10-Day Bird Watching Safari
- Tanzania Parks
Duration
6 Days
Max People
30+ People
Pick Up
Airport
Safari Program Summary
This birding adventure provides an incredible opportunity to discover more about diverse bird species in Tanzania. This fantastic Bird Watching tour in Tanzania begins and ends in Arusha. You’re going to have access to some dry region specialties that are visually appealing, with the Golden-breasted Starling being a standout. It’s a beautiful combination of ecosystems and avifauna, ranging from bushland to high-altitude tropical forests. Anticipate an abundance of bird species, with endemics being a great highlight for any birder, as well as a high number of large mammal species, including the uncommon and elusive African Wild Dog, found at Mkomazi National Park.
Safari Itinerary
Arrival at Arusha airport or Kilimanjaro international airport, you will be meet with one of our representatives or driver guide, pickup and transferred to Arusha.
Accommodation at Green mountain hotel/Arusha Safari lodge.
After breakfast we drive to Tarangire National park, here we start our birding watching before we enter the park, here we see ashy starling , rufous tailed weaver, Fischer’s and yellow collared lovebirds, pangani long claw, banded martin, northern pied babbler, montagu’s harrier, emin’s barbet, D’Arnauds barbet, woodland Kingfisher and lesser masked weaver, knob billed duck, mosque swallow, abbysinian wheatear, red neck spur fowl, white bellied bustard, silverbird, white headed vulture, bateleur, martial eagle, Kenya sparrow, parrot-billed sparrow and Swahili sparrow. Accommodation at Green Mountain hotel / Arusha Safari lodge.
After breakfast, we drive unto the lark plains for the endemic Beesly’s lark and the near endemic Athi short toed lark and short tailed lark, the east african endemics such as foxy lark, red throated tit, Hildebrandt’s, fischers and superb starlings, lyne’s cisticola and many more. Accommodation in Green Mountain hotel/ Arusha Safari lodge.
We will drive to South pare Mountains with picnic lunches for endemic south pare white eye and distinctive paarensi race of bar throated apalis , other birds here includes Hunter's, Gorgeous, Beautiful, Black bellied, Usambara double collared and Tsavo sunbirds, East African endemic East Coast flycatcher, Fulleborns and East Coast boubou, then later drive to Magamba forest in the evening. Accommodation at Muller's Mountain lodge
We will bird here for the Usambara Endemics such as Usambara weaver, Usambara akalat, Usambara greenbul, Usambara eagle owl, Usambara hyliota, Usambara nightjar, others include Mountain tiny and Shelley's greenbuls, Red faced crimson wing, White chested alethe, Spot throat, Southern yellow white eye, Malachite sunbird, Grey headed negrofinch, Bar tailed and Narina trogon, Purple crested and Livingstone turacos, Green barbet and many more. Accommodation at Muller's Mountain lodge
We will leave Magamba early and arrive in Amani before lunch then after lunch do an evening birding, the following day we will do a proper birding here for birds such as near endemic Amani and Plain-backed sunbirds, Sokoke pipit, Sokoke scops owl, Red tailed ant thrush, Olive woodpecker, Sharpe's akalat, Usambara blue bill, Usambara tailor bird, Black fronted and Gorgeous bushshrikes, Green headed oriole,Grey headed silverbill, Oriole finch, Bohm's and Mottled spine tails, Forbe-Watsons swifts, Barred owl, Brown headed parrot, Yellow throated woodland warbler, Olive ibis, Grey and Black cuckoo shrikes, Pale illadopsis, Eastern Nicator, Lowland tiny greenbul, East Coast akalat, East Coast batis and many others. Accommodation at Camp Mawingu
We will leave our lodge with picnic lunches then drives towards the well wooded area at Elephant Motel near Mkomazi National park, looking for birds such as Golden breasted starling, Tanzania red billed and Eastern yellow billed hornbills, Marico and black bellied sunbirds, Eastern paradise, Pin-tailed, Steel-blue and Straw-tailed whydahs, Shelley's and Magpie starlings, Indian house crow, Pale Prinia and others. We will have our lunch and later drive to Arusha, Accommodation at Green mountain hotel/ Arusha Safari lodge
After breakfast, we drive to Airport and fly back home.
Program Price Per person
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Price Includes and Excludes:
- 4WD Toyota safari Land cruiser, special made for game viewing
- Professional & experience driver safari guide.
- Pick up from Arusha and start the safari
- Accommodation and meals full board, double room sharing, while on safari
- Park fees
- Unlimited Game drive during safari as per the above itinerary
- Bottled water through out during game drives.
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- International and domestic flights
- Tips for guides, drivers.
- Any Private Expenses
- Beverages and alcohol
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