Local & Naturalised Species

The numbers of plant and animal species recorded in the broad geographic region in which the Conservancy is located.
Plants
719
Birds
260
Butterflies
141
Dung Beetles
44
Dragonflies
22
Mammals
72
Frogs
13
Reptiles
48
Scorpions
2

Chartwell Conservancy Species Lists

The bird list below was compiled in the 1990s by the late Bill Quinn and published in The Chartwellian newsletter. CLICK HERE to view the newsletter

Batis
Black Collared Barbet
Black Korhaan
Black shouldered Kite
Black-Headed Heron
Blacksmith Plover (lapwing)
Brown Hooded Kingfisher
Brown Snake Eagle
Bulbul
Burchell’s Coucal

Cape Eagle Owl
Cape Robin
Cape Sparrow
Cape Turtle Dove
Carmine Bee eater
Chinspot
Cormorant
Crested Barbet
Crowned Plover (lapwing)

Dikkop (Thick Knee)
Dusky Sunbird

Egyptian Goose
European Bee Eater
European Hobby
European Roller

Fiscal Shrike

Greater Kestrel
Grey Heron
Grey Hornbill
Grey Lourie
Guinea Fowl

Hadeda Ibis
Hamerkop

Indian Mynah

Jacobin Cuckoo

Laughing Dove
Lilac Breasted Roller
Little Banded Goshawk
Long Tailed Widow

Marsh Owl
Masked Weaver
Mistle Thrush
Moorhen
Mousebird

Neddicky

Olive Thrush

Palm Swift
Paradise Flycatcher
Paradise Whydah
Pied Crow
Pied Kingfisher
Piet My Vrou  (Red Chested Cuckoo)
Pin-Tailed Whydah
Pippit
Plum Coloured Starling
Prinia

Red Bishop
Red Breasted Swallow

Sacred Ibis
Scops Owl
Secretary Bird
Speckled Pigeon
Spotted Eagle Owl
Spotted Flycatcher
Spurwing Goose
Starling
Stonechat
Swainson’s Francolin
Swempie

Wagtail
White Eye
White-faced Duck
Woodland Kingfisher




Birds known in the region

Compiled by Sabine Leitner

Acacia Pied Barbet
African Black Duck
African Cuckoo
African Reed Warbler
African Rock Martin
Anteating Chat
Ayres’ Cloud Cisticola

Barn Owl
Barthroated Apalis
Bennett’s Woodpecker
Black Crake
Black Flycatcher
Black Kite
Black Korhaan
Black Sunbird
Black Swift
Black-Headed Heron
Blackchested Prinia
Blackcollared Barbet
Blackeyed Bulbul
Blackshouldered Kite
Blacksmith Plover
Blackthroated Canary
Blue Waxbill
Bokmakierie
Bronze Mannikin
Brown Snake Eagle
Brownthroated Sand
Bunting

Cape Bunting
Cape Glossy Starling
Cape Robin
Cape Rockthrush
Cape Sparrow
Cape Turtle Dove
Cape Wagtail
Cape Weaver
Cape White-Eye
Cardinal Woodpecker
Cattle Egret
Chestnutvented Titbabbler
Chinspot Batis
Cinnamonbreasted Rock
Clapper Lark
Cloud Cisticola
Common Kestrel
Common Squacco Heron
Common Waxbill
Coqui Francolin
Crested Barbet
Crombec
Crowned Plover
Curlew Sandpiper

Darter
Diederik Cuckoo

Egyptian Goose
Emerald Spotted Dove
European Bee-Eater
European Roller
European Swallow
European Swift

Familiar Chat
Feral Pigeon
Fierynecked Nightjar
Fiscal Flycatcher
Fiscal Shrike
Forktailed Drongo

Gabar Goshawk
Garden Warbler
Giant Eagle Owl
Glossy Ibis
Golden Bishop
Goldentailed Woodpecker
Grass Owl
Great Crested Grebe
Great Spotted Cuckoo
Great White Egret
Greater Doublecollared
Greater Kestrel
Greater Striped Swallow
Grey Heron
Grey Loerie
Greyheaded Sparrow

Hadeda
Hamerkop
Helmeted Guineafowl
Hoopoe
Horus Swift
House Martin
House Sparrow (Introduced)

Icterine Warbler
Indian Myna (Introduced)

Jacobin Cuckoo

Kurrichane Thrush

Laughing Dove
Lesser Doublecollared
Lesser Honeyguide
Lesser Kestrel
Lesser Striped Swallow
Lilacbreasted Roller
Little Banded Goshawk
Little Bee-Eater
Little Egret
Little Grebe
Little Sparrowhawk
Little Stint
Little Swift
Longbilled Lark
Longbilled Pipit
Longtailed Widow

Malachite Kingfisher
Marico Flycatcher
Marsh Owl
Martin
Masked Weaver
Mocking Chat
Moorhen
Mountain Chat

Namaqua Dove
Natal Francolin
Neddicky

Olive Thrush
Orangebreasted Waxbill
Orangethroated Longclaw
Ovambo Sparrowhawk

Palm Swift
Paradise Flycatcher
Pied Crow
Pied Kingfisher
Pied Starling
Pintailed Whydah
Plainbacked Pipit
Puffback
Purple Gallinule

Quail Finch

Rameron Pigeon
Red Bishop
Redbacked Shrike
Redbilled Quelea
Redbilled Woodhoopoe
Redbreasted Swallow
Redcapped Lark
Redchested Cuckoo
Redcollared Widow
Redeyed Dove
Redfaced Mousebird
Redknobbed Coot
Redthroated Wryneck
Redwinged Starling
Reed Cormorant
Richard’s Pipit
Ruff
Rufousnaped Lark

Sacred Ibis
Scimitarbill
Shaft-Tailed Whydah
South African Cliff Swallow
Southern Black Tit
Southern Boubou
Speckled Mousebird
Speckled Pigeon
Spikeheeled Lark
Spotted Dikkop
Spotted Eagle Owl
Spotted Flycatcher
Spurwinged Goose
Steppe Buzzard
Stonechat
Streakyheaded Seedeater
Sunbird
Swainson’s Francolin

Tawnyflanked Prinia

White-Breasted Cormorant
Whitebacked Mousebird
Whitebellied Korhaan
Whitebellied Stork
Whitebellied Sunbird
Whitebrowed Coucal
Whitefaced Duck
Whitefronted Bee-Eater
Whiterumped Swift
Whitethroated Swallow
Willow Warbler
Wood Sandpiper
Yellowbilled Duck
Yellowbilled Kite
Yelloweye Canary

Indigenous trees and shrubs local to the Witwatersrand

Compiled by Sabine Leitner

Acacia ataxacantha (Flamepod/Vlamdoring)
Acacia caffra (Common hook thorn/Gewone Haakdoring)
Acacia karoo (Sweet Thorn/Soetdoring)
Acacia robusta subsp. robusta (Splendid Acacia/Enkeldoring)
Acokanthera oppositifolia (Bushman's Poison/Boesmansgif)
Ancylobotrys capensis (Wild Apricot/Wilde-Appelkoos)

Buddleja saligna (False Olive/Wiltolienhout)
Buddleja salviifolia (Sagewood/Saliehout)

Canthium gilfillani (Velvet Rock Elder/Fluweelklipels)
Carissa bispinosa (Forest Numnum/Bosnoemnoem)
Celtis africana (White-stinkwood/Witstinkhout)
Combretum erythrophyllum (River Bushwillow/Riviervaderlandswilg)
Combretum molle (Bushwillow/Fluweelboswilg)
Croton gratissimus (Fever Berry/Laventelkoorsbessie)
Cussonia paniculata (Mountain Cabbage Tree/Bergiepersol)

Dais continifolia (Pompom Tree/Kannabas)
Diospyros lycioides (Bluebush/Karoobloubos)
Diospyros whyteana (Bladder-nut/Swartbas)
Dombeye rotundifolia (Common Wild Pear/Gewonedrolpeer)
Dovyalis zeyheri (Wild Apricot/Wilde Appelkoos)

Ehretia rigida (Puzzle Bush/Deurmekaarbos)
Englerophytum magalismontanum (Transvaal Milkplum/Stamvrug)
Euclea crispa (Blue Guarri/Bloughwarrie)

Felicia filifolia (Fine-leaved Felicia/Persbergdraaibos)

Ficus ingens (Red-leaved Rock Fig/Rooiblaarvy)

Grewia occidentalis (Cross-berry/Kruisbessie)
Gymnosporia buxifolia (Maytenus heterophylla) (Common Spikethorn)
Gymnosporia polyacantha (Hedge Spike-thorn/Kraalpendoring)

Halleria lucida (Tree-Fuchsia/Notsung)
Heteromorpha trifoliata (Common Parsley Tree/Gewone Pietersielieboom)

Kiggelaria africana (Wild Peach/Wildeperske)

Leucosidea sericea (Oldwood/Ouhout)
Lippia javanica (Fever Tree/Lemoenbossie)

Maytenus undata (Koko Tree/Kokoboom)
Mundulea sericea (Cork Bush/Kurkbos)

Olea europaea subsp. africana (African Olive/Olienhout)

Pappea capensis (Jacket Plum/Doppruim)
Pavetta gardenifolia (Christmas Bride's Bush, Christmas Bush)
Pavetta zeyheri (Small Leaved Bride's Bush, Christmas Bush/Fynblaarbruidsbos)
Pittosporum viridiflorum (Cheesewood/Kasuur)Protea caffra (Sugar Bush/Gewone Suikerbos)
Protea welwitschii (Cluster Head Sugarbush/Kleinsuikerbos)

Rhamnus prinoides (Dogwood/Blinkblaar)
Rhoicissus tridentata (Bushmans Grape/Boesmansdruif)
Rothmannia capensis (Scented-bells/Witklokke)

Salix mucronata subsp. woodii (Cape Willow/Kaapse Wilger)
Searsia (=Rhus) dentata (Nana-berry/Nanabessie)
Searsia (=Rhus) lancea (Karee/Karee)Searsia (=Rhus) leptodictya (Mountain Karee)
Searsia (=Rhus) pyroides (Firethorn Rhus/Riviertaaibos)

Tapinanthus natalitius
Tarchonanthus camphoratus
(Camphor bush/Wildekanferbos)

Vangueria infausta (Wild-medlar/Wildemispel)

Ziziphus mucronata (Buffalo Thorn/Blinkblaar Wag-'n-Bietjie)
Ziziphus zeyheriana (Dwarf Buffalo Thorn/Klein Wag-'n-Bietjie)
Bulbs, Grasses, Groundcovers, Water Plants and Succulents local to the Witwatersrand

Compiled by Sabine Leitner

Albuca shawi (Small Yellow Albuca)
Agapanthus campanulatus (Bell Agapanthus)
Agapanthus inapertus (Drooping Agapanthus)
Aloe arborescens (Krantz Aloe)
Aloe boylei (Broad Leaved Grass Aloe)
Aloe cooperi (Cooper’s Aloe)
Aloe ecklonis (Grass Aloe)
Aloe greatheaddit var davyana (Spotted Aloe)
Aloe marlothii (Mountain Aloe)
Aloe peglerae (Red Hot Pokers)
Aloe verecunda (Witwatersrand Grass Aloe)
Andropogon eucomis (Snowflake grass)
Aristida congesta (Spreading Three Awn)
Asparagus laricinus (Bushveld Asparagus)
Asparagus virgatus (Broom Asparagus)

Babiana hypogea (Bobbejaanuintjie)
Becium obovatum (Cats Whiskers)
Berkheya radula (Sun Daisy)
Boophne disticha (Fan Leaved Boophane)
Brachystelma barbarea
Bulbine abyssinica
(Bushy Bulbine)

Cenchrus ciliarus (Foxtail Buffalo Grass)
Ceratothec trilobata (Wild Foxglove)
Ceropegia rendalli
Chironia palustris
(Cerise Stars)
Chironia purpurescens (Dwarf Chironia)
Clematis brachiata (Traveller’s Joy)
Clematis villosa
Cotyledon barbeyi
(Plakkie)
Crassula swaziensis
Crinum bulbispermum
(Orange River Lily)
Crinum graminicola (Grass Vlei, Lily)
Cyanotis speciosa (Dolls Powderpuff)
Cyprus obtusifloris var flavissimus (Yellow Flowered Sedge)
Cyperus obtusiflorus var obtusiflorus
Cyphostemma lanigerum
(Wild Grape)
Cyrtanthus breviflorus (Wild Crocus)

Dianthus mooinsis (Frilly carnation)

Elionurus muticus (Wire Grass)
Eragrostis capensis (Small Heart Seed Grass)
Eragrostis superba (Saw Tooth Love Grass)
Erythrina zeyheri (Plough-Breaker)
Eucomis autumnalis (Pineapple Lily)
Euphorbia clavaroides (Lions spoor)

Frithia pulchra (Fairy Elephant’s Feet)

Gladiolus crassifolius (Thick Leaved Gladiolus)
Gomphocarpus fructicosus (Milkweed)
Gomphostigma virgatum (River Stars)
Graderia subintegra
Gunnera perpensa
(River Pumpkin)

Haemanthus humilis (Rabbits Ears)
Haplocarpha scaposa (False gerbera)
Harpochloa falx (Caterpillar grass)
Hesperantha coccinea (Scarlet River Lily)
Hyparrhenia tamba (Blue Thatching Grass)
Hypoxis argentea (Small Yellow Stars)
Hypoxis hemerocallidea (African Potato)
Hypoxis rigidula (Silver- leaved Star Flower)

Imperata cylindria (Cotton Wool Grass)

Juncus effusus (Common Rush)

Kalanchoe thyrsiflora
Kniphofia ensifolia
(Torch Lily)
Kniphofia fluviatilis (River Poker)
Kniphofia porphyrantha (Red Hot Poker)
Kylinga alba (White Button Sedge)

Lantana rugosa (Bird’s Brandy)
Lapeirousia sandersoni (Autumn Painted Petals)
Ledebouria species

Melinis nerviglumis (Bristle Leaved Red Top)
Melinis repens (Natal Red Top)
Miscanthus junceus (Broom Grass)
Morea thomsonii

Nemesia fruticans (Cape Snapdragon)
Nerine krigei (Grass-Leaved Nerine)
Nymphaea nouchalli (Blue Waterlily)
Nymphoides indica (Yellow Waterlily)

Papaver aculeatum (Wild Poppy)
Pelargonium luridum (Starburst Pelargonium)
Pogonarthria squarrosa (Herringbone Grass)

Raphionacme hirsuta
Raphionacme velutina


Sansevieria aethiopica (Mother-in-law’s Tongue)
Scadoxus puniceus (Paint Brush)
Schoenoplectus corymbosus (Basket Grass)
Scilla nervosa (White Scilla)
Setaria sphacelata (Golden Bristle Grass)
Silene bellidioides
Stapelia gigantea
(Giant Stapelia)
Stapelia leenderiziae (Leendertz’s Carrion Flower)
Striga elegans (Elegant Witchweed)
Sutera aurantiaca (Cape Saffron)
Sutera palustris

Themeda triandra (Red Grass)
Trichodesma physalloides (Chocolate Bells)
Tritonia nelsonii (Orange Tritonia)
Typha capensis (Bulrush)

Vernonia oligocephala (Bicoloured-leaved Vernonia)
Vigna vexillata (Wild Sweetpea)

Xerophyta retinervis (Black-stick Lily)
Xerophyta viscosa (Small Black-stick Lily)

Ziziphus zeyheriana (Dwarf Buffalo Thorn)