Bwindi National Park Bird Checklist : Bwindi National Park bird checklist is one of the things to have for any traveler visiting Uganda on a Uganda birding safari. Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is one of the most beautiful Uganda national parks that travelers get to visit on a Uganda safari. Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is especially famous for the mountain gorillas that travelers get to encounter on gorilla trekking in Bwindi Park. Apart from gorilla trekking, there are a number of other attractions in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, and birds are among them.
For any ardent birder, a Uganda birding safari is incomplete without visiting Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. Below is a Bwindi National Park bird checklist for your use whilst on your bird watching experience in the park.
ANSERIFORMES: Anatidae
White-faced Whistling-Duck
White-backed Duck
Knob-billed Duck
Egyptian Goose
Blue-billed Teal
African Black Duck
Yellow-billed Duck
Red-billed Duck
GALLIFORMES: Numididae
Helmeted Guineafowl
Western Crested Guineafowl
GALLIFORMES: Phasianidae
Crested Francolin
Ring-necked Francolin
Blue Quail
Handsome Spurfowl
Scaly Spurfowl
Heuglin’s Spurfowl
Red-necked Spurfowl
PHOENICOPTERIFORMES: Phoenicopteridae
Lesser Flamingo
PODICIPEDIFORMES: Podicipedidae
Little Grebe
COLUMBIFORMES: Columbidae
Speckled Pigeon
Afep Pigeon
Rameron Pigeon
Bronze-naped Pigeon
White-naped Pigeon
Lemon Dove
Dusky Turtle-Dove
Mourning Collared-Dove
Red-eyed Dove
Ring-necked Dove
Vinaceous Dove
Laughing Dove
Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove
Black-billed Wood-Dove
Blue-spotted Wood-Dove
Tambourine Dove
Namaqua Dove
African Green-Pigeon
OTIDIFORMES: Otididae
Black-bellied Bustard
MUSOPHAGIFORMES: Musophagidae
Great Blue Turaco
Black-billed Turaco
White-crested Turaco
Rwenzori Turaco
Ross’s Turaco
Bare-faced Go-away-bird
Eastern Plantain-eater
CUCULIFORMES: Cuculidae
Black-throated Coucal
Senegal Coucal
Blue-headed Coucal
White-browed Coucal
Black Coucal
Blue Malkoha
Great Spotted Cuckoo
Levaillant’s Cuckoo
Pied Cuckoo
Dideric Cuckoo
Klaas’s Cuckoo
Yellow-throated Cuckoo
African Emerald Cuckoo
Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo
Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo
Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo
Black Cuckoo
Red-chested Cuckoo
African Cuckoo
Common Cuckoo
CAPRIMULGIFORMES: Caprimulgidae
Standard-winged Nightjar
Fiery-necked Nightjar
Montane Nightjar
Long-tailed Nightjar
Square-tailed Nightjar
CAPRIMULGIFORMES: Apodidae
Mottled Spinetail
Sabine’s Spinetail
Cassin’s Spinetail
Scarce Swift
Alpine Swift
Mottled Swift
Common Swift
African Swift
Little Swift
Horus Swift
White-rumped Swift
African Palm Swift
GRUIFORMES: Sarothruridae
White-spotted Flufftail
Buff-spotted Flufftail
Red-chested Flufftail
GRUIFORMES: Rallidae
African Rail
African Crake
Eurasian Moorhen
African Swamphen
Black Crake
GRUIFORMES: Heliornithidae
African Finfoot
GRUIFORMES: Gruidae
Gray Crowned-Crane
CHARADRIIFORMES: Burhinidae
Water Thick-knee
CHARADRIIFORMES: Recurvirostridae
Black-winged Stilt
CHARADRIIFORMES: Charadriidae
Common Ringed Plover
Three-banded Plover
Long-toed Lapwing
Spur-winged Lapwing
Black-headed Lapwing
Senegal Lapwing
Crowned Lapwing
Wattled Lapwing
Brown-chested Lapwing
Kittlitz’s Plover
CHARADRIIFORMES: Rostratulidae
Greater Painted-Snipe
CHARADRIIFORMES: Jacanidae
African Jacana
CHARADRIIFORMES: Scolopacidae
Common Sandpiper
Green Sandpiper
Wood Sandpiper
Temminck’s Stint
CHARADRIIFORMES: Turnicidae
Small Buttonquail
Black-rumped Buttonquail
CHARADRIIFORMES: Glareolidae
Temminck’s Courser
Black-winged Pratincole
Collared Pratincole
CHARADRIIFORMES: Laridae
Gray-hooded Gull
Gull-billed Tern
Whiskered Tern
White-winged Tern
CICONIIFORMES: Ciconiidae
African Openbill
Abdim’s Stork
African Woolly-necked Stork
White Stork
Saddle-billed Stork
Marabou Stork
Yellow-billed Stork
SULIFORMES: Phalacrocoracidae
Long-tailed Cormorant
Great Cormorant
PELECANIFORMES: Pelecanidae
Great White Pelican
Pink-backed Pelican
PELECANIFORMES: Scopidae
Hamerkop
PELECANIFORMES: Ardeidae
Dwarf Bittern
Little Bittern
Black-crowned Night Heron
Black Heron
Little Egret
White-backed Night Heron
Striated Heron
Western Cattle Egret
Great Egret
Gray Heron
Purple Heron
Black-headed Heron
Goliath Heron
PELECANIFORMES: Threskiornithidae
African Sacred Ibis
Hadada Ibis
African Spoonbill
ACCIPITRIFORMES: Accipitridae
Black-winged Kite
African Harrier-Hawk
Palm-nut Vulture
Egyptian Vulture
European Honey-buzzard
African Cuckoo-Hawk
White-headed Vulture
Lappet-faced Vulture
Hooded Vulture
White-backed Vulture
Rüppell’s Griffon
Congo Serpent-Eagle
Bateleur
Black-chested Snake-Eagle
Brown Snake-Eagle
Banded Snake-Eagle
Bat Hawk
Crowned Eagle
Martial Eagle
Long-crested Eagle
Lesser Spotted Eagle
Wahlberg’s Eagle
Booted Eagle
Ayres’s Hawk-Eagle
Tawny Eagle
Steppe Eagle
Cassin’s Hawk-Eagle
African Hawk-Eagle
Lizard Buzzard
Dark Chanting-Goshawk
Gabar Goshawk
Western Marsh Harrier
African Marsh Harrier
Montagu’s Harrier
African Goshawk
Shikra
Little Sparrowhawk
Ovambo Sparrowhawk
Rufous-breasted Sparrowhawk
Black Goshawk
Black Kite
African Fish-Eagle
Common Buzzard
Mountain Buzzard
Augur Buzzard
STRIGIFORMES: Tytonidae
Barn Owl
STRIGIFORMES: Strigidae
African Scops-Owl
Spotted Eagle-Owl
Fraser’s Eagle-Owl
Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl
Pearl-spotted Owlet
Red-chested Owlet
African Wood-Owl
Marsh Owl
COLIIFORMES: Coliidae
Speckled Mousebird
Blue-naped Mousebird
TROGONIFORMES: Trogonidae
Narina Trogon
Bar-tailed Trogon
BUCEROTIFORMES: Upupidae
Eurasian Hoopoe
BUCEROTIFORMES: Phoeniculidae
Green Woodhoopoe
White-headed Woodhoopoe
Forest Scimitarbill
Black Scimitarbill
Common Scimitarbill
BUCEROTIFORMES: Bucorvidae
Abyssinian Ground-Hornbill
BUCEROTIFORMES: Bucerotidae
Crowned Hornbill
Congo Pied Hornbill
African Gray Hornbill
Black-casqued Hornbill
Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill
White-thighed Hornbill
Piping Hornbill
CORACIIFORMES: Alcedinidae
Shining-blue Kingfisher
Malachite Kingfisher
African Pygmy Kingfisher
African Dwarf Kingfisher
Chocolate-backed Kingfisher
Gray-headed Kingfisher
Woodland Kingfisher
Blue-breasted Kingfisher
Striped Kingfisher
Giant Kingfisher
Pied Kingfisher
CORACIIFORMES: Meropidae
Black Bee-eater
Red-throated Bee-eater
Little Bee-eater
Blue-breasted Bee-eater
Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater
Swallow-tailed Bee-eater
White-throated Bee-eater
Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
Madagascar Bee-eater
European Bee-eater
CORACIIFORMES: Coraciidae
European Roller
Lilac-breasted Roller
Broad-billed Roller
Blue-throated Roller
PICIFORMES: Lybiidae
Yellow-billed Barbet
Crested Barbet
Gray-throated Barbet
Speckled Tinkerbird
Green Tinkerbird
Western Tinkerbird
Red-rumped Tinkerbird
Yellow-throated Tinkerbird
Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird
Red-fronted Tinkerbird
Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird
Yellow-spotted Barbet
Hairy-breasted Barbet
Red-fronted Barbet
Spot-flanked Barbet
White-headed Barbet
Red-faced Barbet
Black-billed Barbet
Double-toothed Barbet
PICIFORMES: Indicatoridae
Cassin’s Honeyguide
Wahlberg’s Honeyguide
Dwarf Honeyguide
Willcocks’s Honeyguide
Least Honeyguide
Lesser Honeyguide
Scaly-throated Honeyguide
Greater Honeyguide
PICIFORMES: Picidae
Rufous-necked Wryneck
African Piculet
Golden-crowned Woodpecker
Bearded Woodpecker
Gabon Woodpecker
Elliot’s Woodpecker
Speckle-breasted Woodpecker
Cardinal Woodpecker
Brown-backed Woodpecker
African Gray Woodpecker
Olive Woodpecker
Brown-eared Woodpecker
Buff-spotted Woodpecker
Fine-banded Woodpecker
Green-backed Woodpecker
Nubian Woodpecker
Golden-tailed Woodpecker
FALCONIFORMES: Falconidae
Eurasian Kestrel
Gray Kestrel
Red-necked Falcon
Eleonora’s Falcon
Sooty Falcon
Eurasian Hobby
African Hobby
Lanner Falcon
Peregrine Falcon
PSITTACIFORMES: Psittaculidae
Red-headed Lovebird
PSITTACIFORMES: Psittacidae
Gray Parrot
Brown-necked Parrot
Meyer’s Parrot
PASSERIFORMES: Calyptomenidae
African Broadbill
Rufous-sided Broadbill
PASSERIFORMES: Eurylaimidae
Grauer’s Broadbill
PASSERIFORMES: Pittidae
African Pitta
Green-breasted Pitta
PASSERIFORMES: Campephagidae
Gray Cuckooshrike
Black Cuckooshrike
Petit’s Cuckooshrike
Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike
Purple-throated Cuckooshrike
PASSERIFORMES: Oriolidae
African Golden Oriole
Western Black-headed Oriole
African Black-headed Oriole
Black-tailed Oriole
Black-winged Oriole
PASSERIFORMES: Platysteiridae
Brown-throated Wattle-eye
Black-throated Wattle-eye
Chestnut Wattle-eye
Jameson’s Wattle-eye
Yellow-bellied Wattle-eye
Rwenzori Batis
Chinspot Batis
Western Black-headed Batis
Ituri Batis
PASSERIFORMES: Vangidae
White Helmetshrike
African Shrike-flycatcher
Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher
PASSERIFORMES: Malaconotidae
Brubru
Northern Puffback
Pink-footed Puffback
Marsh Tchagra
Black-crowned Tchagra
Brown-crowned Tchagra
Lühder’s Bushshrike
Tropical Boubou
Black-headed Gonolek
Papyrus Gonolek
Slate-colored Boubou
Lowland Sooty Boubou
Willard’s Sooty Boubou
Albertine Boubou
Gray-green Bushshrike
Sulphur-breasted Bushshrike
Many-colored Bushshrike
Doherty’s Bushshrike
Lagden’s Bushshrike
Gray-headed Bushshrike
PASSERIFORMES: Dicruridae
Fork-tailed Drongo
Velvet-mantled Drongo
PASSERIFORMES: Monarchidae
African Crested Flycatcher
Black-headed Paradise-Flycatcher
African Paradise-Flycatcher
PASSERIFORMES: Laniidae
Red-backed Shrike
Lesser Gray Shrike
Gray-backed Fiscal
Mackinnon’s Shrike
Northern Fiscal
Woodchat Shrike
White-rumped Shrike
PASSERIFORMES: Corvidae
Piapiac
Pied Crow
White-necked Raven
PASSERIFORMES: Stenostiridae
African Blue Flycatcher
White-tailed Blue Flycatcher
Dusky Crested Flycatcher
White-bellied Crested Flycatcher
White-tailed Crested Flycatcher
PASSERIFORMES: Paridae
White-shouldered Black-Tit
White-winged Black-Tit
Dusky Tit
Stripe-breasted Tit
PASSERIFORMES: Remizidae
African Penduline-Tit
PASSERIFORMES: Alaudidae
Rufous-naped Lark
Flappet Lark
Red-capped Lark
PASSERIFORMES: Nicatoridae
Western Nicator
PASSERIFORMES: Macrosphenidae
Green Crombec
Lemon-bellied Crombec
White-browed Crombec
Northern Crombec
Red-faced Crombec
Moustached Grass-Warbler
Yellow Longbill
Gray Longbill
PASSERIFORMES: Cisticolidae
Green-backed Eremomela
Greencap Eremomela
Rufous-crowned Eremomela
Red-winged Gray Warbler
White-chinned Prinia
Rwenzori Apalis
Green-backed Camaroptera
Yellow-browed Camaroptera
Olive-green Camaroptera
Buff-bellied Warbler
Black-capped Apalis
Black-throated Apalis
Masked Apalis
Black-faced Apalis
Yellow-breasted Apalis
Buff-throated Apalis
Chestnut-throated Apalis
Gray Apalis
Tawny-flanked Prinia
Banded Prinia
Black-faced Rufous-Warbler
Gray-capped Warbler
Red-faced Cisticola
Singing Cisticola
Whistling Cisticola
Trilling Cisticola
Chubb’s Cisticola
Rattling Cisticola
Winding Cisticola
Carruthers’s Cisticola
Stout Cisticola
Croaking Cisticola
Tabora Cisticola
Siffling Cisticola
Foxy Cisticola
Zitting Cisticola
Wing-snapping Cisticola
PASSERIFORMES: Acrocephalidae
Grauer’s Warbler
Papyrus Yellow-Warbler
Eastern Olivaceous Warbler
African Yellow-Warbler
Mountain Yellow-Warbler
Lesser Swamp Warbler
Greater Swamp Warbler
PASSERIFORMES: Locustellidae
Bamboo Warbler
Evergreen-forest Warbler
Cinnamon Bracken-Warbler
White-winged Swamp Warbler
Grauer’s Swamp Warbler
Highland Rush Warbler
PASSERIFORMES: Hirundinidae
White-headed Sawwing
Black Sawwing
Gray-rumped Swallow
Banded Martin
Plain Martin
Bank Swallow
Rock Martin
Barn Swallow
Angola Swallow
Wire-tailed Swallow
Western House-Martin
Red-rumped Swallow
Lesser Striped Swallow
Rufous-chested Swallow
Mosque Swallow
PASSERIFORMES: Pycnonotidae
Slender-billed Greenbul
Red-tailed Bristlebill
Yellow-throated Greenbul
Spotted Greenbul
Joyful Greenbul
Simple Greenbul
Honeyguide Greenbul
Shelley’s Greenbul
Eastern Mountain Greenbul
Red-tailed Greenbul
Little Greenbul
Yellow-whiskered Greenbul
Plain Greenbul
Gray Greenbul
Ansorge’s Greenbul
White-throated Greenbul
Yellow-streaked Greenbul
Xavier’s Greenbul
Icterine Greenbul
Cabanis’s Greenbul
Leaf-love
Toro Olive-Greenbul
Common Bulbul
PASSERIFORMES: Phylloscopidae
Wood Warbler
Willow Warbler
Brown Woodland-Warbler
Red-faced Woodland-Warbler
Uganda Woodland-Warbler
PASSERIFORMES: Hyliidae
Green Hylia
Tit-hylia
PASSERIFORMES: Scotocercidae
Chestnut-capped Flycatcher
Neumann’s Warbler
PASSERIFORMES: Sylviidae
Eurasian Blackcap
Garden Warbler
African Hill Babbler
Rwenzori Hill Babbler
Greater Whitethroat
PASSERIFORMES: Zosteropidae
Green White-eye
Northern Yellow White-eye
PASSERIFORMES: Pellorneidae
Brown Illadopsis
Pale-breasted Illadopsis
Mountain Illadopsis
Scaly-breasted Illadopsis
Puvel’s Illadopsis
PASSERIFORMES: Leiothrichidae
Brown Babbler
Arrow-marked Babbler
Black-lored Babbler
PASSERIFORMES: Buphagidae
Yellow-billed Oxpecker
PASSERIFORMES: Sturnidae
Wattled Starling
Violet-backed Starling
Slender-billed Starling
Chestnut-winged Starling
Waller’s Starling
Sharpe’s Starling
Narrow-tailed Starling
Stuhlmann’s Starling
Purple-headed Starling
Rüppell’s Starling
Splendid Starling
Lesser Blue-eared Starling
Greater Blue-eared Starling
Purple Starling
PASSERIFORMES: Turdidae
Rufous Flycatcher-Thrush
Red-tailed Ant-Thrush
White-tailed Ant-Thrush
Black-eared Ground-Thrush
Oberländer’s Ground-Thrush
Abyssinian Ground-Thrush
Abyssinian Thrush
African Thrush
PASSERIFORMES: Muscicapidae
African Dusky Flycatcher
Yellow-footed Flycatcher
Spotted Flycatcher
Swamp Flycatcher
Cassin’s Flycatcher
Sooty Flycatcher
Dusky-blue Flycatcher
Pale Flycatcher
African Forest-Flycatcher
Gray-throated Tit-Flycatcher
Gray Tit-Flycatcher
Chapin’s Flycatcher
Ashy Flycatcher
Silverbird
Yellow-eyed Black-Flycatcher
Northern Black-Flycatcher
White-eyed Slaty-Flycatcher
Fire-crested Alethe
Rufous-tailed Scrub-Robin
Brown-backed Scrub-Robin
Red-backed Scrub-Robin
White-bellied Robin-Chat
Archer’s Robin-Chat
Cape Robin-Chat
Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat
White-browed Robin-Chat
Red-capped Robin-Chat
Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat
Spotted Morning-Thrush
White-starred Robin
Brown-chested Alethe
Red-throated Alethe
Gray-winged Robin-Chat
Lowland Akalat
Equatorial Akalat
Semicollared Flycatcher
Common Redstart
Whinchat
African Stonechat
Mocking Cliff-Chat
Sooty Chat
Northern Wheatear
Isabelline Wheatear
Familiar Chat
PASSERIFORMES: Modulatricidae
Gray-chested Babbler
PASSERIFORMES: Nectariniidae
Gray-headed Sunbird
Western Violet-backed Sunbird
Little Green Sunbird
Green Sunbird
Collared Sunbird
Green-headed Sunbird
Blue-throated Brown Sunbird
Blue-headed Sunbird
Olive Sunbird
Green-throated Sunbird
Scarlet-chested Sunbird
Purple-breasted Sunbird
Bronze Sunbird
Malachite Sunbird
Golden-winged Sunbird
Olive-bellied Sunbird
Tiny Sunbird
Stuhlmann’s Sunbird
Northern Double-collared Sunbird
Regal Sunbird
Beautiful Sunbird
Marico Sunbird
Red-chested Sunbird
Purple-banded Sunbird
Orange-tufted Sunbird
Superb Sunbird
Variable Sunbird
Copper Sunbird
PASSERIFORMES: Ploceidae
Speckle-fronted Weaver
Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver
Red-bellied Malimbe
Crested Malimbe
Red-headed Malimbe
Red-headed Weaver
Baglafecht Weaver
Little Weaver
Slender-billed Weaver
Black-necked Weaver
Spectacled Weaver
Black-billed Weaver
Strange Weaver
Holub’s Golden-Weaver
Orange Weaver
Northern Brown-throated Weaver
Lesser Masked-Weaver
Vitelline Masked-Weaver
Heuglin’s Masked-Weaver
Vieillot’s Black Weaver
Village Weaver
Weyns’s Weaver
Black-headed Weaver
Golden-backed Weaver
Yellow-mantled Weaver
Maxwell’s Black Weaver
Forest Weaver
Brown-capped Weaver
Compact Weaver
Red-headed Quelea
Red-billed Quelea
Northern Red Bishop
Southern Red Bishop
Black-winged Bishop
Black Bishop
Yellow Bishop
White-winged Widowbird
Yellow-mantled Widowbird
Red-collared Widowbird
Fan-tailed Widowbird
Marsh Widowbird
Grosbeak Weaver
PASSERIFORMES: Estrildidae
Bronze Mannikin
Magpie Mannikin
Black-and-white Mannikin
Yellow-bellied Waxbill
Green-backed Twinspot
Dusky Crimsonwing
Red-faced Crimsonwing
Jameson’s Antpecker
White-breasted Nigrita
Chestnut-breasted Nigrita
Gray-headed Nigrita
Pale-fronted Nigrita
Black-faced Waxbill
Black-crowned Waxbill
Kandt’s Waxbill
Fawn-breasted Waxbill
Common Waxbill
Crimson-rumped Waxbill
Quailfinch
Zebra Waxbill
Red-cheeked Cordonbleu
Red-headed Bluebill
Black-bellied Seedcracker
Green-winged Pytilia
Red-winged Pytilia
Dusky Twinspot
Brown Twinspot
Red-billed Firefinch
African Firefinch
Black-bellied Firefinch
Bar-breasted Firefinch
PASSERIFORMES: Viduidae
Pin-tailed Whydah
Village Indigobird
PASSERIFORMES: Passeridae
House Sparrow
Shelley’s Rufous Sparrow
Northern Gray-headed Sparrow
PASSERIFORMES: Motacillidae
Cape Wagtail
Mountain Wagtail
Gray Wagtail
Western Yellow Wagtail
African Pied Wagtail
White Wagtail
Richard’s Pipit
African Pipit
Long-billed Pipit
Plain-backed Pipit
Tree Pipit
Yellow-throated Longclaw
PASSERIFORMES: Fringillidae
Oriole Finch
Yellow-fronted Canary
Western Citril
Papyrus Canary
Black-throated Canary
Reich now’s Seedeater
Brimstone Canary
Streaky Seedeater
Thick-billed Seedeater
Yellow-crowned Canary
PASSERIFORMES: Emberizidae
Brown-rumped Bunting
Cabanis’s Bunting
Golden-breasted Bunting
Cinnamon-breasted Bunting
In summary, the above article entails the bird species in bwindi as listed in our Bwindi National Park Bird Checklist
