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Day 1
Arrival Meet Your Guide Pickup Check in Your Guesthouse add Evening Birding at Botanical Gardens
Arrival Meet Your Guide Pickup Check in Your Guesthouse add Evening Birding at Botanical Gardens
Early arrival will give a chance to do the Entebbe botanical gardens birding introduction in Uganda. EBG is located in the northern part of Lake Victoria. The gardens harbor a collection of tropical, sub-tropical, and temperate plants and shrubs that regenerate over the years. The place is a habitat for a large array of about 250 bird species. Among others, you'll have a chance to trace for; Great Blue Turaco, Ross’s Turaco, Saddle-Billed Stork, Golden-Backed Weaver, Yellow-Backed Weaver, Orange Weaver, African Palm-Swift, Winding Cisticola, Splendid Glossy-Starling, Northern Brown-Throated Weaver, Slender-Billed Weaver, Scaly Francolin, Green-Backed Heron, Tawny-Franked Prinia, Black And White-Casqued Hornbill, Back Kite, Yellow-Fronted Tinkerbird, Saddle-Billed Stork, Open-Billed Stork, Marabou Stork, Grey-Caped Warbler, Pied Crow, Little Egret, Black-Headed Heron, Cattle Egret, Spotted-Backed Weaver, Black And White-Manikin, Bronzy Manikin, Red-Cheeked Cordon-Bleu etc.
- Main Destination:
- Entebbe
- Accommodation:
- zzz dummy (DO NOT USE)
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 2
Morning Birding at Mabamba Shoebill Swamp and Lake Mburo National Park Onwards
Morning Birding at Mabamba Shoebill Swamp and Lake Mburo National Park Onwards
Early after breakfast, carry along with our packed lunch and drive to the western part of Entebbe to Mabamba, a distance of about 50km. Mabamba is one of the few remaining productive wetlands in Uganda, protected by the local communities. Extensive papyrus swamps with labyrinth channels and lagoons, classified as an important bird area (IBA), it’s a home of multiple Shoebills-Uganda’s most famous avian resident, and the only representative in its family, is the most sought-after bird in the whole African continent! It's only traced by canoeing through the channels with a wooden boat. Other likes of Mabamba include: Papyrus Gonolek, Blue-breasted Bee-eater, Lesser Jacana, African Jacana, White-winged Black Tern, Grey-headed Gull, etc. After lunch, when time allows, we may stroll along the edges of the wetland and try our luck for what we have missed at the boat. Transfer to Lake Mburo National Park later in the afternoon, stopover at the equator, stretch legs, and look at birds.
- Main Destination:
- Mabamba Swamp
- Accommodation:
- Eagle's Nest Camp
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 3
Birding at Lake Mburo National Park
Birding at Lake Mburo National Park
After breakfast, you'll report to the park entrance, meet our site guide, and go birding in the park. Lake Mburo National Park is one of the best birding destinations to see the acacia-associated bird species, among other national parks in Uganda. It is home to about 320 species of birds recorded, making it a good place to look for the likes of African-Grey Hornbill, Black-Lowered Babbler, Red-Headed Weaver, Greater Blue-Eared Starling, Trilling Cisticola, Green-Wood Hoopoe, Brown-Chested Lapwing, Scaly-Throated Honeyguide, Lesser-Masked Weaver, White-Backed Vulture, Tabora Cisticola, Crested-Spurfowl, Red-Faced Barbet, Little Bee-Eater, Green-Capped Eremomera, Black-Collard Barbet, Southern Ground Hornbill, Rufous-Bellied Night Heron. Of special interest to birders are the swamps, in which six papyrus endemics are resident, including Papyrus Gonolek, Blue-Headed Coucal, and the highly localized White-Winged and Papyrus Yellow Warblers, the last record nowhere else in Uganda!
- Main Destination:
- Lake Mburo National Park
- Accommodation:
- Eagle's Nest Camp
Wildlife in Lake Mburo NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 4
Birding & Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Birding & Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
After morning breakfast, you'll transfer to the misty mountainous areas of Kigezi and Kisoro region in southwestern Uganda, lunch break along Ntugamo. This journey being a bit long, it takes more hours of this day driving, and while birding along the way.
- Main Destination:
- Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Gorillas)
- Accommodation:
- Broadbill Forest Camp
Wildlife in Bwindi Impenetrable NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 5
Birding in the Forest Main Trail Bwindi National Park Albertine Rift Endemic Species Highlights
Birding in the Forest Main Trail Bwindi National Park Albertine Rift Endemic Species Highlights
After breakfast, you'll pack our picnic gear and start birding at Mubwindi Swamp. Bwindi is home to about 350 species of birds, including 23 Albertine rift endemics! And at least 14 species recorded nowhere else in Uganda! It ranks as one of the best forest birding destinations in Africa, with local bird guides, most of them capable of identifying most species by call, and even calling up the more responsive species by their lip whistles! The likes in this forest (Albertine rift endemics) include: Red-throated Alethe, Archer’s Robin-chat, Yellow-Eyed Flycatcher, Chapin’s Flycatcher, Blue-headed Sunbird, Regal Sunbird, Rockefellower’s Sunbird, Purple-breasted Sunbird, Strange Weaver, Grauer’s Warbler, Black-faced Apalis, Collard Apalis, Stripe-breasted Tit, Cuckooshrike, Red-Billed Helmet shrike, Ruwenzori Batis, African Green Broadbill, Dwarf Honeyguide, Handsome Francolin, and other birds. Later, you'll do birding back to the comp for dinner and an overnight stay.
- Main Destination:
- Ruhija Sector (Bwindi Impenetrable NP)
- Accommodation:
- Broadbill Forest Camp
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 6
Enroute Birding To Queen Elizabeth National Park
Enroute Birding To Queen Elizabeth National Park
Early after breakfast, with a picnic lunch. You'll start birding at Queen Elizabeth National Park through the Kanungu area, where chances abound to trace for rarity of Rufous-Breasted Wryneck in this area. You'll continue birding to the southern sector of Queen Elizabeth, where you can’t miss the likes of Whinchats, Greater Scimitarbill, Black Kit, Superb Sunbird, still on a way in ishasha area, Little Button, Blue, Common, Harlequin Quails skulk in short grasses along the way. A couple of mammals like Cape Buffalo, lions, elephants, and Uganda Kobs thrive in this area. Chances abound to find the lions of Ishasha sheltering from the fierce Rift Valley sun on the boughs of ancient fig trees!
- Main Destination:
- Queen Elizabeth National Park
- Accommodation:
- Engiri Game Lodge - Cottages
Wildlife in Queen Elizabeth NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 7
Morning Birding and Wildlife Game Drive Afternoon Boat Trip at Kazinga Channel
Morning Birding and Wildlife Game Drive Afternoon Boat Trip at Kazinga Channel
Queen Elizabeth National Park is the second largest after Murchison Falls National Park, with 95 mammal species, the highest for any Ugandan national park, and about 610 bird species, a truly remarkable figure for a reserve that is relatively smaller by continental standards. The likes in this park include; Broad Tailed Warbler, Martial Eagle, African Skimmer, Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl, Amur Falcon, African Skimmer, Striated Heron, African Spoonbill, Water Thick-Knee, Three-banded Plover, Marsh, Green, Wood and Common Sandpiper, Gray-headed Gull, Plain Martin, Lesser Swamp-Warbler, White-Winged Warbler, Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl, OvamboSparrowhawk, Secretarybird, Caruther’sCisticola, African Skimmers, Black-Headed Gonolek, Papyrus Gonolek, Red-Faced Cisticola, Red-Chested Cukoo, Northern Puffback, Tropica Boubou, Diederik, Klaas’s, African-Emerald Cukoos, Little Stint, Temminck’s Stint, African-Wood Owl, Black-Shouldered Night-Jar, Yellow-Throated Long-Claw, East-African Swee etc.
- Main Destination:
- Queen Elizabeth National Park
- Accommodation:
- Engiri Game Lodge - Cottages
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 8
Transfer Back To Entebbe for Your Return Flight
Transfer Back To Entebbe for Your Return Flight
We will drive at our own pace, scanning around for any species that we can find.
- Main Destination:
- No major destination visited
- Accommodation:
- No accommodation (End of tour)
- Meals & Drinks:
