The iSimangaliso area incorporates the St Lucia area and Mkhuze Game Reserve, both world famous birding sites !

Some of the key specials and endemics for the area include:

• Rudd's Apalis
• Pygmy Goose
• Neergard's Sunbird
• Livingstone's Turacco
• Pels Fishing Owl
• Crab Plover
• Eastern Nicator
• Woodward's Batis
• Pink-backed Pelican
• African Broadbill
• Southern Banded Snake Eagle
• Lesser Jacana