Mabamba swamp to Lake Mburo National Park
After an early breakfast in Entebbe we will drive to Mabamba swamp on the fringes of Lake Victoria which has a checklist of 260 birds but our main target here is the highly prized shoebill ,the rare weyn's weaver and birds restricted to the lake Victoria basin biome.Some of the good birds here includes blue swallow, papyrus and black headed gonoleks, papyrus canary,papyrus yellow warbler, carruther's cisticola, swamp flycatcher, viellot's black weaver, yellow billed duck, white-winged warbler, red chested sunbird, great reed warbler, slender billed and little weavers, blue headed coucal,palmnut vulture, eastern grey plantain eaters, pallid and marsh harriers, pygmy goose, lesser Jacana and many more.Lake we will drive to lake mburo national park for a late game drive
Bwindi impenetrable Forest National Park
when you set foot and bird here you will tend to agree with some of the people who term this place as, "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 bird for two days in each section of the forest and staying at different camps/lodges.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.Night in a camp or lodge
Queen Elizabeth national park
We will leave bwindi after breakfast and head towards queen Elizabeth Np picking any bird that catches our attention on the way.
This is the most diverse national park in Uganda with over 600 recorded bird species.Habitat ranges from savannah ,dense forest ,lakes and swamps.We will bird the isasha and mweya peninsula for birds such as african crake , vanga flycatcher, blue-throatef roller, flappet lark, mustached grass warbler, red chested sunbird, slender billed weavers and many
more.in the kazinga channel area we will bag birds such as hairy breasted barbet, african skimmer, gull billed tern, grey headed and black headed gulls, green crombec,brinzy sunbird, fan tailed widowbird,black bishop and many more.Large herds of big game will be seen here as well as tree climbing lions especially at the isasha area. Night in a camp or lodge
Murchison falls national park
This is uganda oldest national park with 450 recorded bird species.There are range of options here to either bird by boat,walk or game drive.some of our feathered friends here includes white crested turaco, heuglin's francolin, red throated beeeater, double toothed barbet, bar breasted firefinch, Shelley's sparrow, brown babbler, piapiac,shoebill, senegal lapwing, abyssinian ground hornbills, western black headed batis, buff bellied warbler, pennant and standard winged nightjars, greyish eagle owl, silver bird and plenty more.Night in a lodge
Kidepo valley national park
We will leave Murchison falls Np with our picnic lunches birding enroute to kidepo valley national park arriving late in the evening and we might half an hour or two to bird the nearby camp area.This park host some of the species that can not be seen anywhere else in uganda,with over 480 bird species recorded here ,out of this 28 are somali-maasai and sudan-guinea biomes.Habitat here ranges from dry Mountain terrains,montane forest, grassy plains, open tree savanah and thick miombo like woodlands.The rare black breasted barbet and karamoja apalis lives here,yellow biller shrike, vinaceous dove, four banded sandgrouse,rare clapperton's spurfowl which can only be seen in this park, abyssinian roller, abyssinian ground hornbill, mouse colored and yellow penduline tits,chestnut crown sparrow weaver, green winged,orange winged and red winged pytilias, grey capped social weaver, white billed buffalo weaver, black bellied and black faced waxbills, brown rumped bunting, Shelley's sparrow, stone patriadge, eastern yellow billed and jackson's hornbils, fox kestrel, african swallow tailed kite, foxy and red pate cisticola, singing and red winged larks, heuglin's francolin, marsh tchagra, african moustache and broad tailed warblers, bruce green pigeon, rose ringed parakeets, rupell's starlings, pygmy,shinning and eastern violet backed sunbirds, fan tailed raven,white crested turaco, red fronted barbet, brown backed woodpecker, Ethiopian swallow,white faced scops owl, Egyptian vulture and plenty more.Night in a lodge or camp
Mabira Forest to drop off point
We will continue birding mabira forest till mid day so what we might have missed the previous days then after lunch drive to Entebbe for drop off
