Waar om die Southern White-faced Owl in Suid-Afrika te sien

Hosts on Spekboom have recorded the Southern White-faced Owl at stays in or beside Kruger National Park and iSimangaliso Wetland Park. A record means a host has seen it on the property or nearby, which makes these the places to base yourself; it is never a guarantee of a sighting on any given day.

The Southern White-faced Owl is most recorded in Northern Cape (41% of records), Limpopo (23% of records), Mpumalanga (19% of records), based on 222 iNaturalist observations. 11 places to stay on Spekboom in South Africa have recorded the Southern White-faced Owl on site or nearby.

The Southern White-faced Owl is recorded throughout the year, so no month is the wrong month to look for it. For the parks where hosts record it most, these are the best seasons they give. Kruger National Park: Apr-Sep; iSimangaliso Wetland Park: year-round, dry season May-Sep. In the dry months animals concentrate at water and the grass is short.

The southern white-faced owl (Ptilopsis granti) is a fairly small owl in the family Strigidae. It is native to the southern half of Africa. It was formerly regarded as a subspecies of the northern white-faced owl (P. leucopsis) but the two are now commonly treated as separate species.