tree Chameleon, Flapnecked Gecko, Bibron’s Gecko, Cape Gecko, Cape Dwarf Gecko, Moreau’s Tropical House Gecko, Wahlberg’s Velvet Lizard, Bushveld

Lizard, Common Rough-scaled Lizard, Ornate Sandveld or Longtailed Lizard, Spotted Sand Lizard, Spotted Sandveld or Longtailed Lizard, Yellow-throated Plated Monitor (Leguan),Rock Monitor (Leguan), Water Skink, Cape Skink, Striped Skink, Variable Terrapin, Cape / Marsh / Helmeted Tortoise, Leopard or Mountain

Amphibians

Specie Seen Location Bullfrog, Giant Caco, Common Frog, Foam Nest or Grey Tree Grass Frog, Plain Grass Frog, Broad-banded Kassina, bubbling Puddle Frog, Snoring Rain Frog, Bushveld River Frog, Common Rubber Frog, Banded Sand Frog, Knocking Sand Frog, Tremolo Shovel-nosed Frog, Mottled Toad, Northern Pigmy Toad, Red Toad, Western Olive