Game reserve · Limpopo
Thornybush Game Reserve
Thornybush Game Reserve is a game reserve in Limpopo, about 29 km south-east of Hoedspruit. It covers 115 km² — number 10 by size of the 15 Limpopo areas with a recorded size.
115km² recorded size
—year established
—elevation of the point
29 kmsouth-east of Hoedspruit
Facts
- Type
- Game reserve
- Province
- Limpopo
- District
- Mopani District Municipality
- Local municipality
- Maruleng
- Size
- 115 km² · 11 500 ha
- Rank by size
- 47 of 115 nationally · 10 in Limpopo
- Coordinates
- -24.5414, 31.1564
- Nearest large town
- Hoedspruit, 29 km south-east
- Wikipedia articles
- 3 languages
Sources: Wikidata Q7796600 · Natural Earth (province outline)
Nearby
- Andover Nature ReserveNature reserve9 km south-east
Kapama Game ReserveProtected area16 km north-west- Cronje en Dogters Privaat NatuurreserweNature reserve18 km north
Timbavati Game ReserveGame reserve22 km north-east- Klaserie Game ReserveGame reserve33 km north
- Blyderivierspoort NatuurreservaatNature reserve35 km west
GBIF records within 7 km
Wildlife recorded around Thornybush Game Reserve
350 mammal and 17 608 bird occurrence records within 7 km of the reserve's point. Species with the most records first; the number is records, not animals.
Mammals
- Vervet MonkeyChlorocebus pygerythrus39
- Plains ZebraEquus quagga28
- ImpalaAepyceros melampus24
- LionPanthera leo22
- Rock HyraxProcavia capensis21
- Chacma BaboonPapio ursinus20
- African elephantLoxodonta africana19
- NyalaTragelaphus angasii18
- Southern GiraffeGiraffa giraffa15
- LeopardPanthera pardus13
- Bush DuikerSylvicapra grimmia10
- Spotted HyenaCrocuta crocuta10
- BushbuckTragelaphus scriptus9
- Greater KuduTragelaphus strepsiceros9
Birds
- Southern Yellow-billed HornbillTockus leucomelas304
- Fork-tailed DrongoDicrurus adsimilis300
- Gray Go-away-birdCorythaixoides concolor291
- Emerald-spotted Wood DoveTurtur chalcospilos281
- Red-billed OxpeckerBuphagus erythrorhynchus278
- White-backed VultureGyps africanus277
- Cape StarlingLamprotornis nitens265
- Ring-necked DoveStreptopelia capicola248
- Blue WaxbillUraeginthus angolensis244
- Chinspot BatisBatis molitor239
- Burchell's StarlingLamprotornis australis235
- Brown-hooded KingfisherHalcyon albiventris213
- Crested FrancolinOrtygornis sephaena212
- Common BulbulPycnonotus barbatus209
Source: GBIF.org occurrence data (records within the radius; licences of the publishing datasets apply). All wildlife.