Muti Muti Conservancy

Look at those thorns! The Kudu Lily is found in Southern Africa, on the Lebombo Mountains, including Muti Muti Conservancy, and other areas in Eswatini and the South Africa provinces of KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga. (CC BY-NC Richard Alward)

This is one of the beautiful and less-explored areas of Muti Muti Conservancy with contrasting stream and arid upland vegetation. (CC BY-NC Tamera Minnick)

The White-eared Barbet is one of four Barbets found at Muti Muti Conservancy. While the others are more colorful, this one is easily identified by the white ears! (CC BY-NC Tamera Minnick)

The curved bill of the sunbirds, including this Amethyst Sunbird, is just right for feeding on nectar from flowers. Sunbirds fill the same ecological niche as hummingbirds in the Western Hemisphere. (CC BY-NC Tamera Minnick)

The Painted Lady is one of the many lovely butterflies that you can see at Muti Muti Conservancy. (CC BY-NC Tamera Minnick)

This may be a juvenile male White-bellied Sunbird with a black band across its chest that is transitioning to an adult with a purple band across its chest. (CC BY-NC Tamera Minnick)

The Serrated Hinged Terrapins sometimes bask on the backs of hippos. These three are sedately basking near the shore of Island Dam at Muti Muti Conservancy. (CC BY-NC Tamera Minnick)

Look closely at this Giant Leaf Katydid (another appropriate name) to see its striped eyes. (CC BY-NC Richard Alward)

The Speckled Mousebird clambers around in vegetation using its claws, hence the name mousebird. The mousebirds are endemic to Africa, with no other mousebirds around the globe. (CC BY-NC Tamera Minnick)

This Garden Orbweaver (Argiope flavipalpis) has a signature design in its web which is referred to as St. Andrew's Cross. (CC BY-NC Richard Alward)

The Yellow-fronted Canary has an eye-stripe as well as the stripe below the chin, called a malar stripe. (CC BY-NC Tamera Minnick)

The female Scarlet-chested Sunbird is darker and more mottled than the other female sunbirds found at Muti Muti. (CC BY-NC Tamera Minnick)