We have been organizing and guiding professional bird watching safaris in Kenya and Uganda for many years and we believe that we can professionally host your bird watching safari. Like most of the long ago European explorers, used to believe; that " education of a gentleman is to be completed with a Grand Safari Tour to Africa" we believe that every bird watcher should tour Africa at least once and do a 'Grand' bird watching tour of kenya.

Our commitment is to offer you a wonderful and a most enjoyable kenya Tanzania Uganda bird watching safari, that will possibly take you to see the African Endemics; anything from the beautiful Turacos, Mighty Ostriches, Huge Ground Hornbills, and some impressive Guineafowls, Inquisitive Woodhoopes, the elegant Secretary Bird, the rare Shoebill, The Hammerkop, Mousebirds and a great collection of the African Barbets among other hundreds of impressive species. Our tours normally visit most of the Important Biodiversity Areas (I.B.A’s), where we see many East African specialties, as well as Endemics.

In a two weeks safari, we normally record approximately 450 birds species on a comfortable bird watching safari, although depending with the season; we can even record as many as 600 plus species in two weeks. In March 1998 we hosted and guided a birdwatching tour that has broken the East Africa Birding Record with 913 species in one month throughout East Africa on a comfortable birding safari. However our motto is to offer ‘quality’ birding not 'quantity' birding and usually we prefer spending at least 2 nights in almost every place. Some of our bird watching safaris are done by foot, but in most of our protected areas with dangerous wild animals we do our birding in the safety of our special safari vehicles.

Since we are Local Bird Guides, Local Tour Operator and Travel Company and due to the fact that we travel a lot, we know many local birding hotspots than most of the other bird watching companies in Europe or America. Most of our birdwatching tours also visit many places where regular or casual birding groups do not visit and hence ensuring you most of unusual records. We are also the only company in our region, which can be able to take you to some of the places out of the tourist's circuit, as well as provide first hand birds information.

We cater for all levels of birders from amateurs, experienced and serious professional birders to bird clubs, as well as physically handicapped birders. There are also special itineraries for a regular East African birder and we do not mind receiving a list of local birds that you would really like to see and then we design you an itinerary based on your individual target list.

Birdwatching Safaris Day 1
On arrival at the JKIA and be transferred to Nairobi Safari Club Hotel, stay on bed and breakfast basis.

Birdwatching Safaris Day 2: After breakfast drive towards Langata Area, This second night will be spent at the Macushla hotel, which gives a quiet, peaceful stopover in this busy city area. With six spacious bedrooms, two lounges, a private study, bar, pool and dining room, Macushla Hotel caters for both business and holiday travelers. A delicious range of fresh, home cooked meals, served throughout the day, provide fine dining at your convenience. Located close to the Giraffe Manor, Karen Blixen Museum, Nairobi National Park and the Animal Orphanage, Macushla is the perfect place to start your safari adventure.

Birdwatching Safaris Day 3: After breakfast, you'll be picked by your driver/guide and private vehicle to drive to the Great Rift Valley and Lake Nakuru National Park. Arriving in time to check-in at the Lake Nakuru Lodge, a delightful, small lodge with beautiful views, friendly, staff and comfortable rooms with full ensuite facilities, you'll enjoy stunning views over this alkaline lake with its famous flamingos. Enjoy lunch and an afternoon drive in the Park before dinner and overnight at the Lake Nakuru Lodge. Notable game within the lake area is hippo, leopard and of course the diverse bird life. Both black and white rhino are now resident in the sanctuary and Rothschild giraffe, buffalo, impala, eland, warthog, Mountain Reedbuck, klipspringers and Black and White Colobus Monkeys are all plentiful Created in 1961 as a bird sanctuary, Nakuru has expanded to its current size of approximately 200 square km, including the soda lake itself, the western cliff edge escarpment and a sizable area of open Savannah to the south. Nakuru is most famous for its concentrations of both Greater and Lesser Flamingo who feed upon the blue green algae with which the lake abounds.

Depending upon the concentration of the algae, there may be up to 2 million flamingos in the area, turning the entire lakeshore a dusky pink.  With over 400 varieties of birds to spot, you'll never be bored at Nakuru. In the European winter the park becomes an important feeding ground for migrant waders such as the Little stints, Curlew sandpipers, Marsh sandpipers and Greenshanks. Large numbers of Pelicans can also be seen on the southern and eastern shores.Verreaux Eagles can be seen around the updrafts on the western escarpment and other commonly spotted birds of prey include Long crested eagles, Augur buzzards, Harrier eagles, Fish eagles, Gabar goshawks and Harrier hawks. The woodlands also harbour many more species including the African hoopoes, Grey-headed kingfishers and Red-chested cuckoos.
Other species easily spotted within the park are Hamerkops, Ducks, Geese, Falcons, Rollers, Shrikes, Sunbirds, Weavers and Starlings. After a day of bird and game viewing, return to Lake Nakuru Lodge dinner and overnight.

Birdwatching Safaris Day 4: After breakfast depart with picnic lunches and spend a full day exploring the Nakuru National park with your guide. You should be able to spot at least 150 species of bird in this one day, and if lucky, you may reach over 200 species. All meals and overnight at the Lake Nakuru lodge.

Birdwatching Safaris Day 5 Depart after breakfast and drive on to the Mau Escarpment to the fertile plains of the western part of Kenya, close to Lake Victoria. Here you explore the Kakamega Forest Reserve, the last remaining remnant of tropical rain forest in Kenya. A part of the Congo-West African equatorial rainforest, the 45 square km reserve is bordered on all sides by fertile farmlands, making this small area a refuge for a huge number of animals, insects and plants. The Forest itself is incredibly diverse, with over 125 species of trees, orchids, creepers and bushes. The high forest canopy shades the ground, preventing thick undergrowth from forming. Walking is surprisingly easy and one of the best ways to explore the Forest as the animal, bird and insect life is small, but truly spectacular. Over 400 of Kenya's 1000 butterfly species may be found here. Several animals, such as the bush-tailed porcupine, giant water shrew and hammer-headed fruit bat, are found nowhere else in the country.

Colobus and blue monkeys cavort in the trees and shy duikers peer out from the occasional bush. In Kakamega you'll stay at the Rondo Retreat Hotel, a small, privately owned group of cottages deep in the heart of the reserve. Unlike many areas of East Africa, it is safe to walk in Kakamega due to the lack of large predators. There are abundant walking and hiking trails that spread out through the forest from the lodge Rondo Retreat Hotel. As the only forest of its kind in the country, there are many bird species, which may be found here and nowhere else in the country. Keep your spotting eyes open for species such as the Grey parrot, Great blue turaco, Ross's turaco, red-chested owlet, African broadbill and wattle-bill. Enjoy an afternoon walk near the lodge, dinner and overnight at the Rondo Retreat Hotel.

Birdwatching Safaris Days 6 and 7
Walking and driving through the forests, you'll explore all the forest habitats, from the high canopies to the mossy ground. There are a tremendous variety of bird species, ranging through various sizes. Watch for the Giant Plantain Eater or the small, Dusky tit. Birds of prey to look for include the Banded snake eagle and the Crowned eagle. Hornbills to be found are the Black and white casqued hornbill and the Crowned hornbill. Look out for the Paradise flycatcher, Emerald cuckoo, Lemon dove and Yellow white-eye. Other often-spotted species the Blue shouldered robin chat, Green pigeon, Scarce swift, Bearded woodpecker, Green sunbird and Nariner's Trogon. All meals and overnights at the Rondo Retreat Hotel.

Birdwatching Safaris Day 8
Depart after breakfast and Leave the forests of Kakamega behind as you return to the Rift Valley, this time to the fresh water of Lake Baringo. Here you will stay at the Lake Baringo Club Hotel, which specializes in bird watching safari. The colony of Goliath herons attracts many ornithologists, but this is just one of the over 400 species to be found in the area. Lake Baringo offers bird walks, boat rides and game drives-a great deal of variety! Home to a great number of hippos, caution should be paid if walking on the lakeshore! Lake Baringo is located in the middle of a very, dry, arid savannah plain and the fresh water of the lake is a huge draw to a myriad of birds as well as the water birds who are permanent residents of the lake shores. Enjoy a walk along the cliff edges this afternoon before dinner and overnight at the Club.

Birdwatching Safaris Days 9 and 10 Using boats, vehicles and your feet, explore the Baringo lakeshores, islands and surrounding plains. Watch for the huge colonies of Weavers in the acacia trees, including buffalo weavers and white-headed weavers. Tawny eagles, Martial eagles, Wahlberg eagles and others nest in the treetops and feed off the small mammals, dry country game and birds such as the abundant Guinea fowl and Francolins that come to the lake to drink.  Blacksmith plovers nest on sand bars and huge flocks of Sand grouse come to bathe and quench their thirst. Queleas, hornbills, Secretary birds and Black crested snake eagles may also be found in the area. Malachite kingfishers, White throated bee-eaters and various Barbets are all easily spotted as are Variable and Collared sunbirds. Black headed herons, purple herons, Yellow-billed storks, Sacred ibis, Red-billed duck, Cape teal and other water birds are all found in abundance and there are always new species being recorded. All meals and overnight at the Baringo Club Hotel.

Birdwatching Safaris Day 11: Depart after breakfast Leaving the Rift Valley behind you, drive to Nairobi and take your short 75 minute flight to the Indian Ocean and the coastal resort area of Watamu. Watamu is a small village located on the Kenyan coast, approximately 120 km north of Mombasa and 25 km south of Malindi. The area has developed an international reputation for its white-sand, reef-protected beaches, which line the Watamu National Marine Park.  Established in 1968 as Kenya's first Marine Park, Watamu has developed into one of the world's best snorkeling and dive spots.

The Marine Park boasts over 600 species of fish in just 10 square km, although the reserve area itself spreads out over more than 32 square km in total. It is virtually impossible to snorkel in Watamu without seeing at least a few dozen species inside the main reef; divers outside the fringe reef stand an excellent chance of viewing the magnificent whale shark and Manta rays that are seasonal visitors. If underwater exploring is not your style, not to worry! From windsurfing to dolphin watching boat trips, gentle walks to explore the rock pools or simply lying on the beach, the Watamu beach offers something for everyone.

In addition to the Marine Park itself, Watamu is within 10 km of two other special natural reserves, Mida Creek and Arabuko-Sokoke Forest, and one fascinating site of archeological interest, Gede Ruins. You will be collected from the airport and taken to the resort hotel of Turtle Bay Beach Club located directly on the beach. Enjoy an evening of sharing stories and counting up your species list before dinner and overnight at the Turtle Bay Beach Club.

Birdwatching Safaris Day 12: After an early morning breakfast head in to the Arabuko-Sokoke Forest. The Arabuko-Sokoke Forest is East Africa's largest remaining area (420 square km) of indigenous coastal forest. The Forest contains six species of globally threatened bird, three of which, the Sokoke Scops Owl, Sokoke Pipit and Clarke's Weaver, are found nowhere else in the world. Other rare species found in the forest are the Amani sunbird, African pitta, Fisher's turaco, Southern-banded harrier eagles, Retz helmet shrike and the Thick-billed cuckoo. There are of course many other species within the forest, including the Plain-backed sunbird, Mouse-coloured sunbird, Little purple-banded sunbird, Palmnut vulture and various weavers. Whilst taking the time to spot the many other birds in the area, most of your time on this day and evening will be spent trying to ensure that you spot the 'Sokoke Six', which are the Scops Owl, Sokoke Pipit, Amani Sunbird, Clarke's Weaver, East Coast akalat and spotted ground thrush. Rare mammals are also present, including the golden-rumped elephant shrew, bushy-tailed mongoose and Ader's duiker.

Rarely seen but also found in the Forest are elephant, buffalo, leopard and hyena and over 260 species of butterflies. The Forest itself is made up from Cynometra, which forms thick forest and thickets on the red compact soils of the Western area, and the more open, shady trees of the Brachystegia woodland on the Eastern side.
Enjoy dinner at the hotel before you night forest visit to spot the Sokoke Scops Owl and then return for overnight at Hemingway's.

Birdwatching Safaris Day 13: Today you spend on the water, in Mida Creek. The Mida Creek reserve is formed of extensive mangrove forests, warm shallow waters and large areas of mud flats at low tide. This area hosts not only many local birds, such as Greater flamingo, Yellow-billed stork, Great white egret and Malachite kingfisher, but is also the winter home of many migrants such as the Crab plover, Curlew sandpiper, Whimbrel and Sanderling.

The osprey and African fish eagle are often overhead. In the mangroves, you'll find the brilliant flash of the Carmine bee-eater and flocks of white Ibis. Ringed plovers, Turnstones, Oyster-catchers and Greenshanks are all common migrants, spending the European winter in the warmth of the southern hemisphere. Local birds are also common, Grey herons feed in shallow pools and Roseate terns set up breeding colonies on the nearby Whale island; Mangrove Kingfishers, night herons, and the strange Black heron, with its peculiar feeding habit of bringing its wings up over its head to shade the water, may all be found in abundance. You'll have the chance to walk on the mud flats as well as take a boat ride to meander up the mangrove creeks searching for those little flashes of colour that indicate something interesting.
Dinner and overnight at the Turtle Bay Beach Club.

Birdwatching Safaris Day 14: After breakfast you'll have the chance to relax, take a walk on the beach and spend time with guide going through your species list and asking questions regarding the birds and wildlife that you've seen during your trip. After lunch, transfer to the airport for the flight to Nairobi and your onward connection back home.
Price Includes: All transfers, accommodation, meals, water in vehicle, private vehicle and expert driver/guide, park fees and local taxes and photography instruction.

Birdwatching Safaris
The following safari routes for 14 Days Birdwatching Safaris, 21 Days Birdwatching Safaris and 28 Days safari are designed to bring in the maximum number of species in a reasonably leisurely fashion for those birdwatchers on a short visit to Kenya. The estimated species totals are fairly conservative, birdwatchers already familiar with east African birds may well produce a higher species total. All roads and localities mentioned below are freely negotiable; the camping equipment is required, as some areas are off the beaten track in terms of lodges and hotels.
Birdwatching Safaris 14 Days

Birdwatching Safaris Day 01: Met on arrival at the JKIA and be transferred to your Hotel in Nairobi. Staying on bed and breakfast basis.

Birdwatching Safaris Day 02: Depart after breakfast and drive on to Magadi Road,, Olorgesailie, Magadi pools, Lake Magadi, returning back to Nairobi for overnight on bed and breakfast basis.

Birdwatching Safaris Day 03: Depart after breakfast and drive on to Karen, ololua and Ngong forest in the early morning, continue with the drive on to Naromoru River Lodge via thika Blue Post Hotel and old Kakuzi road, dinner and overnight at the Naro moru River Lodge.

Birdwatching Safaris Day 04: After breakfast drive on to Sirimon Track. Mount Kenya area is best for bird watching, Dinner and overnight at the Naro Moru River Lodge or similar.

Birdwatching Safaris Day 05: Depart after breakfast and drive on to Samburu, arriving at the Buffalo Springs for lunch, PM bird watching and dinner and overnight at the Lodge or similar.

Birdwatching Safaris Day 06: Depart after breakfast and drive on to Naivasha via Nanyuki, Nyahururu on to Gilgil arriving /lake Naivasha for late lunch dinner and overnight at the Lodge or similar.

Birdwatching Safaris Day 07: Depart after early morning breakfast and drive on to Nairobi, via Hells Gate, on to Uplands Road and Limuru Pond. On arrival in Nairobi check in your Hotel, PM game drive in the Nairobi National Park if time permits, overnight at the Hotel.

Birdwatching Safaris Day 08: Depart after breakfast and drive on to Voi Campsite, visit Tsavo East park, via Hunter's Lodge on to Tsavo East park, dinner and overnight at the Lodge.

Birdwatching Safaris Day 09: Depart from Tsavo East to Sala Gate via Aruba Dam on to Malindi, lunch enroute, dinner and overnight at the Silversands Campsite in Malindi.

Birdwatching Safaris Day 10: After an early morning breakfast leave for the Sokoke Forest, Mida Creek, back to the Sokoke Forest in the late afternoon, Dinner and overnight at the Campsite

Birdwatching Safaris Day 11: Early morning breakfast, leave for the Sokoke Forest and the Sabaki River mouth, returning to the Sokoke Forest in the afternoon Dinner and overnight at the Campsite.

Birdwatching Safaris Day 12: Early morning breakfast, drive from Malindi on to Mombasa then on to Bushwhackers near Kibwezi, overnight stay at the Lodge or Campsite

Birdwatching Safaris Day 13: Depart after an early morning breakfast and drive back to Nairobi via Lukenya and Athi River pool and dam, dinner and overnight at Lukenya Hotel.

Birdwatching Safaris Day 14: Depart in the morning after breakfast and drive to Nairobi. On arrival at your Hotel where you will be staying on Bed and breakfast basis, PM Nairobi National Park visit.

21 Days Bird watching safari

Day 01: to Day 05 same as 14 Days Bird Watching Safari

Birdwatching Safaris Day 06: Depart after an early morning breakfast and drive on to Lake Nakuru Park via Nyahururu, Camp at the Lake Nakuru with dinner and overnight.

Birdwatching Safaris Day 07: Depart after an early morning breakfast and drive on to Kakamega Forest Station via Kericho (Chagaik Dam and Arboretum), Kisumu including Kisumu Fisheries department.

Birdwatching Safaris Day 08: Stay at Kakamega, visit the Forest, all meals and overnight at Kakamega

Birdwatching Safaris Day 09: Same as Day 08

Birdwatching Safaris Day 10: Leave Kakamega Forest to Kisumu - Kendu Bay and back to Kakamega

Birdwatching Safaris Day 11: Depart after breakfast and drive to Lake Naivasha, via Kisumu, overnight at the Naivasha Hotel or similar

Birdwatching Safaris Day 12: Stay in Lake Naivasha, visit the Hell's Gate, overnight at Naivasha

Birdwatching Safaris Day 13: After breakfast depart and drive to Nairobi, via Upland Road and Limuru Pond, on arrival in Nairobi, visit the Nairobi National Park, Overnight at a Nairobi Hotel

Birdwatching Safaris Day 14: Depart after breakfast and drive on to Voi, via Hunter's Lodge, Tsavo East, overnight at the Lodge or similar.

Birdwatching Safaris Day 15: Depart from Voi, on to Malindi via the Sala Gate and Aruba Dam then to Malindi, arriving at the Silversands in Malindi.

Birdwatching Safaris Day 16: After breakfast leave for the Sokoke Forest, (early morning) visit Mida Creek, overnight and all meals at the Silversands.

Birdwatching Safaris Day 17: Early mornng visit the Sokoke Forest and the Sabaki River mouth, PM drive on to Mombasa Beach on to Tiwi Area for an overnight stay.

Birdwatching Safaris Day 18: Depart after breakfast and visit the Shimba Hills National Reserve, overnight at the Tiwi Beach

Birdwatching Safaris Day 19: Depart after an early morning breakfast and drive on to Tsavo East Area for an overnight stay

Birdwatching Safaris Day 20: After breakfast drive to the Taita Hills (Ngaongao) then to Bushwhackers near Kibwezi, overnight stay

Birdwatching Safaris Day 21: Depart after breakfast and drive back to Nairobi.