147
Bird Species
Western Uganda
Region
Afro-montane & alpine
Habitat
Bird Species Checklist (147 species)
| # | Common Name | Scientific Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater | Merops oreobates |
| 2 | African Black-headed Oriole | Oriolus larvatus |
| 3 | Black Sawwing | Psalidoprocne pristoptera |
| 4 | Common Bulbul | Pycnonotus barbatus |
| 5 | Green White-eye | Zosterops stuhlmanni |
| 6 | African Dusky Flycatcher | Muscicapa adusta |
| 7 | Little Green Sunbird | Anthreptes seimundi |
| 8 | Collared Sunbird | Hedydipna collaris |
| 9 | Olive-bellied Sunbird | Cinnyris chloropygius |
| 10 | Red-chested Sunbird | Cinnyris erythrocercus |
| 11 | Superb Sunbird | Cinnyris superbus |
| 12 | Bronze Mannikin | Spermestes cucullata |
| 13 | African Pied Wagtail | Motacilla aguimp |
| 14 | Black-faced Rufous-Warbler | Bathmocercus rufus |
| 15 | Little Greenbul | Eurillas virens |
| 16 | Variable Sunbird | Cinnyris venustus |
| 17 | African Pitta | Pitta angolensis |
| 18 | Bronze Sunbird | Nectarinia kilimensis |
| 19 | Rwenzori Turaco | Gallirex johnstoni |
| 20 | Black-billed Turaco | Tauraco schuettii |
| 21 | Rwenzori Batis | Batis diops |
| 22 | Brown-crowned Tchagra | Tchagra australis |
| 23 | Lowland Sooty Boubou | Laniarius leucorhynchus |
| 24 | Rwenzori Apalis | Oreolais ruwenzorii |
| 25 | Gray-capped Warbler | Eminia lepida |
| 26 | Red-throated Crag-Martin | Ptyonoprogne rufigula |
| 27 | Angola Swallow | Hirundo angolensis |
| 28 | Kikuyu Mountain Greenbul | Arizelocichla kikuyuensis |
| 29 | Red-faced Woodland-Warbler | Phylloscopus laetus |
| 30 | African Thrush | Turdus pelios |
| 31 | White-starred Robin | Pogonocichla stellata |
| 32 | Blue-headed Sunbird | Cyanomitra alinae |
| 33 | Regal Sunbird | Cinnyris regius |
| 34 | Western Citril | Crithagra frontalis |
| 35 | Red-chested Cuckoo | Cuculus solitarius |
| 36 | White- rumped Swift | Apus caffer |
| 37 | Mountain Buzzard | Buteo oreophilus |
| 38 | Crowned Hornbill | Lophoceros alboterminatus |
| 39 | Yellow- rumped Tinkerbird | Pogoniulus bilineatus |
| 40 | African Paradise-Flycatcher | Terpsiphone viridis |
| 41 | Mackinnon's Shrike | Lanius mackinnoni |
| 42 | Northern Fiscal | Lanius humeralis |
| 43 | White-tailed Crested Flycatcher | Elminia albonotata |
| 44 | Black-faced Apalis | Apalis personata |
| 45 | White-browed Robin-Chat | Cossypha heuglini |
| 46 | Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat | Cossypha niveicapilla |
| 47 | Northern Double-collared Sunbird | Cinnyris reichenowi |
| 48 | Pin-tailed Whydah | Vidua macroura |
| 49 | Red-eyed Dove | Streptopelia semitorquata |
| 50 | Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo | Cercococcyx montanus |
| 51 | Cardinal Woodpecker | Dendropicos fuscescens |
| 52 | African Yellow-Warbler | Iduna natalensis |
| 53 | Evergreen-forest Warbler | Bradypterus lopezi |
| 54 | Red-throated Alethe | Chamaetylas poliophrys |
| 55 | Purple-breasted Sunbird | Nectarinia purpureiventris |
| 56 | Yellow-fronted Canary | Crithagra mozambica |
| 57 | Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet | Trachylaemus purpuratus |
| 58 | Gray Cuckooshrike | Ceblepyris caesius |
| 59 | African Blue Flycatcher | Elminia longicauda |
| 60 | Green-backed Camaroptera | Camaroptera brachyura |
| 61 | Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica |
| 62 | Slender-billed Starling | Onychognathus tenuirostris |
| 63 | Stuhlmann's Starling | Poeoptera stuhlmanni |
| 64 | Abyssinian Thrush | Turdus abyssinicus |
| 65 | Strange Weaver | Ploceus alienus |
| 66 | Dusky Crimsonwing | Cryptospiza jacksoni |
| 67 | Sharpe's Starling | Pholia sharpii |
| 68 | Common Sandpiper | Actitis hypoleucos |
| 69 | Olive Woodpecker | Dendropicos griseocephalus |
| 70 | African Crested Flycatcher | Trochocercus cyanomelas |
| 71 | Gray Apalis | Apalis cinerea |
| 72 | Mountain Yellow-Warbler | Iduna similis |
| 73 | White-browed Crombec | Sylvietta leucophrys |
| 74 | Mountain Illadopsis | Illadopsis pyrrhoptera |
| 75 | Cape Wagtail | Motacilla capensis |
| 76 | Black-headed Heron | Ardea melanocephala |
| 77 | Chestnut Wattle-eye | Dyaphorophyia castanea |
| 78 | Black-crowned Tchagra | Tchagra senegalus |
| 79 | Pied Crow | Corvus albus |
| 80 | White-necked Raven | Corvus albicollis |
| 81 | Olive Sunbird | Cyanomitra olivacea |
| 82 | Yellow-bellied Waxbill | Coccopygia quartinia |
| 83 | Northern Gray-headed Sparrow | Passer griseus |
| 84 | Black Kite | Milvus migrans |
| 85 | Speckled Mousebird | Colius striatus |
| 86 | Gray-headed Kingfisher | Halcyon leucocephala |
| 87 | Mosque Swallow | Cecropis senegalensis |
| 88 | African Black Duck | Anas sparsa |
| 89 | Green-headed Sunbird | Cyanomitra verticalis |
| 90 | Copper Sunbird | Cinnyris cupreus |
| 91 | Crowned Eagle | Stephanoaetus coronatus |
| 92 | Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill | Bycanistes subcylindricus |
| 93 | Stripe-breasted Tit | Melaniparus fasciiventer |
| 94 | Chestnut-throated Apalis | Apalis porphyrolaema |
| 95 | Yellow-whiskered Greenbul | Eurillas latirostris |
| 96 | Rwenzori Hill Babbler | Sylvia atriceps |
| 97 | Stuhlmann's Sunbird | Cinnyris stuhlmanni |
| 98 | Thick-billed Seedeater | Crithagra burtoni |
| 99 | Scarce Swift | Schoutedenapus myoptilus |
| 100 | Chinspot Batis | Batis molitor |
| 101 | Yellow Longbill | Macrosphenus flavicans |
| 102 | Red-faced Crimsonwing | Cryptospiza reichenovii |
| 103 | Rameron Pigeon | Columba arquatrix |
| 104 | European Bee-eater | Merops apiaster |
| 105 | Albertine Boubou | Laniarius holomelas |
| 106 | Cinnamon Bracken-Warbler | Bradypterus cinnamomeus |
| 107 | Archer's Robin-Chat | Dessonornis archeri |
| 108 | Streaky Seedeater | Crithagra striolata |
| 109 | Blue-spotted Wood-Dove | Turtur afer |
| 110 | Levaillant's Cuckoo | Clamator levaillantii |
| 111 | Black-winged Kite | Elanus caeruleus |
| 112 | African Marsh Harrier | Circus ranivorus |
| 113 | Dwarf Honeyguide | Indicator pumilio |
| 114 | Eurasian Kestrel | Falco tinnunculus |
| 115 | Brown-throated Wattle-eye | Platysteira cyanea |
| 116 | Lühder's Bushshrike | Laniarius luehderi |
| 117 | Gray-backed Fiscal | Lanius excubitoroides |
| 118 | White-chinned Prinia | Schistolais leucopogon |
| 119 | Black-and-white Mannikin | Spermestes bicolor |
| 120 | Black-crowned Waxbill | Estrilda nonnula |
| 121 | Blue-headed Crested Flycatcher | Trochocercus nitens |
| 122 | Banded Prinia | Prinia bairdii |
| 123 | Toro Olive- Greenbul | Phyllastrephus hypochloris |
| 124 | Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird | Pogoniulus chrysoconus |
| 125 | Tropical Boubou | Laniarius major |
| 126 | White-winged Black-Tit | Melaniparus leucomelas |
| 127 | Trilling Cisticola | Cisticola woosnami |
| 128 | White-eyed Slaty -Flycatcher | Melaenornis fischeri |
| 129 | Rock Pigeon | Columba livia |
| 130 | Laughing Dove | Spilopelia senegalensis |
| 131 | Blue-headed Coucal | Centropus monachus |
| 132 | Marabou Stork | Leptoptilos crumenifer |
| 133 | African Sacred Ibis | Threskiornis aethiopicus |
| 134 | Palm-nut Vulture | Gypohierax angolensis |
| 135 | Woodland Kingfisher | Halcyon senegalensis |
| 136 | Western Tinkerbird | Pogoniulus coryphaea |
| 137 | Chubb's Cisticola | Cisticola chubbi |
| 138 | Slender-billed Greenbul | Stelgidillas gracilirostris |
| 139 | Yellow-streaked Greenbul | Phyllastrephus flavostriatus |
| 140 | Chestnut-winged Starling | Onychognathus fulgidus |
| 141 | Northern Black-Flycatcher | Melaenornis edolioides |
| 142 | Gray-chested Babbler | Kakamega poliothorax |
| 143 | Mountain Wagtail | Motacilla clara |
| 144 | Cassin's Hawk-Eagle | Aquila africana |
| 145 | Glossy Ibis | Plegadis falcinellus |
| 146 | Hadada Ibis | Bostrychia hagedash |
| 147 | Malachite Sunbird | Nectarinia famosa |
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