Birding in Entebbe Botanical Gardens – Gorilla trekking Uganda safaris.

Entebbe Botanical Gardens, currently known as the National Botanical Gardens, was founded in 1901 and is situated 35 kilometers from Kampala, the capital city of Uganda, on the banks of Lake Victoria, the biggest freshwater lake in Africa. This makes it an ideal location for birdwatching. Birdwatchers go gaga about the Gardens because of the artistic layout that combines native woodland, horticulture, and farming.

The purpose of these gardens was to facilitate study. Consequently, the institution was set up exclusively for the purpose of studying and developing Uganda’s agricultural resources. An example of this would be the planting of the first tea seedlings brought to Uganda from India in 1923 in a nursery bed inside the botanical gardens. A conservation education center for Ugandan wildlife (formerly Entebbe Zoo) is about five minutes away from the gardens as well.

You may see many different kinds of birds in the Botanical Gardens, including those that inhabit woodlands, forests, and bodies of water.

Observing Birds in Gardens – Thickness of water, Lapwing, Egyptian goose, spur-winged Observing bees in Madagascar, a green bull Weaver with a black head, Rupell’s long-tailed sterling, sparrow with a grey head, Gonolek with a black head, The white-winged tern, the double-toothed barbet as well as Cuckoos of the Ruff, Striated, Klaas, and Diederik varieties Tambourine dove, green crombec Little stint, Gull-billed tern, Little weaver Native of Senegal, African red-billed fire finch, black-and-white casqued hornbill King fisher in the woods, pied with a plumage, Black weaver from Vieillot, Black crake, crown-billed hornbill, long-tailed cormorant Sparrows of the sand dunes, both common and green, Apis mellifera with a blue face, Royal fisherman’s malachite African stork with an open beak Hadada ibis, yellow-billed duck, Glosy ibis, Eastern grey plantain eater, Lesser Jacana, African Jacana, Yellow white-eye, Purple-banded sunbird A red-eyed dove, a common bulbul, a pink-backed pelican, a yellow-billed stork, African ground thrush, Scarlet-chested sunbird, Red-chested sunbird, Great blue turaco, Green wagtail, Harmerkop, Black-headed heron, Marabou stork Two species of birds: the speckled mousebird and the black kite.