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Mapungubwe National Park: List

Birds

Specie Seen Location Little Grebe Black-necked Grebe African Darter Reed Cormorant White-breasted Cormorant Great White Pelican Pink-backed Pelican Grey Black-headed Heron Goliath Heron Purple Heron Little Yellow-billed Egret Black Heron Great Egret Squacco Heron Egret Rufous-bellied Heron White-backed Night-Heron Slaty Egret Green-backed Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Dwarf Bittern Little Bittern Yellow-billed Black Stork Abdim's Stork Woolly-necked Stork Saddle-billed Stork Hamerkop

African Greater Lesser Flamingo African Sacred Glossy Ibis Hadeda Ibis Egyptian Comb Duck Spur-winged Goose Fulvous Duck White-faced Duck Little Grebe White-backed Duck Maccoa Duck African Pygmy-Goose Southern Pochard African Black Duck Yellow-billed Duck Cape Shoveler Cape Teal Hottentot Teal Red-billed Teal White-backed Vulture White-headed Vulture Lappet-faced Vulture Palm-nut Vulture Osprey African Fish- Black-chested -Eagle Booted Eagle Brown Snake-Eagle European Honey-Buzzard Long- Ayres's Hawk-Eagle Verreauxs' Eagle African Hawk-Eagle African Lesser Spotted Eagle

African Harrier-Hawk Augur Buzzard Steppe Buzzard Buzzard Wahlberg's Eagle African Marsh-Harrier Western Marsh-Harrier Pallid Harrier Montagu's Harrier Black-shouldered Kite Yellow-billed Kite Black Kite Dark Chanting Goshawk Southern African Cuckoo Hawk Buzzard Gabar Goshawk Shikra Little Sparrowhawk Ovambo Sparrowhawk Little Grebe African Goshawk Black Sparrowhawk Lanner Hawk Lesser Kestrel Rock Kestrel Greater Kestrel Amur Falcon Eurasian Hobby African Hobby Red-footed Falcon Natal Spurfowl Swainson's Spurfowl Coqui Crested Francolin Crested Common Common Quail Harlequin Quail

Kurrichane Buttonquail African Finfoot Common Moorhen Lesser Moorhen Red-knobbed Coot Black Crake African Purple Swamphen Allen's Gallinule African Jacana Lesser Jacana Spotted Crake Striped Crake African Baillon's Crake Red-chested Flufftail Grey Crowned Secretarybird Kori Red-crested Korhaan Black-winged Stilt Pied Avocet Common Ringed Plover Kittlitz's Plover Three-banded Plover Caspian Plover White-fronted Plover Lapwing Little Grebe Blacksmith Lapwing White-crowned Lapwing African Wattled Lapwing Ruff Curlew Sandpiper Little Stint Green Sandpiper Wood Sandpiper Common Sandpiper Marsh Sandpiper Common Greenshank

Common Whimbrel African Snipe Greater Painted-snipe Collared Pratincole Black-winged Pratincole Water Thick-knee Spotted Thick-knee Bronze-winged Courser Three-banded Courser Temminck's Courser Grey-headed Gull Whiskered Tern White-winged Tern Double-banded Burchell's Sandgrouse Namaqua Sandgrouse Rock Dove Speckled Pigeon Laughing Dove African Mourning Dove Cape -Dove Red-eyed Dove Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove Namaqua Dove African Green-Pigeon Meyer's Parrot Purple-crested Turaco Grey Go-away- Red-chested Cuckoo African Cuckoo Jacobin Cuckoo Levaillant's Cuckoo Great Spotted Cuckoo Thick-billed Cuckoo Klaas's Cuckoo Diderick Cuckoo Senegal Coucal Burchell's Coucal Barn Owl Little Grebe

Cape Eagle-Owl Spotted Eagle-Owl Verreaux's Eagle-Owl Pel's Fishing-Owl African Scops-Owl African Wood-Owl Pearl-spotted Owlet African Barred Owlet Marsh Owl Fiery-necked Nightjar Freckled Nightjar Square-tailed Nightjar Rufous-cheeked Nightjar European Nightjar Pennant-winged Nightjar Alpine Swift Common Swift African Black Swift African Palm-Swift Little Swift Horus Swift White-rumped Swift White-backed Mousebird Speckled Mousebird Red-faced Mousebird Malachite Kingfisher African Pygmy-Kingfisher Giant Kingfisher Pied Kingfisher Grey-headed Kingfisher Kingfisher Brown-hooded Kingfisher Striped Kingfisher White-fronted Bee-eater Blue-cheeked Bee-eater European Bee-eater Little Bee-eater Southern Carmine Bee-eater -tailed Bee-eater European Roller Lilac-breasted Roller Purple Roller

Broad-billed Roller Southern Ground- Red-billed Hornbill Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill African Grey Hornbill African Hoopoe Green Wood-Hoopoe Common Scimitarbill Greater Honeyguide Lesser Honeyguide Brown-backed Honeybird Black-collared Barbet Crested Barbet Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird Pied Barbet Bennett's Woodpecker Golden-tailed Woodpecker Cardinal Woodpecker Bearded Woodpecker Monotonous Lark Flappet Lark Dusky Lark Rufous-naped Lark Sabota Lark Fawn-coloured Lark Red-capped Lark Short-clawed Lark Chestnut-backed Sparrowlark Grey-backed Sparrowlark Greater Striped Swallow Red-breasted Swallow South African Cliff-Swallow White-throated Swallow Wire-tailed Swallow Pearl-breasted Swallow Grey-rumped Swallow Common House-Martin Brown-throated Martin

Rock Martin Fork-tailed Drongo White-breasted Cuckooshrike Black Cuckooshrike Eurasian Golden Oriole African Golden Oriole Black-headed Oriole Pied Crow Southern Black Tit Ashy Tit Southern Pied Babbler Arrow-marked Babbler Boulder Chat Dark-capped Bulbul African Red-eyed Bulbul Terrestrial Brownbul Yellow-bellied Greenbul Eastern Nicator Groundscraper Thrush Kurrichane Thrush Thrush Familiar Chat African Stonechat Capped Wheatear Ant-eating Chat Mocking Cliff-Chat Cape Robin-Chat White-throated Robin-Chat White-browed Robin-Chat Bearded Scrub-Robin White-browed Scrub-Robin Kalahari Scrub-Robin Thrush Nightingale Collared Palm Thrush Olive-tree Warbler Icterine Warbler Willow Warbler Garden Warbler Common Whitethroat Cape Penduline-Tit Grey Penduline-Tit Yellow-bellied Eremomela

Green-capped Eremomela Burnt-necked Eremomela Little Rush-Warbler River Warbler African Reed-Warbler Marsh Warbler Lesser Swamp-Warbler Sedge Warbler Great Reed-Warbler Grey-backed Camaroptera Barred Wren-Warbler Long-billed Crombec Chestnut-vented Tit-Babbler Bar-throated Apalis Yellow-breasted Apalis Neddicky Zitting Cisticola Cisticola Lazy Cisticola Rattling Cisticola Tinkling Cisticola Red-faced Cisticola Tawny-flanked Prinia Black-chested Prinia Southern Black Flycatcher Fiscal Flycatcher Spotted Flycatcher Ashy Flycatcher Grey Tit-Flycatcher African Paradise-Flycatcher Pale Flycatcher Marico Flycatcher African Yellow White-eye Cape White-eye Cape Batis Chinspot Batis African Pied Wagtail Cape Wagtail Yellow Wagtail Long-billed Pipit African Pipit Plain-backed Pipit

Buffy Pipit Striped Pipit Bushveld Pipit Tree Pipit Crimson-breasted Red-backed Shrike Lesser Grey Shrike Common Fiscal Magpie Shrike Black-crowned Tchagra Brown-crowned Tchagra Southern Boubou Orange-breasted Bush-Shrike Grey-headed Bush-Shrike Brubru Black-backed Puffback White-crested Helmet-Shrike Retz's Helmet-Shrike Southern White-crowned Shrike Cape Glossy Starling Greater Blue-eared Starling Violet-backed Starling Red-winged Starling Burchell's Starling Meves's Starling Wattled Starling Yellow-billed Oxpecker Red-billed Oxpecker Amethyst Sunbird Collared Sunbird White-bellied Sunbird Marico Sunbird House Sparrow Great Sparrow Cape Sparrow Southern Grey-headed Sparrow Yellow-throated Petronia Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver White-browed Sparrow-Weaver Lesser Masked-Weaver Spectacled Weaver

Southern Masked-Weaver Village Weaver Red-headed Weaver Red-billed Quelea Yellow-crowned Bishop Southern Red Bishop White-winged Widowbird Red-collared Widowbird Pin-tailed Whydah Long-tailed Paradise-Whydah Shaft-tailed Whydah Village Indigobird Dusky Indigobird Purple Indigobird Cuckoo Finch Red-billed Firefinch Jameson's Firefinch Black-faced Waxbill Common Waxbill Violet-eared Waxbill Blue Waxbill Scaly-feathered Finch Red-headed Finch Cut-throat Finch Bronze Mannikin Orange-breasted Waxbill African Quailfinch Green-winged Pytilia Yellow-fronted Canary Black-throated Canary Yellow Canary Streaky-headed Seedeater Cinnamon-breasted Bunting Golden-breasted Bunting Cabanis's Bunting Lark-like Bunting

Mammals

Specie Seen Location Eland (common) Blue Wildebeest (common) Waterbuck (common) Bushbuck (common) (common) Red (rare) Giraffe (common) (common) Elephant (common) (rare) (rare) Wild (rare) Kudu (common) Zebra (common) (common) (common) (common) Gemsbok (common) Bush (common) (common) White rhino (rare) (common) Hyena, spotted and brown (rare) Aardvark (common)