Day visitors are welcome. Entrance
fee: R25 per adult and R12 for children under 12 years of age
Viewing the Birds is by
appointment only.
Telephone053 7123576
Situated
on a 600 hectare private game reserve 30km's from Kuruman, the Kalahari
Raptor Centre’s function is to care for injured and orphaned birds of
prey and small mammals.
Birds
which cannot be released are cared for in spacious aviaries which are built
over the canopy of the camel thorn trees so that the resident eagles can
sit in the tree-tops and look out to the Kuruman hills across the Kalahari
plains.
Residents
include Martial, Black, Snake and Tawny eagles, Spotted and Giant Eagle
Owls, and an ever-growing number of smaller birds of prey, such as falcons,
buzzards and goshawks.
The vultures have
their own open camp which doubles as a restaurant for wild vultures who drop in from the heavens to share carcasses with the
disabled residents. Vultures for release are able to leave naturally with
the wild visitors.
(Picture of 'Vinnie' the vulture)
In 2007 and in 2008 Cape vulture chicks were successfully raised and
released back into the wild at the Kalahari Raptor Centre. The Cape vulture
is now an extinct breeding species in the Northern
Cape and these chicks are believed to be the first born in the
Northern Cape
in over 50 years.
(Picture of 'Vinnie' as an egg!)
For more information about the
Kalahari Raptor Centre visit
