BUSO FOREST BIRDING WATCHING

BIRDING TOURS

MABAMBA BAY – Uganda Birding Swamp MABIRA FOREST BIRDING LUTEMBE BAY BIRD WATCHING BUSO FOREST BIRDING WATCHING BUDONGO FOREST RESERVE BWINDI IMPENETRABLE CONSERVATION AREA – Gorillas and Birding in Uganda KIBALE NATIONAL PARK – Uganda Birding Site LAKE MBURO – Uganda Birding Spot SEMILIKI NATIONAL PARK - Bird watching Uganda

This forest is located 5kms off Kampala-Luwero highway, roughly an hour and half drive from Kampala. BUSO forest is a calm place perfect for picnics and was started in 1995 by the Tropical Environmental Foundation (TEFO) on 30 acres of land with a group of people who had the passion and love for protecting nature. According to records, the eco tourism analysis potential was done in 1999, it was found that BUSO Forest was habitat to 127 species of trees, 40 species of butterflies, 11 species of amphibians and 120 species of birds.

On a day’s visit, one might not miss the Grey Headed Negrofinch, Yellow rumped Tinkerbird, Lizard Buzzard, whistling Cisticola, White chinned prinia, Klaas’s Cuckoo, Tamborine dove, Senegal coucal Marsh Tchagra, Purple Banded Sunbird, Bronze Manikin, Eastern Grey Plantain Eater Gross Beak Weaver, Olive Bellied Sunbird, Little Green Bull, Pygmy Kingfisher, Toro Olive Greenbull, Yellow White Eye, Angolla Swallow, Brown Illadopsis, Green Hylia Splendid Glossy Starling, Great Blue Turacco, Crowned Hornbill, Black and White Casqued Hornbill, Red Bellied Paradise Flycatcher, Cameron Sombre Greenbull, Hadada Ibis, White Spotted Fluftail, Common Bulbull, Red Billed Fire Finch, African Emerald Cuckoo, Honey Guide Greenbull, Olive Sunbird, Green Headed Sunbird, Western Nicator, Yellow Spotted Barbet, White Throated Bee eater, White Throated Greenbull, Yellowbill, Brown Eared Woodpecker, Green Backed Cameroptera, Superb Sunbird, Brown Throated Wattle Eye, Yellow Billed Barbet, Yellow Throated Tinkerbird, Chestnut Wattle eye, Slender Billed Greenbull, Little Olive Sunbird, Violleit’s Black Weaver, Woodland Kingfisher, African Thrus, Black Headed Heron, Pin Tailed Whyadah, Blue Spotted wood dove, Yellow Throated Longclaw, Yellow Mantled Widowbird, Grey Crowned Crane, African Paradise flycatcher, Ross’s Turaco and many others.