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Featured Tours
Angola: Endemics: 30 August - 17 September 09
Namibia & Okavango: 24 October - 6 November 2009
Madagascar: Endemics and Masoala - November 2009
News 2009
02/07/09: Cape Town's Verreauxs' Eagle
Chick has hatched! See the pictures of the chick, its nest and
the breeding pair and find out more about the Western Cape Raptor
Research Programme.
02/07/09: Campbell Fleming, a Cape Town scholar, avid birder and
photographer, joined Birding Africa last month as an apprentice.
Click here to see what he got up to.
02/07/09: New pelagic
trip reports from the Cape Town Pelagics trips in June 2009.
Highlights: Slenderbilled
Prion and Leach's Storm Petrel
30/06/09: Our latest Cape Fynbos and Karoo trip
reports feature Hottentot
Buttonquail, Cinnamon-breasted
Warbler and other fynbos and Karoo endemics...
26/06/09: Tungsten mining threatens
RAMSAR site, South Africa's Verlorenvlei. Read the Media Release.
22/06/09: Claire Spottiswoode, one
of Birding Africa's founders, was part of the exploratory team at
Mount Mabu. The mountain is part of the newly discovered largest
rainforest in Southern Africa.
11/06/09: A colour-ringed Black
Sparrowhawk visits the Birding Africa office garden. Read why
it's a 10 months old male!
31/05/09: Michel Watelet wins the African
Bird Club ID Challenge 7. Test
your African birding skills... and WIN a Birding Africa Cape
Town day trip or a
copy of the Birdfinder!
21/05/09, Cape Town: 129 oiled
penguins from Namibia have been rehabilitated by our guide
Tertius Gous and SANCCOB.
Over 80 recovered and were released today!
03/05/09: Our latest Cameroon
Birding Tour Report features Red-headed
Picathartes and other top birds...
30/04/09:
The British Foreign Commonwealth Office has relaxed its warning
against travel to
Madagascar. Tourist visas are now free for stays up to 1 month
in 2009. We plan to go ahead with our
tours, with the 31 October to 15 November tour being our flagship
tour.
30/04/09: Have a look at Wim de Groot's stunning pictures,
taken on a Birding Africa Namibia
& Okavango trip.
19/04/09:
Extinction warning for the Sidamo Lark
- research of which Birding Africa was a major
sponsor.
05/04/09: follow Kersten's recent Namibia
tour blog - the tour was led by Callan Cohen.
07/03/09:
Wildlife at the Birding Africa
office!
10/02/09:
2009-2010 tour calendar
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...
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