Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl at Great Rift Valley

The Great Rift Valley's dramatic escarpments and volcanic peaks, framing soda lakes, savannah grassland, acacia woodland and scrubby bushveld, provide a striking backdrop for tracking down Verreaux's Eagle-Owl. This vast tectonic trench, part of a fault system stretching across East Africa, offers photographers a genuinely varied canvas against which to search out this formidable owl. Travellers joining the Wildlife of Shompole Wilderness holiday, typically run in October, are well placed to explore this landscape for the species. Patience among the acacia woodland and rocky escarpments is well rewarded here.