Bird watching in Lake Mburo National Park is an amazing experience because this smallest savannah park, boasts more than 350 bird species. These birds are both migratory and residential birds, which live in the diversity of rolling hills, woodlands, forests, seasonal and permanent swamps, lakes, savannah vegetation and sticking landscape within the park.
Lake Mburo National Park is also famous among Uganda national parks because of its richness in biodiversity, as a result, it is referred to as, ‘whisper of the wilderness’. This park is the best place in Uganda for acacia-dwelling birds, however, forest species are also present in Rubanga Forest. A bonus for birders is the swamps, in which six papyrus endemics are resident, including the spectacular papyrus gonolek and the blue-headed coucal.
Lake Mburo is also a place to find southern species at the northern limit of their range, including the black-collared barbet and southern ground hornbill.
Migratory birds are usually present from November to April.
Some of the Birds Species on Bird watching in Lake Mburo: –
- Abyssinian ground hornbill
- African finfoot
- African scops owl
- Bare-faced go-away bird
- Blue-breasted kingfisher
- Blue-headed coucal
- Brown-chested lapwing
- Carruthers’s cisticola
- Greater painted-snipe
- Hairy-breasted barbet
- Mosque swallow
- Papyrus gonolek
More About Lake Mburo National Park
Lake Mburo is underlain by ancient Precambrian metamorphic rocks, and sculptured landscapes, with rolling hills that date back more than 500 million years. It contains an extensive wetland area that harbors several species of mammals and birds, found nowhere else in Uganda.
The 370 sqkm park is an increasingly common stop on the safari circuit for visitors traveling to western Uganda or for clients who would wish for a one-day tour from Kampala. This is because the park is just a short distance away from Kampala so it can easily be accessed to carry out a variety of park activities.
You may also journey through the breathtaking landscapes of Uganda from Kampala to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, home to mountain gorillas, for gorilla trekking in Uganda. Uganda is home to incredible wildlife in Africa.
You can make an extension to visit Bwindi Forest on a budget gorilla safari to encounter the mountain gorillas. For those that wish to see mountain gorillas in Rwanda, visit Volcanoes National Park, which is famous for gorillas and golden monkeys.