Uganda Tour - 8 Days Birding Murchison Falls & Budongo Forest

On arrival at Entebbe international airport, your friendly guide will welcome you and transfer you to your hotel in Kampala.

After breakfast, we bird our way to Murchison falls national park. We stop in Masindi for lunch and proceed to the top of the spectacular Murchison Falls.
Optional: Rhino trekking at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary.

Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner.
 

After an early breakfast with packed lunch, we leave for an amazing birding day. We will be searching for;  Secretary Bird, Sooty Chat, Giant, Pied, Malachite, Stripped, Chestnut-bellied, Blue-breasted, Woodland and the African Pygmy Kingfishers, African Rock Martin; Lesser Stripped, Ethiopian, Angola, Rufous-chested Swallow, Pied Wheatear, Whinchat, White-fronted Black Cha.. Common Bulbul, and Yellow-throated Greenbul, the Black, White-breasted, and Red-shouldered Cuckoo Shrikes, the Black and Penduline Tits, Brown Babblers, Nubian Woodpecker, Cardinal Woodpecker, Brown-backed Woodpecker, Lesser Honey guide, Scaly-throated Honey guide, and many more.

Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner.
 

Another day birding to catch up with species we missed the previous day. In the afternoon, we take a boat cruise to the bottom of the falls. While on the boat, look out for; Little Grebe, Great White and Pink-backed Pelicans, African Water Rail, Allen’s Gallinule, Black Crake, African Crake, Black-crowned Crane, The Egyptian, African Pygmy, and the Spur-winged Gooses, Storks like; the Saddle-billed, Open-billed,  White, Yellow-billed, Marabou. More birds include, Woolly-necked, the Little and Dwarf Bitterns, Night Heron, Black Heron, Goliath Heron, Purple Heron, Green Backed Heron, Common Squacco Heron, Great White Egret, Great and Long-tailed Cormorants, the African and Eurasian Spoonbills, the Lesser Flamingo, Lesser Jacana, African Finfoot, Painted Snipe, Wattled Plover and more.

Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner.
 

We bird the park one last time before we starting journey to Budongo forest in search of some of the forest species.  

Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner.
 

In Budongo, we bird the “Royal Mile” which has great birding opportunities. The bird species to look out for include; the Puvel’s Illadopsis, African Moustached Warbler, the Chocolate–Backed Kingfisher , White Wagtail, Greater Blue-eared Starling, Black-eared Ground-Thrush, Little Crake, Yellow-billed Barbet, Chestnut-capped Flycatcher, African Paradise Flycatcher, Chin-spot Batis, Grey-backed Camaroptera, Lemon-bellied Crombec. African Golden-breasted Bunting, Black-crowned Waxbill, Black-winged Red Bishop, Yellow-mantled Widowbird, Fan-tailed Widowbird, Spectacled Weaver, Black-necked Weaver, Yellow-backed Weaver, White-headed Saw-wing, Compact Weaver, Northern Brown-throated Weaver, Red-headed Weaver, Nahan’s Francolin, Purple Starling, Purple-headed Starling, Splendid Starling, Black-headed Gonolek, Red-backed Shrike, Lesser Grey Shrike, Western Violet-backed Sunbird and many more.

Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner.
 

We bird our way to Entebbe town arriving later that evening for overnight. Refresh and rest for your flight back home.

Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner.
 

Depending on your flight time you will be transferred to the airport to catch your flight back home.