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Nature reserve · Western Cape
Featherbed Nature Reserve
Featherbed Nature Reserve is listed as wildlife refuge near Knysna, in Knysna municipality, Western Cape — about 4 km south of Knysna. The nearest other area in the directory is Steenbok Nature Reserve, 1 km north-east.
4 kmsouth of Knysna
1 kmto the nearest listed area
91species with records nearby
—opening hours listed
Address1 Remembrance Avenue, Knysnaknysnafeatherbed.com
Facts
- Type
- Nature reserve
- Listed as
- Wildlife refuge
- Province
- Western Cape
- District
- Eden
- Local municipality
- Knysna
- Town
- Knysna
- Coordinates
- -34.0756, 23.0558
- Nearest large town
- Knysna, 4 km south
- Website
- knysnafeatherbed.com
Sources: business listings compiled from public map and web sources, checked October 2026 · municipality: geoBoundaries (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · province: Natural Earth
Nearby
- Steenbok Nature ReserveNature reserve1 km north-east
- Brenton Blue Butterfly Special Nature ReserveNature reserve · 0 km²2 km west
- Knysna National Lake AreaProtected area3 km north-west
- Pledge Nature ReserveNature reserve · 0 km²5 km north
- SANP Garden Of EdenNature reserve14 km east
- Goukamma Marine Protected AreaMarine protected area14 km west
GBIF records within 3 km
Wildlife recorded around Featherbed Nature Reserve
109 mammal and 12 436 bird occurrence records within 3 km of the reserve's point. Species with the most records first; the number is records, not animals.
Mammals
- Humpback WhaleMegaptera novaeangliae42
- BushbuckTragelaphus scriptus32
- Brown Fur SealArctocephalus pusillus7
- Rock HyraxProcavia capensis4
- Vervet MonkeyChlorocebus pygerythrus4
- Bush-pigPotamochoerus larvatus3
- Xeric Four-striped Grass RatRhabdomys pumilio2
- Southern Right WhaleEubalaena australis2
- Bottlenose DolphinTursiops truncatus2
- Southern African Vlei RatOtomys irroratus2
- Chacma BaboonPapio ursinus2
Birds
- African Sacred IbisThreskiornis aethiopicus463
- Kelp GullLarus dominicanus406
- Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca390
- African OystercatcherHaematopus moquini371
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta371
- Blacksmith LapwingVanellus armatus365
- Black-winged StiltHimantopus himantopus348
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea344
- Cape WagtailMotacilla capensis306
- Hadada IbisBostrychia hagedash287
- Long-tailed CormorantMicrocarbo africanus284
- Pied AvocetRecurvirostra avosetta270
- Common GreenshankTringa nebularia266
- Cape TealAnas capensis260
Source: GBIF.org occurrence data (records within the radius; licences of the publishing datasets apply). All wildlife.