This 5 Days Uganda Birding Safari takes you to Entebbe, Mabamba Wetlands, and Lake Mburo National Park. The trip starts with hiking in Entebbe\’s UWEC, Botanical Gardens, and along the Lake Victoria shores.
The next day, you should go to Mabamba Wetlands, which is the best place in Uganda to see the rare Shoebill Storks. Aside from the rare shoebill stork, there are a lot of other birds in this Important Bird Area.
The trip ends with three days of birding in Lake Mburo National Park, which is home to 313 different kinds of birds. Wetlands, lakes, grassland, rolling hills, and acacia trees are all good places for different kinds of birds to live.
Day 1: Bird in Entebbe Areas (UWEC, Botanical Gardens, Lake Victoria Shores)
After breakfast, you will start your 5 Days Uganda Birding Safari by going to the Uganda Wildlife Education Center (UWEC), which used to be called the Zoo. This has brought in more than 170 different kinds of wild birds. There are 10 types of Weavers, including the rare Northern Masked Weaver, Golden Backed, African paradise, Baglafect Northern Brown Throated, Grosbeak, Black Necked, and many others. There are 5 kinds of flycatchers: the Red-bellied, the Crested-shrike, the Lead-colored, the Swamp, and many others. Meet raptors like the Gabar Goshawk, the small striped snake Eagle, the Shikra, the African Goshawk, the African Fish Eagle, the African Hobby, and many other species, both wild and captive. Go to the Botanical Gardens to look at birds again. Have lunch and take it easy before you go to the sewage ponds in the evening. Come back for dinner and to stay the night.
Day 2: Birding in Mabamba Wetlands
After breakfast, go to Namugabo, which is near the Mabamba swamps, where the most shoebills have ever been seen in one day. Most birding is done from a boat. You might also see Squacco, African Water Rail, Long-Toed Plover, Goliath, Purple, and Purple Herons, Pygmy Goose, Yellow-Billed Duck, White-Faced Whistling Duck, Grey and Black-Headed Heron Moorhen, Allen\’s Gallinule, Black Crake, African Jacana, and others. Sitatunga Ante ope (swamp Antelope) and many more. If you stop at another pond on the way to Kampa, you might see the Papyrus Gonolek, the White-winged Warbler, the Yellow-crowned Bishop, the Weyns Weaver, and many other birds. Pack a lunch and go birding while you have dinner and stay the night in Kampala.
Day 3: Transfer to lake Mburo national park
After breakfast, you\’ll be driven to Lake Mburo National Park. The park is in the western part of Uganda. Stop for a short time at the equator, then go to Lake Mburo and watch birds until you reach the entrance to Nshara gate. the following should happen Common Scimitarbill, species; Emerald-spotted Wood Dove, Bare-faced Go-Away Bird, Crested Francolin, Green Wood Hoopoe, Lilac-breasted Roller, Spot-flanked Barbet, Northern Black Tit, Common Scimitarbill, Trilling Cisticola, Greater Blue-eared Starling, African Grey Hornbill, and Brown Parrot may be seen. Go to Rwonyo Restaurant for lunch. After lunch, go on a late afternoon game drive along the Zebra Track. You might see Coqui Francolin, Black Bellied Bustard, Temmricks Courser, African Wattled Plover, Rufous napped Rufous, Chested Swallow, Flapped Lark, etc.
Day 4: Birding in Lake Mburo National Park
Have breakfast early in the morning, then go on a nature walk where you might see Impalas and other animals like wetland and grassland birds. After lunch, go back to the Kigambira loop for an evening game drive. You might see the Red Faced Barbet, the Red Headed Lovebird, the Black Collared Barbet, the Green-capped Eremomela, and the Lead-colored Flycatcher. Back to eat dinner and sleep.
Day 5: Return to Kampala
We move on to the Lakeside Track for an early-morning game drive. This means getting close to the water ecosystems around Lake Mburo National Park. Some of the species you might see there are the White-winged Warbler, the Papyrus Gonolek, the Papyrus Yellow Warbler, the Lesser and Greater Swamp Warbler, and the Blue-headed Coucal, which is hard to find.
Continue to the lakeside campsite and keep an eye out for the African Darter, African Water Rail, African Fin foot, Spur-winged Plover, and many other birds. Come back in the middle of the morning for food, then go on a launch-cruise to look for papyrus species you missed. Hippos and crocodiles are extras you can expect to see.
Set off birding to Kampala but take a stop over in Masaka town for Lunch before you proceed to Kampala to end your 5 Days Uganda Birding Safari.
