SABAKI ESTUARY PROFESSIONAL
Mineral water during tour + All applicable Game Park entrance fees + Professional experienced driver-guide + Enjoy extensive Guided Bird watching Tour & Round trip transport from Malindi to your hotel. Sabaki River Estuary Malindi Bird Watching Day Trip Prices Include: Also renowned for rarities Sabaki River Estuary Malindi Bird Watching Day Trip Prices Map of Sabaki River estuary showing transect locations in the tidal zone (BCH open beach, mudflat and tidal pools GRS grass/marsh-flat MANG mangrove). This Malindi tour visits the Sabaki River Mouth – a huge estuary with thousands of waders and terns, in addition to pelicans. The beaches are good nesting places for sea turtles. The tidal elevations measured at stations 3 and 4, about 2 km from the mouth of the estuary, showed that the spring tidal range is 3.0 m and the neap tidal range is 1.0 m. Sabaki River Estuary is rich in fish and crustaceans which have in turn supported fishing which is the main livelihood for the people of the area. The Sabaki estuary experiences semi-diurnal tides with two low and high waters after every 25 h period. Some of the species which have recorded sufficient numbers in the Sabaki estuary include pelicans, cormorants, herons, flamingoes, ducks, geese, waders, gulls, terns, and kingfishers. A total of 68 species have been recorded. Clean-up taken to the River Sabaki Estuary As announced by, in view of the arrival of the Minister of Environment of Kenya next February 2. It hosts large visiting stocks of the Madagascar Pranticole and is also an important nesting, roosting, and feeding ground for gulls and terns. Sabaki River mouth is one of the Important Bird Areas (IBAs) in Kenya. Map of Sabaki River estuary showing transect locations in the tidal zone (BCH open beach, mudflat and tidal pools GRS grass/marsh-flat MANG mangrove) and supra-littoral zone (BW.
Just north and south of the River Mouth are grassy sand dunes that conceal permanent or temporary water pools of freshwater. The state and size of the estuary vary seasonally depending on river flows.
Our half-day bird watching tour takes us to the Sabaki River Estuary which covers an area of about 6 square km and consists of sandbanks, mud banks, dunes, and seasonal and permanent freshwater pools, mangroves, and scrub. It starts out as the Athi River in Nairobi, flowing through the Eastern Province headed to the Indian Ocean. The largest river in Kenya is the Tana River. The Sabaki River is the last portion of the 390-kilometre long river. Sabaki River Mouth marks the point where Kenya’s second-largest river ( Athi-Galana-Sabaki River) empties into the ocean. Sabaki River Estuary or the Sabaki River Mouth is located within Malindi District of Coast Province and about 5 km’s North of Malindi town, between the Malindi-Mambrui road bridge and the sea. Sabaki River Estuary Malindi Bird Watching Day Trip: Just north of Malindi is one of the “must-see” places for birders, the Sabaki River Estuary.
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