Birdwatching in Uganda - Bwindi

Bwindi National Park is home to over 23 highly localized Albertine Rift endemics. Special birds include, Bar-tailed Trogon, Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater, Black Bee-eater, Yellow-bellied Waxbill, Magpie Mannikin, Yellow-crowned Canary, Thick- billed Seedeater, Streaky Seedeater, African Green Broadbill, Shelly's Crimson wing, Oriole Finch, Mountain Buzzard, Ayre's (Western) Bronze-napped Pigeon, Red-chested Owlet, Tullberg's Woodpecker, Elliot's Woodpecker, African Broadbill, Western Green Tinker bird, African Green Broadbill, Lag dens Bush Shrike, Ashy Flycatcher, Dusky-blue Flycatcher, Chapin's Flycatcher, Chin-spot Batis, cassin's Grey Flycatcher, Rwenzori Batis, Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher, White-bellied Crested-flycatcher, Pale-breasted Illadopsis, Mountain Illadopsis, African Hill-Babbler, Dusky Tit, Blue-throated Brown Sunbird, Blue-headed Sunbird, Northern Double-collared Sunbird, Grey-headed Sunbird, Mackinnon's Fiscal, Sooty Boubou, Pink-footed Puff back, Doherty's Bush-shrike, White-napped Raven, Montane Oriole, African Golden Oriole, Stuhlmann's Starling, Narrow-tailed Starling, Waller's Starling, Strange Weaver, Brown-capped Weaver, Black-billed Weaver, Dusky Crimsonwing, among others.


 Birding at Ruhija provides a good chance of seeing Many-colored Bush-Shrikes, Rwenzori Batis, Stripe-breasted Tit, Yellow Bishop, Collared Apalis, Purple-breasted Sunbird, Stripe-breasted Tit, White-naped Raven, Strange and Baglafecht Weaver, Dusky Crimson-Wing, Yellow Bishop, Yellow-bellied Waxbill, Black-and-White Mannikin, the rare Dusky Twin spot, and Streaky Seedeater. Archer's Robin-Chat, Grauer's Rush Warbler, Lagden's Bush-Shrike, Dusky and Shelley's Crimson wings. Other high elevation species occurring here are Olive Pigeon, White-starred Robin, Cinnamon Bracken Warbler and Mountain Illadopsis. Nights spent at researcher's station at Ruhija.


Bwindi Swamp is home to, Grauer's Rush Warbler, Purple-breasted, Blue headed and Regal Sunbirds, Grauer's Broadbills, Archer's Robin-Chat, Eastern Mountain-Greenbul, Strange Weaver, Black-headed Waxbill, Bar-tailed Trogon, White-headed Wood hoopoe, Waller's and Stallman’s Starling, among others.

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