• Day 1

  Mabira – Mabamba Swamp

  After breakfast, with our packed lunch, we transfer to Mabamba Swamp in search for the Shoebill. This Swamp is located about 50 kms west of Kampala, on the showers of Lake Victoria near Entebbe and it offers the best chances of seeing this rare bird.

  The swamp also protects other good bird species that includes Lesser Jacana, African Pygmy Goose, White-backed Duck, Blue Swallow, Weyns’s and Orange Weaver, Blue-breasted Bee-eater and Purple Swamphen among others. We later transfer to Lake Mburo and check in to the service of Rwakobo Lodge for dinner and overnight.

• Day 2

  Birding in Lake Mburo National Park

  The day begins early with early morning breakfast and then start our birding/ game drive around the Park in search for the it’s key species that include the African Finfoot, Brown Chested Plover, White Winged Warbler, Papyrus Yellow Warbler, Spot-flanked, Red Faced and Crested Barbet, Carruthers’ and Tabora Cisticola, Papyrus Gonolek, Northern Brown Throated Weaver, Scaly-throated Honeyguide, Emerald-spotted Wood Dove and Coqui Francolin among other birds. We go back to the Lodge in the evening for dinner and overnight.

• Day 3

  Birding Lake Mburo NP – Mgahinga National Park

  After breakfast we transfer to Mgahinga national park passing through the rolling hills of Mbarara, and tea plantations with a lunch stop over at Kabale, arriving in the evening. We later check in to the service of Travelers’ Hotel Kisoro for dinner and overnight.

• Day 4

  Birding in Mgahinga National Park

  After breakfast we drive to the Park with our packed lunch and start our bird watching activity towards the Gorge in search for the key species that includes; Handsome Francolin, Dusky Turtle Dove, Rwenzori Turaco, Kivu Ground Thrush, Lagden’s Bush Shrike, Malachite Sunbird, Rwenzori Nightjar, Rwenzori Double Collared Sunbird, Cinnamon Bracken Warbler, Dusky and Shelley’s Crimsonwing among others. We go back to the Lodge for dinner and overnight.

• Day 5

  Birding Mgahinga National Park – Ecuya Forest

  After breakfast with our luggage’s and packed lunch, we transfer to Ecuya Forest for a full day bird watching activity, in search for the key species that include the Mountain Hill Babbler, Doherty’s, Many-coloured, Lagden’s and Ludher’s Bush-Shrike, Northern Double Collared Sunbird and Black Faced Rufous Warbler among others. We later drive on to Ruhija, Bwindi with a stopover at Lake Bunyonyi and later check in to the service of Trekkers’ Tervan Cottages Ruhija for dinner and overnight.

• Day 6

  Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park

  After breakfast, we transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park via the Ishasha sector of Queen Elizabeth national park. This is the sector where the famous tree climbing lions can be seen, but this really depends on the luck of the day.

  Time allowing after arrival in Bwindi, go for birding along the Munyaga trail. We also look out for species like; the Sulphur-breasted Bush-shrike, White-headed Barbet, African Golden Oriole, Yellow-bellied Waxbill, Yellow-fronted Canary, Ayre’s Hawk-eagle, Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater, Black Bee-eater, (Western) Bronze-naped Pigeon, Red-chested Owlet, Tullberg’s Woodpecker, Elliot’s Woodpecker, African Broadbill, Western Green Tinkerbird, Toro Olive-Greenbul, Ansorge’s Greenbul, Equatorial Akalat, White-bellied Robin-chat, White-tailed Ant-Thrush, Grauer’s Rush-warbler, Short-tailed Warbler, Neumann’s Warbler and Red faced Woodland-Warbler.

  We later continue to Bwindi and check in to the service of our accommodation, for dinner and overnight.

• Day 7

  Whole day birding

  After breakfast, we go birding towards the water fall trail in the Buhoma area of Bwindi Impenetrable national park. Bwindi lies along the Albertine rift valley and is believed to be Uganda’s number one birdwatching spot.

  It is home to over 23 localized Albertine Rift valley endemics. Here we expect to encouter specialities that includes; Black-faced Rufous, Grauer’s and Short-tailed Warbler, Banded Prinia, Black-faced, Black-throated and Mountain Masked Apalis, Red-throated Alethe, Chinspot and Rwenzori Batis, African Hill-babbler, Pale-breasted and Mountain Illadopsis, Stripe-breasted and Dusky Tit, Blue-throated Brown, Northern Double-collared, Rwenzori Double-collared, Blue-headed and Regal Sunbird, Mackinnon’s Fiscal, Mountain-black and Sooty Boubou, Pink-footed and Northern Paffback, Many-coloured, Grey-headed and Bocage’s Bush-shrike, Brown-caped, Black-billed and Strange Weaver, Stuhlmann’s, among others. We come back to our camp in the evening for dinner and overnight stay.

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