
Birds in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Birds in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Birds in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park: Although gorilla trekking is the most thrilling safari activity in Bwindi, which is inaccessible to most people, the park nevertheless offers a lot to its guests, including this birding safari.
More than 350 bird species have been identified in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, including 23 Albertine endemic species, woodland birds, and migratory birds.
Because of the variety of trees that serve as avian habitat, the national park, which is situated in southwest Uganda, just on the border of the Albertine Rift, is an excellent place for birdwatching excursions.
With the help of this article, visitors can learn more about some of the birds that can be found in the national park and increase their chances of seeing some of them while on a birding excursion there.

Birds in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
- Common Ostrich
- Somali Ostrich
- ANSERIFORMES: Anatidae
- White-faced Whistling-Duck
- Fulvous Whistling-Duck
- White-backed Duck
- Greater White-fronted Goose
- Blue-winged Goose
- Knob-billed Duck
- Hartlaub’s Duck
- Egyptian Goose
- Ruddy Shelduck
- South African Shelduck
- Common Shelduck
- Spur-winged Goose
- African Pygmy-Goose
- Garganey Spatula
- Blue-billed Teal
- Cape Shoveler
- Northern Shoveler
- Gadwall
- Eurasian Wigeon
- African Black Duck
- Yellow-billed Duck
- Mallard
- Cape Teal Anas capensis
- Red-billed Duck
- Northern Pintail
- Green-winged Teal
- Southern Pochard
- Common Pochard
- Ferruginous Duck
- Tufted Duck
- Maccoa Duck
- GALLIFORMES: Numididae
- Helmeted Guineafowl
- Vulturine Guineafowl
- Eastern Crested Guineafowl
- Western Crested Guineafowl
- Southern Crested Guineafowl
- GALLIFORMES: Odontophoridae
- Stone Partridge
- Nahan’s Partridge
- GALLIFORMES: Phasianidae
- Udzungwa Partridge
- Latham’s Francolin
- Crested Francolin
- Coqui Francolin
- White-throated Francolin
- Schlegel’s Francolin
- Ring-necked Francolin
- Red-winged Francolin
- Moorland Francolin
- Elgon Francolin
- Orange River Francolin
- Shelley’s Francolin
- Whyte’s Francolin
- Sand Partridge
- Blue Quail
- Common Quail
- Harlequin Quail
- Arabian Partridge
- Handsome Spurfowl
- Chestnut-naped Spurfowl
- Erckel’s Spurfowl
- Djibouti Spurfowl
- Jackson’s Spurfowl
- Red-billed Spurfowl
- Natal Spurfowl
- Hildebrandt’s Spurfowl
- Scaly Spurfowl
- Heuglin’s Spurfowl
- Clapperton’s Spurfowl
- Harwood’s Spurfowl
- Swainson’s Spurfowl
- Yellow-necked Spurfowl
- Gray-breasted Spurfowl
- Red-necked Spurfowl
- PHOENICOPTERIFORMES: Phoenicopteridae
- Greater Flamingo
- Lesser Flamingo
- PODICIPEDIFORMES: Podicipedidae
- Little Grebe
- Great Crested Grebe
- Eared Grebe
- COLUMBIFORMES: Columbidae
- Rock Pigeon
- Speckled Pigeon
- White-collared Pigeon
- Somali Pigeon
- Afep Pigeon
- Rameron Pigeon
- Delegorgue’s Pigeon
- Bronze-naped Pigeon
- White-naped Pigeon
- Lemon Dove
- European Turtle-Dove
- Dusky Turtle-Dove
- Eurasian Collared-Dove
- African Collared-Dove
- White-winged Collared-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
- Namaqua Dove
- Bruce’s Green-Pigeon
- Pemba Green-Pigeon
- African Green-Pigeon
- PASSERIFORMES: Sturnidae
- European Starling Sturnus vulgaris
- Wattled Starling
- Rosy Starling
- Common Myna
- Violet-backed Starling
- Slender-billed Starling
- Neumann’s Starling
- Red-winged Starling
- Chestnut-winged Starling
- Waller’s Starling
- Tristram’s Starling
- White-billed Starling
- Bristle-crowned Starling
- Somali Starling
- Babbling Starling
- White-collared Starling
- Magpie Starling
- Sharpe’s Starling
- Abbott’s Starling
- Narrow-tailed Starling
- Stuhlmann’s Starling
- Kenrick’s Starling
- Black-bellied Starling
- Purple-headed Starling
- Hildebrandt’s Starling
- Shelley’s Starling
- Burchell’s Starling
- Rüppell’s Starling
- Long-tailed Glossy Starling
- Meves’s Starling
- Ashy Starling
- Splendid Starling
- Golden-breasted Starling
- Superb Starling
- Chestnut-bellied Starling
- African Pied Starling
- White-crowned Starling
- Fischer’s Starling
- Lesser Blue-eared Starling
- Sharp-tailed Starling
- Greater Blue-eared Starling
- Purple Starling
- Cape Starling
- Bronze-tailed Starling
- PASSERIFORMES: Turdidae
- Rufous Flycatcher-Thrush
- Red-tailed Ant-Thrush
- White-tailed Ant-Thrush
- Spotted Ground-Thrush
- Black-eared Ground-Thrush
- Gray Ground-Thrush
- Oberländer’s Ground-Thrush
- Abyssinian Ground-Thrush
- Orange Ground-Thrush
- Ethiopian Thrush
- Groundscraper Thrush
- Song Thrush
- Abyssinian Thrush
- Taita Thrush
- Usambara Thrush
- Eurasian Blackbird
- Somali Thrush
- African Bare-eyed Thrush
- Kurrichane Thrush
- Olive Thrush
- African Thrush
- Ring Ouzel
- PASSERIFORMES: Muscicapidae
- African Dusky Flycatcher
- Yellow-footed Flycatcher
- Spotted Flycatcher
- Gambaga Flycatcher
- Swamp Flycatcher
- Cassin’s Flycatcher
- Böhm’s Flycatcher
- Sooty Flycatcher
- Dusky-blue Flycatcher
- Marico Flycatcher
- African Gray Flycatcher
- Pale Flycatcher
- African Forest-Flycatcher
- Gray-throated Tit-Flycatcher
- Gray Tit-Flycatcher
- Chapin’s Flycatcher
- Ashy Flycatcher
- Silverbird
- Fiscal Flycatcher
- Yellow-eyed Black-Flycatcher
- Northern Black-Flycatcher
- Southern Black-Flycatcher
- White-eyed Slaty-Flycatcher
- Abyssinian Slaty-Flycatcher
- White-tailed Alethe
- Fire-crested Alethe
- Forest Scrub-Robin
- Brown Scrub-Robin
- Bearded Scrub-Robin
- Miombo Scrub-Robin
- Black Scrub-Robin
- Rufous-tailed Scrub-Robin
- Kalahari Scrub-Robin
- Brown-backed Scrub-Robin
- Red-backed Scrub-Robin
- White-bellied Robin-Chat
- Archer’s Robin-Chat
- Olive-flanked Robin-Chat
- Cape Robin-Chat
- White-throated Robin-Chat
- Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat
- Rüppell’s Robin-Chat
- White-browed Robin-Chat
- Red-capped Robin-Chat
- Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat
- White-crowned Robin-Chat
- Collared Palm-Thrush
- Spotted Morning-Thrush
- White-starred Robin
- Swynnerton’s Robin
- Brown-chested Alethe
- Red-throated Alethe
- Cholo Alethe
- White-chested Alethe
- Yellow-breasted Forest Robin
- Gray-winged Robin-Chat
- Short-tailed Akalat
- Bocage’s Akalat
- Lowland Akalat
- Equatorial Akalat
- Sharpe’s Akalat
- East Coast Akalat
- Usambara Akalat
- Iringa Akalat
- Rubeho Akalat
- White-throated Robin
- Thrush Nightingale
- Common Nightingale
- Bluethroat
- Red-breasted Flycatcher
- Semicollared Flycatcher
- European Pied Flycatcher
- Collared Flycatcher
- Common Redstart
- White-winged Redstart
- Black Redstart
- Little Rock-Thrush
- Sentinel Rock-Thrush
- Rufous-tailed Rock-Thrush
- Blue Rock-Thrush
- Miombo Rock-Thrush
- Cape Rock-Thrush
- White-winged Cliff-Chat
- Whinchat Saxicola rubetra
- European Stonechat
- Siberian Stonechat
- African Stonechat
- Moorland Chat
- Mocking Cliff-Chat
- Sooty Chat
- Northern Anteater-Chat
- Southern Anteater-Chat
- Mountain Wheatear
- Rüppell’s Chat
- Arnot’s Chat
- Northern Wheatear
- Capped Wheatear
- Buff-breasted Wheatear
- Rusty-breasted Wheatear
- Isabelline Wheatear
- Heuglin’s Wheatear
- Hooded Wheatear
- Desert Wheatear
- Western Black-eared Wheatear
- Cyprus Wheatear
- Eastern Black-eared Wheatear
- Pied Wheatear
- White-fronted Black-Chat
- Somali Wheatear
- Blackstart
- Familiar Chat
- Sombre Rock Chat
- Brown-tailed Chat
- White-crowned Wheatear
- Abyssinian Wheatear
- Mourning Wheatear
- Kurdish Wheatear
- Persian Wheatear
- Boulder Chat
- PASSERIFORMES: Hypocoliidae
- Hypocolius
- PASSERIFORMES: Promeropidae
- Gurney’s Sugarbird
- PASSERIFORMES: Modulatricidae
- Spot-throat
- Dapple-throat
- Gray-chested Babbler
- PASSERIFORMES: Nectariniidae
- Fraser’s Sunbird
- Gray-headed Sunbird
- Plain-backed Sunbird
- Anchieta’s Sunbird
- Western Violet-backed Sunbird
- Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird
- Uluguru Violet-backed Sunbird
- Little Green Sunbird
- Green Sunbird
- Banded Sunbird
- Collared Sunbird
- Pygmy Sunbird
- Nile Valley Sunbird
- Amani Sunbird
- Reichenbach’s Sunbird
- Green-headed Sunbird
- Bannerman’s Sunbird
- Blue-throated Brown Sunbird
- Cameroon Sunbird
- Blue-headed Sunbird
- Olive Sunbird
- Mouse-colored Sunbird
- Green-throated Sunbird
- Amethyst Sunbird
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird
- Hunter’s Sunbird
- Purple-breasted Sunbird
- Tacazze Sunbird
- Bronze Sunbird
- Malachite Sunbird
- Red-tufted Sunbird
- Golden-winged Sunbird
- Olive-bellied Sunbird
- Tiny Sunbird
- Western Miombo Sunbird
- Eastern Miombo Sunbird
- Neergaard’s Sunbird
- Stuhlmann’s Sunbird
- Prigogine’s Sunbird
- Montane Double-collared Sunbird
- Northern Double-collared Sunbird
- Greater Double-collared Sunbird
- Regal Sunbird
- Rockefeller’s Sunbird mediocris
- Usambara Double-collared Sunbird
- Forest Double-collared Sunbird
- Moreau’s Sunbird
- Loveridge’s Sunbird
- Beautiful Sunbird
- Marico Sunbird
- Shelley’s Sunbird
- Red-chested Sunbird
- Black-bellied Sunbird
- Purple-banded Sunbird
- Tsavo Sunbird
- Violet-breasted Sunbird
- Pemba Sunbird
- Orange-tufted Sunbird
- Palestine Sunbird
- Shining Sunbird
- Splendid Sunbird
- Johanna’s Sunbird
- Superb Sunbird
- Rufous-winged Sunbird
- Oustalet’s Sunbird
- White-breasted Sunbird
- Variable Sunbird
- Bates’s Sunbird
- Copper Sunbird
- PASSERIFORMES: Ploceidae
- White-billed Buffalo-Weaver
- Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver
- White-headed Buffalo-Weaver
- Speckle-fronted Weaver
- Scaly Weaver
- White-browed Sparrow-Weaver
- Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver
- Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Weaver
- Donaldson Smith’s Sparrow-Weaver
- Rufous-tailed Weaver
- Gray-headed Social-Weaver
- Black-capped Social-Weaver
- Sociable Weaver
- Red-bellied Malimbe
- Blue-billed Malimbe
- Crested Malimbe
- Red-headed Malimbe
- Red-headed Weaver
- Red Weaver
- Bertram’s Weaver
- Baglafecht Weaver
- Little Weaver
- Slender-billed Weaver
- Black-necked Weaver
- Spectacled Weaver
- Black-billed Weaver
- Strange Weaver
- Bocage’s Weaver
- African Golden-Weaver
- Holub’s Golden-Weaver
- Orange Weaver
- Golden Palm Weaver
- Taveta Golden-Weaver
- Southern Brown-throated Weaver
- Northern Brown-throated Weaver
- Kilombero Weaver
- Ruvu Weaver
- Northern Masked-Weaver
- Lesser Masked-Weaver
- Southern Masked-Weaver
- Vitelline Masked-Weaver
- Tanganyika Masked-Weaver
- Katanga Masked-Weaver
- Heuglin’s Masked-Weaver
- Rüppell’s Weaver
- Speke’s Weaver
- Fox’s Weaver
- Vieillot’s Black Weaver
- Village Weaver
- Weyns’s Weaver
- Clarke’s Weaver
- Salvadori’s Weaver
- Black-headed Weaver
- Golden-backed Weaver
- Chestnut Weaver
- Cinnamon Weaver
- Golden-naped Weaver
- Yellow-mantled Weaver
- Maxwell’s Black Weaver
- Forest Weaver
- Brown-capped Weaver
- Olive-headed Weaver
- Usambara Weaver
- Bar-winged Weaver
- Compact Weaver
- Cardinal Quelea
- Red-headed Quelea
- Red-billed Quelea
- Northern Red Bishop
- Southern Red Bishop
- Zanzibar Red Bishop
- Black-winged Bishop
- Black Bishop
- Yellow-crowned Bishop
- Fire-fronted Bishop
- Yellow Bishop
- White-winged Widowbird
- Yellow-mantled Widowbird
- Red-cowled Widowbird
- Red-collared Widowbird
- Fan-tailed Widowbird
- Marsh Widowbird
- Buff-shouldered Widowbird
- Long-tailed Widowbird
- Jackson’s Widowbird
- Grosbeak Weaver
- PASSERIFORMES: Estrildidae
- Gray-headed Silverbill
- Bronze Mannikin
- Magpie Mannikin
- Black-and-white Mannikin
- African Silverbill
- Indian Silverbill
- Java Sparrow
- White-collared Oliveback
- Yellow-bellied Waxbill
- Swee Waxbill
- Green-backed Twinspot
- Shelley’s Crimsonwing
- Dusky Crimsonwing
- Abyssinian Crimsonwing
- Red-faced Crimsonwing
- Woodhouse’s Antpecker
- Jameson’s Antpecker
- White-breasted Nigrita
- Chestnut-breasted Nigrita
- Gray-headed Nigrita
- Pale-fronted Nigrita
- Black-faced Waxbill
- Black-cheeked Waxbill
- Black-tailed Waxbill
- Black-crowned Waxbill
- Black-headed Waxbill
- Kandt’s Waxbill
- Orange-cheeked Waxbill
- Fawn-breasted Waxbill
- Common Waxbill
- Black-rumped Waxbill
- Crimson-rumped Waxbill
- Quailfinch
- Locustfinch
- Cut-throat
- Red-headed Finch
- Zebra Waxbill
- Purple Grenadier
- Violet-eared Waxbill
- Southern Cordonbleu
- Red-cheeked Cordonbleu
- Blue-capped Cordonbleu
- Grant’s Bluebill
- Red-headed Bluebill
- Lesser Seedcracker
- Black-bellied Seedcracker
- Green-winged Pytilia
- Orange-winged Pytilia
- Red-winged Pytilia
- Red-billed Pytilia
- Dybowski’s Twinspot
- Dusky Twinspot
- Peters’s Twinspot
- Pink-throated Twinspot
- Brown Twinspot
- Red-billed Firefinch
- African Firefinch
- Jameson’s Firefinch
- Black-bellied Firefinch
- Bar-breasted Firefinch
- Brown Firefinch
- Black-faced Firefinch
- PASSERIFORMES: Viduidae
- Pin-tailed Whydah
- Sahel Paradise-Whydah
- Exclamatory Paradise-Whydah
- Broad-tailed Paradise-Whydah
- Eastern Paradise-Whydah
- Steel-blue Whydah
- Straw-tailed Whydah
- Shaft-tailed Whydah
- Village Indigobird
- Wilson’s Indigobird
- Quailfinch Indigobird
- Jambandu Indigobird
- Baka Indigobird
- Cameroon Indigobird
- Variable Indigobird
- Purple Indigobird
- Green Indigobird
- Parasitic Weaver
- PASSERIFORMES: Passeridae
- House Sparrow
- Spanish Sparrow
- Somali Sparrow
- Kenya Rufous Sparrow
- Shelley’s Rufous Sparrow
- Kordofan Rufous Sparrow
- Cape Sparrow
- Northern Gray-headed Sparrow
- Swainson’s Sparrow
- Parrot-billed Sparrow
- Swahili Sparrow
- Southern Gray-headed Sparrow
- Desert Sparrow Passer simplex
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow
- Sudan Golden Sparrow
- Arabian Golden Sparrow
- Chestnut Sparrow Passer
- Yellow-spotted Bush Sparrow
- Yellow-throated Bush Sparrow
- Sahel Bush Sparrow
- Pale Rockfinch
- White-winged Snowfinch
- PASSERIFORMES: Motacillidae
- Cape Wagtail
- Mountain Wagtail
- Gray Wagtail
- Western Yellow Wagtail
- Citrine Wagtail
- African Pied Wagtail
- White Wagtail
- African Pipit
- Mountain Pipit
- Woodland Pipit
- Long-billed Pipit
- Tawny Pipit
- Plain-backed Pipit
- Buffy Pipit
- Malindi Pipit
- Striped Pipit
- Tree Pipit Anthus
- Red-throated Pipit
- Short-tailed Pipit
- Bush Pipit
- Sokoke Pipit
- Golden Pipit
- Sharpe’s Longclaw
- Orange-throated Longclaw
- Yellow-throated Longclaw
- Fülleborn’s Longclaw
- Abyssinian Longclaw
- Pangani Longclaw
- Rosy-throated Longclaw
- Grimwood’s Longclaw
- PASSERIFORMES: Fringillidae
- Trumpeter Finch
- Somali Grosbeak
- Oriole Finch
- White-rumped Seedeater
- Yellow-fronted Canary
- African Citril
- Western Citril
- Southern Citril
- Black-faced Canary
- Papyrus Canary
- Black-throated Canary
- Reichenow’s Seedeater
- Yellow-rumped Serin
- Lemon-breasted Seedeater
- White-bellied Canary
- Yellow-throated Serin
- Salvadori’s Serin
- Northern Grosbeak-Canary
- Southern Grosbeak-Canary
- Brimstone Canary
- Yellow Canary
- White-throated Canary
- Streaky Seedeater
- Yellow-browed Seedeater
- Thick-billed Seedeater
- Tanzania Seedeater
- Black-eared Seedeater
- West African Seedeater
- Streaky-headed Seedeater
- Reichard’s Seedeater
- Brown-rumped Seedeater
- Ankober Serin
- Eurasian Linnet
- Warsangli Linnet
- Yellow-crowned Canary
- Ethiopian Siskin
- PASSERIFORMES:
- Brown-rumped Bunting
- Rock Bunting
- Cinereous Bunting
- Ortolan Bunting
- Cretzschmar’s Bunting
- Cabanis’s Bunting
- Golden-breasted Bunting
- Somali Bunting
- Cape Bunting
- Lark-like Bunting
- Cinnamon-breasted Bunting
- Gosling’s Bunting
- Striolated Bunting
- This concludes the birds in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.