Wildlife Beyond Gorillas

While most herons in Uganda are associated with water, the black-headed heron is equally at…

The goliath heron is the largest heron in the world. Standing up to 152 centimetres…

The African spoonbill is one of Uganda's most elegantly specialised wading birds. Its long spatula-shaped…

While the great white pelican commands attention with its sheer size, Uganda also hosts the…

The great white pelican is one of the world's largest flying birds and one of…

The African darter is one of Uganda's most striking waterbirds. Known as the snakebird due…

The hamerkop is one of Africa's most distinctive and fascinating birds. Its strange hammer-shaped head…

The African sacred ibis is one of Uganda's most recognisable wetland birds. With its striking…

The yellow-billed stork is one of Uganda's most elegant and commonly seen large waterbirds --…

The saddle-billed stork is the most spectacular of Africa's storks -- a giant wading bird…

The marabou stork is not conventionally beautiful. With its bald, pink-blotched head, drooping throat sac,…

If you want to see a shoebill stork in the wild, Mabamba Swamp on the…

The African lungfish is one of the most extraordinary animals in Uganda's waters -- and…

The Nile tilapia is one of the most important fish species on Earth -- a…

Uganda has multiple chameleon species, and the forests of the western Albertine Rift -- Bwindi,…

The oribi is one of Uganda's smallest and most charming antelopes -- a delicate, long-necked…

The Nile lechwe is one of Africa's most restricted and least-known antelopes -- a swamp-adapted…

The African fish eagle is the bird whose call is Africa. Its resonant, yelping cry…

The grey crowned crane is Uganda's national bird -- depicted on the national flag, the…

The Gaboon viper holds several superlatives in the snake world: the largest viper in Africa…

The green mamba is Africa's most arboreal venomous snake -- a slender, vividly coloured predator…

The African rock python is the largest snake in Africa and one of the largest…

The Rothschild's giraffe is the world's most endangered giraffe subspecies and one of Uganda's most…

The Jackson's hartebeest is one of Africa's most distinctive and most ungainly-looking antelopes -- a…