Day 1. TANZANIA BIRDING TOUR:  ARRIVAL AT ARUSHA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, MEET YOUR GUIDE AND TRANSFER TO A GOOD HOTEL

DAY 2 TANZANIA BIRDING TOUR: TRAVEL TO SOUTH PARE MOUNTAINS WITH BIRDS STOP AT NYUMBA YA MUNGU

Early this morning after breakfast, we will drive to South Pare Mountains, first stop will be in Nyumba Ya Mungu Plains, its brush country and its where we try Pink-breasted Lark, Scaly Chatterer, Pringle´s Puffback, White-headed Mousebird, Zanzibar Sombre Greenbul, Pygmy Batis, African Bare-eyed Thrush, Red-fronted Warbler, Tsavo Purple-banded Sunbird, Black-necked Weaver, Southern Grosbeak Canary and Somali Bunting. There are many more widespread and common African species present here such as a good selection of herons & egrets, wildfowls, Augur Buzzard, African Fish-Eagle, Tawny & Long-crested Eagles, Lanner Falcon, Red-bellied Parrot, White-browed Coucal, African Palm & Little Swifts, Von Der Decken’s Hornbill, Red-fronted Tinkerbird, Slate-coloured Boubou, Rosy-patched Shrike, White-browed Scrub Robin, Abyssinian Scimitarbill. Spotted Morning-Thrush, Grassland Pipit, Swahili Sparrow, Yellow-spotted Petronia, Eastern Violet-backed, Hunter’s, Variable & Beautiful Sunbirds, Pale White-eye and Purple Grenadier. After our successful stop here, we will head up the South Pare Mountains later today and look for the endemic South Pare White-eye, along with Hartlaub’s Turaco, Black-fronted Bushshrike, Singing Cisticola, Black-headed & Bar-throated Apalis, African Hill Babbler, Evergreen forest Warbler, Placid Greenbul, Usambara Double-Collared Sunbird, Green-winged Pytilia, and Tsavo Sunbird amongst others. Overnight at Elephant Motel.

Day 3   TANZANIA BIRDS: BIRDING MKOMANZI AREA LATER TRANSFER AND BIRD WEST USAMBARA MOUNTAINS 

First thing this morning we will head to a small woodland just outside Mkomazi National Park, where we will search for species such as Black-throated & D`Arnaud´s Barbets, Eastern Black-headed Batis, Grey Wren-Warbler, Tsavo, Black-bellied & Hunter´s Sunbirds, Fischer´s Starling, Straw-tailed Whydah and more. Once we’ve finished here we will head to the West Usambara Mountains where we should arrive in time for a late afternoon birding session and possibilities include Blue-capped Cordon-bleu, Cliff Chat, Grey-Olive Greenbul and East Coast Boubou amongst others. Night at Muller’s Lodge.

DAY 4   BIRDING TANZANIA: WEST USAMBARA MOUNTAINS – MAGAMBA FOREST

What an exciting day we have in store with a full day birding in the West Usambara Mountains at Magamba Forest. Major targets for us include Usambara Double-Collared Sunbird, Usambara Akalat, Usambara Weaver, Montane Tiny Greenbul, Usambara Thrush, Red-capped Forest Warbler, Füllebon’s Black Boubou, , Spot-throat, Montane Tiny & Eastern Mountain Greenbul (usambarica race), Usambara Weaver and at dusk we will try for Usambara Nightjar.

There’s plenty of other, more widespread species present here including  Crowned Eagle, Mountain Buzzard, Ayres’s Hawk-Eagle, Olive & Eastern Bronze-naped Pigeons, Lemon Dove, Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo, Hartlaub’s Turaco, Bar-tailed Trogon, Green Barbet, Forest Batis, Grey Cuckooshrike, Black-fronted Bushshrike, White-chested Alethe, Forest (Short-tailed) Batis, Cinnamon Bracken & Evergreen Forest Warblers, Red-capped Forest Warbler, Yellow-throated Woodland Warbler, Eastern Mountain, Placid, Shelley’s, Yellow-streaked and Stripe-faced Greenbuls, Oriole-Finch, Red-faced Crimsonwing and so much more. Night at Muller’s Lodge again.

DAYS 5 – 7 TANZANIA FULL BIRDING TOUR: MAGAMBA FOREST, EAST USAMBARAS AND AMANI 

We will have another morning birding in the fabulous West Usambaras at Magamba Forest to mop up some of the trickier species we still need – maybe Eastern Golden Weaver in the lower areas.  Then we will drive to Amani Nature Reserve in the East Usambara Mountains, swinging by an area to try for Coastal Cisticola and Zanzibar Red Bishop. After a bit of a climb our second main stop of the journey will put us in a good area for species such as Fischer’s Turaco, Mombasa Woodpecker, Green-headed Oriole, Pale Batis, Eastern Nicator, Green Tinkerbird, Fischer’s Greenbul, Black-headed Apalis, Lowland Tiny Greenbul, Little Yellow Flycatcher, Uluguru Violet-backed Sunbird, Usambara Hyliota, Plain-backed Sunbird, Red-tailed Ant-Thrush and Red-headed Bluebill.

Once at our camp site the birding could be fast and furious and there promises to be many new species for us. Over these next couple of days we will search for Banded Green Sunbird, Amani Sunbird, Red-tailed Ant-Thrush, Shelley´s Greenbul, Green-headed Oriole, Usambara Eagle-Owl (unfortunately now lumped in Fraser’s Eagle-Owl), Southern-banded Snake Eagle, Fischer´s Turaco, Green-backed Woodpecker, Usambara Hyliota, Tanzania Illadopsis (now split from Pale-breasted Illadopsis), Southern Yellow White-eye, Moustached Tinkerbird, and Black-bellied Starling.

We will also visit Kwamkoro Tea Plantations for 3 special birds: Kretschmer´s Longbill, Long-billed Forest Warbler, and Sharpe´s Akalat.

Amongst many other possibilities during our stay here we could also see Southern Banded Snake-Eagle, African Wood Owl, Trumpeter Hornbill, Green Tinkerbird, White-eared Barbet, Scarce Swift,  East Coast Boubou, Chestnut-fronted Helmetshrike, Blue-mantled Crested Flycatcher, Black-and-white Shrike-Flycatcher, Black-headed Apalis, Little Rush Warbler,  Plain-backed & Purple-banded Sunbird and Placid Greenbul, Kenrick’s Starling. The first night will be at Amani Nature Reserve HQ in basic lodge (1400m), followed by 2 nights camping.

DAYS 8 – 9 ARC MOUNTAINS BIRDNG TOUR: BIRDING ULUGURU MOUNTAINS  

The first target of the day is the patchily distributed Böhms Bee-eater, before setting out on the long drive to Morogoro, (stopping for Brown-breasted Barbet around the town), the gateway to the spectacular Uluguru Mountains (2600m), and our base near the village of Tegetero, but the last part of the drive is on a very bad road so progress will be slow. Once we have arrived we will meet our porters and start walking to the campsite, which is around a one and a half hour undulating walk but not too difficult. Once we are settled in to our campsite let the birding begin!

Our main target will be the mega-rare Uluguru Bushshrike, a species only found in the Uluguru Mountains. But it’s a tough species and will take a lot of searching. Other special species in these mountains include Livingstone’s Turaco, the endemic Loveridge’s Sunbird, Bertram’s Weaver, Sharpe’s Akalat, Fraser’s Eagle-Owl, Dark Batis, Uluguru & Shelley’s Greenbul, Orange Ground-Thrush, Spot-throat, White-winged & Chapin’s Apalis, Striped Pipit and more.

This area and over the next few days could give us some ‘so-called’ padders to bump up our list such as African Hawk-Eagle, Mottled & African Black Swifts, Cape Robin-Chat, White-eyed Slaty-Flycatcher, Angola Swallow, Trilling Cisticola, Mountain Wagtail, Mountain Thrush and Yellow Bishop to name just a few. 2 nights at campsite.

Day 10:  TZ BIRDINGTOUR AT TEGTERO, LATER ADD BUNDUKI (ULUGURU MOUNTAINS) 

There’s still going to be new birds to find before we pack up the camp and start walking back to where we left our vehicles. Then we will drive to the village of Bunduki on the other side of the mountain and camp again for a night.

Day 11: TANZANIA BIRDING TRIP: BUNDUKI – ULUGURU MOUNTAINS.

We have an exciting morning’s birding in the Bunduki area of Uluguru Nature Reserve. It’s a reasonably tough hike to get to the best patch of forest, which gives us options to look for Winifred’s Warbler, Olive-flanked Gound-Robin, Uluguru Greenbul, Chapin’s Apalis, Dark Batis, Loveridge’s Sunbird, Livingstone’s Turaco and Bertram’s Weaver amongst others. Night at Tanswis Lodge, Mikumi.

Day 12: TANZANIA BIRDING TOUR: BIRDING MIOMBO WOODLANDS

We have a full morning’s birding before driving to the very nice Hondo Hondo Camp for the evening try for the Pel’s Fishing-Owl. Targets today include some great birds such as Speckle-throated Woodpecker, Collared Palm Thrush, Hofmann’s Sunbird, Pale Batis, Cinnamon-breasted Tit, Stierling’s Wren Warbler, Eastern Black-headed Batis, Yellow-bellied Hyliota, Livingstone’s Flycatcher, Long-tailed Fiscal, Miombo Starling and Magpie Mannikin. Night at Hondo Hondo Camp.

Day 13 TANZANIA BIRDING TOUR: BIRDING AT KILOMBERO VALLEY

This morning we will explore the flood plain of the Kilombero River to look for the recently described Kilombero Weaver. In this unique area there’s also the mega rare White-tailed Cisticola and Kilombero Cisticola, both of which have yet to be formerly described. And who knows what else is to be discovered in this remote area. Udzungwa Forest Tented Camp

Other open country and marsh dwellers present include Great White Pelican, Reed Cormorant, several species of heron & egret, Hamerkop, Spur-winged Goose, Black Crake, White-backed & White-headed Vultures, Brown Snake-Eagle, Bateleur, White-crowned & African Wattled Lapwings, Three-banded Plover, African Skimmer, Coppery-tailed Coucal, White-fronted & Little Bee-eaters, Lilac-breasted Roller, Grey-rumped Swallow, Arrow-marked Babbler, Marsh Tchagra, Siffling Cisticola, Red-winged Warbler, Zanzibar Red Bishop and Zebra Waxbill amongst others. We will then return to Hondo Hondo for some easy afternoon birding and will also try to find the stunning Pel’s Fishing-Owl and Lesser Seedcracker.

Day 14: TANZANIA BIRDING TOUR: TRAVEL FROM HONDO HONDO TO UKAGURU MOUNTAINS  

Today is flexible depending on what species we wish to target. But it’s going to be a long drive today to reach our next campsite. 

Day 15: TANZANIA BIRDING TOUR: UKAGURU MOUNTAINS. 

Two very special birds bring us to the seldom-visited Ukaguru Mountains: Rubeho Akalat and Rubeho Warbler. The akalat is highly localised in the understory of primary and secondary montane forest in a narrow range along the Rubeho and Ukaguru (and possibly Uluguru) mountains escarpment between 1800 and 2200 meters. And the rare warbler is only found in the Ukaguru Mountains. Whilst here we could also find Chapin’s Apalis, Moreau´s Sunbird, Yellow-throated Greenbul, Dark Batis and Red-faced Crimsonwing. Night in Morogoro Hotel.

Day 16:  TANZANIA BIRDING TOUR: TRAVEL TO BABATI TOWN HOPING FOR NOU FOREST BIRDNG THE NEXT DAY. Asmorein Hotel. 

DAY17: TANZANIA BIRDING TOUR: WHOLE DAY BIRDNG AT NOU FOREST. 

Here, you will set out to look for the Mbulu white-eye, Mbulu robin-chat, bar-throated Apalis, Schalow’s Turaco, orange ground thrush, the beautiful Oriole Finch, Eastern double-collared sunbird, and many more. Asmorein Hotel.

Day 18: TANZANIA BIRDING TOUR: TRAVEL BACK TO ARUSHA FOR YOUR RETURN FLIGHT 

Day 1: ARRIVAL AT MOMBASA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

Pick Up and Drive and stay close to Malindi Marine National Reserve and Sabaki River Mouth, relax here, set your gadgets ready, walk around a bit! 

DAY 2: BOAT RIDE AND BIRDING AT MALINDI MARINE AND SABAKI RIVER MOUTH. 

The Athi-Galana-Sabaki River is the second longest and one of the two perennial rivers draining into the Indian Ocean in Kenya. The Sabaki River Mouth (SRM) – where the Athi-Galana-Sabaki River pours into the Indian Ocean north of Malindi town in Kilifi County – is an estuary with sandbanks, mudflats, dunes, freshwater pools, marshes and mangroves, presenting a unique ecosystem and habitat for diverse flora and fauna. Look for Common Cuckoo, Yellow Flycatcher, Forbes-Waston’s Swift, Bat-like Spinetail, Reichenow’s Seedeater, Upcher’s Warbler, Barred Warbler, Eleonora’s Falcon, Fischer’s Turaco and more 

Day 3: DRIVE LEISURELY WHILE BIRDING TO ARABUKO SOKOKE FOREST AND BIRD HERE IN THE EVENING. 

More than 230 bird species have been recorded in Arabuko Sokoke Forest Reserve. The area is well known for several globally threatened species, including the Sokoke scops owl and Clarke’s weaver. Other sought-after species that can be seen here include the Sokoke pipit, Amani sunbird and chestnut-fronted helmet-shrike. At Arabuko-Sokoke, Mida Creek and Sabaki Estuary birding spots we search for Crested Guineafowl, Narina Trogon, Green Barbet, Mombasa Woodpecker, Fischer’s Greenbul, Yellow-bellied and Tiny Greenbuls, Violet-backed Starling, Forest Batis, Black-headed Apalis, East-coast Akalat, Eastern Bearded Scrub-Robin, Black-headed Apalis, Northern Brownbul, Terrestrial Brownbul, Pale Batis, Eastern Nicator, Red-tailed Ant-Thrush, Chestnut-fronted Helmet-shrike, Plain-backed Sunbird, Amani Sunbird, Bohm’s Spinetail, Moustached Green Tinkerbird, Sokoke Pipit, Trumpeter Hornbill, Mouse-coloured Sunbird, Scaly Babbler, Southern Banded Snake-Eagle, African Crowned Eagle, Little Yellow Flycatcher, Blue-mantled Crested-Flycatcher, Four-coloured Bush-shrike, Black-bellied Starling,Lizard Buzzard, Malindi Pipit, Gull-billed, Saunders’s Terns, Sooty Gull, Grey Plover, Crab Plover, Bat-Hawk Osprey, Western Reef Heron, Lesser Sandplover, Greater Sandplover, Sanderling, Whimbrel, Eurasian Curlew, Terek Sandpiper, Ruddy Turnstone, Lesser Crested Tern, Northern Carmine Bee-eater, Yellow-throated Longclaw, Zanzibar Sombre Greenbul, Little Yellow Flycatcher African Open-billed Stork, African Spoonbill, Pied Avocet alongside more other species. 

DAY 4: WHOLE DAY ARABUKO SOKOKE AND MIDA CREEK.

The forest boasts of a more than 230 bird species checklist including nine globally threatened species, namely; Southern Banded Snake Eagle, Fisher’s Turaco, Sokoke Scops Owl, Spotted Ground Thrush, Sokoke Pipit, East Coast Akalat, Amani Sunbird, Plain-backed Sunbird, and Clarke’s Weaver. Five of the seven species of the East African coastal forests Endemic Bird Area and twenty-three of the twenty-nine species of the East African coastal biome species that occur in Kenya have been recorded here. At Mida Creek, potential birds are; Collared Palm-Thrush Crab-Plover, Purple-banded Sunbird, Pied Kingfisher, Whimbrel, Terek Sandpiper among others 

DAY 5: TRANSFER TSAVO NATIONAL PARK (TSAVO EAST NATIONAL PARK). 

The biggest national park in kenya and among the top 10 biggest in east Africa. Strategically located between the two capital cities of Kenya- Nairobi and Mombasa, and one of the oldest parks in Kenya with enormous wilderness area that was divided into two sections. i.e. Tsavo east and Tsavo west national parks.

DAY 6: WE SPEND A DAY BIRD WATCHING THIS IMPORTANT AREA; 

We feature all the best spots in Tsavo east. We hope to pocket big and small game, Cut-throat Finch, Golden-breasted Starling, African Bare-eyed Thrush, Irania, Quail-plover, Pangani Longclaw, Abyssinian Scimitarbill, Violet Wood-hoopoe, Southern Ground Hornbill, Spotted Eagle-Owl, Long-crested Eagle, Square-tailed Nightjar, Somali Long-billed Crombec, the Eastern Paradise, Steel-blue, and Straw-tailed Whydahs, Scaly Chatterer, Spotted Eagle-Owl, Spotted Flycatcher, Vulturine Guinea-Fowl, Crested Francolin, Red-chested Cuckoo, Black-cuckoo Shrike, Eurasian and Black-headed Orioles, Gabar Goshawk, Three-streaked Tchagra, Eastern Violet-backed, and Variable Sunbirds, Red-fronted Warbler, Green-winged Pytilia, white-headed and Blue-napped Mousebirds, Sulphur-breasted Bush Shrike, Red-billed and Yellow-billed Oxpeckers, Black-fronted Bush Shrike, Yellow-throated Woodland Warbler, Yellow-bellied and Striped-cheeked Greenbuls, White-starred Robin, the national Taita Thrush, Taita white-Eye, Taita Apalis, Ayres’s Hawk-Eagle, Tawny, Steppe, Imperial, Martial and Wahlberg’s Eagles, Egyptian Vulture, Bateleur, Black-shouldered Kite, Barbary Falcon, the Grey and Common Kestrels, Red-winged Lark, Somali and Temminck’s Coursers, Crested Francolin, white-bellied and Buff-crested Bustard, Somali Ostrich, Olive-Tree Warbler, Red-billed Buffalo Weaver, Northern Pintail, Red-billed Teal, Fulvous Whistling and White-faced whistling Ducks, Common Sandpiper, Collared Pratincole, and many others 

Day 7: BIRDING TRANSFER TO AMBOSELI NATIONAL PARK. 

With the breath taking backdrop of Mount Kilimanjaro, comprising of plains, woodlands and rocky thorn bush, great birding experience, elephant and other animals viewing, annual wildebeest migration can also be encountered here.

Day 8: WE SPEND THE WHOLE DAY IN THE FIELD BIRDING FOR AMBOSELI SPECIALITIES.

Taveta Golden Weaver, Long-toed Plover, Red-throated Tit, Collared Pratincole, Fischer’s Sparrowlark, Black-necked Weaver, Fischer’s Starling, Greater Spotted Eagle, Caspian Plover, Yellow-throated Sandgrouse, Black-faced Sandgrouse, Capped Wheatear, Lead-coloured Flycatcher, the skulking Aberdare Cisticola, Golden-winged Sunbird as well as Eastern Double-collared, Tacazze and Malachite Sunbirds, Scarlet-tufted Malachite Sunbird, Alpine Chat, Rufous-breasted Sparrowhawk, Dusky Turtle Dove, Scarce Swift, Cape Wagtail, Cape Robin-Chat, Abyssinian Ground Thrush, Chiffchaff, Hunter’s Cisticola, Mountain Yellow Warbler, Slender-billed Starling and Kandt’s Waxbill, and many more of the 450 species known to occur here

Day 9: BIRDING TO NAIROBI CITY.  

An amazing wildlife and game at the center of Kenya’s Capital-Nairobi! The park is fenced to protect wildlife from direct contact to human. Whereas the southern boundary is open to allow migrating wildlife move between the park and the neighboring Kitengela plains. From big ungulates to the smallest like rodents and chameleons, checklists of over 500species of birds live in the park.

Day10: WHOLE DAY BIRDING IN THE CITY PARK

Look for Von der Decken’s Hornbill, Common Ostrich, Black-headed Heron, Marabou Stork, Egyptian Goose, Black-shouldered Kite, African White-backed Vulture, Augur Buzzard, Tawny Eagle, Helmeted Guineafowl, the beautiful Grey Crowned Crane, White-bellied Bustard, Ring-necked Dove, White-browed Coucal, Rufous-naped Lark, Red-rumped Swallow, Rock Martin and the multicolored Red-and-yellow Barbet, or our first flamingos among many wintering Palearctic shorebirds on Lake Magadi

Day 11: BIRD WATCHING TRANSFER TO CASTLE FOREST (STOP AT SAGANA FOR HINDES BABBLER)  

Reach here and birding in the evening. In Mount Kenya we look for Silvery-cheeked Hornbill, Hartlaub’s Turaco, Rueppell’s Robin-Chat, Mountain Yellow Warbler, and Yellow-crowned Canary. The lodge’s waterhole attracts many mammals including African Buffalo. We’ll spend the early mornings searching for White-starred Robin, Abyssinian Crimson-wing, African Crowned Eagle, African Emerald Cuckoo, and Moustached Green Tinkerbird. A shaded riverside trail may reveal Crowned Hornbill, Mountain Wagtail, and up to eight species of sunbirds, including the stunning Tacazze Sunbird. 

Day12: Birding Mount Kenya today and later drive to Samburu County for Shaba and Buffalo Springs Reserves.  

Day 13: BIRDING BUFFALO SPRINGS AND SHABA NATIONAL RESERVES

White-headed and Blue-napped Mousebirds, Sulphur-breasted Bush Shrike, Red-billed and Yellow-billed Oxpeckers, Black-fronted Bush Shrike, Yellow-throated Woodland Warbler, Yellow-bellied and Striped-cheeked Greenbuls, White-starred Robin, the national Taita Thrush, Taita white-Eye, Taita Apalis, Ayres’s Hawk-Eagle, Tawny, Steppe, Imperial, Martial and Wahlberg’s Eagles, Egyptian Vulture, Bateleur, Black-shouldered Kite, Barbary Falcon, the Grey and Common Kestrels, Red-winged Lark, Somali and Temminck’s Coursers, Crested Francolin, white-bellied and Buff-crested Bustard, Somali Ostrich, Olive-Tree Warbler, Red-billed Buffalo Weaver, Northern Pintail, Red-billed Teal, Fulvous Whistling and White-faced whistling Ducks, Common Sandpiper, Collared Pratincole and other non-bird biodiversity – remember the Northern Special Four  

Day 14: DRIVE WHILE BIRDING CLOSE TO ABERDARE RANGES AND SLEEP AT NYERI TOWN

DAY15: ABERDARE MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK WHOLE DAY. 

Today we explore the alpine moorland above the tree-line, perhaps encountering Jackson’s Francolins, Aberdare Cisticola, as we climb up into the highest accessible Lobelia-covered plains in Kenya. Our targets here include Alpine Chat and, with luck, we’ll find the specialized and beautiful Scarlet-tufted Malachite Sunbird.

Day 16: TO LAKE NAKURU NATIONAL PARK AND BIRD HERE THE REST OF THE DAY.

Located on the floor of the Great Rift Valley and Kenya’s most popular park, supporting great birdlife including flocks of flamingoes, Pericans, Herons and Storks.

Day 17: BIRDING LAKE NAKURU AND GO TO BARINGO IN THE AFTERNOON. 

We will awaken to vast flocks of flamingos, pelicans, and other water birds. The surrounding woodland holds Narina Trogon, Red-throated Wryneck, Arrow-marked Babbler, and African Firefinch. Later after lunch we drive to Lake Baringo.

Day 18: BIRDING LAKE BARINGO AND GO TO KAKAMEGA AFTERWARDS. 

Lake baringo areas are rich in arid-zone birds, where we search for Hunter’s Sunbird, Heuglin’s Courser, Lichtenstein’s Sandgrouse, and Northern White-faced Scops-Owl. At dusk, we should see Slender-tailed Nightjars gliding along the hippo-covered shore. Today exemplifies birding in Kenya. We begin in the sub-desert and end up in the most eastern tract of lowland equatorial rainforest in Africa. First we visit the cliffs near Baringo, scanning for Fan-tailed Raven, Hemprich’s Hornbill, Mocking Cliff-Chat, and Bristle-crowned Starling. Later we explore the Kerio Valley, where we search rocky, scrubby hillsides for Green- backed Eremomela, Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver, Brown Parrot, White-crested Turaco, Pearl-spotted Owlet, and Black-headed Gonolek. Proceed to kakamega forest

Day 19: WHOLE DAY BIRDING IN KAKAMEGA FOREST 

Many of Kenya’s fantastic forest birds are available here. These are some of Congo Biome Species and they include; White-chinned and Banded Prinias, Jameson’s and Yellow-bellied Wattle-eyes, Bocage’s and Luehder’s Bushshrikes, Black-billed and Vieillot’s Weavers, Gray-headed Negrofinch, Red-headed Malimbe, and Red-headed Bluebill among others 

DAY 20:  TRANSFER TO MASAI-MARA NATIONAL PARK, BIRDING ON THE WAY 

Birding en route. 

DAY 21: BIRDING AND WILDLIFE AT MASAI MARA. 

The northern portion of the magnificent Serengeti system, offers spectacular vistas over flat-topped acacia and grassy plains riddled with ungulates and other animals. We’ll spend the days in the western part of the reserve looking for East Africa’s famous Lions, Leopards, Cheetahs, African Elephants, gazelles, and other wildlife. However, birding does not take a back seat, and we should be rewarded with views of many large raptors and vultures that gather at the kills, as well as storks, Kori Bustard, Southern Ground-Hornbill, and other species that suffer from disturbance outside these large protected areas. Other highlights may include Rufous-bellied Heron, Saddle-billed Stork, Temminck’s Courser, Sooty Chat, and Schalow’s Turaco.

DAY 22: BIRDING MARA SHORT TIME AND DRIVE TO NAIVASHA TOWN. 

We will spend the early morning at Mara and afternoon at Lake Naivasha Crater Lake Sanctuary, sifting through vast flocks of water birds, and birding productive lakeside woodland. Some of the species expected to see includes the African Fish-eagle, Giant, Pied Kingfishers, Goliath, Purple Herons, Great, Intermediate Egrets, Wood-hoopoes, Bitterns, Lesser swamp, Little-rush Warblers, Squacco Herons, Coots, Grebes, Sandpipers among others 

Day 23. BIRD WALK AT KINANGOP PLATEAU AND EVENING TRANSFER BACK TO NAIROBI TO PREPARE FOR YOUR RETURN FLIGHT BACK HOME. 

At Kinangop grassland, we look for Jackson’s Widowbird, Long-tailed widowbird, Leveillant’s Cisticola, Malachite and Golden Winged Sunbird, Black-backed Duck, Sharp’s Longclaw and a few more