7 Days Birding and Wildlife Safari Rwanda

Meet our company representative and your birding guide for a brief introduction to your seven-day birding and wildlife safari. Then, depart for Akagera National Park for an evening birding trip to search for more than 500 bird species. In addition to Palearctic migrants like the Gallinago media, Falco naumanni, and Glareola nordmanni, the park is home to 44 species of raptors. Animals including elephants, buffaloes, leopards, hyenas, giraffes, zebras, lions, bushbucks, Topis, Oribis, water-buck, klipspringer, impala, and Cape eland will also be present on this day.

Following breakfast, go to Akagera National Park for a fantastic full day of bird watching. such as the Amur falcon and Beaudouin’s snake eagle Red-winged francolin, Blue-shouldered robin-chat, Booted eagle, Brown-chested lapwing, Cabanis’s bunting, Carruthers’s cisticola, Crested barbet, Denham’s bustard, Eleonora’s falcon, Grasshopper buzzard, Northern brown-throated weaver, Souza’s shrike, Papyrus gonolek among others. You’ll go on a boat safari on Lake Ihema to search for a variety of aquatic animals, including crocodiles and hippos.

After a leisurely breakfast, depart for the lengthy drive via Kigali from Akagera National Park to Nyungwe Forest National Park. You will pass by historic farmhouses and picturesque rolling farmland on this excursion.

Get up early for breakfast and head to one of Rwanda’s top bird areas to look for over 310 different species of birds. among the birds found in Nyungwe Forest National Park are Archer’s Robin-chat, Red-throated Alethe, Purple-breasted and Blue-headed, Kungwe Apalis, Ruwenzori Apalis, Alehe poliophrys, Batis diops, Yellow-eyed Black Flycatcher, Ruwenzori Batis, Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill, Stripe-breasted Tit Parus fasciiventer, Caprimulgus ruwenzorii, among others.

After breakfast, you’ll set off on a second birding safari in Nyungwe Forest in quest of any birds you might have missed the first time around. As an alternative, you can participate in a canopy walk, chimpanzee trekking, or tracking of colobus monkeys.

After breakfast, travel to Musaze in Rwanda’s northwest, stopping along the way to look for birds. You pass via Lake Kivu and the Congo Nile Trail during this excursion. On Lake Kivu, you can observe a variety of birds, such the Southern Red Bishop, Common Waxbill, Red-chested Sunbirds, Hadada Ibis, Crimson-rumped Waxbill, Scarlet-chested, Spectacled Weaver, Holub’s Golden Weaver, Little Bee-eater, Bronzed Manakin, Yellow-bellied Waxbill, and many more.

After breakfast, go on another bird watching excursion to Rwanda’s Rugezi Swamp. The following are among of the birding species in Rugezi swamp, papyrus yellow warbler, carruuthers’s cisticola, Grauer’s swamp-warbler, white-collared olive back, slender-billed starling, yellow-browed citril, thick-billed seedeater, and baglafecht weaver. Depending on the time your flight takes off, , you can go on a canoe tour on the twin lakes of Ruhondo and Bulera to search for various types of water birds. Your seven-day birding and wildlife safari in Rwanda comes to a conclusion with a journey to Kigali.