For the original Flikr page please link to Tembe Wild Life Reserve
Tembe Elephant Park
This park is in the far north of Zululand and forms a border with Mozambique. Of the big five present the Lion and Elephant population are the main species monitored. There are over 200 elephants and these animals have the biggest tusks in Africa. The Suni, a rare small antelope, is also monitored but difficult to see and photograph. The park contains a rare habitat known locally as Sand Forest. The area consequently contains many endemic plants and animals.
Here are some photos which I hope will give some idea of what it is like working as a volunteer on the reserve. A more detailed record of the birds and animals seen appears at the end.
Around Tembe Research Camp
Mammals
African Elephant
Blue Wildebeest
Buffalo
Burchell's Zebra
Bushbuck
Common Duiker
Common Waterbuck
Greater Kudu
Impala
Indigenous Mouse
Lion
Nyala
Red Duiker
Samango Monkey
Slender Mongoose
Southern Giraffe
Southern Reedbuck
Suni
Tree Squirrel
Vervet Monkey
Warthog
White Rhino
Wild Dog
Total 24
Birds
Little Bee-eater
Southern Boubou
Dark-capped Bulbul (Black-eyed Bulbul)
Yellow-bellied Greenbul
Black-Bellied Bustard (Black-Bellied Korhaan)
White-browed Robin-chat (Heuglin's Robin)
White-throated Robin-chat
Pied Crow
Cape Turtle-dove Dove
Emerald-spotted Wood-dove
Red-eyed Dove
Fork-tailed
Drongo
African Fish
Eagle
Long-crested
Eagle
Brown Snake-eagle
Cattle Egret
African Paradise Flycatcher
Crested
Francolin
Spur-winged
Goose
Crested
Guineafowl
Gymnogene or African Harrier-hawk
Black-headed Heron
African Hoopoe
Crowned Hornbill
Trumpeter Hornbill
Hadeda Ibis
Brown-hooded Kingfisher
Black-Shouldered Kite
Yellow-billed Kite
African Wattled Lapwing
Crowned Lapwing
Senegal Lapwing (Lesser Blackwinged Plover)
Yellow-throated Longclaw
Purple-crested Turaco
Common (Indian Myna)
Eastern Nicator (Yellow-spotted Nicator)
Fiery-necked Nightjar
Black-Headed Oriole
Red-billed Oxpecker
African Green Pigeon
Common Quail
Red-billed Quelea
Lilac-breasted Roller
White-crested Helmet Shrike
Puffback Shrike or Black-Backed Puffback
Woolly-necked Stork
White-bellied Sunbird
Lesser Striped Swallow
Narina Trogon
Total 47
Other Wildlife
Black-legged Golden Orb Spider
Fire Ant Nest
Dung Beetle
African Rock Python
Tree Agama
Millipede
