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15 days Bird watching

Safari in Eastern Kenya

Tour Description

This is one of the best destinations for birdwatching in Kenya, and it will take you to one of the best destinations in eastern Kenya. The safari will take you to Amboseli National Park, Tsavo National Park, the Taita Hills, the Mida Greek River, and end with the Nairobi Game Park. It will be an interesting adventure for people who are interested in bird-watching adventures.

Price Includes

  • Accommodation for 5 nights
  • English-speaking guide for the whole trip
  • Fuel
  • Park entrance fees and conservancy fees
  • Meals

Price Excludes

  • Visas
  • Acholic drinks
  • Personal items
  • International and domestic flights
  • Tips
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15 day birdwatching safari in Eastern Kenya

Day One

Arrival at Jommo Kenyatta International Airport for a 15 day birdwatching safari in Eastern Kenya

Today you will arrive at Jomo Kenya International Airport, where you will be welcomed by our safari representative, who will tell you about the 10-day bird-watching safari excursion. After, you will drive to the hotel to check it, and if time allows, you will visit the Kenya National Museum, especially the Birding Gallery, to get insights into all the birds that you will be able to see, and you will further visit the Nairobi National Museum botanical gardens before you return to the lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.

Meal Plan

  • Dinner
Nairobi
Day Two

Birdwatching Safari in Amboseli National Park

Today, after waking up, you will have breakfast and later pack lunch and begin the journey to Amboseli National Park. The Amboseli National Park is one of the most wonderful parks in the country, with a seasonal lake that floods during the dry season. The park features several habitats that enable bird species to call this place home. More than 410 species of birds are found in Amboseli National Park. The globally vulnerable Madagascar Pond-Heron, Lesser Flamingo, Lesser Kestrel, possibly Africa's most sought-after bird, the Shoebill Stork (a one-time record), over 40 birds of prey, and 42 of the 94 Somali-Masai biome species that occur in Kenya are among these.

Meal Plan

  • Breakfast
  • Lunch
  • Dinner
Lesser Flamingo
Day Three

Enjoy the whole day of birdwatching in Amboseli National Park.

Today, the whole day will be spent in the park looking for different species of birds, so you need to wake up ready, have a packed lunch, and later drive to the park for the birdwatching safari adventure. Some of the bird species that will be visible here include the 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-colored Flycatcher, Aberdare Cisticola, Golden-winged Sunbird, and Eastern Double, among other species of birds.

Meal Plan

  • Breakfast
  • Lunch
  • Dinner
Capped  Wheatear
Day Four and Five

Birdwatching in Tsavo West National Park

Yes, Tsavo National Park is an important bird watching area. So on 4 days, we shall travel to these birding areas and spend the day doing birdwatching here in this great park before you drive to Arabuko Sokoke Forest through Taita Hills.

Meal Plan

  • Breakfast
  • Lunch
  • Dinner
Common Kestrels
Day Six

Bird watching in Arabuko Sokoke Forest

Birding is very interesting in Arabuko Sokoke Forest Reserve, and it is considered one of the birding areas found just a few miles from the Kenyan coast. The forest is home to more than 230 species of birds, and some of these birds include globally threatened and endangered species. Some of the common examples of the birds sighted here include 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 East African coastal forests have Endemic Bird Area species. Further, the forest features rare and unique fauna, with six endemic East African coast butterfly taxa found, as well as three uncommon near-endemic animals and amphibians. You will definitely be able to see and enjoy this wonderful safari experience.

Meal Plan

  • Breakfast
  • Lunch
  • Dinner
Plain-backed Sunbird
Day Seven and Eight

Birdwatching through the Arabuko-Sokoke while looking for Kenyan Coast Endemic Birds

In the next two days, we shall be ensuring that we lookout for the birds that will stay along the coast and here expect to encounter several species of birds in this side of eastern Kenya, and these will, among others, include the mouse-colored sunbird, scaly babbler, southern banded snake-eagle, African crowned eagle, little yellow flycatcher, blue-mantled crested flycatcher, four-colored bush-shrike, black-bellied starling, lizard buzzard, crested Guineafowl, Narina trogon, green barbet, mombasa woodpecker, Fischer's greenbul, yellow-bellied, helmet-shrike with a chestnut front, Amani Sunbird, Plain-backed Sunbird, Bohm's Spinetail Sokoke Pipit, Malindi Pipit, and Moustached Green Tinkerbird Gull-billed Terns, Saunders' Terns 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, and Sooty Gull Bee-eaters of Northern Carmine, Zanzibar Sombre Greenbul, Yellow-throated Longclaw, and Little Yellow Flycatcher Other species include the African open-billed stork, the African spoonbill, and the pied avocet. Please get ready to enjoy and meet these great animals, which are extremely wonderful and interesting.

Meal Plan

  • Breakfast
  • Lunch
  • Dinner
African spoonbill
Day Nine and Ten

Mida Creek and Sabaki River Mouth Ensure bird watching experience

Today, you will enjoy the birdwatching at Mida Creek and Sabaki River, and some of the common bird species that you will identify during these two days here include African Skimmer, Madagascar Pratincole, Collared Pratincole, Lesser Flamingo, African Fish Eagle, Osprey, and Zanzibar. Red Bishop Whimbrel, Common Greenshank, Pink-backed Pelican, Whimbrel, Little Stint Sanderling, Terek Sandpiper, Broad-billed Sandpiper, Curlew Sandpiper Plover with a white front, Sooty Gull, Greater Crested Tern, Gull-billed Tern, Roseate Tern, White-cheeked Tern, Saunders' Tern, and White-winged Black Tern Mangrove Kingfisher, Malindi Pipits, and Northern Carmine Bee-eater

Meal Plan

  • Breakfast
  • Lunch
  • Dinner
african fishing eagle
Day Eleven

Bird watching Safari Experience in Tsavo East National Park

Today is the best birdwatching safari in Tsavo East National Park, and this is considered the best and oldest national park in Kenyan history. The park is extremely interesting, and it features 500 bird species. This park also features migratory species of birds and interesting species of birds for the best safari experience. Four globally threatened species have been recorded, including the Taita Thrush, Friedmann's Lark, Lesser Kestrel, and Basra Reed Warbler, as well as seven regionally threatened species, including the African Finfoot, African Darter, Great egret, Saddle-billed Stork, White-headed Vulture, Martial Eagle, and Violet Wood Hoopoe. This will be so interesting and wonderful, making the safari and birdwatching interesting.

Meal Plan

  • Breakfast
  • Lunch
  • Dinner
Saddle billed Stork
Day Twelve and Thirteen

Whole day birdwatching in Tsavo East Game Reserve

For the next two days, you will explore the Tsavo East Game Reserve for the first two days, and this is important because you will spend the two days exploring the best safari experience, which is extremely wonderful and interesting for the best safari experience. There are different species of birds here, and these, among others, include Finch, Cutthroat, 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 Scaly Chatterer, Spotted Eagle-Owl, Spotted Flycatcher, Steel-blue, and Straw-tailed Whydahs Crested Francolin, Red-chested Cuckoo, Black-cuckoo Shrike, Vulturine Guinea-Fowl Gabar Goshawk, Eurasian and Black-headed Orioles Tchagra with three streaks, Eastern Violet-backed, and Variable Sunbirds Sulphur-breasted Bush Shrike, Red-fronted Warbler, Green-winged Pytilia, White-headed, and Blue-napped Mousebirds Other animals include the White-starred Robin, the national Taita Thrush, the Taita White-Eye, the Taita Apalis, Ayres' Hawk-Eagle, Tawny, Steppe, Imperial, Martial, and Wahlberg's Eagles, the Egyptian Vulture, the Bateleur, the Black-shouldered Kite, the Barbary Falcon, Grey, and Common Kestrels. 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 more

Meal Plan

  • Breakfast
  • Lunch
  • Dinner
Common Kestrels
Day Fourteen

Tsavo East Birdwatching Safari to Nairobi, Kenya

Yes, this morning, we shall have breakfast in the reserve, lunch, and then we will head for the game drive. We look for more species that may have been missed in the previous days. After this wonderful game drive, we shall drive to Nairobi for the overnight stay.

Meal Plan

  • Breakfast
  • Lunch
  • Dinner
game drive past an ostrich
Day Fifteen

End of the birdwatching safari

Yes, this morning, we shall have breakfast in the reserve, lunch, and then we will head for the game drive. We look for more species that may have been missed in the previous days. After this wonderful game drive, we shall drive to Nairobi for the overnight stay.

Meal Plan

  • Breakfast
Nairobi