Day 1: Mabira Forest
After breakfast early in the morning our tour guide will pick you up from the hotel and drive you towards eastern Uganda.
Continue through Mabira forest along Jinja road for a forest walk in search for birds. The forest represents one of the most
important ornithological sites in Uganda with more than 300 bird species such as the hornbill species, the great Blue
turaco,African grey parrot, African pitta, sunbird and nahan’s francolin. Mabira Forest is one of the two places in East Africa
where
the pretty tithylia lives and where this rare bird is seen here
frequently. Then you will have a picnic in the forest. Have
dinner and spend the night at Mabira Forest Lodge or NFA Headquarters.
Day 2:
Go on a full day nature walk through the forest immediately after breakfast in search for birds not spotted the previous day.
Have a picnic break in the forest and then continue with birding. This birding activity also gives you a chance to see animals
like monkeys and antelopes. Have dinner and spend the night at Mabira forest lodge or NFA Headquarters.
Day 3:
After breakfast, drive west through Busingiro and Budongo forest reserve in Masindi. This route will offer you a panoramic view
of sugarcane plantations, abundant vegetation and indigenous traditional homesteads. Budongo forest has over 366 bird
species. Have dinner and spend the night at Nyabyeya Forestry College or Busingiro Tourist site.
Day 4:
After an early breakfast you will enjoy a full day birding in the forest starting with the Royal mile area. This Royal mile is
referred to as the country’s premier forest birding home to a number of species such as the western black –headed oriole, the
purple-headed starling banded snake eagle, crowned and African pied hornbill, bat hawk seen at sundown, white-thighed
hornbills, yellow-billed barbets, the chocolate backed blue breasted and African dwarf kingfisher and the green buls. Have a
picnic in the forest as you bird.Have dinner and spend the night at Nyabyeya Forestry College or Busingiro Tourist site.
Day 5:
After breakfast you will get on your way to the Kaniyo Pabidi sector of the forest for more birding. This area also gives a chance
to see chimpanzees while driving to Murchison Falls National Park. In
this forest you will take a look at birds like the rare green
breasted Pitta, African wood and African scops owls and the puvel’s illadopsis, a recently discovered bird. Drive towards the
top of the falls where the Nile is full of splendor. River Nile is transformed into explosive foam of thunderous water and goes
down in funnel-shaped streams through a narrow cleft in the rift valley
escarpment, offering the most inspiring scene of its type
in East Africa. You will see birds like the pel’s fishing owl,
chest-nut crowned and the red-winged grey warbler.You will be taken
to Paraa Safari Lodge on the ferry for dinner and night.
Day 6:
After breakfast you will sail on the Nile to the bottom of the falls. The boat takes off at 9:00 am and you are advised to sit on its
left hand side to have a good view of the birds and the other animals because most of them bank on that side. You will see
hippos, crocodiles, buffaloes as they are surrounded by fish eating birds like the Egyptian geese, goliath heron, pied King
fisher, African darter weaver, African skimmer, fulvous duck and many more. After lunch go birding around the hotel. Have
dinner and spend the night at Paraa Safari Lodge.
Day 7:
After breakfast you will be taken to the northern game-viewing route crossing the screeching spike acacia and see birds like
the
speckle-fronted weaver. Move across the airstrip via the Victoria Nile
trail that leads you down the edge of the Victoria Nile
delta. On arriving at the Nile, check out the papyrus edges for the resident shoebill, blue breasted bee-eater and swamp
flycatcher
as well as other swamp dwelling species. Afterwards, head towards the
Albert Nile trail to see the white billed barbet
and black scimitar bill. Get back to Paraa safari lodge for your dinner and night.
Day 8:
After breakfast take your packed lunch with you and move to Masindi to bird along Lake Albert and the escarpments of the
Albert rift valley. Have dinner and spend a night at Masindi Hotel or Court view hotel.
Day 9:
Head to Kibale forest national park after a cup of tea. In the early hours of daylight you will get to bird at the entrance of the
forest until the evening. Dinner and night will be enjoyed at Ndali Lodge or Kanyanchu tourist centre.
Day 10:
After breakfast have guided birding in the Kanyanchu area where you will look out for birds like the grey parrot, the African
go-shwak, the masked apalis, the royal crowned eagle and many more. Have a picnic lunch in the forest and head to the
Bigodi wetland refuge through the magombe swamp where you will see birds like the brown headed tchagra, papyrus gonolek,
mosque swallow and papyrus canary. Enjoy dinner and night at Ndali lodge or Kanyanchu.
Day 12:
After an early morning breakfast, head to Queen Elizabeth National park through the Magombe swamp birding route. After
lunch at the hotel, you will have an afternoon birding in the Crater Lake section and Mweya peninsula to search for the wide
spread grassland species like the croaking cisticola, marsh tshagra, the pallid and montagu’semigrant species. Enjoy dinner
and night in Mweya safari lodge.
Day 13:
After breakfast drive towards Lake Kikorongo and the Kasenyitrail for more birding in Queen Elizabeth National Park. You will
see birds like glossy and sacred ibises and common squacco herons in the Kikorongo Area. The Kasenyi trail passing through
grass plains contains large numbers of storks as well as raptors. You will see the martial eagle and the brown snaked eagle.
Have lunch and go for the launch sail in the afternoon on the Kazinga channel to see both inhabitant and non-inhabitant bird
species such as the African morning dove and the Eurasian honey buzzard. These birds circle around hippopotamus and
buffalo, a charming combination you can’t afford missing. Enjoy dinner and night at Mweya Safari Lodge.
Day 14:
After breakfast, drive through the Ishasha sector towards Buhoma-Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. You will then bird in
Buhoma area in the afternoon. Enjoy dinner and night at Gorilla forest camp or Buhoma community Bandas.
Day 15:
After an early breakfast, move to the forest next to the waterfall trail for birding. Search for birds such as the slender billed
starling, Kivu ground thrush or the white bellied robin-chat. After lunch, bird on the main trail as you go down to the camp.
Dinner and night will be enjoyed at Gorilla forest Camp or Buhoma community Banda.
Day 16:
Bird on the short trail to Mubwindi swamp, where you will see bird species like the montane oriole, the African green broadbill,
turacos and many more. Have dinner and spend a night at the Institute of tropical forest conservation (ITFC).
Day 17:
Enjoy a birding exploration on the long track to Mubwindi swamp and later in the afternoon do the same along Rihija. Dinner
and night will be enjoyed at the Institute of tropical forest conservation (ITFC).
Day 18:
Early in the morning after breakfast,drive to Lake Mburo National Park on the road towards Kabale. In the late afternoon bird
along the access road to Rwonyo to witness acacia associated bird species like the rupell’s long-tailed starling, mosque
swallow, and the black-bellied bustard. Dinner and night will be at Rwonyo Rest Camp or Mantana Tented camp.
Day 19:
Drive along the lakeside trail and Kigambira towards Kampala and watch birds like the African hawk, green-capped
eremomela, batelour, austral migrant, black cuckoo-shrike tawny,etc. Arrive in Kampala in the evening head to The Lodge
Lweza or Hotel Africana or Sheraton Hotel where you will have dinner and spend the night.
Day 20:
Day 20:
Early in the morning go birding in the Botanical Gardens in Entebbe where you will find birds like the verreaux’s eagle,vieillot’s
black weaver, red chested sunbirds, golden-backed weaver, black headed gonolek and many more. Have a picnic lunch. Then
have dinner and spend the night at The Lodge Lweza or Botanical Beach Hotel or Imperial Resort Beach.
Day 21:
You may bird in the Mabamba wetland depending on your flight details and then after be taken to the airport for your flight by
our representative or guide.
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