On wildlife

Between the massive expance of flatland safari at Queen Elizabeth Park (the edge of which we could have fallen into over the fence in front of the cute cabins in which we stayed); the thick, old growth rainforest in Budongo; the vastly immense varied landscape safari stretching along the banks of the Nile in Murchison; the boat ride on the Victoria Nile complimented by a hike to Murchison Falls; and finally the large stretch of land in the Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary, we were fortunate enough to see an amazing amount of Africa's natural beauty.  We saw amazing  species of animals interacting and in their natural environment: a once in a lifetime experience which I will cherish for the rest of my life. Here is a list of most of the animals that I (and for the most part we) saw over the last two weeks (A period of time which, unrelatedly, simultaneously felt like a month and just a few days). 

Olive Baboon (often seen next to or in the road)

Marabou stork 

Banded mongoose 

Long crested eagle

Warthog (a very common sight on safaris)

Weaver bird

Kob (also very plentiful, and part of a game we played with kids at the Ziwa school called 'lions and kob')

Red Bishop

Pintailed whyda

Yellow wagtail

Vereoux eagle owl

Lions (a pride of 11 or 12 which was resting not far from our car and which gave us a tense moment when a group of hundreds of kob walked by)

Water buffalo

Franklin redneck

Common waterbuck

Cuckcal

Crown lapwing

Black bellied basterd

Elephant (many individuals, on of which crossed the road between out two cars in Queen Elizabeth)

Oribi

Hippopotamus (plentiful in lethargic groups on the Nile, and humorously mispronounced 'hippopototamus' by a friendly guide)

Nile crocodile (basking in sun near hippos)

Side striped Jackal

Rothschild giraffe (seen in an unusual large group of 12)

Patas monkey

Verboten monkey

Jackson heartbeast

Bushbuck

White egret 

Black and white colobus

Chimpanzee (notably in the forest of Budango which is home to the highest density of mahogany trees in East Africa)

Shoebill

Slender mongoose

Monitor lizard

Gecko (plentiful around lights at night, snacking on bugs)

Assorted small fast lizards 

Frogs (tree frogs plentiful in showers)

Bat (possibly Egyptian fruit bat)

White Rhinosaurus (seen from foot in amazingly close proximaty)

Many many other types of bird, for expanded list talk to Mr. Aavatsmark