This 22 birding tour will take you to the greatest birders haven of the world in Uganda. You will see different bird species in most beautiful places such as Mubwindi swamp, Kibale forest, Mabamba wetlands, lake Mburo national park, queen Elizabeth national park and much more. We cannot guarantee that it is a must to see all the listed birds but with our experienced guide you will definitely see most of the birds.

Day 1: Pick up from Entebbe airport and birding at Entebbe botanical gardens

Upon reaching Entebbe international airport, you will be welcomed the driver guide who will brief you about the safari and head to Entebbe botanical gardens for birding. You expect to see birds like Olive Bellied, Green Throated Collard Sunbird, Black Headed Weavers, Yellow Backed and Golden Backed Weavers, Diederik Cuckoo, Ashy Flycatcher, Palm Nut Vulture, Ross’s and Great Blue Turaco, Lizard Buzzard, Green Crombec among other. You will later be transferred to your hotel in Entebbe for dinner and overnight.

Accommodation options: Serena Lake Victoria Resort/ Entebbe Traveler’s inn/Sophie’s motel

Day 2: Transfer from Entebbe to Mabamba wetlands

After your breakfast, you will drive to Mabamba wetlands as you have packed plenty of water and packed lunch. Here you will be using canoes in the swamp trails to search for rare shoe billed stork, African Pygmy Goose, Squacco Heron, Winding Cisticola, malachite kingfisher, Goliath Heron and Black Crake, black bishop, broad billed roller, orange weavers, purple swamp hen, weyn’s among others you will return to your accommodation for overnight stay and dinner.

Accommodation option: Serena Lake Victoria Resort / Entebbe Traveler’s inn/Sophie’s motel

Day 3: Transfer to lake Mburo national park and birding on the trails

You will have to check out of your hotel after your breakfast, and start a journey a long journey to lake Mburo national park. Upon your arrival you will check in the lodge, have lunch and head to bir5ding trails in search for these interesting creatures.  You may expect to see African fin foot, red headed and little weavers, golden backed weavers, lesser masked, brown parrot and coqui francolin, white winged tit, water think-knee, African snipe, red faced barbet, great sported cuckoo, double toothed barbet among others. Later go back to the lodge for dinner and relax.

Accommodation option: Mburo safari lodge/Arcadia lodge/Eagles nest lodge.

Day 4: Birding on lake Mburo and transfer to Bwindi national park

Check out of your safari lodge after your early morning breakfast and set out to look for the birds you dint see last day. You will later transfer to Bwindi in Ruhiija sector, have a stopover in Mbarara town to stretch your legs and have an Enroute lunch. You will proceed to Bwindi check in the lodge and head for and evening birding venture as you try to discover more birds in the pearl of Africa. Be ready to spot amazing birds like Green broadbill, the Grauer’s Rush Warbler, Handsome Francolin, Strange Weaver, Archer’s Robbin Chat, Chetnut-throated, and Mountain masked Apalis, Grey Cuckoo-shrike, Shelley’s, Red-tailed, Yellow-streaked, Honeyguide Greenbuls, Rwenzori Batis, African Hill-Babbler, Yellow-throated and Mountain Greenbuls Great Blue, Rwenzori Double Collared and Blue-headed Sunbirds Mountain Yellow Warbler, Mountain Illadopsis, Black-billed and Rwenzori Turaco and so many others.

Accommodation option: Ruhija Gorilla Safari Lodge/Gorilla Mist Camp/Broadbill Forest Camp

Day 5: Birding in Mubwindi swamp and transfer to Buhoma sector.

Wake up early and have your breakfast as you head to Mubwindi swamp and be sure to carry your packed lunch and enough water. Go ahead in search for other birds that you missed the previous day. You will have a break to enable you take your lunch before you proceed to Buhoma sector for dinner and overnight.

Accommodation option: Buhoma Lodge/Buhoma Haven Lodge/Buhoma Community Camp

Day 6: Full day birding in Buhoma

You will have a quite early morning breakfast after having some quite good time to rest the previous day, you will set off for bird watching with a packed lunch and enough water because it will be a full day in search for different birds. Birds expected  among others include, Dusky and Cassin’s Grey Flycatcher, Stripe Breasted Tit, Cinnamon-chested, White-throated and Black bee-eater Many coloured Bush-shrike, Cassin’s Hawk Eagle Olive and Western Bronze Naped Ppigeon, White bellied, Red-caped and Blue-shouldered Robin Chat, Bar- tailed Tragon, Red Chested Owlet, Neumann’s and Black-faced Rufous Warbler, White Tailed Flycatcher, Olive Long –tailed Cuckoo, Pale breasted Illadopsis, Red-throated and Fire-crested Alethes, Collared, Yellow-breasted and Black-throated Apalis, Baglafecht, Yellow-mantled, Black-billed and Brown-caped Weavers, Narrow-tailed and Stuhlmann’s Starlings, Rufous-chested Fluff-tail, and the Bat Hawk.  Late evening return to the lodge for dinner and overnight.

Accommodation option: Buhoma Lodge/Buhoma Haven Lodge/Buhoma Community Camp

Day 7: Full day birding in Buhoma

Wake up early with adventurous spirit ready to explore and discover Buhoma for another full day as your search for the birds you missed the previous day. You will be amazed to make more and more discoveries. Back to your lodge to have a warm dinner before you continue with your birding experience until midnight when you will retire at your lodge.

Accommodation option: Buhoma Lodge/Buhoma Haven Lodge/Buhoma Community Camp

Day 8: Transfer to queen Elizabeth national park in ishasha sector

Check out of your hotel room after your delicious hot breakfast and transfer to Ishasha sector in the southern part of Queen Elizabeth national ark. Check into your lodge after reaching the destination, relax for few hours before your lunch. Have lunch and after walk in the gardens of the lodge to search for the birds in a leisure way. Have dinner and prepare for the next adventurous day.

Accommodation option: Ishasha Wilderness Camp/ Enjojo Lodge/The River Ishasha Lodge

Day 9: Birding in ishasha sector full day.

Carry your packed lunch and water after your cu of coffee and set off for another experience which will take a full day in ishasha sector. This park’s famous birds include Brown Chested Lapwing, , Broad-tailed, Violet-backed and Wattled Starling, Garden, Black and Black-Shouldered Kite, Brown and Western Banded Snake-Eagles, Black-chested Snake-Eagle, African Marsh, Motagu’s and Pallid Harriers, Black-Bellied Bustard, Temminck’s Courser, Levaillant’s, Black-chested, Diederik and Klaas’s Cuckoo, Fork-tailed Drongo, African White-backed, Rufous-naped and Flappet Lark, Buff-bellied, Wing-snapping and Croacking Cisticola, Plain-backed and Grassland Pipit, Black-headed and Papyrus Gonolek, Grey-caped Warbler, Ruppell’s Griffon and Lappet-faced Vultures, Malachite, Woodland and Pied Kingfisher, Grey-backed and Common Fiscal, Pelicans, Saddle-billed Stork, Lesser Flamingo, Curlew Sandpipre, African Skimmer, Red Caped Robin Chat, and. Later in the evening, you will retire at the lodge for your hot dinner and overnight.

Accommodation options: Ishasha Wilderness Camp/ Enjojo Lodge/The River Ishasha Lodge

Day 10: Birding and a boat cruise in Queen Elizabeth NP.

Wake up very early in the morning to catch up the early morning birds after your breakfast.  You will be careful to search for different unique bird species which you did not see the previous day. Later after lunch you will go for a boat cruise on kazinga channel where you will spot a number of aquatic birds like Striated Heron, Wood and Common Sandpiper, Water Thick-knee, Gray-headed Gull, Three-banded Plover, African Spoonbill, Plain Martin Lesser Swamp-Warbler and much more. You will check into the lodge for dinner and retire.

Accommodation options: Mweya Safari Lodge/Park View Safari Lodge/Pumba Safari cottages

Day 11: Transfer to Kibale national park

After your relaxed breakfast you will check out of your safari lodge room and transfer to Kibale national park. While on the way you may be lucky to spot the following birds: Orange-cheeked Waxbill, Pale-fronted, and Chestnut-breasted Nigrofinch, Booted Eagle, Red-thighed Sparrowhawk, Cabanis’s, Woodhouse’s Antpecker, Northern Bearded Scrub-Robin, Diederik and Claas’s Cuckoo, Lead-coloured, Cassins and Dusky Blue Flycatcher, Mountain Wagtail, Toro Olive, Litlle Grey and Xavier’s Greenbul among others. Later check in the safari lodge of your choice for dinner and overnight.

Accommodation option: Kyaninga lodge /chimpanzee guesthouse/Kibale Forest Camp

Day 12: Full day birding in Kibale National Park

After having an early delicious breakfast, set off for another birding experience in Kibale forest for the whole day. You will have a break to take your packed lunch and continue watching over the unique and rare species of birds in Kibale forest. You expect to see birds like Green-breasted Pitta, Afep Pigeon, Buff-spotted, Cadinal Woodpecker, White-tailed Ant-thrush, Green-backed Twinspot, White-spotted Flufftail, Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird, Grey-winged, Red-caped Robin Chat, African Crowned Eagle, African Broadbill, Lesser, Willcock’s, Thick-billed Honeyguide, Chestnut-winged, Gross- Splendid and Purple-headed Starling, Dark-backed Weaver, Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo, Red-headed Bluebill, Red-chested Owlet and Scaly Illadopsis and much more. Then head back to the lodge for dinner and a night.

Accommodation option: Kyaninga lodge /chimpanzee guesthouse/Kibale Forest Camp

Day 13: Birding in Kibale national park

Wake up for another beautiful day in Kibale forest ready for another fun of birding experience. Set into the swamp (Bigodi swamp) at KAFRED in search for rare bird species such as the great blue turacos. Return to the lodge for lunch and relax and prepare for the next day.

Accommodation option: Kyaninga lodge /chimpanzee guesthouse/Kibale Forest Camp

Day 14: Transfer to Semuliki NP from Kibale NP

After your delicious hot breakfast, you will transfer to Semuliki national park with your well packed lunch to encounter another experience of birding. You will also view some monkeys and butterflies in the same park. You will check in the lodge for the dinner and overnight.

Accommodation options: Semliki safari lodge/ Ntoroko Game Lodge/ Kirimia Guest House

Day 15: Full day birding in Semuliki NP

In another beautiful scenery, wake up and take your breakfast and set to the forest in search of other bird species in this park that share ranges of Mt. Rwenzori. Expect to see little creatures such as African Piculet, Lyre-tailed, Spotted and Zenker’s Honeyguide, Shining-blue and White-bellied Kingfisher, Oberlaender’s Ground Thrush, Red-billed Helmet-shrike, Swamp-palm Bulbul, Orange-tufted Sunbird, White-crested, Red-billed Dwarf, Black Dwarf,  Yellow-throated Cuckoo, Yellow-throated Nicatoer, Long-tailed Hawk, Capuchin Babbler, Icterine Greenbul, Forest Scrub Robin, Nkurengu Rail, Black-casqued Wattled, White-thighed and Piping Hornbills and much more. You will also visit the Sepaya hot springs. Return to your lodge later in the evening for dinner and sleep to refresh your mind.

Accommodation options: Semliki safari lodge/ Ntoroko Game Lodge/ Kirimia Guest House

Day 16: Birding in Semuliki NP full day

Set off for another birding experience with your packed lunch and enough water in Semuliki national park after your breakfast. This park is well known because it is one of the best birding destination in east Africa. Therefore, go ahead in search for missed bird species that you might have missed the previous day. Return to the safari lodge for your hot dinner and overnight relaxation.

Accommodation option: Semliki safari lodge/ Ntoroko Game Lodge/ Kirimia Guest House

Day 17: Transfer to Masindi

Set off to Masindi town after your flavored breakfast at the lodge. You will have a lunch Enroute as you stretch your body because it is a long drive journey. Check in the booked hotel for your accommodation.

Accommodation options: New Court view hotel/Masindi hotel/ Kabalega hotel

Day 18: Transfer to Budongo forest in Queen’s mile

You will set off in search for more different bird species in Queen’s mile with your packed lunch after your breakfast, you will continue with the such a short lunch break and probably by evening you would have seen most of the birds if not all. The birds you may see include: Yellow and Grey Longbills, Brown-eared Woodpecker, Yellow-browed Camaroptera, Blue-breasted, African Dwarf, Chocolate-backed and Pygmy Kingfisher, Crowned Eagle, Green Crombec, Chestnut-caped and Forest Flycatcher, African Shrike Flycatcher, Spotted Greenbul, Yellow-spotted, Fairy-breasted and Yellow-billed Barbets, and Jameson’s Wattle-eye among others. After a full day birding, you will return to the lodge for dinner and relaxed overnight.

Accommodation options: New Court view hotel/Masindi hotel/ Kabalega hotel

Day 19: Full day birding in Budongo and transfer to Murchison falls NP

Wake up for another long day birding in Budongo forest after taking your breakfast. Have your packed lunch with you that you will take on a break and on top of that pack a lot of water due to walking long distances. Expect colorful birds such as the Rufous-sided Broadbill, Fire-Crested and Brown-cheated Aleth, Puvel”s Illadopsis, Black-throated and Buff-throated Apalis, Scaly-breasted, Brown and Green Hylia, Sooty Flycatcher, Sabine’s and Cassin’s Spinetail, Collared, Superb & Green Sunbird, Cameroon Sombre Greenbul, Chestnut Wattle-eye, etc. You will transfer to Murchison falls in the evening to check in your lodge, dine and overnight.

Accommodation option: Paraa Safari Lodge/ Pakuba Safari Lodge / Red Chili Rest Camp

Day 20: Morning game drive, boat cruise and hike to the top of the falls

Wake up very early in the morning and take breakfast, a game drive will be next in search for early morning birds. You may see cattle egrets and oxpeckers around African buffalos and many savannah birds. Return to the lodge for lunch and prepare for afternoon boat cruise on the Nile. Enjoy the beautiful scenery of aquatic birds they create on large numbers on the banks. Hike to the top of the falls as you view the magnificent and most powerful water fall in the world as you take photos of beautiful creatures such as Kingfishers, White Faced Whistling Duck, Secretary Bird, Abdim’s Stork, African Darter, Goliath Heron among others. you will drive back to lodge for dinner and overnight.

Accommodation option: Paraa Safari Lodge/ Pakuba Safari Lodge / Red Chili Rest Camp

Day 21: Transfer to Kampala and have a stopover at Ziwa Rhino sanctuary

After an early breakfast, check out of your safari lodge and start a long drive to Kampala but you will have a stopover at Ziwa rhino sanctuary for rhino trekking and birding experience. Later you will have your hot lunch at Ziwa and proceed with your journey to Kampala. Check in the hotel for your dinner and relax the exhaustion days you had in the field as you experience Kampala night life.

Accommodation options: Sheraton hotel/Acadia Suites/Sunrise Hotel

Day 22: Drop off to Entebbe international airport

Take a leisurely breakfast, and later visit the craft market to buy yourself a souvenir for yourself in a memory of the 22days birding safari in Uganda. Drive to Entebbe international airport to catch up your flight and that will mark the end of the safari.