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

1 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.

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.

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.