All the “B's”: birds, bees, butterflies, bats and botany
Even if you don’t fancy yourself a botanist, the wildflowers in East Africa will open a whole new you.
Even if the only bird you can recognize is a pigeon, you will be struck dumb by the variety of birds you will come in contact
with. And if you happen to be on safari during our winter months you will be astonished to see thousands upon thousands of
storks who have flown all the way from northern Europe or Siberia to feed and sun themselves in the warmth of the East African
plains.
Maybe you will follow the Honey Guide bird as it leads members of the Ndorobo tribe to the honey from bee hives high up in trees.
Every country has something special to offer, but not much beats the 565 species identified in Uganda's Queen Elizabeth National Park. And that total includes the rare Shoebilled Stork. Uganda also excels when it comes to butterflies — there are an astonishing 1200 species in Uganda, including nearly 50 endemics! (There are only 560 in the whole of North America for comparison...about 940 in Kenya). In some forests like Bwindi there are over 300 species alone, with 36 species of swallow-tail, the prettiest and largest family of butterflies in the world.
And it's not just the "birds and the bees". Imagine finding a cave with millions of bats streaming out to feed as the daylight fades. We can take you there.
photo credits: Paul Oliver, Howard Saunders
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