Endemic Fauna spotted in Murdock Valley
Murdock Valley residents regularly enjoy sightings of a range of animals, birds, reptiles and insects that are endemic to our part of the Cape peninsula – both on land and just off our shores.
Below is a list of just some of the endemic species identified in and around Murdock Valley.
Mammals
On Land
| Cape Grysbok | Grey Mongoose |
| Caracal | Porcupine |
| Chacma Baboon | Spotted Genet |
| Dassie (Rock Rabbit) | Striped Mouse |
Off Shore
| Bryde’s Whale | Long beaked Common Dolphin |
| Cape Clawless Otter | Orca |
| Cape Fur Seal | Southern Right Whale |
| Humpback Whale |
Birds
| African Black Oystercatcher | Common Fiscal (Shrike) | Pintailed Wydah |
| African Harrier Hawk | Common Waxbill | Red winged Starling |
| African Olive (Rameron) Pigeon | Egyptian Goose | Red-eyed Dove |
| Bank Cormorant | Familiar Chat | Rock Kestral |
| Black Harrier | Fiscal Flycatcher | Rock Martin |
| Black Sparrowhawk | Grey Heron | Sandwhich Tern |
| Bokmakierie | Hadeda Ibis | Southern Boubou |
| Brimstone Canary | Helmeted Guineafowl | Southern Double-Collared Sunbird |
| Cape Bulbul | House Sparrow | Speckled Mousebird |
| Cape Bunting | Jackal Buzzard | Speckled Pigeon |
| Cape Canary | Karoo Prinia | Spotted Eagle Owl |
| Cape Cormorant | Kelp Gull | Steppe Buzzard |
| Cape Grassbird | Klaas Cuckoo | Swee Waxbill |
| Cape Robin Chat | Laughing Dove | Swift Tern |
| Cape Siskin | Little Tern | Water Thick-Knee (Dikkop) |
| Cape Sugarbird | Malachite Sunbird | White breasted Cormorant |
| Cape Turtle Dove | Olive Thrush | White fronted Plover |
| Cape Wagtail | Orange breasted Sunbird | White-necked Raven |
| Cape Weaver | Peregrine Falcon | Yellow Bishop |
| Cape White eye | Pied Crow |
Reptiles
| Angulate Tortoise | Puffadder |
| Cape Cobra | Southern Rock Agama |
| Girdled Lizard | Spotted Grass Snake (Skaapsteker) |
| Mole Snake | Whip Snake / Sand Snake |
| Parrot beaked Tortoise |