8 Day Birding Murchison Falls and Budongo Forest in Uganda

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Murchison Falls National Park and Budongo Forest boast rich avifauna, with over 460 bird species and 76 mammal species due to a wide range of habitats. It is certain that the bird species list is incomplete and many more can be expected with more intensive research. The destination is a home to 20 species from three non-qualifying biomes and 6 species of the Afro-tropical Highlands, 11 species of Guinea-Congo Forests, and 3 of the Somali–Masai biome. Some other bird species include Marabou Stork, Secretary Birds, Black-bellied Bustards, Abyssinian Ground Hornbill, Open-billed Storks and Francolin, Hornbills, Grey heron, Widow Bird Giant, and Malachite Kingfishers, Hamerkop, Cuckoos, Woodpeckers Crombecs and Warblers, Shrikes Flycatchers, the riverbanks are also home to ducks, stilts, geese, and plovers. The Giant, Pied, Chestnut-bellied, Blue-breasted, Malachite, Stripped, Woodland and the African Pygmy Kingfishers, Lesser Striped Swallow, Ethiopian Swallow, Angola Swallow, House Martin, African Rock Martin, Red-rumped Swallow, Rufous-chested Pied Wheatear, Whinchat, Common Redstart, White-fronted Black Chat, Swallow, Nightingale, Rock Thrush, Sooty Chat, Isabelline Wheatear, Yellow-throated Greenbul, the Black, White-breasted, and Red-shouldered Cuckoo Shrikes, the Black and Penduline Tits, Common Bulbul, Cameroon Sombre Greenbul, the Arrow-marked, Black-lored and Brown Babblers, Brown-backed Woodpecker, Lesser Honeyguide, Scaly-throated Honeyguide, Nubian Woodpecker, Cardinal Woodpecker, Black Scimitarbill, and much more inclusive of mammal species like the lions, elephants, buffalos, antelopes and chimpanzees and other primates in Budongo forest.