Major Birds to see in Akagera National Park.
Bird enthusiasts planning their safari often ask about the major birds to see in Akagera National Park. It’s one of the most sought- after bird watching destinations in Rwanda, situated in the eastern part of the country. Akagera National Park is famous for its unique avian life and is home to the African big five mammals: elephants, lions, leopards, rhinos and buffalo. This attracts thousands of travellers to explore its rich biodiversity. It has a mix of natural systems like lakes, wetlands, woodlands, and savannah grasslands that provide habitats to the park’s inhabitants. Akagera is home to over 480 bird species, including savannah birds, water birds, savannah birds, migratory birds and the park’s endemic species, which are rarely found anywhere else.
Major Birds to see in Akagera National Park.
- Purple Heron
- Squacco Heron
- Black-crowned Night Heron
- Dimorphic Egret
- Great Egret
- Hamerkop
- African Jacana
- Lesser Jacana
- White-faced Whistling Duck
- Red-faced barbet
- Shoebill Stork
- Saddle-billed Stork
- African Fish Eagle
- Martial Eagle
- Long-crested Eagle
- Denham’s Bustard
- Red-winged Francolin
- Ring-necked Francolin
- Helmeted Guineafowl
- Grey Crowned Crane
- African Wattled Lapwing
- Brown-chested Lapwing
- Crowned Lapwing
- Striped Pipit
- Short-tailed Pipit
- African Openbill Stork
- Marabou Stork
- African Woolly-necked Stork
- Goliath Heron
- Grey Heron
- Little Egret
- Western Reef Heron
- Spur-winged Goose
- Egyptian Goose
- Booted Eagle
- Beaudouin’s Snake Eagle
- Brown Snake Eagle
- Grasshopper Buzzard
- Augur Buzzard
- Palm-nut Vulture
- Hooded Vulture
- Lappet-faced Vulture
- Bateleur
- African Harrier Hawk
- Osprey
- Eleonora’s Falcon
- Sooty Falcon
- Amur Falcon
- Lesser Kestrel
- Verreaux’s Eagle Owl
- Marsh Owl
- African Pied Wagtail
- Pied Crow
- Fork-tailed Drongo
- Grey-backed Fiscal
- Souza’s Shrike
- Black-headed Gonolek
- Papyrus Gonolek
- Slate-colored Boubou
- Northern Puffback
- Tropical Boubou
- African Pygmy Kingfisher
- Malachite Kingfisher
- Pied Kingfisher
- Giant Kingfisher
- Woodland Kingfisher
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
- Little Bee-eater
- White-fronted Bee-eater
- European Bee-eater
- Lilac-breasted Roller
- Ross’s Turaco
- White-crested Turaco
- Purple-crested Turaco
- Blue-shouldered Robin-chat
- Heuglin’s Robin-chat
- Crested Barbet
- Double-toothed Barbet
- Cardinal Woodpecker
- Nubian Woodpecker
- Northern Brown-throated Weaver
- Village Weaver
- Tabora Cisticola
- Winding Cisticola
- Zitting Cisticola
- Vieillot’s Black Weaver
- Golden-backed Weaver
- Pin-tailed Whydah
- Red-billed Quelea
- Cabanis’s Bunting
- Yellow-bellied Eremomela
- Carruthers’s Cisticola
Other major birds to see in Akagera National Park include Lesser Jacana, African Jacana, Bar-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, Common Snipe, African Snipe, African Skimmer, Little Grebe, Saddle-billed Stork, African Darter, Pink-backed Pelican, Bateleur, Common Ringed Plover, Senegal Lapwing, Spur-winged Lapwing, Greater Painted-Snipe, Hooded Vulture, Lappet-faced Vulture, European Honey-buzzard, Western Banded Snake-Eagle, Bat Hawk, Martial Eagle, Dark Chanting-Goshawk, Booted Eagle, African Harrier-Hawk, Marsh Owl, Speckled Mouse bird, Narina Trogon, Common Hoopoe, Green Woodhoopoe, Red-headed Weaver, African Gray Hornbill, White-throated Bee-eater, European Bee-eater, Little Bee-eater, Western Barn Owl, Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl, African Barred Owlet, Spotted Eagle-Owl.
