324
Bird Species
Western Uganda
Region
Tropical forest
Habitat
Bird Species Checklist (324 species)
| # | Common Name | Scientific Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Egyptian Goose | Alopochen aegyptiaca |
| 2 | Western Crested Guineafowl | Guttera verreauxi |
| 3 | Black-bellied Bustard | Lissotis melanogaster |
| 4 | Black Crake | Zapornia flavirostra |
| 5 | Long-toed Lapwing | Vanellus crassirostris |
| 6 | African Jacana | Actophilornis africanus |
| 7 | Wood Sandpiper | Tringa glareola |
| 8 | African Openbill | Anastomus lamelligerus |
| 9 | Marabou Stork | Leptoptilos crumenifer |
| 10 | African Sacred Ibis | Threskiornis aethiopicus |
| 11 | Hadada Ibis | Bostrychia hagedash |
| 12 | Western Cattle-Egret | Ardea ibis |
| 13 | Gray Heron | Ardea cinerea |
| 14 | Black-headed Heron | Ardea melanocephala |
| 15 | Goliath Heron | Ardea goliath |
| 16 | Hamerkop | Scopus umbretta |
| 17 | Black-winged Kite | Elanus caeruleus |
| 18 | Long-crested Eagle | Lophaetus occipitalis |
| 19 | African Fish-Eagle | Icthyophaga vocifer |
| 20 | Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica |
| 21 | Red-necked Spurfowl | Pternistis afer |
| 22 | Namaqua Dove | Oena capensis |
| 23 | African Green-Pigeon | Treron calvus |
| 24 | White-browed Coucal | Centropus superciliosus |
| 25 | Senegal Lapwing | Vanellus lugubris |
| 26 | Wattled Lapwing | Vanellus senegallus |
| 27 | Saddle-billed Stork | Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis |
| 28 | Great White Pelican | Pelecanus onocrotalus |
| 29 | Bateleur | Terathopius ecaudatus |
| 30 | Western Banded Snake-Eagle | Circaetus cinerascens |
| 31 | Tawny Eagle | Aquila rapax |
| 32 | Common Buzzard | Buteo buteo |
| 33 | Speckled Mousebird | Colius striatus |
| 34 | Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill | Bycanistes subcylindricus |
| 35 | White-throated Bee-eater | Merops albicollis |
| 36 | Blue-cheeked Bee-eater | Merops persicus |
| 37 | African Pygmy Kingfisher | Ispidina picta |
| 38 | Woodland Kingfisher | Halcyon senegalensis |
| 39 | Pied Kingfisher | Ceryle rudis |
| 40 | Broad-billed Roller | Eurystomus glaucurus |
| 41 | White-headed Barbet | Lybius leucocephalus |
| 42 | Gray-backed Fiscal | Lanius excubitoroides |
| 43 | Rufous- naped Lark | Corypha africana |
| 44 | Common Bulbul | Pycnonotus barbatus |
| 45 | Cassin's Flycatcher | Muscicapa cassini |
| 46 | Sooty Chat | Myrmecocichla nigra |
| 47 | Black-necked Weaver | Ploceus nigricollis |
| 48 | Vieillot's Black Weaver | Ploceus nigerrimus |
| 49 | White-winged Widowbird | Euplectes albonotatus |
| 50 | African Pied Wagtail | Motacilla aguimp |
| 51 | Ross's Turaco | Tauraco rossae |
| 52 | Alpine Swift | Tachymarptis melba |
| 53 | White- rumped Swift | Apus caffer |
| 54 | Gray-hooded Gull | Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus |
| 55 | Black-headed Gonolek | Laniarius erythrogaster |
| 56 | Angola Swallow | Hirundo angolensis |
| 57 | Lesser Striped Swallow | Cecropis abyssinica |
| 58 | Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet | Trachylaemus purpuratus |
| 59 | Gray Kestrel | Falco ardosiaceus |
| 60 | Winding Cisticola | Cisticola marginatus |
| 61 | Splendid Starling | Lamprotornis splendidus |
| 62 | Little Weaver | Ploceus luteolus |
| 63 | Bronze Mannikin | Spermestes cucullata |
| 64 | Common Waxbill | Estrilda astrild |
| 65 | Western Yellow Wagtail | Motacilla flava |
| 66 | Blue-spotted Wood-Dove | Turtur afer |
| 67 | Palm-nut Vulture | Gypohierax angolensis |
| 68 | Green Woodhoopoe | Phoeniculus purpureus |
| 69 | Crowned Hornbill | Lophoceros alboterminatus |
| 70 | Brown-eared Woodpecker | Pardipicus caroli |
| 71 | Little Greenbul | Eurillas virens |
| 72 | Yellow-billed Oxpecker | Buphagus africanus |
| 73 | Red-billed Firefinch | Lagonosticta senegala |
| 74 | Pin-tailed Whydah | Vidua macroura |
| 75 | Red-eyed Dove | Streptopelia semitorquata |
| 76 | Ring-necked Dove | Streptopelia capicola |
| 77 | Eastern Plantain-eater | Crinifer zonurus |
| 78 | Klaas's Cuckoo | Chrysococcyx klaas |
| 79 | Little Swift | Apus affinis |
| 80 | Common Sandpiper | Actitis hypoleucos |
| 81 | Wahlberg's Eagle | Hieraaetus wahlbergi |
| 82 | Little Bee-eater | Merops pusillus |
| 83 | Greater Honeyguide | Indicator indicator |
| 84 | Gray-capped Warbler | Eminia lepida |
| 85 | Mosque Swallow | Cecropis senegalensis |
| 86 | Leaf-love | Phyllastrephus scandens |
| 87 | Northern Yellow White-eye | Zosterops senegalensis |
| 88 | Slender-billed Starling | Onychognathus tenuirostris |
| 89 | Red-chested Cuckoo | Cuculus solitarius |
| 90 | Blue-throated Roller | Eurystomus gularis |
| 91 | Green-backed Camaroptera | Camaroptera brachyura |
| 92 | Bank Swallow | Riparia riparia |
| 93 | Crested Francolin | Ortygornis sephaena |
| 94 | Levaillant's Cuckoo | Clamator levaillantii |
| 95 | Shoebill | Balaeniceps rex |
| 96 | African Harrier-Hawk | Polyboroides typus |
| 97 | European Bee-eater | Merops apiaster |
| 98 | Spot-flanked Barbet | Tricholaema lacrymosa |
| 99 | Double-toothed Barbet | Pogonornis bidentatus |
| 100 | African Gray Woodpecker | Dendropicos goertae |
| 101 | Brown-crowned Tchagra | Tchagra australis |
| 102 | Papyrus Gonolek | Laniarius mufumbiri |
| 103 | Fork-tailed Drongo | Dicrurus adsimilis |
| 104 | Pied Crow | Corvus albus |
| 105 | Moustached Grass-Warbler | Melocichla mentalis |
| 106 | Tawny-flanked Prinia | Prinia subflava |
| 107 | Trilling Cisticola | Cisticola woosnami |
| 108 | Common Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus scirpaceus |
| 109 | Lesser Swamp Warbler | Acrocephalus gracilirostris |
| 110 | Wattled Starling | Creatophora cinerea |
| 111 | Rüppell's Starling | Lamprotornis purpuroptera |
| 112 | Slender-billed Weaver | Ploceus pelzelni |
| 113 | Village Weaver | Ploceus cucullatus |
| 114 | Black-headed Weaver | Ploceus melanocephalus |
| 115 | Red-billed Quelea | Quelea quelea |
| 116 | Red-collared Widowbird | Euplectes ardens |
| 117 | Fawn-breasted Waxbill | Estrilda paludicola |
| 118 | Crimson- rumped Waxbill | Estrilda rhodopyga |
| 119 | Zebra Waxbill | Amandava subflava |
| 120 | Green-winged Pytilia | Pytilia melba |
| 121 | Yellow-throated Longclaw | Macronyx croceus |
| 122 | Papyrus Canary | Crithagra koliensis |
| 123 | Brimstone Canary | Crithagra sulphurata |
| 124 | Helmeted Guineafowl | Numida meleagris |
| 125 | Gray Crowned-Crane | Balearica regulorum |
| 126 | Spur-winged Lapwing | Vanellus spinosus |
| 127 | Blue- naped Mousebird | Urocolius macrourus |
| 128 | Common Scimitarbill | Rhinopomastus cyanomelas |
| 129 | Tropical Boubou | Laniarius major |
| 130 | Stout Cisticola | Cisticola robustus |
| 131 | Croaking Cisticola | Cisticola natalensis |
| 132 | Siffling Cisticola | Cisticola brachypterus |
| 133 | Banded Martin | Neophedina cincta |
| 134 | Waller's Starling | Onychognathus walleri |
| 135 | White-browed Robin-Chat | Cossypha heuglini |
| 136 | Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat | Cossypha niveicapilla |
| 137 | Red-headed Quelea | Quelea erythrops |
| 138 | Fan-tailed Widowbird | Euplectes axillaris |
| 139 | Scaly Spurfowl | Pternistis squamatus |
| 140 | African Cuckoo-Hawk | Aviceda cuculoides |
| 141 | Brown-throated Wattle-eye | Platysteira cyanea |
| 142 | Western Nicator | Nicator chloris |
| 143 | Green Crombec | Sylvietta virens |
| 144 | Yellow-breasted Apalis | Apalis flavida |
| 145 | Black- lored Babbler | Turdoides sharpei |
| 146 | Little Green Sunbird | Anthreptes seimundi |
| 147 | Gray-chinned Sunbird | Anthreptes tephrolaemus |
| 148 | Collared Sunbird | Hedydipna collaris |
| 149 | Olive-bellied Sunbird | Cinnyris chloropygius |
| 150 | Marico Sunbird | Cinnyris mariquensis |
| 151 | Laughing Dove | Spilopelia senegalensis |
| 152 | African Palm Swift | Cypsiurus parvus |
| 153 | Brown Snake-Eagle | Circaetus cinereus |
| 154 | Olive Bee-eater | Merops superciliosus |
| 155 | Chinspot Batis | Batis molitor |
| 156 | Marsh Tchagra | Bocagia minuta |
| 157 | Compact Weaver | Pachyphantes superciliosus |
| 158 | Martial Eagle | Polemaetus bellicosus |
| 159 | Lizard Buzzard | Kaupifalco monogrammicus |
| 160 | Crested Barbet | Trachyphonus vaillantii |
| 161 | Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird | Pogoniulus chrysoconus |
| 162 | Wire-tailed Swallow | Hirundo smithii |
| 163 | Copper Sunbird | Cinnyris cupreus |
| 164 | African Firefinch | Lagonosticta rubricata |
| 165 | Tambourine Dove | Turtur tympanistria |
| 166 | Blue-breasted Kingfisher | Halcyon malimbica |
| 167 | Blue Malkoha | Ceuthmochares aereus |
| 168 | Crowned Eagle | Stephanoaetus coronatus |
| 169 | Speckled Tinkerbird | Pogoniulus scolopaceus |
| 170 | African Shrike-flycatcher | Megabyas flammulatus |
| 171 | Purple-headed Starling | Hylopsar purpureiceps |
| 172 | African Forest-Flycatcher | Fraseria ocreata |
| 173 | White-backed Vulture | Gyps africanus |
| 174 | Holub's Golden-Weaver | Ploceus xanthops |
| 175 | Southern Red Bishop | Euplectes orix |
| 176 | Northern Gray-headed Sparrow | Passer griseus |
| 177 | Plain-backed Pipit | Anthus leucophrys |
| 178 | African Gray Hornbill | Lophoceros nasutus |
| 179 | Dideric Cuckoo | Chrysococcyx caprius |
| 180 | Cardinal Woodpecker | Dendropicos fuscescens |
| 181 | Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike | Campephaga phoenicea |
| 182 | African Blue Flycatcher | Elminia longicauda |
| 183 | Fan-tailed Grassbird | Catriscus brevirostris |
| 184 | Rufous-chested Swallow | Cecropis semirufa |
| 185 | African Thrush | Turdus pelios |
| 186 | Spectacled Weaver | Ploceus ocularis |
| 187 | Gray Cuckooshrike | Ceblepyris caesius |
| 188 | Red-billed Oxpecker | Buphagus erythroryncha |
| 189 | Common Swift | Apus apus |
| 190 | African Crake | Crecopsis egregia |
| 191 | Yellow-billed Stork | Mycteria ibis |
| 192 | Dwarf Bittern | Botaurus sturmii |
| 193 | Little Bittern | Botaurus minutus |
| 194 | Pink-backed Pelican | Pelecanus rufescens |
| 195 | Black-chested Snake-Eagle | Circaetus pectoralis |
| 196 | Steppe Eagle | Aquila nipalensis |
| 197 | Black-crowned Tchagra | Tchagra senegalus |
| 198 | African Paradise-Flycatcher | Terpsiphone viridis |
| 199 | Arrow-marked Babbler | Turdoides jardineii |
| 200 | Northern Black-Flycatcher | Melaenornis edolioides |
| 201 | Golden-backed Weaver | Ploceus jacksoni |
| 202 | Lappet-faced Vulture | Torgos tracheliotos |
| 203 | Gray-headed Kingfisher | Halcyon leucocephala |
| 204 | Great Blue Turaco | Corythaeola cristata |
| 205 | Sabine's Spinetail | Rhaphidura sabini |
| 206 | Eurasian Moorhen | Gallinula chloropus |
| 207 | White-winged Tern | Chlidonias leucopterus |
| 208 | Purple Heron | Ardea purpurea |
| 209 | Rüppell's Griffon | Gyps rueppelli |
| 210 | Augur Buzzard | Buteo augur |
| 211 | White-headed Woodhoopoe | Phoeniculus bollei |
| 212 | Black Bee-eater | Merops gularis |
| 213 | Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater | Merops oreobates |
| 214 | Gray-green Bushshrike | Chlorophoneus bocagei |
| 215 | Sulphur-breasted Bushshrike | Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus |
| 216 | Northern Fiscal | Lanius humeralis |
| 217 | White-chinned Prinia | Schistolais leucopogon |
| 218 | Olive-green Camaroptera | Camaroptera chloronota |
| 219 | Black-throated Apalis | Apalis jacksoni |
| 220 | Buff-throated Apalis | Apalis rufogularis |
| 221 | Red-faced Cisticola | Cisticola erythrops |
| 222 | Black Sawwing | Psalidoprocne pristoptera |
| 223 | Green Hylia | Hylia prasina |
| 224 | African Dusky Flycatcher | Muscicapa adusta |
| 225 | Swamp Flycatcher | Muscicapa aquatica |
| 226 | Dusky-blue Flycatcher | Bradornis comitatus |
| 227 | White-starred Robin | Pogonocichla stellata |
| 228 | African Stonechat | Saxicola torquatus |
| 229 | Green-headed Sunbird | Cyanomitra verticalis |
| 230 | Blue-throated Brown Sunbird | Cyanomitra cyanolaema |
| 231 | Bronze Sunbird | Nectarinia kilimensis |
| 232 | Red-chested Sunbird | Cinnyris erythrocercus |
| 233 | Baglafecht Weaver | Ploceus baglafecht |
| 234 | Black-winged Bishop | Euplectes hordeaceus |
| 235 | Cape Wagtail | Motacilla capensis |
| 236 | Ring-necked Francolin | Scleroptila streptophora |
| 237 | Bare-faced Go-away-bird | Crinifer personatus |
| 238 | Black Coucal | Centropus grillii |
| 239 | Singing Cisticola | Cisticola cantans |
| 240 | Red-headed Bluebill | Spermophaga ruficapilla |
| 241 | African Woolly-necked Stork | Ciconia microscelis |
| 242 | Rattling Cisticola | Cisticola chiniana |
| 243 | Zitting Cisticola | Cisticola juncidis |
| 244 | African Dwarf Kingfisher | Ispidina lecontei |
| 245 | Nubian Woodpecker | Campethera nubica |
| 246 | Violet-backed Starling | Cinnyricinclus leucogaster |
| 247 | Green-throated Sunbird | Chalcomitra rubescens |
| 248 | Cardinal Quelea | Quelea cardinalis |
| 249 | Northern Red Bishop | Euplectes franciscanus |
| 250 | African Emerald Cuckoo | Chrysococcyx cupreus |
| 251 | Grosbeak Weaver | Amblyospiza albifrons |
| 252 | Stuhlmann's Sunbird | Cinnyris stuhlmanni |
| 253 | Little Ringed Plover | Thinornis dubius |
| 254 | Gull-billed Tern | Gelochelidon nilotica |
| 255 | Greater Flamingo | Phoenicopterus roseus |
| 256 | Yellow-billed Egret | Ardea brachyrhyncha |
| 257 | Red-throated Bee-eater | Merops bulocki |
| 258 | Red-headed Lovebird | Agapornis pullarius |
| 259 | Meyer's Parrot | Poicephalus meyeri |
| 260 | Black-and-white Mannikin | Spermestes bicolor |
| 261 | Gray-headed Nigrita | Nigrita canicapillus |
| 262 | Yellow-fronted Canary | Crithagra mozambica |
| 263 | Mackinnon's Shrike | Lanius mackinnoni |
| 264 | White-eyed Slaty -Flycatcher | Melaenornis fischeri |
| 265 | White-browed Scrub-Robin | Cercotrichas leucophrys |
| 266 | Brown-capped Weaver | Ploceus insignis |
| 267 | Gabar Goshawk | Micronisus gabar |
| 268 | White-headed Sawwing | Psalidoprocne albiceps |
| 269 | Black-billed Turaco | Tauraco schuettii |
| 270 | Narina Trogon | Apaloderma narina |
| 271 | Gray Greenbul | Eurillas gracilis |
| 272 | Lesser Moorhen | Paragallinula angulata |
| 273 | White-headed Vulture | Trigonoceps occipitalis |
| 274 | Malachite Kingfisher | Corythornis cristatus |
| 275 | Red-headed Malimbe | Malimbus rubricollis |
| 276 | Water Thick-knee | Burhinus vermiculatus |
| 277 | Green Sandpiper | Tringa ochropus |
| 278 | European Roller | Coracias garrulus |
| 279 | Scarlet-chested Sunbird | Chalcomitra senegalensis |
| 280 | Black-crowned Waxbill | Estrilda nonnula |
| 281 | Black Kite | Milvus migrans |
| 282 | Verreaux's Eagle-Owl | Ketupa lactea |
| 283 | Lanner Falcon | Falco biarmicus |
| 284 | Willow Warbler | Phylloscopus trochilus |
| 285 | Giant Kingfisher | Megaceryle maxima |
| 286 | Horus Swift | Apus horus |
| 287 | White-necked Raven | Corvus albicollis |
| 288 | Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove | Turtur chalcospilos |
| 289 | African Cuckoo | Cuculus gularis |
| 290 | Fiery-necked Nightjar | Caprimulgus pectoralis |
| 291 | Square-tailed Nightjar | Caprimulgus fossii |
| 292 | Black-winged Stilt | Himantopus himantopus |
| 293 | Crowned Lapwing | Vanellus coronatus |
| 294 | Kittlitz's Plover | Anarhynchus pecuarius |
| 295 | Common Greenshank | Tringa nebularia |
| 296 | Curlew Sandpiper | Calidris ferruginea |
| 297 | Temminck's Courser | Cursorius temminckii |
| 298 | Collared Pratincole | Glareola pratincola |
| 299 | African Skimmer | Rynchops flavirostris |
| 300 | Lesser Flamingo | Phoeniconaias minor |
| 301 | African Spoonbill | Platalea alba |
| 302 | Eurasian Hoopoe | Upupa epops |
| 303 | Eurasian Kestrel | Falco tinnunculus |
| 304 | White-tailed Lark | Mirafra albicauda |
| 305 | Red-capped Lark | Calandrella cinerea |
| 306 | Red-faced Crombec | Sylvietta whytii |
| 307 | African Yellow-Warbler | Iduna natalensis |
| 308 | White-tailed Ant-Thrush | Neocossyphus poensis |
| 309 | Lesser Masked-Weaver | Ploceus intermedius |
| 310 | Yellow-crowned Canary | Serinus flavivertex |
| 311 | Golden-breasted Bunting | Emberiza flaviventris |
| 312 | White Stork | Ciconia ciconia |
| 313 | Pale-throated Greenbul | Atimastillas flavigula |
| 314 | Red-capped Robin-Chat | Cossypha natalensis |
| 315 | Variable Sunbird | Cinnyris venustus |
| 316 | Red-backed Shrike | Lanius collurio |
| 317 | Great Cormorant | Phalacrocorax carbo |
| 318 | Western Black-headed Oriole | Oriolus brachyrynchus |
| 319 | Plain Greenbul | Eurillas curvirostris |
| 320 | Brown Illadopsis | Illadopsis fulvescens |
| 321 | Scaly-breasted Illadopsis | Illadopsis albipectus |
| 322 | Red-tailed Ant-Thrush | Neocossyphus rufus |
| 323 | White-breasted Nigrita | Nigrita fusconotus |
| 324 | Black Bishop | Euplectes gierowii |
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