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Recent sightings in Rietvlei Nature Reserve
About Rietvlei Nature Reserve
Rietvlei Nature Reserve is a scenic urban reserve offering open grasslands, rolling hills, and excellent opportunities to spot plains game, predators, and birdlife just outside Pretoria.
Roads, waterholes and hides
Every named road in Rietvlei Nature Reserve with the stops along it, and every waterhole, bird hide, viewpoint and camp with what you can see there.
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Camps & facilities in Rietvlei Nature Reserve
- Rietvlei Coffee Shop
- Fern Fountain Hide Restroom
- Finfoot Bird Hide Restroom
- Island View Hide Restroom
- Marais Dam Restroom
- Rietvlei Coffee Shop Restroom
Species checklist for Rietvlei Nature Reserve
105 species on the Rietvlei checklist. Some of the best known first, then every species by group.
- Aardvark
- Aardwolf
- African Civet
- African Striped Weasel
- Black backed Jackal
- Black Wildebeest
- Blesbok
- Brown Hyena
- Buffalo (Cape)
- Bushpig
- Cape Clawless Otter
- Caracal
- Common Duiker
- Eland (Common)
- Hippopotamus
- Large spotted Genet
- Lesser Bushbaby
- Oribi
- Porcupine (Cape)
- Red Hartebeest
- Reedbuck (Common)
- Scrub Hare
- Serval
- Slender Mongoose
- African Darter
- African Fish Eagle
- African Hawk Eagle
- African Hoopoe
- African Jacana
- African Marsh Harrier
- African Pipit
- African Spoonbill
- Arrow marked Babbler
- Barn Owl
- Bennetts Woodpecker
- Black chested Snake Eagle
- Black Heron
- Black-headed Heron
- Blue Korhaan
- Brown Snake Eagle
- Cape Glossy Starling
- Common Moorhen
- Common Ostrich
- Crested Barbet
- Crimson breasted Shrike
- Egyptian Goose
- Eurasian Hobby
- Fiery necked Nightjar
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- Fork tailed Drongo
- Giant Kingfisher
- Glossy Ibis
- Great Egret
- Great White Pelican
- Grey Go away bird
- Grey Heron
- Hadeda Ibis
- Helmeted Guineafowl
- Little Egret
- Little Grebe
- Little Sparrowhawk
- Long-crested Eagle
- Malachite Kingfisher
- Northern Black Korhaan
- Paradise Flycatcher
- Pearl spotted Owlet
- Pied Crow
- Pied Kingfisher
- Purple Heron
- Red billed Teal
- Red knobbed Coot
- Reed Cormorant
- Rufous naped Lark
- Sacred Ibis
- Secretarybird
- Southern Boubou
- Southern Masked Weaver
- Southern Red Bishop
- Spotted Eagle Owl
- Spotted Thick-knee
- Squacco Heron
- Swainsons Spurfowl
- Western Cattle Egret
- White-breasted Cormorant
- Yellow billed Duck
- Yellow billed Stork
- Yellow-billed Egret
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