Punda Maria Camp from Monday 6th-9th February 2012.
We arrived at about 14:00 hours and we drove to Mahonie Loop for
afternoon birding and we saw some special birds and amongst others we
had Grey Headed Parrot,
Bateleur
African Hawk Eagle
Yellow-Billed Oxpecker
Yellow Bellied Greenbul
Red-Billed Oxpecker
Broad Billed Roller
Long Tailed Paradise-Whydah
Black Headed Oriole
Crowned Hornbill
African Grey Hornbill
Southern Yellow-Billed Hornbill
Cinnamon Breasted Bunting
Red-Billed Hornbill
Dusky Indigobird
Sombre Greenbul
Green-Winged Pytilia
Pearl Spotted Owlet
Red Billed Quelea
Purple Roller
Cardinal Woodpecker
Green Wood Hoepoe
Emerald Spotted Wood-Dove
Village Weaver
Blue Waxbill
White Backed Vulture
Purple Crested Turaco
Browned Crowned Tchagra
Marabou Stock
Natal Spurfowl
Swaison's Spurfowl
Violet Backed Starling
Cape Glossy Starling
Southern Grey Headed Sparrow
Red Backed Shrike
Streaky Headed Seed-Eater
Arrow Marked Babbler
African Scops Owl
Lilac Breasted Roller
Red Faced Mousebird
Yellow Billed Kite
Browned Hooded Kingfisher
Helmeted Guineafowl
Grey Go-Away-Bird
Spotted Flycatcher
African Firefinch
Wahlberg's eagle
Tawny Eagle
Fork Tailed Drongo
Crested Francolin
Red Eye Dove
Cape Turtle Dove
Jacobin Cuckoo
Long Billed Crombec
Burchell's Coucal
Rattling Cisticola
Yellow Fronted Canary
Orange Breasted Bushshrike
Brubru
Southern Carmine Bee-Eater
Our second day we drove to Pafuri Picnic Site and Crooks Corner and
from S60 we passed some tall Mopane woodland and the list included
amongst others;
Arnot's Chat
White Crowned Lapwing
Grey Headed Kingfisher
White Crested Helmet-Shrike
Southern Ground Hornbill
Meyer's Parrot
Peregrine Falcon
Namaqua Dove
Pied Wagtail
Yellow Fronted Canary
White Faced Duck
Yellow Breasted Apalis
We Stopped at Klopperfontein for waterbirds and others and we had a
Tropical Boubou
Purple Roller
European Roller
Levaillant's Cuckoo
Black Crowned Tchagra
Three Banded Plover
Little Swift
Red Breasted Swallow
White Rumped Swift
White Bellied Sunbird
Greater Blue Eared Starling
Black Smith Lapwing
From Crooks Corner we saw a pair of African Fish Eagle
White Fronted Bee-eater
Laughing Dove
Cattle Egret
Cape Vulture
White Backed Vulture
Lesser Striped Swallow
Meve's Starling
White Stork
Broad Billed Roller
African Paradise Flycatcher
African Green Pigeon
Red Billed Buffalo Weaver
Fork Tailed Drongo
Egyptian Goose
Natal Spurfowl
3rd day we drove on the junction of the H13 and H1-8 and we saw Senegal Coucal
and at Dzundwini Hill forn morning birding and we saw Verreaux Eagle
Orange Winged Pytilia
Jameson Firefinch
Zitting Cisticola
Diderick Cuckoo
Green Winged Pytilia
Eastern Nicator
Yellow bellied Greenbul
African Goshawk
African Green Pigeon
Lesser Spotted Eagle
Cardinal Woodpecker
Steppe Eagle
Magpie Shrike
Tawny Flanked Prinia
Black Backed Puffback
Crested Barbet
Golden Breasted Bunting
Sombre Greenbul
African Hoopoe
Village Indigobird
Brown Snake Eagle
Southern Black Tit
Purple Crested Turaco
Southern Grey Headed Sparrow
Happy Birding
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BIRDING SOUTPANSBERG AND VENDA
SAMSON MULAUDZI
Project co-ordinator Mottled Spinetail of SA
LIMPOPO BIRD GUIDE(BIRDLIFE SA Accredited)TRAINED AND ACCREDITED in
general and bird identification through SASOL/BirdLife South Africa
Specialist for Soutpansberg and Venda
Cell:+27(0)83 662 9960
Fax:+27(0)86 217 0006
Email: mulaudzims@googlemail.com
birding.soutpansberg@gmail.com
Operating Areas:Central Soutpansberg & Venda-
Hanglip Forest
Roodewal Forest.
Entabeni Forest,
Muirhead Dams,
Thohoyandou Botanical,
Thathe Holy Forest
Sagole Big Tree(Mottled Spinetail)
North of Kruger Park in Limpopo Province.
BIRDING BLOG: www.samsonbirding.blogspot.com
Registered SABAP & BIRP Observer No:2187
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