Birding Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Looking for Birding Bwindi Impenetrable National Park? Yes, Bwindi is referred to as a birder’s haven. Its home to over 348 bird species of birds. There are about 25 restricted species locked to this area. 23 of these 25 are Albertine rift endemics four of which are globally threatened. These are: African Green Broadbill, Grauer’s Rush Warbler, Chapin’s Flycatcher and Shelley’s Crimson-wing.
Birding in Bwindi impenetrable forest national park can be done in the following sectors; Buhoma region, Ruhija region, Nkuringo and Rushaga regions.
This park is also home to about 220 butterfly species, 8 of these are endemic to the Albertine rift. Some of these include: the Cream- banded swallowtail (, Graphium gudenusi, Charaxes fournierae and the giant swallowtail. Like we said earlier, the park is divided into four sectors: Nkuringo, Buhoma, Rushaga and Ruhija. You will need about 3 to 6 days to fully bird this national park. The park is also home to the endangered Mountain Gorillas that can be tracked here. Here are some of the birds to expect in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park:
Palm nut vulture
Brown snake eagle
African goshawk
Lizzard buzzard
Shikra
Little sparrow hawk
Bat hawk
African cuckoo hawk
African harrier Hawk
European honey buzzard
Augur buzzard
African Hawk eagle
Ayres Hawk eagle
Cassins hawk eagle
Long crested eagle
African crowned eagle
African Hobby
Eurasin Hobby
Peregrine falcon
Helmeted guinea fowl
Crested guinea fowl
Scaly francolin
Handsome frtancolin
White spotted flufftail
Red chested flufftail
Buff spotted flufftail
Black crake
Red knobbed coot
African Jacana
Grey crowned crane
Common sand piper
African green pigeon
Olive pigeon
Speckled pigeon
AFep pigeon
Blue spotted wood dove
Tambourine dove
Red eyed dove
Dusky Turtle dove
African grey parrot
Red headed Love bird
Great blue turaco
Rosss turaco
Black billed turaco
Levailants cuckoo
African cuckoo black cuckoo
Common cuckoo
Barred long tailed cuckoo
Olive long tailed cuckoo
Dusky long Tailed cuckoo
Red chested cuckoo
Diederik cuckoo
Klasss cuckoo
African emerald cuckoo
Yellow bill
White browed coucal
Blue headed coucal
African wood owl
Spotted eagle owl
Red chested owlet
African white tailed night jar
Rwenzori night jar
Black swift
Eurasian swift
Alpine swift
Mottled swift
Horus swift
White rumped swift
African palm swift
Scarce swift
Speckled mouse bird
Narina Tragon
Bar tailed Tragon
Giant king fisher
Shining blue king fisher
Malachite king fisher
African pygmy king fisher
Cinnamon chested bee eater
White throated bee eater
Black bee eater
Blue throated roller
Common scimitar bill
White headed wood hoope
Little grebe
Pink backed pelican
Black crowned night heron
Black headed heron
Cattle egret
Purple heron
Hammer kop
Abdims stork
Woolly necked stork
Marabou stork
Sacred ibis
Hadada Ibis
Hottentot Teal
Northern pin tail
African black duck
Southern Pochard
Black Kite
African fish eagle
Crowned horn bill
Black and white casqued hornbill
White thighed hornbill
Speckled tinker bird
Yellow rumped tinker bird
Grey throated barbet
Spot flanked barbet
Yellow spotted barbet
Hairly breasted barbet
White headed barbet
Greater honey guide
Scaly throated honey guide
Thick billed honey guide
Wilcocks honey guide
Least honey guide
Dwarf honey guide
Lesser honey guide
Cassin’s honey guide
Red throated Wryneck
Fine banded wood pecker
Buff spotted wood pecker
Brown eared wood pecker
Olive wood pecker
Elliot’s wood pecker
Yellow crested wood pecker
African green broad bill
Western Nector
Little greenbul
Mountain green bul
Yellow Whiskered greenbul
Shelley’s greenbul
Yellow shreaked greenbul
Cameroon sombre green bul
Toro olive greenbul
Ansorges greenbul
Red tailed greenbul
Red tailed bristlebill
Honey guide greenbul
Equatorial akalat
Forest robin
Fire crested Alethe
Red throated alethe
Brown chested alethe
White browedrobin chat
Cape robin chat
Whitebellied robin chat
Archers Robin chat
Red capped robin chat
Grey winged robin chat
Olive thrush
African thrush
Oberlaenders ground thrush
Kivu ground thrush
Rufous fly catcher thrush
White tailed anti thrush
Common stone chat
Mountain yellow warbler
Great swamp warbler
Sedge warbler
White winged warbler
Cinnamon bracken warbler
Little rush warbler
Grauers Rush warbler
Icterine warbler
Garden warbler Black cap
Wood warbler
Wood warbler
Green hylia
Short tailed warbler
Red faced woodland warbler
White browed warbler
Green crombec
Yellow footed fly catcher
Chapin’s flycatcher
Sooty flycatcher
Chin spot batis
African pitta
Green sunbird
Grey headed sunbird
Copper sunbird
Olive sunbird
Crimson Rumped Waxbill
Fan Tailed Waxbill
Black Crowned Waxbill
Black Headed Waxbill
Zebra Waxbill
Bronze Sunbird
Black and white Manikin
Magpie Manikin
Pin Tailed Whydah
Village Indigo bird
Yellow Fronted Canary
Thick Billed Seed eater
African Citril
Black Throated Seed eater
Papyrus Canary
Streaky Seed eater
Oriole Finch
African Golden Breasted bunting.
Green breasted pitta
Grassland pipit
Rock Martin
Common house martin
Red rumped swallow
Mosque swallow
Lesser striped swallow
Angola swallow
Barn swallow
Black sawing
White headed sawing
African pied wagtail
Cape wagtail
Mountain wagtail
Grey wagtail
Yellow throated wagtail
Plain backed pipit
Black cuckoo shrike
Red shouldered cuckoo shrike
Grey cuckoo shrike
Rwenzori Batis
African shrike fly catcher
Black and white shrike fly catcher
Brown throated wattle eye
African paradise flycatcher
Chestnut wattle eye
White tailed crested fly catcher
Dusky crested flycatcher
African blue flycatcher
White tailed blue flycatcher
African hill babbler
Brown Illadopsis
Scaly breasted illadopsis
Grey chested illadopsis
Mountain illadopsis
Arrow marked babbler
Black lored babbler
Dusky Tit
White winged Tit
Stripe breasted Tit
Tit Hylia
Yellow white eye
Purple breasted sunbird
Green headed sunbird
Bronze sunbird
Blue throated brown sunbird
Blue headed sunbird
Malachite sunbird
Green throated sunbird
Black faced Rufous warbler
Grauers warbler
Winding Cisticola
Carruthers Cisticola
Red faced Cisticola
Singing cisticola
Siffling Cisticola
Tawny flanked prinia
Banded prinia
Grey capped warbler
White chinned prinia
Olive green camaroptera
Grey backed camaroptera
Grey apalis
Black throated apalis
Buff throated apalis
Chestnut tghroated apalis
Collared Apalis
Little green sunbird
Red chested sun bird
Collared sunbird
Varrable sunbird
Common Fiscal
Mackinnon’s fiscal
Ludhers bush shrike
Tropical Boubou
Mountain Black boubou
Sooty Boubou
Pink footed Puff back
Marrsh Tchagra
Lagdens bush shrike
Many colloured bush shrike
Dohytes bush shrike
Bocages bush shrike
Velvet mantled drongo
Pied Crow
White napped Raven
Montane Oriole
Yellow billed woodpecker
Narrow tailed staring
Stuhlmanns starling
Wallers starling
Slender billed starling
Chestnut winged starling
Great blue eared starling
Splended starling
Purple headed starling
Violet Backed startling
Grey headed sparrow
Black headed weaver
Spectacled weaver
Black necked weaver
Baglafetcht waver
Grosbeak weaver
Yellow backed weaver
Slender billed weaver
Compact weaver
Holubs golden weaver
Strange weaver
Brown capped weaver
Black billed weaver
Red headed malimbe
Fan tailed widowbird
Black bishop
Yellow Bishop
Grey headed Negro finch
White breasted Negro finch
Wood houses anti pecker
White collared Olive back
Dusky Twin spot
Green backed twin spot
Abyssinian Crimson wing
Red faced Crimson wing
Dusky Crimson wing
Shelley’s Crimson wing
Red headed Bluebill
African Fire finch
Red billed fire finch
Common Waxbil
Yellow Bellied Waxbill
Mountain Masked apalis
Yellow eyed black fly catcher
Northern black flycatcher
White eyed Slaty flycatcher
Semi collared flycatcher
African grey flycatcher
Spotted Flycatcher
Ashy flycatcher
Pale Flycatcher
Swamp flycatcher
Grey throated tit fly catcher
African dusky flycatcher
Dusky blue flycatcher
Cassin’s grey flycatcher
Rwenzori double collared sun bird
Tiny sunbird
Northern double collared sun bird
Regal sun bird
Besides Birding, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park features other exciting activities such as nature walks, Batwa trails and the magical mountain gorilla trekking experiences.
