DeWetsWild conducted a two-week tour of the Kruger National Park with altogether nine people to see out 2025 and ring in 2026 and every day for the month of February I’ll be sharing just a few of the many memories our group collected.

While the Kruger National Park boasts an exceptional number of bird species on its official list even during winter, the summer brings with it an enormous number of migrants, and even more so in a season as wet as the current one. During our tour of two weeks we managed to tick off 187 bird species in the area between the Letaba and Sabie Rivers. These are just a few of them.

Bateleur

Bearded Scrub-Robin

Black Crake

Black-crowned Tchagra

Brown Snake Eagle

Carmine Bee-eater

Cut-throat Finch

Dusky Indigobird

Dwarf Bittern

European Bee-eater

Immature Lanner Falcon

European Roller

African Fish Eagle

Great Spotted Cuckoo

Green-backed Heron

Grey-headed Bush-shrike

African Jacana

Knob-billed Duck

Kurrichane Buttonquail (note tiny chick!)

Lilac-breasted Roller

Long-tailed Paradise Whydah

Marabou Stork

Natal Spurfowl

Greater Painted Snipe

Pallid Harrier

Pied Wagtail

Red-crested Korhaan

Chestnut-backed Sparrowlark

Double-banded Sandgrouse

Tawny Eagle

Temminck’s Courser

Water Thick-knee

Wattled Starling

White-backed Vulture

Wood Sandpiper

Yellow-billed Oxpeckers

Yellow-billed Stork

If you’d like to join me on a guided tour of South Africa’s wild places, of even if you’d just like a bit of help putting your reservations together, don’t hesitate to reach out!