African Birding Tours For Budget & Luxury Birdwatching Trips

African Birding Tours For Budget & Luxury Birdwatching Trips. African Birding Tours is a specialist birdwatching company customizing Budget & Luxury Birdwatching Trips for both world listers and more relaxed holiday birders.

Whether you’re a world lister or just looking for a relaxing vacation birding experience, African Birding Tours has you covered. We will take you to the best birding spots in Madagascar and Africa since we share a passion for nature and a passion for animals, butterflies, dragonflies, botany, and other branches of the natural sciences. We have had a terrific time exploring our home continent, rediscovered species, and shared fascinating findings with the birding community thanks to our guides’ extensive knowledge of African birds and birding sites. Two of our books, Essential Birding: Western South Africa—Key Routes from Cape Town to the Kalahari and the Southern African Birdfinder, are well regarded as guides to the best birding locations in Southern Africa and Madagascar.

Birding is not just a hobby for us; it’s a way of life. We’re committed to providing the highest quality, most affordable trips possible, brimming with rare and endangered species and unforgettable wildlife encounters. We have been providing top-tier international tour companies, small groups of birdwatchers, and individual birders with bird watching tours to South Africa and other parts of Africa since 1997. Among our many clients include the BBC Natural History Unit, various leading international tour operators, and the African Bird Club, with whom we have collaborated on Conservation Tours.


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Birding Uganda – Rwakobo Rock and Lake Mburo National Park

Top African Birding Tour Destinations

The best places in Africa to see birds up close and personal. The most beautiful parts of countries in southern and eastern Africa are also the best places to go birding because of the diversity of birds found there. These are great places that first-time visitors shouldn’t miss.

SOUTHERN TANZANIA BIRDING TOUR

Birding in Tanzania
Swapping out South Africa for a weeklong safari in Tanzania is the way to go. If you can spare at least two and a half weeks, this is a fantastic nation to explore. Tanzania is home to around twenty endemic bird species, and birdwatchers there can see a wide diversity of East African endemics. Gombe, Tarangire, Arusha, Katavi, Selous, Ruaha, Serengeti, Mahale, Ngorongoro, Lake Manyara, and Selous Birding are some of the well-known places to go birding. In Tanzania, you will also have the opportunity to witness the Miombo bird, which is indigenous to South Central Africa.

A group of african birds perched on a wattle, many northern white-crowned shrikes, Eurocephalus rueppelli, and a superb starling, Lamprotornis superbus, found in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

Birdwatching Destinations in Tanzania
Top-rated Important Birding Areas or Spots. This page explains the best birding Destinations in Tanzania; Tanzania is a crucial nation for ornithology. With over 1,000 species, it boasts one of the most extensive species lists of any African nation, with over 800 species being residents and about 200 species migrating often. There are 56 species that are of concern for global conservation, of which 21 are indigenous to Tanzania and another 43 are found in just one or two other nations.

Birding in Mubwindi swamp - Bwindi National Park

Birding Tours for Seniors
Best Guided Bird watching Trip Packages in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania, Kabaira Safaris Africa offers unbeatable African birding trips as one of the most dependable birding companies in the bird tour industry. Uganda remains one of the key birding destinations that toy wouldn’t wish to leave out of your bucket list a country with over 1080+ different birds species, a country with over 25 different Albertine endemic species

Birding in Congo.

Birding in Congo
Due to its diverse habitats and abundant woods, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a top destination for bird watching tours. These forests are home to a large number of species that are unique to central Africa and the Albertine Rift. The eastern region of the Congo, specifically Virunga and Kahuzi-Biege National Parks, is where Kabira Safaris & Tours Africa organizes bird watching safaris. Besides birds, you can expect to see primates and other wildlife on the birding expeditions, which will immerse you in the forest environment.

Birding in Rwanda

Birding in Rwanda
Rwanda is a birders haven with 703 bird species and 29 Albertine Rift Endemics within diverse habitats. 703 bird species are recorded to exist in Rwanda 510 of them are thought to be residents and 183 species are visiting, seasonal migrants, and vagrants. Rwanda arguably offers the best montane birding in Africa made better with the great road network easing access, security, and safety. The country is relatively small in size makes it even easier to visit the birding spots on a short Rwanda tour.

Short Uganda Birding Safaris (Top) Birding Destinations 2021

Uganda Budget Birding Tours
There over 1,060 confirmed bird species in Uganda that birders can expect to see in the boundaries in the country. Kabira Safaris offers all birders whether individuals or groups to have a well tailor made short birding safari that meets their expectations in the best or desired spots in the country. These short Uganda birding tours/Budget Uganda Birding Tours can be undertaken all year round with a professional bird watching tour guide knowledgeable enough to give you each detail of the birds you come along.

Best Birding Safaris - Watching Tours

Luxury Birding in Uganda
long Uganda birding safaris from 8 to over 21 days all through the top birding destinations in search of all kinds of bird species in the country. Whether you are an avid or a novice birder, a professional Uganda bird watching tour guide will help all through the long safari in Uganda. In Africa Uganda is among the best birding destinations with the fact that there a few birding destinations in the world where over 600 bird species are in a single national park. However, Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park has more than 600 bird species recorded within its boundaries.

Birding Safaris in Uganda

Important Birding Areas in Uganda
One of the best things to do on vacation in Uganda is watch birds. Uganda is famous for being a great place to watch birds. It is home to more than half of Africa’s bird types. Uganda is a birders’ paradise for more than just the huge number of bird species that have been recorded there. In many countries, it is easy to get to bird-rich areas that are hard to get to in other countries.

saddle bied stork bird - Uganda birding Safaris (Kibale Uganda Safaris)

Uganda Birding Trip Reports
Uganda is a small but we’ll gifted country when it comes to its birdlife, with a checklist of 1087 bird species the country boasts 10% of the world’s population species, 50% of Africa’s Species, and 70% of East Africa’s Species, With one true endemic species (Fox’s Weaver) the country has 25 of the 26 Albertine Rift Endemic Species like the Rwenzori Turaco, Rwenzori Nightjar, Strange Weaver, Handsome Francolin, Yellow-eyed Flycatcher, Rwenzori Batis among other species.

Birding Tours in Kenya

Kenya Birding Safaris
Only 15 nations in the world have more than 1000 bird species, and Kenya is one of them. Kenya really has 1,154 species that have been reported, which places it third in Africa behind Tanzania and the inhospitable Democratic Republic of the Congo. Kenya has a large variety of bird species because of its diverse geography. Kenya’s physical variances result in a diversity of landscapes and climates, rising from sea level to about 1500 meters (approximately 4921 feet) before plunging into the Great Rift Valley.

Important Birding Areas in Uganda (IBAs) 21 Days Itinerary

Birding Safari, Primates and Wildlife Itinerary
Throughout the trip, you are accompanied by a very knowledgeable birding Uganda safari guide who will help you identify all of the bird species and wild animals during the trip. The 14 days Birding in Uganda Tour is customizable and can be undertaken mostly in the dry season between June-August and December – February. Bird watching tours in Uganda are perfect for avid birders, seasoned birders, groups, families, and solo travelers.

Ultimate Bird watching tours in Uganda

Birding Safari and Primates Trekking
Activities undertaken on this 10 Days 9 nights Safari are Birding, Game Drives, boat cruise and Gorilla trekking. It includes a visit to Mabamba wetland, Kibale Forest National Park, Queen Elizabeth National Park and Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. The minimum age for Gorilla trekking is 15 years of age, however, those under this age and above 6 years of age can undertake the tour and have an alternative activity while others go Gorilla trekking. Itinerary is mostly suitable for all kinds of birders be it luxury, mid-range or budget.

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