Resident Telophorus cruentus
A duet from the top of a thorn bush, with a rose-pink patch down the breast. A dry-country gem.
The Rosy-patched Bushshrike is a bird of the dry acacia country and one of the highlights of a morning on the Lark Plains. The male sings from the top of a bush and the female answers, a rolling duet that carries a long way.
The thorn scrub between Arusha and Tarangire is full of them in the early morning, and the eastern Serengeti plains hold them too.
Thorn scrub around the Lark Plains, Tarangire and the eastern Serengeti.
Guide’s tipPairs duet from exposed perches in the first hour of light. After that they drop into cover.
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.
The only place on earth to see the critically endangered Beesley’s Lark.
Huge elephant herds, ancient baobabs and Tanzania’s endemic birds.
Vast plains, the Great Migration and big cats all year round.
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.
Tauraco fischeri
The coastal and Usambara forests’ turaco, with a red crest tipped white. A target bird for every East Usambara trip.
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.
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