Wildlife news from Pafuri Camp
Feb 15th, 2010 by janieharmsen
Luxury suite at Pafuri Camp
Although Pafuri Camp in the northern Kruger National Park is a fantastic year round destination, the best time for bird enthusiasts to visit is during the summer months when resident and migrant species are breeding. January was a good month for bird watching and over 70 species were recorded in the camp. Highlights include spottings of African Wood Owls, a Great Painted Snipe, a Dwarf Bittern and the Black-throated Wattle-eyes. The best time to see mammals at Pafuri Camp is during the dry winter months when they gather in large numbers at the scarse water resources. Night sightings have also been good including thick-tailed bush babies, impala, waterbuck, myriad nyala and bushbuck. Vervet monkeys and chacma baboons are ever present and even a hippo was seen wading up the river one night.