Rwanda Bird Watching Tour offers arguably the best African Montane Birding anywhere. Rwanda Bird Watching Tour can be combined with the Uganda Birding Safari to make our famous Best of Uganda and Rwanda Birding Tour. Birdwatching in Rwanda is very rewarding with a massive a bird list of over 750 species! In total 703 bird species are known from Rwanda (November 2018) and surprises are always possible with several species added to the country list since 2010. Among the resident species are 29 Albertine Rift Endemics and several Lake Victoria Basin Endemics, which should be on any birder’s wish list. Our Rwanda Bird Watching Tour or Rwanda Birding Tour will officially start exploring the “land of a thousand hills” this morning.
Welcome to Rwanda Bird Watching Tour. Rwanda is a small, landlocked country situated just south of the Equator in the center of the Africa. Despite its size (which is about 200km east-west by 150km north-south); it has a bird list of 703 species, supports a higher number of Albertine Rift endemics than any other country outside the DR Congo and is undoubtedly the safest and easiest place to see Red-collared Babbler. Further, highlights include Red-Faced Barbet and a possibility of Shoebill.
Top Rwanda Bird Watching Tour destinations: Rwanda the land of a thousand hills is an excellent tourist destination more famous for mountain gorilla trekking but this amazing Rwanda is more than mountain gorillas, it is a birding haven with many destinations where a variety of colorful bird can be spotted. Rwanda as a country is situated in the Albertine’s rift dominated by afro-montane forests, savannah grassland plains, swamps, rivers, wetlands and lakes which hosts an estimated population of 750 bird species.
Rwanda Bird Watching Tour packages, Rwanda has three national parks that are Important Birding Areas (IBAs) according to Birdlife international. The parks are Volcanoes National Park, Akagera National Park, and Nyungwe National Park with over 700 bird species. The other areas for Rwanda Bird Watching Safari include agricultural lands and swampy areas that are outside the protected areas. The birds are easy to see especially in Akagera national park which is mainly Savannah and woodland. Nyungwe forest offers the best site for the Albertine endemics found nowhere else in Rwanda.
Highlight birds of Rwanda Bird Watching Tour. Rwenzori Turaco, Handsome Francolin, Stripe-breasted Tit, Red-necked Spurfowl, Cinnamon-breasted Rock Bunting, Red-headed Weaver, Strange Weaver, Waller’s Starling, Slender-billed Starling, Stuhlmann’s Starling, White-headed Wood-Hoopoe, Scarce Swift, Kakamega Greenbul, Cabanis’s Greenbul, Yellow-streaked Greenbul, Rwenzori Nightjar, Rwenzori Batis, African/ Ruwenzori Hill Babbler, Red-collared Mountain Babbler, Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo, Lemon Dove, Elliot’s Woodpecker, Olive Woodpecker, Tullberg’s/ Fine-banded Woodpecker, White-browed Crombec, White-bellied Crested Flycatcher, Yellow-eyed Black Flycatcher, Southern Black Flycatcher, White-winged Black Tit, Meyer’s/ Brown Parrot, Great Egret,
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