Austin Roberts Bird Sanctuary (Pretoria)

South Africa / Gauteng / Pretoria
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Austin Roberts Bird Sanctuary was named after South Africa's greatest ornithologist-mammologist, J Austin Roberts.

This 11,8 ha site was opened by the then Mayor of Pretoria, Mr WJ Seymore, on 27 October 1956, and officially proclaimed as a nature reserve on 26 February 1958.

The sanctuary is located in the Walkerspruit Open Space System, and a multitude of water birds can be seen. Two streams, the Walker and the Argo, feed water into the wetland basins of which nine are small perennial dams attracting a multitude of water birds.

Reference for information: www.southafricaexplorer.co.za/attractions/austin-robert...
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Coordinates:   25°46'12"S   28°13'35"E

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  • This is actually a bird park named after Austin Robert the creator of the famous Robert's book of South African birds.
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