Common sights in the reserve include Northern Black Korhaan, Ant-eating Chat, Common Ostrich, Bokmakierie, African Red-eyed Bulbul, Kalahari Scrub-robin, Spotted Thick-knee, Fiscal Flycatcher, Crimson-breasted Shrike, Black-chested Prinia, Chestnut-vented Tit-babbler (Warbler), Cape Starling, Acacia Pied Barbet, Marico Flycatcher, Rattling Cisticola, Sabota Lark, Black-throated Canary, Common Scimitarbill, Swainson’s Spurfowl, African Hoopoe, Green-winged Pytilia, Blue Waxbill, and Barred Wren-Warbler.

Open grasslands with scattered trees are the favoured haunt of African Pipit, Rufous-naped Lark, Eastern Clapper Lark, Spike-heeled Lark, Desert Cisticola, Double-banded, Courser, Namaqua Dove, Plain-backed Pipit and Cape Longclaw. Summer nomads are Lesser Grey Shrike, Diederik Cuckoo, European Bee-eater, Red-backed Shrike, Barn Swallow and Spotted Flycatcher. Red-billed Quelea can be very abundant after good rains.

Secretarybird are seen on occasion as is White-backed Vulture and Greater Kestrel. Nocturnal species include Rufous-cheeked Nightjar (summer) and Western Barn Owl.

A variety of game species can also be found on the open plains including buffalo, gemsbok, giraffe steenbok, zebra, springbok, red hartebeest, black wildebeest, eland, impala, warthog and waterbuck. Predators here include brown hyaena and black-backed jackal.

Key species:

Northern Black Korhaan, Bokmakierie, Yellow Canary, Scaly-feathered Finch (Weaver), Crimson-breasted Shrike, Marico Flycatcher, Barred Wren-Warbler, Eastern Clapper Lark, Common Scimitarbill, Sabota Lark