If Uganda is on your list of birding destinations, this is a must watch! Our expert guide, Marc Cronje, takes you on a virtual tour, showing you beautiful Uganda and of course the spectacular birding opportunities and finds.
Sharing his personal experience of our Uganda Birding Tour will be more than enough to entice you to join the next birding tour in 2021.
For more info on this or any of our Birding Tours, get in touch with us on info@naturetravelbirding.com.
Birding photographs are certainly some of the most satisfying to browse through. The colours and small detail on every species can mesmerize you for hours. There is only thing that beats this and that is seeing these birds in there natural habitat in real life.
To go birding anywhere in the world is an exhilarating experience, always awaiting the chance to see that one that you have been waiting to see for so long or to see your favourite bird again. And just as you think you have seen the most beautiful or most extraordinary bird, you see one that’s even better…
Sharing some of our favourite birding photographs with you from all over the globe.
Join us on your next birding trip for unforgettable personalized birding experience. Get in touch with our team to start planning the perfect trip on info@naturetravelbirding.com
When you embark on birding tours all over the world you see all kinds of birds and being avid birders, all the sightings are wonderful and exciting.
But there are a few that stands out for not only being wonderful, it’s also exhilarating, no matter how many times you see it. For us, one such bird is the legendary Shoebill.
The Shoebill will mesmerize you, it is just so differently beautiful and unique…
Start planning your birding adventures for 2021 with Nature Travel Birding.
Get in touch at info@naturetravelbirding.com
Did you know that Tanzania has one of the largest species lists of any African country?
Of the almost 1,100, over 800 species are resident and nearly 200 are regular migrants. 21 Species are endemic to Tanzania and a further 43 species are near-endemic. Tanzania’s 80 Important Bird Areas (IBAs) cover a total of more than 167,000 km2 or about 18% of the land area, and the country also boasts 16 national parks and wildlife reserves. In fact, an incredible 38% of Tanzania’s land is protected in parks and reserves!
Just look at the amazing birds…
Except for the extraordinary birding opportunities Tanzania offers that classic “Out of Africa” landscapes, fantastic wildlife (including Big Five), geological wonders, cultural richness and amazing Afro-Arab-Indian cuisine.
Get in touch with us on info@naturetravelbirding.com
Our Namibia, Botswana and Zambia Birding Tour is one of our personal favourites! It’s a birders’ paradise with birding opportunities that take your breath away. We’ve put together a gallery of only but a few of the wonderful birds you can find here.
Get in touch with us on info@naturetraelbirding.com
There are very few birds that bring more excitement when spotted by a birder for the first time than the Pel’s Fishing Owl.
Anticipation fills the air as we quietly approach a possible roosting spot. Slowly….we are trying our best not to step on any dry leaves or twigs that might alarm the birds.
They are a beautiful ginger-colour with a streaked or spotted breast. These owls are large, between 60 and 64cm tall, weighing around 2.4kg. And their striking, huge black eyes stare down at you with a look of annoyance when you have found them at their day-time roost.
The Pel’s Fishing Owl is always a highlight and big attraction on our Nature Travel Birding tours in the Caprivi and Botswana. Read more about our Namibia, Botswana & Zambia Birding Tour, we’d love for you to join us on the next one.
South Africa offers some of the best birding in all of Africa with the approximate 850 recorded bird species in the country, giving birders a wonderful opportunity to spot something very special.
Here is a glimpse of only a few of these beautiful birds.
Get in touch with us on info@naturetravelbirding.com to plan and book your next birding tour.
This unmistakable, unique, long-legged, mostly ground-dwelling raptor with possibly the coolest scientific name (Sagittarius serpentarius, meaning “of snakes) was announced recently as Birdlife South Africa’s Bird of the Year for 2019.
It is quite a special sight to see one of these uncommon birds purposefully striding in the open grassland savannas of Africa, overpowering and eating anything from insects, lizards, small mammals, birds and of course snakes. Interestingly, despite its fearsome snake-killing reputation, snakes actually don’t make up a large proportion of the Secretarybird’s diet.
Check out this pair of stunning Secretarybirds recently seen by one of our guides and his clients while on a South African birding tour.
To experience once-in-a-lifetime sightings like these, join us on our expert-guided birding tours. One of our best trips on which to see the Secretarybird is the Best of the East birding tour in South Africa. For more information on this or any of our birding trips get in touch at info@naturetravelbirding.com.
The Hooded Vulture (Necrosyrtes monachus) is an Old World vulture in the order Accipitriformes. It is the only member of the genus Necrosyrtes and is native to sub-Saharan Africa.
It is a scruffy-looking, small vulture with fairly uniform dark brown plumage, a long thin bill, bare crown, face and fore-neck, and a downy nape and hind-neck. It has broad wings for soaring and short tail feathers. It is a small species compared to most vultures.
Their preferred habitat is mainly open woodland and savanna, also forest edges; it is generally absent from desert and dense forest, except where it enters secondary forest, clearings, settlements and urban areas.
Like other vultures it is a scavenger, feeding mostly from carcasses of dead animals (but unable to compete with larger species, usually taking scraps) and waste which it finds by soaring over savannah and around human habitation, including waste tips and abattoirs. It uses its relatively fine bill to pick meat from between bones after larger species have left, and also uses it to extract insects from soil and dung. It occasionally even feeds on the fruits of oil palms (Elaeis guineensis).
Unfortunately, the species has been uplisted from its previous IUCN status of endangered to critically endangered, since the species is going through a very steep decline in population, owing to various factors including poisoning, hunting, habitat loss and degradation of habitat. The global population is currently estimated at no more than 200 000 individuals.
To see this critically endangered vulture before it is too late, join us on one of our Nature Travel Birding safaris in South Africa soon!
There are few more evocative sounds in the wilds of Namibia than the kor-rack..keerya..keerya..kew of the elusive, boulder-loving Hartlaub’s Spurfowl. This beautiful, monotypic, near-endemic gamebird is one of Namibia’s top targets for listers from all over the world, and not easy to see! We just had to share one of our client’s experiences with you:
“Seeing the Hartlaub’s Spurfowl for the first time is a magical experience and a privilege not easily described in words. My first sighting of a Hartlaub’s Spurfowl was such an experience and something I will never forget!
We set off for a late afternoon walk at Erongo Wildnerness Lodge and searched the boulders surrounding the lodge for any movement, listening for any telltale calls of the spurfowl. Just before sunset, we spotted some movement on a big boulder on one of the walking trails and then heard the unmistakable call of the Hartlaub’s Spurfowl. What a privilege to see 3 of these birds, one male and two females. They entertained us with loud calling and fighting until it was too dark to see them any more and we had to return to the lodge.”
Certainly one of the best experiences on our Namibia Endemics tour and a such a special sighting!
