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Birding in Augrabies Falls National Park

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001 Common Ostrich
008 Little Grebe (Dabchick)
055 White-breasted Cormorant
058 Reed Cormorant
060 African Darter
062 Grey Heron
063 Black-headed Heron
064 Goliath Heron
065 Purple Heron
067 Little Egret
071 Cattle Egret
076 Black-crowned Night Heron
078 Little Bittern
081 Hamerkop
084 Black Stork
089 Marabou Stork
091 African Sacred Ibis
094 Hadeda Ibis
102 Egyptian Goose
103 South African Shelduck
104 Yellow-billed Duck
105 African Black Duck
108 Red-billed Teal
116 Spur-winged Goose
118 Secretarybird
126 Black Kite
126b Yellow-billed Kite
127 Black-shouldered Kite
131 Verreaux’s Eagle
136 Booted Eagle
140 Martial Eagle
143 Black-chested Snake-Eagle (Black-breasted Snake-Eagle)
148 African Fish-Eagle
149 Steppe Buzzard
162 Southern Pale Chanting Goshawk
169 African Harrier-Hawk (Gymnogene)
170 Osprey
171 Peregrine Falcon
172 Lanner Falcon
181 Rock Kestrel
182 Greater Kestrel
186 Pygmy Falcon
195 Cape Spurfowl (Cape Francolin)
200 Common Quail
203 Helmeted Guineafowl
213 Black Crake
226 Common Moorhen
228 Red-knobbed Coot
230 Kori Bustard
232 Ludwig’s Bustard
235 Karoo Korhaan
239b Northern Black Korhaan
249 Three-banded Plover
258 Blacksmith Lapwing
264 Common Sandpiper
266 Wood Sandpiper
270 Common Greenshank
274 Little Stint
297 Spotted Thick-knee (Spotted Dikkop)
301 Double-banded Courser
344 Namaqua Sandgrouse
347 Double-banded Sandgrouse
349 Speckled Pigeon (Rock Pigeon)
352 Red-eyed Dove
354 Cape Turtle-Dove
355 Laughing Dove
356 Namaqua Dove
367 Rosy-faced Lovebird
382 Jacobin Cuckoo
386 Diderick Cuckoo
391 Burchell's Coucal
392 Barn Owl
401 Spotted Eagle-Owl
406 Rufous-cheeked Nightjar
408 Freckled Nightjar
411 Common Swift (Eurasian Swift)
413 Bradfield’s Swift
417 Little Swift
418 Alpine Swift
421 African Palm Swift
425 White-backed Mousebird
426 Red-faced Mousebird
428 Pied Kingfisher
429 Giant Kingfisher
431 Malachite Kingfisher
437 Striped Kingfisher
438 European Bee-eater
443 White-fronted Bee-eater
445 Swallow-tailed Bee-eater
451 African Hoopoe
454 Common Scimitarbill (Scimitar-billed Wood-Hoopoe)
465 Acacia Pied Barbet (Pied Barbet)
473 Crested Barbet
474 Greater Honeyguide
483 Golden-tailed Woodpecker
486 Cardinal Woodpecker
495 Cape Clapper Lark
497 Fawn-coloured Lark
498 Sabota Lark
Karoo Long-billed Lark
506 Spike-heeled Lark
507 Red-capped Lark
511 Stark’s Lark
516 Grey-backed Sparrowlark
517 Black-eared Sparrowlark
518 Barn Swallow (European Swallow)
520 White-throated Swallow
523 Pearl-breasted Swallow
526 Greater Striped Swallow
529 Rock Martin
533 Brown-throated Martin
541 Fork-tailed Drongo
547 Cape Crow (Black Crow)
548 Pied Crow
552 Ashy Tit
557 Cape Penduline-Tit
567 African Red-eyed Bulbul
577 Olive Thrush
583 Short-toed Rock-thrush
586 Mountain Wheatear
587 Capped Wheatear
589 Familiar Chat
590 Tractrac Chat
591 Sickle-winged Chat
592 Karoo Chat
595 Ant-eating Chat
601 Cape Robin-Chat
614 Karoo Scrub-Robin
615 Kalahari Scrub-Robin
621 Chestnut-vented Tit-Babbler (Tit-Babbler)
622 Layard’s Tit-Babbler
631 African Reed-Warbler (African Marsh Warbler)
635 Lesser Swamp Warbler (Cape Reed Warbler)
643 Willow Warbler
651 Long-billed Crombec
653 Yellow-bellied Eremomela
660 Cinnamon-breasted Warbler
664 Zitting Cisticola (Fan-tailed Cisticola)
665 Desert Cisticola
669 Grey-backed Cisticola
677 Levaillant’s Cisticola
685 Black-chested Prinia
686 Karoo Prinia (Spotted Prinia)
687 Namaqua Warbler
688 Rufous-eared Warbler
689 Spotted Flycatcher
697 Chat Flycatcher
698 Fiscal Flycatcher
703 Pririt Batis
706 Fairy Flycatcher
711 African Pied Wagtail
713 Cape Wagtail
716 African Pipit (Grassveld Pipit)
717 Long-billed Pipit
731 Lesser Grey Shrike
732 Common Fiscal (Fiscal Shrike)
733 Red-backed Shrike
741 Brubru
746 Bokmakierie
760 Wattled Starling
764 Cape Glossy Starling (Glossy Starling)
770 Pale-winged Starling
788 Dusky Sunbird
796b Orange River White-eye
799 White-browed Sparrow-Weaver
800 Sociable Weaver
801 House Sparrow
803 Cape Sparrow
804 Southern Grey-headed Sparrow (Grey-headed Sparrow)
806 Scaly-feathered Finch
813 Cape Weaver
814 Southern Masked-Weaver (Masked Weaver)
821 Red-billed Quelea
824 Southern Red Bishop
842 Red-billed Firefinch
846 Common Waxbill
856 Red-headed Finch
860 Pin-tailed Whydah
862 Long-tailed Paradise-Whydah (Eastern Paradise-Whydah)
870 Black-throated Canary
876 Black-headed Canary
878 Yellow Canary
879 White-throated Canary
885 Cape Bunting
886 Cinnamon-breasted Bunting (Rock Bunting)
887 Lark-like Bunting


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Re: Birding in Augrabies Falls National Park

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Too many to go and look for them O**


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Re: Birding in Augrabies Falls National Park

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IBA Augrabies Falls National Park

SA Number: SA 029

Protection: Global IBA (A3)

Site Description

The Augrabies Falls National Park (AFNP) is situated on the vast Bushmanland peneplain where it straddles the Orange River, c. 380 km inland of Alexander Bay. Between the town of Kakamas and the AFNP, a distance of approximately 35 km, the river flows through a wide, flat, valley where mainly commercial viticulture farming is practiced. From the 146 m- high falls at the Park headquarters it meanders down a deep, narrow gorge for 18 km before reaching the level surface of the surrounding plains at Blouputs, where more viticulture farmland continues for a further 25 km.

The AFNP falls within the Nama-Karoo Biome, with arid grasslands and open karroid thornveld present on the plains, and the rocky hills covered in a sparse vegetation type known as hardeveld (Lower Gariep Broken Veld). The largest portion of the Park is flat with low relief and scattered with rocky hills and large rounded domes. Drainage channels are sandy, gravelly and dry and are mostly very shallow, or occasionally deeper with rocky sides and broad beds. A fairly large flat area with yellowish-white watershed sand occurs north and west of the black granulite hills. The area is classed as an arid to semi-arid cold desert. The climate is one of extremes with temperatures ranging from –5°C to over 43°C; diurnal variation in temperature is immense, with the difference between mean daily minimum and maximum temperatures for any month being at least 16°C ranging up to 20°C. The average rainfall is 124 mm p.a., the major part of this can be accounted for in a couple of heavy showers each year; showers are sporadic and the Park is prone to long periods of drought.



Birds

A total of 186 species have been recorded in the Park. Despite the low diversity, the Park is important for many biome-restricted assemblage birds, as well as a host of other arid-zone species. The lowland plains are particularly good for large wide-ranging species such as the Martial Eagle, Kori Bustard, Ludwig's Bustard and Karoo Korhaan. The plains also support Karoo Chat, Tractrac Chat, Sickle-winged Chat and Rufous-eared Warbler. Black-headed Canary occurs wherever there is seeding grass and water.

The belts of riverine Acacia karroo woodland hold Karoo Scrub-Robin, Kalahari Scrub-Robin, Namaqua Warbler, Layard's Tit-Babbler, Marico Flycatcher, Scaly-feathered Finch and Rosy-faced Lovebird and provide food, shelter and breeding habitat for many other species. Large trees, including Camel Thorn Acacia erioloba and Quiver tree Aloe dichotoma, occasionally support the massive Sociable Weaver nests with the associated Pygmy Falcon frequently in attendance. In very wet years nomadic Black-eared Sparrow-lark move in and breed in large numbers, and are then absent until the next heavy rains, which can be decades apart. Peregrine Falcon, Black Stork, Pale-winged Starling, Bradfield's Swift and the secretive and localised Cinnamon-breasted Warbler occur in the rivers' steep gorges and associated rocky kloofs. Other arid-zone species found within the Park include Pale Chanting Goshawk, Pririt Batis, Chat Flycatcher, Fairy Flycatcher, Dusky Sunbird, White-throated Canary and and Lark-like Bunting Emberiza impetuani. Waterbirds are associated with the river, although no globally important populations are supported here.


Key Species

Threatened Species


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Range and Biome Restricted Species

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Other threatened/endemic wildlife

The distinctive southern African endemic Aloe dichotoma is common within the Park. The permanently flowing sections of the river support two important fish species, the Vaal–Orange River endemic Rock Catfish Austroglanis sclateri and the Namaqua Barb Barbus hospes; the latter is restricted to the
Orange River below the Augrabies Falls. This is the only protected area in the world supporting the endemic Marbled Rubber Frog Phrynomerus annectens and Broadley’s Flat Lizard Platysaurus broadleyi; the latter is restricted to the lower Orange River Valley between Augrabies and Pella.
The Park holds several southern African endemic reptiles including the Tent Tortoise Psammobates tentorius, Desert Mountain Adder Bitis xeropaga, Spotted Desert Lizard Meroles suborbitalis and Western Spotted Thick-toed Gecko Pachydactylus serval. The reserve also holds threatened mammal species such as the Dassie Rat Petromus typicus, Brushtailed Hairyfooted Gerbil Gerbillurus vallinus, Aardwolf and Aardvark. Black Rhinoceros was reintroduced to the Park in 1985.

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