Tanzania is one of the best places in Africa to watch birds. There are 1140 kinds there, including 200 migratory birds and 74 marine birds. When it rains in Tanzania, the best time to go on a bird safari is to see migrants and locals in their breeding plumage. One of the best places to watch birds is Arusha National Park, which has 400 birds in a variety of environments in a small area. You might see a white-faced whistling duck or a dusky flycatcher. The white-faced whistling duck has a three-note whistling lament.
Tawny eagles and buzzards fly over Ngurdoto Crater, while water birds and ducks hang out at the Momella Lakes. With more than 400 species, Lake Manyara National Park is home to pink flamingos, pelicans, storks, cormorants, hornbills, and many more. Flamingos of both sizes can be found in Ngorongoro Crater, and millions of them gather at Lake Natron, where they breed.
Over 550 species live in Tarangire’s swamps, where you can also find kori bustards, ostriches, secretary birds, and helmeted guinea fowls. On the fields, you can find weavers and lovebirds. Fischer’s lovebird, a small parrot with bright colors that can also be found in Ngorongoro Conservation Area, the grey-crowned crane, and the brown snake eagle can be seen on a Serengeti 500 birding species tour. Buff-crested bustards and spike-heeled larks’ nest on the fields below Mount Kilimanjaro, which is best known for Abbot’s starlings with white bellies and purple capes, alpine hill chats, and scarlet-tufted malachite sunbirds, while lammergeyer live on its upper slopes.
When you go bird watching with AfricanMecca in the southern parks, you can see both southern and eastern species. The Rufiji and Great Ruaha Rivers are great places for mangrove kingfishers, yellow-billed storks, malachite kingfishers, African skimmers, and palm-nut vultures to live. The Selous Game Reserve has over 440 known species.
Yellow-collared sunbirds, huge kingfishers, and ashy starlings are just a few of the 570 species that call Ruaha National Park home. During the wet season, Katavi is home to a wide variety of waterfowl. Among the 268 species that are safe in Zanzibar are the great frigatebird, African paradise flycatcher, forest batis, buff-spotted flufftail, and magnificent Fischer’s turaco with iridescent blue head and wings. Saadani, in Africa, is a great place to see some of the continent’s 400 bird species, many of which are migratory waders. Thirty species of short-range endemics are found alone in the Eastern Arc Mountains.
Mkomazi Game Reserve is home to the Friedmann’s lark and the Shelley’s starling, while Kitulo Plateau National Park is where you may see the blue swallow and Denham’s bustard. Udzungwa partridge, olive-flanked robin-chat, white-chested alethe, and Sharpe’s akalat all thrive under the shade of the Udzungwa mountains’ forested slopes. Among the birds found in the Uluguru Mountains is the loveridge’s sunbird.