Cape Turtle Dove
Date spotted: 03 January 2012
Place first seen: Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa
Tag: Bird
Sweet-looking little doves that are all over the garden here and eat the dogs’ food.
Date spotted: 03 January 2012
Place first seen: Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa
Tag: Bird
Sweet-looking little doves that are all over the garden here and eat the dogs’ food.
Date spotted: 03 January 2012
Place first seen: Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa
Tag: Bird
Fiery red. Small and cute. Looks naughty.
Date spotted: 03 January 2012
Place first seen: On road to Muizenberg, Cape Town, South Africa
Tag: Bird
Funny hat on head. Not too smart. They run on the road ahead of the car and don’t realize they can just escape by running to the side. Eat anything (seeds, insects, worms, flowers, snails…)
Date spotted: 02 January 2012
Place first seen: Abbotsleigh Rd., Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa
Tag: Insect
Compound eyes. Eats living plants. Female lays eggs in soil in egg case using her ovipositor (which is at the end of her abdomen). Babies hatch 1 month later. Locusts are a kind of grasshopper.
Date spotted: 02 February 2012
Place first seen: Abottsleigh Rr., Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa
Tag: Insect
Dark ones (bronze or black) are nocturnal (awake at night). Light ones (brightly coloured) are diurnal (awake during the day). Can badly damage cultivated plants. Have been known to crawl into an adults ear and not be able to get out. The person needs to go to a doctor to get it removed.
Date spotted: 01 January 2012
Place first seen: Muizenberg, South Africa
Tag: Bird
Seen near the road on the way back from Muizenberg.
Date spotted: 01 Jan 2012
Place first seen: Simon's Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Tag: Mammal
Spotted by Lisa just behind a sea kayak in the swell near Simonstown. We thought it was a shark since there are a lot of sharks along this section of the coast. Shark spotters sit on the hills above all the beaches.
Date spotted: 01 Jan 2011
Place first seen: Liesbeek River, Cape Town, South Africa
Tag: Bird
Relative of the Hadeda (Glossy Ibis)
Date spotted: 01 Jan 2012
Place first seen: Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa
Tag: Bird
Name comes from the terrible screechy noise it makes. Very glossy. Make big poos next to swimming pools.
Date spotted: July 2008
Place first seen: Ihaha, Chobe, Botswana
Tag: Bird
Spotted by Mila.