Escorted Birding Expedition

Our guides have developed bird knowledge as a special interest; some have become so familiar with the common bird guide books that they name the page with each bird sighting… It certainly saves time leafing through indexes! It is wonderful and worthwhile to have someone to share your enthusiasm with.

The many habitats of East Africa provide dream bird watching locations, and a dauntingly long list of endemic species that you simply have to travel to find. Briefly, you would most likely come across these birds;

Arusha National Park- inhabited by over 400 different migrant and resident bird species. Water fowls such as little grebes, eagles, pochards, geese, hamerkop, red shark, spurwinged goose, woodpecker, herons, secretary bird, gray parrot are common in this park.

Lake Manyara National Park – with over 300 species recorded, including Eurasian migrant birds, Lake Manyara is also home to the pink flamingo, other common birds found here are, Silvery-cheeked Hornbill, Narina Trogon, Crowned Hornbill, Schalow’s Turaco, Emerald Cuckoo, Crowned Eagle and ground-dwelling Crested Guinea-fowl.

Serengeti National Park- with over 500 different types of birds on record, the larger Serengeti-Mara ecosystem is among Africa’s Endemic Bird Areas, with 5 endemic bird species that cannot be seen in any other place, which have of these restricted to the Tanzanian side of this ecosystem, this are, Fischer’s lovebird endemic to Tanzania, Rufous-tailed weaver endemic to Tanzania, Usambirobarbet, endemic to Mara-Serengeti, Grey-breasted spurfowl, endemic to Tanzania, Kori bustard, Secretary bird.

Ngorongoro Crater – Ngorongoro Crater is a bird watcher’s paradise, the soda lakes of Ngorongoro are the breeding grounds of thousands of flamingoes and other water birds such as ducks, waders, and herons. Birds of prey such as the Augur buzzard and the Long-crested eagle can be spotted in the crater.