Uganda Birding Tour

TOU\B120 UGANDA BIRDING HOTSPOTS (9Days / 8Nights)

DAY 1

Arrival at Entebbe International Airport, where you will meet our representative who will take you for dinner and overnight at Lake Victoria Windsor Hotel or Botanical Beach Hotel in Entebbe. Meal Plan – Bed and Breakfast. TRANSIT TIME 5MINS

DAY 2- Botanical Gardens and MabaMBa Swamp

After breakfast, you will start birding around the botanical gardens. Look out for the Slender-billed Weaver, Brown-throated Weaver¸ Golden-backed Weaver, Yellow-backed Weaver, Grey-headed Gull, Long-tailed Cormorant, Common Squacco Heron, Yellow-billed Duck, Pied Kingfisher, Giant Kingfisher, Swamp Flycatcher, Broad-billed Roller, Black-and-white Casqued Hornbill, Splendid Glossy Starling, Black-headed Gonolek, Orange Weaver, Verreaux's Eagle-owl, Red-chested Sunbird, Ross's Turaco, Pied Hornbill, Crowned Hornbill, Open-billed Stork, Great Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Grey-capped Warbler and many others.

After lunch at the hotel proceed to the Mabamba Swamp and board the canoe for the best tour of the swamp. You can find the Shoebill stork, Swamp Flycatcher, Purple Swamp hen, African Water Rail, Common Moorhen, Lesser Jacana, African Jacana, African Pygmy-goose, White-faced Whistling Duck, Squacco Heron, Goliath Heron, Black Crake and many more birds. Return to Lake Victoria Windsor Hotel or Botanical Beach Hotel for dinner and overnight.

DAY 3 Queen Elizabeth National Park

After breakfast you will depart for Queen Elizabeth National Park. This park records over 600 bird species. The one-day record in this park is 296, which is one of the highest in the world. After lunch, go for the boat cruise on the Kazinga Channel, where the concentration of water birds and photographs is extraordinary. Dinner and overnight at Mweya/Jacana Safari Lodge.

DAY 4

After an early cup of coffee, you start birding early in the morning in the open savannah for birds like the Temminck's Courser, Martial Eagle, Rupell's Griffon Vulture, and then return to the lodge for breakfast and lunch. In the afternoon proceed to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park through Maramagambo Forest and the Ishasha sector. Dinner and overnight in Buhoma community camp ground.

DAY 5 - Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

In the early morning you can hear the songs of the Snowy-capped Robin-chat, Luehder's Bush-shrike and the Grey-capped Warbler while having breakfast. You will spend the whole day birding in Bwindi Forest, one of the most interesting ecosystems in Africa for the concentration of biodiversity. Over 350 bird species are recorded including the Red-throated Alethe, Equatorial Akalat, Grey-throated Barbet, Black Bee-eater, Forest Robin, Montane Oriole, Hairy-breasted Barbet, Pale-breasted Illadopsis, Pettit's Cuckooshrike, Black-faced Rufous Warbler and many more. Return to the lodge for dinner and overnight.

DAY 6, 7 and 8 Ruhija in Southern Bwindi

After an early morning breakfast go for gorilla tracking in the forest sanctuary starting from Buhoma. Depart to reach Ruhiija in the south of the forest and spend two nights at the camping site. On the second day after breakfast, you will go birding in this prolific area. Birding in the Mubwindi Swamp is very productive as you drop from about 2,400m to 2,050m above sea level. Birding in the bamboo zone is good for the Handsome Francolin, Archer's Robin-chat, Stripe-breasted Tit, Purple-breasted Sunbird, Mountain Greenbul, Waller's Chestnut-winged Starling, Dusky Crimsonwing, Mountain Illadopsis and Mountain Yellow Warbler. Thereafter, proceed for dinner and overnight in Mburo National Park, Mantana Tented Camp.

DAY 9 Lake Mburo National Park

After breakfast, go for birding in the swampy area and Lake Mburo. You will hear the songs of Morning Dove, Dideric Cuckoo, Grey-capped Warbler, Black-headed Weaver and Ring-necked Dove. You will go searching for, among others, the Brown-chested Lapwing, Lilac-breasted Roller, Black-bellied Bustard, Helmeted Guineafowl, Coqui Francolin, Rufous-napped Lark plus many raptors. In the evening transfer to Kampala for dinner and overnight.