• Forest walks
• Guided gorilla trekking
• Guided by leading ornithologists
• Possible 400 plus species

This trip is designed for general birders who are keen to see a possible 400 plus species including some of the Albertine rift endemics . Guests must be keen, fairly fit, and prepared for some early starts and long days in the vehicle, and be prepared for walking in steep areas of fairly high altitude. The Bwindi (Impenetrable) Forest National Park home to half the world Mountain Gorilla population, said to be around 350 individuals. You will have an opportunity to trek for these rare primates as well as forest walks for birding. Bwindi Impenetrable Forest has a bird list of over 380 species including most of the Albertine Rift endemics.

Malcolm Wilson has spent 8 years in Uganda and established the country's first bird observatory in Queen Elizabeth NP where he researched Palearctic migration. He ran a nationwide bird guide-training program and is a consultant to the Wildlife Conservation Society currently working on the Albertine rift endemic area in the forests of Congo and Rwanda.

Ian Davidson was born in Johannesburg sometime midway through the last century. Apart from a few years spent training as an entomologist in the Natural History Museum in London, he has been based Johannesburg, South Africa. In 1988 he joined Wilderness Safaris and led groups principally into Botswana and Malawi, and later ventured into Kenya and Tanzania, Gabon and Cameroon in West Africa. While his primary interest is birds, he has extensive knowledge in the entomological, botanical and general zoological fields and has written over 40 scientific papers on entomological and bird-related subjects. On a more popular level his publications include "Southern African Birds - a photographic guide" co-authored with Ian Sinclair, and a multi-lingual guide "Birds of the National Parks of South Africa" both published by Struik publishers.