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Mammal List

Southern Africa:  Namibia, Botswana, South Africa

July 13 through August 30, 2009

 

Order Insectivora

1. Rock Elephant Shrew (Elephantulus intufi)

Order Chiroptera

2. Whalberg’s Epauletted Fruit Bat (Epomophorus wahlbergi)
3. Angolan Epauletted Fruit Bat (Ephomophorus angolensis)
4. Yellow House Bat (Scotophilus dinganii)
5. Cape Serotine Bat (Neor icia capensis)
6. Egyptian Free-tailed Bat (Tadarida aegyptiaca)
7. Commerson’s Leaf-nosed Bat (Hipposideros commersoni)
8. Egyptian Slit-faced Bat (Nycteris thebaica)

Order Primates

9. Cape Chacma Baboon (Papio ursinus ursinus)
10. Grey-footed Chacma Baboon (Papio ursinus griseipes)
11. Ruacana Chacma Baboon (Papio ursinus ruacana)
12. Malbrouck Vervet(Chlorocebus cynosuros)
13. Vervet Monkey (Chlorocebus (Cercopithecus) pygerthrus)
14. Syke’s Monkey (Cercopithecus albogularis)
15. Thick-tailed or Greater Galago (Otolemur (Galago) crassicaudatus)
16. Southern Lesser Galago (Galago moholi)

Order Lagomorpha

17. Cape Hare (Lepus capensis)
18. Scrub Hare (Lepus saxatilis)
19. Smith’s Red Rock Rabbit (Pronolagus rupestris)

Order Rodentia

20. Southern African Ground Squirrel (Xerus inauris)
21. Damara Ground Squirrel (Xerus princeps)
22. Red Bush Squirrel (Paraxerus palliatus)
23. Tree Squirrel (Paraxerus cepapi)
24. Springhare (Pedetes capensis)
25. Cape Porcupine (Hystrix africaeaustralis)
26. Dassie Rat (Petromus typicus)
27. Pouched Mouse (Saccostomus campestris)
28. Setzer’s Hairy-footed Gerbil (Gerbillurus setzeri)
29. Bushveld Gerbil (Tatera leucogaster)
30. Highveld Gerbil (Tatera brantsii)
31. Desert Pygmy Mouse (Mus indutus)
32. Namaqua Rock Mouse (Micaelamys namaquensis)
33. Four-striped Grass Mouse (Rhabdomys pumilio)
34. Black-tailed Tree Rat (Thallomys nigricaudatus)
35. Woodland Thicket Rat (Grammomys dolichurus)
36. Brants’s Whistling Rat (Parotomys brantsii)
37. Angoni Vlei Rat (Otomys angoniensis)
38. Bush Karoo Rat (Otomys unisulcatus)
39. African Marsh Rat (Dasymys incomtus)

Order Carnivora

Family Canidae

40. Cape Fox (Vulpes chama)
41. Bat-eared Fox (Otocyon megalotis)
42. Black-backed Jackal (Canis mesomelas)

Family Mustelidae

43. Banded Mongoose (Mungos mungo)
44. White-tailed Mongoose (Ichneumia albicauda)
45. Small Grey Mongoose (Galerella pulverulenta)
46. Large Grey Mongoose (Herpestes ichneumon)
47. Slender Mongoose (Galerella sanguinea)
48. Dwarf Mongoose (Helogale parvula)
49. Yellow Mongoose (Cynictis penicillata)
50. Suricate (Meerkat) (Suricata suricatta)

Family Viverridae

51. Small Spotted Genet (Genetta genetta)
52. Common Large-spotted Genet (Genetta maculate)
53. South African Large-spotted Genet (Genetta tigrina)
54. African Civet (Civettictis civetta)

Family Hyenidae

55. Spotted Hyena (Crocuta crocuta)
56. Aardwolf (Proteles cristatus)

Family Felidae

57. African Wild Cat (Felis silvestris lybica)
58. Caracal (Caracal caracal)
59. Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus)
60. Kruger Lion (Panthera leo krugeri)
61. Kalahari Lion (Panthera leo verneyi)
62. Leopard (Panthera pardus)

Family Otariidae

63. Cape Fur Seal (Arctocephalus pusillus)

Order Tubulidentata

64. Aardvark (Orycteropus afer)

Order Proboscidea

65. African Elephant (Loxodonta africana)

Order Hyracoidea

66. Rock Dassie or Hyrax (Procavia capensis capensis)
67. Koakoveld Rock Dassie (Procavia capensis welwitschii)
68. Yellow-spotted Rock Dassie (Heterohyrax brucei)

Order Perissodactyla

Family Equidae

69. Cape Mountain Zebra (Equus zebra zebra)
70. Hartmann’s Mountain Zebra (Equus zebra hartmannae)
71. Plain’s or Burchell’s Zebra (Equus quagga burchelli)
72. Chapman’s Zebra (Equus quagga chapmani)
73. Quagga Zebra (Equus quagga quagga)
74. Ferrel Ass (Equus asinus)

Family Rhinocerotidae

75. South-central Black Rhino (Diceros bicornis minor)
76. South-western Black Rhino (Diceros bicornis bicornis)
77. White Rhino (Ceratotherium simum)

Order Suiformes

Family Suidae

78. Common Warthog (phacochoerus africanus)
79. Bushpig (Potamochoerus larvatus)

Order Whippomorpha

Family Hippopotamidae

80. Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius)

Order Ruminantia

Family Giraffidae

81. Angolan Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis angolensis)
82. South African Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis giraffa)

Family Bovidae

83. African or Cape Buffalo (Syncerus caffer)
84. Common Eland (Tragelaphus oryx)
85. Greater Kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros)
86. Nyala (Tragelaphus angasii)
87. Bushbuck (Tragelaphus scriptis)
88. Roan Antelope (Hippotragus equines)
89. Sable Antelope (Hippotragus niger)
90. Gemsbok Oryx (Oryx gazella)
91. Common Waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymnus)
92. Red Lechwe (Kobus leche)
93. Puku (Kobus vardonii)
94. Mountain Reedbuck (Redunca fulvorufula)
95. Common Reedbuck (Redunca arundinum)
96. Grey Rhebok (Pelea capreolus)
97. Black Wildebeest (Connochaetes gnou)
98. Blue Wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus taurinus)
99. Red Hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus)
100. Bontebok (Damaliscus pygargus dorcas)
101. Blesbok (Damaliscus pygargus phillipsi)
102. Tsessebe (Damaliscus lunatus)
103. Common Impala (Aepyceros melampus melampus)
104. Black-faced Impala (Aepyceros melampus petersi)
105. Angolan Springbok (Antidorcus marsupialis angolensis)
106. Koakoveld Springbok (Antidorcus marsupialis hoffmeyri)
107. Highveld Karoo Springbok (Antidorcus marsupialis marsupialis)
108. Damara Dik Dik (Madoqua damarensis)
109. Klipspringer (Oreotragus oreotragus)
110. Steenbok (Raphicerus campestris)
111. Cape Grysbok (Raphicerus melanotis)
112. Sharpe’s Grysbok (Raphicerus sharpei)
113. Red Duiker (Cephalophus natalensis)
114. Common Duiker (Sylvicapra grimmia)

Family Cervidae

115. Fallow Deer (Cervus dama)

Order Whippomorpha

Suborder Cetacea

116. Bryde’s Whale (Balaenoptera edeni)
117. Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)
118. Southern Right Whale (Eubalaena australis

Sign or Near Misses

119. Damara Mole Rat (Cryptomys damarensis)
120. Common Mole Rat (Cryptomys hottentotus)
121. Striped Polecat (Ictonyx striatus)
122. Blue Duiker (Cephalophus monticola)
123. Cape Clawless Otter (Aonyx capensis)
124. Black-footed Cat (Felis nigripes)

 

Reptile & Amphibian List – Southern Africa

July 13 through August 30, 2009

Snakes

1. Mozambique Spitting Cobra (Naja mossambica)

2. Boomslang (Dipholidus typus)

 

Lizards

Family Agamidae

3. Southern Rock Agama (Agama atra)

4. Southern Spiny Agama (Agama hispida)

 

Family Chamaelionidae

5. Flap-necked Chameleon (Chamaeleo dilepis)

 

Family Varanidae

6. Rock Monitor (Varanus albigularis)

7. Water Monitor (Varanus noliticus)

 

Family Lacertidae

8. Shovel-snouted Sand Lizard (Meroles anchietae)

9. Sand Lizard (Pedioplanis species)

 

Family Gerrhosauridae

10. Giant Plated Lizard (Gerrhosaurus validus)

11. Blue-tailed Tree Lizard (Holaspis guentheri)

 

Family Cordylidae

12. Black Girdled Lizard (Cordylus niger)

13. Karoo Girdled Lizard (Cordylus polyzonus)

14. Namaqua Girdled Lizard (Cordylus namaquaensis)

 

Family Scincidae

15. Kalahari Tree Skink (Trachylepis spilogaster)

16. Variable Skink (Trachylepis varia)

17. Montane Speckled Skink (Trachylepis punctatissima)

 

Family Geckonidae

18. Namib Day Gecko (Rhoptropus species)

 

Family Crocodylidae

19. Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus)

 

Order Testudines

20. Marsh Terrapin (Pelomedusa subrufa)

21. Okavango Hinged Terrapin (Pelusios bechuanicus)

22. Serrated Hinged Terrapin (Pelusios sinuatus)

 

Family Testunidae

23. Angulate Tortoise (Chersina angulata)

24. Leopard Tortoise (Stigmochelys pardalis)

 

Southern Africa Birds

 

1. African Jackass Penguin
2. Great Crested Grebe
3. Little Grebe
4. Shy Albatross
5. Black-browed Albatross
6. Southern Giant Petrel
7. Sooty Shearwater
8. Cape Gannet
9. White-breasted Cormorant
10. Bank Cormorant
11. Cape Cormorant
12. Reed Cormorant
13. African Darter
14. Great Eastern Pelican
15. Goliath Heron
16. Purple Heron
17. Grey Heron
18. Black-headed Heron
19. Yellow-billed Egret
20. Great White Egret
21. Little Egret
22. Cattle Egret
23. Common Squacco Heron
24. Black Heron
25. Slaty Egret
26. Rufous-bellied Heron
27. Black-crowned Night Heron
28. Dwarf Bittern
29. Little Bittern
30. Black Stork
31. Yellow-billed Stork
32. Marabou Stork
33. Saddle-billed Stork
34. African Openbill Stork
35. Woolly-necked Stork
36. Greater Flamingo
37. Lesser Flamingo
38. African Spoonbill
39. Hamerkop
40. Hadeda Ibis
41. Glossy Ibis
42. African Sacred Ibis
43. Spur-winged Goose
44. Egyptian Goose
45. South African Shelduck
46. Comb or Knob-billed Duck
47. White-faced Duck
48. Southern Pochard
49. Yellow-billed Duck
50. Mallard
51. Cape Shoveler
52. Cape Teal
53. Red-billed Teal
54. Lappet-faced Vulture
55. White-headed Vulture
56. Cape Vulture
57. African White-backed Vulture
58. Hooded Vulture
59. African Fish Eagle
60. Osprey
61. Bateleur
62. Brown Snake Eagle
63. Southern Banded Snake Eagle
64. Steppe Eagle
65. Tawny Eagle
66. Martial Eagle
67. Long-crested Eagle
68. African Hawk Eagle
69. Wahlberg’s Eagle
70. African Harrier Hawk
71. Western Marsh Harrier
72. Pallid Harrier
73. Southern Pale Chanting Goshawk
74. Black-shouldered Kite
75. African Cuckoo Hawk
76. Lizard Buzzard
77. Pygmy Falcon
78. Shikra or Little Banded Goshawk
79. Little Sparrowhawk
80. Lanner Falcon
81. Peregrine Falcon
82. Lesser Kestrel
83. Rock Kestrel
84. Greater Kestrel
85. Red-billed Francolin
86. Swainson’s Francolin
87. Red-necked Francolin
88. Cape Francolin
89. Natal Francolin
90. Shelley’s Francolin
91. Crested Francolin
92. Coqui Francolin
93. Hartlaub’s Francolin
94. Helmeted Guineafowl
95. Crested Guineafowl
96. Common Ostrich
97. Red-knobbed Coot
98. Common Moorhen
99. Lesser Moorhen
100. African Purple Swamphen
101. Black Crake
102. African Jacana
103. Wattled Crane
104. Blue Crane
105. Secretary Bird
106. Kori Bustard
107. Denham’s Bustard
108. Ludwig’s Bustard
109. Ruppell’s Korhaan
110. Karoon Korhaan
111. Black-belled Korhaan
112. Red-crested Korhaan
113. Northern Black Korhaan
114. Southern Black Korhaan
115. African Black Oystercatcher
116. Black-winged Stilt
117. Pied Avocet
118. Common Ringed Plover
119. Three-banded Plover
120. Kittlitz’s Plover
121. White-fronted Plover
122. Crowned Lapwing Plover
123. Black-winged Lapwing
124. African Wattled Lapwing
125. Blacksmith Lapwing Plover
126. Grey Plover
127. Ruff
128. Wood Sandpiper
129. Common Greenshank
130. Marsh Sandpiper
131. Common Whimbrel
132. Redwinged Pratincole
133. Spotted Thick-knee Dikkop
134. Water Thick-knee or Dikkop
135. Temminck’s Courser
136. Burchell’s Courser
137. Double-banded Courser
138. Subantarcted Skua
139. Cape or Kelp Gull
140. Kelp Gull
141. Caspian Tern
142. African Skimmer
143. Grey-headed Gull
144. Hartlaub’s Gull
145. Swift Tern
146. Sandwich Tern
147. White-winged Tern
148. Double-banded Sandgrouse
149. Namaqua Sandgrouse
150. Burchell’s Sandgrouse
151. Speckled Rock Pigeon
152. Rock Dove or Feral Pigeon
153. African Mourning Dove
154. Red-eyed Dove
155. Cape Turtle Dove
156. Laughing Dove
157. Emerald-spotted Wood Dove
158. Namaqua Dove
159. Meyer’s Parrot
160. Knysna Turaco or Lourie
161. Grey Go-awa-bird or Lourie
162. Coppery-tailed Coucal
163. Burchell’s Coucal
164. Verreaux’s Giant Eagle Owl
165. Cape Eagle Owl
166. Spotted Eagle Owl
167. Barn Owl
168. Pearl-spotted Owl
169. African Scops-owl
170. Freckled Nightjar
171. Fiery-necked Nightjar
172. Rufous-cheeked Nightjar
173. Common European Swift
174. African Black Swift
175. Bradfield’s Swift
176. Little Swift
177. Red-faced Mousebird
178. Speckled Mousebird
179. White-backed Mousebird
180. Giant Kingfisher
181. Pied Kingfisher
182. Malachite Kingfisher
183. African Pygmy Kingfisher
184. Brown-hooded Kingfisher
185. Grey-headed Kingfisher
186. Striped Kingfisher
187. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
188. White-fronted Bee-eater
189. Swallow-tailed Bee-eater
190. Little Bee-eater
191. Lilac-breasted Roller
192. European Roller
193. Purple Roller
194. Southern Ground Hornbill
195. Bradfield’s Hornbill
196. Monteiro’s Hornbill
197. Crowned Hornbill
198. African Grey Hornbill
199. Yellow-billed Hornbill
200. Red-billed Hornbill
201. Redbilled Wood-Hoopoe
202. Common Greater Scimitarbill
203. African Hoopoe
204. Greater Honeyguide
205. Lesser Honeyguide
206. Black-collared Barbet
207. White-eared Barbet
208. Crested Barbet
209. Acacia Pied Barbet
210. Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird
211. Red-fronged Tinkerbird
212. Cardinal Woodpecker
213. Golden-tailed Woodpecker
214. Bennett’s Woodpecker
215. Bearded Woodpecker
216. Flappet Lark
217. Cape Clapper Lark
218. Eastern Clapper Lark
219. Karoo Lark
220. Sabota Lark
221. Rufous-naped Lark
222. Karoo Long-billed Lark
223. Chestnut-backed Sparrowlark
224. Grey-backed Sparrowlark
225. Black-eared Sparrowlark
226. Spike-heeled Lark
227. Red-breasted Swallow
228. Barn Swallow
229. Wire-tailed Swallow
230. White-throated Swallow
231. Common House Martin
232. Brown-throated Martin
233. Rock Martin
234. Fork-tailed Drongo
235. Eastern Black-headed Oriole
236. White-necked Crow
237. Pied Crow
238. Cape or Black Crow
239. Southern Black Tit
240. Arrow-marked Babbler
241. Cape Bulbul
242. African Red-eyed Bulbul
243. Dark-capped Bulbul
244. Terrestrial Brownbul
245. Sombre Greenbul
246. Yellow-bellied Greenbul
247. Orange Ground-thrush
248. Karoo Thrush
249. Olive Thrush
250. Kurrichane Thrush
251. Groundscraper Thrush
252. Cape Rock-thrush
253. Short-toed Rock-thrush
254. Cape Rock-jumper
255. Familiar Chat
256. Sickle-winged Chat
257. Karoo Chat
258. Tractrac Chat
259. Mountain Wheatear Chat
260. Capped Wheatear
261. Common Stonechat
262. Southern Anteating Chat
263. Chorister Robin-chat
264. Natal Robin
265. Cape Robin-chat
266. Karoo Scrub-robin
267. White-browed Scrub-robin
268. Willow Warbler
269. Icterine Warbler
270. African Marsh Reed Warbler
271. Dark-capped Yellow Warbler
272. Rockrunner
273. Long-billed Crombec
274. Yellow-breasted Apalis
275. Bar-throated Apalis
276. Grey-backed Cisticola
277. Tawny-flanked Prinia
278. African Dusky Flycatcher
279. Spotted Flycatcher
280. Southern Black Flycatcher
281. Fiscal Flycatcher
282. Chat Flycatcher
283. Marico Flycatcher
284. Mousecoloured Flycatcher
285. Cape White-eye
286. Pririt Batis
287. Chinspot Batis
288. Cape Wagtail
289. African Pied Wagtail
290. Longtailed Wagtail
291. Yellow Wagtail
292. Long-billed Pipit
293. African Grassveld Pipit
294. Yellow-throated Longclaw
295. Cape Longclaw
296. Crimson-breasted Shrike
297. African Longtailed Shrike
298. Red-backed Shrike
299. Lesser Grey Shrike
300. Common Fiscal Shrike
301. Southern Boubou
302. Brown-crowned Tchagra
303. Bokmakierie
304. White-crested Helmet-shrike
305. White-crowned Shrike
306. Black-backed Puffback
307. Greater Blue-eared Starling
308. Cape Glossy Starling
309. Black-bellied Starling
310. Burchell’s Starling
311. Meve’s Longtailed Starling
312. Pale-winged Starling
313. Red-winged Starling
314. Common Indian Myna
315. Common European Starling
316. Wattled Starling
317. African Pied Starling
318. Red-billed Oxpecker
319. Yellow-billed Oxpecker
320. Cape Sugarbird
321. Malachite Sunbird
322. Orange-breasted Sunbird
323. Scarlet-chested Sunbird
324. Amethyst Sunbird
325. Grey Sunbird
326. Collared Sunbird
327. Dusky Sunbird
328. Greater Double-collared Sunbird
329. Southern Lesser Double-collared Sunbird
330. Marico Sunbird
331. Purple-banded Sunbird
332. Great Sparrow
333. House Sparrow
334. Cape Sparrow
335. Grey-headed Sparrow
336. Red-billed Buffalo-weaver
337. White-browed Sparrow-weaver
338. Sociable Weaver
339. Southern Masked Weaver
340. Lesser Masked Weaver
341. Cape Weaver
342. Red-billed Quelea
343. Southern Red Bishop
344. Yellow-crowned Bishop
345. Yellow Bishop
346. Dusky Indigobird
347. Swee Waxbill
348. Common Waxbill
349. Blue Waxbill
350. Red-headed Finch
351. Yellow Canary
352. Lemon-breasted Canary
353. Yellow-fronted Canary
354. Cape Canary
355. Golden-breasted Bunting
356. Cape Bunting

 

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