Near-endemic Tauraco fischeri
The coastal and Usambara forests’ turaco, with a red crest tipped white. A target bird for every East Usambara trip.
Fischer’s Turaco replaces Hartlaub’s in the lower, warmer forests of the East Usambaras and the coast. It is a near-endemic of East Africa and one of the most colourful birds in the Amani forest.
We usually find it from the forest roads around Amani early in the morning, calling from the canopy. It is often in the same trees as Silvery-cheeked Hornbills and Green Barbets.
Lowland forest at Amani Nature Reserve in the East Usambaras.
Guide’s tipFruiting fig trees are the place to wait. Turacos, hornbills and barbets all arrive together.
Sightings are never guaranteed: these are wild animals in wild places. What we can promise is a guide who knows where to look.
Destinations
The parks and reserves where our guides look for it, each with its own best season and safaris.
Ancient Eastern Arc forests holding Tanzania’s rarest endemic birds.
Keep exploring
Chersomanes beesleyi
Fewer than a hundred birds left, all on one patch of plain north of Arusha. Nowhere else on earth.
Tauraco hartlaubi
A flash of crimson wings in the forest canopy. Arusha National Park is the easiest place to see one.
Sagittarius serpentarius
A raptor that hunts on foot, stamping snakes to death in the grass. Unmistakable striding across the plains.
Balearica regulorum
The golden crown, the dance and the bugling call. Endangered, but still a daily sight on the crater floor.
Ardeotis kori
The heaviest flying bird in the world, pacing the plains with its neck puffed up in display.
Phoeniconaias minor
Pink crowds on the soda lakes. Numbers rise and fall with the water, so your guide checks before you go.
Lamprotornis unicolor
Tanzania’s own starling: long-tailed, dusty grey and common around the baobabs of Tarangire.
Agapornis personatus
Green, yellow and masked in black, chattering in flocks around the baobabs. A Tanzanian endemic you will hear before you see.
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