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Game reserve · Western Cape
Boulders Penguin Colony
Boulders Penguin Colony is a game reserve in Western Cape, about 30 km south of Cape Town.
—km² recorded size
—year established
—elevation of the point
30 kmsouth of Cape Town
Facts
- Type
- Game reserve (bird sanctuary)
- Province
- Western Cape
- Local municipality
- City of Cape Town
- Part of
- Table Mountain National Park
- Coordinates
- -34.1957, 18.4494
- Nearest large town
- Cape Town, 30 km south
Sources: Wikidata Q56006619 · Natural Earth (province outline)
Nearby
Table Mountain National ParkNational park · 225 km²8 km north-west- St. James SpringNature reserve9 km north
Cape Point Nature ReserveNature reserve9 km south- Muizenberg CaveNature reserve10 km north
Silvermine Nature ReserveNature reserve10 km north- Grysbok ParkNature reserve11 km north
GBIF records within 3 km
Wildlife recorded around Boulders Penguin Colony
1 437 mammal and 44 942 bird occurrence records within 3 km of the reserve's point. Species with the most records first; the number is records, not animals.
Mammals
- Rock HyraxProcavia capensis704
- Humpback WhaleMegaptera novaeangliae355
- Brown Fur SealArctocephalus pusillus115
- Chacma BaboonPapio ursinus101
- Cape Gray MongooseGalerella pulverulenta28
- Southern Right WhaleEubalaena australis25
- Cape PorcupineHystrix africaeaustralis21
- African Clawless OtterAonyx capensis19
- Xeric Four-striped Grass RatRhabdomys pumilio18
- Cape GenetGenetta tigrina7
- Cape Golden MoleChrysochloris asiatica5
- Bottlenose DolphinTursiops truncatus5
- Eden's whaleBalaenoptera edeni4
- KlipspringerOreotragus oreotragus4
Birds
- African PenguinSpheniscus demersus6 270
- Kelp GullLarus dominicanus2 776
- Cape CormorantPhalacrocorax capensis2 080
- Red-winged StarlingOnychognathus morio1 978
- Cape WagtailMotacilla capensis1 789
- African OystercatcherHaematopus moquini1 753
- Greater Crested TernThalasseus bergii1 394
- Speckled PigeonColumba guinea1 355
- Hartlaub's GullChroicocephalus hartlaubii1 261
- Cape Robin-ChatCossypha caffra1 223
- Southern Double-collared SunbirdCinnyris chalybeus1 180
- Cape White-eyeZosterops virens1 131
- Karoo PriniaPrinia maculosa1 116
- Cape BulbulPycnonotus capensis994
Source: GBIF.org occurrence data (records within the radius; licences of the publishing datasets apply). All wildlife.