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Birders' Survey
Birdwatch magazine readers
voted Birding Africa as one of the top 5 most recommended bird tour companies in the world. Birding Africa includes Cape Town Pelagics. (Click
here
for more survey details.)
Highlighted Tours 2023 - with space available
Atlantic Islands - Cape Verde: 24-30 April
Atlantic Islands - Azores, Madeira, Canary: 1-13 May
Angola - Comprehensive: 8-26 October - GUARANTEED
Madagascar - Endemics & Lemurs: 14 Nov-5 Dec
South Africa - Ultimate Endemics: 18 Nov-10 Dec
E-mail us
for details.
Small Group Tours
Our South Africa
(Cape to Kruger and Ultimate Endemics), Tanzania
(Serengeti Birds and Wildebeest) and Uganda
(Green-breasted Pitta and Shoebill) tours have a maximum of 6 participants only!
News
January 2023: Tertius Gous will lead our 2023 Madagascar Endemics & Lemurs Tour in November. We have a couple of spaces still available!
Here's our 2022 Tour Report.
December 2022: Merry Christmas and very best New Year's wishes to all our guests and friends. Hope 2023 brings exciting birds and travel. After a busy second half of the year, we're catching up with tour reports and our 2023 - 2026 planning and will upload new tours and reports in the new year. If you can't find what you're after on the calendar, please drop us a line for dates and info.
December 2022: Madagascar tour report added!
April 2022: Click here for our new Gabon tour looking for African River Martin in October 2022. Read our 2021 Gabon tour report.
January 2022: We have space on our 6 day post-Flock Cape Endemics Tour scheduled from 1 - 6 February 2022. E-mail us for the full itinerary.
December 2021: Happy holidays and best wishes for a hopeful new year to all our guests and supporters!
November 2021: We are adding a second Upper Guinea Endemics tour in January 2023.
October 2021: A very warm welcome to Daniel Engelbrecht
who joins the Birding Africa team. Daniel is based in Polokwane, Limpopo. Read more
about our Polokwane tours.
July 2021: Callan Cohen speaking at the Virtual African Bird Fair
on "Africa's most sought after birds (and tips to find them)."
New tour added: Ghana in January 2022 before the BirdLife Flock Cruise.
Read Michael Mills' Kenya tour report
and Uganda tour report
from May and June 2021 respectively.
December 2020: Merry Christmas and best wishes for a hopeful new year to all our guests and supporters!
December 2020: Would you like a chance to see South Africa's most elusive mammals, Aardvark and Black-footed Cat? Join Michael Mills from 11 - 17 March 2021 for Birding Africa's 2nd Karoo Mammals and Birds Tour.
Read the report from the 1st tour HERE.
October 2020: Join Michael Mills for Southern Kruger Birding and mammals, from 14 - 20 November 2020. Timed to coincide with the peak of bird breeding and arrival of many migrants, this tour gives
a chance of seeing a wide range of local specials.
September 2020: Would you like a chance to see South Africa's most elusive mammals, Aardvark and Black-footed Cat? Join Michael Mills from 30 October - 5 November 2020 for Birding Africa's Karoo Mammals and Birds Tour.
September 2020: BirdLife South Africa's Flock to Marion Voyage has been postponed to 24-31 January 2022. Click for details of the cruise and our pre- and post- Flock tours.
July 2020: Birding Africa Local Guide Support Programme.
As a company, we believe it is critical to support local communities by using the services of local guides throughout Africa and Madagascar. During these unprecedented times, the disruptions to tourism have removed the income of most of the guides we use. A few have reached out to us for support, even to help feed their families, as government support systems in these areas barely exist. We feel a strong sense of personal obligation to support these people that have supported us through the years, with whom we have established personal relationships and who provide important services to birders and enrich our travels.
We have set up a system to make monthly payments and if you would like to join us in financially supporting a select group of local guides that we trust and use on our tours, please email callan@birdingafrica.com. We are currently making plans to send funds to people in Madagascar and Uganda, and depending on the response received will reach out to other guides who may be in need of assistance.
June 2020: Please read our COVID-19 UPDATE and how at Birding Africa, we've kept working as a team, and have been using the change of focus to improve what we do, and to plan ahead.
April 2020: Coronavirus impacts the livelihoods of South African bird guides. Birding Africa supports BirdLife's Community Bird Guide Relief Fund and encourages those who have used community bird guides to do the same! See http://www.birdlife.org.za/birdlife-guide-relief-fund/ to donate. Thank you!
April 2020: New tour report from our ground-breaking Liberia and Sierra Leone tour, with details of the 2023 trip
to look for more Upper Guinea endemics than any other offered.
April 2020: Tertius Gous led our June 2019 fly-in safari to Botswana
and southern Zambia, including the Okavango Delta, Chobe & Victoria Falls. His trip report describes the 10 day itinerary as perfect for capturing some of the best scenery, birding and game viewing the region has to offer. Ask us
about our next safari to Botswana.
Feb 2020: Our first trip to Senegal and Gambia
in January 2019 netted a good selection of of localised and rarely-seen specials. Contact us
for a private trip.
Jan 2020: African Pitta now a target on our Angola Endemics Tour!
Jan 2020: Michael Mills describes and details species seen during our Ultimate Zambia (including Pitta) Tour
which took place from November to December 2019.
01 January, 2020: Happy New Year to all our birding friends around the world! May you enjoy health and happiness; and many wonderful birding experiences during 2020!
Nov 2019: Michael Mills' Comprehensive Angola tour report
with full annotated species list is now online.
July 2019: See our new 18-day Comprehensive Ghana itinerary with the first tour scheduled for January 2021 to be led by Michael Mills. Ghana
offers outstanding lowland forest birding, and an excellent selection of West African savanna birds at Mole National Park. This is the best tour on which to see picathartes, with two chances planned to see these great birds!
February 2019: Tour leader & photographer Tertius Gous's illustrated trip report now appears online: Okavango, Wild Dogs, Chobe and Victoria Falls Fly-in Safari July 2017.
December 2018: Tour leader Michael Mills 2018 trip reports now online: Angola Endemics, Malawi Endemics
and Comores.
For previous updates, please visit our News
Archives.
Why choose Birding Africa
Birdwatch magazine readers voted
Birding Africa as one of the top
5 most recommended bird tour companies in the world.
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 13 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...
See Rockrunner on a Namibia
Birding Tour © Ian Merrill.
Yellow-headed Picathartes
(White-necked Rockfowl) can be seen on a
Birding Africa tour to
Ghana © Callan Cohen
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