Abe Bailey Nature Reserve

Abe Bailey Nature Reserve is a protected area in the Merafong City Local Municipality in Gauteng, South Africa. It is situated near Carletonville, beside the township of Khutsong on the West Rand. It is about in size.

Fauna

Over 280 species of birds have been recorded in the reserve, including common sightings of the African fish eagle and the summer-visiting osprey. Thousands of flamingos visit the wetland for a few weeks a year. The yellow-billed stork has been recorded breeding in the area, one of few known breeding sites outside the Okavango Delta. Rare sightings of both the cape vulture and white-backed vulture as well as the marabou stork, martial eagle, and Verreaux's eagle-owl have been recorded.
Leopards are known to enter the area from the Gatsrand range, although this is a rare occurrence. The apex predators in the reserve are the black-backed jackal, caracal and serval, whilst the cape fox and aardwolf are also common in the area. Brown hyena males are known to move through the area, but no females have been recorded.
The African clawless otter, marsh mongoose, yellow mongoose, common slender mongoose, white-tailed mongoose, African striped weasel, striped polecat and occasionally honey badger are known from the area. The southern African hedgehog and aardvark are also found in the reserve.
Antelope species include species indigenous to the highveld grasslands like black wildebeest, blesbok, red hartebeest, plains zebra, springbok, common duiker, and steenbok. Occasionally, species such as the southern reedbuck, mountain reedbuck, and common warthog enter the reserve via the Gatsrand range.