Visiting

Birding tours

Birdquest organise birding tours to Comoros.

Guides

The Mohéli Marine Park has its own ecoguides. In Moroni there are guides that are helpful for climbing Mount Karthala.

Books and Sounds

Atlas des oiseaux nicheurs de la Grande Comore, de Mohéli et d'Anjouan (+ CD Guide sonore des Oiseaux nicheurs des Comores, Marc Herremans, 2001. Répertoires complets) (Fr)

Authors : LOUETTE M., ABDÉRÉMANE H., YAHAYA I. & MEIRTE D.    

Publication date : 2008

Series : ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCES     Sub-series : ANNALS, series in -8°

Discipline : Zoology

Media : Printed     Volume : 294

ISBN : 978-9-0747-5237-4   

Reference : 240 pp., 83 fig., 45 col. phot., 11 tab., 22 draw.   

35,00 €

La faune terrestre de l'archipel des Comores (Fr)

Authors : LOUETTE M., MEIRTE D. & JOCQUÉ R.    

Publication date : 2004 (new edition 2009)

Series : ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCES     Sub-series : Studies in Afrotropical zoology (formerly Annals)

Discipline : Bibliography

Media : Printed     Volume : 293

ISBN : 90-75894-63-5    ISSN : 1780-1311   

Reference : 458 pp., 267 col. phot., 2 b/w phot., 14 map., 28 fig., 1 graf., 9 tab.    

59,00 €

See: http://www.africamuseum.be/publications/search/results

Trip report

In Search of the Badanga (Comoro Scops Owl) - by Alan Lewis, from Bulletin of the African Bird Club, volume 3(2), September 1996. "In November 1995, I was lucky enough to visit the Comoros - a little visited group of islands lying in the Indian Ocean midway between the African mainland and Madagascar. The archipelago supports about 20 currently accepted endemics, but with a total avian endemic taxa list of about 54." 

Logistics

Independent birders can fly into Moroni from Nairobi and Seychelles and into Pamandzi, Mayotte from Réunion. There are now flights from Réunion to Grand Comoro with Air Bourbon. There are also flights from Europe. The political situation means that Mayotte is difficult to use as a jumping-off point to the other islands. Hopping from island to island can be done by plane. All four islands are connected by a network of shipping routes, and catching boats and ferries is usually the cheapest method of getting from island to island.

October to December are the best months to visit - before the rains set in in earnest, but when bird activity is reasonably high. There are adequate hotels and the possibility of taxi hire on all the islands. Travel to the archipelago is quite expensive and tourist infrastructure in the UDC is limited.

Safety

See the following websites for the latest safety and travel information: www.comores-online.com and UK FCO.

Last page update 31st January 2010