Podica senegalensis   African Finfoot  Watertrapper
African Finfoot
Kaingo Private Game Reserve, May 2021

A resident. Rare. A secretive and easily overlooked river-living species that occurs sparsely along the Palala River and on the Mogol and Sterkstroom rivers from near Vaalwater northwards to at least the Mogol Dam (recorded in 2% of the Waterberg pentads); occurs as single birds or in pairs; breeds in summer.
African Finfoot Waterberg distribution
African Finfoot
Kaingo Private Game Reserve, Nov 2022
African Finfoot
Kaingo Private Game Reserve, Mar 2023

African Finfoot
Kaingo Private Game Reserve, Dec 2020
male left, juvenile below

African Finfoot
Waterberg Farmstay, Nov 2020
male

African Finfoot
Tog-te-Lekker, Dec 2020
female
African Finfoot
Mogol River, Nov 2017
male
African Finfoot
Waterberg Farmstay, Jun 2018
female

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