The lately trendy Uganda birding destination is our unexplored Karamoja region. Our Kara-Tunga gudie Brian took Mr. Crammy Wanyama of Avian Safaris and his clients for a day of birding around Mount Moroto Central Forest Reserve along the Kenyan border.
During the Birding tour they sighted 95 birds, including the Tiny Cisticola, and the above photo is a Red-fronted Tinkerbird, a woodland dweller of a drier country by Uganda’s standards.
Sustainable tourism is tourism that takes full account of its current and future economic, social and environmental impacts, addressing the needs of visitors, the industry, the environment and host communities. Source: United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO).
By Herbert Byaruhanga – This bird was our bird of the day. According to the Birdlife International distribution map, the White-bellied Canary (Crithagra dorsostriata) enters Uganda slightly.
Expedition to Karamoja’s Sacred Land on Uganda’s Warrior Nomad Trail – The walk was accompanied by an amazing team of storytellers existing out of award winning photographer Marcus Westberg and digital storyteller Dorothy Sanders. This was the first of It’s kind expedition to document the sacred lands of the Karimojong tribe located within the protected …
Dutch hiking tour company Bergwandelen.com and expedition leader Jan Bakker will train a selection of hiking guides from various mountain ranges located in Uganda’s Karamoja sub-region, Kenya and South Sudan on the Warrior Nomad Trail. and have mobilised their network to donate hiking equipment.
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95 Birds in 1 Day Birding Mount Moroto Karamoja Uganda
The lately trendy Uganda birding destination is our unexplored Karamoja region. Our Kara-Tunga gudie Brian took Mr. Crammy Wanyama of Avian Safaris and his clients for a day of birding around Mount Moroto Central Forest Reserve along the Kenyan border.
During the Birding tour they sighted 95 birds, including the Tiny Cisticola, and the above photo is a Red-fronted Tinkerbird, a woodland dweller of a drier country by Uganda’s standards.
Book your birding tour and learn more about birding in Uganda’s Northeastern Karamoja region, Uganda’s upcoming birding destination.
Birding in the woodlands along the foothills of Mountain Moroto
Lanscape photo by: Brian Lokutae
Bird photo by: Crammy Wanyama
Karamoja Uganda Birding Checklist
1. Crested Francolin
2. Red-eyed Dove
3. Ring-necked Dove
4. Laughing Dove
5. Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove
6. Namaqua Dove
7. African Green-Pigeon
8. Buff-crested Bustard
9. White-bellied Go-away-bird
10. White-browed Coucal
11. Dideric Cuckoo
12. Long-crested Eagle
13. Dark Chanting-Goshawk
14. Augur Buzzard
15. Pearl-spotted Owlet
16. Speckled Mousebird
17. Blue-naped Mousebird
18. Green Woodhoopoe
19. Hemprich’s Hornbill
20.African Gray Hornbill
21. Northern Red-billed Hornbill
22. African Pygmy-Kingfisher
23. Gray-headed Kingfisher
24. Striped Kingfisher
25. Little Bee-eater
26.Abyssinian Roller
27. Lilac-breasted Roller
28. Red-and-yellow Barbet
29 D’Arnaud’s Barbet
30. Red-fronted Tinkerbird
31. Red-fronted Barbet
32. Greater Honeyguide
33. Nubian Woodpecker
34. Pygmy Falcon
35. Fox Kestrel
36. Lanner Falcon
37. African Black-headed Oriole
38. Black-crowned Tchagra
39. Three-streaked Tchagra
40. Slate-colored Boubou
41. Fork-tailed Drongo
42. African Paradise-Flycatcher
43. Gray-backed Fiscal
44. Pied Crow
45. White-bellied Tit
46. Mouse-colored Penduline-Tit
47.Red-faced Crombec
48.Yellow-bellied Eremomela
49. Green-backed Camaroptera
50.Buff-bellied Warbler
51. Yellow-breasted Apalis
52. Boran Cisticola
53.Rattling Cisticola
54. Tiny Cisticola
55. Barn Swallow
56. Red-rumped Swallow
57. Lesser Striped Swallow
58. White-headed Sawwing
59. Common Bulbul
60. African Yellow White-eye
61. Rufous Chatterer
62. Red-billed Oxpecker
63. Yellow-billed Oxpecker
64. Violet-backed Starling
65. Red-winged Starling
66. Rüppell’s Starling
67. Greater Blue-eared Starling
68. Bronze-tailed Starling
69. African Gray Flycatcher
70. Red-backed Scrub-Robin
71. Spotted Morning-Thrush
72. Little Rock-Thrush
73. Mocking Cliff-Chat
74. Familiar Chat
75. Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird
76.Amethyst Sunbird
77. Beautiful Sunbird
78. Mariqua Sunbird
79. Purple-banded Sunbird
80. White-headed Buffalo-Weaver
81. White-browed Sparrow-Weaver
82. Chestnut Weaver
83. Red-cheeked Cordonbleu
84. Purple Grenadier
85. Orange-winged Pytilia
86. Eastern Paradise
87. Straw-tailed Whydah
88. Northern Gray-headed Sparrow
89. Chestnut Sparrow
90. Yellow-spotted Bush Sparrow/Petronia
91. African Pied Wagtail
92. Plain-backed Pipit
93. Yellow-fronted Canary
94. Reichenow’s Seedeater
95. Cabanis’s Bunting
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