Africa is a very rich continent with too much to offer especially when it comes to bird watching encounters and unique experiences. There are various species but we are mainly focused on those in East Africa i.e Uganda, Rwanda as well as the Democratic Republic of Congo.
In Uganda, all National parks offer exceptional birding experiences with destinations like Murchison Falls, Kidepo, Lake Mburo, Budongo Forest, Mt Rwenzori, Bwindi Forest, Semliki, Kibale National Parks, Mabamba bay wetland, Bigodi wetland, Mabira Forest etc being the best birding paradises including bird species like the shoe bill, water birds, secretary birds, Marabou stork, widow bird, open billed stork, Albertine Rift endemics, swallow tailed, grey heron, wood peckers, the great blue Rwenzori Turaco, White-faced Whistling, Spur-winged Plovers, Squacco Heron, Fish Eagle, Pink, white backed Pelicans, Long tailed Cormorants, African Jacana, Yellow backed Weavers, Water-Thick knee, Pied kingfishers, Wattled Plovers, the Black Crake and the Knob-billed Ducks, malachite, black-ramped buttonquail, Collard Pranticles, papyrus canary, verreauv’s eagle-owl, black bee-eater, squacco heron, African fish eagle, swamp fly-catcher, Martial Eagle, Black- rumped Buttonquail African Skimmer, White winged terns, White-winged Warbler, African skimmer, Verreaux’s Eagle-owl, Grey-headed kingfisher, papyrus gonolek, Papyrus Canary, and the thin-tailed Nightjars etc.
Rwanda also has exceptional birding destinations like Volcanoes National park, Nyungwe Forest National Park and Akagera National Park. The species found here are the Red-faced Barbet, Bennett’s Woodpecker, Papyrus Gonolek, White-headed, Black and familiar Chats, Carruther’s and Tabora Cisticolas, White-winged and Broad-tailed, Warblers and Miombo Wren-Warblers, Handsome Francolin, Rwenzori Turaco, Mountain Sooty Boubou, Rwenzori Batis, Yellow-eyed Black Flycatcher, Archer’s Robin-chat, Rwenzori Hill Babbler, Grauer’s Rush, Neumann’s and Grauer’s Warbles, Masked Mountain Apalis, Stripe-breasted Tit and Strange Weaver, a full range of Rwenzori double-collared, purple-throated, blue-headed and regal Sunbirds, White-bellied robin-chat, Doherty’s and Lagden’s bush-shrikes, White-tailed Blue Flycatcher, African Reed Warbler, Great Sedge Warbler, Winding Cisticola, Common Waxbill, Grey-backed Fiscal, Tropical Boubou, Red-rumped, Mosque swallows, African Spoonbill, gorgeous lilac-breasted roller, black headed gonalek, heuglin’s robin-chat, grey hornbill, ross’s turaco, crested barbet etc.
In the DR Congo species like the Mycteria ibis, African open bill, Black stork, Abdim’s stork, Woolly-necked stork, White stork, Saddle-billed stork, Marabou stork, Green African Pigeon, Congo Serpent eagle, Congo pea fowl, According to the adventures offered by primate safaris Rwanda to Democratic republic of congo , it has revealed that Congo Safaris Can be the most interesting adventure once added with Gorilla Trekking Congo.