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Special announcement
February 2010: Birdwatch magazine
voted Birding Africa, which includes Cape Town Pelagics and Cape
Birding route, as one of the top 5
bird most recommended bird tour companies in the world. (Click
here for
more survey details.)
Last chance to book on these tours
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LEFT: Cape Birds & Flowers (August) with Callan Cohen
Malawi (November):
Böhm's Bee-eater & White-winged Apalis
Cameroon (March):
Red-headed Picathartes
News
26 July:
New trip report and photographs from the 15
May Cape
Town Pelagics trip led by Barrie Rose. See photographs of specials
seen such as Black-bellied
Storm Petrel: click here.
21 July: Last
place: Cape Birds & Flowers tour, 6-17 August. Join Callan
Cohen and see birds, spring flowers and mammals. Have a sneak preview
- click here
to see a slideshow.
4 July: New
Cape Town Pelagics trip report and photographs. Click here
to see photographs and read about the sightings of Wandering Albatross,
Humpback Whale and more.
5 July: Trip
report, Western Cape: Guide Tertius Gous reports back about
magnificent snow-capped scenery with specials such as Karoo Eremomela
and Protea Canary. Read more, click here.
31 June: Last two places:
Cape Town Pelagics trip 4 on July. Join leader Barrrie Rose
while you support seabird conservation. Exceptional last minute
discount. Click here
to book.
22 June: Last
two places: Cape Birds & Flowers tour in August. Join Callan
Cohen and see birds, spring flowers and mammals. Have a sneak preview
- click here
for the slideshow.
22 June: Cuckoo
Finch research: Birding Africa co-founder Dr Claire Spottiswoode
and Dr Martin Stevens discover how hosts can tell their own eggs
from those of brood parasites! Read on here.
22 June: Archer's
Lark's only site is invaded by Parthenium weed, finds the Somaliland
Birding Africa expedition team survey.
4 June: Pelagics
Trip Report from the Cape Town Pelagics on 29 May 2010 led by
guide Dalton Gibbs.
4 June: Trip
report, Cape Town: Guide Otto Schmidt went out to see 100 species
on 21 April. 'Top drawer' service, wrote Jay. 'Efficient service
and excellent guide' said Nigel & Chris.
4 June: Somaliland
birding photographs: Callan sent us his second batch straight from
the field!
3 June: Birders spotted another rare
Cape
leopard! For the second time in May, now thanks to watching
Verreaux's
Eagles!
1 June: Trip
Report, Western Cape: Cape Eagle Owl, Protea Seedeater and more.
Dalton, Michael and Otto report about 197 lifers - click here.
27 May: A new bird
hide opened at Rooisand Nature Reserve - Marje Hemp attended
the inauguration and reports about alien timber, Osprey and the
Biodiversity Festival: click here.
25 May: Cape
leopard seen on a Birding Africa trip! Our guide and the Cape
Leopard Trust report back: click here.
24 May: Grey-headed Albatross
and Black-bellied Storm
Petrel, unusual sightings on 15 May with Cape
Town Pelagics.
20 May: Callan Cohen is exploring Somaliland
with Michael Mills and others. They report back and share some pictures.
22 April: New Tour: Malawi
Birding Tour, 13 days in November 2010 with tour leader Michael
Mills.
28 March: New Tour: Ghana:
Yellow-headed Picathartes and forest birding in December 2010.
27 March: Madagascar:
Good news for birding and lemur-watching; Rosewood logging and export
is now prohibited.
17 March: Golden
Nightjar found and photographed on a Birding Africa trip to
Cameroon.
5 March: Trip
report: summer birding in February: the Cape Peninsula and Hottentot's
Holland with guide Otto Schmidt.
4 March: African Openbills
on our Cape Town birding trips. 2010 brought the first ever record
of these storks in Cape Town!
25 February: Madagascar: top
birds and experiences from our latest tours, as voted by tour
participants.
22 February: New Namibia-Okavango
photographs by Utz Klingenböck on a Birding Africa tour
in October 2009.
19 February: Birdfair
2009 raised £263,000 for BirdLife International’s project
‘Preventing Extinctions: Saving the World’s Critically
Endangered Birds’. Birdfair 2010 will raise funds for ‘Saving
southern Ethiopia’s endemic birds’. Join our tour to
Ethiopia and Somaliland in June 2010.
17 February: Read Peter Ryan's and Callan Cohen's article about
Rwanda Birding and get
ready for our African
Bird Club Conservation Fund Tour to Rwanda.
15 February: Booted Eagle,
Sooty Blue butterfly and Marbled
Leaf-Toed Gecko seen at the Birding Africa office garden today.
11 February: Madagascar's
Ebony and endangered lemurs are being poached at an alarming
rate. Read Wikipedia about the illegal logging and see how the internet
and tourism
can help.
3 February: Our first
2010 trip report! Eastern South Africa Endemics, led by Michael
Mills.
3 February: See Picathartes
on video, filmed by Martin Kennewell on the Birding Africa tour
to Cameroon.
2 February: Grey-backed
Storm Petrel, the 2nd record for southern Africa! See the pictures
taken on our 27 December Cape Town Pelagic trip.
2 February: Uganda
Birds & Primates: Callan and Deirdre have just returned
from leading three tours - here are some photographs.
2 February: Soccer & Birding: combine
the FIFA World Cup with Cape endemics and Karoo specials. Please
e-mail info@birdingafrica.com
or phone +27 21 531 9148
2 February: Check out our updated 2010 and 2011 tour calendar.
22 December 2009: Help
find Frodo, Cape Town's juvenile Black Eagle. He left
Noordhoek Peak and carries yellow wingtags "Y006". Please
contact Lucia Rodrigues.
29 November 2009: Callan and Deirdre have just returned from their
Madagascar
tour - here are some birds
they photographed.
24 October 2009: 350-24-24
Bird Photo Challenge. On 24 October 2009,
South African birders and photographers photographed South Africa's
amazing bird diversity to raise awareness about climate change!
Click here to see the list of 365 submitted
species, meet the team and
see
the image galleries.
For more news, please visit our latest
updates.
Why choose Birding Africa
Choose Africa: 2500 bird species,
20 endemic bird families, the world record for bird species seen
in a day and the most exhilarating primate and mammal watching on
earth. Join the only specialist
of African birding tours: Birding Africa.
We are bird guide authors
and conservationists living in Africa, drawn together by a common
passion: sharing our enthusiasm for Africa's birds with the world.
We pride ourselves in our expert guides,
who share their knowledge of Africa's birds and wild places.
Our expert consultants handle seamlessly
the logistical challenges that African touring presents. Expertise,
personalised service, attention to detail and best value tours are
why, after 12 years, we're arranging more birding tours for top
international companies and small groups than ever before. In sum,
have a look at our clients' comments!
Please contact us to organise
or guide your next African
birding tour or Cape
day trip. For couples, groups and bird clubs with mixed interests,
we also organise special bird, mammal and botany tours.
Birding Africa has also sponsored conservation
and research of the species you'll see on tour, we've run African
Bird Club Conservation Tours, consulted to the BBC Natural History
Unit and even shown Bill Oddie the endemic Cape
Rockjumper in the mountains around Cape Town...

Click
here
to see the image galleries!
On 24 October 2009, South African birders and photographers photographed
South Africa's amazing bird diversity to raise awareness about climate
change! Oganised
by: Birding
Africa, PlusPlusMinus,
Birdlife South Africa and
350.org.
Click here to see the list of 365 submitted
species.
Click here to meet the team.
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Böhm's bee-eater on a Malawi
tour © tour participant Jon Hemp.

Southern Double-collared Sunbird
on a Cape
Birds & Flowers tour © Callan Cohen.
Golden
Nightjar photographed in March 2010 on a Birding Africa trip
to Cameroon
© tour participant Hector Galbraith.
350.jpg)
Yellow-headed Picathartes
(White-necked Rockfowl) can be seen on a Birding Africa tour to
Ghana © Chris
Farnham.

Lesser Hoopoe-Lark, endemic to
Somaliland. Click here
for more pictures. © Callan Cohen & Michael Mills www.birdingafrica.com.

Yellow-bellied Sunbird-Asity on our Madagascar
tour © C Cohen.
Red-collared Mountain Babbler on a Rwanda
Tour © Ray Tipper.
See Rockrunner on a Namibia
Birding Tour © Ian Merrill.
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