 You would enjoy birding in Angola with its own akalat, bush-shrike and helmet-shrike, Gabela lies at the centre of the Angolan scarp forest. Western Angola has been off limits for a generation, giving it mythical status. The place is also a key destination for completing two charismatic bird families endemic to Africa – Red-backed Mousebird and Red-crested Turaco and should surely be among the highlights of any visit.
Today Angola is stable and safe for visitors, and you may experience birdwatching tours in collaboration with an experienced local ground agent, to get most of the endemics with relative ease. The accommodation may vary from a comfortable coastal lodge to a mobile tented camp, which will be used to explore the forest patches where many of the endemics occur.
Places you may visit may include Angolan endemics, including Red-crested Turaco, Gabela Akalat, Gabela Bush-Shrike, Monteiro’s Bush-Shrike, Pulitzer's Longbill, Angola Cave Chat and White-fronted Wattle-eye.
In Luanda and south along the coast you may see a variety of water birds in the wetlands en route, including the first African Openbill, Goliath Heron or African Jacana, as well as Bubbling Cisticola and Rufous-Tailed Palm Thrush.
Riverside bushes attract a host of species, with Swamp Boubou, Purple-banded Sunbird, Yellow-bellied Greenbul and Golden-tailed Woodpecker all being fairly common. You may also observe Grey Waxbill and Rufous-vented Paradise Flycatcher, but if you are lucky they will be outshone by the scarce White-fronted Wattle-eye and Angola Batis. And away from the river arid bush there are two more specials in the form of Red-backed Mousebird and Golden-backed Bishop, the latter which has a fairly distinctive non-breeding plumage. When passing a number of wetlands you may see Saddle-billed Stork among the other herons and storks. In degraded forest you may observe Olive-bellied Sunbird or Grey-crowned Negrofinch.
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