Birds of Prey of the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park

Birds of Prey Heaven

The Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park is well renowned as a beautiful park to visit for its plethora of predators. My last post highlighted some of the Big Cats that call this desert park their home, and I thought a separate post for the variety of Birds of Prey was long overdue.

With Kgalagadi being a vast reserve in the Kalahari Desert covering both areas of Botswana and South Africa, I had always expected a lot of mammals to call the desert home. I did not expect the sheer volume of birds of prey that would be resident in this desert region.

Birds of prey you can expect to see:

  • Martial, Bateleur, Tawney eagles
  • Secretary bird
  • Snake-eagles
  • Various vultures
  • Different Goshawks
  • Falcons
  • Kestrels
  • Verreaux’s Eagle Owl, Spotted Eagle Owl, White-faced Owl, African scops owl, barn owl

 

 

"Martial Eagle - Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park Birds of Prey"

"Whitebacked Vulture - Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park birds of prey"

"Spotted Eagle Owl chicks - Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park"

"Black-shouldered Kite - Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park Birds of Prey"

"Tawney Eagle - Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park"

"Martial Eagle - Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park"

"Gabar Goshawk - Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park"

Verreaux's Eagle Owl - Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park

"Sectretarybird - Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park"

"Pale-Chanting Goshawk - Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park"

"Barn Owl nest - Kgalagadi Transfrontier park"

"Martial Eagle - Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park"

"Bataleur Eagle - Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park"

"Black-breasted Snake-eagle - Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park"

"White-backed Vulture - Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park"

"Greater Kestrel - Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park"

"Pale-Chanting Goshawk - Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park"

"Spotted Eagle Owl - Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park"

"Lanner Falcon - Kgalagadi - Transfrontier Park"

"Lappet-faced Vulture - Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park"

"Martial Eagle - Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park"

"Pale-Chanting Goshawk - Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park"

"Black-shouldered Kite - Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park"

"Spotted Eagle Owl - Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park"

"Pale-Chanting Goshawk juvenile - Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park"

"Black-shouldered Kite - Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park"

"Black-shouldered Kite - Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park"

 

 

Plan your visit

If you travel to South Africa, try to build a visit to this desert park into your itinerary. It is always tempting to just focus on the Kruger National Park, which is perfectly understandable, but this park is also self-catering and self-driving, so it may make sense to build both parks in one mega trip.

 

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