Kakamega Forest birding and nature day tour

Geleide rondleidingen Dagtochten vanaf Dagtrips Outdoor activiteiten Tours Natuur & avontuur Tuin- & parktours Sightseeing

The forest is a vital and rare tropical ecosystem. It is exceptionally rich in biodiversity, with over 360 bird species, a high number of butterflies, and primates like the rare De Brazza's monkey.

Highlights

  • home to 360 species, including the endemic subspecies of the Ansorge's greenbul
  • A large variety of butterflies, including the endemic Metisella kakamega
  • a diverse array of trees, plants, and flowers

Description

On the Kakamega Forest Birding Day Tour we visit the best birding site or location in Western Kenya. Kakamega Forest is indeed a world-class birdwatching destination and one of the best birding sites in the entire Africa. This forest is one of the Easternmost Guineo-Congolian Equatorial Forests, which span from the Congo River basin, through Central Africa to Western Kenya. This unique birding biome is full of special birds species that can only be found here. This makes the Kakamega Forest Birding Day Tour one of the best birding day trips in Africa. We shall spend the day walking on forest trails and along major roads. This forest has some easy birding and new species will be easy to find all day. We shall also visit some local wetlands and grasslands where we shall seek more species. We shall then head back home or to the hotel; marking the end to our great Kakamega Forest Birding Day Tour. Highlight birds Grey-throated Barbet, Yellow-billed Barbet, Yellow-spotted Barbet, Hairy-breasted Barbet, Mackinnon’s Shrike, Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill, Sharpe’s Drongo, Kakamega Greenbul, Joyful Greenbul, Toro Olive Greenbul, Plain Greenbul, Little Greenbul, Black-billed Weaver, Vieillot’s Black Weaver, Forest Weaver, Luhder’s Bush-Shrike, Bocage’s Bush-Shrike, Pink-footed Puffback, White-chinned Prinia, Black-faced Prinia, Chubb’s Cisticola, Black-faced Rufous Warbler, Turner’s Eremomela, Uganda Woodland Warbler, Olive-green Camaroptera, Blue-headed Bee-eater, White-spotted Flufftail, Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat, Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat, Grey-winged Robin-Chat, Jameson’s Wattle-eye, Brown-throated Wattle-eye, Yellow-bellied Wattle-eye, Chestnut Wattle-eye, Purple-throated Cuckoo-Shrike, Great Blue Turaco, African Broadbill, Bar-tailed Trogon, Equatorial Akalat, Brown-eared Woodpecker, Yellow-crested Woodpecker, Brown Illadopsis, Mountain Illadopsis, Scaly-breasted Illadopsis, Red-headed Bluebill, Dusky Tit, Olive-bellied Sunbird, White-tailed Ant-Thrush Highlight mammals and others Red-legged Sun Squirrel, Stuhlmann’s Blue Monkey, Mau Forest Guereza, Olive Baboon, Red-tailed Monkey Habitats covered Wetlands, Grasslands, Equatorial Forest

Includes

Transport Picnic lunch Bottled drinking water Entrance fee Hotel/airport pick up and drop off

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