Throughout the trip, we got to see many birds that were new to us. Both guides could identify birds easily, but James was particularly interested in birds. He introduced Pete to a phone app for Tanzanian birds and since Pete usually sat up front with the guide, James pointed out many birds. Gayle wrote bird names as she saw or heard them in a note on her phone. Later we combined lists and came up with a total of 113 birds seen and identified. Gayle, Pete, and Joyce all took photographs.
Enjoy a few short videos of birds we saw.
The list is below – but first, here are some of the birds we saw and photographed.
Abdim’s Stork
African Firefinch
African Fish Eagle
African Grey Hornbill
African Hoopoe
African White-backed Vulture
Ashy Starling
Augur Buzzard
Bateleur
Black Kite
Black-chested Snake-Eagle
Black-faced Sandgrouse
Black-faced Waxbill
Black-headed heron
Black-shouldered Kite
Black-winged Red Bishop
Blacksmith Lapwing
Blue-capped Cordon-bleu
Brown-hooded Kingfisher
Cattle Egret
Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse
Collared Sunbird
Common Bulbul
Common Fiscal
Common Kestrel
Common Ostrich
Crested Francolin
Dark-Chanting-Goshawk
Eastern Chanting-Goshawk
Eastern Paradise-Whydah
Egyptian Goose
Fischer’s Sparrow-Lark
Fischer’s Lovebird
Flappet Lark
Great White Pelican
Greater Blue-eared Starling
Greater Flamingo
Grey Heron
Grey-breasted Spurfowl
Grey-capped Social-Weaver
Grey-headed Gull
Hartlaub’s Turaco
Helmeted Guineafowl
Heuglin’s Masked Weaver
Hildebrandt’s Starling
Hooded Vulture
Kori Bustard
Lappet-faced Vulture
Lesser Flamingo
Lesser Grey Shrike
Lesser Kestrel
Lesser Masked Weaver
Lilac-breasted Roller
Long-crested Eagle
Long-toed Lapwing
Madagascar Squacco Heron
Magpie Shrike
Marabou Stork
Martial Eagle
Montagu’s Harrier
Namaqua Dove
Northern Anteater Chat
Northern White-crowned Shrike
Pallid Harrier
Pearl-spotted Owlet
Pied Avocet
Pied Crow
Pin-tailed Whydah
Pink-backed Pelican
Purple Grenadier
Red-and-yellow Barbet
Red-billed Hornbill
Red-billed Oxpecker
Red-billed Teal
Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu
Red-knobbed Coot
Red-necked Spurfowl
Ring-necked Dove
Rufous-tailed Weaver
Ruppell’s Griffon Vulture
Sacred Ibis
Secretary Bird
Silverbird
Speckled Mousebird
Spotted Thick-Knee
Spur-winged Goose
Steppe Eagle
Straw-tailed Whydah
Striped Kingfisher
Superb Starling
Tawney Eagle
Three-banded Plover
Two-banded Courser
Usambiro Barbet
Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl
Village Indigobird
Vitelline Masked Weaver
Von der Decken’s Hornbill
White Stork
White-bellied Bustard
White-bellied Go-away-bird
White-browed Coucal
White-faced Whistling-Duck
White-headed Buffalo-Weaver
White-headed Vulture
White-winged Widowbird
Yellow Wagtail
Yellow-billed Oxpecker
Yellow-billed Stork
Yellow-collared Lovebird
Yellow-necked Spurfowl
Yellow-throated Longclaw
d’Arnaud’s Barbet