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The Best Attractions In Mount Moreland

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Barn Swallow

Piggly Wiggly Country Village

Howick Falls

Flag Animal Farm

Nelson Mandela Capture Site

Crocodile Creek

Scuba & Snorkeling

Mount Moreland is a small community located in the eThekwini municipality in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is located slightly inland of Umdloti, just over 30 kilometres north of the city of Durban, and 2.6 kilometres to the south of Durban's King Shaka International Airport. The community is renowned as being the location of an important roosting site for the European barn swallow and accordingly attracts visitors to the area mid October to mid April.
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The Best Attractions In Mount Moreland

1. Barn Swallow Mount Moreland
The barn swallow is the most widespread species of swallow in the world. It is a distinctive passerine bird with blue upperparts and a long, deeply forked tail. It is found in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. In Anglophone Europe it is just called the swallow; in Northern Europe it is the only common species called a swallow rather than a martin.There are six subspecies of barn swallow, which breed across the Northern Hemisphere. Four are strongly migratory, and their wintering grounds cover much of the Southern Hemisphere as far south as central Argentina, the Cape Province of South Africa, and northern Australia. Its huge range means that the barn swallow is not endangered, although there may be local population declines due to specific threats. The barn swallow is a bird of open c...
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2. Nelson Mandela Capture Site Howick
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid by tackling institutionalised racism and fostering racial reconciliation. Ideologically an African nationalist and socialist, he served as President of the African National Congress party from 1991 to 1997. A Xhosa, Mandela was born to the Thembu royal family in Mvezo, British South Africa. He studied law at the University of Fort Hare and the University of the Witwatersrand before working as a lawyer in Johannesburg. There he became involved in ...
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3. Piggly Wiggly Country Village Nottingham Road
4. Crocodile Creek Tongaat
5. Howick Falls Howick
Howick Falls is a waterfall in Howick, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. The waterfall is approximately 95 m in height and lies on the Umgeni River. The Zulu people called the falls KwaNogqaza, which means Place of the Tall One.
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6. Flag Animal Farm Salt Rock

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Barn Swallows Mount Moreland South Africa

This awesome Barn Swallow spectacle, half an hour before sunset, of the Barn Swallows coming home to roost every night has become a world wide attraction as a Natural Wonder and Global Treasure at Mount Moreland, KZN, South Africa.

The reedbed roost site the Barn Swallows have chosen is a wetland, locally known as the Lake Victoria Wetland, it is covered with indigenous Phragmities reeds.
The Barn Swallows at Mount Moreland and their roosting habitat are now recognized as a world famous Barn Swallow site and IBA (International Birding Area), locally and internationally.

The now famous Barn Swallows of Mt Moreland return during late October. Visitors are welcome to visit the Barn Swallow view-site in the last week in October but the best viewing months are November, and March. Visitors need to come half an hour before sunset. You need to bring own chairs, sun-downers and snacks, binoculars and anti-mozzie cream.
A R10.00 per person fee is charged on entrance. Barn Swallow mementos and information booklets are on sale at the main table.

The Barn Swallow viewing site is open every day during Swallow season, weather permitting.
The Mount Moreland Conservancy is the organization behind all this.
Your support is really important in helping to ensure the well being of the Barn Swallows now and into the future.
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