https://www.crocsnest.co.za/blog/enCopyright (c) 2026, Croc's Nest Bush LodgeWed, 18 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0200https://www.crocsnest.co.za/blog/post/how-to-get-to-crocs-nest/<p><img class="aligncenter" src="https://b-cdn.springnest.com/media/img/1cx/how_to_drive_picture5ac5779.jpg?width=1240" alt="" /></p> <h2>The easiest and most <strong>recommended</strong> way to get to Croc's Nest Bush Lodge is the first option, (No.1), ... </h2> <h2>.... to take the 50 minute flight from <strong>Johannesburg</strong> airport into one of the two nearby airports, preferably <strong>Skukuza</strong>, in Kruger Park, and be transferred by OSV (open safari vehicle) from there. This journey takes <strong>90 minutes</strong> to Croc's Nest unless you stop en-route to <strong>view or photograph</strong> Kruger Parks stunning animal &amp; birdlife as you journey southwards to the exit gate called <strong>Crocodile Bridge</strong>.</h2> <h2>Alternatively you can take a <strong>car-hire from Skukuza</strong> airport in Kruger and <strong>drive yourself down</strong> to Croc's Nest ... Driving through the Park is simpler than you think being <strong>tar roads all the way</strong> and is a very pleasant way to spend a few hours <strong>viewing and photographing the wildlife</strong> at your own speed and pace. </h2> <h2>So that you are mobile whilst staying at Croc's Nest we recommend you have a <strong>vehicle to use</strong> during your stay. We can easily arrange a car-hire to be delivered to Croc's Nest enabling you to visit local <strong>restaurants &amp; shops</strong> during your stay ...</h2>Wed, 18 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0200https://www.crocsnest.co.za/blog/post/how-to-get-to-crocs-nest/https://www.crocsnest.co.za/blog/post/bird-list/<p><strong>Rails, Gallinules, and Allies</strong><br />Common Moorhen<br />Red-knobbed Coot<br />Black Crake<br /><strong>Shorebirds</strong><br />Water Thick-knee<br />Spotted Thick-knee<br />Black-winged Stilt<br />Blacksmith Lapwing<br />White-headed Lapwing<br />Senegal Lapwing<br />Black-winged Lapwing<br />Crowned Lapwing<br />Wattled Lapwing<br />Kittlitz's Plover<br />Common Ringed Plover<br />Three-banded Plover<br />White-fronted Plover<br />Greater Painted-Snipe<br />African Jacana<br />Ruff<br />Little Stint<br />Common Sandpiper<br />Common Greenshank<br />Marsh Sandpiper<br />Wood Sandpiper<br />Bronze-winged Courser<br />Collared Pratincole<br />shorebird sp.<br /><strong>Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers</strong><br />Whiskered Tern<br /><strong>Storks</strong><br />African Openbill<br />Black Stork<br />African Woolly-necked Stork<br />White Stork<br />Saddle-billed Stork<br />Marabou Stork<br />Yellow-billed Stork<br /><strong>Cormorants and Anhingas</strong><br />African Darter<br />Long-tailed Cormorant<br />Great Cormorant<br />Shoebill and Hammerkop<br />Hamerkop<br /><strong>Herons, Ibis, and Allies</strong><br />Grey Heron<br />Black-headed Heron<br />Goliath Heron<br />Purple Heron<br />Great White Egret<br />Intermediate Egret<br />Little Egret<br />Black Heron<br />Cattle Egret<br />Squacco Heron<br />Striated Heron<br />Black-crowned Night-Heron<br />White-backed Night-Heron<br />Glossy Ibis<br />African Sacred Ibis<br />Hadada Ibis<br />African Spoonbill<br /><strong>Vultures, Hawks, and Allies</strong><br />Secretarybird<br />Osprey<br />Black-winged Kite<br />African Harrier-Hawk<br />European Honey-buzzard<br />African Cuckoo-Hawk<br />White-headed Vulture<br />Lappet-faced Vulture<br />Hooded Vulture<br />White-backed Vulture<br />Cape Griffon<br />Bateleur<br />Black-chested Snake-Eagle<br />Brown Snake-Eagle<br />Martial Eagle<br />Long-crested Eagle<br />Lesser Spotted Eagle<br />Wahlberg's Eagle<br />Booted Eagle<br />Tawny Eagle<br />African Hawk-Eagle<br />Gabar Goshawk<br />African Goshawk<br />Shikra<br />Little Sparrowhawk<br />Black Goshawk<br />Black Kite<br />African Fish-Eagle<br />Common Buzzard<br /><strong>Owls</strong><br />African Scops Owl<br />Southern White-faced Owl<br />Spotted Eagle Owl<br />Pearl-spotted Owlet<br />African Barred Owlet<br /><strong>Mousebirds</strong><br />Speckled Mousebird<br />Red-faced Mousebird<br /><strong>Hoopoes</strong><br />Eurasian Hoopoe<br /><strong>Woodhoopoes and Scimitarbills</strong><br />Green Woodhoopoe<br />Common Scimitarbill<br /><strong>Hornbills</strong><br />Southern Ground-Hornbill<br />Crowned Hornbill<br />African Grey Hornbill<br />Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill<br />Southern Red-billed Hornbill<br />Trumpeter Hornbill<br /><strong>Kingfishers</strong><br />Malachite Kingfisher<br />African Pygmy Kingfisher<br />Grey-headed Kingfisher<br />Woodland Kingfisher<br />Brown-hooded Kingfisher<br />Striped Kingfisher<br />Giant Kingfisher<br />Pied Kingfisher<br /><strong>Bee-eaters, Rollers, and Allies</strong><br />White-fronted Bee-eater<br />Little Bee-eater<br />Blue-cheeked Bee-eater<br />European Bee-eater<br />Southern Carmine Bee-eater<br />European Roller<br />Lilac-breasted Roller<br />Rufous-crowned Roller<br />Broad-billed Roller<br /><strong>Barbets and Toucans</strong><br />Crested Barbet<br />Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird<br />Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird<br />Pied Barbet<br />Black-collared Barbet<br /><strong>Honeyguides</strong><br />Wahlberg's Honeyguide<br />Lesser Honeyguide<br />Greater Honeyguide<br /><strong>Woodpeckers</strong><br />Cardinal Woodpecker<br />Bearded Woodpecker<br />Bennett's Woodpecker<br />Golden-tailed Woodpecker<br /><strong>Falcons and Caracaras</strong><br />Rock Kestrel<br />Amur Falcon<br />Eurasian Hobby<br />Lanner Falcon<br />Peregrine Falcon<br /><strong>Parrots, Parakeets, and Allies</strong><br />Brown-headed Parrot<br /><strong>Cuckooshrikes</strong><br />Black Cuckooshrike<br /><strong>Old World Orioles</strong><br />Eurasian Golden Oriole<br />African Black-headed Oriole<br /><strong>Wattle-eyes and Batises</strong><br />Black-throated Wattle-eye<br />Cape Batis<br />Chinspot Batis<br /><strong>Vangas, Helmetshrikes, and Allies</strong><br />White Helmetshrike<br />Retz's Helmetshrike<br /><strong>Bushshrikes and Allies</strong><br />Brubru<br />Black-backed Puffback<br />Black-crowned Tchagra<br />Brown-crowned Tchagra<br />Southern Boubou<br />Sulphur-breasted Bushshrike<br />Olive Bushshrike<br />Four-coloured Bushshrike<br />Grey-headed Bushshrike<br /><strong>Drongos</strong><br />Common Square-tailed Drongo<br />Fork-tailed Drongo<br /><strong>Monarch Flycatchers</strong><br />African Crested-Flycatcher<br />African Paradise-Flycatcher<br /><strong>Shrikes</strong><br />Red-backed Shrike<br />Magpie Shrike<br />Southern Fiscal<br />White-crowned Shrike<br /><strong>Jays, Magpies, Crows, and Ravens</strong><br />Pied Crow<br /><strong>Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice</strong><br />Southern Black-Tit<br /><strong>Penduline Tits and Verdin</strong><br />African Penduline Tit<br /><strong>Larks</strong><br />Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark<br />Sabota Lark<br />Flappet Lark<br />Monotonous Lark<br /><strong>Nicators</strong><br />Eastern Nicator<br /><strong>African Warblers</strong><br />Cape Crombec<br /><strong>Cisticolas and Allies</strong><br />Yellow-bellied Eremomela<br />Greencap Eremomela<br />Burnt-neck Eremomela<br />Stierling's Wren-Warbler<br />Green-backed Camaroptera<br />Bar-throated Apalis<br />Yellow-breasted Apalis<br />Tawny-flanked Prinia<br />Black-chested Prinia<br />Red-faced Cisticola<br />Rattling Cisticola<br />Rufous-winged Cisticola<br />Croaking Cisticola<br />Piping Cisticola<br />Zitting Cisticola<br /><strong>Reed Warblers and Allies</strong><br />African Yellow-Warbler<br />Marsh Warbler<br />Lesser Swamp Warbler<br /><strong>Martins and Swallows</strong><br />Plain Martin<br />Sand Martin<br />Barn Swallow<br />Wire-tailed Swallow<br />Lesser Striped Swallow<br />Rufous-chested Swallow<br />Mosque Swallow<br />South African Swallow<br />Common House Martin<br />Grey-rumped Swallow<br /><strong>Bulbuls</strong><br />Sombre Greenbul<br />Yellow-bellied Greenbul<br />Terrestrial Brownbul<br />Common Bulbul<br /><strong>Leaf Warblers</strong><br />Willow Warbler<br />Sylviid Warblers<br />Lesser Whitethroat<br /><strong>White-eyes, Yuhinas, and Allies</strong><br />Cape White-eye<br /><strong>Laughingthrushes and Allies</strong><br />Arrow-marked Babbler<br /><strong>Oxpeckers</strong><br />Red-billed Oxpecker<br />Yellow-billed Oxpecker<br /><strong>Starlings and Mynas</strong><br />Wattled Starling<br />Common Myna<br />Violet-backed Starling<br />Red-winged Starling<br />Black-bellied Starling<br />Burchell's Starling<br />Greater Blue-eared Starling<br />Cape Starling<br />Lamprotornis sp.<br /><strong>Thrushes</strong><br />Groundscraper Thrush<br />Kurrichane Thrush<br /><strong>Old World Flycatchers</strong><br />African Dusky Flycatcher<br />Spotted Flycatcher<br />Grey Tit-Flycatcher<br />Ashy Flycatcher<br />Fiscal Flycatcher<br />Southern Black-Flycatcher<br />Bearded Scrub-Robin<br />Red-backed Scrub-Robin<br />White-throated Robin-Chat<br />White-browed Robin-Chat<br />Red-capped Robin-Chat<br />African Stonechat<br />Capped Wheatear<br /><strong>Sunbirds and Spiderhunters</strong><br />Collared Sunbird<br />Olive Sunbird<br />Amethyst Sunbird<br />Scarlet-chested Sunbird<br />Malachite Sunbird<br />Mariqua Sunbird<br />Purple-banded Sunbird<br />White-breasted Sunbird<br /><strong>Weavers and Allies</strong><br />Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver<br />Red-headed Weaver<br />Spectacled Weaver<br />Southern Brown-throated Weaver<br />Lesser Masked-Weaver<br />Southern Masked-Weaver<br />Village Weaver<br />Red-billed Quelea<br />Southern Red Bishop<br />White-winged Widowbird<br />Red-collared Widowbird<br />Fan-tailed Widowbird<br />Long-tailed Widowbird<br /><strong>Euplectes sp.</strong><br />Grosbeak Weaver<br /><strong>Estrildids</strong><br />Bronze Mannikin<br />Common Waxbill<br />Cut-throat<br />Violet-eared Waxbill<br />Southern Cordonbleu<br />Green-winged Pytilia<br />Pink-throated Twinspot<br />Red-billed Firefinch<br />African Firefinch<br />Jameson's Firefinch<br />firefinch sp.<br />estrildid finch sp.<br /><strong>Indigobirds</strong><br />Pin-tailed Whydah<br />Eastern Paradise-Whydah<br />Village Indigobird<br />Variable Indigobird<br />Purple Indigobird<br />whydah sp.<br /><strong>Old World Sparrows</strong><br />House Sparrow<br />Cape Sparrow<br />Southern Grey-headed Sparrow<br />Passer sp.<br />Yellow-throated Bush Sparrow<br /><strong>Wagtails and Pipits</strong><br />Cape Wagtail<br />African Pied Wagtail<br />Yellow-tufted Pipit<br />Yellow-breasted Pipit<br />Yellow-throated Longclaw<br /><strong>Finches, Euphonias, and Allies</strong><br />Yellow-fronted Canary<br />Black-throated Canary<br />Brimstone Canary<br />Streaky-headed Seedeater<br /><strong>Old World Buntings</strong><br />Golden-breasted Bunting<br />Cape Bunting<br />Cinnamon-breasted Bunting</p>eBird.orgFri, 11 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0200https://www.crocsnest.co.za/blog/post/bird-list/