Pian Upe Wildlife Reserve
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Pian Upe Wildlife Reserve

Eastern Uganda — Dry savanna & grassland

395
Bird Species
Eastern Uganda
Region
Dry savanna & grassland
Habitat

Bird Species Checklist (395 species)

# Common Name Scientific Name
1 Common Ostrich Struthio camelus
2 Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris
3 Clapperton's Spurfowl Pternistis clappertoni
4 Vinaceous Dove Streptopelia vinacea
5 Black-billed Wood-Dove Turtur abyssinicus
6 Namaqua Dove Oena capensis
7 Black-bellied Bustard Lissotis melanogaster
8 White-bellied Go-away-bird Crinifer leucogaster
9 Dideric Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius
10 Black Cuckoo Cuculus clamosus
11 Wattled Lapwing Vanellus senegallus
12 African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus
13 Bateleur Terathopius ecaudatus
14 Dark Chanting-Goshawk Melierax metabates
15 Little Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza minulla
16 Blue- naped Mousebird Urocolius macrourus
17 Green Woodhoopoe Phoeniculus purpureus
18 Abyssinian Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus minor
19 African Gray Hornbill Lophoceros nasutus
20 European Bee-eater Merops apiaster
21 Striped Kingfisher Halcyon chelicuti
22 Lilac-breasted Roller Coracias caudatus
23 Black-billed Barbet Lybius guifsobalito
24 African Gray Woodpecker Dendropicos goertae
25 Fox Kestrel Falco alopex
26 Brubru Nilaus afer
27 Northern Puffback Dryoscopus gambensis
28 Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis
29 Gray-backed Fiscal Lanius excubitoroides
30 White- rumped Shrike Eurocephalus ruppelli
31 Flappet Lark Amirafra rufocinnamomea
32 Kidepo Lark Corypha kidepoensis
33 Moustached Grass-Warbler Melocichla mentalis
34 Buff-bellied Warbler Phyllolais pulchella
35 Karamoja Apalis Apalis karamojae
36 Pale Prinia Prinia somalica
37 Rattling Cisticola Cisticola chiniana
38 Red-pate Cisticola Cisticola ruficeps
39 Croaking Cisticola Cisticola natalensis
40 Foxy Cisticola Cisticola troglodytes
41 Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis
42 Fan-tailed Grassbird Catriscus brevirostris
43 Mosque Swallow Cecropis senegalensis
44 Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
45 Red-billed Oxpecker Buphagus erythroryncha
46 Superb Starling Lamprotornis superbus
47 Greater Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chalybaeus
48 Silverbird Empidornis semipartitus
49 Gray-capped Social-Weaver Pseudonigrita arnaudi
50 Red-headed Weaver Anaplectes rubriceps
51 Northern Red Bishop Euplectes franciscanus
52 Black-winged Bishop Euplectes hordeaceus
53 Bronze Mannikin Spermestes cucullata
54 Fawn-breasted Waxbill Estrilda paludicola
55 Red-cheeked Cordonbleu Uraeginthus bengalus
56 Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura
57 Shelley's Rufous Sparrow Passer shelleyi
58 Chestnut Sparrow Passer eminibey
59 Yellow-spotted Bush Sparrow Gymnoris pyrgita
60 African Pipit Anthus cinnamomeus
61 Yellow-throated Longclaw Macronyx croceus
62 Reichenow's Seedeater Crithagra reichenowi
63 Bruce's Green-Pigeon Treron waalia
64 Brown Snake-Eagle Circaetus cinereus
65 Long-crested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis
66 Grasshopper Buzzard Butastur rufipennis
67 White-headed Barbet Lybius leucocephalus
68 Black-crowned Tchagra Tchagra senegalus
69 Northern Crombec Sylvietta brachyura
70 Violet-backed Starling Cinnyricinclus leucogaster
71 Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser superciliosus
72 Fox's Weaver Ploceus spekeoides
73 Cinnamon-breasted Bunting Emberiza tahapisi
74 Klaas's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas
75 White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus
76 Tawny Eagle Aquila rapax
77 Black Kite Milvus migrans
78 Speckled Mousebird Colius striatus
79 Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
80 Lesser Gray Shrike Lanius minor
81 Fan-tailed Raven Corvus rhipidurus
82 White-bellied Tit Melaniparus albiventris
83 Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
84 Rüppell's Starling Lamprotornis purpuroptera
85 Western Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava
86 Scarce Swift Schoutedenapus myoptilus
87 Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Merops persicus
88 Giant Kingfisher Megaceryle maxima
89 Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis
90 Marsh Tchagra Bocagia minuta
91 Vitelline Masked-Weaver Ploceus vitellinus
92 Yellow-billed Stork Mycteria ibis
93 Beaudouin's Snake-Eagle Circaetus beaudouini
94 Wattled Starling Creatophora cinerea
95 Common Buzzard Buteo buteo
96 Cardinal Quelea Quelea cardinalis
97 Ring-necked Dove Streptopelia capicola
98 Scissor-tailed Kite Chelictinia riocourii
99 Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
100 Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus
101 Rüppell's Griffon Gyps rueppelli
102 Black-chested Snake-Eagle Circaetus pectoralis
103 Steppe Eagle Aquila nipalensis
104 Abyssinian Roller Coracias abyssinicus
105 Nubian Woodpecker Campethera nubica
106 Pied Crow Corvus albus
107 Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava
108 Winding Cisticola Cisticola marginatus
109 Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
110 Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata
111 Rufous-tailed Rock-Thrush Monticola saxatilis
112 Whinchat Saxicola rubetra
113 Northern Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe
114 Isabelline Wheatear Oenanthe isabellina
115 Heuglin's Wheatear Oenanthe heuglinii
116 Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
117 Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis
118 Mottled Swift Tachymarptis aequatorialis
119 African Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia microscelis
120 Marabou Stork Leptoptilos crumenifer
121 Hadada Ibis Bostrychia hagedash
122 Hamerkop Scopus umbretta
123 Gabar Goshawk Micronisus gabar
124 Eurasian Hoopoe Upupa epops
125 Little Bee-eater Merops pusillus
126 Spot-flanked Barbet Tricholaema lacrymosa
127 White-tailed Lark Mirafra albicauda
128 Angola Swallow Hirundo angolensis
129 Pale Flycatcher Agricola pallidus
130 Little Weaver Ploceus luteolus
131 Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
132 Northern Gray-headed Sparrow Passer griseus
133 Yellow-fronted Canary Crithagra mozambica
134 Black Coucal Centropus grillii
135 Scarlet-chested Sunbird Chalcomitra senegalensis
136 Stone Partridge Ptilopachus petrosus
137 Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove Turtur chalcospilos
138 White-crested Turaco Tauraco leucolophus
139 White-browed Coucal Centropus superciliosus
140 Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala
141 Palm-nut Vulture Gypohierax angolensis
142 White-headed Vulture Trigonoceps occipitalis
143 Eastern Chanting-Goshawk Melierax poliopterus
144 Northern Red-billed Hornbill Tockus erythrorhynchus
145 Olive Bee-eater Merops superciliosus
146 Brown-crowned Tchagra Tchagra australis
147 Three-streaked Tchagra Tchagra jamesi
148 Tropical Boubou Laniarius major
149 Yellow-billed Shrike Corvinella corvina
150 Yellow-vented Eremomela Eremomela flavicrissalis
151 Red-winged Starling Onychognathus morio
152 Lesser Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chloropterus
153 White-browed Robin-Chat Cossypha heuglini
154 Western Violet-backed Sunbird Anthreptes longuemarei
155 Beautiful Sunbird Cinnyris pulchellus
156 White-billed Buffalo-Weaver Bubalornis albirostris
157 Chestnut Weaver Ploceus rubiginosus
158 White-winged Widowbird Euplectes albonotatus
159 Black- rumped Waxbill Estrilda troglodytes
160 Quailfinch Ortygospiza atricollis
161 Bar -breasted Firefinch Lagonosticta rufopicta
162 Eastern Paradise-Whydah Vidua paradisaea
163 Steel-blue Whydah Vidua hypocherina
164 Straw-tailed Whydah Vidua fischeri
165 White-crested Helmetshrike Prionops plumatus
166 African Paradise-Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis
167 Siffling Cisticola Cisticola brachypterus
168 Cabanis's Greenbul Phyllastrephus cabanisi
169 Spur-winged Goose Plectropterus gambensis
170 Pied Cuckoo Clamator jacobinus
171 Red-chested Cuckoo Cuculus solitarius
172 Western Banded Snake-Eagle Circaetus cinerascens
173 Wahlberg's Eagle Hieraaetus wahlbergi
174 African Pygmy Kingfisher Ispidina picta
175 D'Arnaud's Barbet Trachyphonus darnaudii
176 Northern Red-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus uropygialis
177 Gray Kestrel Falco ardosiaceus
178 Chinspot Batis Batis molitor
179 Western Black-headed Batis Batis erlangeri
180 Taita Fiscal Lanius dorsalis
181 Singing Bushlark Mirafra javanica
182 Yellow-bellied Eremomela Eremomela icteropygialis
183 Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura
184 Gray-capped Warbler Eminia lepida
185 Boran Cisticola Cisticola bodessa
186 White-headed Buffalo-Weaver Dinemellia dinemelli
187 White-browed Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser mahali
188 Holub's Golden-Weaver Ploceus xanthops
189 White-faced Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna viduata
190 Red-necked Falcon Falco chicquera
191 Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea
192 Little Swift Apus affinis
193 Northern Fiscal Lanius humeralis
194 Rufous Chatterer Argya rubiginosa
195 Marico Sunbird Cinnyris mariquensis
196 Heuglin's Masked-Weaver Ploceus heuglini
197 Black Bishop Euplectes gierowii
198 Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild
199 Swamp Nightjar Caprimulgus natalensis
200 Grayish Eagle-Owl Bubo cinerascens
201 White- rumped Swift Apus caffer
202 Common Quail Coturnix coturnix
203 Small Buttonquail Turnix sylvaticus
204 Lappet-faced Vulture Torgos tracheliotos
205 Yellow-billed Oxpecker Buphagus africanus
206 Mourning Collared-Dove Streptopelia decipiens
207 African Hawk-Eagle Aquila spilogaster
208 Red-headed Quelea Quelea erythrops
209 Red-billed Quelea Quelea quelea
210 Banded Martin Neophedina cincta
211 Rufous-chested Swallow Cecropis semirufa
212 Zebra Waxbill Amandava subflava
213 Red-winged Pytilia Pytilia phoenicoptera
214 Meyer's Parrot Poicephalus meyeri
215 Lesser Striped Swallow Cecropis abyssinica
216 Bat Hawk Macheiramphus alcinus
217 Copper Sunbird Cinnyris cupreus
218 Plain-backed Pipit Anthus leucophrys
219 Knob-billed Duck Sarkidiornis melanotos
220 African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus
221 African Crake Crecopsis egregia
222 Secretarybird Sagittarius serpentarius
223 European Honey-buzzard Pernis apivorus
224 Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus chrysoconus
225 Yellow-crowned Canary Serinus flavivertex
226 Gray-headed Kingfisher Halcyon leucocephala
227 Black-throated Barbet Tricholaema melanocephala
228 Greater Honeyguide Indicator indicator
229 Yellow-breasted Apalis Apalis flavida
230 Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird Anthreptes orientalis
231 Speckle-fronted Weaver Sporopipes frontalis
232 Mouse-colored Penduline -Tit Anthoscopus musculus
233 Standard-winged Nightjar Caprimulgus longipennis
234 Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus
235 Abyssinian Ground-Hornbill Bucorvus abyssinicus
236 Eastern Olivaceous Warbler Iduna pallida
237 Bank Swallow Riparia riparia
238 Harlequin Quail Coturnix delegorguei
239 White-bellied Bustard Eupodotis senegalensis
240 Abdim's Stork Ciconia abdimii
241 Pallid Harrier Circus macrourus
242 Montagu's Harrier Circus pygargus
243 Brown-backed Woodpecker Dendropicos obsoletus
244 African Black-headed Oriole Oriolus larvatus
245 Brown Babbler Turdoides plebejus
246 Gray Apalis Apalis cinerea
247 Rock Pigeon Columba livia
248 African Cuckoo Cuculus gularis
249 Black-headed Lapwing Vanellus tectus
250 African Darter Anhinga rufa
251 Pink-backed Pelican Pelecanus rufescens
252 Lizard Buzzard Kaupifalco monogrammicus
253 African Goshawk Aerospiza tachiro
254 Woodland Kingfisher Halcyon senegalensis
255 European Roller Coracias garrulus
256 Cardinal Woodpecker Dendropicos fuscescens
257 Woodchat Shrike Lanius senator
258 Red-faced Crombec Sylvietta whytii
259 Splendid Starling Lamprotornis splendidus
260 African Gray Flycatcher Bradornis microrhynchus
261 Northern Yellow White-eye Zosterops senegalensis
262 Purple-banded Sunbird Cinnyris bifasciatus
263 Wing-snapping Cisticola Cisticola ayresii
264 Whistling Cisticola Cisticola lateralis
265 House Sparrow Passer domesticus
266 Afep Pigeon Columba unicincta
267 Dusky Turtle-Dove Streptopelia lugens
268 Common Swift Apus apus
269 Gray Heron Ardea cinerea
270 Lesser Spotted Eagle Clanga pomarina
271 Booted Eagle Hieraaetus pennatus
272 Mountain Buzzard Buteo oreophilus
273 Black Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus aterrimus
274 Eastern Yellow-billed Hornbill Tockus flavirostris
275 Sooty Falcon Falco concolor
276 Olive-green Camaroptera Camaroptera chloronota
277 Carruthers's Cisticola Cisticola carruthersi
278 Gray- rumped Swallow Pseudhirundo griseopyga
279 Plain Martin Riparia paludicola
280 Purple Starling Lamprotornis purpureus
281 Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala
282 African Firefinch Lagonosticta rubricata
283 Black-throated Apalis Apalis jacksoni
284 Black Sawwing Psalidoprocne pristoptera
285 African Pied Wagtail Motacilla aguimp
286 Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio
287 African Yellow-Warbler Iduna natalensis
288 Coqui Francolin Campocolinus coqui
289 Denham's Bustard Neotis denhami
290 Martial Eagle Polemaetus bellicosus
291 Jackson's Hornbill Tockus jacksoni
292 Eurasian Kestrel Falco tinnunculus
293 Red-tailed Shrike Lanius phoenicuroides
294 Red-throated Crag-Martin Ptyonoprogne rufigula
295 Wire-tailed Swallow Hirundo smithii
296 Alpine Swift Tachymarptis melba
297 African Swift Apus barbatus
298 Ethiopian Swallow Hirundo aethiopica
299 Horus Swift Apus horus
300 Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
301 Crested Francolin Ortygornis sephaena
302 White-chinned Prinia Schistolais leucopogon
303 Levaillant's Cuckoo Clamator levaillantii
304 Black- rumped Buttonquail Turnix nanus
305 Pied Wheatear Oenanthe pleschanka
306 Gray Crowned-Crane Balearica regulorum
307 African Sacred Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus
308 Yellow-billed Egret Ardea brachyrhyncha
309 Stout Cisticola Cisticola robustus
310 Fan-tailed Widowbird Euplectes axillaris
311 Red-faced Cisticola Cisticola erythrops
312 Black-crowned Waxbill Estrilda nonnula
313 Black-headed Weaver Ploceus melanocephalus
314 Crimson- rumped Waxbill Estrilda rhodopyga
315 Brimstone Canary Crithagra sulphurata
316 Black-headed Gonolek Laniarius erythrogaster
317 Grosbeak Weaver Amblyospiza albifrons
318 Slender-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus clarus
319 African Marsh Harrier Circus ranivorus
320 Broad-billed Roller Eurystomus glaucurus
321 Northern Black-Flycatcher Melaenornis edolioides
322 Familiar Chat Oenanthe familiaris
323 Nyanza Swift Apus niansae
324 White-throated Bee-eater Merops albicollis
325 White-headed Sawwing Psalidoprocne albiceps
326 Little Bittern Botaurus minutus
327 Pygmy Batis Batis perkeo
328 Slate-colored Boubou Laniarius funebris
329 Black-cheeked Waxbill Brunhilda charmosyna
330 Compact Weaver Pachyphantes superciliosus
331 Village Indigobird Vidua chalybeata
332 White-bellied Canary Crithagra dorsostriata
333 Parasitic Weaver Anomalospiza imberbis
334 African Thrush Turdus pelios
335 Spotted Eagle-Owl Bubo africanus
336 Verreaux's Eagle-Owl Ketupa lactea
337 Green-winged Pytilia Pytilia melba
338 African Green-Pigeon Treron calvus
339 Four-banded Sandgrouse Pterocles quadricinctus
340 Sulphur-breasted Bushshrike Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus
341 Green-backed Eremomela Eremomela canescens
342 Upcher's Warbler Hippolais languida
343 Garden Warbler Sylvia borin
344 Verreaux's Eagle Aquila verreauxii
345 Bronze-tailed Starling Lamprotornis chalcurus
346 Ashy Flycatcher Fraseria caerulescens
347 Mocking Cliff-Chat Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris
348 Hartlaub's Bustard Lissotis hartlaubii
349 Cut-throat Amadina fasciata
350 Western Cattle-Egret Ardea ibis
351 Amethyst Sunbird Chalcomitra amethystina
352 Blue-spotted Wood-Dove Turtur afer
353 White-browed Scrub-Robin Cercotrichas leucophrys
354 Spotted Morning-Thrush Cichladusa guttata
355 Egyptian Goose Alopochen aegyptiaca
356 Senegal Coucal Centropus senegalensis
357 Black Cuckooshrike Campephaga flava
358 Lesser Kestrel Falco naumanni
359 Bearded Woodpecker Chloropicus namaquus
360 Red-fronted Barbet Tricholaema diademata
361 Singing Cisticola Cisticola cantans
362 Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus
363 Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
364 White Stork Ciconia ciconia
365 Lesser Honeyguide Indicator minor
366 African Golden Oriole Oriolus auratus
367 Brown-throated Wattle-eye Platysteira cyanea
368 Gray-headed Batis Batis orientalis
369 Common Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus
370 Gray Tit-Flycatcher Fraseria plumbea
371 Black-and-white Mannikin Spermestes bicolor
372 Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus
373 Double-toothed Barbet Pogonornis bidentatus
374 African Hobby Falco cuvierii
375 Piapiac Ptilostomus afer
376 African Dusky Flycatcher Muscicapa adusta
377 Green-headed Sunbird Cyanomitra verticalis
378 Northern Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris reichenowi
379 Red-chested Sunbird Cinnyris erythrocercus
380 Golden-backed Weaver Ploceus jacksoni
381 African Fish-Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer
382 Spectacled Weaver Ploceus ocularis
383 Scaly Spurfowl Pternistis squamatus
384 White-throated Greenbul Phyllastrephus albigularis
385 Tree Pipit Anthus trivialis
386 African Pygmy-Goose Nettapus auritus
387 Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
388 Striated Heron Butorides striata
389 Purple Heron Ardea purpurea
390 Pygmy Sunbird Hedydipna platura
391 Tacazze Sunbird Nectarinia tacazze
392 Northern Brown-throated Weaver Ploceus castanops
393 Reed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus
394 Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
395 African Openbill Anastomus lamelligerus

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