Home to eight percent of the world’s bird species, Cape Town is an incredible birding destination without any doubt. Let’s talk about some of the top birding destinations in Cape town that you must want to explore during the your current tors to Cape Town.
Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens: With dozens of endemic environment set against lush green forest & lawns scoured by flocks of Guiena folw, francolin and geese, Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens is as gratifying for the bird lovers as it’s for the botanist.
Visit before the crowds get there & keep your eye on the sky – jackal buzzards and forest usually drift overhead. Beds of flowering shrub & proteas make seeing the Cape’s sunbirds easy here in Kirstenbosch. Cape sugarbirds can also be seen nourishing on protea bushes. Every tree of the forest becomes alive with the whoops & whistles of Cape and serious bulbuls, olive thrush, the southern boubou and Cape robin-chat.
Table Mountain: The lower area of the mountain are home to many of the mountain birds of the Cape including falcons, ravens, rock pigeons and also fynbos specialists such as the Cape sugarbird and orange-breasted sunbird.
Alternatively, a stroll along the rambling 12 Apostles Pipe Track will offer bird lovers plenty of fynbos and mountain birds alongside thickest species – boubous, bulbuls, and robin-chats. Fit bird lovers can hike into the wilder regions of Table Mountain to witness mountain rarities like a ground woodpecker and Cape’s forest birds like Cape batis and olive thrush. Your birding tour and natural tour in Cape Town can be memorable with a day tour or overnight tour or a long weekend. Its specially to keep your attention towards endemic species, photography with birds and many more.
Rondevlei Nature Reserve: Birding in Cape Town is absolutely incomplete without a trip to Rondevlei Nature Reserve. This bird sanctuary covers nearly 720 acres of wetland & consist of a huge brackish lagoon. Despite being placed directly alongside the densely polluted Zeekoevlei, the sanctuary is among the most crucial wetlands for birds in South Africa.
Home to nearly 230 bird species, Rondevlei Nature Reserve accommodates a range of small mammals & reptiles such as porcupine, caracal, Cape Fox, steenbuck, grysbuck, mongoose, and also a hippopotamus collection which was re-introduced in 1981 as a way to control a foreign grass species from South America.
Conclusion -
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