Wildlife Ilanda Wilds

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1 wildlife

1.1 vertebrates

1.1.1 mammals
1.1.2 birds
1.1.3 reptiles
1.1.4 frogs
1.1.5 fish


1.2 invertebrates

1.2.1 butterflies
1.2.2 crustaceans







wildlife

species of amanzimtoti river , ilanda wilds:


vertebrates
mammals

blue duiker (cephalophus monticola bicolor), bushpig (potamochoerus larvatus koiropotumus), cape clawless otter (aonyx capensis capensis), large-spotted genet (genetta tigrina), banded mongoose (mungos mungo taenianotus), water mongoose (atilax paludinosus paludinosis), large grey mongoose (herpestes icheumon), porcupine (hystrix africaeaustralis), greater cane rat (thryonomys swinderianus), vervet monkey (cercopithecus aethiops pygerythrus). there several smaller mammal species such bats, rodents , shrews.


birds

a small selection of species recorded: reed cormorant (microcarbo africanus), white-breasted cormorant (phalacrocorax carbo), green-backed heron (butorides striatus), black egret (egretta ardesiaca), purple heron (ardea purpurea), black-headed heron (ardea melanocephala), wooly-necked stork (ciconia episcopus), hamerkop (scopus umbretta), african spoonbill (platalea alba), egyptian goose (alopochen aegyptiacus), african black duck (anas sparsa), yellow-billed duck (anas undulata), black crake (amaurornis flavirostris), african jacana (actophilornis africanus), long-crested eagle (lophaetus occipitalis), african fish eagle (haliaeetus vocifer), african goshawk (accipiter tachiro), osprey (pandion haliaetus), african harrier-hawk (polyboroides typus), tambourine dove (turtur tympanistria), emerald-spotted dove (turtur chalcospilos), narina trogon (apaloderma narina), purple-crested turaco (tauraco porphyreolophus), burchell s coucal (centropus superciliosus), spotted eagle owl (bubo africanus), giant kingfisher (megaceryle maxima), pied kingfisher (ceryle rudis), brown-hooded kingfisher (halcyon albiventris), pygmy kingfisher (ispidina picta), half-collared kingfisher (alcedo semitorquata), malachite kingfisher (alcedo cristata), red-billed woodhoopoe (phoeniculus purpureus), crowned hornbill (tockus alboterminatus), trumpeter hornbill (bycanistes bucinator), black-headed oriole (oriolus larvatus), spotted ground-thrush (zoothera guttata), starred robin (pogonocichla stellata), chorister robin (cossypha dichroa), plum-coloured starling (cinnyricinclus leucogaster), forest weaver (ploceus bicolor), thick-billed weaver (amblyospiza albifrons).


reptiles

eastern green mamba (dendroaspis angusticeps), spotted bush snake (philothamnus semivariegatus), sundevall s garter snake (elapsoidea sundevallii sundevallii), brown water snake (lycodonomorphus rufulus), nile monitor (varanus niloticus niloticus), flap-neck chameleon (chamaeleo dilepis), kwazulu dwarf chameleon (bradypodion melanocephalum).




























frogs

bush squeaker (arthroleptis wahlbergi), guttural toad (bufo gutturalis), raucous toad (bufo rangeri), greater leaf-folding frog (afrixalus fornasini), painted reed frog (hyperolius marmoratus), waterlilly reed frog (hyperolius pusillus), argus reed frog (hyperolius argus), forest tree frog (leptopelis natalensis), common platanna (xenopus laevis), common river frog (afrana angolensis), sharp-nosed grass frog (ptychadena oxyrhynchus), striped stream frog (strongylopus fasciatus), snoring puddle frog (phrynobatrachus natalensis).






















fish

burrowing goby (croilia mossambica), river goby (glossogobius callidus), freshwater goby (awaous aeneofuscus), golden sleeper (hypseleotris dayi), broadhead sleeper (eleotris melanosoma), dusky sleeper (eleotris fusca), cape moony (monodactylus falciformis), natal moony (monodactylus argenteus), large-scale mullet (liza macrolepis), freshwater mullet (myxus capensis), estuarine round-herring (gilchristella aestuaria), glassy (ambassis sp.), mozambique tilapia (oreochromis mossambicus), banded tilapia (tilapia sparrmanii), southern mouthbrooder (pseudocrenilabrus philander), sharptooth catfish (clarias gariepinus), bowstripe barb (enteromius viviparus), longfin eel (anguilla mossambica).


invertebrates
butterflies

a butterfly census underway @ ilanda wilds (2010). of species recorded far can seen in pictures below:








crustaceans

the natal river crab, swimming crabs , shrimps found in ilanda wilds.








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