Angola: Birding Africa’s Wonderful Wild West
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Angola – one of Africa’s wildest remaining countries – is now not only accessible, but increasingly comfortable, with camping no-longer required on this strictly-hotels itinerary, and roads vastly better than they were ten years ago. Angola has habitats ranging from the arid-desert Namib right to Congolese rainforests, but we will spend most of our time on the fascinating Angola escarpment which holds more than 30 endemic and near-endemic specialty birds that are essentially restricted to this beautiful rugged country.
The birds are gob-smackers, with stand-out delights such as Monteiro’s, Braun’s and Gabela Bush-shrikes, the dazzling White-headed Robin-chat, Red-crested Turaco, Black-collared Bulbul, Angola Batis, Oustalet’s Sunbird, Dusky Twinspot, and striking Angola Cave-chat. The habitat diversity from barren desert, to endless broad-leaved miombo woodlands, to Afro-montane forest and patches of Guinea-Congolian lowland forest is spell-binding. This diversity means we are likely to see over 500 species on this trip; an amazing number totaling over 20% of Africa’s avifauna!
*Note: This country endured a long civil war that raged through the 80s and 90s, but it has been politically stable since 2004.