Birding Checklist for Bwindi Forest National Park.
Are you planning your bird watching safari and contemplating whether to prepare a birding checklist for Bwindi Forest National Park. It’s one of the best bird watching safari destinations in Uganda, commonly known for hosting the highest number of the endangered mountain gorillas in the world. A birding checklist is an important document for birders visiting the park, as it helps them to know the birds to expect on their safari. The park is blessed with rich avian life, which is supported by the park’s diverse ecosystems, such as montane forest, wetlands, and bamboo forest which provide a habitat to various bird species. Bwindi hosts up to 360 bird species, including migratory birds, over 24 Albertine Rift endemics, forest birds and the park’s endemic species. The park has different sectors used for bird watching, such as Nkuringo sector, Rushaga sector, Ruhija sector and Buhoma sector, all have unique bird species and provide unforgettable birding opportunities which caters to all levels of birders. Whether you are an experienced birder or a beginner, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park must be adding on your bucket list.
Birding Checklist for Bwindi Forest National Park
- Red-collared mountain Barbet
- Blue-headed Sunbird
- Albertine Owlet
- Great Blue Turaco
- Rwenzori Turaco
- Chapin’s Flycatcher
- Shelly’s Crimsonwing
- Grauer’s Rush Warbler
- Red-Faced Woodland Warbler
- Garden Warbler
- Rwenzori Batis
- Short-tailed Warbler
- Regal Sunbird,
- Handsome Francolin
- Blackcap
- Yellow-breasted Apalis
- Arctic Warbler
- Black Bee-eater
- Red-throated Alethe
- Buff-throated Apalis
- Purple-breasted Sunbird
- Red-fronted Antpecker
- Collared Apalis
- Kivu Ground Thrush
- Willow Warbler
- Rwanda Apalis
- 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
- Mountain Masked Apalis
- Jameson’s Antpecker
- African flycatcher-chat
- Hottentot teal
- White-browned Scrub Robin
- 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
- 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
- Dusky Tit
- Green-backed Camaroptera
- Black bee-eater
- African Citril
- 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
- 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.
- Helmeted guinea fowl
- African pygmy kingfisher
- Afed pigeon
- Short-tailed warbler
- Copper sunbird
- Palm nut vulture
