Cape thick-knees will eat a variety of different beetles, weevils, moths and butterflies. They will also eat small amphibians, small mammals, thread snakes and white-fronted plover eggs and chicks.

What can I feed a Dikkop bird?

Diet / Feeding

They feed on grass seeds, insects (butterflies, bees, wasps, locusts and ants), small lizards, rodents, snails and crabs.

What is a Dikkop bird in English?

The spotted thick-knee (Burhinus capensis), also known as the spotted dikkop or Cape thick-knee, is a wader in the family Burhinidae.