Size: 1442 sq. km, Elevation: 914m on Kidepo Valley floor to 2749m a top Mt. Morungole, Bird species Recorded: 480 species
Habitat: Semi-desert scrub, open thorn scrub, open thorn bush, long and short-grass open tree savanna, riparian woodland including Borassus and Kigelia woodland, thick "miombo-like" woodland, montane forest and granite outcrops.

Kidepo is one of Uganda's most spectacular parks. It harbors scenery unsurpassed in any other park in East Africa. Tucked into the corner of Uganda's border with Sudan and Kenya, the park offers breathtaking savannah and mountain landscapes which end in a rugged horizon. A huge altitudinal range, correspondingly wide climatic conditions have evolved an extremely diverse flora. As a result the variety of animal species in the park is equally abundant including, many which are found nowhere else in Uganda.

Birding in Kidepo valley National Park
For Bird watchers, Kidepo Valley is second only to Queen Elizabeth National Park in terms of avifauna diversity. Amongst the host of dry, eastern "specials" not found in any other Ugandan national parks are some of East Africa's rarest and most sought after birds as Black-breasted Barbet and Karamoja Apalis.

There are also records of two globally-threatened species: Lesser Kestrel (Vulnerable) and Pallid Harrier (Near-threatened) but so far as is known they are only occasional visitors.
Other species that are rare or local in Uganda include Golden Pipit, Taita Fiscal, Rufous Chatterer, Grey Wren Warbler, and many others restricted to this park, Moroto Forest Reserve and adjacent unprotected areas. The park has 23 of Uganda's 32 Somali-Masai biome species. There are also 21 Afro-tropical highland species (recorded mainly from highlands of Lonyili, Morungole, Zulia and Lomej with their characteristic mosaic of forest, savanna and thicket). Notable species are little Rock thrush and Brown Parisona, are in all other parks or IBAs. The site also has 16 Sudan and Guinea Savanna, and 4 Guinea Congo forest Biome species.