GNT = Globally Near Threatened NNT = Nationally Near Threatened
Near-Endangered Species
|
Bird |
Status
|
Breeding Pairs
|
Estimated Numbers
|
Where Best To See Them
|
Greater Flamingo
| GNT & NNT
|
Occasional visitor |
Lower Sabie, Olifants and Letaba Rivers
| |
Lesser Falmingo | GNT & NNT |
Occasional visitor
|
Lower Sabie, Olifants and Letabba Rivers | |
Pallid Harrier | GNT & NT |
Occasional visitor
|
Central grasslands and mopaneveld north of Mopani Camp | |
Great White Pelican | GNT |
Occasional Visitor
|
Lower Sabie, Mpanamana Dam, Letaba River; pools along the Lebombo range | |
Black Stork | NNT |
10-20
|
40-60
|
Olifants, Letaba, Shingwedzi and Luvuvhu Rivers |
Wooly-necked Stork | NNT |
20-80
|
At water sources throughout the Park but particularly along the Luvuvhu and Shingwedzi Rivers | |
African Openbill | NNT |
5-10
|
150-300
|
Olifants, Letaba, Shingwedzi and Luvuvhu Rivers |
Marabou Stork | NNT |
200-300
|
Occur throughout the Park, especially in the central grasslands | |
African Pygmy-Goose |
NNT
|
Unknown
|
200-300
|
Water holes throughout Kruger |
Secretarybird
|
NNT
|
80-100
|
100-300
|
Central Grasslands
|
Bat Hawk
|
NNT
|
1-5
|
10-30
|
Punda Maria; Letaba River; Sabie River near Skukuza
|
Ayres's Hawk-Eagle
|
GNT & NNT
|
Occasional Visitor
|
Northern Kruger, particularly in the northern sandveld and Limpopo River valley
|
|
African Crowned Eagle
|
NNT
|
15-25
|
30-60
|
Phabeni Area, Berg-en-Dal and Northern Kuger
|
Peregrine Falcon
|
NNT
|
Unknown
|
Northern Kruger
|
|
Lanner Falcon
|
NNT
|
10-30
|
25-75
|
Makuleke, Pafuri and northern Kruger
|
Black-bellied Bustard
|
NNT
|
200-400
|
800-1200
|
Satara, Orpen and central grasslands, south of Lower Sabie
|
Lesser Jacana
|
GNT & NNT
|
Occasional visitor
|
Singita Lebombo Concession, water holes near the Lebombo
|
|
Greater Painted-snipe
|
NNT
|
10-30
|
25-75
|
Wetlands between Shingwedzi and Punda
|
Chestnut-banded Plover
|
GNT & NNT
|
Occasional Visitor | Pafuri, Kanniedood and Engelhard Dams
|
|
White-crowned Lapwing
|
NNT
|
30-50
|
80-150
|
Luvuvhu River, Sabie River near Nkuhlu
|
Collared Pratincole
|
NNT
|
50-100
|
300-800
|
Southern banks of Kanniedood Dam on Letaba River; Stapelkop Dam near Mopani
|
Black Coucal
|
NNT
|
5-20
|
20-60
|
Lower Sabie Area
|
Halfcollared Kingfisher
|
NNT
|
100-200
|
200-500
|
Sabie River near Skukuza Camp
|
Broadtailed Warbler
|
GNT & NNT
|
50-100
|
Vagrant
|
N'wambiya sandveld, northern Kruger
|
Black-throated Wattle-eye
|
NNT
|
40-80
|
50-180
|
Lower Sabie and Crocodile River and Pafuri area
|
Red-billed Oxpecker
|
NNT
|
1000's
|
10 000's
|
Throughout the Park
|
Lemon-breasted Canary
|
NNT
|
100-200
|
250-500
|
Punda Maria and Luvuvhu River Areas
|
