Bird Watching.
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Kommetjie and Sunset Beach House offers the best mainland based viewing of seabirds in the Cape Peninsula. |
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Hartlaub's Gull. Effortless gliding. |
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Cape's wide variety of habitats, from coastal to mountain fynbos,
wetlands, offshore islands and farmlands, provides for a diversity of
species which will delight both the casual bird watcher and the serious
birder, as well as the artist and photographer. Note: The picture-links will jump to a specific page in the tour - to continue the tour use the specific links provided below or click here: Virtual Bird Watching Tour. |
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African Black Oystercatcher. Always on the lookout for trouble! |
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Kommetjie
offers excellent viewing of seabirds, including many rare and fascinating
species. The African Black Oystercatcher is common in the area especially
along the walk from the Beach House to the
Kakapo. Kommetjie is the only place on the mainland where you can see four types of cormorants. Terns and other warders, African Jackass penguins and Strandveld birds are also common. The walkway to the Slangkop Lighthouse from the Kom provides good viewing of offshore birds such as albatrosses, petrels and Cape gannets by telescope (always best during or just after winter northwest storms). |
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Kommetjie
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More details on The Kom on the next page of the bird watching tour: Seabird Watching. | |||
| Some Information adapted from "The Bird Route" Brochure. Cape Metropolitan Tourism. | ||||
Virtual Bird Watching Tour. |
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What does the Crowned Plover, Hadede Ibises and African Black Oystercatcher have in common? Their photographs were all taken from the Beach House! | |||||
| Take the Bird Watching Route to find out more about these fascinating birds that you will see at the Beach House. | ||||||||
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numerous bird watching pages with original pictures and information about
a handful of the interesting birds in the immediate vicinity of the Beach
House. To start the tour all the pages featuring birds on our site click
on any of the bird images below and follow the Bird Watching Tour . To avoid duplicating material, specific navigation keys are provided on all the 'bird watching' pages, to continue the bird watching tour click on the gull navigation keys shown right. Clicking on other navigation keys on a page will initiate another tour. |
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Clicking on this picture opens the previous page in the bird watching tour. | ||||||
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Clicking on this picture opens the next page in the bird watching tour. | |||||||
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Clicking on this picture opens the bird watching main page (this page). | |||||||
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Where to go? |
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Contact:
info@sunsetbeach.co.za |
Janthina |
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