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Kenya Birding Safaris --
Duma Africa Treks
Day 01:
Arrival Nairobi
On arrival at the Airport met by our representative and later
transfer to a Nairobi hotel. Afternoon guided visit to National
Museum Bird Gallery, Followed by a short bird walk at Nairobi
National Museum Botanic Garden.
Here we anticipate seeing species
like the Variable Sunbird, Bronze Sunbird and the Collard Sunbird, African Goshawk,
Palm swift Baglafetch Weaver, among others.
Lunch, Dinner and
Overnight.
Day 02:
Nairobi – Naro Moru
Today we leave in the morning and head Northward of "the city in the
sky" towards Thika, Blue Post Inn - unique with its twin waterfalls
Chania and Thika Falls provide rewarding bird watching time for
birders'. Here we have an opportunity to encounter with a few
coastal species that penetrate into main land following the River
Tana. We could be lucky to sight the Trumpeter Hornbill, Brown
Hooded Kingfisher, Zanzibar Sombre Green-bull and African Golden
Weaver. Great egret, Ayres Hawk Eagle, Green sand piper, African
green pigeon, Eastern bronze napped pigeon, Purple Crested Turaco,
Green headed sunbird and Black cuckoo shrike .Lunch and thereafter
drive towards Naro Moru.
Unique birds to this area include, Eastern double collared sunbird,
Alpine swift, Black Chested snake eagle, Narina Trogon, Scaly
throated honey guide, Mountain Wagtail, White headed wood hoopoe,
African Black Duck, Grey Cuckoo shrike and Yellow-bellied waxbill.
Dinner and
overnight.
Day 03: Naro
Moru- Mt. Kenya
Spend the day birding at this Mountain Lodge with montane forest.
Rare species likely to be seen include; Green Ibis, Lesser Spotted
Eagle, Harrier Hawk, Rufous Sparrow hawk, Ayre's Hawk Eagle. Black
stork, Red Fronted Parrots, Green Ibis Common snipe, Mountain
Buzzard, Bronze napped pigeon Mountain white-eye, Abbots Starling,
Sharpe's Starling, Mountain Oriole and Thick-billed seedeater.
Dinner and
Overnight.
Day 04: Mt. Kenya
– Lake Baringo via Lake Bogoria
We leave in the morning and head for Lake Baringo with a stop at the
Nyahururu Waterfalls, there are possibilities of sighting
Chestnut-Winged Starlings, Slender billed starling, Rock Martin,
Grey cuckoo shrike around the waterfalls. Proceed on by road into
the Great Rift Valley and onto Lake Bogoria National Park.
It has
acacia-ficus woodland and to the north is a papyrus swamp. Birds
unique to this area include Congregatory of Lesser and Greater
flamingo, Steppe eagle, Curlew Sand piper, Black necked grebe and
Black headed Plover.
Dinner and
Overnight camp.
Day 05: Lake
Baringo
Full day at Baringo with 500 species of birds having been recorded.
Explore this area with field birding around Lake Baringo, its
environs, the Cliffs and the bushes. There are possibilities to see
rare species like, Cape Eagle Owl, White-faced Scops Owl, Jackson's
Hornbill, Hemprich's Hornbill, Brown-Tailed Rock Chat, Nothern Red
Bishop, Northern Masked Weaver and White Billed Buffalo Weaver,
Olivaceous Warbler, Northern brownbul, Jackson's golden backed
weaver, Little weaver, Brown Tailed Rock Chat, Goliath heron,
Northern Shoveller, Verreauxs eagle owl, Bristle crowned starling,
Senegal Thicknee, Pygmy falcon, Blue cheecked bee-eater.
Dinner and
Overnight at camp.
Day 06: Lake
Baringo - Kakamega forest
Leave Baringo after breakfast and head to an isolated remnant of
the equatorial rain forest that once spread over Africa from west to
east. It contains an excellent representation of bird, animal, and
plant species including an array of primates. Kakamega forest's
aviauna is rich and unusual in its composition. Two globally
threatened species reside here, Chapins Flycatcher and Turners
Eremomela.
The aviauna is unique not only nationally but also
continentally; the forest holds large populations of Black and white
colobus and Red tailed monkeys among others. Dinner and Overnight
camp at isicheno campsite.
Day 07:
Kakamega forest
Full day bird walk at the eastern most extension of the great
tropical rain forest stretching from West Africa. This forest is
renowned for its uniqueness and richness in bird life and species
like, Turners Eremomela, Black billed Turaco, Great blue turaco,
Cameroon Sombre Green bull, little grey Green bull, Yellow Bellied
Wattle eye, Purple-throated cuckoo, Hairy Breasted Barbet, Grey
breasted Illadopsis, African Grey Parrot, Square tailed drongo and
Chapins Flycatcher.
Lunch, Dinner and
Overnight at campsite.
Day 08:
Kakamega forest - Lake Victoria
After breakfast head southwards to the shore's Lake Victoria, our
bird walk will be focusing on the Dunga beach Swamp this site is
home to one of the most reliable sites in Kenya for the scarce and
threatened papyrus yellow warbler. Papyrus Gonolek, Swamp fly
catcher, Marsh Tachgra, Jacksons golden backed weaver, Red chested
sunbird, Sedge warbler, Carruthers's Cisticola, Southern red bishop,
Northern brown throated weaver, Greater swamp warbler
Lunch,dinner and
overnight.
Day 09: Lake
Victoria - Lake Nakuru
Drive to Lake Nakuru National Park coloured with a shimmering
flamingo pink from thousands of the beautiful birds lining its
shores. Nakuru National Park, a shallow and strongly alkaline lake,
with surrounding acacia woodland & grassland is known for its bird
life for the thousands of Lesser and Greater flamingos make this
lake their home, among hundreds of other Species unique to this area
which include, White winged Black Tern, Hilderbrants Francolin,
African fish eagle, Steppe eagle, Grey crested Helmet Shrike,
Red-capped lark, Spotted Crake. Wildlife is also in abundance here.
Lunch is enroute.
Dinner and
overnight at camp.
Day 10: Lake
Nakuru - Lake Naivasha
Depart for Lake Naivasha morning bird walk or boat ride (Optional),one
of the fresh water lakes in the Great rift valley. It is a
significant site for Red knobbed coots, African spoonbill, African
jacana and little grebes depending on water levels.
Lunch,dinner and
overnight at hippo camp.
Day 11: Lake
Naivasha
Full day at the
lake Naivasha Region with bird walks around the Club grounds and a
visit to the Elsa Mere field study center. Notable birds unique to
this area include, Gadwall, Spotted Red Shank, Black Tailed
Godwit,Great white egret, Black Headed Gull, Purple Swamp Hen and
Mottled swift.
Dinner and
Overnight at hippo camp.
Day 12: Lake
Naivasha - Maasai Mara
Drive across
plains of wheat and barley to Maasai Mara. The Maasai Mara Game
Reserve is regarded as the most magnificent natural theatre in the
world. Set in the heart of Africa's Great Plains, the Maasai Mara
boasts both animal and animal populations in this unspoiled
wilderness.
Dinner and
Overnight at camp.
Day 13 & 14:
Maasai Mara
Two full days in the Maasai, the extensive grasslands are a strong
hold to the threatened, migratory Corncrake and the near threatened
Jackson's widowbird. The bush and woodlands around the reserve also
hold some unique bird species, more than 450 bird species have been
recorded in the Mara, including 12 species of Cisticola and birds of
prey.
Large numbers of palaerctic migrants winter in the area
including Caspian plovers and white storks. Other local and unusual
birds in the Mara include Rock Cisticola, Rufous Bellied Heron,
Denham's Bustard, Black Coucal, Red tailed chat, Pale Wren Warbler,
Tabora Cisticola, Yellow Bellied Hyliota, Green-capped Eremomela and
Magpie Shrike.
All meals, dinner
and Overnight stay at camp.
Day 15: Maasai
Mara - Nairobi
After breakfast, we drive back to Nairobi arriving in time for lunch
at The carnivore Restaurant where you can enjoy some good game
meat, Farewell dinner thereafter you will be transferred to the
airport in time for your International departure flight.
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