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Conveniently perched near Uganda’s capital Kampala, Mabira forest is located in Buikwe District and as you head to Jinja (Uganda’s adventure capital) from Kampala, you are likely to taste a bit of its beauty. It’s among many other forest reserves in Uganda, sitting on 74,000 acres of land and covers an area of 300 square kilometers. It became a fully-fledged forest reserve in 1932, due to a huge number of wildlife including primates and birds inhabited here.
Mabira forest is under the management of National Forestry Authority as an eco-tourism site. The forest has perfect eco-friendly accommodation facilities and there is another part set for adventurous activities like zip-lining. The main activities that take place in this forest are nature walks, bird watching and biking.
The forest has different rivers and one of them form the Griffin falls that offer great scenery to visitors of this forest. Mabira forests homes over 315 bird species and these can be spotted through bird watching and nature walk expeditions. Of these species, some are rare ones such as yellow and blue long bill, purple throated cuckoo strike, Johnson’s wattle eye, Tit Hylia among others. Other birds in Mabira include; Black-necked weaver, Red-headed Malimbe, White-breasted Negrofince, Fan-tailed widow bird, Redhead blue bill among others.
Interestingly, Mabira is near the capital of Kampala and it’s known to be the nearest forest for visitors who have limited time and want to go birding in the rainforest to discover unique species of birds. The trails in this forest take birders to the best spotting points and while trekking along the trails, you’ll get chances to view red-tailed monkey, buttress and Turacos trails.
These trails lead birders to spot birds like Black-shouldered Nightjar, Sabine’s Spine tail, Cassin’s Spine tail, Blue-throa