Madagascar Paramount Birding Tours

The Madagascar Paramount Birding Tour is our flagship itinerary — a meticulously crafted 15-day journey designed to deliver the maximum diversity of Madagascar's extraordinary endemic avifauna within a focused, well-paced program. This tour has been refined over decades of field experience and represents the ideal balance between coverage, quality and comfort.

Madagascar is home to over 300 bird species, of which more than 200 are found nowhere else on earth. The island's extraordinary endemism is the result of over 88 million years of biological isolation — and the Paramount tour is built to take full advantage of this. We visit all three of the island's major avian biomes: the dry deciduous forests of the northwest at Ampijoroa, the eastern rainforest corridor at Andasibe and Masoala, and the semi-arid spiny forests of the deep south near Ifaty and Tsimanapetsotsa.

At Ampijoroa, inside the Ankarafantsika National Park, you will search for the rare Van Dam's Vanga — one of the most sought-after birds in Madagascar — alongside White-breasted Mesite, Schlegel's Asity, and the enigmatic Coquerel's Coua. The western dry forest has a character entirely its own: open, sun-drenched, and alive with sound at dawn.

The rainforest leg takes you deep into the humid east — first to Andasibe and the legendary Mantadia National Park where multiple Ground Roller species are found, then onwards to the remote Masoala Peninsula, accessible only by boat, where the mythical Helmet Vanga and Bernier's Vanga inhabit the coastal forest.

The southern section brings you into a landscape unlike anywhere else — the spiny desert and lake systems of Tsimanapetsotsa and Ifaty, where Subdesert Mesite, Long-tailed Ground Roller, Verreaux's Coua, and the Madagascan Sandgrouse complete a truly extraordinary bird list. This is Madagascar birding at its finest — condensed, curated, and unforgettable.