phakela's wildlife

 

Phakela's Wildlife

Phakela Private Safari Lodge has one of the most invigorating, wild and challenging atmospheres one could compress into a single destination, come and visit and view the feeding of our resident lion couple (Bonnie and Clyde).

Other wildlife species that are resident here at Phakela are the following:

Mammal List at Phakela
Aardwolf Klipspringer
African Wildcat Kudu
Antbear Leopard
Banded mongoose Lesser bushbaby
Black-backed jackal Lion
Blue wildebeest Mountain reedbuck
Brown hyena Nyala
Buffalo Porcupine
Burchell’s zebra Red hartebeest
Bushbuck Rock dassie
Bushpig Serval
Caracal Scrub hare
Chacma baboon Slender mongoose
Civit Small-spotted genet
Common duiker Steenbuck
Dwarf mongoose Striped polecat
Eland Tree squirrel
Gemsbuck Vervet monkey
Giraffe Waterbuck
Honey badger Warthog
Impala
Reptile List at Phakela and in the greater Limpopo, Waterberg area
Tortoise and terrapins
Mountain tortoise
Geometric tortoise
Serrated hinged terrapin
Snakes
African rock python Stripe-bellied grass snake
Brown house snake Rufous beaked snake
Cape wolf snake Red-lipped snake
Cape file snake Boomslang
Common mole snake Mozambique spitting cobra
Common egg-eater Cape Cobra
Common slug-eater Rinkhals
Spotted grass snake Black mamba
Spotted bush snake Rhombic night adder
Lizards and skinks
Striped skink Southern rock agama
Bushveld lizard Ground agama
Yellow-throated plated lizard Tree agama
Giant plated lizard Rock Monitor lizard
Transvaal girdled lizard
Chameleons
Flap-necked chameleon
Tree List at Phakela and in the greater Limpopo, Waterberg area
English name
Black monkey thorn Round-leaved teak
Monkey thorn White candlewood
Red-thorn Bitter bush grape
Common hook-thorn Bushmans grape
Paper-bark albizia Nana-berry
Sickle-leaved albizia Mountain karee
Flat flowered aloe Common wild current
White apricot Hard-leaved currant
White pear Cape gardenia
Red ivory Quinnine tree
Mountain silver oak Violet tree
Velvet bridelia; sweetberry Marula
False olive Healing-leaf tree
Wild seringa Poison apple
Corky turkey-berry Spine-leaved monkey orange
White stinkwood Green monkey orange
Tinderwood Waterberry
Warty- fruited clutia Water pear
Red bushwillow Mountain medler
Velvet bushwillow Narrow-leaved false bride bush
Waterberg bushwillow Green cluster-leaf
Large-fruited bushwillow Silver cluster-leaf
Velvet corkwood Wild medlar
Lavender fever-berry Waterberg medlar
Cabbage tree Waterberg poora-berry
Mountain cabbage tree Pipe-stem tree
Sickle bush /Chinese lantern Mountain cypress
Blue bush Large sour plum
Hornpod tree Buffalo thorn
Wild pear Common wild elder
Wild apricot Mountain nettle
Puzzle bush Peeling plane /Peeling Bark
Common coral tree Transvaal sumach
Sumach bean Common resin tree
Stem fruit Current resin tree
Transvaal candelabra Jacket-plum
Candelabra tree Common bridesbush
Blue-guarri Bridesbush
Natal guarri African/Weeping wattle
Beechwood Cheesewood
Common wild fig Real yellowwood
Red-leaved fig Soap nettle
Large-leaved rock fig Common sugarbush
Mountain fig Cluster-head sugarbush
Savanna gardenia Kudu-berry
Transvaal gardenia Green tree
Bastard brandybush Bracken
Velvet raisin Live-long
Rough leaved Raisin Koko tree
Silver raisin Transvaal red-milkwood
Common spike-thorn Cork bush
Kraal spike-thorn Cape myrtle
Lavender tree Kooboo-berry
Shakama plum Large-leaved rock fig
Red-leaved fig Mountain seringa
Bird List at Phakela and in the greater Limpopo, Waterberg area
001 Common Ostrich
006 Great Crested Grebe
008 Little Grebe
049 Great White Pelican
050 Pink-backed Pelican
055 White-breasted Cormorant
058 Reed Cormorant
060 African Darter
062 Grey Heron
063 Black-headed Heron
064 Goliath Heron
065 Purple Heron
071 Cattle Egret
072 Squacco Heron
073 Green-backed Heron
076 Black-crowned Night-Heron
077 White-backed Night-Heron
078 Little Bittern
079 Dwarf Bittern
081 Hamerkop
083 White Stork
084 Black Stork
085 Abdim’s Stork
086 Woolly-necked Stork
087 African Openbill
088 Saddle-billed Stork
089 Marabou Stork
090 Yellow-billed Stork
091 African Sacred Ibis
092 Southern Bald Ibis
093 Glossy Ibis
094 Hadeda Ibis
095 African Spoonbil
099 White-faced Duck
100 Fulvous Duck
101 White-backed Duck
102 Egyptian Goose
132 Tawny Eagle
134 Lesser Spotted Eagle
135 Wahlberg’s Eagle
136 Booted Eagle
137 African Hawk-Eagle
138 Ayres’s Hawk-Eagle
139 Long-crested Eagle
140 Martial Eagle
141 African Crowned Eagle
142 Brown Snake-Eagle
143 Black-chested Snake-Eagle
146 Bateleur
147 Palm-nut Vulture
148 African Fish-Eagle
149 Common Buzzard
150 Forest Buzzard
152 Jackal Buzzard
154 Lizard Buzzard
155 Rufous-chested Sparrowhawk
156 Ovambo Sparrowhawk
157 Little Sparrowhawk
158 Black Sparrowhawk
159 Shikra
160 African Goshawk
161 Gaba r Goshawk
162 Southern Pale Chanting Goshawk
163 Dark Chanting Goshawk
164 Western Marsh-Harrier
166 Montagu’s Harrier
167 Pallid Harrier
169 African Harrier-Hawk
170 Osprey
171 Peregrine Falcon
172 Lanner Falcon
173 Eurasian Hobby
176 Taita Falcon
180 Amur Falcon
181 Rock Kestrel
258 Blacksmith Lapwing
259 White-crowned Lapwing
260 African Wattled Lapwing
264 Common Sandpiper
265 Green Sandpiper
266 Wood Sandpiper
269 Marsh Sandpiper
270 Common Greenshank
274 Little Stint
284 Ruff
286 African Snipe
290 Common Whimbrel
295 Black-winged Stilt
297 Spotted Thick-knee
298 Water Thick-knee
300 Temminck’s Courser
302 Three-banded Courser
303 Bronze-winged Courser
304 Collared Pratincloe
305 Black-winged Pratincole
315 Grey-headed Gull
339 White-winged Tern
343 African Skimmer
345 Burchell’s Sandgrouse
347 Double-banded Sandgrouse
348 Rock Dove
349 Speckled Pigeon
350 African Olive Pigeon
352 Red-eyed Dove
353 African Mourning Dove
354 Cape Turtle-Dove
355 Laughing Dove
398 Pearl-spotted Owlet
399 African Barred Owlet
401 Spotted Eagle-Owl
402 Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl
403 Pel’s Fishing-Owl
404 European Nightjar
405 Fiery-necked Nightjar
406 Rufous-cheeked Nightjar
408 Freckled Nightjar
409 Square-tailed Nightjar
410 Pennant-winged Nightjar
411 Common Swift
412 African Black Swift
415 White-rumped Swift
416 Horus Swift
417 Little Swift
418 Alpine Swift
421 African Palm Swift
474 Greater Honeyguide
475 Scaly-throated Honeyguide
476 Lesser Honeyguide
478 Brown-backed Honeybird
481 Bennett’s Woodpecker
483 Golden-tailed Woodpecker
486 Cardinal Woodpecker
487 Bearded Woodpecker
488 Olive Woodpecker
489 Red-throated Wryneck
490 African Broadbill
493 Monotonous Lark
494 Rufous-naped Lark
496 Flappet Lark
497 Fawn-coloured Lark
498 Sabota Lark
501 Short-clawed Lark
505 Dusky Lark
506 Spike-heeled Lark
507 Red-capped Lark
508 Pink-billed Lark
515 Chestnut-backed Sparrowlark
516 Grey-backed Sparrowlark
518 Barn Swallow
520 White-throated Swallow
522 Wire-tailed Swallow
539 White-breasted Cuckooshrike
540 Grey Cuckooshrike
541 Fork-tailed Drongo
542 Square-tailed Drongo
543 Eurasian Golden Oriole
545 Black-headed Oriole
547 Cape Crow
548 Pied Crow
550 White-necked Raven
552 Ashy Tit
554 Southern Black Tit
557 Cape Penduline-Tit
558 Grey Penduline-Tit
560 Arrow-marked Babbler
563 Southern Pied Babbler
568 Dark-capped Bulbul
569 Terrestrial Brownbul
570 Yellow-streaked Greenbul
572 Sombre Greenbul
574 Yellow-bellied Grenbul
575 Eastern Nicator
576 Kurrichane Thrush
577 Olive Thrush
577.1 Karoo Thrush
579 Orange Ground-Thrush
580 Groundscraper Thrush
581 Cape Rock-Thrush
582 Sentinal Rock-Thrush
587 Capped Wheatear
671 Tinkling Cisticola
672 Rattling Cisticola
674 Red-faced Cisticola
675 Rufous-winged Cisticola
677 Levaillant’s Cisticola
678 Croaking Cisticola
679 Lazy Cisticola
681 Neddicky
683 Tawny-flanked Prinia
685 Black-chested Prinia
686.1 Drakensberg Prinia
689 Spotted Flycatcher
690 African Dusky Flycatcher
691 Ashy Flycatcher
693 Grey Tit-Flycatcher
694 Southern Black Flycatcher
695 Marico Flycatcher
696 Pale Flycatcher
698 Fiscal Flycatcher
665 Desert Cisticola
666 Cloud Cisticola
667 Wing-snapping Cisticola
769 Red-winged Starling
670 Wailing Cisticola
771 Yellow-billed Oxpecker
772 Red-billed Oxpecker
774 Gurney’s Sugarbird
775 Malachite Sunbird
779 Marico Sunbird
783 Southern Double-collared Sunbird
785 Greater Double-collared Sunbird
787 White-bellied Sunbird
737 Tropical Boubou
739 Crimson-breasted Shrike
740 Black-backed Puffback
741 Brubru
743 Brown-crowned Tchagra
744 Black-crowned Tchagra
747 Gorgeous Bush-Shrike
748 Orange-breasted Bush-Shrike
749 Black-fronted Bush-Shrike
750 Olive Bush-Shrike
751 Grey-headed Bush-Shrike
753 White-crested Helmet-Shrike
754 Retz’s Helmet-Shrike
756 Southern White-crowned Shrike
793 Collared Sunbird
796 Cape White-eye
797 African Yellow White-eye
798 Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver
799 White-browed Sparrow-Weaver
802 Great Sparrow
803 Cape Sparrow
804 Southern Grey-headed Sparrow
805 Yellow-throated Petronia
806 Scaly-feathered Finch
807 Thick-billed Weaver
810 Spectacled Weaver
811 Village Weaver
829 White-winged Widowbird
831 Red-collared Widowbird
832 Long-tailed Widowbird
834 Green-winged Pytilia
835 Green Twinspot
838 Pink-throated Twinspot
840 African Firefinch
829 White-winged Widowbird
814 Southern Masked-Weaver
815 Lesser Masked-Weaver
816 Golden Weaver
819 Red-headed Weaver
820 Cuckoo Finch
821 Red-billed Quelea
824 Southern Red Bishop
826 Yellow-crowned Bishop
827 Yellow Bishop
813 Cape Weaver 066 Great Egret067 Little Egret
068 Yellow-billed Egret
069 Black Heron
104 Yellow-billed Duck
105 African Black Duck
106 Cape Teal
107 Hottentot Teal
108 Red-billed Teal
112 Cape Shoveler
113 Southern Pochard
114 African Pygmy-Goose
115 Comb Duck
116 Spur-winged Goose
117 Maccoa Duck
118 Secretarybird
121 Hooded Vulture
122 Cape Vulture
122.1 Ruppell’s Vulture
123 White-backed Vulture
124 Lappet-faced Vulture
125 White-headed Vulture
126a Black Kite
126b Yellow-billed Kite
127 Black-shouldered Kite
128 African Cuckoo Hawk
129 Bat Hawk
130 European Honey-Buzzard
131 Verreauxs’ Eagle
182 Greater Kestrel
183 Lesser Kestrel
185 Dickinson’s Kestrel
188 Coqui Francolin
189 Crested Francolin
191 Shelley’s Francolin
196 Natal Francolin
199 Swainson’s Spurfowl
201 Harlequin Quail
203 Helmeted Guineafowl
204 Crested Guineafowl
205 Kurrichane Buttonquail
208 Blue Crane
210 African Rail
211 Corn Crake
212 African Crake
213 Black Crake
217 Red-chested Flufftail
218 Buff-spotted Flufftail
223 African Purple Swamphen
224 Allen’s Gallinule
226 Common Moorhen
227 Lesser Moorhen
228 Red-knobbed Coot
229 African Finfoot
230 Kori Bustard
233 White-bellied Korhaan
237 Red-crested Korhaan
238 Black-bellied Bustard
239.1 Northern Black Korhaan
240 African Jacana
242 Greater Painted Snipe
246 White-fronted Plover
248 Kittlitz’s Plover
249 Three-banded Plover
252 Caspian Plover
255 Crowned Lapwing
256 Senegal Lapwing
182 Greater Kestrel
356 Namaqua Dove
357 Blue-spotted Wood-Dove
358 Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove
359 Tambourine Dove
360 Lemon Dove
361 African Green-Pigeon
362 Cape Parrot
362.1 Grey-headed Parrot
363 Brown-headed Parrot
364 Meyer’s Parrot
370 Knysna Turaco
371 Purple-crested Turaco
373 Grey Go-away-bird
374 Common Cuckoo
375 African Cuckoo
376 Lesser Cuckoo
377 Red-chested Cuckoo
378 Black Cuckoo
380 Great Spotted Cuckoo
381 Levaillant’s Cuckoo
382 Jacobin Cuckoo
383 Thick-billed Cuckoo
384 African Emerald Cuckoo
385 Klaas’s Cuckoo
386 Diderick Cuckoo
390 Senegal Coucal
391 Burchell’s Coucal
392 Barn Owl
394 African Wood-Owl
395 Marsh Owl
396 African Scops-Owl
397 Southern White-faced Scops-Owl
438 European Bee-eater
422 Mottled Spinetail
423 Bohm’s Spinetail
424 Speckled Mousebird
426 Red-faced Mousebird
427 Narina Trogon
428 Pied Kingfisher
429 Giant Kingfisher
430 Half-collared Kingfisher
431 Malachite Kingfisher
432 African Pygmy Kingfisher
433 Woodland Kingfisher
435 Brown-hooded Kingfisher
436 Grey-hooded Kingfisher
437 Striped Kingfisher
440 Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
441 Southern Carmine Bee-eater
443 White-fronted Bee-eater
444 Little Bee-eater
445 Swallow-tailed Bee-eater
446 European Roller
447 Lilac-breasted Roller
448 Racket-tailed Roller
449 Purle Roller
450 Broad-billed Roller
451 African Hoopoe
452 Green Wood-hoopoe
454 Common Scimitarbill
455 Trumpeter Hornbill
457 African Grey Hornbill
458 Red-billed Hornbill
459 Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill
460 Crowned Hornbill
463 Southern Ground Hornbill
464 Black-collared Barbet
465 Acacia Pied Barbet
470 Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird
471 Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird
473 Crested Barbet
523 Pearl-breasted Swallow
524 Red-breasted Swallow
525 Mosque Swallow
526 Greater Striped Swallow
527 Lesser Striped Swallow
528 South African Cliff-Swallow
529 Rock Martin
530 Common House-Martin
531 Grey-rumped Swallow
533 Brown-throated Martin
534 Banded Martin
536 Black Saw-wing
538 Black Cuckooshrike
588 Buff-streaked Chat
589 Familiar Chat
593 Mocking Cliff-Chat
594 Arnott’s Chat
595 Anteating Chat
596 African Stonechat
598 Chorister Robin-Chat
599 White-browed Robin-Chat
642 Broad-tailed Warbler
643 Willow Warbler
644 Yellow-throated Woodland Warbler
645 Bar-throated Apalis
648 Yellow-breasted Apalis
649 Rudd’s Apalis
651 Long-billed Crombec
653 Yellow-bellied Eremomela
655 Green-capped Eremomela
656 Burnt-necked Eremomela
657 Green-backed Camaroptera
657.1 Grey-backed Camaroptera
658 Barred Wren-Warbler
659 Stierling’s Wren-Warbler
661 Cape Grassbird
664 Zitting Cisticola
600 Red-capped Robin-Chat
601 Cape Robin-Chat
602 White-throated Robin-Chat
606 White-starred Robin
609 Thrush Nightingale
613 White-browed Scrub-Robin
615 Kalahari Scrub-Robin
616 Brown Scrub-Robin
617 Bearded Scrub-Robin
619 Garden Warbler
620 Common Whitethroat
621 Chestnut-vented Tit-Babbler
625 Icterine Warbler
626 Olive-tree Warbler
627 River Warbler
628 Great Reed-Warbler
631 African Reed-Warbler
633 Marsh-Warbler
634 Sedge Warbler
635 Lesser Swamp-Warbler
637 Dark-capped Yellow Warbler
638 Little Rush-Warbler
639 Barratt’s Warbler
700 Cape Batis
701 Chinspot Batis
705 Black-throated Wattle-eye
708 Blue-mantled Crested Flycatcher
710 African Paradise-Flycatcher
711 African Pied Wagtail
712 Mountain Wagtail
713 Cape Wagtail
716 African Pipit
717 Long-billed Pipit
718 Plain-backed Pipit
719 Buffy Pipit
720 Striped Pipit
723 Bushveld Pipit
727 Cape Longclaw
728 Yellow-throated Longclaw
731 Lesser Grey Shrike
732 Common Fiscal
733 Red-backed Shrike
735 Magpie Shrike
736 Southern Boubou
761 Violet-backed Starling
762 Burchell’s Starling
763 Meves’s Starling
764 Cape Glossy Starling
765 Greater Blue-eared Starling
841 Jamesons Firefinch
842 Red-billed Firefinch
844 Blue Waxbill
845 Violet-eared Waxbill
846 Common Waxbill
847 Black-faced Waxbill
848 Grey Waxbill
850 Swee Waxbill
852 African Quail-Finch
854 Orange-breasted Waxbill
855 Cut-throat Finch
856 Red-headed Finch
857 Bronze Mannikin
858 Red-backed Mannikin
859 Magpie Mannikin
860 Pin-tailed Whydah
861 Shaft-tailed Whydah
862 Long-tailed Paradise-Whydah
864 Dusky Indigobird
865 Purple Indigobird
867 Village Indigobird
869 Yellow-fronted Canary
870 Black-throated Canary
871 Lemon-breasted Canary
872 Cape Canary
873 Forest Canary
877 Brimstone Canary
878 Yellow Canary
881 Streaky-headed Seed-eater
884 Golden-breasted Bunting
885 Cape Bunting
886 Cinnamon-breasted Bunting
801 House Sparrow