Birding Safaris
With over 900 species and a large number of endemics, Southern Africa offers some of the best birding on the continent.
Scheduled Departure Tours |
Customized Tours we schedule for you with your group of 2-10 people |
| Birding Namibia, the Okavango Delta and Victoria Falls |
| Birding the Western Cape of South Africa |
| Birding Kruger Park and the Escarpment |
| Birding the Zulu Kingdom |
One of the most bird rich areas of the globe, Southern Africa is home to more than 900 species of birds. There are 113 endemic bird species to be found here, including the strik- ing Blue Crane, Cape Vulture, Black Harrier, Bald Ibis, Black Oystercatcher, South African Shelduck, the unique Ground Woodpecker, two sugarbirds, five korhaans and no less than 15 larks. The Western Cape in particular is home to an impressive list of endemics. Lying south of the Zambezi, Cunene and Okavango Rivers it covers a large area with diverse habitats ranging from tropical coastal areas to the most arid deserts of the Kalahari and Namib, The Namib is the oldest desert in the world and supports a correspondingly unique biodiversity.
In addition to the land birds the coastal waters are visited by a large variety of pelagic seabirds that often nest on the islands of the southern oceans. These birds are a major draw for many serious birders and pelagic birding trips out of Cape Town offer some of the best pelagic birding in the world.
We offer birding tours to Southern Africa with scheduled departures. We can also customize a tour for you with as few as two participants and as many as 10. Although larger birding groups are possible we feel the quality of the birding experience is compromised for everyone involved. Our birding guides are some of most knowledgeable, professional and experienced in the region.
There are a number of excellent birding field guides for the Southern Africa region, most notably the two by Ian Sinclair and Kenneth Newman. While we personally prefer Newman's Birds of Southern Africa for the quality of the illustrations many people prefer Sinclair's excellent guide. It is not often that one has a choice between two such excllent field guides and in the end it is really a matter of personal preference.