Birding Company in Uganda

Appearance at Entebbe International Airport. The guides will get together with you and relocate you to Imperial Botanical Hotel.Gorilla Safari  Incase you get there in time; you will have a welcome birding afternoon at Entebbe Botanical Gardens. Expect the Brown throated waver, grey headed gull, yellow billed duck, swamp flycatcher, broad billed roller, long tailed cormorant, black and white casqued hornbill,  pied kingfisher,Uganda Safari yellow backed weaver, giant kingfisher, red cheated sunbird, golden backed weaver, splendid glossy starling, black headed gonolek, orange weaver, Ross’s turaco, common squacco heron, slender billed weaver, pied hornbill, crowned hornbill, open billed stork, great red warbler, sedge warbler, grey caped warbler plus many more species. Supper and overnight will be at Imperial Botanical Beach.

 You will have a morning birding on the Lincoln trail.Gorilla Tracking This has above 170 types that have been noted so far. Fascinated birders may note more than 110 species in a day. To this point the local bird guides have recognized this trail as the hottest spot closest to Kampala. During this Uganda Safari, Expect white-headed barbet, double toothed barbet, brown twin spot, tambourine dove, black-headed bush shrike, red headed lovebird, scaly francolin, tropical boubou, and many other species. Dinner and overnight at Imperial Botanical Hotel.

 When breakfast is done, we shall head to Mabamba Important Bird Area the nearest and hottest spot to view a shoebill in the wild. Stopping in   Mpigi Swamp for papyrus rarities. Wait to see the usual papyrus gonolek, white winged warbler, yellow backed weaver, northern brown-throated weaver and blue-headed coucal. Continue to Mabamba wetland. A good number of the birding is made on the canoe. Hunt for the majestic shy shoebill stork both in the sky exploring the heights and down in the marshy swamp. Mauritius Holidays Watch out closely for the swamp flycatcher, purple swamp hen, African water rail, common moorhen, lesser jacana, African jacana, African pygmy goose, white faced whistling duck, squacco heron, blue breasted bee-eater, winding cistcola, goliath heron, black crake etc.Zanzibar Travel Get back to Imperial Botanical Hotel for Dinner and overnight stay.


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