10 Days Birding Uganda Tour

booked hotel. O/N Imperial botanical hotel/ Boma guest house B/B

drives to Nakiwogo landing site hop into a dugout canoe to Mabamba wetland with the help of a local guide explore the wetland for 3-4 hours in search for the shoebill stork and other swamp species. Return to hotel for lunch and visit the Entebbe botanical gardens later in the day. O/N : Imperial botanical hotel /Boma Guest house B/B. Birds of Mabamba wetland: Elegant shoe bill stork, lesser jacana, long toed lapwing, blue headed coucal, black crake, purple gallinule, swamp flycatcher and African pygmy goose,. Malachite king fisher, Purple Heron, Blue swallow, Broadbill roller, Blue breasted bee-eater, White thighed hornbill, wyne’s Birds in Entebbe botanical gardens: Grey parrots, Red chested sun bird, Great blue and Ross’s Turaco, Broad billed roller, Splendid starling, Black and white casqued hornbill, Klass’s cuckoo, Diederick cuckoo. Gaint and pied kingfisher, Yellow billed duck, Yellow backed weaver, Orange tufted sunbird Vieillot’s black weaver

Hemisphere, halt at the equator monument for pictures and water experiment. Continue birding to Lake Mburo National park for an afternoon game drive O/N: Rwakobo rocks/Lake Mburo safari lodge F/B Birds of Lake Mburo Park: Red faced barbet, Tabora cisticola, brown-chested lapwing, Nubian woodpecker, rufous-napped lark, Black-bellied bustard, lilac-breasted roller, helmeted guineafowl, Coqui francolin, plus many raptors.

a Nature guided walk access ideal habitats for many species of acacia woodland and papyrus endemics, lesser and greater swamp warbler, Papyrus canary, Papyrus Gonolek, Papyrus yellow warbler. You will continue birding to more open savanna areas that leads you back to the hotel. Check out and travel Queen Elizabeth Park. O/N: Mweya safari lodge/ /Buffalo safari lodge/ Park view lodge F/B

to Kasenyi plains and Lake George look out for savannah species and raptors. Return for an early lunch and later drive to the water deck for a 2 hours’ boat trip on the Kazinga channel high end area for most bird watchers encounter schools of Hippos, Elephants, buffaloes, Nile crocodile and amazing arrays of birds including migrants. O/N: Mweya safari lodge/ /Buffalo safari lodge/Park view lodge FB Birds of Kazinga channel: African fish eagle, Pallid Harriers, Black tailed Godwit, Slender billed gull, Common tern, African Spoon Bill, African Skimmers, Great White pelican, Pink backed pelicans, Saddle billed stork, Martial Eagle, lesser Flamingoes

sector famous for tree climbing lions. Drive will take you through the biggest sector of Queen Elizabeth park, get to Ishasha southern sector area rich in raptors and vultures have a game drive after descend into the Montane highlands of the Albertine valley. O/N: Buhoma homestead lodge/Ride 4 a woman / Bwindi Community Homestay F/B Bwindi forest species: Ross’s Turaco, Black billed Turaco, Black bee-eater, Strange weaver, Magie manikin, Grey headed negrofinch, Black billed weaver, Black necked weaver, Stuhlmann’s starling, Pink footed puff back, Bocage’s bush-shrike, Ludher’s bush shrike, Narina tragon, banded prinia, blue headed sunbird

along the water fall loop and forest trails search for rift endemics and other forest species of interest. O/N: Buhoma homestead lodge/Ride for a woman / Bwindi Community Homestay F/B Bwindi Endemic birds : Black bee eater, short tailed warbler, purple breasted sunbird, yellow eyed black fly catcher, red faced woodland warbler,brown capped weaver, red throated alethe, ,Kivu ground thrush, Strange weaver, Black faced apalis.

forest. An early transfer will enable you bird through the neck section with chance to see more endemics that you missed in Buhoma area. O/N Ruhija Gorilla Resort/ Trekker’s Traven / F/B Albertine Rift endemics: Handsome Francolin, Stripe breasted tit, Regal sunbird, Dusky Crimson wing, Shelly’s crimson wing, Doherty’s bush shrike, Mountain masked apalis, Archers robin chat, Rwenzori batis.

swamp a trail that promises the most difficult of all rift endemics explore the rich valleys and montane forest of the Kigezi highlands. The walk is practically tough and demanding at some points but manageable if taken at good pace. O/N: Ruhija Gorilla Resort/Trekkers Tavern F/B Birds of Ruhija: Grauer’s rush warbler, African broadbill, Caruther’s cisticola, Handsome Francolin, Hill babbler, Shelly’s crimson wing, collared apalis, Regal sunbird etc

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