22 July 2019: Kalinzu Forest

Kalinzu Forest

Birding the Kalinzu Forest in Queen Elisabeth National Park was by far the most productive day of the Uganda tour. The local guide knew his patch intimately and we soon racked up an impressive list of forest birds. Most of the greenbuls I had previously seen in Ghana, but here they seemed to be much more approachable and not as skulking as their West African counterparts.

Honeyguide Greenbul, Kalinzu Forest

We had good sightings of the Black-billed Turaco, Black Bee-eater, Yellow-throated Tinkerbird, Yellow-spotted Barbet, Toro Olive Greenbul, Lühder’s Bushshrike, Fraser’s Forest- and Dusky Crested Flycatchers, Chestnut Wattle-eye, Grey-chinned (Green) and Little Green Sunbirds, Rufous-crowned Eremomela, Scaly-breasted Illadopsis, White-chinned Prinia, Buff-throated Apalis and Brown-chested Alethe. Finding a female chimpanzee with her youngster eating berries high in the canopy was an added bonus – other tourists pay mega dollars to go chimpanzee trekking in Kalinzu!

Chimpanzee, Kalinzu Forest