There is a large of tourists who enjoy the visiting Queen Elizabeth National Park just so that they can have an opportunity to watch the different kinds of wildlife but at the same time, there are lots to tourists who visit the salty Lake Katwe to watch people as they mine different types of salt in their natural form. However, there are so many also who want to just listen to the sound of birds round Lake Munyanyange which is located just a few meters away from Lake Katwe in Katwe-Kabatooro town council.
Mr. Richardson Ouma who is a birding expert and field guide at Katwe Tourist Information Centre (Katic) mentioned that currently Bird watching has become an interest activities to many tourist who come to Uganda and at Lake Munyanyange, so may visitors love the sound of their music that they some times imitate them. There are so many birds that migrate from far places like Kenya and also from Canada plus so many other places and they settle at Lake Munyanyange and they include the likes of White Browed Robbin Chats, Black Headed Gonoleks, Long Tailed Starlings, African Hoopoes, Winding, Zitting, Flamingos, Desert Cisticolas among so many others.
Lake Munyanyange is a small and shallow crater lake which appears only in the wet season in the North East of Katwe town. I is therefore a home to so many birds and has the largest number of the lesser black-backed gulls, Larus fuscus. These birds can be referred to as Palearctic migrants because they usually are no the move in October and leave in April. Ouma said that these birds love this lake because they find it safe since at some point in time then lake becomes a muddy ground and therefore the animals find it hard to go after the birds to feed on them
For that matter, KATIC now intends to fence off the lake so that the rest of the animals do not have access to the lake and this project will be monitored by Nature Uganda, an NGO whose representative they are still waiting upon so that they birds are not affected in the process.
Martin Kikoni Muhindo, the Katwe-Kabatooro Town Council Clerk offered Shs5m from the council to help alleviate the environmental pressure in the two lakes. This comes after the September 2011 partnership between urban authority and KATIC towards management of crater lakes in the region. He added that there are about 32 water bird species that have been identified at the lake while they were doing waterfowl counts of July 2010, a total of about 410 birds representing 11 species were confirmed.
