Detailed 7 Days Birding Safari to Uganda

7 Days Birding Safari to Uganda: Highlights

Day 1: Welcome to Uganda

Day 2: Transfer to Murchison Falls National Park

Day 3: Game drive – birding

Day 4: Nature Walk – Launch cruise on the Nile

Day 5: Game drive and Transfer to Budongo Forest

Day 6: Budongo Forest Reserve

Day 7: Transfer to Entebbe

On your arrival for the amazing 7 Days Birding Safari to Uganda, look out for your bird guide holding a placard with your name written on it. You will be later transferred to your hotel. Depending on the time of arrival, you may choose to either rest or go birding at the Entebbe botanical gardens or the Uganda Wildlife Education Center.

After breakfast, you will be transferred to Uganda’s largest National Park. We will have a stopover in Masindi for lunch then proceed to the top of the spectacular falls.

After an early morning breakfast, with packed lunch, we will go birding on a birding – game drive taking the best tracks expect to see a big number of savanna birds along with other wildlife. Among the many species you should expect include; The Secretary Bird, The Giant among others.

An early rise before sunrise, we go birding on foot with a game ranger for the early and late morning active birds. We will get back to the lodge for lunch and relaxation and in the afternoon, for a 3-hour launch cruise on the river Nile having a chance to sight the elusive shoebill.

You will have one more game drive as you exit the park as you are transferred to Budongo Forest reserve for another ultimate birding experience.

Here is a Prolific Birdlife with two species not found elsewhere in East Africa: 10 of the 22 species of the Sudan–Guinea Savanna biome and 93 of the 144 species Guinea–Congo Forests biome that occur in Uganda have been recorded at this site.

Rare species to catch here will include the Puvel’s Illadopsis, Nahan’s Francolin, and the Chocolate–Backed Kingfisher, White-headed Saw-wing, White Wagtail, Black-eared Ground-Thrush, Little Crake, Yellow-billed Barbet, Chestnut-capped Flycatcher and many more.

This being the last day, we will bird your way to the airport.