Echuya Forest Reserve is a fantastic birding destination located in the southwestern part of the country near the Rwandan border. It is home to roughly 150 species of birds, eighteen of which are endemic to the reserve, including the elusive Grauer’s Swamp warbler. The forest is ranked as Uganda’s most important forest habitat due to the rarity of it’s flora and fauna and has much potential for sustainable tourism initiatives due to the dense human population of the area and the growing interactions between these people and the forest.
Any birder heading to this reserve should be sure to use to local guides to help find and identify birds as they are the true experts of this environment.
A few birds located in this area include:
Dwarf Honeyguide
Red-throated Alethe
Archer’s Robin-Chat
Kivu Ground Thrush
Grauer’s Rush Warbler
Red-faced Woodland Warbler
Grauer’s Warbler
Collared Apalis
Mountain Masked Apalis
White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher
Yellow-eyed Black Flycatcher
Rwenzori Batis
Strip-breasted Tit
Regal Sunbird
Doherty’s Bush-Shrike
Montane Oriole
Strange Weaver
Brown-capped Weaver
Strange Weaver