Catch your local flights from dar es Salaam to Mbeya city
Catch your local flights from dar es Salaam to Mbeya city
Full day birding in Kitulo Np
We will majorly bird for our target species such as Plateau lark, churring cisticola, buff shouldered widowbird, Tanzanian seedeater,Denham's bustard and yellow browed seedeater.We will overnight at Kalongo farm
Poroto forest and drive to Laela town/Sumbawanga
We will leave early from kalongo farm and drive to poroto forest and bird for black browed/southern mountain greenbul which should take less than an hour to locate, others that are there includes chapin's apalis and forest double collared sunbirds. We will then take a long drive to Laela /sumbawang town
Full days in Loazi-kalambo forest preserve
The kalambo preserve is characterized by miombo woodlands,marshyvalleys and lush forest which mainly host species which are of central african biome than east african. We will search for Laura's woodland warbler,bubbling starling,black lored cisticola,anchieta's sunbird,Alexander's akalat,Tanganyika masked weaver,reichard's seedeater,olive headed weaver,others includes southern black tit, western miombo sunbird,great crested grebe,locust finch,red capped crombec,angola lark,western citril,fulleborns longclaw and brown firefinch . We will spend the nights in Sumbawanga town
Lake Rukwa We will drive to the nearby Lake Rukwa,one deepest lakes in the world.
Here we will bird for the rare striped crake,black winged praticole,bennett's woodpecker,marsh tchagra, reichenow's woodpecker,black-bellied seedcracker and others which worth a mention includes the rukwensi race of white-tailed larks, Eurasian bittern,baillon's crake,black crowned and wattled cranes, another chance for tanganyika masked weaver and more-Overnight in Lake shore lodge
Ugalla river National park
The ugalla river is located 50 Km east of katavi national park and it hosts a number of species such as chestnut headed flufftail,streaked breasted flufftail,white-crowned lapwing,wattled cranes,african darter,openbill,white backed ducks,goliath and purple herons,great snipe, saddled billed storks,shoebill and more-Night in Katavi town
Mahale mountains np to Kigoma and flight back to Dar es Salaam/Arusha
We will bird in the morning and later lake a boat to Ujiji and then drive to Kigoma and catch a flight to either Dar or Arusha
