Bird Watching Tours with BIRDING AFRICA: Birding Destinations

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Angola	Madagascar	Somaliland and Djibouti
Botswana	Malawi	South Africa
Cameroon	Mali	Tanzania
Ethiopia	Namibia	Uganda
Gabon	Rwanda	Zambia
Ghana	Sao Tome and Principe

ANGOLA Next departure	Comfort Ease of birding Climate Duration of visit Price Range Habitats Highlights	Moderate to demanding Intermediate Mostly warm and dry; can be cool in the highlands 7-21 days Expensive Forest, coastal habitats and bushveld Endangered endemics, such as Gabela Akalat; Red-crested Turaco, Angola Cave Chat, Monteiro's Bush-Shrike.
NORTHERN CAMEROON Next departure	Comfort Ease of birding Climate Duration of visit Price Range Habitats Highlights	Moderate (but can be very hot) Easy Mostly warm and dry; can be cool in in Jan-Feb 7-12 days Moderate Semi-desert, woodland, gallery forest Good diversity; many specials, such as Quail Plover, Egyptian Plover, Standard-winged Nightjar and Arabian Bustard
SOUTHERN CAMEROON Next departure	Comfort Ease of birding Climate Duration of visit Price Range Habitats Highlights	Fairly demanding Challenging Warm to hot and humid; some rain 12-20 days Moderate Montane and lowland forest; montane grassland Cameroon Mountains endemics, such as Green Long-tailed and (perhaps) Mount Kupe Bush-Shrike; Red-headed Picathartes; many hornbills
ETHIOPIA Next departure	Comfort Ease of birding Climate Duration of visit Price Range Habitats Highlights	Moderate to demanding Easy Mostly hot and dry; cold in highlands 12-25 days Moderate Alpine moorland, montane forest, arid bush Numerous endemics; good diversity; Abyssinian Catbird, Spot-breasted Lapwing, White-cheeked and Prince Ruspoli's Turaco, Stressemann's Bush Crow
GABON Next departure	Comfort Ease of birding Climate Duration of visit Price Range Habitats Highlights	Fairly comfortable Moderate Warm; some rain 12-17 days Fairly expensive Lowland forest, grassland, woodlands and rivers Rare lowland forest species, such as Congo Serpent Eagle and Plumed Guineafowl; Rosy and Black-headed Bee-eater, African River Martin, Congo Moor Chat
GHANA Next departure	Comfort Ease of birding Climate Duration of visit Price Range Habitats Highlights	Fairly comfortable Moderate Warm and humid; some rain 8-12 days Moderate Lowland forest, grassland, woodlands and rivers Yellow-headed Picathartes and "Upper Guinea" endemics such as Brown-cheeked Hornbill, Sharpe's Apalis, Grey-headed Bristlebill. If we're lucky: the flying squirrel Pel’s Anomalure, the strange and primitive primate, Potto, Lesser Spot-nosed Monkey, Lowe’s Monkey and the very rare Olive Colobus
MADAGASCAR Next departure	Comfort Ease of birding Climate Duration of visit Price Range Habitats Highlights	Moderate to demanding Moderate to fairly difficult Mostly warm, often wet 16-21 days Moderate Forest, woodland and unique spiny forest 130+ endemics; several endemic families, including Vangas, Couas, Mesites, Asities and Ground-Rollers; Lemurs; incredible reptiles and frogs
MALAWI Next departure	Comfort Ease of birding Climate Duration of visit Price Range Habitats Highlights	Fairly comfortable Moderate to difficult Mostly warm; some rain 10-25 days Moderate Forest and woodland Good diversity; some localised specials
MALI Next departure	Comfort Ease of birding Climate Duration of visit Price Range Habitats	Moderate Easy Warm in day, cool in evenings 10-14 days Moderate Arid Sahel and Sahara
NAMIBIA & OKAVANGO Next departure	Comfort Ease of birding Climate Duration of visit Price Range Habitats Highlights	Comfortable Easy Mostly warm to hot, and dry 12-20 days Moderate True desert, savanna, woodland; some gallery forest Namibian near-endemics such as Rosy-faced Lovebird, Herero Chat, Dune and Gray's Lark and Rueppell's Korhaan; Pel's Fishing Owl (Okavango)
RWANDA Next departure	Comfort Ease of birding Climate Duration of visit Price Range Habitat	Moderate Moderate Warm in day, cool in evenings 7-14 days Moderate - High Afro-montane forest & savanah
SAO TOME & PRINCIPE Next departure	Comfort Ease of birding Climate Duration of visit Price Range Habitats Highlights	Moderate (optional camping demanding) Challenging Often rainy and humid 6-9 days Intermediate Forest Many endemics; Dwarf Olive Ibis, Giant Sunbird, Giant Weaver
SOUTH AFRICA Next departure	Comfort Ease of birding Climate Duration of visit Price Range Habitats Highlights	Comfortable Easy to moderate Mostly warm and sunny in summer, some rain 5-15 days Good value Savanna, forest, grassland, fynbos, mountains Diverse in endemics and high species diversity; Blue Swallow, Cape Parrot, Pink-throated Twinspot, Pel's Fishing Owl, several Bustards and good raptor diversity; large mammals
TANZANIA Next departure	Comfort Ease of birding Climate Duration of visit Price Range Habitats Highlights	Comfortable to very demanding Easy in north; very difficult in centre and south Warm 10-30 days Fairly expensive Savannas, woodlands, montane forest Many endemics; very high diversity; large mammals
UGANDA Next departure	Comfort Ease of birding Climate Duration of visit Price Range Habitats Highlights	Comfortable to moderate (some long drives) Moderate Very pleasant; some rain 10-25 days Good value; to fit all pockets Montane and mid-altitude forest, woodlands, wetlands, grassland High diversity; Albertine Rift Endemics; Shoebill and African Green Broadbill (difficult); Gorilla and Chimpanzee
ZAMBIA Next departure	Comfort Ease of birding Climate Duration of visit Price Range Habitats Highlights	Comfortable to moderate (some long drives) Moderate Warm 12 days Fairly expensive Riverine forest, Miombo woodland, savanna African Pitta, Chaplin's Barbet, Black-cheecked Lovebird.

About Birding Africa

Birding Africa is a specialist birding tour company customising tours for both world listers and more relaxed holiday birders. †We combine interests in mammals, butterflies, dragonflies, botany and other natural history aspects and will guide you to Africa's and Madagascar's most diverse birding destinations. Our guides' knowledge of African birds and birding areas is our greatest strength and together we have rediscovered species, shared exciting observations with the birding community and had a fun time exploring our home continent. †We've even written two acclaimed guide books on where to find Southern Africa's and Madagascar's best birds. Birding is more than our passion, it's our lifestyle, and we are dedicated to making professional, best value trips filled with endemic species and unique wildlife experiences. Since 1997, we've run bird watching tours in South Africa and further into Africa for individual birders, small birding groups and top international tour companies. We've run Conservation Tours in association with the African Bird Club and work with and consult for a number of other top international tour companies and the BBC Natural History Unit.

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