Top Activities and Attractions to do at Mabira Forest
Mabira Forest located 50 km east of Kampala offers a wide range of day-tour activities including birding, ziplining, mangabey tracking, cycling and guided nature walks to view waterfalls,
Bigodi Wetland Sanctuary – Primates and Birding Walks
Bigodi Wetland Sanctuary near Kibale Forest offers excellent activities including; primates watching tours to encounter over 8 species, birding walks and community experiences where you engage in demonstrative coffee expereince, banana gin process…
Birding Lutembe Bay
Lutembe Bay is a Ramsar Site and an Important Bird Area that supports a diversity of over 110 checklist of species that include large congregations of Palearctic Migrants, Lake Victoria Biome species and resident waders.
Uganda Birding Hotspots – Mabamba Wetland
Mabamba wetlands located west of Entebbe is Uganda’s top birding hotspots offering best chances and convenience to encounter the prehistoric Shoebill. The community-run Mabamba wetlands extends over 100 sq km from the shallow marshy bay on the northern shores of Lake Victoria near Entebbe
Birding Hotspots in Uganda – Bwindi Impenetrable Forest
Bwindi Impenetrable Forest NP is Uganda’s premier birding destination offering the best access to the biodiversity rich Albertine Rift. The park’s checklist of over 360 species include up to 24 Albertine Endemics, over 70 high montane forest birds and a quality tropical forest specialists.
Birding Hotspots in Uganda – Semuliki National Park
Semuliki National Park offers the best lowland forest birding experience on any typical Uganda tour, bringing in a unique diversity…
Birding Hotspots in Uganda – The Royal Mile Trail at Budongo Forest
The Royal Mile at Budongo Forest is undoubtedly Uganda’s best birding trail noted for the rare iron-wood canopy-restricted specialists and a rich Guinea-Congo species list on their Eastern range limit.
Birding in Uganda – Why you need to Go
Uganda is a top birding hotspot with a checklist of over 1080 bird species which includes the country’s 2 endemic birds; the Fox’s Weaver and Karamoja Apalis. Other top bird highlights include the prehistoric Shoebill, Albertine Endemics, lowland forest bird species, and more.
Top 10 Uganda Birding Hotspots – Where to go birding in Uganda
Uganda’s Top Birding Hotspots include Bwindi Impenetrable Forest known for Albertine Rift Endemics, Mabamba Wetlands known for Shoebill, Kibale Forest, Semliki National Park, Murchison Falls NP, Queen Elizabeth NP, Kidepo Valley NP and more.
Uganda Birding Circuits
Uganda’s birding circuits combine a diversity of bird-rich habitats characterized by montane rainforests, extensive marshes and wetlands, wooded grasslands where a checklist of over 1080 species occur. Bird highlights include; the prehistoric Shoebill, Uganda’s Endemics, Albertine Endemics and more.
4 Facts about the Shoebill
Often referred to as a “whale head”, the prehistoric Shoebill (Balaeniceps rex) is a major highlight and a must-see to…