By Chris Lotz, Birding Ecotours

I had the privilege of leading a 36-day Zambia birding tour in August and September this year (please e-mail [email protected] if you want me to e-mail you a full trip report including the tour map showing what kept us busy for so long, a detailed daily diary, and full bird, mammal, and reptile lists). Tour participant Tim Williams got far better photos than me and has kindly agreed for me to use them here.

1) Vermiculated Fishing Owl!

2) Pel’s Fishing Owl – any trip with not one but two fishing owl species is a good one!

3) Grimwood’s Longclaw is a very localized bird with an orange-pink throat

4) I better not forget Shoebill, otherwise people might be cross with me (joke!)

5) Chaplin’s (Zambian) Barbet – endemic to Zambia

6) Bohm’s Bee-eater, one of the many species endemic to south-central Africa (more here).

7) The Perrin’s form of Gorgeous Bush-shrike (which shares the same impenetrable Mavunda habitat as the very localized Margaret’s Batis, but I chose the more brightly-colored species)

8) Bar-winged Weaver is one of many Miombo woodland birds best found in Zambia

9) Miombo Pied Barbet is one of several barbets that is tough to find outside of Zambia

10) Black-cheeked Lovebird is one of Zambia’s endemic birds