UGANDA COMPREHENSIVE BIRDING TRIP
This trip is focussed on birding and excludes gorilla and chimpanzee trekking. The trip follows a clockwise route around Uganda, taking in the major birding sites, as well as including an excursion for the endemic Fox’s Weaver.
Day 1 : Arrival at Entebbe airport, STAY ENTEBBE
Day 2 Mabamba swamp and Lake Mburo, STAY NEARBY LAKE MBURO NP
Day 3 Birding Lake Mburo, STAY NEARBY LAKE MBURO NP
Day 4 :Birding to Mgahinga, STAY KISORO AREA
Day 5 ;birding in Mgahinga ,STAY KISORO AREA
Day 6 : Birding to Bwindi-Ruhija, STAY AT RUHIJA
Day 7 : Birding in Ruhija ,STAY AT RUHIJA
Day 8 : Birding to Buhoma via the Neck, STAY AT BUHOMA
Day 9 : Birding in Buhoma Main Trail, STAY AT BUHOMA
Day 10 : Birding to Queen Elizabeth National Park, STAY NEAR PARK
Day 11 : Birding in Queen and later transfer to Kibale NP, STAY AT LODGE
Day 12 :Birding in Semuliki National park, return to Kibale, STAY AT LODGE
Day 13 :Birding in Kibale National park, STAY AT LODGE
Day 14 : Birding to Budongo forest, STAY AT MASINDI
Day 15: Birding in Budongo and later transfer to Murchison Falls, STAY AT LODGE
Day 16 : Birding in Murchison Falls, STAY AT LODGE
Day 17: Transfer to Kidepo – birding en route, STAY AT LODGE NEAR PARK
Day 18 :birding Kidepo , STAY AT LODGE NEAR PARK
Day 19 : birding to Moroto, STAY AT HOTEL
Day 20: Birding to Pian Upe , STAY AT ACCOMMODATION NEAR PARK
Day 21 :Birding in Pian Upe, STAY AT ACCOMMODATION NEAR PARK
Day 22 :Birding in Pian Upe transfer to Mabira, STAY AT LODGE
Day 23 Birding in Mabira forest and later transfer to Entebbe and departure
Birding highlights per site:
Mabamba Swamp: It goes without saying that Shoebill is the prime target. Other possible species include Swamp Flycatcher, Weyns’s Weaver, Blue-headed Coucal, Great Blue Turaco
Lake Mburo: Red-faced Barbet, Bare-faced Go-away-bird, Ross’s Turaco, Brown-chested Lapwing, White-winged Black Tit, Long-tailed Cisticola, Compact Weaver
Mgahinga NP: Dusky Turtle Dove, Dwarf Honeyguide, Rwenzori Batis, White-tailed Crested Flycatcher, Mountain Yellow Warbler, Rwenzori Hill Babbler, Rwenzori Turaco, Rwenzori Double-collared Sunbird, Dusky Crimsonwing
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park: Black-billed Turaco, Western Bronze-naped Pigeon, Mountain Buzzard, Bar-tailed Trogon, White-headed Wood-hoopoe, Black Bee-eater, Grauer’s Broadbill, Lagden’s Bushshrike, Pink-footed Puffback, Mountain Oriole, Dusky Tit, White-browed Crombec, Grauer’s Warbler, Rwenzori Apalis, Mountain Masked Apalis, Sharpe’s Starling, Yellow-eyed Black Flycatcher, Regal Sunbird, Strange Weaver
Queen Elizabeth NP: A large variety of waterbirds, African Crake, Brown-chested Lapwing, Black-bellied Bustard, Temminck’s Courser, Olive Bee-eater, Piapiac, Black-lored Babbler, Cassin’s Flycatcher, Slender-billed Weaver
Kibale NP: Afep Pigeon, White-spotted Flufftail, Blue-throated Roller, Blue-breasted Kingfisher, Hairy-breasted Barbet, Green-breasted Pitta, Velvet-mantled Drongo, Western Nicator, Narrow-tailed Starling, Blue-throated Brown Sunbird, Red-headed Malimbe, White-breasted Nigrita, Black-crowned Waxbill
Semuliki NP: Hartlaub’s Duck, Western Crested Guinefowl, Blue Malkoha, Yellow-throated Cuckoo, White-naped Pigeon, Cassin’s Hawk-Eagle, Red-billed Dwarf Hornbill, Black-casqued Hornbill, White-crested Hornbill, African Dwarf Kingfisher, Red-rumped Tinkerbird, Lowland Sooty Boubou, Dusky Crested Flycatcher, Yellow-throated Nicator, Xavier’s Greenbul, Red-tailed Leaflove, Capuchin Babbler, Fire-crested Alethe, Crested Malimbe, Orange-cheeked Waxbill
Budongo (Royal Mile): Nahan’s Partridge, Sabine’s Spinetail, Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo, White-thighed Hornbill, Chocolate-backed Kingfisher, Willcock’s Honeyguide, Ituri Batis, Spotted Greenbul, Uganda Woodland Warbler, Rufous-crowned Warbler, Forest Robin, Brown-chested Alethe, Compact Weaver, Black-bellied Firefinch
Murchison Falls NP: Heuglin’s Spurfowl, Pennant-winged Nightjar, Denham’s Bustard, Black Coucal, Vinaceous Dove, Rock Pratincole, Beaudouin’s Snake Eagle, Abyssinian Ground Hornbill, Red-throated Bee-eater, Northern Carmine Bee-eater, African Grey Woodpecker, Western Black-headed Batis, Northern Crombec, Red-winged Grey Warbler, Brown Babbler, Silverbird, Brown Twinspot
Kidepo NP: Stone Partridge, Blue Quail, White-crested Turaco, Rüppell’s Vulture, Northern Red-billed Hornbill, Jackson’s Hornbill, D’Arnoud’s Barbet, Rose-ringed Parakeet, Slate-coloured Boubou, Yellow-billed Shrike, Red-winged Lark, White-tailed Lark, Red-pate Cisticola, Scarlet-chested Sunbird, Cardinal Quelea, Straw-tailed Paradise Whydah
Pian Upe NP: Plain Nightjar, Hartlaub’s Bustard, Bruce’s Green Pigeon, Secretarybird, Fox Kestrel, Greyish Eagle-Owl, Abyssinian Roller, Brown-backed Woodpecker, Fan-tailed Raven, Moustached Grass Warbler, Foxy Cisticola, Karamoja Apalis, Beautiful Sunbird, Fox’s Weaver, Red-winged Pytilia
Mabira Forest: Forest Wood Hoopoe, African Pied Hornbill, White-throated Bee-eater, Yellow-spotted Barbet, Jameson’s Wattle-eye, Yellow Longbill, Grey Apalis, Purple-headed Starling, Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat, Little Green Sunbird, Weyn’s Weaver, Yellow-mantled Weaver, Red-headed Bluebill
Timing of trip: Custom
Cost from US TBA
Includes:
- Accommodation, meals and transport, mineral water during days
- Local bird guide, site guides and Bustards Birding Tours leader
- Entrance fees
Excludes:
- International flights
- Drinks other than specified
- Travel insurance
- Medical tests that may be required
- Items of a personal nature such as laundry, telephone calls etc.
- Tips and gratuities
- Additional night in Entebbe after trip, should flight times require this