Golden Gate Highlands National Park: Species List

Mammals

Specie Seen Location Reddish Grey Musk Shrew Forest Shrew Red Musk Shrew South African Hedgehog (Rare) Hottentot Golden Mole Sclater's Golden Mole (Indeterminate) Cape Serotine Bat Kuhl's Bat (Indeterminate) Chacma Baboon Scrub Hare Cape Hare Smith's Red Rock Rabbit Common Mole Rat Porcupine Springhaas Woodland Dormouse Grass Climbing Mouse Lesser Climbing Mouse Large-Eared Mouse White-Tailed Rat (Vulnerable) Highveld Gerbil Vlei Rat Rock Karoo Rat Namaqua Rock Mouse Multimammate Mouse House Rat Striped Mouse African Bush Rat Pygmy Mouse Aardwolf (Rare) African Wild Cat (Vulnerable) Caracal Silver Fox Black-Backed Jackal Cape Clawless Otter Striped Polecat Spotted-Necked Otter Large-Spotted Genet Small Grey Mongoose Water Mongoose

Yellow Mongoose White-Tailed Mongoose Rock Dassie Zebra Plains /Burchell’s Eland Hartebeest Red Wildebeest Black Blesbok Springbok Reedbuck Mountain Rhebok Grey Duiker Grey Steenbok Oribi (Vulnerable

Birds

Specie Seen Location Little Grebe Whitebreasted Cormorant Reed Cormorant African Darter Grey Heron Blackheaded Heron Goliath Heron Purple Heron Great Egret Little Egret Yellowbilled Egret Cattle Egret Squacco Heron Blackcrowned Night-Heron Hamerkop White Stork Black Stork Abdim's Stork Yellowbilled Stork African Sacred Ibis Southern Bald Ibis Glossy Ibis Hadeda Ibis African Spoonbill Greater Flamingo Lesser Flamingo Whitefaced Duck Fulvous Duck Whitebacked Duck Egyptian Goose

South African Shelduck Yellowbilled Duck African Black Duck Cape Teal Hottentot Teal Redbilled Teal Cape Shoveller Cape Southern Pochard Spurwinged Goose Maccoa Duck Secretarybird Bearded Vulture Cape Vulture Black Kite Yellowbilled Kite Blackshouldered Kite Verreaux's Eagle Booted Eagle Martial Eagle African Fish-Eagle Steppe Buzzard Jackal Buzzard Lizard Buzzard Black Sparrowhawk African Goshawk African Marsh Harrier Pallid Harrier Black Harrier African Harrier Hawk Osprey Peregrine Falcon Lanner Falcon Amur Falcon Rock Kestrel Greater Kestrel Lesser Kestrel Greywinged Francolin Redwinged Francolin Natal Spurfowl Swainson's Spurfowl Common Quail Helmeted Guineafowl Blue Crane Grey Crowned Crane African Rail Black Crake Redchested Flufftail African Purple Swamphen Common Moorhen

Redknobbed Coot Blue Korhaan African Jacana Greater Painted-Snipe Common Ringed Kittlitz's Plover Threebanded Plover Crowned Lapwing Blacksmith Lapwing Common Sandpiper Wood Sandpiper Marsh Sandpiper Greenshank Curlew Sandpiper Little Stint Ruff (male), Reeve (female) African Snipe Pied Avocet Blackwinged Stilt Spotted Thick-knee Blackwinged Pratincole Greyheaded Gull Whiskered Tern Whitewinged Tern Rock Dove Speckled Pigeon African Olive-Pigeon Cape Turtle-Dove Laughing Dove Namaqua Dove Lemon Dove Common Cuckoo Redchested Cuckoo Great Spotted Cuckoo Jacobin Cuckoo Klaas's Cuckoo Diderick Cuckoo Barn Owl African Grass-Owl Marsh Owl Cape Eagle-Owl 1 Spotted Eagle-Owl European Nightjar Fierynecked Nightjar Freckled Nightjar Common Swift African Black Swift Whiterumped Swift

Horus Swift Little Swift Alpine Swift Speckled Mousebird Redfaced Mousebird Pied Kingfisher Giant Kingfisher Halfcollared Kingfisher Malachite Kingfisher European Roller African Hoopoe Green Woodhoopoe Blackcollared Barbet Acacia Pied Barbet Crested Barbet Greater Honeyguide Lesser Honeyguide Sharpbilled Honeybird Ground Woodpecker Goldentailed Woodpecker Cardinal Woodpecker Redthroated Wryneck Rufousnaped Lark Eastern Clapper Lark Eastern Longbilled Lark Spikeheeled Lark Redcapped Lark Pinkbilled Lark Barn Swallow Whitethroated Swallow Greater Striped Swallow South African Cliff-Swallow Rock Martin Common House-Martin Sand Martin Brownthroated Martin Banded Martin Forktailed Drongo Cape Crow Pied Crow Whitenecked Raven Grey Tit Southern African Redeyed Bulbul Darkcapped Bulbul Karoo Thrush Cape Rockthrush Sentinel Rockthrush Mountain Wheatear

Buffstreaked Chat Familiar Chat Sicklewinged Chat 593 Mocking Cliff-Chat Anteating Chat African Stonechat Cape Robin-Chat Drakensberg Rockjumper Layard's Titbabbler Great Reed-Warbler African Reed-Warbler Marsh Warbler Eurasian Sedge Warbler Lesser Swamp-Warbler Little Rush-Warbler Cape Grassbird Zitting Cisticola Desert Cisticola Cloud Cisticola Wingsnapping Cisticola Wailing Cisticola Levaillant's Cisticola Lazy Cisticola Neddicky Tawnyflanked Prinia Blackchested Prinia Karoo Prinia Fiscal Flycatcher Cape Batis 706 Fairy Flycatcher African Paradise-Flycatcher African Pied Wagtail Cape Wagtail Yellow Wagtail Grassveld (Richard's) Pipit Mountain Pipit Longbilled Pipit Plainbacked Pipit Buffy Pipit African Rock Pipit Cape Longclaw Common Fiscal Redbacked Shrike Southern Boubou Bokmakierie Pied Starling Cape Glossy Starling Redwinged Starling Gurney's Sugarbird

Malachite Sunbird Southern Doublecollared Sunbird Greater Doublecollared Sunbird Amethyst Sunbird Cape White-eye House Sparrow Cape Sparrow Southern Greyheaded Sparrow Cape Weaver Southern Masked-Weaver Cuckoofinch Redbilled Quelea Southern Red Bishop Yellowcrowned Bishop Yellow Bishop Fantailed Widowbird Redcollared Widowbird Longtailed Widowbird Common Waxbill Swee Waxbill African QuailFinch Orangebreasted Waxbill Redheaded Finch Bronze Mannikin Pintailed Whydah Blackthroated Canary Cape Canary Drakensberg Siskin Yellow Canary Streakyheaded Seedeater Cape Bunting Cinnamonbreasted Bunting