Splendor Safari
Wildlife group
The birds you meet from the vehicle: lilac-breasted rollers on every bare branch, hornbills working the ground beside a mongoose pack, and a run of species — ashy starling, rufous-tailed weaver, Fischer’s lovebird — found nowhere on earth but here.
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15 species
Struthio camelus Mbuni
The largest and fastest bird on earth, striding the open plains at up to 70 km/h.
Read field guideArdeotis kori
Probably the heaviest flying bird in the world — a stately grey giant that walks the plains and rarely flies.
Read field guideCoracias caudatus
The most photographed bird in East Africa — lilac, turquoise and cobalt, perched on a bare branch beside the track.
Read field guideLamprotornis superbus Kwenzi
Iridescent blue-green above and chestnut below, with a white breast band — the confiding starling of every northern lodge.
Read field guideLamprotornis unicolor
A Tanzanian endemic — a long-tailed, dusty-grey starling of baobab country, found nowhere else on earth.
Read field guideHisturgops ruficauda
A Tanzanian endemic weaver with pale scaled plumage, rufous wing panels and a startling pale blue eye.
Read field guideAgapornis fischeri
A tiny green parrot with an orange head and white eye-ring, endemic to northern Tanzania’s acacia belt.
Read field guideAgapornis personatus
A masked Tanzanian endemic — brown-black head, broad yellow collar and bright green body — at home in Tarangire’s baobabs.
Read field guideTrachyphonus erythrocephalus
A vivid spotted barbet that duets from a termite mound in a mechanical "red-n-yellow, red-n-yellow" chant.
Read field guideTrachyphonus vaillantii
A stocky yellow-and-red barbet whose long trilling call, like an alarm clock, runs for minutes without a pause.
Read field guideTockus deckeni
A black-and-white hornbill whose male carries a brilliant red-and-ivory bill — and which works with mongooses for mutual safety.
Read field guideTockus ruahae
A Tanzanian endemic described only in 2000, centred on the Ruaha valley and found essentially nowhere else.
Read field guidePternistis rufopictus
A Tanzanian endemic gamebird whose entire world range lies within the greater Serengeti ecosystem.
Read field guideMacronyx croceus
A grassland bird with a vivid yellow throat framed by a black necklace — brilliant when it turns to face you.
Read field guideAcryllium vulturinum
The largest and most spectacular guineafowl — cobalt-blue breast hackles and a bare vulture-like head, in Mkomazi’s dry bush.
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