Birdwatching Checklist for Bwindi Forest National Park.
Bird enthusiasts planning their birding safari in Bwindi, wondering if they should include a birdwatching checklist for Bwindi Forest National Park on their packing list, should consider having it. It’s an essential document that allows bird lovers to search for specific bird species they are interested in seeing, and it makes the safari more fun as they tick off birds they have seen, creating exceptional safari experiences. Bwindi Forest National Park is one of the best bird watching destinations in Uganda, attracting thousands of bird lovers to experience its uniaue avian life. It is home to over 350 bird species, such as forest birds, 24 Albertine Rift endemics and the park’s endemic species which is supported by the park’s diverse natural systems like montane forest, bamboo forests, wetlands that provide a habitat to these bird species.The park has four sectors used for birding, 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.
Birdwatching Checklist in Bwindi Forest National Park.
- Purple-breasted Sunbird
- Brown-capped Weaver
- Petit’s cuckoo-shrike
- Rwenzori batis
- Blue-spotted wood dove
- Tambourine dove
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Red-fronted Antpecker
- Collared Apalis
- Pink-footed puff back
- African olive-pigeon
- Fine-banded woodpecker.
- Grey-crowned crane
