Nkanga River Conservation Area near Choma in southern Zambia, the best site for Zambia's endemic, Chaplin's Barbet, within easy reach of Victoria Falls, Kafue National Park and Lochinvar. The Nkanga Conservation Area is one of Zambia's top Important Bird Areas and boasts a variety of great birding habitats, including Miombo woodland, Munga woodland, and thickets interspersed with dambos, a shallow, seasonally inundated wetland and some open grassy plains. The conservancy is best known for seeing the snowy white Chaplin's Barbet, a Zambian endemic. These beautiful barbets prefer an exclusive habitat of fairly open grassland and low bush, dotted with mature Sycamore fig trees. This area is also good for a variety of fantastic raptors that include White-headed, lappet-faced, hooded and White-backed Vulture, Bateleur, Martial, Tawny, Crowned and Long-crested Eagle, Black-chested and Brown Snake Eagle, Black, Gabar, Ovambo and Little Sparrowhawk, African Goshawk and African Hawk-eagle.

There are also several wetland areas with more good species, including Saddle-billed Stork, Glossy Ibis, Little Bittern, White-backed, Knob-billed and African Black Duck, African Pygmy Goose, Collared Pratincole, Lesser Moorhen, Allen's Gallinule, Senegal Coucal, African Wattled Lapwing, African Snipe, African Rails,Greater Kudu, Sable Antelope, Tsessebe, Puku, Lichtenstein's Hartebeest, Common Eland, Waterbuck, Impala, Common Duiker, Sharpe's Grysbok, Plains Zebra, Bushbuck, Vervet monkey, Malachite Kingfisher, African Scops Owl, Thick-tailed Greater Galago, Honey Badger, Southern Tree Hyrax and Chacma Baboon.

The garden list here is fantastic and includes species like Arnot's Chat, Crested and Black-collared Barbet, Miombo and Greater Blue-eared Starling, Village, Blue Waxbill, Red throated Twinspot, African Hoopoe, Green-winged Pytilia, Meyer's Parrot, Bearded, Golden-tailed, Bennett's and Cardinal Woodpecker, Miombo and Southern Black Tit, Scarlet-chested, Black, Collared and White-bellied Sunbird, Kurrichane and Groundscraper Thrush, Broad-billed and Lilac-breasted Roller, Green Wood Hoopoe, Bronze Mannikin, Pied Wagtail, Yellow-throated Bush Sparrow, ChinspotBatis, Willow Warbler and African Paradise Flycatcher.

In the Miombo woodland look for bird parties that contain Racket-tailed Roller, White-breasted Cuckooshrike, Miombo Pied Barbet, Bennett's Woodpecker, Grey Penduline Tit, Broad-tailed Paradise Whydah, Orange-winged Pytilia, Green-capped Eremomela, Shelley's Sunbird, Cabanis's Bunting, Stierling's Wren-warbler, African Spotted Creeper, and Yellow-bellied and Southern Hyliota. As well look in the grassland habitats for specials like Sooty Chat, Rufous-naped and Flappet Lark, and Croaking Cisticola.

Other Birds include: Crowned Eagle, 6 species of francolin, Streaky-breasted Flufftail, Sooty Chat, Miombo Pied Barbet, White-winged Black Tit, Green Indigobird, Narina Trogon, African Broadbill, Shelley's Francolin, African Broadbill, Racket-tailed Roller, Greater Painted-Snipe, female Pennant-winged Nightjar, Red-throated Twinspot, Shelley's Sunbird,Miombo Tit, Bennett's Woodpecker, Amur Falcon, Cuckoo Finch, African Scops Owl, White-crested Helmetshrike, African Spotted Creeper, Dwarf Bittern, Livingstone's Flycatcher, African Broadbill, Three-banded Courser, Pale-billed Hornbill, Souza's Shrike, Rufous-bellied Tit, Miombo Tit, African Spotted Creeper and Bushveld Pipit.