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Crab-plover (Dromas ardeola) photographed at Mida Creek

Tour example

Coastal Endemics

Arabuko-Sokoke, Mida Creek and the Sabaki river mouth from a single base at Watamu. Six globally threatened species and one bird that exists nowhere else on Earth.

Donald Macauley · CC BY-SA 2.0· placeholder

Duration
5 days
Pace
One base, tide-led days
Regions
1
Targets
6
Itinerary

Day by day

  1. Day 1

    Arrive Malindi

    Afternoon flight from Nairobi, evening session on the forest edge.

  2. Day 2

    Arabuko-Sokoke — Brachystegia

    Pre-dawn for Sokoke Scops Owl in Cynometra, then the Brachystegia for Amani Sunbird and roving Clarke's Weaver flocks.

  3. Day 3

    Arabuko-Sokoke — mixed forest

    East Coast Akalat, Sokoke Pipit, Fischer's Turaco, Mombasa Woodpecker. Spotted Ground Thrush in season.

  4. Day 4

    Mida Creek on the tide

    Timed two hours before high water for Crab-plover, Terek Sandpiper and the sand plovers. Mangrove boardwalk in the afternoon.

  5. Day 5

    Sabaki River Mouth

    First light on the sandbars for terns, gulls and pratincoles, and the grassland behind for Malindi Pipit. Afternoon flight out.