Top Birds in Kibale Forest National Park.
Kibale Forest National Park is one of the top bird watching sites in East Africa, famous for its unique birdlife. It’s found in the western region of Uganda, worldwide celebrated for hosting the highest number of chimpanzees. The park has a diverse ecosystems, which provide habitats to various bird species, like wetlands, woodlands, tropical rainforests and bamboo forests. Kibale National Park is home to over 375 bird species, such as forest birds, water birds, migratory birds, Albertine Rift endemics and the park’s residents. This blog will list some of the top birds in Kibale Forest National Park, which shouldn’t be missed on a birder’s bird watching checklist on their birding trip in Kibale. Birding in Kibale offers an exciting and immersive experience to all levels of birders, whether you are an experienced birder or simply a curious traveller. Birding is best done in the morning or late afternoon hours when birds are most active.
Top Birds in Kibale Forest National Park.
- Holub’s Golden-Weaver
- Village Weaver
- Little Weaver
- Red-collared Widowbird
- Great Blue Turaco
- Black-billed Turaco
- White-crested Turaco
- Regal Sunbird
- Purple-banded Sunbird
- Copper Sunbird
- Orange-tufted Sunbird
- White-faced Whistling-Duck
- Nahan’s Partridge
- Crested Francolin
- Scaly Spurfowl
- Ross’s Turaco
- Eastern Plantain-eater
- Bare-faced Go-away-bird
- Black-bellied Bustard
- Senegal Coucal
- Blue-headed Coucal
- White-browed Coucal
- Black Coucal
- Blue Malkoha
- Spur-winged Goose
- African Pygmy-Goose
- Hamerkop
- Shoebill
- Osprey
- Pink-backed Pelican
- Great White Pelican
- Purple-breasted Sunbird
- Fulvous Whistling-Duck
- Knob-billed Duck
- White-rumped Swift
- White-spotted Flufftail
- Buff-spotted Flufftail
- African Rail
- African Crake
- Eurasian Moorhen
- Egyptian Goose
- African Black Duck
- Yellow-billed Duck
- Helmeted Guineafowl
- Western Crested Guineafowl
- Ring-necked Francolin
- Handsome Spurfowl
- Scaly Spurfowl
- Heuglin’s Spurfowl
- Speckled Pigeon
- Afep Pigeon
- Rameron Pigeon
- Western Bronze-naped Pigeon
- White-naped Pigeon
- White-naped Pigeon
- Mourning Collared-Dove
- Red-eyed Dove
- Ring-necked Dove
- Vinaceous Dove
- Laughing Dove
- Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove
- Black-billed Wood-Dove
- Tambourine Dove
- Great Spotted Cuckoo
- Levaillant’s Cuckoo
- Pied Cuckoo
- Dideric Cuckoo
- Klaas’s Cuckoo
- Sabine’s Spinetail
- Cassin’s Spinetail
- Scarce Swift
- Alpine Swift
- Mottled Swift
- Common Swift
- Little Swift
- Horus Swift
- Red-knobbed Coot
- Black Crake
- African Finfoot
- Gray Crowned-Crane
- Water Thick-knee
- Water Thick-knee
- Black-winged Stilt
- Black-winged Stilt
- Little Ringed Plover
- Long-toed Lapwing
- Spur-winged Lapwing
- Senegal Lapwing
- Crowned Lapwing
- Wattled Lapwing
- Brown-chested Lapwing
- Kittlitz’s Plover
- African Jacana
- Common Sandpiper
- Green Sandpiper
- Wood Sandpiper
- Common Greenshank
- Ruff
- Little Stint
- Greater Flamingo
- Black-headed Gull
- Gray-hooded Gull
- African Skimmer
- Gull-billed Tern
- Whiskered Tern
- White-winged Tern
- Collared Pratincole
- Great Crested Grebe
- Little Grebe
- Yellow-billed Stork
- Hadada Ibis
- African Spoonbill
- Dwarf Bittern
- Little Bittern
- Black-crowned Night Heron
- Black Heron
- Little Egret
- White-backed Night Heron
- Rufous-bellied Heron
- Western Cattle-Egret
- Yellow-billed Egret
- Squacco Heron
- Purple Heron
- Goliath Heron
- Gray-headed Sunbird
- Western Violet-backed Sunbird
- Little Green Sunbird
- Little Green Sunbird
- Collared Sunbird
- Green-headed Sunbird
- Blue-throated Brown Sunbird
- Olive Sunbird
- Green-throated Sunbird
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird
- White-headed Buffalo-Weaver
- Speckle-fronted Weaver
- White-browed Sparrow-Weaver
- Red-bellied Malimbe
- Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver
- Crested Malimbe
- Strange Weaver
- Vitelline Masked-Weaver
- Strange Weaver
- Golden-backed Weaver
- Cardinal Quelea
- Black Bishop
- Fan-tailed Widowbird
- Yellow-crowned Bishop
- White-winged Widowbird
- Grosbeak Weaver
- Oriole Finch
- Western Citril
- Yellow-fronted Canary
- Streaky Seedeater
- Yellow-crowned Canary
- Streaky Seedeater
- Golden-breasted Bunting
- Cinnamon-breasted Bunting
- African Emerald Cuckoo
- Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo
- Red-chested Cuckoo
- Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo
- Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo
- Nubian Nightjar
- Pennant-winged Nightjar
- Fiery-necked Nightjar
- Swamp Nightjar
- Plain Nightjar
- Square-tailed Nightjar
- Mottled Spinetail
- Marabou Stork
- Saddle-billed Stork
- African Woolly-necked Stork
- Abdim’s Stork
- African Openbill
- African Darter
- Reed Cormorant
- Great Cormorant
- African Sacred Ibis
