Kyambura Gorge is a unique scenery with a sunken underground rainforest surrounded by cascading cliffs and arid savannah. It is the only place you will find chimps in Queen Elizabeth National Park, and one of the few sites in Uganda where you can track and interact with them.
For birders, Kyambura is a paradise with some unique bird species.
Here are some of the birds in Kyambura
- Congo Pied Hornbill Lophoceros fasciatus
- Joyful Greenbul Chlorocichla laetissima
- Uganda Woodland-Warbler Phylloscopus budongoensis
- Capped Wheatear Oenanthe pileata
- Scaly-throated Honeyguide Indicator variegatus
- Black-capped Apalis Apalis nigriceps
- Gray Parrot Psittacus erithacus
- Black Cuckooshrike Campephaga flava
- White-tailed Blue Flycatcher Elminia albicauda
- Western Violet-backed Sunbird Anthreptes longuemarei
List of Birds in Kyambura Gorge
- Rameron Pigeon Columba arquatrix
- Red-chested Cuckoo Cuculus solitarius
- Crowned Hornbill Lophoceros alboterminatus
- African Pygmy Kingfisher Ispidina picta
- Black-headed Gonolek Laniarius erythrogaster
- Green Crombec Sylvietta virens
- Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura
- Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
- Yellow Bishop Euplectes capensis
- Red-collared Widowbird Euplectes ardens
- Yellow-fronted Canary Crithagra mozambica
- Crested Francolin Ortygornis sephaena
- Red-necked Spurfowl Pternistis afer
- Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
- Ring-necked Dove Streptopelia capicola
- Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis
- Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove Turtur chalcospilos
- African Green-Pigeon Treron calvus
- Black-billed Turaco Tauraco schuettii
- Dideric Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius
- White Stork Ciconia ciconia
- Hadada Ibis Bostrychia hagedash
- African Marsh Harrier Circus ranivorus
- Speckled Mousebird Colius striatus
- Congo Pied Hornbill Lophoceros fasciatus
- European Bee-eater Merops apiaster
- Shining-blue Kingfisher Alcedo quadribrachys
- Giant Kingfisher Megaceryle maxima
- Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet Trachylaemus purpuratus
- Yellow-spotted Barbet Buccanodon duchaillui
- Double-toothed Barbet Pogonornis bidentatus
- Least Honeyguide Indicator exilis
- Speckle-breasted Woodpecker Dendropicos poecilolaemus
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Western Black-headed Oriole Oriolus brachyrynchus
- Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher Bias musicus
- Northern Puffback Dryoscopus gambensis
- African Paradise-Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis
- Red-capped Lark Calandrella cinerea
- White-chinned Prinia Schistolais leucopogon
- Olive-green Camaroptera Camaroptera chloronota
- Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava
- Gray-capped Warbler Eminia lepida
- Trilling Cisticola Cisticola woosnami
- Winding Cisticola Cisticola marginatus
- Black Sawwing Psalidoprocne pristoptera
- Rufous-chested Swallow Cecropis semirufa
- Joyful Greenbul Chlorocichla laetissima
- Little Greenbul Eurillas virens
- Uganda Woodland-Warbler Phylloscopus budongoensis
- Blue-throated Brown Sunbird Cyanomitra cyanolaema
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird Chalcomitra senegalensis
- Bronze Sunbird Nectarinia kilimensis
- Holub’s Golden-Weaver Ploceus xanthops
- Vieillot’s Black Weaver Ploceus nigerrimus
- Black Bishop Euplectes gierowii
- Black-and-white Mannikin Spermestes bicolor
- Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild
- Yellow-throated Longclaw Macronyx croceus
- Black-bellied Bustard Lissotis melanogaster
- Long-crested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis
- White-tailed Lark Mirafra albicauda
- African Stonechat Saxicola torquatus
- Sooty Chat Myrmecocichla nigra
- Capped Wheatear Oenanthe pileata
- Marico Sunbird Cinnyris mariquensis
- Vitelline Masked-Weaver Ploceus vitellinus
- Tambourine Dove Turtur tympanistria
- Klaas’s Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas
- Lappet-faced Vulture Torgos tracheliotos
- White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus
- African Fish-Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer
- Black Bee-eater Merops gularis
- Woodland Kingfisher Halcyon senegalensis
- Lesser Honeyguide Indicator minor
- Scaly-throated Honeyguide Indicator variegatus
- Golden-crowned Woodpecker Chloropicus xantholophus
- Sulphur-breasted Bushshrike Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus
- White-browed Robin-Chat Cossypha heuglini
- Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura
- Northern Gray-headed Sparrow Passer griseus
- Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris
- Ross’s Turaco Tauraco rossae
- Hamerkop Scopus umbretta
- Eurasian Kestrel Falco tinnunculus
- Tropical Boubou Laniarius major
- Northern Fiscal Lanius humeralis
- Gray Tit-Flycatcher Fraseria plumbea
- Collared Sunbird Hedydipna collaris
- Variable Sunbird Cinnyris venustus
- Black-headed Weaver Ploceus melanocephalus
- Western Citril Crithagra frontalis
- African Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia microscelis
- Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
- African Sacred Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus
- Western Cattle-Egret Ardea ibis
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Egyptian Goose Alopochen aegyptiaca
- Spur-winged Lapwing Vanellus spinosus
- Senegal Lapwing Vanellus lugubris
- Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides
- Palm-nut Vulture Gypohierax angolensis
- Bateleur Terathopius ecaudatus
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Violet-backed Starling Cinnyricinclus leucogaster
- Rüppell’s Starling Lamprotornis purpuroptera
- Cassin’s Flycatcher Muscicapa cassini
- Red-chested Sunbird Cinnyris erythrocercus
- Baglafecht Weaver Ploceus baglafecht
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- Red-billed Quelea Quelea quelea
- Bronze Mannikin Spermestes cucullata
- Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill Bycanistes subcylindricus
- Little Bee-eater Merops pusillus
- Gray Parrot Psittacus erithacus
- African Dusky Flycatcher Muscicapa adusta
- Black-necked Weaver Ploceus nigricollis
- Grosbeak Weaver Amblyospiza albifrons
- Blue-spotted Wood-Dove Turtur afer
- Great Blue Turaco Corythaeola cristata
- Common Buzzard Buteo buteo
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Black-chested Snake-Eagle Circaetus pectoralis
- Flappet Lark Amirafra rufocinnamomea
- Common Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus
- Western Crested Guineafowl Guttera verreauxi
- Stout Cisticola Cisticola robustus
- Compact Weaver Pachyphantes superciliosus
- Crimson-rumped Waxbill Estrilda rhodopyga
- Olive Bee-eater Merops superciliosus
- Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus
- Red-headed Lovebird Agapornis pullarius
- White-headed Sawwing Psalidoprocne albiceps
- Gray Greenbul Eurillas gracilis
- Splendid Starling Lamprotornis splendidus
- African Thrush Turdus pelios
- Gray-backed Fiscal Lanius excubitoroides
- Greater Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chalybaeus
- Ashy Flycatcher Fraseria caerulescens
- Green-throated Sunbird Chalcomitra rubescens
- Scaly Spurfowl Pternistis squamatus
- Gray-headed Kingfisher Halcyon leucocephala
- Blue-breasted Kingfisher Halcyon malimbica
- Angola Swallow Hirundo angolensis
- Arrow-marked Babbler Turdoides jardineii
- Swamp Flycatcher Muscicapa aquatica
- Eastern Plantain-eater Crinifer zonurus
- White-headed Vulture Trigonoceps occipitalis
- White-headed Barbet Lybius leucocephalus
- Brown-throated Wattle-eyePlatysteira cyanea
- Western Nicator Nicator chloris
- Red-faced Cisticola Cisticola erythrops
- Green White-eye Zosterops stuhlmanni
- White-browed Coucal Centropus superciliosus
- Little Swift Apus affinis
- Reed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus
- Pink-backed Pelican Pelecanus rufescens
- Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
- Western Banded Snake-Eagle Circaetus cinerascens
- Gabar Goshawk Micronisus gabar
- Blue-naped Mousebird Urocolius macrourus
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Merops persicus
- Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis
- Pied Crow Corvus albus
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
- Spectacled Weaver Ploceus ocularis
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Western Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus
- White-throated Bee-eater Merops albicollis
- Striped Kingfisher Halcyon chelicuti
- African Gray Woodpecker Dendropicos goertae
- Gray Kestrel Falco ardosiaceus
- Banded Martin Neophedina cincta
- Lesser Striped Swallow Cecropis abyssinica
- Western Black-headed Batis Batis erlangeri
- Marsh Tchagra Bocagia minuta
- Yellow-bellied Hyliota Hyliota flavigaster
- African Blue Flycatcher Elminia longicauda
- Olive-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris chloropygius
- African Crake Crecopsis egregia
- Gray Crowned-Crane Balearica regulorum
- Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis
- White-browed Scrub-Robin Cercotrichas leucophrys
- Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala
- White-rumped Swift Apus caffer
- Green Woodhoopoe Phoeniculus purpureus
- Brown-crowned Tchagra Tchagra australis
- Village Indigobird Vidua chalybeata
- Golden-breasted Bunting Emberiza flaviventris
- Chestnut Wattle-eye Dyaphorophyia castanea
- Black Coucal Centropus grillii
- Nubian Woodpecker Campethera nubica
- Black Cuckooshrike Campephaga flava
- African Penduline-Tit Anthoscopus caroli
- Moustached Grass-Warbler Melocichla mentalis
- Croaking Cisticola Cisticola natalensis
- Siffling Cisticola Cisticola brachypterus
- Wing-snapping Cisticola Cisticola ayresii
- Fan-tailed Grassbird Catriscus brevirostris
- Mosque Swallow Cecropis senegalensis
- Copper Sunbird Cinnyris cupreus
- African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus
- White-tailed Blue Flycatcher Elminia albicauda
- Gray-chinned Sunbird Anthreptes tephrolaemus
- Northern Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris reichenowi
- African Firefinch Lagonosticta rubricata
- Black Crake Zapornia flavirostra
- Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala
- Lizard Buzzard Kaupifalco monogrammicus
- Little Weaver Ploceus luteolus
- White-thighed Hornbill Bycanistes albotibialis
- Yellow-mantled Widowbird Euplectes macroura
- African Pied Wagtail Motacilla aguimp
- Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea
- African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus
- Familiar Chat Oenanthe familiaris
- Western Violet-backed Sunbird Anthreptes longuemarei
- Yellow-mantled Weaver Ploceus tricolor
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- White-spotted Flufftail Sarothrura pulchra
- Olive Sunbird Cyanomitra olivacea
- Mottled Spinetail Telacanthura ussheri
- Little Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza minulla
- Pale-throated Greenbul Atimastillas flavigula
- Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat Cossypha niveicapilla
- Red-headed Bluebill Spermophaga ruficapilla
- African Openbill Anastomus lamelligerus
- Gray Heron Ardea cinerea
- Black-capped Apalis Apalis nigriceps
- Red-throated Crag-Martin Ptyonoprogne rufigula
- Gray-headed Nigrita Nigrita canicapillus
- Papyrus Canary Crithagra koliensis
- Rüppell’s Griffon Gyps rueppelli
- Spot-flanked Barbet Tricholaema lacrymosa
- Mourning Collared-Dove Streptopelia decipiens
- Alpine Swift Tachymarptis melba
- Marabou Stork Leptoptilos crumenifer
- African Gray Hornbill Lophoceros nasutus
- Whinchat Saxicola rubetra
- Western Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava
- Cinnamon-breasted Bunting Emberiza tahapisi
- Common Swift Apus apus
- Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus chrysoconus
- Cardinal Woodpecker Dendropicos fuscescens
- Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio
- African Yellow-Warbler Iduna natalensis
- Bank Swallow Riparia riparia
- Yellow-billed Oxpecker Buphagus africanus
- Tawny Eagle Aquila rapax
- Blue-breasted Bee-eater Merops variegatus
- Papyrus Gonolek Laniarius mufumbiri
- Slender-billed Weaver Ploceus pelzelni
- Lesser Masked-Weaver Ploceus intermedius
- Little Bittern Botaurus minutus
- Zebra Waxbill Amandava subflava
- Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus
- Shikra Tachyspiza badia
- Pallid Harrier Circus macrourus
- Augur Buzzard Buteo augur
- Black-lored Babbler Turdoides sharpei
- Pennant-winged Nightjar Caprimulgus vexillarius
- Crowned Lapwing Vanellus coronatus
- Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis
- Wattled Starling Creatophora cinerea
- Water Thick-knee Burhinus vermiculatus