Africa birding tours and holidays: our Best of Africa birding tours and holidays is a splendid way of seeing this marvelous and highly scenic country’s many endemic birds, not to mention some great mammals. Africa birding tours and holidays packages offer the quintessential Africa birding tours and holidays experience thanks to vast wilderness areas, impressive quality and diversity of species.  Among the most impressive of the continent’s innumerable wildlife spectacles are the flamingoes on Rift Valley lakes, water birds in deltas, rivers and lakes of Africa to raptors on open plains. Africa really does impress with its birding holidays and it is not unusual to record more than 100 species in a day.

Kenya has one of the richest avifaunas in Africa with around 1090 bird species recorded. At least eight of these are national endemics. Around 170 species of Kenya’s birds species are Palearctic migrants (11 species of them with a local breeding population too), mainly from Eastern Europe, Russia, the middle East and Siberia. Another 60 species migrate regularly within the Afrotropics or from Madagascar. Some 335 species are found in forest; 230 species are entirely forest dependent.

Kenya has over 1,000 species of birds and is a paradise for birdwatchers that will have the added bonus of also seeing the big game animals for which Kenya is famous. On this safari you can expect to identify at least 200 different species of birds.  Kenya birding tours: In best safari holidays & Masai Mara forest birding visit holidays. For unspoiled bird species with Masai Mara safari & top forest watching nature trails in Lake Nakuru, Lake Naivasha & Lake Victoria Kenya

Stunning birds like kingfishers, rollers, guineafowl, starlings, sunbirds, barbets, hornbills, bushshrikes and bee-eaters can be seen as can a rich diversity of raptors. Bataleur, snake eagle, martial eagle, fish eagle, falcons, buzzards and goshawks aplenty. The waterbirding safari is among the worlds finest with wetlands throughout Africa supporting a wealth of wonderful birdlife. Storks, herons, shorebirds, pelicans, waterfowl to name a few.