Mgahinga National Park mainly offers a myriad of experiences beyond primate trekking. The best safari experiences to spark your travel spirits in the lush Mgahinga National Park include mountain gorilla trekking, golden monkey tracking, bird-watching, Batwa trail experience, and Volcano climbing.
Mgahinga occupies a compact region in the Southwestern Uganda, about 33.7 sq. km but contains diversity of wildlife. The different wild animals to find in the Mgahinga National Park include elephants, buffalo, bushbucks, jackals, and duikers. Overall, the park is inhabited by a total of 39 mammal species, 180 bird species, and also reptiles.
The birds to identify during a guided birding/bird-watching tour in Mgahinga Gorilla National Park include cinnamon-chested bee-eaters, double-collared sunbird, Malachite sunbirds, white-necked raven, African paradise flycatchers, Black collared apalis, Western tinker birds, Kivu ground-thrush, Alpine chat, Purple-breasted sunbirds, Bronze sunbird, African firefinch, Olive woodpeckers, Fire finch stonechat, Blue-breasted bee-eaters, Grey capped warblers, Hadada Ibis, Streaky seed-eaters, Moorland chat, Handsome francolins, and Chubb’s cisticola.
Visit Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in Kanungu, a rich habitat with over 120 mammal species, which also comprises more than half of the present world’s mountain gorilla population. Within the lush Bwindi, there also exist other amazing species of animals, ranging from chimpanzees, the African forest buffaloes, elephants, black-fronted duikers, bushbucks, African clawless otters, African golden cats, side-striped jackals, African civets, and giant forest hogs.
Additional primates besides gorillas include the vervet monkeys, blue monkeys, l’hoest monkeys, olive baboons, and red-tailed monkeys. Bwindi Impenetrable Forest also holds galagos and pottos, plus a total of 350 species of birds. Top bird species that have been documented in this scenic Protected Area include Shelley’s crimsonwing, Great blue turacos, Handsome francolin, African green broadbill, handsome spurfowl, black bee-eaters, knob-billed ducks, and white-faced whistling ducks.