Bustards Birding Tours (Pty) Ltd
Bustards Birding Tours specialises in scheduled and customised tours for the avid birding and nature enthusiast. Based in Johannesburg, South Africa, the Bustards are well positioned for access into Southern Africa including South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia.
With our African experience and with our local African partners we encourage you to join us in Malawi, Uganda, Ethiopia, Republic of the Congo and Ghana.
Through our various partnerships custom tours available also include: Finland & Norway, Colombia, Peru, warbler migration in North America and Madagascar.
Our partnerships enable us to arrange diversified trips, such as bird ringing, as well as gaining access to some less travelled areas.
We place importance on small groups and enjoyable experiences, while still focusing on the task at hand.
Day trips in the area know by local birders as the Wider Gauteng area, focused on a geographical area a 100km radius from the city centers of Johannesburg and Pretoria provide a diverse array of habitats, which in turn produce a diverse array of bird species, some 500 species have been recorded. In an 8 hour trip during summer, over 100 species can be recorded, and winter 80 or more. See the bottom of the page for cost and booking details.provides the visitor with a large diversity in a relatively small area. The reserve is centred around Klipvoor Dam, and has a mixture of Acacia and broad-leaf woodland, as well as the waterbirds and waders around the dam and river. Bushveld and Striped Pipit, Violet-eared and Black-faced Waxbills, Shaft-tailed and Long-tailed Paradise Whydahs, Yellow-billed Stork, Whiskered, White-winged and Caspian Terns – these are just a few of the possibilities.
Kgomo-Kgomo and Zaagkuildrift Rd.
This rural area north of Hammanskraal is a real birding hotspot, the roadside thickets attract a variety of bushveld birds, Crimson-breasted Shrike, Barred Wren Warbler, Cape Penduline Tit, Bennett’s Woodpecker, the ever present Pearl-spotted Owlet, to mention a few. Traveling from Pienaarsrivier, along some 24km of dirt road until one reaches the floodplain at Kgomo-Kgomo, a summer’s day birding should easily produce well over 100 species.
