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Protected area · KwaZulu-Natal
Albert Falls Game Reserve
Albert Falls Game Reserve is a protected area in KwaZulu-Natal, about 16 km north of Pietermaritzburg. Proclaimed or established in 1975.
—km² recorded size
1975year established
—elevation of the point
16 kmnorth of Pietermaritzburg
Facts
- Type
- Protected area
- Province
- KwaZulu-Natal
- District
- Umgungundlovu
- Local municipality
- uMshwathi
- Established
- 1975
- Coordinates
- -29.4583, 30.3736
- Nearest large town
- Pietermaritzburg, 16 km north
- Wikipedia articles
- 3 languages
Sources: Wikidata Q2637876 · Natural Earth (province outline)
Nearby
- Albert Falls Nature ReserveNature reserve3 km north-east
- Ferncliffe Nature ReserveNature reserve11 km south
- Karkloof FallsNature reserve11 km north-west
- Umgeni Valley Nature ReserveNature reserve13 km west
- WESSA uMngeni Valley Nature Reserve & Education CentreWildlife sanctuary13 km west
Cumberland Nature ReserveNature reserve · 3 km²14 km south-east
GBIF records within 3 km
Wildlife recorded around Albert Falls Game Reserve
116 mammal and 47 698 bird occurrence records within 3 km of the reserve's point. Species with the most records first; the number is records, not animals.
Mammals
- Plains ZebraEquus quagga22
- BontebokDamaliscus pygargus19
- ImpalaAepyceros melampus16
- Red HartebeestAlcelaphus caama14
- NyalaTragelaphus angasii9
- Common Wart-hogPhacochoerus africanus7
- Southern ReedbuckRedunca arundinum6
- OribiOurebia ourebi5
- Southern GiraffeGiraffa giraffa5
- Vervet MonkeyChlorocebus pygerythrus3
- Blue WildebeestConnochaetes taurinus2
- Slender MongooseGalerella sanguinea2
- WaterbuckKobus ellipsiprymnus2
Birds
- Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca645
- Fork-tailed DrongoDicrurus adsimilis596
- Cape WagtailMotacilla capensis575
- Southern FiscalLanius collaris561
- Ring-necked DoveStreptopelia capicola539
- Hadada IbisBostrychia hagedash531
- Spectacled WeaverPloceus ocularis522
- Village WeaverPloceus cucullatus521
- Tawny-flanked PriniaPrinia subflava518
- Cape StarlingLamprotornis nitens510
- Southern BoubouLaniarius ferrugineus509
- Chinspot BatisBatis molitor501
- Blacksmith LapwingVanellus armatus500
- NeddickyCisticola fulvicapilla499
Source: GBIF.org occurrence data (records within the radius; licences of the publishing datasets apply). All wildlife.