The Best Of Bird Watching
Holidays in Uganda

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Birding tours for the most ardent birder or beginner.
Birding holidays for the Albertine Rift
endemics and specialities
Options to seek Mountain Gorilla

Holidays to see the Speciality Birds of Uganda’s: Queen Elizabeth National Park, Murchison National Park, Mburo National Park, Bwindi National Park, Kigale National Park, Mahginga National Park, Mabira Forest, Ruhija, Buhoma, Mubwindi Swamp, Bigodi Swamp, Kaku Swamp, Albertine Rift, Royal Mile, Lake Victoria, Lake Bunyonyi, Masindi, The Source of The Nile, Semliki

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UB7 Best of Uganda Birding
14 Days Bird Watching Holiday
Including Shoebill plus the option to trek Mountain Gorilla and Chimpanzee

The tour will seek the astonishing Shoebill with an option to find the awesome Mountain Gorilla. A variety of sites will be visited to obtain a large list of exotic and scarce African bird species including endemics of the Albertine Rift. Very good quality accommodation is used for this tour.

URB4 Best of the Albertine Rift Endemics
15 Days Birding Tour
Regional specialities and Shoebill visiting both UGANDA & RWANDA

Rwanda, politically stabilised, exceptionally clean and fully open for tourism. This tour provides the opportunity to bird the largest montane forest in Africa where many Albertine Rift endemics are easier to find than elsewhere. Birds sought include:Rwenzori Turaco, Rwenzori Batis, Grauer’s Rush Warbler, Red-faced Warbler, African Green Broadbill, Kivu Ground-Thrush, Dusky Crimsonwing. The tour will seek the ARE endemics in the two countries plus birding the Queen Elizabeth National Park, with its 600 plus list. A tour not to be missed by the serious birder. Mountain Gorilla trekking can be included if required.

UBX1 Source of the Nile

3 Day optional birding extension to visit Mabira Forest to look for: White-winged Flufftail, Sabine’s Spinetail, Forest Wood Hoopoe, Brown & Scaly Illadopsis, Forest Robin, Fire-crested Alethe, Green Hylia, Black-throated Apalis, Purple-throated Cuckoo-Shrike, White-breasted Negrofinch with a visit to the source of the Nile.

The above tours are tailor made for you - the birder. Enquire about our bird watching itineraries - proven and compelling if you are serious about birding in Uganda.

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Uganda –“The Pearl Of Africa”, a small country with huge lakes, volcanoes, The Mountains of the Moon, beautiful National Parks and where the East African Savanna meets the West African Jungle – a blend that produces the richest diversity in birdlife and primates particularly; Uganda, a land where the safari holiday gives you more.

The White Nile springs from Lake Victoria and flows north through Uganda on its sinuous course to the Mediterranean Sea. This is the country where the wonderful plains animals, typical of East Africa, roam close to the jungle species, where can you mix Gorilla watching with Lion and Giraffe watching. Uganda is the country that holds one of the oddest birds in the avian world - the Shoebill, a species in which the tours specialise in finding.

The tours visit the famous National Parks: Queen Elizabeth, Murchison, Mburo, Bwindi, Kigale; in addition to the vast number of bird species, the parks hold mammals including: Elephant, Lion, Giraffe, Leopard, Spotted Hyena, Uganda Kob, Giant Forest Hog, a wide range of species of plains antelope and primates including: Mountain Gorilla and Chimpanzee.

The itineraries seek many of the following near endemic and endangered birds: Archer's Robin-chat, Black-faced Apalis, Collared Apalis, Blue-headed Sunbird, Regal Sunbird, Grey-headed Sunbird, Purple-breasted Sunbird, Chapin's Flycatcher, Yellow-eyed Black-flycatcher, Doherty's Bushrike, Papyrus Gonolek, Handsome Francolin, Nahan's Francolin, Lyne's Cisticola, Red-faced Woodland-warbler, Red-throated Alethe, White-browed Crombec, Ruwenzori Batis, Ruwenzori Nightjar, Dusky Crimsonwing, Dwarf Honeyguide, Grant's Bluebill, Grauer's Scrub-warbler, Grauer's Warbler, Neumann's Warbler, White-winged Scrub-warbler, Uganda Wood-warbler, Red-faced Barbet, Stripe-breasted Tit, Strange Weaver, Entebbe Weaver, African Green Broadbill.

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