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Nature reserve · Eastern Cape
Sam Knott Nature Reserve
Sam Knott Nature Reserve is a nature reserve in Eastern Cape, about 36 km north-east of Makhanda. It covers 155 km² — number 4 by size of the 9 Eastern Cape areas with a recorded size. Proclaimed or established in 1987.
155km² recorded size
1987year established
—elevation of the point
36 kmnorth-east of Makhanda
Facts
- Type
- Nature reserve
- Province
- Eastern Cape
- District
- Cacadu
- Local municipality
- Makana
- Size
- 155 km² · 15 500 ha
- Rank by size
- 40 of 115 nationally · 4 in Eastern Cape
- Established
- 1987
- Part of
- Great Fish River Nature Reserve
- Coordinates
- -33.0953, 26.8319
- Nearest large town
- Makhanda, 36 km north-east
Sources: Wikidata Q104731994 · Natural Earth (province outline)
Nearby
Double Drift nature reserveNature reserve8 km north-east- Provincial Nature ReserveNature reserve11 km west
Great Fish River Nature ReserveProtected area15 km north- Kwandwe Private Game ReserveGame reserve29 km west
Waterloo Farm lagerstätteProtected area37 km south-west- Kingsdale Game FarmPrivate game reserve43 km north-west
GBIF records within 8 km
Wildlife recorded around Sam Knott Nature Reserve
336 mammal and 2 228 bird occurrence records within 8 km of the reserve's point. Species with the most records first; the number is records, not animals.
Mammals
Birds
- Dark-capped BulbulPycnonotus tricolor81
- Cape StarlingLamprotornis nitens70
- NeddickyCisticola fulvicapilla62
- Ring-necked DoveStreptopelia capicola56
- Fiscal FlycatcherSigelus silens46
- Southern BoubouLaniarius ferrugineus43
- Bar-throated ApalisApalis thoracica39
- Speckled MousebirdColius striatus39
- Red-faced MousebirdUrocolius indicus37
- Sombre GreenbulAndropadus importunus35
- Southern FiscalLanius collaris35
- Southern Masked WeaverPloceus velatus34
- Emerald-spotted Wood DoveTurtur chalcospilos34
- Brown-hooded KingfisherHalcyon albiventris33
Source: GBIF.org occurrence data (records within the radius; licences of the publishing datasets apply). All wildlife.