SOUTH AFRICA MY SAFARI JOURNAL

SOUTH AFRICA MY SAFARI JOURNAL

WILDIFE BIG FIVE Lion Panthera leo The back of the lion's ears and the tuft of the tail are black, giving cubs a clear 'follow me' focal point, to help them follow their mother and keep in touch with the rest of the pride when moving through tall grass. Rhinoceres Black: Diceros bicornis. White: Ceratotherium simum The black and white rhino are differentiated by the shape of the mouth. Black rhino: Pointy and triangular. White rhino: Square, straight lips. The natural skin coloration of the two species is similar (greyish brown). Elephant Loxodonta africana Elephants spend about 16 hours a day feeding, and will consume on average 4 to 6% of their body weight daily, grinding the food between their rasp-like molars (the molars slide forward and backward over each other and not from side to side like most other herbivores). / Cape Buffalo Syncerus caffer The buffalo is a ruminant, and is considered a bulk grazer, making use of its tongue and wide incisor teeth to eat grass quicker than most other herbivores. Leopard Panthera pardus Pattern-wise, no two leopards are alike, as the multitude of combinations of spots and rosettes, as well as their amount, size and position (on the body) are so varied and unique. Each leopard may be identified by its beautiful spot pattern. 1

Mammals Aardvark / Antbear Aardwolf Buffalo Civet Elephant Porcupine Wild Cat Banded Mongoose Bat Eared Fox Black Backed Jackal Black Rhinoceros Blue Wildebeest Bushbuck Bushpig Cape Pangolin Caracal Chacma Baboon Eland Elephant Shrews Gemsbok / Oryx Giraffe Hippopotamus / Hippo Honey Badger Hyrax (Dassie) Impala Klipspringer Kudu Large spotted Genet Leopard Lesser-bush Baby Lion Mountain Reedbuck Nyala Plains Zebra Red Hartebees Roan Antelope Sable Antelope Serval Small spotted Genet Southern / Common Reedbuck Spotted Hyena Brown Hyena Steenbok Tsessebe Vervet Monkey Waterbuck Warthog White Rhinoceros Birds Cormorants White-breasted Reed Grebes Little Darter Big Herons Grey Black-headed Smaller Herons Squacco Black Rufous-bellied White-backed night Black-crowned night Green-backed Smaller egrets Yellow-billed Great Little Cattle Storks Black Abdim s White Yellow-billed Ibis`s Hadeda Southern bald Sacred Geese / Ducks Shovellers / Teals Spur-winged goose Comb Duck White-faced duck Egyptian goose Spoonbills Hamerkop Hamerkop Vultures Lapped-faced Cape White backed Hooded Eagles / buzzards / kestrels fish-eagle Brown snake-eagle Black-chested snake-eagle Steppe eagle Lesser spotted eagle Verreauxs` eagle Martial eagle Wahlberg`s eagle Common buzzard harrier-hawk Yellow-billed kite hawk-eagle Black-shouldered kite Gabar goshawk Little sparrowhawk Red-footed falcon Spurfowls Swainson`s Natal Francolins Crested Coqui Guineafowl Helmeted Ostrich Common 2

Quails Common Small buttonquail Moorhens Common Lesser Cranes Blue Seceratybird Bustards Denham s Black-bellied Quails Little Crakes Black Jacanas Rail Korhaan Red-crested Stilt Black-winged Plovers Three-banded Lapwings Crowned wattled Blacksmith Sandpipers Common Wood Snipes Greater painted painted Thick-knees Spotted Water Ruff Ruff Coursers Bronze-winged Sandgrouse Double-banded Sandpipers Common Doves morning Red-eyed Cape turtle Laughing Emerald-spotted wood Tambourine Namaqua Cuckoos Common Red-chested Black Levaillant s Jacobin Thick-billed Diederick Klaas s Owls Verreauxs` eagle Spotted eagle Southern white-faced scops Pearl-spotted scops Parots Brown headed Go-away Bird Grey Coucal Burchell s Nightjars Fiery-necked Swifts White-rumped Mousebirds Red-faced Speckled Kingfishers Giant Pied Half-collared Malachite pygmy Woodland Brown-hooded Grey-headed Striped Bee-eaters European White-fronted Swallow-tailed Little Rollers Lilca-breasted European Purple Broad-billed Hornbills grey Southern yellow-billed Red-billed Hoopoes` Green wood 3

Honeyguides Greater Scaly-throated Lesser Scimitarbill Common Honeybirds Brown-backed Barbets Black-collared Crested Woodpeckers Cardinal Golden-tailed Bearded Larks Flappet Montonous Rufous-naped Red-capped Swallows Red breasted Mosque Greater striped Lesser striped Barn Martins Brown-throated Banded Drongos Fork-tailed Cuckooshrikes Black White-breasted Oriole Eurasian golden Black-headed Ravens / Crows White-necked Pied Cape Tits Southern black Ashy Babblers Southern Pied Arrow-marked Bulbuls / Thrushes Dark-capped bulbul red-eyed bulbul Kurrichane thrush Groundscraper thrush Chats Familiar Ant-eating Mocking cliff White-throated robin Warbler reed Little rush Lesser swamp Sedge Eremomela Yellow-bellied Burnt-necked Cisticolas / Neddicky Neddicky Rattling cisticola Lazy cisticola Flycatchers Southern black Fiscal Pale paradise Scrub-robins White browed Crombec Long-billed Apalis Bar-throated White Eyes Cape Batis`s Chinspot Wagtails pied Long-tailed Cape Pipits Long-billed Bushveld Plain-backed Buffy Striped Longclaws Cape Shrikes Magpie Red-backed Lesser grey Crimson-breasted Southern white-crowned Boubous Southern Tchagras Black-crowned Brown-crowned Bush-shrikes Grey-headed Orange-breasted 4

Helmet-shrikes White-creasted helmet Retz`s helmet Brubru Brubru Puffbacks Black-backed Starlings Cape glossy Violet-backed Red-winged Oxpeckers Red-billed Yellow-billed Sunbirds White-bellied Marico Sparrows House Cape Grey-headed Weavers Village Southern masked Lesser masked Spectacled Red-headed Widowbirds Red-collared White-winged Whydahs Pin-tailed Shaft-tailed Firefinches Red-billed Waxbills Swee Black-faced Common Blue Violet-eared Quelea Red-billed Bishops Southern red Paradise-whydahs Long-tailed paradise Mannikins Bronze Finch Cut-throat Red-headed Scaly-feathered Cuckoo Twinspots Green Canary Yellow-fronted Bunting Cinnamon-breasted Golden-breasted Butterflies Monarch Twilight Brown Eyed Bush Brown Ringlet Wondering Donkey Acraea Window Acraea Marsh Acraea White Banded Acraea Common Leopard Pearl Emperor Guineafowl Spotted Joker Common Diadem Yellow Pansy Blue Pansy Painted Lady Yellow Zulu Common Fig-tree Blue Queen Purple Tip Scarlet Tip Common Orange Tip Smokey Orange Tip Broad-bordered Grass Yellow Common Grass Yellow Citrus Swallowtail Trees Common Sugar Bush Horn Pod Sumach Bean Wild Seringa Common Wild Pear Waterberg Poora Berry Paperbark False Thorn Peeling Plane Transvaal Beech Kooboo Berry Camelthorn Shepherd s Tree Wing-leaved Wooden-pear Koko Tree White Pear Water Pear Transvaal Milkplum Tamboti Lavender Fever Verry Bell Spike Thorn Soap-nettle Wild Apricot Mountain Silver Oak Broad-leaved Camphor Bush Real Yellowwood Healing Leaf Tree Lance-leaved Quarri Lavender Tree Green Cluster Leaf 5

Grasses Snowflake Large Silver Andropogon Red Broad-leaved Turpentine Narrow leaved Turpentine Giant Turpentine Common Thatching Yellow Thatching Red Autumn Spear Giant Spear Pincushion Mopane Wire Carrot-seed Wool Cat s Tail Riverbed Foxtail Buffalo Common Bristle Tassel Three-awn Ratstail Dropseed Cottonwool Gongoni Three-awn Annual Three-awn Wild Flowers Giant Carrion Flower Yellow Wandering Jewn Wild Cucumber Canary Nettle Blue Commelina Blue Haze Bachelor s Button Lesser Balloon Vine Cape Leadworth Bladder Hibiscus Large Yellow Wild Hibiscus Indian Hemp Blackjack or Spanish Needle Wild Grassland Lantana Yellow Ipomoea; Wild Petunia Poison Apple Dainty Pavonia Wild White Plumbago Wild Hop Bushveld Crossandra Wing-seeded Sesame Milkweed Wild Foxglove Trailing Dwarf Cassia Pride-of-De-Cape Devil`s Thorn Fungi Field Mushroom Watred Agaric Death Cap Blusher Sunny Side Up Dunce Cap Glitering Ink Cap Saggy Ink Cap Funnel Woodcap Velvet Woodcap Cracked Mottle Gill Japanese Umbrella Dung Roundhead Steak Mushroom Bushveld Bolete Artist s Palette Light-rimmed Rust Cap Cracked Bracket Black Cork Polypone Common Puffball Grey-egg Bird s Nest Tree Ear Reflection of a white rhino 6

SOUTH AFRICA Marataba Safari Lodge, Marataba Trails Lodge Marataba Section of the Marakele National Park, Limpopo, South Africa Reservations: Lodge Tel: Email: Head Office: +27 14 779 0018 res@more.co.za +27 11 880 9992 www.marataba.co.za