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WILDLIFE OF THE KAROO
As far as we could establish, the following wildlife can be found in the Karoo
- MAMMALS -

ANTELOPES

Bushbuck
Common duiker
Gemsbok
Grey rhebok
Klipspringer
Kudu
Springbok
Steenbok

CARNIVORES
Aardwolf
African wild cat
Bat eared fox
Black backed jackal
Cape clawless otter
Cape fox
Caracal
Honey badger
Leopard
Meerkat (suricate)
Small grey mongoose
Small spotted cat
Small spotted genet
Striped polecat
Water mongoose
Yellow mongoose

PRIMATES
Chacma baboon

RODENTS
Brant's whistling rat
Bush karoo rat
Common molerat
Hairy footed gerbil
Namaqua rock mouse
Porcupine
Pouched mouse
Pygmy mouse
Striped mouse

LAGOMORPHS
Cape hare
Riverine rabbit
Scrub hare
Smith's red rock rabbit

INSECTIVORES
Cape golden mole
Reddish grey musk shrew
Round eared elephant shrew

BATS
Cape horseshoe bat
Cape serotine bat
Egyptian free tailed bat
Egyptian slit faced bat
Geoffrey's horseshoe bat
Schreiber's long fingered bat

TUBULIDENTATES
Aardvark

HYRACOIDS
Rock dassie (hyrax)
- REPTILES -

SNAKES
(*=poisonous)
Boomslang*
Brown house snake
Cape cobra*
Common egg eater
Coral snake
Delalande's blind snake
Dwarf beaked snake
Fisk's house snake
Karoo sand snake
Many horned adder*
Mole snake
Plain mountain adder*
Puff adder*
Rhombic skaapsteker
Rinkhals*
Spotted house snake
Sundevall's shovel snout

LIZARDS
Bibron's gecko
Burchell's sand lizard
Cape crag lizard
Cape girdled lizard
Cape legless skink
Cape mountain lizard
Cape skink
Common long tailed seps
Graceful crag lizard
Karoo girdled lizard
Knox's desert lizard
Namaqua chameleon
Namaqua gecko
Namaqua sand lizard
Marico gecko
Ocellated gecko
Peer's girdled lizard
Short legged seps
Southern rock agama
Spotted sand lizard
Striped leaf toed gecko
Striped sandveld lizard
Variegated skink
Western rock skink
Yellow throated plated lizard

CHELONIANS (TERRAPINS)
Marsh terrapin

LAND TORTOISES
Angulate tortoise
Boulengers padloper
Greater padloper
Leopard tortoise
Parrot beaked tortoise
Tent tortoise
- BIRDS -

PERMANENT RESIDENTS
African Rock Pigeon
Alpine Swift
Anteating Chat
Barn Owl
Barthroated Apalis
Black Crow
Black Eagle
Black Kite
Black Korhaan
Black Stork
Blackbreasted Snake Eagle
Blackeared Finchlark
Blackheaded Canary
Blackshouldered Kite
Bokmakierie
Booted Eagle
Bully Canary
Cape Bulbul
Cape Bunting
Cape Canary
Cape Eagle Owl
Cape Penduline Tit
Cape Reed Warbler
Cape Robin
Cape Rock Thrush
Cape Sparrow
Cape Turtle Dove
Cape Wagtail
Cape Weaver
Cape White-eye
Capped Wheatear
Cardinal Woodpecker
Chat Flycatcher
Cinnamonbreasted Warbler
Clapper Lark
Common Waxbill
Dusky Sunbird
Fairy Flycatcher
Fiscal Flycatcher
Fiscal Shrike
Grassveld Pipit
Greater Honeyguide
Greater Kestrel
Greater Striped Swallow
Greybacked Cisticola
Greybacked Finchlark
Greywing Francolin
Ground Woodpecker
Gymnogene
Hadeda Ibis
Hoopoe
House Sparrow
Jackal Buzzard
Karoo Chat
Karoo Eremomela
Karoo Korhaan
Karoo Lark
Karoo Longbilled Lark
Karoo Prinia
Karoo Robin
Kori Bustard
Larklike Bunting
Laughing Dove
Layard's Titbabbler
Lesser Doublecollared Sunbird
Lesser Honeyguide
Longbilled Crombec
Longbilled Lark
Longbilled Pipit
Ludwig's Bustard
Malachite Sunbird
Martial Eagle
Masked Weaver
Mountain Chat
Namaqua Dove
Namaqua Sandgrouse
Namaqua Warbler
Ostrich
Pale Chanting Goshawk
Palewinged Starling
Pied Barbet
Pied Starling
Pintailed Whydah
Pririt Batis
Red Bishop
Redbreasted Sparrowhawk
Redcapped Lark
Redeyed Dove
Redfaced Mousebird
redwinged starling
Rock Kestrel
rock martin
Rock Pipit
Rufouseared Warbler
Sentinel rock thrush
Shorttoed Rockthrush
Sicklewinged Chat
southern grey tit
Southern Tchagra
Spikeheeled Lark
Spotted eagle owl
Spotted flycatcher
Stanley's bustard
Stonechat
Thickbilled lark
Titbabbler
Tractrac Chat
Wattled starling
White throated canary
Whitenecked raven
Whitethroated Canary
Yellow canary
Yellowbellied Eremomela

SEASONAL VISITORS
African black duck
African Marsh Warbler
Alpine swift
Avocet
Black swift
Blackwinged stilt
Brownthroated martin
Cape teal
Common quail
Common sandpiper
Curlew sandpiper
Diederick cuckoo
Egyptian goose
Ethiopian snipe
Eurasian Bee-eater
Eurasian Swift
European bee-eater
European nightjar
European swallow
Fierynecked nightjar
Greater striped swallow
Hottentot teal
Jacobin Cuckoo
Kittlitz's plover
Lanner falcon
Lesser kestrel
Little swift
Moorhen
Peregrine falcon
Redknobbed coot
Ringed plover
Rufouscheeked Nightjar
South african shelduck
Southern pochard
Spurwinged goose
Steppe buzzard
Threebanded plover
Whiterumped swift
Whitethroated swallow
Willow Warbler
Wood sandpiper
Yellowbilled duck

OCCASIONAL VISITORS
African spoonbill
Blackcrowned night heron
Blackheaded heron
Blacksmith plover
Blue crane
Cape vulture
Cattle egret
Crowned plover
Darter
Giant kingfisher
Grey heron
Hamerkop
Little bittern
Little egret
Little grebe
Pied crow
Pied kingfisher
Purple heron
Reed cormorant
Secretarybird
Whitebreasted cormorant