Nestled below Perdeberg Mountain,
Nature's little piece of Heaven		  
  
 
 

Cape Glossy Starling

Cape Glossy Starling

Cape White Eye

Cape White Eye

Pin-tailed Wydah

Pin-tailed Wydah

Yellow Crowned Bishop

Yellow Crowned Bishop

 

 

 
 
 
Birds you are likely to spot in Drumblade

 
1 6 Little Grebe
2 50 Reed Cormorant
3 54 Grey Heron
4 55 Black-headed Heron
5 57 Purple Heron
6 59 Little Egret
7 61 Cattle Egret
8 64 Black Heron
9 72 Hamerkop
10 79 Black Stork
11 80 White Stork
12 81 African Sacred Ibis
13 83 Glossy Ibis
14 84 Hadeda Ibis
15 85 African Spoonbill
16 88 Spur-winged Goose
17 89 Egyptian Goose
18 95 African Black Duck
19 96 Yellow-billed Duck
20 97 Red-billed Teal
21 105 Secretary Bird
22 119 Amur Falcon
23 129 Yellow-billed Kite
24 130 Black-shouldered Kite
25 152 Jackal Buzzard
26 154 Steppe Buzzard
27 157 Ovambo Sparrowhawk
28 178 Red-winged Francolin
29 179 Orange River Francolin
30 185 Swainson's Spurfowl
31 192 Helmeted Guineafowl
32 212 Red-knobbed Coot
33 238 Three-banded Plover
34 242 Crowned Lapwing
35 245 Blacksmith Lapwing
36 247 African Wattled Lapwing
37 263 Common Greenshank
38 275 Spotted Thick-knee
39 311 Speckled Pigeon
40 314 Red-eyed Dove
41 316 Cape Turtle-Dove
42 317 Laughing Dove
43 343 Red-chested Cuckoo
44 352 Diederick Cuckoo
45 361 Marsh Owl
46 368 Spotted Eagle-Owl
47 372 Rufous-cheeked Nightjar
48 383 White-rumped Swift
49 385 Little Swift
50 387 African Palm-Swift
51 390 Speckled Mousebird
52 391 White-backed Mousebird
53 392 Red-faced Mousebird
54 404 European Bee-eater
55 418 African Hoopoe
56 419 Green Wood-Hoopoe
57 431 Black-collared Barbet
58 432 Acacia Pied Barbet
59 439 Crested Barbet
60 440 Greater Honeyguide
61 442 Lesser Honeyguide
62 443 Brown-backed Honeybird
63 453 Red-throated Wryneck
64 456 Melodius Lark
65 458 Rufous-naped Lark
66 474 Spike-heeled Lark
67 488 Red-capped Lark
68 493 Barn Swallow
69 495 White-throated Swallow
70 502 Greater Striped Swallow
71 506 Rock Martin
72 509 Brown-throated Martin
73 510 Banded Martin
74 514 Ashy Tit
75 522 Pied Crow
76 545 Dark-capped Bulbul
77 564 Mountain Wheatear
78 568 Capped Wheatear
79 575 Anteating Chat
80 576 African Stonechat
81 581 Cape Robin-Chat
82 586 Kalahari Scrub-Robin
83 599 Willow Warbler
84 604 Lesser Swamp-Warbler
85 622 Bar-throated Apalis
86 629 Zitting Cisticola
87 631 Cloud Cisticola
88 634 Wing-snapping Cisticola
89 637 Neddicky
90 639 Wailing Cisticola
91 646 Levaillant's Cisticola
92 649 Tawny-flanked Prinia
93 650 Black-chested Prinia
94 654 Spotted Flycatcher
95 658 Chestnut-vented Tit-Babbler
96 665 Fiscal Flycatcher
97 673 Chinspot Batis
98 678 Fairy Flycatcher
99 682 African Paradise-Flycatcher
100 686 Cape Wagtail
101 692 African Pipit
102 693 Long-billed Pipit
103 695 Buffy Pipit
104 703 Cape Longclaw
105 706 Lesser Grey Shrike
106 707 Common Fiscal
107 711 Crimson-breasted Shrike
108 714 Brown-crowned Tchagra
109 722 Bokmakierie
110 734 Common Myna
111 735 Wattled Starling
112 737 Cape Glossy Starling
113 746 Pied Starling
114 751 Malachite Sunbird
115 758 Greater Double-collared Sunbird
116 763 White-bellied Sunbird
117 772 Amethyst Sunbird
118 780 White-browed Sparrow-weaver
119 784 House Sparrow
120 786 Cape Sparrow
121 803 Southern Masked-Weaver
122 805 Red-billed Quelea
123 808 Southern Red Bishop
124 812 Yellow-crowned Bishop
125 813 Red-collared Widowbird
126 814 White-winged Widdowbird
127 818 Long-tailed Widowbird
128 820 Red-headed Finch
129 830 Green-winged Pytilla
130 833 African Firefinch
131 835 Jameson's Firefinch
132 838 Orange-breasted Waxbill
133 841 Black-faced Waxbill
134 843 Common Waxbill
135 844 African Quailfinch
136 846 Pin-tailed Whydah
137 852 Long-tailed Paradise-wydah
138 859 Yellow-fronted Canary
139 860 Black-throated Canary
140 867 Streaky-headed Seedeater
141 872 Cinnamon-breasted Bunting
142 940 Rock Dove
143 1035 Northern Black Korhaan
144 1104 Karoo Thrush
145 1172 Cape White-eye
146 1183 Eastern Clapper Lark
147 4142 Southern Grey-headed Sparrow
148 504 South African Cliff Swallow
149 101 Fulvous Duck
150 339 Grey Go-away-bird
 
 

Drumblade Conservancy Reg No GCA065

Our list has grown to 150!  Reference numbers from SAPAB
Updated 1st December 2011

 

With thanks to John Heywood of the SA Bird Atlas Project for his assistance
 
  
 
  SA Bird Atlas Project 2
 
 
Please respect our wildlife - it is very precious to us. Car lights will blind all nocturnal creatures - flashing your lights at them does more harm than good. Animals have no sense of speed, so slow down or stop all together, until the animal has moved out of the way.