OVERVIEW
Have an early morning breakfast and quickly swing in action for chimpanzee tracking, deep into the forest.
Return to the lodge for lunch and later launch a swamp walking expedition through the Bigodi area of swamps and papyrus, in search for bird species including:
- White-spotted Flufftail,
- Blue-headed Coucal,
- Blue-breasted Kingfisher,
- Yellow-billed Barbet,
- Scaly-throated Honey guide,
- Scaly-breasted Illadopsis,
- Blue-shouldered
- Snowy-headed Robin-Chats,
- Black-faced Rufous Warbler
- The Great Blue Turacos
ABOUT KIBALE FOREST NATIONAL PARK
The park is composed of permanent rain forest representing a fascinating diversity of animals and boosts the highest concentration of the endangered chimpanzees across Africa. It is therefore the best destination across Africa for Chimpanzee tracking and chimpanzee habituation.
Other animals on the check list may include:
- Red colobus monkey,
- Black and white colobus monkey,
- Blue monkey
- Grey-cheeked mangabey,
- Red tailed monkey,
- Bush babies
- Pottos
- Elephants,
- forest buffaloes,
- bush pigs.
...as well as over 325 bird species and counts of butterfly species and a total number of 250 tree species are recorded.
