Nature reserve · Gauteng
Ditsong Tswaing Crater Museum
Ditsong Tswaing Crater Museum is a nature reserve in Gauteng, about 39 km north of Pretoria. It covers 19,5 km² — number 4 by size of the 15 Gauteng areas with a recorded size. Proclaimed or established in 1996.
19,5km² recorded size
1996year established
—elevation of the point
39 kmnorth of Pretoria
Facts
- Type
- Nature reserve
- Province
- Gauteng
- District
- City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality
- Local municipality
- City of Tshwane
- Size
- 19,5 km² · 1 946 ha
- Rank by size
- 70 of 115 nationally · 4 in Gauteng
- Established
- 1996
- Part of
- Ditsong Museums of South Africa
- Coordinates
- -25.4150, 28.0994
- Nearest large town
- Pretoria, 39 km north
Sources: Wikidata Q117352317 · Natural Earth (province outline)
Nearby
- Dinokeng Game ReserveProtected area · 185 km²22 km east
- De Onderstepoort Private Nature ReserveNature reserve24 km south
- 0264 B Block Nature ReserveNature reserve27 km west
Wonderboom Nature ReserveNature reserve32 km south- Ann van Dyk Cheetah CentreWildlife sanctuary34 km south-west
Dikhololo Game ReserveGame reserve36 km west
GBIF records within 3 km
Wildlife recorded around Ditsong Tswaing Crater Museum
18 mammal and 913 bird occurrence records within 3 km of the reserve's point. Species with the most records first; the number is records, not animals.
Birds
- Southern Red BishopEuplectes orix87
- Southern Masked WeaverPloceus velatus29
- Blue WaxbillUraeginthus angolensis21
- Laughing DoveSpilopelia senegalensis21
- Fork-tailed DrongoDicrurus adsimilis17
- Tawny-flanked PriniaPrinia subflava16
- Blacksmith LapwingVanellus armatus15
- Southern Yellow-billed HornbillTockus leucomelas14
- Jameson's FirefinchLagonosticta rhodopareia14
- Rattling CisticolaCisticola chiniana14
- Cape StarlingLamprotornis nitens13
- Crowned LapwingVanellus coronatus13
- Crested BarbetTrachyphonus vaillantii12
- Brown-crowned TchagraTchagra australis12
Source: GBIF.org occurrence data (records within the radius; licences of the publishing datasets apply). All wildlife.