Caprivi Birding Tour November 2023

Depending on your mode of transport and port of entry, we will arrange a transfer for you to Katima Mulilo, where your guide will meet you at around noon.

We will spend the afternoon birding the riverine woodlands of the Zambezi River and we will embark on a sunset bird cruise in search of African Finfoot, Half-collared Kingfisher and with luck, Pel's Fishing Owl.

Some other targets in the area will include Arnot’s Chat, Schalow’s Turaco, Coppery-tailed Coucal, Emerald Cuckoo, White-breasted and Black Cuckoo-shrike, Lizard Buzzard, Ovambo Sparrowhawk, African Goshawk, Ayres’s Hawk-Eagle, Pygmy Goose, African Rail, Baillon’s Crake, Rufous-bellied and Purple Heron, Slaty Egret, Rosy-throated Longclaw, Lesser Jacana, Lesser Moorhen, Luapula Cisticola, African, Montagu’s and Pallid Harrier, Whiskered and White-winged Terns, Eastern Nicator, Jameson’s Firefinch, Three-banded Courser, Thick-billed Cuckoo, Western-banded Snake Eagle, Shelley’s Sunbird, Yellow-throated Leaflove, Trumpeter Hornbill, Yellow-throated Sandgrouse.

Today we will spend the day exploring the eastern floodplains and look for Rosy-throated Longclaw, Yellow-throated Sandgrouse, Shelly's Sunbird, Slaty Egret, Rufous-bellied Heron, Black Coucal and various Bee-eater and Cisticola species to name a few.

Today we head West to the Kwando River

Our main targets along the Kwando area will be Racket-tailed Roller, Arnot’s Chat, Dickenson’s Kestrel, Slaty Egret, Rosy-throated Longclaw, Black and Coppery tailed Coucal, Fawn-coloured and Flappet Lark, Chirping Cisticola, Western Banded Snake Eagle, African Wood Owl, Pennant-winged and Swamp Nightjar, Wattled Crane, Shelley’s, Coppery and Purple-banded Sunbirds, Southern Carmine Bee-eater, Orange-winged Pytilia, Ovambo Sparrowhawk, Lesser Jacana, Allen’s Gallinule, Western Yellow Wagtail, Retz’s Helmetshrike, Miombo Wren Warbler, African Pygmy Goose, Lesser Moorhen, Bradfield’s Hornbill.

We continue westward and veer off to where the Panhandle begins at Mahango Game Reserve. During the next few days we will bird the surrounding parks in search of the local specials.

Our main targets in this area will include African Barred Owlet, Bennett’s Woodpecker, Grey-hooded Kingfisher, Western-Banded Snake-Eagle, , Chirping and Luapula Cisticola, Greater Swamp Warbler, White-backed Night Heron, Slaty Egret, Goliath Heron, Wattled Crane, Swainson’s and Red-billed Spurfowls, Meve’s Starling, Southern Carmine Bee-eater, Sharp-tailed Starling, Rufous-bellied Heron, Pink-backed Pelican, Dickenson’s Kestrel, Ayre’s Hawk Eagle, Pel’s Fishing owl, White-headed Vulture, Shelley’s Sunbird, Coppery-tailed Coucal, White-breasted Cuckoo-shrike , African Pygmy Goose.

After breakfast we will continue towards Rundu with regular birding stops en-route. Our main targets around Rundu will include Rufous-bellied Tit, Sharp-tailed Starling, Souza’s Shrike, Baillon’s Crake, Marsh Owl, Hartlaub’s, Black Faced and Arrow-marked Babbler, Brown-backed and Green-backed Honeyguide, Tinkling Cisticola, African Golden Oriole, Coppery-tailed and Senegal Coucal, Southern Carmine Bee-eaters, Square-tailed and Swamp Nightjar, Bradfield’s Hornbill, Green-capped Eremomela, African Hobby, Lesser Jacana, Allen’s Gallinule and Ayre’s Hawk Eagle.

We will do some early morning birding at the surrounding wetlands and sewerage works before parting ways. Caprivi Adventures will collect you and drive you back to Katima Mulilo. Depending on your port of exit and mode of transport we will arrange your departing transfer accordingly. Please note that only breakfast and the transfer from Rundu to Katima is included. Lunch, dinner, accommodation and departing transfer will be added accordingly.