Uganda October 2018 Birds&Wildlife

We saw a total of 157 new birds on this 12 Day trip.

Day 1: Arrival in Entebbe – Boma Hotel

  • Northern Brown throated Wren
  • Speckled Pigeon
  • Rupells Long Tailed Starling

Day 2: Boma Hotel – Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary – Budongo Forest

  • African Emerald Cuckoo
  • Narina Trogon
  • Collared Sunbird
  • Yellow throated Tinkerbird
  • Chestnut Wattle-eye
  • Olive bellied Sunbird
  • Eastern gray Plantain-eater
  • Northern Red Bishop
  • Pin tailed Wydah

Day 3: Budongo Forest – Murchinson Falls – Ferry to Paraa Safari Lodge

  • Denhams Bustard
  • Striped Kingfisher
  • Piapiac
  • Grey Kestral
  • Sooty Chat
  • Chestnut crowned Sparrow Weaver
  • Rock Pratincole

Day 4: Paraa – Safari Lodge – Boat ride on the Nile – Back to Paraa Lodge

  • Wire tailed Swallow
  • African Darter
  • Red throated Bee-eater
  • Little Egret
  • Vinaceous Dove
  • Black billed Wood Dove
  • African Wattled Lapwing
  • Yellow throated Longclaw
  • Red necked Falcon
  • Northern Carmine Bee-eater
  • Grey backed Camaroptera
  • Spot flanked Barbet

Day 5: Drive to Kyaninga Lodge

  • Western banded Snake Eagle
  • Black headed Weaver
  • Laughing Dove

Day 6: Kyaninga Lodge – Kibale National Forest – Bigodi Wetlands – back to Kyaninga

  • Cassins Flycatcher
  • African Blue Flycatcher
  • Black crowned Waxbill
  • Black and White Mannikin
  • African Yellow White-eye
  • Black and White Shrike Flycatcher

Day 7: Kyaninga Lodge Crater Walk

  • White chinned Prinia
  • Scarlet chested Sunbird
  • Snowy crowned Robin-chat
  • Brimstone Canary

Day 8: Drive to Mweya Lodge – Boat trip on Kazinga Channel

  • Arrow marked Babbler
  • European Bee-eater
  • Black chested Snake Eagle
  • Blue naped Mousebird
  • Black lored Babbler
  • Whinchat
  • Swamp Flycatcher
  • Slender billed Weaver
  • Water Thick-knee
  • Striated Heron
  • Malachite Kingfisher

Day 9: Mweya Safari Lodge – Queen Elizabeth National Park

  • Southern Red Bishop
  • African Crake
  • Black bellied Bustard
  • Senegal Lapwing
  • Flappet Lark
  • Ring necked Dove
  • Temmincks Courser
  • Little Stint

Day 10: Drive to Bwindi – Trackers Lodge

  • Wattled Starling
  • Winding Cisticola
  • Common Buzzard
  • Black headed Oriole

Day 11: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

  • African Dusky Flycatcher
  • Northern Double collared Sunbird
  • Blue throated Brown Sunbird
  • Tambourine Dove
  • Luedhers Bushshrike
  • African Paradise Flycatcher
  • Black billed Weaver
  • Chubbs Cisticola

Day 12: Bwindi Impenetrable Forest

  • Plain Greenbul
  • Speckled Tinkerbird
  • Elliots Woodpecker
  • Little Greenbul
  • Dusky Tit
  • Yellow Spotted Barbet
  • Brown capped Weaver
  • Black throated Apalis
  • Buff spotted Woodpecker
  • Village Weaver
  • Shoebill
  • Reed Cormorant
  • Long Crested Eagle
  • White winged Widowbird
  • Broad billed Roller
  • Dwarf Kingfisher
  • Black headed Gonolek
  • Abyssinian Ground Hornbill
  • Frasers Forest Flycatcher
  • Forest Robin
  • Diederick Cuckoo
  • Red bellied Paradise Flycatcher
  • Frasers Rufous Thrush
  • Grey headed Nigrita
  • Puvells Iliadopsis
  • Little Weaver
  • Black billed Barbet
  • Brubru
  • Silverbird
  • Black rumped Waxbill
  • Swallow tailed Bee-eater
  • Red billed Quelea
  • Spur winged Lapwing
  • Black headed Lapwing
  • Intermediate Egret
  • Vitelline Masked Weaver
  • Great Cormorant
  • Dark Chanting Goshawk
  • Double toothed Barbet
  • White throated Bee-eater
  • Marsh Tchagra
  • Great Blue Turaco
  • Purple headed Starling
  • White spotted Flufftail
  • Woolly necked Stork
  • White browed Scrub Robin
  • Northern Black Flycatcher
  • African Thrush
  • Holubs Golden Weaver
  • White winged Tern
  • Grey headed Gull
  • Black tailed Godwit
  • Common Greenshank
  • Kittlitzs Plover
  • Marsh Sandpiper
  • Curlew Sandpiper
  • Little Ringed Plover
  • Pink backed Pelican
  • Red chested Sunbird
  • Copper Sunbird
  • Golden Breasted Bunting
  • Black crowned Tchagra
  • White headed Sawwing
  • Cinnamon breasted Bunting
  • Common Buttonquail
  • Moustached Warbler
  • White faced Whistling Ducks
  • Red collared Widowbird
  • Western Nicator
  • Mackinnons Shrike
  • Bocages Bushshrike
  • Green throated Sunbird
  • Pink footed Puffback
  • Olive Sunbird
  • Grey throated Tit Flycatcher
  • Grey winged Robin-Chat
  • Olive green Cameroptera
  • Buff throated Apalis
  • Black Bee-eater
  • Chapins Flycatcher
  • Equitorial Akalat
  • Black faced Rufous Warbler
  • Ansorges Greenbul
  • Mountain Wagtail
  • African Shrike Flycatcher

Africa is always so much more than birds…….

Big Mammals like this Rhino

Iconic Giraffes

Road Blocks are common – heres a Waterbuck

Dont forget our closest relatives

and these elephants

and Baboons all around

and the closely related Ugandan Kob

and these big guys too!