Activity type: Birds & birding

Secretary bird walking through grass in the northern Serengeti

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Secretary birds of the Serengeti

A tall eagle on long legs that stamps its prey to death: the secretary bird striding across the Serengeti plains is one of Africa’s strangest raptors.

3 Oct 20263 min read

Hikers on a forest trail in Nyungwe National Park

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Nyungwe’s forest specials

Misty mountain forest, Albertine Rift endemics and a canopy walkway: Nyungwe is the top birding destination in Rwanda.

3 Oct 20263 min read

Boardwalk through the wetland to the Sempaya hot springs in Semuliki National Park

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Semuliki’s Congo-basin birds

A lowland forest that spills over from the Congo Basin: Semuliki gives Uganda birders species found nowhere else in East Africa.

3 Oct 20263 min read

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Entebbe Botanical Gardens

Old trees, a lakeshore and the call of turacos: Entebbe’s Botanical Gardens is the perfect first or last stop of a Uganda trip, minutes from the airport.

3 Oct 20263 min read

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Grey crowned crane

With a golden crown of feathers and an elegant dance, the grey crowned crane is Uganda’s national bird and one of Africa’s most beautiful.

3 Oct 20263 min read

Buffalo, hippos and waterbirds on the banks of the Kazinga Channel

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Waterbirds of the Kazinga Channel

Pelicans, skimmers, kingfishers and storks line the banks of the Kazinga Channel, with hippos and buffalo in the water: one of Africa’s richest boat trips for birds.

3 Oct 20263 min read

African jacana walking on water lilies among purple flowers in Mabamba Swamp

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Papyrus gonolek

A flash of crimson in the papyrus: the papyrus gonolek is a bright bushshrike that lives only in papyrus swamps around Africa’s Great Lakes.

3 Oct 20263 min read

Lesser flamingos wading in the shallows of a Rift Valley lake

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Flamingos of the Rift Valley lakes

Pink shorelines of tens of thousands of flamingos on the soda lakes of the Rift Valley: one of the great wildlife spectacles of East Africa.

3 Oct 20263 min read

Forested hills of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park seen from Buhoma

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Albertine Rift endemics in Bwindi

Bwindi is Uganda’s top birding forest, with around 350 species and many Albertine Rift endemics found in few other places on Earth.

3 Oct 20263 min read

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Great blue turaco

A large, turquoise-blue bird with a black crest and a yellow-red bill, the great blue turaco is one of the most striking birds in Uganda’s forests.

3 Oct 20263 min read

Tailor-made, from dusk to dawn

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