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Angola Endemics BIRDING AFRICA THE AFRICA SPECIALISTS Angola 2018 Tour Report Angolan White-headed Barbet/White-bellied Barbet Text by tour leader Michael Mills Photos by tour leader Tertius Gous SUMMARY ESSENTIAL DETAILS The third ever all-hotel-accommodated bird tour of Angola was an overwhelming success, and like our previous hotel-based trips brought a Dates 9 Sep: Kalandula to N'dalatando. level of comfort that we could not imagine just a few years ago; for all 5-22 September 2018 10 Sep: N'dalatando to Muxima via northern escarpment forests of Tombinga Pass. 17 nights of the trip we enjoyed good accommodation and food. It was Birding Africa Tour Report Tour Africa Birding a pleasure returning to clean, comfortable hotel rooms each night, with Leaders 11 Sep: Dry forests in Muxima area. Report Tour Africa Birding 12 Sep: Muxima to Conda via mangroves at the running water and electricity (with the occasional exception); quite a change Michael Mills assisted by Tertius Gous from our earlier trips where camping in dusty and windy conditions was Kwanza River mouth. 13 Sep: Kumbira Forest. the order of the day. And all this extra comfort came without compromising Participants on the birds. Certainly, Angola can no longer be regarded as a 'hardcore' 14 Sep: Conda to Mount Moco region. Nick Davies birding destination. 15 Sep: Miombo woodlands, grasslands and Chuck Probst montane forest at Mount Moco. Jacqui Probst 16 Sep: Dambos and miombo woodlands in the Bob French Mount Moco region. Sue French 17 Sep: Montane forests and grasslands at Mount Moco. John Lobel 18 Sep: Mount Moco to Benguela area via wetlands Les Holliwell of Lobito. Markus Lagerqvist 19 Sep: Benguela to Lubango via rocky hillsides with Namibian escarpment birds. Itinerary 20 Sep: Day trip to Namibe via escarpment thickets, Brazza's Martin arid savannas and coastal deserts. 5 Sep: Luanda to Uíge. 21 Sep: Montane forests and grasslands at Tundavala 6 Sep: Northern escarpment forest near Uíge. Besides the logistics running very smoothly we the top five. Lower honours went to Locust Finch, near Lubango. fared exceptionally well on the birds, enjoying good which gave exceptional views on the ground, the 7 Sep: Uíge to Kalandula. 26 Sep: Tour ends with flights out of Lubango. views of all of Angola’s endemic species (including striking Braun's Bushshrike at seven, super views 8 Sep: Woodlands and gallery forests at Kinjila. all BirdLife splits) and a whole host of other goodies of Margaret's Batis tied with Schalow's Turaco at among the 550 species logged. This was the first eight, and Red-crested Turaco and Bocage's Akalat ever tour to see Angola White-throated Greenbul/ sharing tenth. Angola Greenbul and Angola White-headed Barbet/ There were many other great birds seen too, and White-bellied Barbet, both newly recognised the impressive diversity of habitats on offer meant endemics. The charts were topped by excellent that we logged over 550 species in the 18 days of views of a pair of Angola White-headed Barbet/ birding. While most of the endemics and specials White-bellied Barbet, only the third time the species are associated with the dry forests of the Angolan has been seen since 1971. A usually-secretive male escarpment and montane habitats of the western Finsch's Francolin that stood in the open for at least highlands, a good diversity of miombo specials is 10 minutes was voted number two, followed by the on offer too, plus Congo Basin forest birds along the attractive White-headed Robin-Chat at three. The northern escarpment, mesic grassland birds in the surprise of the trip, the first Congo Serpent Eagle highlands, and desert and Namibian escarpment for the country in 50 years, came in at four, with a species in the far south. cooperative pair of Gabela Bushshrike rounding out Congo Serpent Eagle 2 | Angola 2018 Angola 2018 | 3 REPORT Angola White-throated Greenbul We started off in Luanda, Angola's colossal and The following day-and-a-half in the northern scarp chaotic capital city, with our first stop to have a forests of Uíge province produced an impressive look at the large, dark Mottled Swifts that breed in list of species, with special mention deserved by buildings along the 'marginal' (they have been called Angola White-throated Greenbul that teased us Fernando Po Swift in the past). However, we didn't for a while before it was seen by all. It is only the Birding Africa Tour Report Tour Africa Birding pause for long as we wanted to escape the growing third time that this threatened endemic has been Report Tour Africa Birding mass of traffic before it swallowed us. Our first real seen since the early 1970s, and the first bird tour to stop was in some dry thickets near Caxito on our enjoy the privilege. Pigeons behaved well, with both way north to Uíge, where a very productive walk Western Bronze-naped Pigeon and Afep Pigeon turned up some exceptional views of Monteiro's sitting up for good scope views. Tit Hylia was a Bushshrike and a party of Endangered Gabela pleasant surprise. Yellow-spotted Barbet was seen Helmetshrike, along with Hartert's Camaroptera, for the first time in Angola-outside-Cabinda. And Grey Waxbill, Black Scimitarbill and Angola we studied a small, plain-faced honeyguide in the Batis. Lunch, further north, produced Red- scope, the olive wash across the breast suggesting rumped Tinkerbird and our first Naked-faced Willcocks's Honeyguide, which would be a first for Barbets, a roadside stop at a police check Cassin's the country. Other highlights along the northern Grey Flycatcher, and our final stop of the day near escarpment included Brown-backed Scrub Quitexe rewarded us with excellent views of the Robin, Compact Weaver, Blue-breasted Bee- striking Braun's Bushshrike. Not bad for a first day eater, African Yellow Warbler, Red-faced (Lepe) of birding in Angola! Cisticola, Moustached Grass Warbler, White- winged Black Tit, Red-necked Buzzard, Brown From the northernmost point of the trip, near Uíge, Twinspot, Marsh Tchagra, Bubbling Cisticola, we turned south-eastwards to the Kalandula Falls Black-collared Bulbul and Orange-tufted area with its broad-leafed woodlands and gallery Sunbird (briefly) in mesic savannas bordering forests. En route we did well to find Anchieta's forest, and a good variety of forest species such as Barbet, Yellow-bellied Hyliota, Rufous-bellied Piping Hornbill, African Pied Hornbill, Bristle- Tit, Ross's Turaco, Pale-billed Hornbill, Brown- nosed Barbet, Hairy-breasted Barbet, Speckled headed Apalis, Senegal Lapwing, Green-backed Tinkerbird, Great Blue Turaco, Guinea Turaco, Woodpecker, Gorgeous/Perrin's Bushshrike and Forest Chestnut-winged Starling, Swamp Palm our first Red-crested Turaco. The main birding Bulbul, Yellow-mantled Weaver, Yellow-browed area at Kalandula is 40 km to the north of the falls Camaroptera, Rufous-crowned Eremomela, Buff- themselves, near Kinjila Village, and we spent the throated Apalis, Black-throated Apalis, Dusky- better part of a day and half here. The gallery forests blue Flycatcher, Banded Prinia, White-chinned held the star attraction, and although it wasn't long Prinia, Velvet-mantled Drongo, Green Hylia, before the striking White-headed Robin-Chat Black-winged Oriole, Black Bee-eater, Purple- showed itself, it took a few tries before everyone throated Cuckooshrike, Pink-footed Puffback, had enjoyed satisfactory views. The supporting cast Blue-headed Crested Flycatcher, Dark-backed included Black-backed Barbet (macclounii), Black- Weaver, Red-headed Malimbe, Black-faced throated Wattle-eye, Grey-winged Robin-Chat/ Canary, African Shrike-Flycatcher, Black-and- Akalat, Cabanis’s Greenbul, Lemon Dove (heard), white Shrike-Flycatcher, Chestnut Wattle-eye, Bates’s Sunbird, Square-tailed Drongo, Landana Yellow-crested Woodpecker, Red-fronted Parrot, Firefinch and African Broadbill. Bannerman’s Narrow-tailed Starling, White-tailed Ant Thrush, Sunbird was very tricky this year, possibly due to a the little-known Pallid Honeyguide, Bocage's lack of flowering, and was greatly outnumbered by Bushshrike, Olive-bellied Sunbird, Blue-throated the very similar Green-headed Sunbird; eventually Brown Sunbird, Narina Trogon, Rufous-vented some of the group spotted and photographed a Paradise Flycatcher, Blue Malkoha, Sooty distinctive female. Surrounding woodlands were Flycatcher, Yellow-throated Nicator and Lowland home to Sharp-tailed Starling, curious affinis Braun's Bushshrike Masked Apalis. form of Brubru, Miombo Wren-Warbler, Green- 4 | Angola 2018 Angola 2018 | 5 backed Honeybird, Orange-winged Pytilia, in detail, Rufous-tailed Palm Thrush put in Meyer's Parrot, White-breasted Cuckooshrike, several appearances, Red-backed Mousebird was Cabanis's Bunting, African Barred Owlet, a trio numerous, a pair of White-fronted Wattle-eye was of Thick-billed Cuckoos, Miombo Scrub Robin coaxed from the thickets, and Forest Scrub Robin and Whistling Cisticola. and Pale-olive Greenbul showed exceptionally well. More widespread highlights included Olive We broke our journey to Muxima with an overnight Bee-eater, Brown-backed Honeybird, Little stay at N'dalatando, finding Rock Pratincole and Sparrowhawk, African Cuckoo-Hawk, Mottled Birding Africa Tour Report Tour Africa Birding Giant Kingfisher en route. The next morning Report Tour Africa Birding Spinetail, Böhm's Spinetail, Scaly-throated we birded the northern escarpment forests near Honeyguide, Swamp Boubou, Long-billed N'dalatando, at Tombinga pass. The open forest was Crombec (ansorgei), Purple-banded Sunbird and quite birdy and we notched up Superb Sunbird, Angola Batis, among a diversity of other savanna Yellow-billed Barbet, Cassin's Honeybird, and and woodland species. Along the river a trio of Blue-throated Roller. The undoubted highlight Egyptian Plover was the most notable sighting, of the morning, however, was first hearing and here right at the southern edge of its range, and then locating a perched Congo Serpent Eagle other wetland birds included Goliath Heron, which gave excellent views in the scope and then African Openbill and Spur-winged Goose.
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