Full Day Mabamba Swamp for birding. (1 day) – 1 Day Mabamba swamp birding tour
The Mabamba Swamp is Uganda’s best location for adventurers who wish to see the mysterious Shoe bill. The famous birds at Mabamba include, shoe bill stork, Blue spotted dove, Abyssinian Ground Horn bill, Booted
The swamp is named after the lungfish which inhabit its waters, and they form the staple of the Shoe bills’ diet. The local fishermen also rely on catching the lungfish, and this tension led some fishermen to kill Shoe bills and destroy their nests.
The famous birds at Mabamba include, shoe bill stork, Blue spotted dove, Abyssinian Ground Horn bill, Booted eagle, African Black Crake, Broad billed Roller, African Black-headed Oriole, Bronze Manikini, African Blue Flycatcher, Brown-backed Srub Robin, African Broad Bill. etc
Other Mabamba Swamp birds
African Fish Eagle, Purple Swamphen, African Green Pigeon, African Jacana, African Marsh Harrier, African Pigmy Goose, Black Crake, Black Heron, Black-crowned Night Heron, Black-crowned Waxbill, Black-headed Heron, Black-winged Stilt, Blue Swallow, Blue-cheeked Bee-eater, Cattle Egret, Common Moorhen, Common Sandpiper, Common Sqacco Heron, Double Toothed Barbet, Glossy Ibis, Goliath Heron, Great Cormorant, Great White Egret, Great White Pelican, Green Cuckoo, Grey Heron, Grey-crowned Crane, Gull-billed Tern, Hadada Ibis, Harmerkop, Little Egret, Little Stilt, Long-tailed Cormorant, Long-toed Lapwing, Malachite Kingfisher, Marsh Harrier, Northern Brown-throated Weather, Orange Weaver, Papyrus Gonolek, Pied Kingfisher, Pied Wagtail, Pink-backed Pelican, Pin-tailed Whyda, Purple Heron, Red-eyed Dove, Red-headed Love-bird, Shining Blue Kingfisher, Speckled Mousebird, Spur-winged Goose, Spur-winged Lapwing, Swamp Flycatcher, Veilots’ Black Weaver, Village Weaver, Water Thicknee, White-browed Cuckoo, White-faced Whistling Duck, White-throated Bee-eater, White-winged Tern, Winding Cistocola, Wood Sandpiper, Woodland Kingfisher, Yellow-billed Kite,
Pick up from your residence, transfer via Entebbe – Nakiwogo -Mabamba swamp. 1 Day Mabamba swamp birding tour. 1 Day Mabamba swamp birding tour
Price quote: $150 per person.
More than 2 people: 100 per person
Price include;
- Transfer with boat
- Lunch
- Bottled water
- Driver /car with fuel
- All entrance fees