183
Bird Species
Eastern Uganda
Region
Arid savanna & rocky hills
Habitat
Bird Species Checklist (183 species)
| # | Common Name | Scientific Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Helmeted Guineafowl | Numida meleagris |
| 2 | Crested Francolin | Ortygornis sephaena |
| 3 | Dusky Turtle-Dove | Streptopelia lugens |
| 4 | Ring-necked Dove | Streptopelia capicola |
| 5 | Laughing Dove | Spilopelia senegalensis |
| 6 | Namaqua Dove | Oena capensis |
| 7 | Long-crested Eagle | Lophaetus occipitalis |
| 8 | Dark Chanting-Goshawk | Melierax metabates |
| 9 | Blue- naped Mousebird | Urocolius macrourus |
| 10 | Eurasian Hoopoe | Upupa epops |
| 11 | African Gray Hornbill | Lophoceros nasutus |
| 12 | Eastern Yellow-billed Hornbill | Tockus flavirostris |
| 13 | Olive Bee-eater | Merops superciliosus |
| 14 | Abyssinian Roller | Coracias abyssinicus |
| 15 | Purple Roller | Coracias naevius |
| 16 | Red-and-yellow Barbet | Trachyphonus erythrocephalus |
| 17 | Black-crowned Tchagra | Tchagra senegalus |
| 18 | Slate-colored Boubou | Laniarius funebris |
| 19 | Fork-tailed Drongo | Dicrurus adsimilis |
| 20 | Yellow-billed Shrike | Corvinella corvina |
| 21 | Gray-backed Fiscal | Lanius excubitoroides |
| 22 | White- rumped Shrike | Eurocephalus ruppelli |
| 23 | Fan-tailed Raven | Corvus rhipidurus |
| 24 | Kidepo Lark | Corypha kidepoensis |
| 25 | Green-backed Camaroptera | Camaroptera brachyura |
| 26 | Rattling Cisticola | Cisticola chiniana |
| 27 | Croaking Cisticola | Cisticola natalensis |
| 28 | Rüppell's Starling | Lamprotornis purpuroptera |
| 29 | Superb Starling | Lamprotornis superbus |
| 30 | White-headed Buffalo-Weaver | Dinemellia dinemelli |
| 31 | Speckle-fronted Weaver | Sporopipes frontalis |
| 32 | White-browed Sparrow-Weaver | Plocepasser mahali |
| 33 | Red-billed Quelea | Quelea quelea |
| 34 | Northern Red Bishop | Euplectes franciscanus |
| 35 | Pin-tailed Whydah | Vidua macroura |
| 36 | Eastern Paradise-Whydah | Vidua paradisaea |
| 37 | Straw-tailed Whydah | Vidua fischeri |
| 38 | Reichenow's Seedeater | Crithagra reichenowi |
| 39 | Mourning Collared-Dove | Streptopelia decipiens |
| 40 | Red-eyed Dove | Streptopelia semitorquata |
| 41 | Bruce's Green-Pigeon | Treron waalia |
| 42 | Four-banded Sandgrouse | Pterocles quadricinctus |
| 43 | Great Spotted Cuckoo | Clamator glandarius |
| 44 | Common Swift | Apus apus |
| 45 | Little Swift | Apus affinis |
| 46 | White- rumped Swift | Apus caffer |
| 47 | African Palm Swift | Cypsiurus parvus |
| 48 | Gray Heron | Ardea cinerea |
| 49 | Black-headed Heron | Ardea melanocephala |
| 50 | Black-winged Kite | Elanus caeruleus |
| 51 | African Harrier-Hawk | Polyboroides typus |
| 52 | Hooded Vulture | Necrosyrtes monachus |
| 53 | White-backed Vulture | Gyps africanus |
| 54 | Rüppell's Griffon | Gyps rueppelli |
| 55 | Bateleur | Terathopius ecaudatus |
| 56 | Black-chested Snake-Eagle | Circaetus pectoralis |
| 57 | Wahlberg's Eagle | Hieraaetus wahlbergi |
| 58 | Booted Eagle | Hieraaetus pennatus |
| 59 | Steppe Eagle | Aquila nipalensis |
| 60 | Tawny Eagle | Aquila rapax |
| 61 | Montagu's Harrier | Circus pygargus |
| 62 | Black Kite | Milvus migrans |
| 63 | Augur Buzzard | Buteo augur |
| 64 | Common Buzzard | Buteo buteo |
| 65 | Green Woodhoopoe | Phoeniculus purpureus |
| 66 | Jackson's Hornbill | Tockus jacksoni |
| 67 | Northern Red-billed Hornbill | Tockus erythrorhynchus |
| 68 | Little Bee-eater | Merops pusillus |
| 69 | Striped Kingfisher | Halcyon chelicuti |
| 70 | D'Arnaud's Barbet | Trachyphonus darnaudii |
| 71 | Northern Red-fronted Tinkerbird | Pogoniulus uropygialis |
| 72 | Red-fronted Barbet | Tricholaema diademata |
| 73 | Greater Honeyguide | Indicator indicator |
| 74 | Nubian Woodpecker | Campethera nubica |
| 75 | Pygmy Falcon | Polihierax semitorquatus |
| 76 | Lesser Kestrel | Falco naumanni |
| 77 | Eurasian Kestrel | Falco tinnunculus |
| 78 | Gray Kestrel | Falco ardosiaceus |
| 79 | African Black-headed Oriole | Oriolus larvatus |
| 80 | Brubru | Nilaus afer |
| 81 | Gray-headed Bushshrike | Malaconotus blanchoti |
| 82 | Northern Fiscal | Lanius humeralis |
| 83 | Pied Crow | Corvus albus |
| 84 | Yellow-breasted Apalis | Apalis flavida |
| 85 | Red-pate Cisticola | Cisticola ruficeps |
| 86 | Bank Swallow | Riparia riparia |
| 87 | Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica |
| 88 | Common Bulbul | Pycnonotus barbatus |
| 89 | Red-billed Oxpecker | Buphagus erythroryncha |
| 90 | Wattled Starling | Creatophora cinerea |
| 91 | Lesser Blue-eared Starling | Lamprotornis chloropterus |
| 92 | Greater Blue-eared Starling | Lamprotornis chalybaeus |
| 93 | Bronze-tailed Starling | Lamprotornis chalcurus |
| 94 | African Gray Flycatcher | Bradornis microrhynchus |
| 95 | Spotted Morning-Thrush | Cichladusa guttata |
| 96 | Rufous-tailed Rock-Thrush | Monticola saxatilis |
| 97 | Whinchat | Saxicola rubetra |
| 98 | Northern Wheatear | Oenanthe oenanthe |
| 99 | Scarlet-chested Sunbird | Chalcomitra senegalensis |
| 100 | White-billed Buffalo-Weaver | Bubalornis albirostris |
| 101 | Gray-capped Social-Weaver | Pseudonigrita arnaudi |
| 102 | African Silverbill | Euodice cantans |
| 103 | Red-cheeked Cordonbleu | Uraeginthus bengalus |
| 104 | Shelley's Rufous Sparrow | Passer shelleyi |
| 105 | Northern Gray-headed Sparrow | Passer griseus |
| 106 | Vinaceous Dove | Streptopelia vinacea |
| 107 | White-bellied Bustard | Eupodotis senegalensis |
| 108 | White-bellied Go-away-bird | Crinifer leucogaster |
| 109 | White-crested Turaco | Tauraco leucolophus |
| 110 | Mottled Swift | Tachymarptis aequatorialis |
| 111 | Nyanza Swift | Apus niansae |
| 112 | Gabar Goshawk | Micronisus gabar |
| 113 | Abyssinian Scimitarbill | Rhinopomastus minor |
| 114 | Gray Wren-Warbler | Calamonastes simplex |
| 115 | White-browed Scrub-Robin | Cercotrichas leucophrys |
| 116 | Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird | Anthreptes orientalis |
| 117 | Beautiful Sunbird | Cinnyris pulchellus |
| 118 | Little Weaver | Ploceus luteolus |
| 119 | Vitelline Masked-Weaver | Ploceus vitellinus |
| 120 | Chestnut Weaver | Ploceus rubiginosus |
| 121 | Cardinal Quelea | Quelea cardinalis |
| 122 | Purple Grenadier | Granatina ianthinogaster |
| 123 | Chestnut Sparrow | Passer eminibey |
| 124 | White-bellied Canary | Crithagra dorsostriata |
| 125 | Common Ostrich | Struthio camelus |
| 126 | Rock Pigeon | Columba livia |
| 127 | Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove | Turtur chalcospilos |
| 128 | Black-bellied Bustard | Lissotis melanogaster |
| 129 | Hartlaub's Bustard | Lissotis hartlaubii |
| 130 | Pied Cuckoo | Clamator jacobinus |
| 131 | Crowned Lapwing | Vanellus coronatus |
| 132 | Western Cattle-Egret | Ardea ibis |
| 133 | Brown Snake-Eagle | Circaetus cinereus |
| 134 | Lesser Spotted Eagle | Clanga pomarina |
| 135 | Eastern Chanting-Goshawk | Melierax poliopterus |
| 136 | Mountain Buzzard | Buteo oreophilus |
| 137 | Western Barn Owl | Tyto alba |
| 138 | Northern White-faced Owl | Ptilopsis leucotis |
| 139 | Chinspot Batis | Batis molitor |
| 140 | Red-faced Crombec | Sylvietta whytii |
| 141 | Yellow-bellied Eremomela | Eremomela icteropygialis |
| 142 | Buff-bellied Warbler | Phyllolais pulchella |
| 143 | Rufous Chatterer | Argya rubiginosa |
| 144 | Silverbird | Empidornis semipartitus |
| 145 | Rufous-tailed Scrub-Robin | Cercotrichas galactotes |
| 146 | Isabelline Wheatear | Oenanthe isabellina |
| 147 | Marico Sunbird | Cinnyris mariquensis |
| 148 | Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver | Plocepasser superciliosus |
| 149 | Heuglin's Masked-Weaver | Ploceus heuglini |
| 150 | Black-cheeked Waxbill | Brunhilda charmosyna |
| 151 | Yellow-spotted Bush Sparrow | Gymnoris pyrgita |
| 152 | African Pied Wagtail | Motacilla aguimp |
| 153 | Tree Pipit | Anthus trivialis |
| 154 | Clapperton's Spurfowl | Pternistis clappertoni |
| 155 | Buff-crested Bustard | Lophotis gindiana |
| 156 | Dideric Cuckoo | Chrysococcyx caprius |
| 157 | African Cuckoo | Cuculus gularis |
| 158 | Temminck's Courser | Cursorius temminckii |
| 159 | Lappet-faced Vulture | Torgos tracheliotos |
| 160 | White-throated Bee-eater | Merops albicollis |
| 161 | Mouse-colored Penduline -Tit | Anthoscopus musculus |
| 162 | Northern Crombec | Sylvietta brachyura |
| 163 | Pale Flycatcher | Agricola pallidus |
| 164 | Lesser Masked-Weaver | Ploceus intermedius |
| 165 | Steel-blue Whydah | Vidua hypocherina |
| 166 | Grayish Eagle-Owl | Bubo cinerascens |
| 167 | Secretarybird | Sagittarius serpentarius |
| 168 | White-headed Vulture | Trigonoceps occipitalis |
| 169 | Tawny-flanked Prinia | Prinia subflava |
| 170 | Pale Prinia | Prinia somalica |
| 171 | Lesser Striped Swallow | Cecropis abyssinica |
| 172 | Yellow-necked Spurfowl | Pternistis leucoscepus |
| 173 | Alpine Swift | Tachymarptis melba |
| 174 | Black-headed Lapwing | Vanellus tectus |
| 175 | Wattled Lapwing | Vanellus senegallus |
| 176 | Black Cuckooshrike | Campephaga flava |
| 177 | White-crested Helmetshrike | Prionops plumatus |
| 178 | Yellow-fronted Canary | Crithagra mozambica |
| 179 | Martial Eagle | Polemaetus bellicosus |
| 180 | African Hawk-Eagle | Aquila spilogaster |
| 181 | Brown-backed Woodpecker | Dendropicos obsoletus |
| 182 | Splendid Starling | Lamprotornis splendidus |
| 183 | Cut-throat | Amadina fasciata |
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