the following birds can be found in the reserve: wattled crane, grey crowned crane, blue crane, white-winged flufftail, african grass owl, yellow-breasted pipit, secretarybird, ground woodpecker, buff-streaked chat, sentinel rock-thrush, drakensberg rockjumper, cape vulture, bearded vulture, and pale-headed grass singer. among mammals here is the threatened oribi. the medicinal plant "merwilla natalenis" and several species of red-hot pokers ("kniphofia") are native, but the sand blackberry (rubus cuneifolius) is invasive.