Price include entrance fees but exclude teas and meals (for details, please see our Prices page). Day tours provide for a 45 minute lunch stop with the opportunity to buy take aways or a light lunch.

2-day Tankwa Karoo Loop and 2-day Agulhas Plains (Overberg) Birding Trips also available.
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Considered one of the most beautiful cities on earth, Cape Town has much to offer the bird-watcher, naturalist and ecotourist.

The indigenous flora of the area comprises the smallest of the six floral kingdoms of the world. This wondeful array of protea, erica, bulbous plants, succulents and spring annuals supports more than 200 relatively easily seen bird species of which over 60 are endemic to Southern Africa. These endemics include 6 species unique to the mountain fynbos vegetation of the area.

Cape Town is also regarded as a sea bird capital of the world. A pelagic bird trip to the continental shelf approximately 25 nautical miles south of Cape Point can yield 20+ pelagic species.

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Rondevlei Nature Reserve is South Africa’s oldest Ornithological Field Station. The Reserve boasts a very easy and comfortable walk and some excellent bird hides and observation towers. Ideal for photography.

Strandfontein Waste Water Treatment Works is one of the most important wetlands in South Africa. It supports more birds for example than the famous St Lucia Estuary in Kwazulu.

Many common and less common wetland species, including the endemic South African Shelduck and Cape Shoveler, may be seen on the trip. This, together with an interesting variety of bush birds, helps guarantee a minimum of 40 species for your morning's endeavors.

Situated in the Cape countryside, with splendid mountain scenery, the Paarl Mountain Nature Reserve is an excellent spot for the more common mountain fynbos endemics and also provides a home for some of our more elusive birds – including Swee Waxbill, Streaky-headed Seedeater, Fiscal Flycatcher, Bar-throated Apalis and the endemic Forest Buzzard. Paarl Bird Sanctuary, set on the banks of the Berg River, is the most beautiful of the Western Cape wetlands and is home to most Western Cape wetland species.

These lands are also home to our National bird - the Blue Crane. The inter-tidal zone of the West Coast supports four different species of Cormorant – three of which are near endemic to Southern Africa as is the African Black Oystercatcher.

There are remnants of strandveld within easy reach of Cape Town that support birds more often associated with the Karoo (such as White-backed Mousebird and Karoo Scrub-robin).

This tour takes us away from the Peninsula to some of our more out of the way birding areas. It provides a good opportunity to see a number of the more elusive Cape Mountain Fynbos endemics such as Cape Rock-jumper. We start with a walk in the Hottentots Holland mountains to the east of Cape Town in search of the Mountain Fynbos specials. We then spend a delightful couple of hours in one of the local Nature Reserves which should produce a number of forest birds including Cape Batis and African Paradise-flycatcher. We end the day at one of our local wetlands.

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