Overview
The Albertine rift stretches from western Burundi through Rwanda to Western Uganda which is home to rare and endemic birds.According to recent split in taxonomy there are currently 29 birds which only confined to this spectacular rift.
Area Visited; Entebbe botanical garden, Mabamba swamp, Mgahiga gorilla national park and Bwindi impenetrable forest national park
Your Itinerary
Day 1 Arrival
You will be picked by our guide and depending with the time of arrival bird Entebbe botanical garden.
Accommodaction;Night in a lodge or hotel
Day 2 Mabamba swamp
Bird mabamba swamp for the rare shoebill then in the mid morning then transferred to mgahiga national park for a night stay
Day 3 Mgahiga gorilla national park
In this dense higland forest which host a number of exciting albertine endemics we will search for kivu ground thrush, handsome francolin, red throated alethe,dusky crimson wing, blue headed coucal, rwenzori nightjar, black headed and kandt’s waxbills, western green tinkerbird, stripe breasted tit, rwenzori batis, archer’s ground robin and many more.Later in the evening we will head to bwindi impenetrable forest at Ruhija area to overnight
Day 4-7 Bwindi impenetrable forest
They call it “the heart and soul of Ugandan birding’ The species here are a variety with Albertine endemics and other rare birds .There are 76 out of 144 Guinea-Congo biome species recorded here.With a checklist of 305 bird species 23 of 24 albertine endemics are found here .We will mainly bird the Ruhiija ,Mubwindi and Buhoma areas via the neck.We will penetrate the impenetrable looking for birds such as grauer’s swamp warbler, grauer’s broadbill, purple breasted and regal sunbird, recently describe d Willard’s boubou, olive breasted and yellow streaked greenbuls, thick billed ,wilcocks and dwarf honeguides, archer’s ground robin, olive and barred longtailed cuckoo, chapin’s flycatcher, Neumann’s warbler, handsome francolin, white bellied robinchat, equitorial akalat, grey chested kakamega, Jameson’s antpecker, sooty boubou,sooty flycatcher,white-chinned and black faced prinia, pink footed puffback, brown capped weaver, dusky twinspot, black faced rufous warbler, white bellied crested flycatcher, white browed crombec,black beeeater, dusky and stripe breasted tit, kivu ground thrush, western citril, rwenzori hill babbler, mountain sooty boubou, lagden’s bushshrike, strange weaver, blue-headed sunbird, redfaced and Shelley’s crimson wing, rwenzori nightjar and fraser’s eagle owl.
Accommodaction;Night in a camp or lodge