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Bird Uganda with Bird Uganda Safaris

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Herbert is the founder of Uganda Bird Guides Club, Uganda Women birders Club, Uganda Safari Guides Association, and is the Chairman of the Tourism and Hospitality Sector Skills Council of Uganda. Black-chested snake Eagle with a snake at Matheniko Wildlife Reserve Eastern Uganda. Shoebill at Mabamba Swamp.

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Finding a Country First: Pectoral Sandpiper in Uganda

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After our two-week-long familiarity trip across Uganda, we ten visiting birders were tired. So we made our way to the grounds of the Uganda Wildlife Education Center , a former zoo that now rehabilitates injured animals. .” If he hadn’t seen it in Uganda it was a good bird! Uganda’s first Pectoral Sandpiper.

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Mike And Corey Are Going To Uganda!

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Yes, we’ll be heading to Africa, more specifically the “Pearl of Africa,” Uganda. Uganda boasts a checklist of well over one thousand species of birds and host of mammals, reptiles, and interesting insects. … The post Mike And Corey Are Going To Uganda! appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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A Brief Tour of Uganda, The Pearl of Africa

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By the time this post publishes, I’ll be on an airplane heading back to the United States following a truly remarkable two week visit to Uganda as part of a group of western birders visiting there to promote the inaugural African Birding Expo. The enigmatic Shoebill is perhaps Uganda’s most famous bird.

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Uganda Benefits from Mountain Gorilla Survival

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Uganda is seeing a growth in tourism dollars from visits to see its mountain gorillas. The tourism revenue creates an incentive for Uganda to protect the endangered species at the same time that it contributes to human welfare. Tags: developing countries africa economic development ecotourism uganda gorillas.

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Uganda Sees Resurgence of Rhinos, Elephants, Buffaloes

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Birding crème de la crème: Africa – Ngorongoro Crater to Queen Elizabeth II National Park

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The bird-richest region of Africa is its equatorial East: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi (unlike the rest, the last one, Burundi, is politically unstable and not recommendable). At the time of writing, Uganda has 16 hotspots with 400+ so far eBirded species, of which one has almost 600 species. SERVIR Africa Workshop.

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Uganda’s Billion Dollar Bird: The Shoebill

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The Shoebill serves as the symbol of the magnificent wildlife experiences Uganda offers visitors, which may seem a bit odd. Nor is the Shoebill the national bird of Uganda. Uganda may offer a chance at x% of the world’s bird species—birds we fully intended on tracking down—but the Shoebill surpasses them all in importance.

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Wrapping Up Birding Tourism February

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It was a fun month with posts from places as varied as Greece and Uganda, Costa Rica and India. Bird Uganda Safaris. We here at 10,000 Birds dedicated the month of February to highlighting a variety of birding tourism companies, destinations, and guides. But, as you’ve probably noticed, we’re not out of the pandemic yet.

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World birding from a Schrödinger’s house

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Uganda 1079 17. Yet, I would advise you to also consider Uganda. Unlike the more easterly Kenya and Tanzania, Uganda lies between dry savannas of the east and Congolese rainforests in the west, combining the very best of equatorial Africa in a rather compact area. China 1410 9. India 1341 10. Tanzania 1135 13.

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The Royal Mile: Birding Fit For a King

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The action began almost immediately, with crackers like Uganda Woodland-Warbler , African Forest-Flycatcher , Rufous-crowned Eremomela , and the highly localized White-thighed Hornbill. Uganda definitely delivers all the fancy forest kingfishers you could want. White-thighed Hornbill. Chocolate-backed Kingfisher.

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British Scientist Finds New Species Of Rare Leafhopper In Uganda

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"Steven Busulwa, an animal keeper, runs away from a charging rhino at the Uganda Wildlife Conservation Education Center (UWEC) on 20 April 2020 in Uganda. Photo credit: Abubaker Lubowa / Reuters.

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How to Bird Murchison Falls

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An expanse of habitat as vast as Murchison Falls NP in Uganda, as excessively generous in beauty and biodiversity, permits endless ways to experience both its birds and animals. The Masindi Hotel holds the distinction of being the oldest and most historic hotel in Uganda and has some terrific birds on premises.

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Dreaming of Africa

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Directly under the Equator: southwestern Uganda! In “Where to Watch Birds in Africa”, Nigel Wheatley says: “In terms of its size, Uganda is the richest country for birds in Africa.” Try to lay your fingers on a copy of “Where to watch birds in Uganda” by Jonathan Rossouw and Marco Sacchi (this one I still miss).

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My Ten Best Birds of 2019

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I birded Uganda, which was my first time on the continent of Africa. I saw nine species of kingfisher while I was in Uganda. Such an unusual and reclusive species so close was a real thrill, and one the highlights of the entire trip to Uganda. This last year of the twenty-teens was a monumental birding year for me.

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What Do You Think About When Deciding A Birding Destination?

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Would you go birding in Uganda, where the punishment for being gay is now life in prison? Politics Uganda' Paul Hurtado has a very well-thought-out post on birding (or not birding) places where the politics are problematic, to say the least.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Fourth of November 2019)

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While we’ve seen more than 150 amazing species in our first 48 hours attending the 3rd African Birding Expo and the pre-Expo familiarity tour of Uganda, one species stands as first among equals. For once in a long while, Corey and I share the same Best Bird of the Weekend. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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African Skimmers at the Kazinga Channel

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These African Skimmers were photographed at the Kazinga Channel, a body of water linking Lake George and Lake Edward in western Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park. Birding skimmers Uganda' More African Skimmers, this time with some Yellow-billed Storks . The African Skimmers also fly over hippos. Euphorbias at sundown.

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We Want to Help the Birding Tourism Industry

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For example, I never would have gotten that picture of a Lilac-breasted Roller in Uganda at the top of this post without the help of Herbert Byaruhanga. We recognize the skill and hard work that goes into making sure that birders get great looks at great birds. Read on!

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The longest way to Costa Rica goes around the world!

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In such a case, you might opt to book an eastbound flight, or a series of flights, from Lisbon to Sao Tome and Principe, Ghana, Rwanda, Uganda, then Sri Lanka, Thailand, Borneo, PNG, Tahiti, Ecuador, Guyana and finally to Costa Rica…. Its northern neighbour Uganda has 1080 birds, including 24 Albertine endemics. for savanna species.

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Best Opinion Ever on Humans and Nature

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Tags: nature climate change human behavior environment uganda.

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Where America dreams of/goes birding?

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Some of those “statistical errors” came as surprises to me, e.g. Cuba, Bolivia, Uganda, Sri Lanka, Thailand (this is also a clear message to their tourism boards to invest more into promoting avitourism). If I were answering those same questions, my answers would probably be Ecuador, Uganda and Thailand. What would be your choices?

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Uganda’s Hard To Miss Monkeys

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Kibale National Park, in the west of the Central African nation of Uganda, is home to a 13 primate species, from Common Chimpanzees to bush-babies. They may not even be most beautiful species of monkey in Uganda, the guenons are even more attractive to my mind, but they are certainly the most striking. Long may they remain so.

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12 countries with the greatest bird species density

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Nyungwe montane forest national park has 320 species, including 29 Albertine Rift endemics, plus excellent tarmac roads, making highland habitats more accessible than in neighboring Uganda, and the Akagera moist savanna NP offers 490 species. The best season here is from June to September.

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Birds for breakfast

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So, this one’s for free, if you have ever wanted to see an African Finfoot, go to Lake Mburu in Uganda. This species was common as muck at Mweya, a safari lodge in Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park. Birding Uganda Weaver Birds Weavers' Local common. And there are other birds too!

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Our Favorite Bird Books (and one pair of Binoculars) of 2022

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And what I am saying here doesn’t only apply to his Sri Lanka guide, but to all the others as well (these include the first dedicated guidebooks to Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Malawi, Ghana, Mozambique, Rwanda, Suriname).

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Birding Tiaozini again – sponsored by the local government …

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While Mike and Corey – fitting for being real celebrities in birding cycles – get invited to far-flung places such as Uganda, minor local birders sometimes at least get invited to places nearby.

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Largest Ever Trafficking Bust in Africa

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Body said arrests and seizures were part of a five-country law enforcement operation co-ordinated by INTERPOL, and involved more than 300 law enforcement officers from police, customs, national wildlife and national intelligence agencies in Congo (Brazzaville), Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and Zambia, further saying this represented largest-ever international (..)

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Exploring the Uncharted Bird World

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now the pace quickens: USA; Angola, Cameroon, Nigeria, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia; Nepal, Myanmar, Malaysia, Vietnam. Shown as a list, it looks like this: Less than 200 bird species: Antarctica; oceanic islands. 201-400 sp: Madagascar, north African countries; European countries; Asia Minor, Arabian Peninsula, Mongolia. 801-1000 sp. –

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The Bee-eaters of Africa

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Excellent sites for seeing this beauty include Bwindi Impenetrable Gorilla National Park in Uganda and Ghana’s Kakum National Park. It occurs in similar montane forest edges but further south, with Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania forming the bulk of its range. Excellent sites include Ampijoroa in Madagascar and Murchison Falls in Uganda.

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Cute of the day: Baby White Rhino!

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In 2008, the SeaWorld & Busch Gardens Conservation Fund donated $5,000 to Friends of Conservation, $15,000 to International Rhino Foundation, $10,000 to Rhino Fund Uganda and $10,000 to Tusk Trust to support rhino conservation efforts in the wild.

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Africa’s Barbets

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This image was taken in Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda. This image is from Bwindi Impenetrable Gorilla National Park, Uganda. The little known Red-faced is found in moist broad-leafed woodlands of very southern Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and remote north-west Tanzania. Image from Budongo Forest, Uganda.

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Birding by Volunteering

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My third trip was six months spend working on a monkey project in the jungles of Uganda. In Uganda I would often cross paths with Chimpanzees as they went about their lives and I went about mine (which was living with a troop of monkeys). The second trip was for my masters project ( the one with the cave ). Amazing stuff.

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Rwanda Dreaming

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Among the 310 bird species recorded in Nyungwe, which reflects the wide habitat diversity and altitudinal range, 27 are Albertine Rift endemics, more than at any site in Uganda and currently second only to the guerilla-infested Itombwe Mountains in the DRC.

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Birding the Drakensberg, South Africa

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According to the HBW, “Frederick Jackson, turn of the century Governor of Uganda, and an early leading authority on the birds of East Africa, likened those calls to the hideous mocking laughter of a witch” Sounds interesting. The bird looks a bit more interesting than that. It is near-threatened.

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The Storks of Africa

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A large flock of resting Abdim’s Storks along the Nile, Uganda by Adam Riley A White Stork in its favored short grass habitat, Sani Pass, Lesotho by Adam Riley The White Stork is the most strictly migrant of all our storks. This stork is named in honor of Bey El-Arnaut Abdim, a 19th century Turkish Governor of Wadi Halfa in Sudan.

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Collaborative list – December 2019

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Incidentally, Uganda ( 510 ) leap-frogged Australia ( 475 ) to become the list’s fourth most prolific country behind Costa Rica ( 763 ), USA ( 654 ) and Brazil ( 555 ). Uganda Wildlife Education Centre. Uganda Wildlife Education Centre. Uganda Wildlife Education Centre. Uganda Wildlife Education Centre.

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City Hornbills

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One of my most cherished birding sightings in Uganda was seeing a distant male hornbill land by a walled up hole in a tree and feed its mate. And I liked toucans, so clearly hornbills were on to a winning look, in fact, as a child it was hornbills, toucans and parrots that I associated the tropics with. Oriental Pied Hornbill.

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The Nemesis Cat Defeated!

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I had spent six months living in suitable rainforest habitat in Uganda, and been on innumerable safari walks , drives and cruises were they might be found. I had, after all, been to 13 countries that were home to leopards, over the course of 14 years, of which in all but one I had been in habitat suitable for this most adaptable of big cats.

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Alien species – Rose-ringed Parakeet.

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Although there is a small wild population in the northern reaches of nearby Uganda, Rose-ringed Parakeets would have been a vagrant for German East Africa (now known as Tanzania) at the time. Their original home is Northeast Africa, The Middle East, India and Myanmar.

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Big Ticks; What Was Your Last New Family?

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Sometimes you gain armchair big ticks, like the White-tailed Blue-flycatcher I saw in Uganda in 2005 which later turned out to be in the Stenostiridae, a recently erected family. It is also a fun aspect of birding in new countries and continents for the first time.

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Introducing the African Birding Beat

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Mountain Gorillas are best observed in Uganda or Rwanda And to avoid – currently, one needs to be very cautious if planning a trip to Ivory Coast, Somalia, Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo (the People’s Republic or Congo-Brazzaville is however safe), Burundi, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea and a few other unstable nations.

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