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The 12 Days Uganda Birding Tour – Bird Watching, Gorilla Trekking, & Wildlife Adventure Safari takes you to the most visited and captivating Uganda national parks for a great birding excursion.
12 Days Uganda Birding Tour – Bird Watching, Gorilla Trekking, & Wildlife Adventure Safari
The 12 Days Uganda Birding Tour – Bird Watching, Gorilla Trekking, & Wildlife Adventure Safari takes you to the most visited and captivating Uganda national parks for a great birding excursion. Starting from the city center – Kampala city, to Mgahinga gorilla national park, and Bwindi Impenetrable forest in the southwestern part of Uganda. In these rainforests, you get a great chance of exploring the mountain giants – Mountain gorillas and a series of bird species.
You then proceed to Kasese in Queen Elizabeth national park, which is the most densely populated park with birds, especially at the Kazinga channel. On the 10th day of the 12 days of Uganda birding safari, go birding in Semuliki national park and then proceed back to Kampala for departure. Being the world’s most popular birding destination entire Uganda and its eastern zone are also more reputed all through the globe due to rare bird species that are amazing and having the 12 Days Uganda Birding Tour the expert team of Confidence Africa Tours and travel agency would help you to have the sobering experience upon it.
12 Days Uganda Birding Tour: Highlights
Day 1: On arrival
Day 2: Transfer to Mgahinga Gorilla National Park
Day 3: Birding Mgahinga National Park
Day 4: Birding in Ruhija
Day 5: Birding in Mubwindi Swamp
Day 6: Birding in Buhoma
Day 7: Birding in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Day 8: Birding to Kasese
Day 9: Rwenzori – Fort Portal
Day 10: Birding in Semliki National Park
Day 11: Whole day birding in Semliki National Park
Day 12: Transfer to Entebbe
12 Days Uganda Birding Tour – Bird Watching, Gorilla Trekking, & Wildlife Adventure Safari
Day 1: On arrival
You will be welcomed by your bird guide on the 12 Days Uganda Birding Tour, he/she will be holding a placard with your name written on it. You will be transferred to your hotel where you will be debriefed, rest and relax.
Day 2: Transfer to Mgahinga Gorilla National Park
After your early morning breakfast, you will be transferred to Kisoro – southwestern Uganda, we will have a stop in Echuya forest for a brief birding experience.
Day 3: Birding Mgahinga National Park
We will have an early start today and with a picnic lunch set off through a variety of montane habitats for our most sought-after birds today like the Dusky Turtle Dove, Rwenzori Turaco, Cape Robin-Chat, Kivu Ground Thrush, White-eyed Slaty, and White-Tailed Blue Flycatcher, Olive Wood-pecker among others.
Day 4: Birding in Ruhija
Our birding today will start in the rift valley area and a nearby swamp, we will mostly be looking for the Little Rush Warbler plus the Grauer’s Rush Warbler one of the rare Bradypterus Warblers within the Albertine rift zones among others.
Day 5: Birding in Mubwindi Swamp
With an early start, we will go in search of species like the beautiful leafy-looking broadbill, Black-billed Turaco, Olive, Elliot’s and Fine-banded Woodpecker, African Hill Babbler, and Mountain Illadopsis, Yellow-eyed Black Flycatcher, Mountain Greenbul, Grey Cuckoo Shrike among other birds.
Day 6: Birding in Buhoma
Today we will drive to the southern part of Bwindi impenetrable national park, with multiple stopovers expect to see birds like the Black Bee-eater, calling out the Red-throated Wryneck and finding it would be a great addition, Mountain Wagtail and the Cassin’s Grey Flycatcher, White-starred Robin, Olive Thrush, Red-faced Woodland Warbler, Grauer’s Warbler, MacKinnon’s Fiscal, Collared, Mountain Masked Chestnut-throated, among others.
Day 7 of 12 Days Uganda Birding Tour: Birding in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
In our birding exploration today, we will be looking for birds like the Pink-footed Puffbuck, Yellow Billed Barbet, Bocage’s Bush-Shrike, Bar-tailed Trogon, Black Bee-Eater, Cassin’s and Scaly throated Honey Guide, White-headed Wood-hoopoe, Western Green Tinkerbird, Short Tailed Warbler, African Broadbill, among others.
Day 8: Birding to Kasese
With packed lunch, we shall leave for Rwenzori National Park. While there we look out for special birds like the purple breasted sunbird, Abyssinian, Red faced, Shelly’s and Dusky Crimson-wing, Red-bellied seed cracker, Woodhouse Antipecker, Stripe-breasted Tit, Forest Flycatcher, Grey Apalis, Ayres and Cassin’s Hawk-eagle and many others. We stay at the basement of Mount Rwenzori.
Day 9: Rwenzori – Fort Portal
We have another day of birding in the morning before we transfer to Fort Portal where a number of rare and highly localized birds may be found. African Long-eared Owl, sometimes considered nonspecific with the Holarctic Long-eared Owl. This is one of only two sites in East Africa [the other being Mt. Kenya] where this bird has been recorded.
Similarly, the Greater Double-collared Sunbird [sometimes considered a separate species, Stuhl Mann’s Double-collared Sunbird] is endemic to the Rwenzori Mountains and is reportedly fairly common in areas of bamboo and heath. Rwenzori Turaco another common and easily seen here than elsewhere. There are recent sight records of the rare Grauer’s Cuckoo-shrike we keep fingers crossed for these amazing species.
Day 10 of 12 Days Uganda Birding Tour: Birding in Semliki National Park
After an early breakfast, we will drive to Semuliki National Park getting there in time to bird the trails around the hot springs. This gives us a great introduction to the Semliki birds like the Hornbills, Chestnut Breasted Negro Finch, Black Bellied Seed Cracker and others then transfer to Bundibugyo.
Day 11: Whole day birding in Semliki National Park
After breakfast, proceed for a whole day birding on the Kirumia trail. Depending on the weather condition today we have some of the best birding within the East African region as many species are of West and Central African Origin. Look out for birds like Black-casqued wattled, White thighed, Piping, Red-billed dwarf, White crested and Black dwarf Hornbill, Rufous Sided Broadbill, Blue Billed and Crested Malimbe, Blue-headed Crested-flycatcher, Leaf Love, Swamp palm Bulbul, rarely seen are the Capuchin Babbler and African Piculet small bird of its own related to the woodpeckers and the Lyre Tailed Honey Guides among other birds.
Day 12: Transfer to Entebbe
On your long drive to Entebbe, we will bird our way as we end our 12 Days Uganda Birding Tour.
End of 12 Days Uganda Birding Tour – Bird Watching, Gorilla Trekking, & Wildlife Adventure Safari
Safari Inclusions and Exclusions
The safari package includes
- Gorilla permit
- Park Entrance fees
- 4×4 Land Cruiser or Safari Van for ground travel
- Service of professional English-speaking guide
- Boat ride
- Game viewing
- Bottled water on tour
The safari package excludes
- Tips
- Laundry
- Visa fees
- Optional activities
- Air tickets
- Shopping
- Cigarettes
- Telephone bills
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