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Nature reserve · Western Cape
St. James Spring
St. James Spring is listed as nature preserve near Cape Town, in City of Cape Town municipality, Western Cape — about 22 km south of Cape Town. The nearest other area in the directory is Muizenberg Cave, 1 km north-west.
22 kmsouth of Cape Town
1 kmto the nearest listed area
98species with records nearby
—opening hours listed
AddressMuizenberg, Cape Town, 7945
Facts
- Type
- Nature reserve
- Listed as
- Nature preserve
- Province
- Western Cape
- District
- City of Cape Town
- Local municipality
- City of Cape Town
- Town
- Cape Town 7945
- Coordinates
- -34.1162, 18.4617
- Nearest large town
- Cape Town, 22 km south
- Website
- not listed
Sources: business listings compiled from public map and web sources, checked October 2026 · municipality: geoBoundaries (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · province: Natural Earth
Nearby
- Muizenberg CaveNature reserve1 km north-west
- Grysbok ParkNature reserve2 km north-east
- Silvermine Nature ReserveNature reserve3 km west
- Rondevlei Nature ReserveProtected area · 3 km²7 km north-east
- False Bay Nature ReserveNature reserve7 km north-east
- Tokai ParkNational park7 km north
GBIF records within 3 km
Wildlife recorded around St. James Spring
849 mammal and 49 281 bird occurrence records within 3 km of the reserve's point. Species with the most records first; the number is records, not animals.
Mammals
- Brown Fur SealArctocephalus pusillus670
- Humpback WhaleMegaptera novaeangliae27
- Cape Dune Mole-ratBathyergus suillus20
- Rock HyraxProcavia capensis20
- African Clawless OtterAonyx capensis14
- Southern Right WhaleEubalaena australis11
- Indo-Pacific Bottlenose DolphinTursiops aduncus11
- Eastern Gray SquirrelSciurus carolinensis11
- Cape Gray MongooseGalerella pulverulenta10
- Cape Golden MoleChrysochloris asiatica9
- Xeric Four-striped Grass RatRhabdomys pumilio7
- Cape PorcupineHystrix africaeaustralis7
- Natal Long-fingered BatMiniopterus natalensis6
- CaracalCaracal caracal3
Birds
- Kelp GullLarus dominicanus1 578
- Red-winged StarlingOnychognathus morio1 257
- Hartlaub's GullChroicocephalus hartlaubii1 180
- Speckled PigeonColumba guinea1 072
- Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca1 069
- Common StarlingSturnus vulgaris1 023
- Cape White-eyeZosterops virens973
- Southern Double-collared SunbirdCinnyris chalybeus933
- Laughing DoveSpilopelia senegalensis931
- Hadada IbisBostrychia hagedash916
- Cape CormorantPhalacrocorax capensis888
- Cape BulbulPycnonotus capensis887
- Cape SparrowPasser melanurus886
- Cape Robin-ChatCossypha caffra860
Source: GBIF.org occurrence data (records within the radius; licences of the publishing datasets apply). All wildlife.