Nature reserve · Waterberg Biosphere Reserve
Mabalingwe Nature Reserve
Bushveld hills at the southern edge of the Waterberg, our first park.
What you might see
Chance that a herd you meet is each species
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Impala
23%
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Warthog
14%
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Greater Kudu
12%
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Blue Wildebeest
10%
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Burchell's Zebra
9%
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Waterbuck
4%
All wildlife, birds and plants
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Nyala
4%
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Bushbuck
4%
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Common Eland
4%
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South African Giraffe
3%
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Sable Antelope
3%
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Red Hartebeest
3%
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Common Duiker
3%
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Steenbok
3%
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Cape Buffalo
2%
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Blesbok
2%
Birds: 45 species, each about 1 flock in 45 (2.2%)
- Grey Go-away-bird
- Ring-necked Dove
- Dark-capped Bulbul
- Fork-tailed Drongo
- Natal Spurfowl
- Arrow-marked Babbler
- Helmeted Guineafowl
- Blue Waxbill
- Chinspot Batis
- Blacksmith Lapwing
- Lilac-breasted Roller
- Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill
- Southern Carmine Bee-eater
- Pied Kingfisher
- Amethyst Sunbird
- Southern Masked Weaver
- African Hoopoe
- Saddle-billed Stork
- African Fish Eagle
- Secretarybird
- Spotted Eagle-Owl
- White-backed Vulture
- Speckled Pigeon
- Speckled Mousebird
- Crowned Lapwing
- Southern Grey-headed Sparrow
- Red-billed Quelea
- House Sparrow
- Tawny-flanked Prinia
- African Palm Swift
- African Paradise Flycatcher
- African Pipit
- African Stonechat
- Greater Flamingo
- Grey Plover
- Grey Crowned Crane
- Blue Crane
- Martial Eagle
- Steppe Eagle
- Hooded Vulture
- Lappet-faced Vulture
- Cape Vulture
- European Roller
- Southern Ground-Hornbill
- Lesser Flamingo
Read the story
Mabalingwe Nature Reserve lies near Bela-Bela, where the bushveld plains rise into the first hills of the Waterberg.
It is the first place we built: the terrain, every road and dam, every building and every tree measured from space, lined up to within two metres of the real thing.