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Bwindi Impenetrable National Park Bird Checklist – Unveiling the Avian Treasures of Bwindi Forest
Prepare to embark on captivating bird watching trips to Bwindi Forest in Uganda, as we present the comprehensive Bird Checklist of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. Trek Africa Expeditions, your trusted partner in extraordinary wildlife expeditions, invites you to explore the lush wonders of this pristine ecosystem. Bwindi Forest, one of Uganda’s premier destinations, offers a unique opportunity to observe up to 24 Albertine Rift endemics. Notably, the renowned Mubwindi Swamp and the Munyaga River Trail stand out as prime locations for birdwatching in Uganda.
Unveiling the Wonders of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, a haven for bird enthusiasts, boasts a rich tapestry of avian life. Within this forested sanctuary, you can encounter up to 24 Albertine Rift endemics, making it one of Uganda’s top destinations for birdwatching. Two particular gems, the Mubwindi Swamp and the Munyaga River Trail, have established themselves as premier areas to witness the diverse avifauna of Uganda.
Beyond Bwindi, Uganda offers several other exceptional birdwatching locations, including Mount Elgon National Park, Rwenzori National Park, Kibale Forest National Park, Semuliki National Park, Royal Mile in Budongo Forest National Park, Mabira Forest, and Botanical Gardens. For inquiries about the Bird Checklist of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and booking special birding safaris in Uganda, don’t hesitate to contact Trek Africa Expeditions. This checklist serves as your guide for planning an enriching birding safari, highlighting what sets Bwindi apart from other birding destinations in Uganda.
Bird Checklist of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Here’s a glimpse of the remarkable bird species you may encounter during your birdwatching adventure in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park:
- Little grebe
- Pink-backed pelican
- Black-crowned night heron
- Black-headed heron
- Cattle egret
- Purple heron
- Hammerkop
- Abdims stork
- Woolly necked stork
- Marabou stork
- Sacred ibis
- Hadada ibis
- Hottentot teal
- Northern pintail
- African black duck
- Southern pochard
- Black kite
- African fish eagle
- Palm nut vulture
- Brown snake eagle
- African goshawk
- Lizard buzzard
- Shikra
- Little sparrowhawk
- Bat hawk
- African cuckoo hawk
- African harrier hawk
- European honey buzzard
- Augur buzzard
- African hawk eagle
- Ayres hawk eagle
- Cassin’s hawk eagle
- Long-crested eagle
- African crowned eagle
- African hobby
- Eurasian hobby
- Peregrine falcon
- Helmeted guinea fowl
- Crested guinea fowl
- Scaly francolin
- Handsome francolin
- White-spotted flufftail
- Red-chested flufftail
- Buff-spotted flufftail
- Black crake
- Red-knobbed coot
- African jacana
- Grey crowned crane
- Common sandpiper
- African green pigeon
- Olive pigeon
- Speckled pigeon
- Afep pigeon
- Blue-spotted wood dove
- Tambourine dove
- Red-eyed dove
- Dusky turtle dove
- African grey parrot
- Red-headed lovebird
- Great blue turaco
- Ross’s turaco
- Black-billed turaco
- Levailant’s cuckoo
- African cuckoo
- Black cuckoo
- Common cuckoo
- Barred long-tailed cuckoo
- Olive long-tailed cuckoo
- Dusky long-tailed cuckoo
- Red-chested cuckoo
- Diederik cuckoo
- Klaas’s cuckoo
- African emerald cuckoo
- Yellow bill
- White-browed coucal
- Blue-headed coucal
- African wood owl
- Spotted eagle owl
- Red-chested owlet
- African white-tailed nightjar
- Rwenzori nightjar
- Black swift
- Eurasian swift
- Alpine swift
- Mottled swift
- Horus swift
- White-rumped swift
- African palm swift
- Scarce swift
- Speckled mousebird
- Narina tragon
- Bar-tailed tragon
- Giant kingfisher
- Shining blue kingfisher
- Malachite kingfisher
- African pygmy kingfisher
- Cinnamon-chested bee-eater
- White-throated bee-eater
- Black bee-eater
- Blue-throated roller
- Common scimitar bill
- White-headed wood hoopoe
- Crowned hornbill
- Black-and-white casqued hornbill
- White-thighed hornbill
- Speckled tinkerbird
- Yellow-rumped tinkerbird
- Grey-throated barbet
- Spot-flanked barbet
- Yellow-spotted barbet
- Hairy-breasted barbet
- White-headed barbet
- Greater honey guide
- Scaly-throated honey guide
- Thick-billed honey guide
- Wilcocks honey guide
- Least honey guide
- Dwarf honey guide
- Lesser honey guide
- Cassin’s honey guide
- Red-throated wryneck
- Fine-banded woodpecker
- Buff-spotted woodpecker
- Brown-eared woodpecker
- Olive woodpecker
- Elliot’s woodpecker
- Yellow-crested woodpecker
- African green broadbill
- African pitta
- Green-breasted pitta
- Grassland pipit
- Rock Martin
- Common house martin
- Red-rumped swallow
- Mosque swallow
- Lesser striped swallow
- Angola swallow
- Barn swallow
- Black sawwing
- White-headed sawwing
- African pied wagtail
- Cape wagtail
- Mountain wagtail
- Grey wagtail
- Yellow-throated wagtail
- Plain-backed pipit
- Black cuckoo-shrike
- Red-shouldered cuckoo-shrike
- Grey cuckoo-shrike
- Western nicator
- Little greenbul
- Mountain greenbul
- Yellow-whiskered greenbul
- Shelley’s greenbul
- Yellow-streaked greenbul
- Cameroon sombre greenbul
- Toro olive greenbul
- Ansorge’s greenbul
- Red-tailed greenbul
- Red-tailed bristlebill
- Honeyguide greenbul
- Equatorial akalat
- Forest robin
- Fire-crested alethe
- Red-throated alethe
- Brown-chested alethe
- White-browed robin chat
- Cape robin chat
- White-bellied robin chat
- Archer’s robin chat
- Red-capped robin chat
- Grey-winged robin chat
- Olive thrush
- African thrush
- Oberlander’s ground thrush
- Kivu ground thrush
- Rufous flycatcher thrush
- White-tailed antithrush
- Common stonechat
- Mountain yellow warbler
- Great swamp warbler
- Sedge warbler
- White-winged warbler
- Cinnamon bracken warbler
- Little rush warbler
- Grauer’s rush warbler
- Icterine warbler
- Garden warbler
- Blackcap
- Wood warbler
- Green hylia
- Short-tailed warbler
- Red-faced woodland warbler
- White-browed warbler
- Green crombec
- Yellow-footed flycatcher
- Chapin’s flycatcher
- Sooty flycatcher
- Chin spot batis
- Rwenzori batis
- African shrike flycatcher
- Black-and-white shrike flycatcher
- Brown-throated wattle-eye
- African paradise flycatcher
- Chestnut wattle-eye
- White-tailed crested flycatcher
- Dusky crested flycatcher
- African blue flycatcher
- White-tailed blue flycatcher
- African hill babbler
- Brown illadopsis
- Scaly-breasted illadopsis
- Grey-chested illadopsis
- Mountain illadopsis
- Arrow-marked babbler
- Black-lored babbler
- Dusky tit
- White-winged tit
- Stripe-breasted tit
- Tit hylia
- Yellow white-eye
- Purple-breasted sunbird
- Green-headed sunbird
- Bronze sunbird
- Blue-throated brown sunbird
- Blue-headed sunbird
- Malachite sunbird
- Green-throated sunbird
- Black-faced rufous warbler
- Grauer’s warbler
- Winding cisticola
- Carruthers cisticola
- Red-faced cisticola
- Singing cisticola
- Siffling cisticola
- Tawny-flanked prinia
- Banded prinia
- Grey-capped warbler
- White-chinned prinia
- Olive-green camaroptera
- Grey-backed camaroptera
- Grey apalis
- Black-throated apalis
- Buff-throated apalis
- Chestnut-throated apalis
- Collared apalis
- Mountain masked apalis
- Yellow-eyed black flycatcher
- Northern black flycatcher
- White-eyed slaty flycatcher
- Semi-collared flycatcher
- African grey flycatcher
- Spotted flycatcher
- Ashy flycatcher
- Pale flycatcher
- Swamp flycatcher
- Grey-throated tit flycatcher
- African dusky flycatcher
- Dusky-blue flycatcher
- Cassin’s grey flycatcher
- Rwenzori double-collared sunbird
- Tiny sunbird
- Northern double-collared sunbird
- Regal sunbird
- Green sunbird
- Grey-headed sunbird
- Copper sunbird
- Olive sunbird
- Little green sunbird
- Red-chested sunbird
- Collared sunbird
- Variable sunbird
- Common fiscal
- Mackinnon’s fiscal
- Ludher’s bushshrike
- Tropical boubou
- Mountain black boubou
- Sooty boubou
- Pink-footed puffback
- Marsh tchagra
- Lagden’s bushshrike
- Many-coloured bushshrike
- Doherty’s bushshrike
- Bocage’s bushshrike
- Velvet-mantled drongo
- Pied crow
- White-napped raven
- Montane oriole
- Yellow-billed woodpecker
- Narrow-tailed starling
- Stuhlmann’s starling
- Waller’s starling
- Slender-billed starling
- Chestnut-winged starling
- Great blue-eared starling
- Splendid starling
- Purple-headed starling
- Violet-backed starling
- Grey-headed sparrow
- Black-headed weaver
- Spectacled weaver
- Black-necked weaver
- Baglafetcht weaver
- Grosbeak weaver
- Yellow-backed weaver
- Slender-billed weaver
- Compact weaver
- Holub’s golden weaver
- Strange weaver
- Brown-capped weaver
- Black-billed weaver
- Red-headed malimbe
- Fan-tailed widowbird
- Black bishop
- Yellow bishop
- Grey-headed negrofinch
- White-breasted negrofinch
- Woodhouses antpecker
- White-collared oliveback
- Dusky twinspot
- Green-backed twinspot
- Abyssinian crimsonwing
- Red-faced crimsonwing
- Dusky crimsonwing
- Shelley’s crimsonwing
- Red-headed bluebill
- African firefinch
- Red-billed firefinch
- Common waxbill
- Yellow-bellied waxbill
- Crimson-rumped waxbill
- Fan-tailed waxbill
- Black-crowned waxbill
- Black-headed waxbill
- Zebra waxbill
- Bronze sunbird
- Black-and-white manikin
- Magpie manikin
- Pin-tailed whydah
- Village indigobird
- Yellow-fronted canary
- Thick-billed seedeater
- African citril
- Black-throated seedeater
- Papyrus canary
- Streaky seedeater
- Oriole finch
- African golden-breasted bunting
Prepare for an unforgettable birdwatching adventure in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda’s avian paradise. With this comprehensive bird checklist, you can embark on a journey to discover the incredible diversity of bird species that call this remarkable forest home. Trek Africa Expeditions is here to make your birdwatching dreams come true, offering expert guidance and unparalleled experiences in the heart of Bwindi Forest.
