Kidepo National Park
Kidepo Valley is in the remote northeast corner of the country. The park has a true wilderness feel and is a great destination for the adventurous traveller. It has excellent wildlife viewing during the Dry season, featuring several species not encountered anywhere else in the country.
Kidepo National Park offers breathtaking savannah scenery, that end into a rocky horizon. It features a wide latitudinal array that offers a variety of climatic conditions which have evolved remarkably different vegetation.
Essentially this has facilitated the growth of an assortment of animal species within the park which are equally plentiful among which are a number not seen in other parts of this country.
Kidepo Valley National Park is among the finest Uganda birding safari destinations. It features a bird list of more than 475 species, and as well ranks second in position to Queen Elizabeth National Park. The park is mainly dominated by the Mountain forests within the high areas while areas around River Lorupei are heavily blanketed by acacia forest.
Beauty in the Kidepo
Kidepo Valley Park where the stunning scenery simply takes your breath away. It is just you and a stillness only broken by the cry from the wild. This park hosts a great variety of animal species in comparison to any other Ugandan parks. Carnivore species distinctive to Kidepo are: the Hunting dog, Bat-eared Fox, Cheetah, Striped Hyena, Caracal and the aard Wolf.
Among the other big ungulates are: elephants, oribi, burchell’s zebras, Jackson’s hartebeests, bush pigs, bohor reed buck, warthogs, rothschild giraffes, defassa water bucks, cape buffaloes, elands, bush duskiers and bush bucks .
Birding in Kidepo
The park features a comprehensive avifauna with 465 various species recorded. The Ostrich as well as the Kori Bustard are as well found there.The park is renowned for its exceptional variety of birds of prey. Out of the Fifty eight recorded Fourteen are thought to be specifically endemic to the Kidepo as well as the Karamoja region.
Included in these are: the pygmy Falcon, Varreaux’s Eagle plus the Egyptian Vulture. Also of be aware are Four Hornbills species: the Jackson’s, Yellow-billed plus the Red-billed are distinct to Kidepo as the Giant Abbyssinian ground Hornbill is very common. However, there is no significant survey within Kidepo and Enthusiastic visitors have a better opportunity to add more to the existing list.