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Pigeon Valley is a Natural Heritage Park in Durban, South Africa. It was established to provide protection for the Natal White Stinkwood and other forest giants of the coastal climax forest. Another rare tree that occurs here is Oxyanthus pyriformis which is endemic to the Durban area and to Ongoye Forest. Pigeon Valley was developed as a Nature Reserve in 1989 and is about 10ha in extent.

Animals

The Park is home to Red Duiker and Blue Duiker. Various species of forest birds are found here including; Green Twinspot (Mandingoa nitidula), Cape White-eye (Zosterops virens), Southern Boubou (Laniarius ferrugineus), Spotted Ground-Thrush (Zoothera guttata), Purple-crested Turaco (Tauraco porphyreolophus) and African Paradise-Flycatcher (Terpsiphone viridis). The Black Sparrowhawk (Accipiter melanoleucus) is known to breed here. Recent sightings of note include European Nightjar and Black Cuckoo.

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Bird list
Note: this is a listing of all birds seen in recent years.

Apalis	Barthroated	Breeding resident
Apalis	Yellowbreasted	Breeding resident
Barbet	Blackcollared	Breeding resident, recent decline in numbers
Barbet	White-eared	Breeding resident, increasing in numbers and breeding sites
Barbet	Crested	Occasional visitor
Batis	Cape	Breeding resident
Batis	Chinspot	Occasional visitor
Bee-eater	Little	Occasional visitor
Boubou	Southern	Breeding resident
Brownbul	Terrestrial	Breeding resident
Bulbul	Darkcapped	Breeding resident
Bush Shrike	Orangebreasted	Occasional visitor
Bush Shrike	Greyheaded	Occasional visitor
Bush Shrike	Olive	Occasional visitor
Camaroptera	Greenbacked	Breeding resident
Canary	Brimstone	Occasional visitor
Canary	Yellow-fronted	Regularly present
Cisticola	Zitting	Rare visitor
Coucal	Burchell's	Rare visitor
Crested-Flycatcher	Bluemantled	Rare visitor
Crow	Pied	Occasional visitor
Cuckoo	Diederik	Occasional summer visitor
Cuckoo	Emerald	Occasional summer visitor
Cuckoo	European	Rare visitor
Cuckoo	Klaas's	Occasional visitor
Cuckoo	Redchested	Occasional summer visitor
Cuckooshrike	Black	Occasional visitor, mainly winter
Cuckooshrike	Grey	Occasional visitor, mainly winter
Dove	Redeyed	Breeding resident
Dove	Laughing	Breeding resident
Dove	Tambourine	Breeding resident
Dove	Lemon	Rare visitor
Drongo	Forktailed	Breeding resident
Drongo	Squaretailed	Breeding resident
Eagle	African Crowned	Occasional visitor
Eagle-Owl	Spotted	Occasional visitor
Falcon	Lanner	Occasional visitor
Firefinch	African	Breeding resident
Flufftail	Buffspotted	Thought to be breeding
Flycatcher	Ashy	Regularly present
Flycatcher	Dusky	Breeding resident
Flycatcher	Spotted	Rare visitor
Flycatcher	Southern Black	Breeding resident
Francolin	Natal	Rare visitor
Goshawk	African	Regularly present
Greenbul	Sombre	Breeding resident
Greenbul	Yellowbellied	Occasional visitor
Ground-Thrush	Spotted	Present usually April to August
Hamerkop		Occasional visitor
Harrierhawk	African	Regular visitor
Heron	Black-headed	Occasional visitor
Honey Bird	Brownbacked	Occasional visitor
Honeyguide	Greater	Rare visitor
Honeyguide	Lesser	Usually present
Honeyguide	Scalythroated	Occasional visitor
Hoopoe	African	Occasional visitor
Hornbill	Trumpeter	Rare visitor (2011)
Ibis	Hadeda	Breeding resident
Kingfisher	Brownhooded	Occasional visitor
Kingfisher	Pygmy	Occasional visitor
Kingfisher	Mangrove	Rare visitor (2011)
Kite	Yellowbilled	Breeding resident
Malkoha	Green	Rare visitor (2010)
Mannikin	Bronze	Breeding resident
Mannikin	Redbacked	Visitor, mainly winter, may breed some years
Martin	Rock	Occasional visitor
Myna	Common	Occasional visitor
Nightjar	European	Rare visitor, present in 2013
Nightjar	Fierynecked	Occasional visitor
Oriole	Blackheaded	Breeding resident
Palm-Swift	African	Regularly present
Paradise-Flycatcher	African	Breeding resident
Parakeet	Rose-ringed	Regular visitor
Pigeon	Feral	Occasional visitor
Prinia	Tawnyflanked	Breeding resident
Puffback	Blackbacked	Breeding resident
Robin	White-Starred	Rare visitor, not seen in recent years
Robin-Chat	Redcapped	Breeding resident
Robin-Chat	Cape	Occasional visitor, mainly winter
Robin-Chat	Chorister	Occasional visitor, mainly winter
Saw-wing	Black	Regularly present
Scrub-Robin	White-browed	Regularly present
Seedeater	Streaky-headed	Occasional visitor, mainly winter
Shrike	Fiscal	Occasional visitor
Sparrow	Southern Greyheaded	Occasional visitor
Sparrow	House	Occasional visitor
Sparrowhawk	Little	Occasional visitor
Sparrowhawk	Black	Breeding resident
Starling	Blackbellied	Breeding resident
Starling	Violetbacked	Occasional summer visitor
Starling	Redwinged	Regularly present
Starling	Glossy	Regularly present
Stonechat		Rare visitor
Stork	Woollynecked	Occasional visitor
Sunbird	Grey	Regularly present, winter maximum
Sunbird	Amethyst	Regularly present, winter maximum
Sunbird	Olive	Breeding resident
Sunbird	Purplebanded	Regular visitor, winter
Sunbird	Collared	Breeding resident
Sunbird	Whitebellied	Breeding resident
Swallow	Barn	Regular visitor, summer
Swallow	Lesser-striped	Regular visitor
Swallow	Whitethroated	Occasional visitor
Swift	Black	Rare visitor
Swift	Whiterumped	Rare visitor
Swift	Little	Regularly present
Swift	Alpine	Rare visitor
Tchagra	Southern	Rare visitor
Thrush	Kurrichane	Breeding resident
Thrush	Olive	Breeding resident
Tinker Bird	Redfronted	Rare visitor, winter
Tinker Bird	Yellow-rumped	Breeding resident
Tit	Southern Black	Breeding resident
Trogon	Narina	Occasional visitor
Turaco	Purple-crested	Breeding resident
Twinspot	Green	Regularly visitor, mainly winter, but all year 2011-2012
Wagtail	Cape	Occasional visitor
Warbler	Barratt's	Rare visitor
Warbler	Garden	Rare visitor
Warbler	Marsh	Rare visitor
Warbler	Willow	Rare summer visitor
Waxbill	Common	Rare visitor
Waxbill	Grey	Occasional visitor, has bred in past
Weaver	Yellow	Rare visitor
Weaver	Darkbacked	Breeding resident
Weaver	Village	Breeding resident
Weaver	Thickbilled	Regularly present
Weaver	Spectacled	Breeding resident
White-eye	Cape	Breeding resident
Wood-Hoopoe	Green	Occasional visitor
Woodland-Warbler	Yellowthroated	Rare visitor, winter
Woodpecker	Goldentailed	Breeding resident
Woodpecker	Cardinal	Breeding resident
Woodpecker	Olive	Breeding resident

Single or very rare sightings
Bunting	Golden-breasted	Sightings April 1992, 30 March 2013
Bush Shrike	Gorgeous	Records from 1990s?
Cuckoo	Black	Rare visitor, seen in spring 2012
Cuckoo	European	Record from 1979
Flycatcher	Fiscal	Seen in winter 2012
Hornbill	Crowned	Rare visitor
Owl	Barn	Record from 1979
Pigeon	Green	Record from 1979
Turaco	Knysna	Seen once in September 1991
Wagtail	Mountain	Seen once in 1990s

Plants

There are about 95 species of trees occurring in Pigeon Valley, which is more than the total number of tree species in the entire British Isles. Tree species include; Albizia adianthifolia, Baphia racemosa, Brachylaena discolor, Celtis africana, Celtis mildbraedii, Chrysophyllum viridifolium, Combretum kraussii, Croton sylvaticus, Ficus lutea, Ficus natalensis, Ficus sur, Kiggelaria africana, Millettia grandis, Mimusops obovata, Strelitzia nicolai, Trema orientalis and Trichilia dregeana. Pigeon Valley is also notable for large stands of Isoglossa woodii which grow in more open areas under the forest canopy and in forest glades.

References

Bodenstein, J. (2009)
Birds in Reserves, ADU
Hemson, C. (2010)
Trees of Pigeon Valley: Tree List Scientific. (2010)

Bibliography

Pooley, T. and Player, I. (1995). KwaZulu-Natal Wildlife Destinations. ISBN 1-86812-487-8.

Animals

Plants

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