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25 Days Uganda Bird Watching Trip / Day-By-Day Itinerary 25 days Uganda Bird watching trip / day-by-day itinerary Day 1 Arrivals for international visitors On this day, you will be picked from the airport by one of our representatives and driven straight away to your hotel for refreshments, dinner and overnight stay. For early arrivals, you spend the rest of the day’s time getting over jet lag; birding around your hotel at leisure, and meet your driver guide for a briefing prior to your safari. Overnight: Lake Victoria Serena Hotel for 2nights Day 2 Birding Mabamba Wetland and Entebbe Botanical Gardens (EBG) We have an early start at 6:00 after breakfast, carry a day break snack and drive to Mabamba Swamp. The swamp is located about 50km west of Kampala; and, depending on our pace, it may take us about 2hrs to get there. We shall have numerous stops on the way to look at birds. The special trip to Mabamba today is to look for the shoebill stork. While at the swamp, we shall take a canoe that is hand-paddled through a channel of lagoons into the marsh. We look out for the shoebill. Besides the shoebill, there is a selection of common wetland species that we are likely to see here including, Lesser Jacana, African Jacana, Papyrus Gonolek, White-winged Warbler, Gull-billed Terns, White-winged Black Terns, Whiskered Terns, common moorhen, swamp flycatcher, Goliath and purple Herons, Spur-winged and Pygmy Geese, African snipe, blue-headed coucal, carruther’s cisticola, northern brown-throated weavers, winding cisticola, white-faced whistling ducks etc. A few trails out of the marsh, going to peoples gardens, bushes and the main road support interesting species like the grey-capped warbler, weyns’s weaver, red-headed lovebird, red-shouldered Cuckoo-shrike, grey-rumped swallow, sooty chat, rufous-naped lark, Pallid Harrier, didric cuckoo, golden-breasted bunting, superb sunbird, great blue turaco, mosque, grey-rumped and red-rumped swallows, blue-breasted bee-eater, striped kingfisher, etc We shall be here till early this afternoon, drive back to Entebbe to our Hotel for a hot lunch. We have a short siesta, and later go birding to Entebbe Botanical Gardens (EBG), or any nearby site for the rest of the day, depending on our success this morning. EBG is a beautiful place situated on the northern shores of Lake Victoria, filled with colourful butterflies, birds and primates in an area of 40.7ha.The gardens house a collection of species of plants of the tropical, sub-tropical and temperate zones, besides several shrubs and other plants which regenerated naturally over the years. The habitat has attracted a diverse array of birds – 206 species (both forest and shorebirds) and monkeys; Black and White Colobus and Vervet Monkeys.The bird walk here is more leisurely and relaxed. Special birds here include harrier hawk, lizard buzzard, northern brown-throated wattle-eye, willow warbler, olivaceous warbler, African thrush, yellow-throated leaflove, African Grey Parrot, golden-backed, yellow-backed and orange weavers, white- spotted flufftail, ross’s Turaco, crowned, African pied and black-and-white-casqued Hornbills, Superb, olive-bellied, collared and Marica Sunbirds, ruff, green crombec, Blue-cheeked and Madagascar bee-eaters, heuglin’s robinchat, snowy-headed robin-chat, red-cheeked cordon-blue, grey-headed negro-finch, etc Day 3 Travel to Murchison Falls National Park We start very early today after breakfast, check out our hotel, carry picnic lunch and bird all the way to Murchison Falls National Park. We shall bird through the escarpment; enter the park through Bugungu gate up to the top of the falls. Birding the rift valley escarpment en route may produce species such as Vinaceous Dove, Black-billed Barbet, Cliff-chat, Foxy Cisticola, white-crowned helmet shrike, white-crested turaco, Red-winged Pytilia, Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver, Rock Pratincoles etc. At the top of the falls we shall experience the powerful water surge as the Nile River waters plunge down the main pool through a 7meters gap! We shall later cross the Nile and go to our lodge for refreshment, dinner and overnight stay Overnight: Para Safari Lodge for 3nights Day 4 Birding in Murchison Falls National Park for the whole day Amongst a huge variety of widespread African bird species, in the wetlands and various dry savannas and open woodland habitats, are more special birds. These include, among others; African Finfoot, Stanley‟s Bustard, Saddle- billed Stork, Rock Pratincole, Bat Hawk, Little Sparrowhawk, Bruce’s Green-Pigeon, Red-necked Falcon, Senegal Thick-knee, Long-toed Plover, Blue-headed Coucal, White-crested Turaco, Heuglin's Francolin, Abyssinian Ground Hornbill, Blue-spotted and Black-billed Wood Doves, Blue-breasted, Madagascar, Red-throated and Swallow-tailed Bee-eaters, Broad-billed & Abyssinian Rollers, Piapiac, Black-billed barbet, Moustached Grass-Warbler, Marsh Tchagra, Yellow-mantled Widowbird, Northern & Black-winged Red Bishops, Yellow-throated Leaflove, Whistling, Siffling & Singing Cisticolas, Broad-tailed, Red-winged & Red-winged Grey Warblers, White-breasted Cuckoo-shrike, Black-headed Gonolek, White-fronted Black-Chat, Copper & Olive-bellied Sunbirds, Brown Babbler, Black-headed Batis, Slender-billed & Compact Weavers, Black-bellied and Bar-breasted Firefinches and African Quail finch, Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver, white-crested helmet shrike, White-rumped Seedeater, and Cabanis‟s Bunting. Today we shall concentrate our efforts along the delta trail where there is yet another chance of the shoebill. Besides the birds, you will most likely meet some of the African big game like elephant, giraffe, occasional lion and leopard, buffalo, and many antelopes. Day 5 Another day birding the Northern bank of the park and afternoon Launch cruise along the Nile River Today we take another trail and bird the savanna area for the whole morning. We return to our lodge for lunch, have a short siesta and later go for a Launch cruise along the Nile to the bottom of the falls. The Launch cruise along the Nile is most celebrated for the abundant pools of hippos thronging the banks and many giant Nile crocodile basking in the sun alongside numerous species of birds; to mention but a few; Goliath Heron, Saddle billed stock, Sacred Ibis, Fulvous whistling-duck, Senegal and Water Thick knees, the new Ugandan addition – white-crowned lapwing, Black- headed and long-toed lapwing, Little bittern, Osprey, northern carmine bee-eater, Egyptian plover, Darter, and Giant Kingfisher. Day 6 Birding the Southern part of the park in the Woodland and later transfer to Masindi Today, we start early at 7:00 after breakfast, we check out Para Safari Lodge, cross the Nile again and head for birding in the woodland close to Mubaku Rangers Camp. Depending on the trail condition, we may take a walk or drive while birding along the main road. We shall need to carry picnic lunch in case we have a very active morning that may delay our arrival in Masindi at our Hotel. After here, we head to Masindi town for refreshments, dinner and overnight stay. Overnight: Masindi Hotel Day 7 Birding in Budongo forest along the celebrated “Royal Mile” We shall have an early morning breakfast, carry picnic lunch and drive to one of “Uganda's bird watching hotspots”, the Royal Mile. This is the Uganda's historically known leisure spot for the traditional King of Bunyoro, hence the name “Royal”. This forest comprises of very huge mahogany trees. Here the forest has been cut back a few meters along the sides of the main trail providing an excellent viewing area. Birds cavort and skulk in the canopy and in the understory – most of these being the most challenging Allethes, illadopses and Greenbuls. Key species include, among others; African dwarf and Chocolate-backed kingfisher, Yellow and grey Long bills, Olive- bellied Crombec, Brown-eared Woodpecker, Crowned Eagle, Forest Flycatcher, Yellow-browed Camaropera, African Emerald Cuckoo, Yellow-mantled Weaver, yellow-browed Camaroptera, Green Crombec, Crested and Red-headed Malimbe, red-headed bluebill, White-thighed and Black-and-white-casqued Hornbills, Yellow-spotted and Yellow-billed Barbets, Crested guineafowl, Western Black-headed Oriole, Sabine's and Cassin's Spinetail (sometimes seen soaring above canopy or over clearings), Red-tailed Ant-Thrush. Red-tailed Bristlebill, Scaly-breasted, Pale-breasted and Brown Illadopses, Cameroon Sombre, Slender-billed, Honeyguide and Spotted Greenbuls. Regular and interesting species include chestnut-capped flycatcher, Jameson's Wattle-eye, Blue-throated Brown Sunbird, Little Green Sunbird, Rufous Flycatcher Thrush, Yellow-mantled Weaver, Ituri Batis, and Uganda Woodland Warbler. If we are successful early enough today, we may choose to bird the Busingiro section of Budongo. Some of the species missed on the Royal Mile, and many can be found here. Specialties here include; Red-headed Malimbe, Sooty Flycatcher, Ituri Batis, Tit Hylia, Lemon-bellied Crombec, Buff- throated Apalis, Black-throated Apalis, Chestnut Wattle-eye, Chestnut-capped Flycatcher, Green Sunbird, Superb Sunbird, Tambourine Dove, Golden-breasted Bunting, Brown twinspot, Sabine's Spinetail, White-rumped Spinetail, Pied Kingfisher, Angola Swallow, Purple-headed Starling, Hamerkop, White-headed Saw-wing, Cassin's Spinetail, Osprey, Black-shouldered Kite, and Senegal Coucal. We return to Masindi to our hotel for dinner and overnight stay. Day 8 Travel to Kibale Area We shall start at dawn after an early breakfast and set off with our packed lunch. This is rather a long journey that may likely take us most our day with limited birding. Numerous stops will be done at strategic points to stretch legs and look at birds. Early arrivals will also give a chance to bird around our camp in the evening. Overnight: Kimbla Mantana – Kibale Camp Day 9 Birding in Kibale Forest for the whole day Kibale is an extensive National Park, protecting a large block of rainforest that offers excellent birding with over 330 species recorded.
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