12 Days Uganda Photography Birding Tour Safaris

Arrival for our rift birding safari where we spend a night in Kampala or Entebbe

After breakfast, we depart to Kisoro arriving in time for lunch. We will do our first birding tour at Echuya forest.

After breakfast at the lodge, we drive to Ntebeko Camp from where we shall start our birding tour as we trek to one of the most scenic areas in Uganda. We will take the gorge trail that loops half way up Mt. Sabinyo, through a variety of montane habitats habouring the Dusky Turtle Dove, Rwenzori Turaco, Cape Robin-Chat, Kivu Ground Thrush, White-eyed Slaty and White Tailed Blue Flycatcher, Olive Wood-pecker, White-starred Robin, Mountain Yellow Warbler, White-napped Raven, Yellow-crowned Canary, Streaky and Thick Billed Seedeater on our birding today we shall have a bigger focus on the shy Shelly’s Crimson-wing among other birds. Dinner and overnight stay at Travelers Rest Hotel meal plan Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

After breakfast, our birding tour begins in the Rift Valley Area. We will have a stopover in a nearby Swamp towards Echuya forest mostly to look out for the Little Rush Warbler plus the Grauer’s Rush Warbler one of the rare Bradypterus Warblers within the Albertine rift zones also, continue birding to Ruhizha with numerous stopovers expecting birds like the Augur and Mountain Buzzard, Yellow Bellied Waxbill, Dusky Crimsonwing, Dusky Twinspot, Common Stonechat among others birds. Towards the camp headquarters we look out for the Handsome Francolin, Olive Pigeon, Western Green Tinkerbird, Archer’s Robin-Chat, Chestnut Throated Apalis, White-browed Crombec, Stripe-breasted and Dusky Tit, Rwenzori Batis, Black-headed Waxbill and much more. Dinner and overnight at Trekker’s Tavern meal plan Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Today our birding will start early and our main focus will be the beautiful leafy looking broadbill, Black-billed Turaco, Olive, Elliot’s and Fine-banded Woodpecker, African Hill Babbler, Mountain Illadopsis, Yellow-eyed Black Flycatcher, Mountain Greenbul, Grey Cuckoo Shrike, Red-faced Woodland and Mountain Yellow Warbler, Chestnut-throat ed Collard and Black Throated Apalis, Stripe-breasted Tit, African Green-Broad bill, Mountain, Shelley’s and Yellow-streaked Greenbul, Rwenzori Batis, Regal Sunbird among other birds. Dinner and overnight at Trekker’s Tavern meal plan Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

After breakfast, we drive to Buhoma in the southern part of Bwindi birding en-route. On our way, we expect to see the Black Bee-eater, calling out the Red-throated Wryneck , Mountain Wagtail and the Cassins Grey Flycatcher, White-starred Robin, Olive Thrush, Red-faced Woodland Warbler, Grauers Warbler, MacKinnons Fiscal, Collared, Mountain Masked Chestnut-throated, and Grey Apalis, Stripe-breasted Tit, Sharpe’s Starling, the elusive Regal and Purple-breasted Sunbird, Strange Weaver, Dusky Twinspot etc. Dinner and Overnight at the Gorilla Resort or Buhoma Community Bandas meal plan Breakfast, lunch and Dinner

After breakfast, we explore the Bwindi Buhoma area looking out for birds like the Pink-footed Puffbuck, Yellow Billed Barbet, Bocages Bush-Shrike, Bar-tailed Trogon, Black Bee-Eater, Cassins and Scaly throated Honey Guide, White-headed Wood-hoopoe, Western Green Tinkerbird, Short Tailed Warbler, African Broad bill, White-bellied Robin-Chat, Red-throated Alethe, Mountain Illadopsis, Red Faced Woodland Warbler, Equatorial Akalat, Chapins Flycatcher, Black among other beautiful birds that we have around.

After breakfast, we depart and drive to Rwenzori National Park arriving in the evening. Our main focus will be to look out for special birds like the purple breasted Sunbird, Abyssinian, Red faced, Shelly’s and Dusky Crimson-wing, Red-bellied seed cracker, Wood house Antipecker, Stripe-breasted Tit, Forest Flycatcher, Grey Apalis, Ayres and Cassin’s Hawk-eagle and many others. Dinner and overnight at the basement of Mount Rwenzori meal plan Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

After breakfast we do one more birding tour and depart for Fort Portal where a number of rare and highly localized birds may be found. African Long-eared Owl, sometimes considered nonspecific with the Holarctic Long-eared Owl. It is here and Mount Kenya where this bird has been recorded. Dinner and Overnight at the Mountains Moon Hotel meal plan Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

After an early breakfast, we drive to Semuliki National Park getting there in time to bird the trails around the hot springs. This gives us a great introduction to the Semliki birds like the Horn bills, Chestnut Breasted Negro Finch, Black Bellied Seed Cracker and others then transfer to Bundibugyo. Overnight at the Rainbow Hotel meal plan Breakfast, lunch and Dinner

After breakfast, proceed for a whole day birding on the Kirumia trail. Depending on the weather condition today we have some of the best birding within the East African region as many species are of west African Origin. Look out for birds like Black-casqued wattled, White thighed, Piping, Red-billed dwarf, White crested and Black dwarf Hornbill, Rufaous Sided Broadbill, Blue Billed and Crested Malimbe, Blue-headed Crested-flycatcher, Leaf Love, Swamp palm Bulbul. Overnight at the Rainbow Hotel meal plan Breakfast, lunch and Dinner

After breakfast, we drive to Entebbe to catch our international flight back home end of our Birding safari in Uganda.