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Kenya Birding Safaris --
Duma Africa Treks
Day 01:
Nairobi
On arrival at the Airport met by our representative and later
transferred to Nairobi Safari Club 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,
woodpeckers, 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 before our lunch time
at Blue Post Inn Hotel/Similar.
Later in the afternoon we leave Thika and climb high until the
slopes of Mt Kenya, Naro Moru where mountain forest gives way to
valley grassland. 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
We will spend the whole and 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 stay will be at Sweet waters tented
camp.
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.
The
Reserve's herd of the rare Greater Kudu makes it unique and other
game to view. The south shore of Lake Bogoria 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.
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.
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 primate Kakamega forest's
aviauna 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.
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 Kakamega golf hotel.
Day 08:
Kakamega forest - Lake Victoria
Leave after breakfast and 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
Leave for 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 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, dinner and
overnight.
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 rift valley. It's unique in that
its' freshness is maintained by a combination of underground out
flow and sedimentation of salts. The lake supports a diverse
water-bird community, with more than 80 species recorded regularly.
It is a significant site for Red knobbed coots, African spoonbill,
African jacana and little grebes depending on water levels. Meals at
Elsamere.
Day 11: Lake
Naivasha
Full day at the
lake Naivasha environs 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.
Day 12: Lake
Naivasha - Maasai Mara
Drive across
wheat and barley plains to Maasai Mara. The Maasai Mara Game Reserve
is regarded as the most magnificent natural theatre in the world
with both bird and wildlife population at its best.
Dinner and
Overnight at Mara leisure.
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.
Dinner and
overnight at Mara leisure.
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,
Check-in to day room at Nairobi hotel. Farewell dinner later at the
carnivore for a meat eating venture. Thereafter you will be
transferred to the airport in time for your International departure
flight.
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