Bird Checklist in Bwindi Forest National Park.
Bird checklist in Bwindi Forest Impenetrable National Park is one of the important documents to prepare for your bird watching safari in the park, which helps birders to easily identify and record bird species encountered while exploring the park’s unique avian life. It is one of the top bird watching destinations in Africa, known for its exceptional biodiversity and the ancient tropical rainforest. Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is home to over 360 bird species, including 24 Rift Albertine rift endemics, 14 park’s endemics, forest birds, and migratory birds, many of which are rare species. The park has various sites which are suitable for bird watching, with unique bird species such as the Buhoma sector, Ruhija sector, Rushaga sector, and Nkuringo sector. All sectors provide exceptional birding experiences. Whether you are a seasoned birder or a curious nature lover, Bwindi’s rich birdlife adds remarkable value to gorilla trekking and forest walks, making every visit both unforgettable and rewarding.
Bird Checklist in Bwindi Forest National Park.
- Chapin’s Flycatcher
- Shelly’s Crimsonwing
- Grauer’s Rush Warbler
- Rwenzori Batis
- Short-tailed Warbler
- Regal Sunbird,
- Blue-headed Sunbird
- Handsome Francolin
- Great Blue Turaco
- Rwenzori Turaco
- Black Bee-eater
- Red-throated Alethe
- Purple-breasted Sunbird
- Brown-capped Weaver
- Red-fronted Antpecker
- Collared Apalis
- Kivu Ground Thrush
- White-headed Wood Hoopoe
- Dwarf Honeyguide
- Red-Faced Woodland Warbler
- Dusky Crimsonwing
- African wood-owl
- Waller’s starling
- Crested guinea fowl
- Barred long-tailed cuckoo
- Pink-footed puff back
- Grey-crowned crane
- African olive-pigeon
- Petit’s cuckoo-shrike
- Rwenzori batis
- Blue-spotted wood dove
- Tambourine dove
- Cassin’s flycatcher
- Ansorge’s greenbul
- White-throated greenbul
- Snowy-crowned robin-chat
- Cape wagtail
- Mountain wagtail
- Yellow-fronted canary
- Dusky twin spot
- European honey buzzard
- MacKinnon’s shrike
- Grey wagtail
- Jameson’s Antpecker
- African flycatcher-chat
- Hottentot teal
- African Golden-breasted Bunting
- Oriole Finch
- Archer’s Robin-chat
- Pin-tailed whydah
- Grosbeak weaver
- Stuhlmann’s starling
- Red knobbed coot
- African goshawk
- Mountain Wag Tail
- Grey-checked hornbill
- Little Grebe
- Doherty’s bush-shrike
- Broadbill
- Great blue turaco
- African dusky flycatcher
- Green combat
- Rwenzori nightjar
- Angolan swallow
- Jameson’s Antpecker
- Zebra waxbill
- Common sandpiper
- Brown-capped weaver
- White-headed saw-wing
- African hill babbler
- Black bee-eater
- African Citril
- Shelley’s Crimsonwing
- Blue-headed sunbird
- Klaas’s cuckoo
- African paradise flycatcher
- luthier’s bush-shrike
- Magpie manikin scaly francolin
- Purple-breasted sunbird
- Olive-breasted greenbul
- Giant kingfisher
- Lagden’s Bush Shrike
- Carruthers cisticola,
- Woolly-necked stork
- Banded prinia
- Red chested fluff tail
- Willcocks honey guide
- Black swift
- Dwarf honeyguide
- Scarce swift
- Little grebe
- Cattle egret
- Red-capped robin chat
- Marabou stork
- Lizard buzzard
- Shikra
- Died erik cuckoo
- Yellow streaked greenbul
- Speckled mouse bird
- Mottled rapid
- Horus swift
- Cist-chestnut throated apalis
- White-winged tit
- Western green tinkerbird
- Brown illadopsis
- Arrow marked babbler
- Icterine warbler
- Singing cisticola
- Chapin’s flycatcher
- Eurasian hobby
- Ross’s turaco
- Overlanders ground thrush
- Hairy breasted barbet
- Western sector
- White spotted fluff tail
- Brown chested alethe
- Marsh chakra
- Sooty falcon
- Plain-backed pipit
- Rock martin
- Helmeted guinea fowl
- African pygmy kingfisher
- Afed pigeon
- Short-tailed warbler
- Copper sunbird
- Palm nut vulture
- Tit hylia
- Buff spotted woodpecker
- Ayres hawk eagle
- Black crake
- Buff spotted fluff tail
- Green hylia
- Elliot’s woodpecker
- Scaly-throated honey guide
- African hawk eagle
- Woolly-necked stork
- Equatorial akalat
- Papyrus canard
- Bocage’s bush shrike
- Forest robin
- Hadada ibis
- Fine-banded woodpecker.
