To be precise, Birdwatching East Africa, is a small, locally owned safari company specializing in both custom-made birdwatching, wildlife photography, botany, prehistory among all-round natural history safaris for private groups and set departures in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda.

Run by avid birders, field ornithologists, botanist and all-around naturalists, photographers and conservationists. The guides are out on safari with you to share not only the rich avian diversity but the entire natural history, may it be prehistory, butterflies, reptiles, cultures or big mammals as usual.

One of our clients wrote:

A letter to "Africa Birds & Birding" magazine discussing which city in Africa is a birding city

“Whilst I would like to be able to claim Johannesburg as the top spot, I feel that this must go to Nairobi. In April this year a fellow birder, Maurice Britten, and I were fortunate enough to have a weekend off during a two week project in Nairobi. Hoping to do a bit of relaxing birding at the weekend we contacted Chege Kariuki of Birdwatching East Africa, whose details we had found in an earlier issue of Birds & Birding, and arranged for him to pick us up at our hotel at about 06h30 on the middle Saturday.

This he duly did in a well fitted, and provisioned, combi type vehicle and within 30 minutes we were at the gate of the Nairobi National Park. For the next eleven hours we had a feast of birding and nature watching, all within sight of the skyline of Nairobi. Chege’s knowledge of the birds to be found in the Park is enormous and we identified more than 150 species during our day. In addition there were numerous animals with the high spots being sightings of leopard and cheetah. Not bad for a 30 minute drive from the centre of the city!! It was a truly memorable day.”

John Gabriel,
Parktown North, Johannesburg, South Africa.

We also specialize in finding difficult, localized, endemics, near endemics and specialties birds such Heuglin's Bustard, Jackson's Hornbill, White-headed Mousebird, Hinde's Pied Babbler, Sharpe's Longclaw, Chapin's Flycatcher, Aberdare Cisticola, Coastal Cisticola, Hunter's Cisticola, Ashy Cisticola, Lyne's Cisticola, Black-collared Apalis, Black-throated Apalis, Pale Prinia, Turner's Eremomela, Somali Crombec, Abbott's Starling, Olive Ibis, Grey-crested Helmet Shrike, William's Lark, Athi Short-toed, Friedmann's Lark, MaskedLark, Collared Lark, Taita Thrush, Taita Apalis, Red-naped Bush Shrike, Long-tailed and Taita Fiscal, Pringle's Puffback, Three-streaked Tchagra, Golden-winged Sunbird, Scarlet-tufted Malachite Sunbird, Tsavo Sunbird, Amani Sunbird, Black-bellied Sunbird, Violet-breasted Sunbird, Somali Sparrow, DonaldsonSmith Sparrow Weaver, Golden Palm Weaver, Taveta Golden Weaver, Clarke's Weaver, Jackson's Widowbird, Northern Grosbeak Canary, Southern Grossbeak Canary mong many others.

247 species of birds in 3 days, 412 species in 8 days with just but a little rush or no rush are all part of our well tailored birding trips. And with a little more rush we've done 757 species in 23 days.

And above that a Citrus Butterfly, a Mascarene Rocket Frog, a Red-headed Rock Agama among the Big Five frequently does fill our safari gaps making our trips no longer bird tours but natural history safaris.

While for every client who comes along with us, 10 to 40 indigenous trees are planted and tended to rehabilitate our lost forests among other conservation work we support like teaching rural communities on how to make the fireless cookers.