Bird Checklist In Kibale National Park

Bird Checklist In Kibale National Park : As a heart that is filled with great love for exploration one can certainly not skip to have the best adventures in the pearl of Africa and this is one of the mast fascinating safari activities that each and every one would sure carry out.

Kibale national park is one of the most visited national parks in Uganda filled with thousands of marvels to sight and experience hence some of these are the thrilling birds that are all over the national park.

With Achieve global safaris one has the chance to experience and explore the beauty that is hidden in the national park with a great birding safari experience and that is why Achieve global safaris brings to you some of the famous checklist of birds in the national park.

Kibale National Park is made up of excellent safari features with over 339 species of birds that have been recorded, also the park is home to some of the most sought – after species such as the Green – breasted Pitta and Chubb’s Cisticola among others.

Found in western Uganda about 326 kilometers (5-6 hours’ drive) from Kampala city and about 26 kilometers south-east of Fort Portal – the most developed town in the region kibale is a wonder land for all bird lovers in the world.

With achieve global safaris get to experience the best checklist of some of the bird that you are yet to experience as you safari kibale national park.

Below is the list of birds in Kibale National Park.

ANSERIFORMES: Anatidae

White-faced Whistling-Duck

Fulvous Whistling-Duck

Knob-billed Duck

Egyptian Goose

Spur-winged Goose

African Pygmy-Goose

African Black Duck

Yellow-billed Duck

GALLIFORMES: Numididae

Helmeted Guineafowl

Western Crested Guineafowl

GALLIFORMES: Odontophoridae

Nahan’s Partridge

GALLIFORMES: Phasianidae

Crested Francolin

Ring-necked Francolin

Scaly Spurfowl

Heuglin’s Spurfowl

Red-necked Spurfowl

PHOENICOPTERIFORMES: Phoenicopteridae

Greater Flamingo

PODICIPEDIFORMES: Podicipedidae

Little Grebe

Great Crested Grebe

COLUMBIFORMES: Columbidae

Speckled Pigeon

Afep Pigeon

Rameron Pigeon

Bronze-naped Pigeon

White-naped Pigeon

Lemon Dove

Mourning Collared-Dove

Red-eyed Dove

Ring-necked Dove

Vinaceous Dove

Laughing Dove

Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove

Black-billed Wood-Dove

Blue-spotted Wood-Dove

Tambourine Dove

Bruce’s Green-Pigeon

African Green-Pigeon

OTIDIFORMES: Otididae

Black-bellied Bustard

MUSOPHAGIFORMES: Musophagidae

Great Blue Turaco

Black-billed Turaco

White-crested Turaco

Ross’s Turaco

Bare-faced Go-away-bird

Eastern Plantain-eater

CUCULIFORMES: Cuculidae

Senegal Coucal

Blue-headed Coucal

White-browed Coucal

Black Coucal

Blue Malkoha

Great Spotted Cuckoo

Levaillant’s Cuckoo

Pied Cuckoo

Dideric Cuckoo

Klaas’s Cuckoo

African Emerald Cuckoo

Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo

Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo

Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo

Black Cuckoo

Red-chested Cuckoo

African Cuckoo

CAPRIMULGIFORMES: Caprimulgidae

Pennant-winged Nightjar

Nubian Nightjar

Fiery-necked Nightjar

Swamp Nightjar

Plain Nightjar

Square-tailed Nightjar

Bird Checklist In Kibale National Park
Square-tailed Nightjar

CAPRIMULGIFORMES: Apodidae

Mottled Spinetail

Sabine’s Spinetail

Cassin’s Spinetail

Scarce Swift

Alpine Swift

Mottled Swift

Common Swift

African Swift

Little Swift

Horus Swift

White-rumped Swift

African Palm Swift

GRUIFORMES: Sarothruridae

White-spotted Flufftail

GRUIFORMES: Rallidae

African Rail

African Crake

Eurasian Moorhen

Red-knobbed Coot

Black Crake

GRUIFORMES: Heliornithidae

African Finfoot

GRUIFORMES: Gruidae

Gray Crowned-Crane

CHARADRIIFORMES: Burhinidae

Water Thick-knee

CHARADRIIFORMES: Recurvirostridae

Black-winged Stilt

CHARADRIIFORMES: Charadriidae

Long-toed Lapwing

Spur-winged Lapwing

Senegal Lapwing

Crowned Lapwing

Wattled Lapwing

Brown-chested Lapwing

Kittlitz’s Plover

Little Ringed Plover

CHARADRIIFORMES: Jacanidae

African Jacana

CHARADRIIFORMES: Scolopacidae

Ruff

Little Stint

Common Sandpiper

Common Greenshank

Wood Sandpiper

CHARADRIIFORMES: Glareolidae

Collared Pratincole

CHARADRIIFORMES: Laridae

Gray-hooded Gull

Black-headed Gull

Gull-billed Tern

Whiskered Tern

African Skimmer

CICONIIFORMES: Ciconiidae

African Openbill

Abdim’s Stork

African Woolly-necked Stork

Saddle-billed Stork

Marabou Stork

Yellow-billed Stork

SULIFORMES: Anhingidae

African Darter

SULIFORMES: Phalacrocoracidae

Long-tailed Cormorant

Great Cormorant

PELECANIFORMES: Pelecanidae

Great White Pelican

Pink-backed Pelican

PELECANIFORMES: Scopidae

Hamerkop

PELECANIFORMES: Ardeidae

Little Bittern

Dwarf Bittern

Gray Heron

Black-headed Heron

Goliath Heron

Purple Heron

Great Egret

Intermediate Egret

Little Egret

Black Heron

Cattle Egret

Squacco Heron

Rufous-bellied Heron

Striated Heron

Black-crowned Night-Heron

White-backed Night-Heron

PELECANIFORMES: Threskiornithidae

African Sacred Ibis

Hadada Ibis

African Spoonbill

ACCIPITRIFORMES: Accipitridae

Black-winged Kite

African Harrier-Hawk

Palm-nut Vulture

European Honey-buzzard

African Cuckoo-Hawk

White-headed Vulture

Hooded Vulture

White-backed Vulture

Rüppell’s Griffon

Bateleur

Black-chested Snake-Eagle

Brown Snake-Eagle

Banded Snake-Eagle

Bat Hawk

Crowned Eagle

Martial Eagle

Long-crested Eagle

Wahlberg’s Eagle

Booted Eagle

Ayres’s Hawk-Eagle

Tawny Eagle

Cassin’s Hawk-Eagle

African Hawk-Eagle

Lizard Buzzard

Dark Chanting-Goshawk

Gabar Goshawk

Grasshopper Buzzard

Eurasian Marsh-Harrier

African Marsh-Harrier

Montagu’s Harrier

African Goshawk

Shikra

Little Sparrowhawk

Rufous-breasted Sparrowhawk

Black Goshawk

Black Kite

African Fish-Eagle

Common Buzzard

Mountain Buzzard

Augur Buzzard

STRIGIFORMES: Tytonidae

Barn Owl

STRIGIFORMES: Strigidae

African Scops-Owl

Southern White-faced Owl

Spotted Eagle-Owl

Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl

Pearl-spotted Owlet

Red-chested Owlet

African Wood-Owl

COLIIFORMES: Coliidae

Speckled Mousebird

Blue-naped Mousebird

TROGONIFORMES: Trogonidae

Narina Trogon

Bar-tailed Trogon

BUCEROTIFORMES: Upupidae

Eurasian Hoopoe

BUCEROTIFORMES: Phoeniculidae

Green Woodhoopoe

White-headed Woodhoopoe

Forest Scimitarbill

Common Scimitarbill

BUCEROTIFORMES: Bucorvidae

Abyssinian Ground-Hornbill

BUCEROTIFORMES: Bucerotidae

Red-billed Dwarf Hornbill

Crowned Hornbill

African Pied Hornbill

African Gray Hornbill

White-crested Hornbill

Black Dwarf Hornbill

Black-casqued Hornbill

Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill

White-thighed Hornbill

Piping Hornbill

CORACIIFORMES: Alcedinidae

Shining-blue Kingfisher

Malachite Kingfisher

White-bellied Kingfisher

African Pygmy Kingfisher

African Dwarf Kingfisher

Chocolate-backed Kingfisher

Gray-headed Kingfisher

Woodland Kingfisher

Blue-breasted Kingfisher

Striped Kingfisher

Giant Kingfisher

Pied Kingfisher

CORACIIFORMES: Meropidae

Black Bee-eater

Red-throated Bee-eater

Little Bee-eater

Blue-breasted Bee-eater

Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater

Swallow-tailed Bee-eater

White-throated Bee-eater

Blue-cheeked Bee-eater

Madagascar Bee-eater

European Bee-eater

CORACIIFORMES: Coraciidae

European Roller

Lilac-breasted Roller

Broad-billed Roller

Blue-throated Roller

PICIFORMES: Lybiidae

Yellow-billed Barbet

Gray-throated Barbet

Speckled Tinkerbird

Red-rumped Tinkerbird

Yellow-throated Tinkerbird

Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird

Red-fronted Tinkerbird

Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird

Yellow-spotted Barbet

Hairy-breasted Barbet

Red-fronted Barbet

Spot-flanked Barbet

White-headed Barbet

Red-faced Barbet

Black-billed Barbet

Double-toothed Barbet

PICIFORMES: Indicatoridae

Cassin’s Honeyguide

Wahlberg’s Honeyguide

Zenker’s Honeyguide

Dwarf Honeyguide

Willcocks’s Honeyguide

Least Honeyguide

Lesser Honeyguide

Scaly-throated Honeyguide

Greater Honeyguide

PICIFORMES: Picidae

Rufous-necked Wryneck

Elliot’s Woodpecker

Speckle-breasted Woodpecker

Cardinal Woodpecker

Bearded Woodpecker

Golden-crowned Woodpecker

Brown-backed Woodpecker

African Gray Woodpecker

Olive Woodpecker

Brown-eared Woodpecker

Buff-spotted Woodpecker

Tullberg’s Woodpecker

Nubian Woodpecker

Golden-tailed Woodpecker

FALCONIFORMES: Falconidae

Eurasian Kestrel

Gray Kestrel

Eurasian Hobby

African Hobby

Lanner Falcon

Peregrine Falcon

PSITTACIFORMES: Psittaculidae

Red-headed Lovebird

PSITTACIFORMES: Psittacidae

Gray Parrot

Brown-necked Parrot

Meyer’s Parrot

PASSERIFORMES: Calyptomenidae

African Broadbill

PASSERIFORMES: Pittidae

African Pitta

Green-breasted Pitta

PASSERIFORMES: Campephagidae

Gray Cuckooshrike

Black Cuckooshrike

Petit’s Cuckooshrike

Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike

Purple-throated Cuckooshrike

PASSERIFORMES: Oriolidae

African Golden Oriole

Western Black-headed Oriole

African Black-headed Oriole

Black-tailed Oriole

Black-winged Oriole

PASSERIFORMES: Platysteiridae

Brown-throated Wattle-eye

Black-throated Wattle-eye

Chestnut Wattle-eye

Jameson’s Wattle-eye

Chinspot Batis

Western Black-headed Batis

Ituri Batis

PASSERIFORMES: Vangidae

African Shrike-flycatcher

Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher

PASSERIFORMES: Malaconotidae

Northern Puffback

Pink-footed Puffback

Marsh Tchagra

Black-crowned Tchagra

Brown-crowned Tchagra

Lühder’s Bushshrike

Tropical Boubou

Black-headed Gonolek

Papyrus Gonolek

Slate-colored Boubou

Gray-green Bushshrike

Sulphur-breasted Bushshrike

Many-colored Bushshrike

Doherty’s Bushshrike

PASSERIFORMES: Dicruridae

Fork-tailed Drongo

Velvet-mantled Drongo

PASSERIFORMES: Monarchidae

Blue-headed Crested-Flycatcher

African Crested-Flycatcher

Black-headed Paradise-Flycatcher

African Paradise-Flycatcher

PASSERIFORMES: Laniidae

Red-backed Shrike

Isabelline Shrike

Lesser Gray Shrike

Gray-backed Fiscal

Mackinnon’s Shrike

Northern Fiscal

Woodchat Shrike

White-rumped Shrike

PASSERIFORMES: Corvidae

Piapiac

Pied Crow

White-necked Raven

PASSERIFORMES: Hyliotidae

Yellow-bellied Hyliota

PASSERIFORMES: Stenostiridae

African Blue Flycatcher

White-tailed Blue Flycatcher

Dusky Crested-Flycatcher

White-tailed Crested-Flycatcher

PASSERIFORMES: Paridae

White-winged Black-Tit

Dusky Tit

PASSERIFORMES: Remizidae

African Penduline-Tit

PASSERIFORMES: Alaudidae

Rufous-naped Lark

Flappet Lark

White-tailed Lark

Red-capped Lark

PASSERIFORMES: Nicatoridae

Western Nicator

Yellow-throated Nicator

PASSERIFORMES: Macrosphenidae

Green Crombec

Lemon-bellied Crombec

White-browed Crombec

Northern Crombec

Red-faced Crombec

Moustached Grass-Warbler

Yellow Longbill

Gray Longbill

Green Hylia

Tit-hylia

PASSERIFORMES: Cisticolidae

Yellow-vented Eremomela

Green-backed Eremomela

Rufous-crowned Eremomela

Red-winged Gray Warbler

White-chinned Prinia

Green-backed Camaroptera

Yellow-browed Camaroptera

Olive-green Camaroptera

Buff-bellied Warbler

Black-capped Apalis

Black-throated Apalis

Masked Apalis

Black-faced Apalis

Yellow-breasted Apalis

Buff-throated Apalis

Chestnut-throated Apalis

Gray Apalis

Tawny-flanked Prinia

Banded Prinia

Black-faced Rufous-Warbler

Gray-capped Warbler

Red-faced Cisticola

Singing Cisticola

Whistling Cisticola

Trilling Cisticola

Chubb’s Cisticola

Rattling Cisticola

Winding Cisticola

Carruthers’s Cisticola

Croaking Cisticola

Siffling Cisticola

Zitting Cisticola

Wing-snapping Cisticola

PASSERIFORMES: Acrocephalidae

African Yellow-Warbler

Sedge Warbler

Common Reed Warbler

Lesser Swamp Warbler

Greater Swamp Warbler

PASSERIFORMES: Locustellidae

Fan-tailed Grassbird

White-winged Swamp Warbler

Highland Rush Warbler

PASSERIFORMES: Hirundinidae

Plain Martin

Bank Swallow

Banded Martin

Rock Martin

Barn Swallow

Angola Swallow

Wire-tailed Swallow

Red-rumped Swallow

Lesser Striped Swallow

Rufous-chested Swallow

Mosque Swallow

Common House-Martin

White-headed Sawwing

Black Sawwing

Gray-rumped Swallow

PASSERIFORMES: Pycnonotidae

Slender-billed Greenbul

Red-tailed Bristlebill

Lesser Bristlebill

Shelley’s Greenbul

Eastern Mountain Greenbul

Joyful Greenbul

Honeyguide Greenbul

Yellow-throated Greenbul

Spotted Greenbul

Swamp Greenbul

Red-tailed Greenbul

Gray Greenbul

Ansorge’s Greenbul

Plain Greenbul

Yellow-whiskered Greenbul

Little Greenbul

Leaf-love

Toro Olive-Greenbul

Cabanis’s Greenbul

Icterine Greenbul

Xavier’s Greenbul

White-throated Greenbul

Yellow-streaked Greenbul

Common Bulbul

PASSERIFORMES: Phylloscopidae

Wood Warbler

Willow Warbler

Red-faced Woodland-Warbler

Uganda Woodland-Warbler

PASSERIFORMES: Sylviidae

Garden Warbler

PASSERIFORMES: Zosteropidae

Green White-eye

Northern Yellow White-eye

PASSERIFORMES: Pellorneidae

Brown Illadopsis

Pale-breasted Illadopsis

Scaly-breasted Illadopsis

Puvel’s Illadopsis

PASSERIFORMES: Leiothrichidae

Brown Babbler

Arrow-marked Babbler

Black-lored Babbler

PASSERIFORMES: Buphagidae

Yellow-billed Oxpecker

Bird Checklist In Kibale National Park: PASSERIFORMES: Sturnidae

Wattled Starling

Violet-backed Starling

Slender-billed Starling

Chestnut-winged Starling

Waller’s Starling

Sharpe’s Starling

Narrow-tailed Starling

Stuhlmann’s Starling

Purple-headed Starling

Rüppell’s Starling

Splendid Starling

Lesser Blue-eared Starling

Greater Blue-eared Starling

Purple Starling

Bronze-tailed Starling

PASSERIFORMES: Turdidae

Rufous Flycatcher-Thrush

Red-tailed Ant-Thrush

White-tailed Ant-Thrush

Black-eared Ground-Thrush

Abyssinian Ground-Thrush

Abyssinian Thrush

African Thrush

PASSERIFORMES: Muscicapidae

African Dusky Flycatcher

Spotted Flycatcher

Swamp Flycatcher

Cassin’s Flycatcher

Sooty Flycatcher

Dusky-blue Flycatcher

Pale Flycatcher

African Forest-Flycatcher

Gray-throated Tit-Flycatcher

Gray Tit-Flycatcher

Ashy Flycatcher

Silverbird

Yellow-eyed Black-Flycatcher

Northern Black-Flycatcher

White-eyed Slaty-Flycatcher

Fire-crested Alethe

Brown-backed Scrub-Robin

Red-backed Scrub-Robin

Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat

White-browed Robin-Chat

Red-capped Robin-Chat

Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat

Brown-chested Alethe

Gray-winged Robin-Chat

Equatorial Akalat

Semicollared Flycatcher

Whinchat

African Stonechat

Sooty Chat

PASSERIFORMES: Nectariniidae

Gray-headed Sunbird

Western Violet-backed Sunbird

Little Green Sunbird

Green Sunbird

Collared Sunbird

Green-headed Sunbird

Blue-throated Brown Sunbird

Blue-headed Sunbird

Olive Sunbird

Green-throated Sunbird

Scarlet-chested Sunbird

Purple-breasted Sunbird

Bronze Sunbird

Malachite Sunbird

Olive-bellied Sunbird

Tiny Sunbird

Northern Double-collared Sunbird

Regal Sunbird

Beautiful Sunbird

Mariqua Sunbird

Red-chested Sunbird

Purple-banded Sunbird

Orange-tufted Sunbird

Superb Sunbird

Variable Sunbird

Copper Sunbird

PASSERIFORMES: Ploceidae

White-browed Sparrow-Weaver

Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver

Red-bellied Malimbe

Crested Malimbe

Red-headed Malimbe

Red-headed Weaver

Baglafecht Weaver

Little Weaver

Slender-billed Weaver

Black-necked Weaver

Spectacled Weaver

Black-billed Weaver

Strange Weaver

Holub’s Golden-Weaver

Northern Brown-throated Weaver

Lesser Masked-Weaver

Vitelline Masked-Weaver

Vieillot’s Black Weaver

Village Weaver

Weyns’s Weaver

Black-headed Weaver

Golden-backed Weaver

Yellow-mantled Weaver

Maxwell’s Black Weaver

Forest Weaver

Brown-capped Weaver

Compact Weaver

Cardinal Quelea

Red-headed Quelea

Red-billed Quelea

Northern Red Bishop

Southern Red Bishop

Black-winged Bishop

Black Bishop

Yellow-crowned Bishop

Yellow Bishop

White-winged Widowbird

Yellow-mantled Widowbird

Red-collared Widowbird

Fan-tailed Widowbird

Marsh Widowbird

Grosbeak Weaver

Bird Checklist In Kibale National Park : PASSERIFORMES: Estrildidae

Bronze Mannikin

Magpie Mannikin

Black-and-white Mannikin

White-collared Oliveback

Yellow-bellied Waxbill

Green-backed Twinspot

Abyssinian Crimsonwing

Red-faced Crimsonwing

Jameson’s Antpecker

White-breasted Nigrita

Chestnut-breasted Nigrita

Gray-headed Nigrita

Pale-fronted Nigrita

Gray-headed Oliveback

Black-faced Waxbill

Black-crowned Waxbill

Kandt’s Waxbill

Orange-cheeked Waxbill

Fawn-breasted Waxbill

Common Waxbill

Crimson-rumped Waxbill

Quailfinch

Red-cheeked Cordonbleu

Red-headed Bluebill

Black-bellied Seedcracker

Green-winged Pytilia

Brown Twinspot

Red-billed Firefinch

African Firefinch

Black-bellied Firefinch

Bar-breasted Firefinch

PASSERIFORMES: Viduidae

Pin-tailed Whydah

Village Indigobird

PASSERIFORMES: Passeridae

House Sparrow

Northern Gray-headed Sparrow

PASSERIFORMES: Motacillidae

Cape Wagtail

Mountain Wagtail

Western Yellow Wagtail

African Pied Wagtail

Richard’s Pipit

African Pipit

Plain-backed Pipit

Tree Pipit

Yellow-throated Longclaw

PASSERIFORMES: Fringillidae

Oriole Finch

Yellow-fronted Canary

Western Citril

Papyrus Canary

Brimstone Canary

Streaky Seedeater

Thick-billed Seedeater

Yellow-crowned Canary

PASSERIFORMES: Emberizidae

Golden-breasted Bunting

Cinnamon-breasted Bunting