TALA NATURE RESERVE AND SURROUNDS

TALA NATURE RESERVE AND SURROUNDS

Tala Private Game Reserve is a wildlife sanctuary located in the hills of a peaceful farming community, close to the bustling city of Durban in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

This game reserve near Durban is home to more than 380 bird species, as well as big game like Rhino, Kudu, Hippo, Giraffe and the rare Sable antelope. Plant species found in this area include the Fiery Aloe, Euphorbia and fragrant Wild Sage.

The landscapes at this game reserve near Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, are characterized by a mix of acacia thornveld, open grassland and sensitive wetland, providing exceptional game and bird viewing opportunities. You can drive through the park in your own vehicle which allows for total freedom and the close up meetings with the resident Rhino are amazing.

Most of the area is grassland with pockets of dense bush and a lovely big dam. Unlike parks further inland this area experiences more rainfall allowing for a wide variety of birdlife.

African darter

Southern black tit

Southern red bishop

Spotted thick knee

Squacco heron

Striped pipit

Violet backed starling

White backed duck

White faced whistling duck

Yellow billed duck

African hoopoe

African quail finch

African pipit

Blacksmith lapwing

Blue crane

Booted eagle

Brown hooded kingfisher

Burchells coucal

Cape glossy starling

Cape shoveler

Common ostrich

Common starling

Common waxbill

Crested barbet

Croaking cisticola

Crowned lapwing

Diederik cuckoo

Egyptian goose

Fan tailed widowbird

Fiscal flycatcher

Lazy cisticola

Levaillants cisticola

Little rush warbler

Long billed pipit

Long tailed widowbird

Malachite kingfisher

Neddicky

Pied kingisher

Pin tailed whydah

Red-billed oxpecker

Red collared widowbird

Red-knobbed coot

Blue crane

African finfoot

Common moorhen

Common fiscal

Red-throated wryneck

Reed cormorant

Rufous naped lark

Secretary bird

South African shelduck

SPOTTED THICK-KNEE, MARKWELL

BUFF STREAKED CHAT, MARKWELL

CROWNED LAPWING, MARKWELL

 OSTRICH, MARKWELL

OSTRICH, MARKWELL

 AFRICAN STONE-CHAT, MARKWELL

AFRICAN STONE-CHAT, MARKWELL

RED-THROATED WRYNECK, MARKWELL

OSTRICH AND BLUE CRANE, MARKWELL

RED-BILLED OXPECKER, MARKWELL

AFRICAN PIPIT, MARKWELL

COMMON MOORHEN, MARKWELL

RED-KNOBBED COOT, MARKWELL

SQUACCO HERON, GOOGLE