10 Days Uganda Birding Safari, Best Birding Destination places

A Guide to 10 Days Uganda Birding Safari, Best Birding Destination places

Enjoy Bird watching on your 10 days birding Uganda safari through the carpeted Uganda grasslands in the national parks where Uganda birds find life. Our 10 days safari is an alluring birding adventure as you visit the best birding zones like swamps and national parks. The adventure is rewarding as you have a chance to optimize your safari for gorilla trekking.

10 days birding Uganda safari, Location, Site routes, Travel Guidelines

Our 10 days birding Uganda safari takes us to the corroded forested places in the reverting central and western Uganda where birds form groups in their beautifully niches. Our best bird watching spots include the famous Mabamba swamp where we encounter water loving bird species not forgetting that, this place is a home to the rare Shoebill Stork.
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Best bird watching spots shall include lake Mburo national park dominated by acacia trees forming thick forest that carpeted the uplands, the Birding safari reverts us to the Uganda’s Savannah woodlands, wetlands, Mubwindi Swamp descending through the majestic rain-forest with scenic viewpoint bending to the adjacent voluminous chains of volcano ranges, tropical rain forests, Ruhija section giving us a chance to opt for Gorilla trekking through the gallery of trees in Bwindi where the most remaining worlds mountain Gorillas nest their ecological niches.

Summary / Travel Guide for 10 Days Birding Uganda Safari – Bird watching tour

Day 1: Arrival at the Entebbe/Pick up from the Hotel Day 2: Birding Mabamba Swamp west of Entebbe Day 3: Birding Lake Mburo National Park western Uganda Day 4: Birding to Ruhija Bwindi Impenetrable Forest Day 5: Birding to Mubwindi swamp with most endemics Day 6: Birding Ruhizha to Buhoma in Bwindi Day 7: Options (gorilla trekking or birding Buhoma Bwindi) Day 8: Birding Queen Elizabeth National Park – Boat Ride at Kazinga channel Day 9: Game Drive, Bieding in the Queen Elizabeth Park Days 10: Re-transfer back to the area of pick up/ Airport

Day 1: Arrival at the Airport/ Pick up from the Hotel for 10 days birding Uganda Safari

A pick up from the Entebbe Airport/hotel depending where you opted for a pick up by our safari guide. Our 10 days birding safari guide will leave a gripping mood for you to feel a worthy 10 days Uganda Visitation. Check in to your hotel, depending on your arrival/pick up time, morning hours take us to the Entebbe birding hot spots like Entebbe botanical Gardens yielding numerous bird species like Red Chested, Diederick Cuckoo, Grey Capped, Blue and Ross’s Turacos, Eurosuian Reed Warblesr, Fain Tailed Widow bird, Woodland Kingfisher, Pygmy Kingfisher, Green Throated, Gaber Goshawk, Olive, Red chested, Black Bishop, Black Headed Weavers, Klaas’s, Black Kite, Red Bellied Paradise, Grey Woodpecker, Slender Billed, Olive bellied, Bat Hawk(seen in evening hours)and so many more.

Day 2: Birding Mabamba Swamp- a home to the rare shoebill Stolk

Mabamba offers an inspiring adventure traversing the swamp in a canoe sighting at numerous water loving birds like the most spotted; the rare shoe bill, papyrus Gonolek. As we make our way through the scrubland, with deep washes in the swamps, have great views to the common bird species like Weyns Weaver and White Winged Warbler, African and Lesser Jacanas, Rufous Bellied and Goliath herons, Squaco Herons and many others. Mabamba is a home to the popular bird seen by Muzungu on Uganda birding Safari. The rare shoebill. The latter provides a lot of distinct unique features for you to see with your eyes.
On luck days, you might encounter with other swamp dwelling wildlife like the water loving elusive Sitatunga Antelopes which are also common in this place. Well after, proceed to lake Mburo National Park.

Day 3: Birding Lake Mburo National Park Uganda Safari

Birding Lake Mburo National Park takes us to a popular birding hot spot in Kiruhura District in the Western Region of Uganda with over 300 bird species. The park raises about 30 kilometres offering best watching hot spots and as well encountering with Mburo wildlife species like zebras, hippopotami, elands, warthogs, buffaloes, jackals, leopards, impalas.
Enjoy a game drive with a professional birder guide and a game ranger through the carpeted Lake Mburo grasslands with acacia trees where birds stand to lay nests, the most sighted birds shall include the migratory birds from Tanzania originating from West Africa plains like the Brown-chested Plover and the Red-faced Barbet as we encounter with the Mburo wildlife species
After lunch, prepare for a boat drive to sail over the undulating lake Mburo that offers an arresting birding adventure spotting out the water loving bird species like African Fish Eagle, Little Bittern, White Backed Night Heron, Black Crowned Night, African Open Billed Stork, White-crested Turaco, Green Backed Heron and many more.

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