Birds

Vulturine Guineafowls – a frequent sighting in Mkomazi

Mkomazi National Park is home to more than 400 species of bird, a number of which are endemic to this area of Tanzania. These endemic species include the Violet Wood-hoopoe, Friedmann’s Lark, the Somali Long-billed Crombec and the Yellow-vented Eremomela. Mkomazi being the most southern extension of the Somali semi-arid belt is believed to be the reason these species are recorded here and nowhere else in Tanzania.
Particularly birds of prey and ground birds are abundant in Mkomazi and some of the best sites for bird watching in Mkomazi are Zange, Dindira, Mbula, Babus, Norbanda, Ngurunga and Maore.
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Common Ostrich – a group of youngsters

Black-bellied Sunbird
Paradise Flycatcher (white morph)


African Orange-bellied Parrot
Black-shouldered Kite


Eastern Chanting-Goshawk


Pangani Longclaw
Red-headed Weaver

White-browed Coucal

Brown-crowned Tchagra

Greater Honeyguide (juv)

Red-and-yellow Barbet

Long-crested Eagle

Heuglin’s Courser

Tawny Eagle (Juv)

Vegetation

Mkomazi National Park lies at the southern end of the sahelian Acacia-Commiphora savanna and the local flora is enriched by the area’s high physiographic diversity: in the West and South it is surrounded by the Pare and Usambara Mountains, and it is close to the coastal vegetation of northern Tanzania.

A Baobab tree (Adonsonia digitata) near Kamakota
A flower of Delonix elata (creamy peacock flower), the dominant large tree in the drier areas of Mkomazi

Checklist of common trees of Mkomazi National Park