Arrival and bird in Arusha
We will pick you at Kilimanjaro International Airport and drive you to Arusha at Ngaresero lodge and do birding there for highland forest birds then overnight there
South Pare Mountains to Magamba Forest
We will drive to South pare Mountains with picnic lunches for endemic south pare white eye and distinctive paarensi race of bar throated apalis , other birds here includes Hunter's, Gorgeous, Beautiful, Black bellied, Usambara double collared and Tsavo sunbirds, East African endemic East Coast flycatcher, Fulleborns and East Coast boubou, then later drive to Magamba forest in the evening.
Accommodaction;Night at Muller's Mountain lodge
Magamba Forest-West Usambara
We will bird here for the Usambara Endemics such as Usambara weaver, Usambara akalat, Usambara greenbul, Usambara eagle owl, Usambara hyliota, Usambara nightjar, others include Mountain tiny and Shelley's greenbuls, Red faced crimsong wing, White chested alethe, Spot throat, Southern yellow white eye, Malachite sunbird, Grey headed negrofinch, Bar tailed and Narina trogon, Purple crested and Livingstone turacos, Green barbet and many more.
Accommodaction;Night at Muller's Mountain lodge
Amani Nature Reserve East Usambara
We will leave Magamba early and arrive in Amani before lunch then after lunch do an evening birding, the following day we will do a proper birding here for birds such as near endemic Amani and Plain-backed sunbirds, Sokoke pipit, Sokoke scops owl, Red tailed ant thrush, Olive woodpecker, Sharpe's akalat, Usambara blue bill, Usambara tailor bird, Black fronted and Gorgeous bushshrikes, Green headed oriole,Grey headed silverbill, Oriole finch, Bohm's and Mottled spine tails, Forbe-Watsons swifts, Barred owl, Brown headed parrot, Yellow throated woodland warbler, Olive ibis, Grey and Black cuckoo shrikes, Pale illadopsis, Eastern Nicator, Lowland tiny greenbul, East Coast akalat, East Coast batis and many others.Night at Emau hill or Amani Rest House
Arusha via Elephant Motel
We will leave our lodge with picnic lunches there drives toards the well wooded area at Elephant Motel near Mkomazi National Park looking for birds such as Golden breasted staling , Tanzania red billed and Eastern yellow billed hornbills, Marico and black bellied sunbirds , Eastern paradise, Pintailed, Steelblue and Straw tailed whydahs , Shelley's and Magpie starlings, Indian house crow, Pale Prinie and other . We will have our lunch and later drive to Arusha for a drop off.
