This was a conservation trip with Wildlife ACT. My contribution was based in the Thanda and Tembe Wild Life Reserves. The monitoring programme in Thanda was focused mainly on African Wild Dog, Rhino, Cheetah and Spotted Hyena. In Tembe Elephant Park, a Government Managed Reserve, the emphasis is primarily on Lions, Elephant and hopefully in the future on Wild Dogs.
For the original Flikr page please link to Thanda and Tembe Wild Life Reserves
If you wish to visit the Tembe Elephant Park first please click HERE


Thanda Reserve
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 Thanda Research Camp



Views around the Reserve









Activities



Captures
Tagging a White Rhino



Removing a collar from a Cheetah
Two brothers Phil and Rusty











Wild Life seen
These are just a few of the hundreds of photos taken of the animals of the reserve.
Mammals
African Elephant





Banded Mongoose
Black-backed Jackal
Blue Wildebeest


Buffalo



Burchell's Zebra


Bush Pig
Cheetah





Common Duiker
Common Waterbuck

Greater Kudu



Impala



Indigenous Mouse
Leopard
Lion






Nyala



Red Nyala


Porcupine
Red Duiker



Serval

Scrub Hare
Southern Reedbuck (photos of a Reedbuck can be seen in Tembe Elephant Park.html)
Southern Giraffe









Spotted Hyena

Thick-tailed Bushbaby
Vervet Monkey


Warthog




White Rhino










Wild Dog









Total 29
Birds (listed from the Thanda Bird List)
Babbler, Arrow-marked

Barbet, Acacia Pied (Pied Barbet)

Barbet, Black-Collared




Barbet, Crested


Barbet, Red-fronted Tinkerbird
Batis, Chinspot

Bee-eater, Little



Boubou, Southern

Brubru

Bulbul, Dark-capped (Black-eyed Bulbul)



Bulbul, Sombre Greenbul (Sombre Bulbul)


Bunting, Golden-breasted


Bustard, Black-Bellied (Black-Bellied Korhaan)
Buzzard, Lizard
Canary, Brimstone (Bully Canary)

Canary, Yellow-fronted (Yellow-eyed Canary)



Chat, White-browed Robin-chat (Heuglin's Robin)
Coucal, Burchell's

Crombec, Long-billed
Crow, Pied



Dove, Cape Turtle-dove

Dove, Emerald-spotted Wood-dove

Dove, Red-eyed

Drongo, Fork-tailed

Drongo, Square-tailed
Eagle, Bateleur


Eagle, Martial
Eagle, Wahlberg's


Egret, Cattle
Firefinch, African (Blue-billed firefinch)

Firefinch, Jamieson's

Fiscal, Common (Fiscal Shrike)

Flycatcher, African Paradise

Flycatcher, Fiscal
Flycatcher, Southern Black (Black Flycatcher)

Francolin, Crested

Goose, Egyptian


Goshawk, Little Banded Goshawk or Shikra
Guineafowl, Crested


Guineafowl, Helmeted


Gymnogene or African Harrier-hawk



Hoopoe, African

Hornbill, Southern Yellow Billed

Ibis, Hadeda

Kingfisher, Brown-hooded Kingfisher


Kite, Yellow-billed


Lapwing, Crowned (Crowned Plover)

Lark, Flappet
Longclaw, Yellow-throated Longclaw

Lourie, Purple-crested Turaco






Melba Finch or Green-winged Pytilia



Mousebird, Red-faced



Mousebird, Speckled

Myna, Common (Indian Myna)
Nicator, Eastern (Yellow-spotted Nicator)
Nightjar, Fiery-necked
Owl, Spotted Eagle-owl
Oxpecker, Red-billed



Pigeon, African Green
Plover, Three-banded

Quail, Common
Quelea, Red-billed
Robin, White-browed Scrub-robin

Robin-chat, White-throated


Robin, White-starred

Shikra
Shrike, Gorgeous Bush-shrike
Sparrow, House

Sparrow, Southern Grey-headed

Starling, Cape Glossy (Glossy Starling)


Stork, Wolly-necked



Sunbird, Collared

Sunbird, Marico
Sunbird, Scarlet-chested


Sunbird, White-bellied

Swallow, Lesser Striped


Tchagra, Brown-crowned (Three-streaked)
Thrush, Groundscraper

Thrush, Kurrichane


Vulture, White-backed


Vulture, Lappet-faced

Waxbill, Blue Waxbill



Waxbill, Common


Weaver, Spectacled
Weaver, Village (Spotted-backed Weaver)

White-eye, Cape


Whydah, Pin-tailed
Woodhoopoe, Scimitarbill (Common)


Woodpecker, Bearded

Woodpecker, Cardinal

Unidentified

Total 90
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