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Bird watching with the Elephants…
Birding in Tembe is a unique and enthralling experience. More than 340 species of birds have been recorded in this 30 000 hectare mosaic of woodland, sand forest and swamp.
Avid birders can delight in adding some rare and endemic species to their bird lists! Species that have been seen in Tembe include the blue-throated sunbird, pinkthroated longclaw, pinkthroated twinspot, Gorgeous Bush Shrike, Natal nightjar, Woodward’s Batis, Rudd’s
apalis, Pel’s fishing owl, the palmnut vulture, Rufousbellied Heron, Southern Banded Snake Eagle - and the very rare Chestnutfronted Helmetshrike.
Birds recorded at Tembe Elephant National Park.
008 - Dabchick
049 - White Pelican
055 - Whitebreasteed Cormorant
058 - Reed Cormorant
060 - Darter
062 - Grey Heron
063 - Blackheaded Heron
064 - Goliath Heron
065 - Purple Heron
066 - Great White Egret
067 - Little Egret
068 - Yellowbilled Egret
071 - Cattle Egret
072 - Squacco Heron
074 - Greenbacked Heron
075 - Rufousbellied Heron
076 - Blackcrowned Night Heron
078 - Little Bittern
081 - Hamerkop
083 - White Stork
086 - Woollynecked Stork
088 - Saddlebilled Stork
090 - Yellowbilled Stork
091- Sacred Ibis
093 - Glossy Ibis
094 - Hadeda Ibis
095 - African Spoonbill
099 - Whitefaced Duck
101 - Whitebacked Duck
102 -Egyptian Goose
104 -Yellowbilled Duck
107 - Hottentot Teal
108 - Redbilled Teal
114 - Pygmy Goose
115 - Knobbilled Duck
116 Spurwinged Goose
118 - Secretarybid
123 - Whitebacked Vulture
126a - Yellowbilled Kite
126b - Black Kite
127 - Blackshouldered Kite
128 - Cuckoo Hawk
129 - Bat Hawk
130 - Honey Buzzard
132 - Tawny Eagle
133 - Steppe Eagle
135 - Wahlberg's Eagle
137 - African Hawk Eagle
139 - Longcrested Eagle
140 - Martial Eagle
141 - Crowned Eagle
142 - Brown Snake Eagle
143 - Blackbreasted Snake Eagle
144 - Sthn Banded Snake Eagle
146 -Bataleur
147 - Palmnut Vulture
148 - African Fish Eagle
149 - Steppe Buzzard
150 - Forest Buzzard
152 - Jackal Buzzard
154 - Lizard Buzzard
157 - Little Sparrowhawk
158 - Black Sparrowhawk
159 - Litte Banded Goshawk
160 - African Goshawk
161 - Gabar Goshawk
165 - African Marsh Harrier
169 - Gymnogene
170 - Osprey
172 - Lanner Falcon
180 - Eastern Redfooted Kestrel
188 - Coqui Francolin
189 - Crested Francolin
191 - Shelley's Francolin
196 - Natal Francolin
200 - Common Quail
203 - Helmeted Guineafowl
204 - Crested Guineafowl
205 - Kurrichane Buttonquail
211 - Corncrake
212 - African Crake
213 - Black Crake
215 - Baillon's Crake
218 - Buffspotted Flufftail
223 - Purple Gallinule
226 - Moorhen
231 - Stanley's Bustard
237 - Redcrested Korhaan
238 - Blackbellied Korhaan
240 - African Jacana
241 - Lesser Jacana
242 - Painted Snipe
248 - Kittlitz's Plover
249 - Threebanded Plover
255 - Crowned Plover
256 - Lesser Blackwinged Plover
258 - Blacksmith Plover
260 - Wattled Plover
264 - Common Sandpiper
266 - Wood Sandpiper
269 - Marsh Sandpiper
270 - Greenshank
272 - Curlew Sandpiper
286 - Ethiopian Snipe
295 - Blackwinged Stilt
297 - Spotted Dikkop
298 - Water Dikkop
304 - Redwinged Pratincole
338 - Whiskered Tern
350 - Rameron Pigeon
352 - Redeyed Dove
354 - Cape Turtle Dove
355 - Laughing Dove
356 - Namaqua Dove
358 - Greenspotted Dove
359 - Tamborine Dove
361 - Green Pigeon
363 - Brownheaded Parrot
370 - Knysna Lourie
371 - Purplecrested Lourie
374 - European Cuckoo
377 - Redchested Cuckoo
378 - Black Cuckoo
380 - Great Spotted Cuckoo
382 - Jacobin Cuckoo
384 - Emerald Cuckoo
385 - Klaas' Cuckoo
386 - Diederik Cuckoo
391 - Burchell's Coucal
392 - Barn Owl
393 - Grass Owl
394 - Wood Owl
395 - Marsh Owl
397 - Whitefaced Owl
399 - Barred Owl
401 - Spotted Eagle Owl
405 - Fierynecked Nightjar
407 - Natal Nightjar
408 - Freckled Nightjar
409 - Mozambique Nightjar
412 - Black Swift
417 - Little Swift
421 - Palm Swift
424 - Speckled Mousebird
426 - Redfaced Mousebird
427 - Narina Trogon
428 - Pied Kingfisher
429 - Giant Kingfisher
431 - Malachite Kingfisher
432 - Pygmy Kingfisher
435 - Brownhooded Kingfisher
437 - Striped Kingfisher
438 - European Bee-eater
440 - Bluecheeked Bee-eater
443 - Whitefronted Bee-eater
444 -Little Bee-eater
446 - European Roller
447 - Lilacbreasted Roller
449 - Purple Roller
450 - Broadbilled Roller
451 - African Hoopoe
452 - Redbilled Woodhoopoe
454 - Scimitarbilled Woodhoopoe
455 - Trumpeter Hornbill
457 - Grey Hornbill
458 - Redbilled Hornbill
460 - Crowned Hornbill
464 - Blackcollared Barbet
465 - Pied Barbet
466 - White-eared Barbet
469 - Redfronted Tinker Barbet
471 - Goldenrumped Tinker Barbet
474 - Greater Honey guide
475 - Scalythroated Honeyguide
476 - Lesser Honeyguide
478 - Sharpbilled Honeyguide
483 - Goldentailed Woodpecker
486 - Cardinal Woodpecker
487 - Bearded Woodpecker
490 - African Broadbill
494 - Rufousnaped Lark
496 - Flappet Lark
498 - Sabota Lark
500 - Longbilled Lark
518 - European Swallow
522 - Wiretailed Swallow
527 - Lesser Striped Swallow
530 - House Martin
531 - Greyrumped Swallow
533 - Brownthroated Martin
536 - Black Sawwing Swallow
538 - Black Cuckooshrike
540 - Grey Cuckooshrike
541 - Forktailed Drongo
542 - Squaretailed Drongo
545 - Blackheaded Oriole
548 - Pied Crow
554 - Southern Black Tit
568 - Blackeyed Bulbul
569 - Terrestrial Bulbul
570 - Yellowstreaked Bulbul
572 - Sombre Bulbul
574 - Yellowbellied Bulbul
575 - Yellowspotted Nicator
576 - Kurrichane Thrush
596 - Stonechat
599 - Heuglin's Robin
600 - Natal Robin
602 - Whitethroated Robin
606 - Starred Robin
613 - Whitebrowed Robin
616 - Brown Robin
617 - Bearded Robin
631 - African Marsh Warbler
634 - European Sedge Warbler
637 - Yellow Warbler
638 - African Sedge Warbler
643 -Willow Warbler
648 - Yellowbreasted Apalis
649 - Rudd's Apalis
651 - Longbilled Crombec
653 - Yellowbellied Eremomela
657 - G/backedBleating Warbler
664 - Fantailed Cisticola
668 - Palecrowned Cisticola
672 - Rattling Cisticola
674 - Redfaced Cisticola
675 - Blackbacked Cisticola
678 - Croaking Cisticola
681 - Neddicky
683 - Tawnyflanked Prinia
689 - Spotted Flycatcher
690 - Dusky Flycatcher
691 - Bluegrey Flycatcher
693 - Fantailed Flycatcher
694 - Black Flycatcher
696 - Pallid Flycatcher
698 - Fiscal Flycatcher
700 - Cape Batis
701 - Chinspot Batis
704 - Woodward's Batis
708 - Bluemantled Flycatcher
710 - Paradise Flycatcher
711 - African Pied Wagtail
713 - Cape Wagtail
716 - Grassveld Pipit
727 - Orangethroated Longclaw
728 - Yellowthroated Longclaw
730 - Pinkthroated Longclaw
732 - Fiscal Shrike
733 - Redbacked Shrike
735 - Longtailed Shrike
736 - Southern Boubou
740 - Puffback
741 - Brubru
743 - Threestreaked Tchagra
744 - Blackcrowned Tchagra
747 - Gorgeous Bush Shrike
748 - Orangebreasted Bush Shrike
751 - Greyheaded Bush Shrike
753 - White Hemetshrike
754 - Redbilled Helmetshrike
761 - Plumcoloured Starling
764 - Glossy Starling
768 - Blackbellied Starling
772 - Redbilled Oxpecker
779 - Marico Sunbird
780 - Purplebanded Sunbird
782 - Neergaard's Sunbird
787 - Whitebellied Sunbird
789 - Grey Sunbird
790 - Olive Sunbird
791 - Scarletchested Sunbird
792 - Black Sunbird
793 - Collared Sunbird
796 - Cape White-eye
797 - Yellow White-eye
801 - House Sparrow
804 - Sthn Greyheaded Sparrow
805 - Yellowthroated Sparrow
807 - Thickbilled Weaver
808 - Forest Weaver
810 - Spectacled Weaver
811 - Spottedbacked Weaver
814 - Masked Weaver
815 - Lesser Masked Weaver
817 - Yellow Weaver
818 - Brownthroated Weaver
821 - Redbilled Quelea
822 - Redheaded Quelea
824 - Red Bishop
828 - Redshouldered Widow
829 - Whitewinged Widow
831 - Redcollared Widow
834 - Melba Finch
835 - Green Twinspot
838 - Pinkthroated Twinspot
841 - Jameson's Firefinch
842 - Redbilled Firefinch
844 - Blue Waxbill
846 - Common Waxbill
848 - Grey Waxbill
852 - Quail Finch
854 - Orangebreasted Waxbill
857 - Bronze Mannikin
858 - Redbacked Mannikin
860 - Pintailed Whydah
862 - Paradise Whydah
864 - Black Widowfinch
869 - Yelloweyed Canary
871 - Lemonbreasted Canary
877 - Bully Canary
884 - Goldenbreasted Bunting
886 - Rock Bunting
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Imagine quietly watching a yellowthroated longclaw darting in and out of long grasses along the edge of thick reed swamp, where a herd of approximately 65 buffalo, some of them enormous bulls, seek refuge. Common sightings in the swamp area include, Burchell’s Coucals, European
Bee-eaters, Bluecheeked Bee-eaters and European Rollers.
There’s something really special about watching an elephant quietly drinking from one of the pans where hundreds of whitefaced geese flock to the water’s edge. Or marvelling at the colourful wings of a malachite kingfisher as it settles on a winding sand track with the
knowledge that at any moment one of these enormous jumbos might appear around the next corner.
More than 100 species of birds nest in and around the lodge. Each tent is located in a secluded area with its own bird bath, where species such as the Green and Pinkthroated Twinspot and crested Guinaefowl can be seen at close quarters.
Special 4x4 birding drives are conducted on request, by our knowledgible game ranger - who will happily share with you his passion & enthusiasm for birds.
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