LUTEMBE BAY BIRD 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

Lutembe Bay is a Ramsar site positioned on the shores of Lake Victoria, in Uganda, 16km along Kampala-Entebbe Highway and 2 kms off the main road to the lake in the district of Wakiso. The Site is an important area for the conservation of water birds in Uganda, and the survival of an entire population of one species, the White-winged Black Tern (Chlidonias leucopterus) which depends on this bay. Five other bird species qualified this site as a Ramsar site. Lutembe bay is among the wetlands, which have been gazetted by the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) and is a famous bird safe haven.

Lutembe is a Ramser Site and a recognized Important Bird Area (IBA) site in Uganda.
Lutembe Bay boasts of both water and savannah birds and is very much superlative for bird watching on the land and in the water with the use of a boat ride towards the Rose bird flower gardens which puts many water birds in the spotlight. Lutembe Bay’s common bird species in the picture include the Hammerkops, Egrets, Storks mostly the open-billed Stork, the Black-winged stilt, the Common Moorhen, Black Crake, Chats, Weavers, Widow birds, Doves, Gulls look out for the White Browed Scrub Robin, Grassland, Plain Backed and Tree Pipits, Yellow Throated long Claw, Flappet and Rufous Naped Larks, Senegal, African Wattled and spur Winged lapwing, Grey capped, sedge and Reed Wablers, papyrus Gonolek, Blue Headed Coucal and white browed Coucal.