Protected area · Limpopo
Atherstone Nature Reserve
Atherstone Nature Reserve is a protected area in Limpopo (Thabazimbi municipality), about 130 km north of Rustenburg. It covers 235 km² — number 7 by size of the 15 Limpopo areas with a recorded size. Proclaimed or established in 1990.
235km² recorded size
1990year established
—elevation of the point
130 kmnorth of Rustenburg
Facts
- Type
- Protected area
- Province
- Limpopo
- District
- Waterberg District Municipality
- Local municipality
- Thabazimbi
- Size
- 235 km² · 23 500 ha
- Rank by size
- 34 of 115 nationally · 7 in Limpopo
- Established
- 1990
- Coordinates
- -24.5749, 26.7852
- Nearest large town
- Rustenburg, 130 km north
- Wikipedia articles
- 2 languages
Sources: Wikidata Q4813578 · Natural Earth (province outline)
Nearby
- Fairfield PrivaatnatuurreserweNature reserve39 km east
- Hanover PrivaatnatuurreserweNature reserve51 km east
Madikwe Game ReserveGame reserve63 km south-west- Sporting Chance Nature ReserveNature reserve69 km south-east
- El Dorado PrivaatnatuurreserweNature reserve71 km north-east
- Philip Wulfsohn Private Nature ReserveNature reserve73 km south-east
GBIF records within 9 km
Wildlife recorded around Atherstone Nature Reserve
38 mammal and 3 128 bird occurrence records within 9 km of the reserve's point. Species with the most records first; the number is records, not animals.
Mammals
Birds
- Blue WaxbillUraeginthus angolensis157
- Green-winged PytiliaPytilia melba93
- Violet-eared WaxbillUraeginthus granatinus91
- Ring-necked DoveStreptopelia capicola74
- Red-billed QueleaQuelea quelea72
- Southern Masked WeaverPloceus velatus66
- Southern Yellow-billed HornbillTockus leucomelas63
- Jameson's FirefinchLagonosticta rhodopareia56
- African Grey HornbillLophoceros nasutus56
- Arrow-marked BabblerTurdoides jardineii55
- White-browed Scrub RobinErythropygia leucophrys55
- Southern Pied BabblerTurdoides bicolor53
- Golden-breasted BuntingEmberiza flaviventris52
- Southern Gray-headed SparrowPasser diffusus52
Source: GBIF.org occurrence data (records within the radius; licences of the publishing datasets apply). All wildlife.