Birds to See in Semuliki National Park.
Are you a bird enthusiast planning your bird watching safari and wondering which birds to see in Semuliki National Park? This blog will list some of the bird species to encounter on your birding safari in the park. Semuliki National Park is one of the best bird watching sites in East Africa, attracting hundreds of bird lovers and photographers to explore the park’s unique avian life. The park is celebrated for hosting the highest number of forest birds in the country and its unique Guinea-Congo biome birds, some of which are not found anywhere else in the country. It has a mix of natural systems such as grasslands, tropical forests, and wetlands, which provide habitats for different bird species. It’s home to over 445 bird species, including water birds, forest birds, migratory birds, Guinea-Congo biome birds, and Rift Albertine endemics. The park’s rich avian life provides an excellent opportunity for bird lovers to encounter countless birds found in the park.
Birds to See in Semuliki National Park.
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, 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, Ring-necked Francolin, Heuglin’s Spurfowl , Speckled Pigeon, Afep Pigeon, Rameron Pigeon, Western Bronze-naped Pigeon, White-naped Pigeon, Lemon Dove, Mourning Collared-Dove, Red-eyed Dove, Ring-necked Dove, Laughing Dove, Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove, Black-billed Wood-Dove, African Green-Pigeon, Denham’s Bustard, 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, African Cuckoo, Common Cuckoo, 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, Klaas’s Cuckoo, Yellow-throated Cuckoo, African Emerald Cuckoo, Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo.
Other Birds to see in Semuliki National Park include , Black-headed Heron, Purple Heron, Goliath Heron, Hamerkop, Osprey, Great White Pelican, 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, African Spoonbill, Black-crowned Night Heron, Little Heron, Rufous-bellied Heron, Western Cattle-Egret, Yellow-billed Egret, Pink-backed Pelican, Black-winged Kite, African Harrier-Hawk, White-headed Vulture, Bateleur, Hooded Vulture, Rüppell’s Griffon, Blue-breasted Bee-eater, White-thighed Hornbill, Crowned Hornbill, Blue-breasted Bee-eater, Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater, Olive Bee-eater, European Bee-eater, African Pygmy Kingfisher, Malachite Kingfisher, Blue-breasted Kingfisher, Pied Kingfisher, Chocolate-backed Kingfisher, Blue-throated Roller, Red-faced Barbet, Northern Red-fronted Tinkerbird, Double-toothed Barbet, Hairy-breasted Barbet, Spotted Honeyguide, Greater Honeyguide, Brown-backed Honeybird, Elliot’s Woodpecker, Nubian Woodpecker, Red-throated Wryneck, African Piculet, Speckle-breasted Woodpecker, Eurasian Hobby, Gray Kestrel, Lanner Falcon, Peregrine Falcon, Red-headed Lovebird, Gray Parrot, Meyer’s Parrot, Rufous-sided Broadbill, African Pitta, 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, Little Greenbul, Dusky Crested Flycatcher, White-winged Black-Tit, Rufous-naped Lark, Yellow Longbill, 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.
