Uganda Birding Safari Uganda
Uganda Birding Safari
Birding is a hobby activity where birds are observed for recreation and to enjoy their melody sounds. This entails traveling, outdoors, and field skills.
Uganda is home to a variety of magnificent birds to watch, unique bird behaviors to observe, and variations in bird songs to enjoy. It is both engrossing and relaxing to witness it for your self-studies, appreciate and protect their habitats.
Who is a birder and how is it different from a bird watcher? To define birding, think about people who are dedicated enough to put aside money for birding equipment and trips.
Correspondingly, birders tend to be more well-versed in details aside from visual and aural identification, including population distribution, migratory patterns, and other trivia.
Bird watching refers to watching birds from the comfort of one’s own home, or at most, in a nearby local park.
Bird watchers are avian enthusiasts and invest minimally in the hobby. As such, their knowledge and species list are not as extensive. It may be thought of as the beginner level.
Birding is a hobby to appreciate birds in their natural habitat and to feed the need to see more of them and learn more about them.
Bird twitching. It involves planning long-distance trips to see a particular bird and tick it off their list. To do this successfully requires intense research on the target, so you can expect twitchers to be extremely knowledgeable.
A twitcher is a bird watcher who sets her sights on a target bird and does everything to observe it. This often involves extensive travel and expense.
Types of birding
Local birding
Local birding entails visiting nearby bird spotting sites such as natural parks or reserves. This entails more planning, more knowledge of local birds, and honing field skills. Check if there’s a local birding club you can join so you can meet like-minded people from who you can learn.
Birding travel
This is bird twitching, where you travel long distances to see particular birds. You expand your species list with every trip and experience birding in different habitats.
At this level of bird watching, ornithology knowledge is helpful. This helps you better appreciate the differences between avian species in different parts of the world.
Backyard birding
If you are even mildly interested in birds, you’ve probably already watched them from your backyard.
This is also called “armchair birding”. You can passively watch whatever bird happens to pass by, or actively attract birds by installing feeders and baths.
This is a convenient and cheap option, but the species you see are quite limited.
Suggested Safaris
Lake Mburo National Park
Lake Mburo National Park is one of the 10 Best Birding Spots in Uganda. In addition to being home to plenty of Zebras, Lake Mburo National Park is also home to about 351 bird species, making it one of the 10 best birding spots in Uganda.
The park is the only one where horseback riding safaris in Uganda can be done and some bird species can be spotted during horseback riding. Bird species in Lake Mburo National Park include Nubian Woodpecker, Trilling Cisticola, Bee-eaters, Cheeky Bronze-tailed Starling, Crested Francolin, Emerald-spotted Wood Dove, Brown Parrot, African Fish Eagle, Red-necked Spurfowl among others.
Semuliki National Park
Semuliki is located in Western Uganda in the Albertine Rift Valley, it is one of the 10 best birding spots in Uganda and is well known as the Birders Haven.
There are about 441 bird species in Semuliki’s riverine forest and these include; Maxwell’s Black Weaver, Blue-billed Malimbe, Yellow-throated Nicator, Black Dwarf Hornbill, Nkulengu Rail, Piping Hornbill, Yellow-throated Cuckoo, Dwarf Honeyguide, Great Blue Turaco, Purple-breasted Sunbird among others.
The famous Sempaya Hotsprings are found in Semuliki National Park.
Budongo Forest
Budogo forest lies at the edge of the Albertine Rift Valley in Murchison Falls National Park and is home to more than 350 bird species.
The forest is also a popular destination for Chimpanzee Tracking.
The bird species in the Budongo forest include the Blue-breasted Kingfisher, African Dwarf Kingfisher, Cassin’s Spine Tail, Chestnut-capped Flycatcher, Ituri Batis, and Nahan’s Francolin among others.
Rwenzori Mountains National Park
Mount Rwenzori National Park is home to over 177 bird species, most of which can be spotted while hiking the Rwenzori Mountains.
Bird species in Rwenzori Mountains National Park include Rwenzori Turaco, Blue-headed Sunbird, Golden-winged Sunbird, White-starred Robin, Long-eared Owl, Archers’ Robin-chat, Lagden’s Bush Shrike, Slender-billed Starling among others.
The best time to do birding in Uganda
Birding can be done throughout the year but generally, the best time to do birding is June, September to December because of the favorable dry weather conditions.
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