Special Species Zimbabwe 10 or 15 Day Tours

15 Day Tour Eastern Highlands, Miombo and Zambezi Valley.

African Pitta
Lukosi
Hwange National Park
Zimbabwe

We believe these are the most accessible African Pittas in sub-Saharan Africa during the breeding season. Only a 7 hour drive from Harare International airport.



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Our guides, Derek Adams and Doug Kok, are passionate birders (and fishermen) themselves, and have decades of birding knowledge and expertise between them.

15 Day Tour Itinerary

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20th  November 2019 to the 4th December 2020

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Day 1: Arrive in Harare by lunchtime, transferred to accommodation* in town.  Afternoon birding in Haka Park till dark.

Day 2: Early departure for Bvumba Mountains with lunch stop in Gosho Park. Arrive at accommodation* in the evening.

Day 3 and 4: Birding in and around the Bvumba National Park. 

Day 5: Depart early for Nyanga while birding along the way.

Day 6: Birding in and around Nyanga National Park.

Day 7: Early departure for Honde Valley.

Day 8:  Full day birding around Nyanga and Honde Valley.

Day 9: Early departure for Harare with a lunch stop in Gosho Park. Arrive back to Harare accommodation* in the evening.

Day 10: Early morning transfer by road for the Lower Zambezi Valley and arrive in Dande Camp in time for afternoon birding.

Day 11, 12 and 13: Full day birding in and around the Lower Zambezi National Park.

Day 14:  Early departure back to accommodation* in Harare with afternoon birding Christion Bank and wetlands.

Day 15: Early morning birding at Mukuvisi Woodlands, then transferred back to Harare airport.

*All accommodation is comfortable with en suite and full catering provided. We cater for maximum six guests at a time. Price is inclusive of guides, accommodation, meals, vehicles, fuel, park fees and staff tips. Drinks are excluded.

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Price will depend on number of birders in the group. Maximum six.

10 Day Tour Miombo and Lower Zambezi Valley.

10 Day Tour Itinerary

Additional Information

4th December 2019 to the 13th December 2020.


Day 1: Arrive in Harare by lunchtime, transfer to accommodation.* Afternoon birding in Haka Park

Day 2: Birding in and around Mazoe and Christion Bank.

Day 3: Very early departure to spend the whole day birding in Gosho Park.

Day 4: All day birding around the wetland and vleis areas.

Day 5: Early departure for road transfer into Lower Zambezi Valley. Arrive in camp with time for afternoon birding.

Day 6, 7 and 8: Birding in and around the Lower Zambezi Valley.

Day 9: Early departure back to accommodation* in Harare with time for afternoon birding .

Day 10: Early breakfast and birding at Mukuvis Woodlands on your way to the airport.

*accommodation is comfortable all with en suite bathrooms and full catering provided. We only cater for a maximum of six guests at a time. The price in fully inclusive of guides, accommodation, meals, vehicles, fuel, park fees and staff tips. Drinks are not included.

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Price depends on number of birders in the group. Maximum 6 .

Special Species around Zimbabwe.

african pitta
hwange national park
lukosi
miombo

Miombo Special Species.

 * Black coucal
* Widow bird yellow mantled
* Whytes barber
* Spotted creeper
* Miombo rock thrush
* White breasted cuckooshrike
* Cinnamon breasted tit
* Miombo tit
* Collared flycatcher
* Southern Hyliota
* Variable sunbird
* Miombo double collared sunbird
* Copper sunbird
* Purple banded sunbird
* Western violet backed sunbird
* Miombo blue eared starling
* Green capped eremomela
* Red faced crombec
* Blue quail
* Boulder chat
* Streaky breasted flufftail ( January, February )

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Eastern Highlands Special Species.

  

* Chirinda Apalis

* Whyte's Barbet

* Pale Batis

* Black winged red bishop

* Yellow mantled widowbird

* Stripped cheeked bulbul

* Cabinis bunting

* Singing cisticola

* Short winged cisticola

* Eastern Saw-wing

* Marsh Tchagra

* Spotted creeper

* Miombo rock thrush

* Swinerton Robin 

* Boulder chat

* Miombo blue eared starling

* Western violet backed songbird

* Bronzy sunbird

* Variable sunbird 

* Miombo double collared sunbird 

* Copper sunbird

* Red faced crombec

* Southern Hyliota

* Robert's Warbler

* Red winged warbler

* Collered flycatcher 

* White tailed crested flycatcher 

* Moustached grass warbler

* Slivery cheeked hornbill 

* Scarce swift

* Pallid honeyguide

* Green backed woodpecker 

* Zambezi indigo bird

* Broad tailed paradise whydah 

* Tree pulpit

* Cinnamon breasted tit

* Miombo tit

* Red faced crimson wing

* Lessor seed cracker

* Orange winged pytilia

* Yellow bellied waxbill 

* Yellow streaked greenbul 

* Blue swallow 

* Grey penduline tit 

* Black fronted bushshrike

* Buff spotted flufftail 

* Augur buzzard

* White breasted cuckooshrike 

* Red throated twinspot 

* Green backed honeybird 

* Livingstones Turaco

* Chestnut fronted helmet shrike?

* Black and white flycatcher 

* Mascarene Martin?

* Basra Reed warbler?

* River warbler?

* Sedge warbler?

* Taita Falcon?

* Eurasian Bittern??