UGANDA PRIMATES AND BIRDS – 11 days, 10 nights

DAY 01 and DAY 02

We travel by road to Lake Mburo NP (3 hrs). The park comprises mixed thorn bush savanna as well as aquatic habitats around the lake and its papyrus fringes.

Birds to be seen would include:

Black-collared, Red-fronted & Spot-flanked Barbet, Bateleur, Brubru, Red-tailed Chat, Long-tailed & Wing-snapping Cisticolas, Black Cuckoo Shrike, Yellow-billed Duck, Tawny Eagle, Lead-colored, Swamp Flycatcher, Coqui Francolin, Bare-faced Go away Bird, Papyrus Gonolek, Southern Ground Hornbill, African Hawk Eagle, Grey Kestrel, Yellow-Billed Oxpecker, Speckled Pigeon, Grassland Pipit, Brown-chested Plover, Lilac-breasted Roller, Black-throated Seed-eater, White-crested helmet Shrike, Greater blue-eared, Wattled Starling, Common Stonechat, Saddle-billed Stork, Shoebill Stork, Marico Sunbird, Red-rumped Swallow, African black Swift, White-winged black Tit, Northern brown throated Weaver, Emerald-spotted Wood Dove, Green Wood Hoopoe, Nubian Woodpecker.

DAY 03, DAY 04 and DAY 05

Today we will make our way to the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest (6 hrs) at Buhoma for a three night stay. Although Bwindi is only 321 sq. kms ranging in altitude from 1160 to 2650 metres above sea level, it is home to 330+ species of birds including a number of the Albertine Rift endemics.

Birds to be seen would include:

Equatorial Akalat, Red-throated Alethe, White-tailed Ant Thrush, Black-faced, Black-throated, Chestnut-throated, collared, Grey and mountain masked Apalis, African hill Babbler, Grey-throated & Yellow-billed Barbet, Chin-spot & Rwenzori Batis, Black & Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater, Yellow Bishop, Veillot’s Black Weaver, Montane sooty Boubou, African and Green Broadbill, Doherty’s, Bocage’s, Luhder’s & many-colored Bush shrike, Augur & Mountain Buzzard, Yellow-crowned Canary, Chubb’s & Trilling Cisticola, African (western) Citril, white-tailed Crested Flycatcher, dusky Crimson-wing, white-browed Crombec , barred long-tailed & olive long-tailed Cuckoo, grey & petit’s Cuckoo-Shrike, Mackinnon’s Fiscal, African blue, African dusky, Cassin’s grey, Chapin’s, Dusky blue, White-eyed Slaty, White-tailed blue & Yellow-eyed Black Flycatcher, Rufous Flycatcher - Thrush, Handsome & Scaly Francolin, African Goshawk, Cabanis’, Mountain, Red-tailed, Shelley’s Greenbul & Yellow-streaked Greenbul, Kivu Ground Thrush, Ayre’s Hawk Eagle, Rwenzori Hill Babbler, Dwarf & Willcock’s Honeyguide, Grey-chested & Mountain Illadopsis, Senegal Lapwing, yellow-throated Leaflove, Magpie Manikin, Rock Martin, White-breasted Negrofinch , Rwenzori Nightjar , montane Oriole , Oriole Finch, brown-necked Parrot, olive & western bronze-naped Pigeon, banded Prinia, pink-footed Puffback, White-naped Raven, White-starred Robin, Archer’s & White-bellied Robin- Chat, Blue-throated Roller, Black Sawwing, Brown-backed, Streaky & Thick-billed Seed-eater, Mackinnon’s Shrike, Black-and-white Shrike- Flycatcher, narrow-tailed, sharpe’s, slender-billed, stuhlmann’s & waller’s Starling, blue-headed, bronze, northern Double-collared, Purple-breasted, Regal &, Variable Sunbird, Scarce Swift, Brown-crowned Tchagra, Olive Thrush, Speckled & Western green Tinkerbird, Stripe-breasted Tit, Bar-tailed Trogon, Black-billed & Great Blue Turaco, Dusky Twinspot, cape Wagtail, black-faced rufous, cinnamon bracken, evergreen forest, Grauer’s, mountain-yellow, Red-faced Woodland, Grauer’s Rush,

DAY 06

We stay in Ishasha for one day.

Birds to be seen would include:

White-headed Barbet, Black-and-white Cuckoo , African Finfoot, Pel’s Fishing Owl, African Hobby, Grey Kestrel, Pearl-spotted Owlet , African olive Pigeon, Shoebill Stork and Narina Trogon.

DAY 07 & 08
We head to the Mweya Peninsula. Game drives and Kazinga Channel boat excursion.

On the boat excursion we have opportunity to observe:

Grey-headed Gull, Goliath Heron, Squacco Heron, Glossy Ibis, Sacred Ibis, Spur-winged Lapwing, Plain Martin, Great White Pelican, Pink-backed Pelican, Kittlitz’s Plover, Three-banded Plover, Collared Pratincole, African Skimmer, Black-winged Stilt , Yellow-billed Stork, Gull-billed Tern, Whiskered Tern, White-winged Tern, Water Thick-Knee, African Wattled

On game drives we should expect to see:

Arrow-marked, Black-lored and Brown Babbler, Spotted-flanked Barbet, White-throated Bee-eater, Southern Red Bishop, Golden-breasted Bunting, Black-bellied Bustard, Common (small) Buttonquail, Brimstone Canary, Sooty Chat, Stout & Trilling Cisticola, Black Coucal, African Crake, Grey Crowned Crane, Ring-necked Dove, Long-crested Eagle, Verreaux’s Eagle- Owl, Lanner Falcon, Grey-backed Fiscal, Swamp Flycatcher , Ruppell’s Glossy Starling, Black-headed & Papyrus Gonolek, Gabar Goshawk, Lesser Honeyguide, Common Hoopoe, Rufous-naped Lark , Yellow-throated Longclaw, Red-headed Lovebird , Banded Martin, Blue-naped Mousebird, African White-tailed, Gabon & Slender-tailed Nightjar, Plain-backed Pipit, Crowned & Senegal Plover, Brown & Beaudouin’s Snake-eagle, Red-necked Spurfowl, Purple-banded & Red-chested Sunbird, Angola & Red-rumped Swallow, Marsh Tchagra, African white-backed, Lappet-faced, Ruppell ‘s Griffon & White-headed Vulture, Broad-tailed & Grey-capped Warbler, Black-headed, Golden-backed, Lesser Masked, Northern brown-throated, Slender-billed & Spectacled Weaver and White-winged Widowbird.

DAY 09 and DAY 10

We visit the Kibale Forest National Park.

Birds to be seen would include:

Black-capped Apalis, Buff-throated Apalis, Masked Apalis, Hairy-breasted Barbet , Yellow-billed Barbet, Yellow-spotted Barbet, Black Bee-eater, Olive-green Camaroptera, White-bellied Crested Flycatcher, African Crowned Eagle, African Emerald Cuckoo, Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo, Petit’s Cuckoo- Shrike, Velvet-mantled Drongo, White-spotted Flufftail, Black-and-white Flycatcher, Dusky-blue Flycatcher, Grey-throated Flycatcher, Sooty Flycatcher, Rufous Flycatcher Thrush, Nahan’s Francolin, Cabanis’s Greenbul, Cameroun Sombre Greenbul, Honeyguide Greenbul, JoyfulGreenbul, Little Greenbul, Slender-billed Greenbul, Yellow-whiskered Greenbul, Crested Guinea- Fowl, Cassin’s Honeybird, Thick-billed Honeyguide, Crowned Hornbill, Green Hylia, Scaly-breasted Illadopsis, Blue-breasted Kingfisher, Shining blue Kingfisher, Red-headed Malimbe, Western Nicator, Red-chested Owlet, African grey ParrotAfep Pigeon, White-naped Pigeon, Green-breasted Pitta , Banded Prinia, White-chinned Prinia, Pink-footed Puffback , White-headed Sawwing, Chestnut-winged Starling, Purple-headed Starling, Green-headed Sunbird, Green-throated Sunbird, Superb Sunbird, Mosque Swallow, Alpine Swift, Speckled Tinkerbird, Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird, Yellow-throated Tinkerbird, Dusky Tit, Narina Trogon, Black-billed Turaco, Great Blue Turaco, Mountain Wagtail, Dark-backed Weaver, White-headed Wood- Hoopoe, Buff-spotted Woodpecker, Yellow-crested Woodpecker and Yellowbill.

DAY 11

We return to Kampala

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