Uganda has a great variety of habitats, packed into a fairly small area, with clear evidence that it is Africa condensed and has a bird list nearly on a par with the huge neighbouring Kenya, covered by Land  - 199,710 Km2 (84.6%), Water -  36,330 Km2 (15.4%) with Bio-Physical Environmental Interfaces & Implications accounting for wider Climatic Conditions; in Time and Space coupled with Higher Opportunities for Suitable Habitats or Niches or life support conditions for relatively More Species (Plants, Animals and Man inclusive) and their populations.

Uganda has several excellent game reserves, including Murchison Falls, Lake Mburu and Queen Elizabeth, and many less-visited ones, such as Kidepo Valley and Semliki, which offer a good variety of more-widespread African bird species, as well as a good variety of large mammals. With the popular must visit parks for kin birding clients like the Semliki, Bwindi and Mgahinga Uganda Parks.

Uganda's main attractions are in its forests and swamps, where many species with restricted range can be found. Whilst it only has one endemic species, Fox's Weaver, which occurs in swamps of Eastern Uganda, it has several species which are endemic to specific habitat areas, shared with other countries.

One such area is the western arm pf the Albertine Rift, an area of lakes, mountains and forests – Riverine, Afro Montane and tropical , which stretches from northern Uganda along its borders with Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Several species endemic to this area are found in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Semilki National Park, Rwenzori Mountains and Mgahinga. These include the African Green Broadbill, Red Faced, Grauer's Rush and Grauer's Warblers, Shelley's and Dusky Crimsonwings, Yellow-eyed Black Flycatcher, Strange Weaver, Rwenzori Double-collared, Regal, Purple-breasted, Blue Headed and Blue-throated Sunbirds, Rwenzori Turaco, Handsome Francolin, Stripe-breasted Tit, Red Throated Alethe and much more.

In the papyrus swamps around lakes, the unknowable and globally threatened Shoebill can be found, as well as specialties including Papyrus Yellow and White-winged Warblers, Carruther's Cisticola, Papyrus Gonolek, African Reed Wabler and Orange Weaver.

There are also several highland and lowland forests spread across the country, which offer species that are generally West African. Great Blue and Black-billed Turacos, African Grey Parrot, Green-breasted Pitta, several Woodpeckers, Barbets and Greenbuls, and scarcities such as Weyn's Weaver, Nahan's and Forest Francolins all occur.

In addition to the birdlife, a great attraction is the opportunity of trekking for Mountain Gorillas in Bwindi and Mgahinga, as well as Chimpanzees in the Kyambura gorge, Kibale and BUdongo Forest.

Even if you are only passing through Uganda, a good range of species can be seen within a few hours of Kampala, in Entebbe Botanical Gardens, Mabamba Swamp and Mabira Forest, including several of the sought-after species above. Add to this the fact that there is a very big value of us working with a network of local Bird Guides in Uganda in active communities there by encouraging conservation and thus birding tourism Uganda there by Uganda being a must-visit locality

Uganda has more bird species per square kilometre than any other country in Africa. Uganda, roughly the same size as the UK, or the State of Oregon in the USA can boast a national list of 1042 species! This figure represents 10% of the bird species that can be found in the whole world.

The key to Uganda’s diversity is its variety of habitats: arid semi-dessert, rich savannahs, lowland, Riverine, tropical and montane rainforests, vast wetlands, volcanoes and an Afro-alpine zone. Uganda covers an altitude from 610 to 5115m above sea level.

Forests and birding
Situated on the equator, Uganda has an area contiguous with the great Guinea / Congo Basin Rainforest on its Western border making it the only East African country that attracts the Guinea – Congo Biome endemics  having subsequently a number of west and central African bird species occurring in Uganda. There are more than 700 forest reserves in Uganda. One particular region is the Albertine Rift Endemic area (ARE), which has 38 species of birds confined to Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and the Congo. Of these ARE’s Uganda has 25, mostly confined to the forests of Mgahinga and Bwindi National Parks in the Southwestern part of the country.

Wetlands and birding

• Uganda has 30,000 square kilometers of wetland.
• 210 species from the Shoebill and African Skimmer to the endemic Fox’s Weaver.
• 4 Papyrus endemics; Papyrus Gonolek, Papyrus Canary, White-winged Warbler and Papyrus Yellow Warbler.
• A White-winged Black Tern roost of 2-3 million birds between the Entebbe and Mpigi area on Lake Victoria.

Savannahs vary from the remote, semi-dessert, dry thorn-scrub region of Karamoja in the Northeast, to the richer fertile savannahs of the western Rift valley. Queen Elizabeth National Park has a bird list of 612 species the highest for any protected area in Africa and perhaps the whole world.

Therefore Birding in Uganda can be done in different natural habitats around the country from the source of the White Nile on Lake Victoria to the snow-capped Ruwenzori Ranges, the montane forests of the Virunga volcanoes or conservation area in Africa, harbouring some of the last remaining Mountain Gorillas, to the extensive savannas around the Kidepo Valley via Murchison Falls, Uganda is an equatorial country of astonishing contrasts. No other country in Africa can match its amazing diversity of habitats, and this richness is reflected in its incredible bird list of over 1030 species. Amongst these are many highly sought-after birds, such as the unique Shoebill and the numerous spectacular endemics of the Albertine Rift Valley, currently impossible to find anywhere else. The huge bird list is all the more remarkable given the small size of Uganda (approximately equal to Great Britain), having 10% of the world’s birds, making it, arguably, the richest African birding destination, with the services of our bird guides who are specialized and experienced in this field all this making Uganda a friendly and safe country to visit and its attractions vary, birds alone shouldn’t diverge you from Uganda’s other wildlife like the Endangered Mountain Gorillas, Culture, the courteous and friendly people to mention but a few.