The annual bird counting festival dubbed ‘The Big Birding’ in Uganda is a very famous activity not simply for Nature Uganda’s calendar but in addition to the tourism calendar in Uganda.
This year, the 3 day festival was launched on Thursday 14th October 2010 with quite a number of intentions such as covering the existing bird species of the natural parks, wildlife reserves, forest reserves, Ramsar sites and in other important areas as well as noting the ages of these birds plus their nationalities. The key goal for this year’s event is actually the need to promote bird conservation and in turn bird tourism as well.
Kicking off on the morning of 15th October 2010, various groups were established and finally sent off to document their bird findings and statistics for this particular year. Only 386 bird species were counted all through last year from 17 different sites. But this year around, a big reward awaits the group that will come back with the most counted species- making it rather fun and exciting in the end.
Uganda is gifted by nature of course to host over 1050 bird species and it’s for this reason that it called Africa’s number one bird nest. The large population of birds is attributed to the country’s diverse cross road vegetation habitats such as the savannah, Afro Montane and rain forest vegetation on the other hand.
Although the International Bird Watching sector budget for the bird watching festival is $6 billion annually, this event is purely into conservation of the most endangered bird species of the world.
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