Birding Tours in DRC
From okapi forest in Ituri to 80-lake wetlands at Upemba — birding across the DRC's great ecosystems.
Gallery — Birding Tours in DRC
A visual journey through the experiences that await you.
Okapi Wildlife Reserve (Ituri, UNESCO)
Forest reserve shared with the endemic okapi
Gray Parrot
Psittacus erithacus
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Salonga National Park (UNESCO)
Africa's largest tropical rainforest reserve, home to bonobos
- rainforest wetland species
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Garamba National Park
Savanna park alongside Kordofan giraffes and elephants
Bateleur
Terathopius ecaudatus
Secretarybird
Sagittarius serpentarius
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Upemba National Park
Wetlands built around over 80 lakes
Shoebill
Balaeniceps rex
Goliath Heron
Ardea goliath
Virunga National Park (UNESCO)
Mountain gorilla terrain spanning volcanic montane forest
Rwenzori Turaco
Gallirex johnstoni
Handsome Spurfowl
Pternistis nobilis
Doherty's Bushshrike
Telophorus dohertyi
Rwenzori Hill Babbler
Sylvia atriceps
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Kahuzi-Biéga National Park (UNESCO)
Montane forest of the Albertine Rift's southern arc
Regal Sunbird
Cinnyris regius
Handsome Spurfowl
Pternistis nobilis
Grauer's Broadbill
Pseudocalyptomena graueri
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Birding Tours in the Democratic Republic of Congo
DRC's birding pairs forest and savanna extremes. The Okapi Wildlife Reserve in the Ituri rainforest holds forest species alongside the reserve's namesake okapi, while Salonga National Park's vast rainforest wetlands — rich in avifauna and home to bonobos — are best accessed via Kinshasa or Kananga.
In the savanna north-east, Garamba National Park offers birding beside Kordofan giraffes and elephants, and Upemba National Park's wetlands, with more than 80 lakes, hold strong waterbird potential.