Birding Tour Madagascar: 14-day Best of Madagascar Birding and Wildlife

Madagascar, our world’s fourth-largest island is, quite simply, unique. Four bird families and seven mammal families (including the lemurs) are endemic to this massive island, and half the world’s chameleons, along with weird and wonderful endemic plant families, and tons of other wildlife can all be found here. An astonishing 111 bird species are endemic – including such exotic groups as vangas, ground rollers, Cuckoo-roller, couas, asities, and mesites. Lemurs vie for attention, from the tiny mouse lemurs to the marvelous sifakas and the amazing Indri with its deafening calls that resound through the forest.

Pitta-like Ground Roller is a member of one of the four endemic avian families of Madagascar which we will be looking for on this tour.

Our tour visits a range of habitats: grasslands, dry deciduous woodland, the bizarre spiny forest with its odd octopus trees (Didiera madagascariensis) and elephant’s foot trees (Pachypodium rosulatum), lush eastern rainforest, as well as lagoons and mudflats. The birds that we’ll look for include the roadrunner-like Long-tailed Ground Roller and the stunning Pitta-like, Scaly, and Rufous-headed Ground Rollers as well as the highly prized Subdesert Mesite, the unforgettable Giant Coua, the astounding Velvet Asity, and Madagascar Ibis, to name just a handful. We invite you to join us on a special tour to an amazing island!

Indri, Madagascar’s largest lemur species.