Welcome to the Wildlife of South Africa

This is a short letter I wrote to my Aunt and Uncle:

African wildlife is magnificent and thousands of people come to South Africa every year to see mammals, birds and reptiles in their natural habitat. There are many national parks and game reserves in South Africa. We will be going to the Addo Elephant National Park which has more Elephants per hectare than any other reserve in the whole of the African Continent.

Join me in a journey of discovery. We will be travelling through the Karoo and Free State where a lot of small mammals may be observed, like Dassies, Baboons, Ground Squirrels and Suricates (Meerkats) as well as antelope species like the Springbok and Blesbok. We will also be able to see a lot of birds of prey and smaller birds. The Birds we might see are as follows: Blackshouldered Kite, Ostrich, Pale Chanting Goshawk, Korhaans, Storks and possibly the elusive Secretary Bird or Blue Crane.

We will visit the famous and popular Kruger National Park, which now has a different name, (as it has been joined to two other reserves, one in Zimbabwe & the other in Mozambique.) the Limpopo Transfrontier National Park. It is almost two million hectares large. There are over 520 different birds in the Park, over 100 different mammals, 130 different reptiles and 25 different fish.

Don't forget about Kenton-on-sea, which is a magnet to sea and garden birds. Since you left in January 2002, I have been recording all the bird species seen in the vicinity of our house, the beaches and town, there are about 250 that I have recorded. Just lately I have started doing research on the mammals around the town and have started looking for evidence of them; they include aquatic and land mammals. Read more about this on the Kenton-on-sea nature reserve page. (The Joan Muirhead Nature Reserve)

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