ZOOTHERA BIRDING BLOG

After a fine buffet breakfast at one of those typical safari lodges we birded the miombo habitat at the edge of Mikumi National Park. Bur fi...

Breakfast at 5.30am followed by beginning our trek at 6.10am up to the forest on the ridge for some very special birds. It only took 80 minu...

What a night that had been, with  Fraser’s Eagle-Owl  starting to call at 10:20pm but despite an hour’s attempt I couldn’t locate it in the ...

Up at 6.30am for a nice hot coffee, interrupted by an  Uluguru Bushshrike  calling at 6:50am and we raced off down the trail in search of th...

We left the lodge in the East Usambaras at 6.20am and drove all day to reach Tegtero village in the Uluguru Mountains. Our journey was broke...

Headed down to the Zigi Gate entrance of Amani Reserve and birded the dirt road and despite the numerous motorbikes and other traffic this p...

Up early of course and targeting some really tough, skulking species. We drove just over an hour to a tea plantation and pretty quickly foun...

We had a 6am breakfast and then descended the West Usambara Mountains, driving for about an hour and a half to an area of steep hills and sm...

We had a full day in Magamba Forest Reserve in the West Usambara Mountains, and boy were we looking forward to it. There’s a whole bunch of ...