Bird Species to See in Semuliki National Park.
Travellers planning their birding safaris often ask about the bird species to see in Semuliki National Park. This blog will list some of the bird species to encounter on a birding safari. Semuliki National Park is a premium birding site in East Africa, situated in the western part of Uganda near the Rwenzori Mountains. It attracts thousands of bird lovers and nature enthusiasts to explore the park’s unique bird species. It’s home to over 455 bird species, including forest birds, water birds, migratory birds, Albertine rift endemics, and Guinea-Congo biomes and the park’s endemic species. Birding is best done in the morning or late afternoon hours when birds are most active.
Bird Species to see in Semuliki National Park.
- Crowned Hornbill
- Pied Kingfisher
- Chocolate-backed Kingfisher
- Blue-throated Roller
- Red-faced Barbet
- African Spoonbill
- Black-crowned Night Heron
- Mourning Collared-Dove
- Red-eyed Dove
- Purple Heron
- Goliath Heron
- Hamerkop
- Osprey
- Great White Pelican
- Lesser Black-backed Gull
- Whiskered Tern
- White-winged Tern
- Little Grebe
- African Openbill
- Abdim’s Stork
- African Woolly-necked Stork
- Saddle-billed Stork
- Marabou Stork
- Yellow-billed Stork
- African Darter
- Great Cormorant
- Reed Cormorant
- African Sacred Ibis
- Glossy Ibis
- African Spoonbill
- Spot-breasted Ibis
- Hadada Ibis
- Ring-necked Dove
- Laughing Dove
- Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove
- Black-billed Wood-Dove
- African Green-Pigeon
- Denham’s Bustard
- Ring-necked Francolin
- Heuglin’s Spurfowl
- Speckled Pigeon
- Afep Pigeon
- Rameron Pigeon
- Western Bronze-naped Pigeon
- White-faced Whistling-Duck
- Fulvous Whistling-Duck
- Knob-billed Duck
- Hartlaub’s Duck
- Egyptian Goose
- Spur-winged Goose
- African Black Duck
- Helmeted Guineafowl
- Western Crested Guineafowl
- Nahan’s Partridge
- Latham’s Francolin
- Crested Francolin
- White-naped Pigeon
- Lemon Dove
- Black-bellied Bustard
- Great Blue Turaco
- Bare-faced Go-away-bird
- Eastern Plantain-eater
- Ross’s Turaco
- White-crested Turaco
- Black-billed Turaco
- Black-throated Coucal
- Senegal Coucal
- Blue-headed Coucal
- White-browed Coucal
- Black Coucal
- Blue Malkoha
- Levaillant’s Cuckoo
- Pied Cuckoo
- Dideric Cuckoo
- Klaas’s Cuckoo
- Yellow-throated Cuckoo
- African Emerald Cuckoo
- Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo
- African Cuckoo
- Common Cuckoo
- Pennant-winged Nightjar
- Standard-winged Nightjar
- Fiery-necked Nightjar
- Plain Nightjar
- Freckled Nightjar
- Bates’s Nightjar
- Long-tailed Nightjar
- Square-tailed Nightjar
- Mottled Spinetail
- Sabine’s Spinetail
- Common Swift
- Alpine Swift
- Scarce Swift
- White-rumped Swift
- African Palm Swift
- Horus Swift
- White-spotted Flufftail
- Buff-spotted Flufftail
- Red- Chested Flufftail
- Gray-throated Rail
- African Crake
- Eurasian Moorhen
- African Swamphen
- Nkulengu Rail
- Black Crake
- Nkulengu Rail
- African Finfoot
- Gray Crowned-Crane
- Black-winged Stilt
- Common Ringed Plover
- Three-banded Plover
- Little Ringed Plover
- Long-toed Lapwing
- Spur-winged Lapwing
- Black-headed Lapwing
- Senegal Lapwing
- Wattled Lapwing
- Greater Painted-Snipe
- African Jacana
- Common Sandpiper
- Green Sandpiper
- Marsh Sandpiper
- Wood Sandpiper
- Common Redshank
- Curlew Sandpiper
- Sanderling.
- Little Heron
- Rufous-bellied Heron
- Western Cattle-Egret
- Yellow-billed Egret
- Black-headed Heron
- Great White Pelican
- Pink-backed Pelican
- Black-winged Kite
- African Harrier-Hawk
- White-headed Vulture
- Bateleur
- Hooded Vulture
- Rüppell’s Griffon
- Lappet-faced Vulture
- Forest Scrub-Robin
- White-browed Scrub-Robin
- Fire-crested Alethe
- White-eyed Slaty-Flycatcher
- Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat
- Red-chested Owlet
- African Wood-Ow
- Abyssinian Ground-Hornbill
- Forest Scimitarbill
- Narina Trogon
- Blue-naped Mousebird
- Orange-cheeked Waxbill
- Eastern Long-tailed Hornbill
- Blue-breasted Bee-eater
- White-thighed Hornbill
- Northern Red-fronted Tinkerbird
- Double-toothed Barbet
- Hairy-breasted Barbet
- Spotted Honeyguide
- Eurasian Hobby
- Gray Kestrel
- Lanner Falcon
- Peregrine Falcon
- Red-headed Lovebird
- Gray Parrot
- Meyer’s Parrot
- Rufous-sided Broadbill
- African Pitta
- Little Greenbul
- Dusky Crested Flycatcher
- White-winged Black-Tit
- Rufous-naped Lark
- Yellow Longbill
- Greater Honeyguide
- Brown-backed Honeybird
- Elliot’s Woodpecker
- Nubian Woodpecker
- Red-throated Wryneck
- African Piculet
- Speckle-breasted Woodpecker
- Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater
- Olive Bee-eater
- European Bee-eater
- African Pygmy Kingfisher
- Malachite Kingfisher
- Blue-breasted Kingfisher
- Green-breasted Pitta
- Petit’s Cuckooshrike
- African Black-headed Oriole
- Western Black-headed Oriole
- Eurasian Golden Oriole
- Rwenzori Batis
- Jameson’s Wattle-eye
- Chestnut Wattle-eye
- Ituri Batis
- Black-crowned Tchagra
- Tropical Boubou
- Gray-green Bushshrike
