Specialist operators offer tours specifically tailored to the demands of the ornithologist. In general the best birdwatching months are from December to April. Hunyani bird safaris specializes in running bird watching safaris from their base on Gombera Ranch in Zimbabwe. The ranch consists of 37,000 acres of superb bird watching. The Eastern highlands of Gombera ranch is an important avian habitat for a variety of birds whose range extends down in to Zimbabwe from Mozambique .
Examples are black fronted bush shrike, rameron pigeon and swynertons robin.
Zambezi valley Zambezi valley is host to many different species of birds, including carmine and European beeters, marabou stork and water birds such as Egyptian Geese and white faced duck. Birdlife is absolutely outstanding during the whole year. The distinctive call of the fish eagle invariably greets you as you cross the ornamental bridge over the lake into Larvon Bird Gardens, a lovely wild-bird orphanage just beyond the western outskirts of Harare . The orphanage, similar in many ways to Bulawayo 's animal orphanage, serves as a sanctuary for 240 species. Signs direct you to the Soaring Raptor Aviary, home to eight species of eagle and five species of vulture, including Cape vultures.