Africa's birding, guided by the people who live beside it — and structured so that every fare puts a young African birder in the field for a year.
We are guides first. The Birdman Tours was founded on the conviction that the communities living beside East Africa's wetlands and forests should be the ones who profit from protecting them — not the last people to benefit.
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3 Days
A short, deliberate trip built around one bird. Three dawns on the water at Mabamba, paddled by the fisherm…
6 Days
The Royal Mile is the finest forest birding trail in East Africa, and Budongo has 360 recorded species. We …
8 Days
Alkaline lakes strung along the floor of the Great Rift, where Lesser Flamingos gather in numbers that turn…
21 Days
Our flagship. Wetland, forest, montane rift and soda lake in one continuous journey — and the trip that fun…
Every Bird Year fare puts twenty per cent into a fund that carries one young African birder — aged eighteen to twenty-five, from a low-income African country — through a full year of guided field training, optics and mentorship.
Allan, who guides our forest departures, came through this programme. He is now the reason a good many of our guests find their first Black Bee-eater.
Black Bee-eaters · The Royal Mile, Budongo
300+ Species
A Ramsar wetland of floating papyrus channels an hour from Entebbe, and one of the most reliabl…
360+ Species
East Africa's premier forest birding destination, and home to the Great Blue Turaco — the bird …
450+ Species
The soda lakes of the Great Rift produce Africa's most dramatic birding landscape — open water …
300+ Species
One of the oldest rainforests in Africa, draped in moss and orchids, holding Albertine Rift end…
The birds are the reason people book. The community story is what they talk about when they get home.
Mabamba was magical. Floating through the papyrus, the Shoebill appeared like a dinosaur. And meeting the fishermen-turned-guides was inspirational.Sarah · United Kingdom
Budongo Forest is paradise. The Royal Mile is the best birding trail I have ever walked. The Great Blue Turaco is worth the trip alone.David · South Africa
The flamingos at the Rift Valley lakes are unbelievable. I have never seen so many birds in one place.Grace · Kenya
Nyungwe feels ancient. The canopy walk is thrilling, and the Rwenzori Turaco is one of the most beautiful birds I have ever seen.Michael · United States
Every safari on this site can be lengthened, shortened or rebuilt around a target list. Send us your enquiry and a guide — not a call centre — will reply.