Rwanda

SUB-REGION
East Africa

SIZE
26,338 km²

BIRDS AND BIRDING

SPECIES
Diversity
Afrotropical avifauna
Approximately 690 recorded species

Birds best found in Rwanda but occurring more widely (BT), including Albertine Rift endemics (ARE)
Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo
Albertine Owlet (ARE)
Neumann’s Warbler | Short-tailed Warbler (ARE)
Kungwe Apalis (ARE)
Red-collared Babbler | Red-collared Mountain Babbler (ARE)
Purple-breasted Sunbird (ARE)
Papyrus Canary

Proposed new species or splits not yet accepted by IOC, including ARE
Crawshay’s Francolin
Schuett’s Spurfowl
Cranch’s Spurfowl
Black-shouldered Nightjar
Rwenzori Nightjar (ARE B2)
Black-faced Go-away-bird
Eastern Black-billed Turaco | Green-rumped Turaco (B2)
White-breasted Cormorant
Red-chested Goshawk
African Hoopoe
Grey-headed Barbet
Northern Olive Woodpecker
Grey-headed Parrot
East African Pitta
Albertine Bushshrike (ARE B2)
Kakamega Greenbul
Dark-capped Bulbul
African Reed Warbler
Rufous-crowned Cisticola
Black-faced Prinia
“Albertine” Hyliota (would-be endemic)
Kivu Ground Thrush (ARE B2)
Ruaha Chat (BT)
Stuhlmann’s Weaver
Northern Red-headed Weaver
Black-fronted Red Bishop
Black-chinned Quailfinch
Jackson’s Pipit
Three-streaked Bunting

Other taxa of interest (see also under Birding Sites)
Grey Crowned Crane
Brown-chested Lapwing
Shoebill
Cassin’s Hawk-Eagle
Mountain Buzzard
Red-chested Owlet
White-headed Wood Hoopoe
Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater
Spot-flanked Barbet
Fine-banded Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Wattle-eye
Many-colored Bushshrike
Papyrus Gonolek
Black-headed Gonolek
Souza’s Shrike
Mountain Oriole | Black-tailed Oriole
White-necked Raven
White-tailed Blue Flycatcher
White-bellied Crested Flycatcher
Kikuyu Mountain Greenbul
White-browed Crombec
White-winged Swamp Warbler
Mountain Yellow Warbler
Highland Rush Warbler
Trilling Cisticola
Chubb’s Cisticola
Carruthers’s Cisticola
Long-tailed Cisticola | Tabora Cisticola
Chestnut-throated Apalis
Grey-capped Warbler
Green White-eye
Rwenzori Hill Babbler
Mountain Illadopsis
Black-lored Babbler | Sharpe’s Pied Babbler
Grey-chested Babbler | Grey-chested Kakamega
Slender-billed Starling
Stuhlmann’s Starling
Sharpe’s Starling
White-bellied Robin-Chat
Equatorial Akalat
Black-billed Weaver
Northern Brown-throated Weaver
White-collared Oliveback
Shelley’s Crimsonwing (ARE)
Kandt’s Waxbill

MAIN HABITATS
Montane forests, swamps, savanna

BIRD AREAS
Albertine Rift mountains Endemic Bird Area
Dry woodlands west of Lake Victoria Secondary Area
7 Important Bird Areas

BIRDING SITES
Kigali (Nyandungu Eco-Park, Nyarutarama Golf Course and Lake, Umusambi Village and Nyabarongo River) for Papyrus Gonolek, White-winged Swamp Warbler, [Papyrus Yellow Warbler,] Carruthers’s Cisticola, Arnot’s Chat (collaris), Northern Brown-throated Weaver, White-collared Oliveback, Western Citril and Papyrus Canary, Yellow-billed Duck, Bare-faced Go-away-bird (leopoldi), Ross’s Turaco, Blue-headed Coucal (fischeri), Buff-spotted Flufftail, Red-chested Flufftail, Red-knobbed Coot, Grey Crowned Crane, Long-toed Lapwing, Rufous-bellied Heron, Pink-backed Pelican, Ayres’s Hawk-Eagle, African Marsh Harrier, Augur Buzzard, Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater, Spot-flanked Barbet (radcliffei), Black-headed Gonolek, Mackinnon’s Shrike, Pale-throated Greenbul, White-headed Saw-wing, Angola Swallow, Greater Swamp Warbler (ansorgei), Highland Rush Warbler, Trilling Cisticola, Chubb’s Cisticola, Grey-capped Warbler, Green White-eye (stuhlmanni), Black-lored Babbler, Rüppell’s Starling, Brown-backed Scrub Robin, White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher (toruensis), Swamp Flycatcher, Bronze Sunbird, Red-chested Sunbird, Baglafecht Weaver (stuhlmanni), Slender-billed Weaver, Black-crowned Waxbill, Fawn-breasted Waxbill (roseicrissa), Cape Wagtail (wellsi), Thick-billed Seedeater (tanganjicae) and Streaky Seedeater (graueri), as well as more widespread or common birds such as White-faced Whistling Duck, Spur-winged Goose, Knob-billed Duck, Red-necked Spurfowl (cranchii), African Palm Swift, Little Swift, White-rumped Swift, White-browed Coucal, Diederik Cuckoo, Klaas’s Cuckoo, Red-chested Cuckoo, Speckled Pigeon, Red-eyed Dove, Laughing Dove, Blue-spotted Wood Dove, Tambourine Dove, Common Moorhen, Black Crake, Little Grebe, Three-banded Plover, African Wattled Lapwing, African Jacana, African Openbill, Marabou Stork, Yellow-billed Stork, Reed Cormorant, African Sacred Ibis, Hadada Ibis, African Spoonbill, Little Bittern, Black-crowned Night Heron, Little Egret, Little Heron, Squacco Heron, Great Egret, Yellow-billed Egret, Western Cattle Egret, Grey Heron, Purple Heron, Black-headed Heron, Hamerkop, Black-winged Kite, African Harrier-Hawk, Palm-nut Vulture, Hooded Vulture, Bat Hawk, Long-crested Eagle, Wahlberg’s Eagle, Tawny Eagle, Gabar Goshawk, Lizard Buzzard, African Goshawk, Little Sparrowhawk, Black Sparrowhawk, Yellow-billed Kite, African Fish Eagle, Southern White-faced Owl, Spotted Eagle-Owl, Speckled Mousebird, Woodland Kingfisher, African Pygmy Kingfisher, Malachite Kingfisher, Giant Kingfisher, Pied Kingfisher, Little Bee-eater, Double-toothed Barbet, Brown-backed Honeybird, Lesser Honeyguide, Scaly-throated Honeyguide, Cardinal Woodpecker, African Grey Woodpecker, Common Kestrel, African Hobby, Lanner Falcon, Peregrine Falcon, Chinspot Batis, Brown-throated Wattle-eye, Grey-headed Bushshrike, Brown-crowned Tchagra, Black-backed Puffback, Tropical Boubou, Black Cuckooshrike, African Golden Oriole, Fork-tailed Drongo, African Paradise Flycatcher, Grey-backed Fiscal, Northern Fiscal, Pied Crow, Common Bulbul, Red-throated Rock Martin, Wire-tailed Swallow, African Red-rumped Swallow, Lesser Striped Swallow, Lesser Swamp Warbler, Common Reed Warbler (cinnamomeus), African Yellow Warbler, Red-faced Cisticola, Singing Cisticola, Winding Cisticola, Tawny-flanked Prinia, Yellow-breasted Apalis, Grey-backed Camaroptera, Arrow-marked Babbler, Violet-backed Starling, African Thrush (centralis), White-browed Scrub Robin, Pale Flycatcher, Southern Black Flycatcher, African Dusky Flycatcher, White-browed Robin-Chat, African Stonechat, Familiar Chat, Collared Sunbird, Green-headed Sunbird, Scarlet-chested Sunbird, Olive-bellied Sunbird, Marico Sunbird, Variable Sunbird (falkensteini), Copper Sunbird, Northern Grey-headed Sparrow, Thick-billed Weaver, Spectacled Weaver, Black-necked Weaver, Holub’s Golden Weaver, Village Weaver, Vieillot’s Black Weaver, Black-headed Weaver, Red-headed Weaver (leuconotos), Red-billed Quelea, Southern Red Bishop (nigrifrons), Yellow Bishop, Fan-tailed Widowbird, Bronze Mannikin, Black-and-white Mannikin, Common Waxbill, Crimson-rumped Waxbill, Orange-breasted Waxbill, Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu, Green-winged Pytilia, Red-billed Firefinch, Village Indigobird, Pin-tailed Whydah, African Pied Wagtail, Yellow-throated Longclaw, African Pipit (lichenya), Black-throated Canary, Yellow-fronted Canary, Brimstone Canary and Golden-breasted Bunting
Nyungwe National Park (NP) for Albertine Owlet, Neumann’s Warbler, Kungwe Apalis, Red-collared Babbler, Albertine Hyliota (undescribed form) and Purple-breasted Sunbird, Handsome Spurfowl, Montane Nightjar (ruwenzorii), Rwenzori Turaco, Dwarf Honeyguide, Rwenzori Batis, Lagden’s Bushshrike (centralis), Albertine Sooty Boubou, Willard’s Sooty Boubou, Stripe-breasted Tit, Red-faced Woodland Warbler, Grauer’s Warbler, Grauer’s Swamp Warbler, Rwenzori Apalis, Mountain Masked Apalis, Abyssinian Ground Thrush (tanganjicae), Yellow-eyed Black Flycatcher, Red-throated Alethe, Archer’s Ground Robin, Blue-headed Sunbird (tanganjicae), Rwenzori Double-collared Sunbird (schubotzi), Regal Sunbird, Strange Weaver, Shelley’s Crimsonwing and Dusky Crimsonwing, as well as Scaly Spurfowl (schuetti), Scarce Swift, Great Blue Turaco, Black-billed Turaco (emini), Blue Malkoha, African Emerald Cuckoo, Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo, Black Cuckoo, [Afep Pigeon,] African Olive Pigeon, Lemon Dove, [White-spotted Flufftail, Striped Crake,] African Cuckoo-Hawk, Crowned Eagle, Cassin’s Hawk-Eagle, Mountain Buzzard, [African Grass Owl,] Red-chested Owlet, [Fraser’s Eagle-Owl,] African Wood Owl, Narina Trogon, Bar-tailed Trogon, [Forest Wood Hoopoe,] White-headed Wood Hoopoe (jacksoni), Crowned Hornbill, Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill (subquadratus), Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater, [Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet (elgonensis),] Grey-throated Barbet (cinereiceps), Western Tinkerbird (hildamariae), Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird (jacksoni), [Willcocks’s Honeyguide,] Least Honeyguide (pachyrhynchus), [Buff-spotted Woodpecker,] Fine-banded Woodpecker, Elliot’s Woodpecker, Olive Woodpecker (ruwenzori), [Grey Parrot,] African Broadbill (meinertzhageni), Yellow-bellied Wattle-eye (graueri), Many-colored Bushshrike (graueri), Doherty’s Bushshrike, Pink-footed Puffback (nandensis), Northern Puffback (malzacii), Lühder’s Bushshrike, Grey Cuckooshrike (purus), [Petit’s Cuckooshrike,] Mountain Oriole, Velvet-mantled Drongo, Blue-mantled Crested Flycatcher (vivax), Mackinnon’s Shrike, White-necked Raven, White-tailed Blue Flycatcher, White-bellied Crested Flycatcher (toroensis), [Dusky Crested Flycatcher,] Dusky Tit, Slender-billed Greenbul, Shelley’s Greenbul (kakamegae), Kikuyu Mountain Greenbul, Yellow-whiskered Greenbul, Plain Greenbul, Cabanis’s Greenbul (sucosus), Yellow-streaked Greenbul (olivaceogriseus), Black Saw-wing, Brown-throated Martin, White-browed Crombec (chloronota), Brown Woodland Warbler (wilhelmi), Mountain Yellow Warbler, Evergreen Forest Warbler (barakae), Cinnamon Bracken Warbler, Chubb’s Cisticola, Short-winged Cisticola (ankole), Banded Prinia (obscura), White-chinned Prinia (reichenowi), Black-throated Apalis, Chestnut-throated Apalis, Grey Apalis, Black-faced Rufous Warbler (vulpinus), Rwenzori Hill Babbler, Green White-eye, Mountain Illadopsis, Grey-chested Babbler, Slender-billed Starling, Waller’s Starling (elgonensis), Stuhlmann’s Starling, Sharpe’s Starling, White-tailed Ant Thrush (praepectoralis), African Thrush (graueri), Abyssinian Thrush (bambusicola), Ashy Flycatcher, White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher, White-starred Robin (ruwenzorii), [Yellow-breasted Forest Robin,] White-bellied Robin-Chat (rufescentior), Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat, Cape Robin-Chat (kivuensis), Equatorial Akalat, Miombo Rock Thrush, Blue-throated Brown Sunbird, Olive Sunbird (ragazzii), Northern Double-collared Sunbird (reichenowi), Black-billed Weaver (stephanophorus), Dark-backed Weaver (kigomaensis), Brown-capped Weaver, Yellow-bellied Waxbill (kilimensis), Abyssinian Crimsonwing (ruwenzori), Red-faced Crimsonwing (ocularis), White-breasted Nigrita, Grey-headed Nigrita (schistaceus), Kandt’s Waxbill, Red-headed Bluebill, Dusky Twinspot (graueri), Mountain Wagtail, Oriole Finch (prigoginei), Thick-billed Seedeater, Streaky Seedeater, Western Citril and Yellow-crowned Canary (sassii)
Akagera NP for Red-faced Barbet and Arnot’s Chat (collaris), Bare-faced Go-away-bird (leopoldi), Eastern Plantain-eater, Purple-crested Turaco, Ross’s Turaco, Grey Crowned Crane, Brown-chested Lapwing, Shoebill, Black-headed Gonolek, Souza’s Shrike (burigi), Trilling Cisticola, Long-tailed Cisticola, Grey-capped Warbler, Black-lored Babbler, Rüppell’s Starling, Swamp Flycatcher, Red-chested Sunbird and Slender-billed Weaver, waterbirds including Egyptian Goose, Red-billed Teal, African Finfoot, [Streaky-breasted Flufftail,] African Rail, African Crake, Water Thick-knee, Black-winged Stilt, Spur-winged Lapwing, Kittlitz’s Plover, Greater Painted-snipe, Collared Pratincole, [African Skimmer,] Abdim’s Stork, African Woolly-necked Stork, Saddle-billed Stork, African Darter, Great Cormorant (lucidus), Glossy Ibis, Dwarf Bittern, Black Heron, [White-backed Night Heron,] Malagasy Pond Heron, Rufous-bellied Heron, Goliath Heron and Great White Pelican, as well as Helmeted Guineafowl, Crested Francolin, Coqui Francolin, [Ring-necked Francolin,] Shelley’s Francolin, Harlequin Quail, Hildebrandt’s Spurfowl, Fiery-necked Nightjar (nigriscapularis), Swamp Nightjar, Freckled Nightjar, Square-tailed Nightjar, Pennant-winged Nightjar, [Denham’s Bustard,] Black-bellied Bustard, Black Coucal, Great Spotted Cuckoo, Levaillant’s Cuckoo, Jacobin Cuckoo, [Thick-billed Cuckoo,] African Cuckoo, Mourning Collared Dove, Ring-necked Dove, Emerald-spotted Wood Dove, Namaqua Dove, African Green Pigeon, Common Buttonquail, [Black-rumped Buttonquail,] Senegal Lapwing, Crowned Lapwing, [Forbes’s Plover, Caspian Plover,] Temminck’s Courser, Bronze-winged Courser, [Secretarybird,] Osprey, White-headed Vulture, Lappet-faced Vulture, White-backed Vulture, Rüppell’s Vulture, Bateleur, Western Banded Snake Eagle, [Beaudouin’s Snake Eagle,] Black-chested Snake Eagle, Brown Snake Eagle, African Hawk-Eagle, [Dark Chanting Goshawk,] Shikra, Pearl-spotted Owlet, [African Barred Owlet,] African Scops Owl, Marsh Owl, Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl, Blue-naped Mousebird (griseogularis), Common Hoopoe (africana), Green Wood Hoopoe, Common Scimitarbill, Crowned Hornbill, African Grey Hornbill, [Purple Roller,] Lilac-breasted Roller, Broad-billed Roller, Grey-headed Kingfisher, Striped Kingfisher, White-throated Bee-eater, Olive Bee-eater, Southern Carmine Bee-eater, Crested Barbet, Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird, White-headed Barbet, Black-collared Barbet, Greater Honeyguide, Bennett’s Woodpecker, Nubian Woodpecker, Golden-tailed Woodpecker, Little Spotted Woodpecker, Bearded Woodpecker, [Red-headed Lovebird,] Meyer’s Parrot, Grey Kestrel, Orange-breasted Bushshrike, Marsh Tchagra, Black-crowned Tchagra, Slate-coloured Boubou, Brubru, White-crested Helmetshrike, [White-breasted Cuckooshrike,] Black-headed Oriole, [Piapiac,] White-winged Black Tit, Grey Penduline Tit (roccatii), [Dusky Lark,] Flappet Lark, Rufous-naped Lark, Red-capped Lark, Grey-rumped Swallow, Banded Martin, Red-breasted Swallow (gordoni), Mosque Swallow, Moustached Grass Warbler, Red-faced Crombec (jacksoni), Fan-tailed Grassbird, [Rock-loving Cisticola (petrophilus),] Stout Cisticola (nuchalis), Croaking Cisticola, Zitting Cisticola, Wing-snapping Cisticola (entebbe), Buff-bellied Warbler, Miombo Wren-Warbler (undosus), Yellow-bellied Eremomela (griseoflava), Green-capped Eremomela (citriniceps), Yellow-bellied Hyliota, Wattled Starling, Greater Blue-eared Starling, Splendid Starling, Yellow-billed Oxpecker, Red-billed Oxpecker, Grey-winged Robin-Chat, Miombo Rock Thrush, [Mocking Cliff Chat,] Sooty Chat, [Capped Wheatear, Amethyst Sunbird,] Purple-banded Sunbird, Lesser Masked Weaver, Golden-backed Weaver, Compact Weaver, Cardinal Quelea, Red-headed Quelea, White-winged Widowbird, Green Twinspot, Black-faced Waxbill, Quailfinch (dorsostriata), Orange-winged Pytilia, [Long-tailed Paradise Whydah,] Broad-tailed Paradise Whydah, Cuckoo-finch, Long-billed Pipit (dewittei), Plain-backed Pipit, Striped Pipit, [Short-tailed Pipit (leggei),] Cinnamon-breasted Bunting and Cabanis’s Bunting (orientalis)
Volcanoes NP for Handsome Spurfowl, Montane Nightjar (ruwenzorii), Rwenzori Turaco, Rwenzori Batis, Lagden’s Bushshrike (centralis), Albertine Sooty Boubou, Willard’s Sooty Boubou, Stripe-breasted Tit, Red-faced Woodland Warbler, Rwenzori Apalis, Mountain Masked Apalis, Archer’s Ground Robin, Blue-headed Sunbird (alinae), Rwenzori Double-collared Sunbird (graueri), Regal Sunbird, Strange Weaver and Dusky Crimsonwing, as well as African Black Duck, Scarce Swift, Alpine Swift, Mottled Swift, African Black Swift, African Olive Pigeon, Dusky Turtle Dove, Crowned Eagle, Cassin’s Hawk-Eagle, Rufous-breasted Sparrowhawk, Augur Buzzard, Mountain Buzzard, [Abyssinian Owl,] Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater, Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird, Olive Woodpecker, Brown-necked Parrot (suahelicus), Lanner Falcon, Black-throated Wattle-eye, Doherty’s Bushshrike, Northern Puffback, Mackinnon’s Shrike, White-necked Raven, White-tailed Blue Flycatcher, White-tailed Crested Flycatcher, Kikuyu Mountain Greenbul, Yellow-whiskered Greenbul, Black Saw-wing, Red-throated Rock Martin, African Red-rumped Swallow, White-browed Crombec, Brown Woodland Warbler (alpinus), Mountain Yellow Warbler, Cinnamon Bracken Warbler, Chubb’s Cisticola, Chestnut-throated Apalis, Rwenzori Hill Babbler, Green White-eye, Mountain Illadopsis, Slender-billed Starling, Abyssinian Thrush, Ashy Flycatcher, White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher, White-starred Robin, Cape Robin-Chat, Olive Sunbird, Bronze Sunbird, Malachite Sunbird, Scarlet-tufted Sunbird, Northern Double-collared Sunbird, Variable Sunbird (igneiventris), Baglafecht Weaver, Yellow-bellied Waxbill, Grey-headed Nigrita, Kandt’s Waxbill, Mountain Wagtail, African Pipit (latistriatus), Western Citril, Streaky Seedeater and Yellow-crowned Canary
Buhanga Eco-Park for Blue-headed Coucal, African Olive Pigeon, Augur Buzzard, Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater, Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird, Spot-flanked Barbet, [Speckle-breasted Woodpecker,] African Pitta (longipennis), Mackinnon’s Shrike, White-necked Raven, White-tailed Blue Flycatcher, Pale-throated Greenbul, Black Saw-wing, Chubb’s Cisticola, White-chinned Prinia, Grey Apalis, Grey-capped Warbler, Green White-eye, Brown-backed Scrub Robin, White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher, Red-capped Robin-Chat, Familiar Chat, Bronze Sunbird, Variable Sunbird (igneiventris), Baglafecht Weaver, Yellow-bellied Waxbill, Black-crowned Waxbill, Red-headed Bluebill, African Firefinch, Western Citril, Thick-billed Seedeater and Streaky Seedeater
Rugezi Marsh for Grauer’s Swamp Warbler, White-winged Swamp Warbler and Carruthers’s Cisticola, as well as Blue-billed Teal, Yellow-billed Duck, Southern Pochard, Red-chested Flufftail, African Swamphen, Red-knobbed Coot, Grey Crowned Crane, Long-toed Lapwing, Rufous-bellied Heron, Pink-backed Pelican, African Marsh Harrier, Augur Buzzard, Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater, Mackinnon’s Shrike, White-tailed Blue Flycatcher, White-headed Saw-wing, Brown-throated Martin, Angola Swallow, Greater Swamp Warbler, Highland Rush Warbler, Chubb’s Cisticola, Grey-capped Warbler, Swamp Flycatcher, Bronze Sunbird, Baglafecht Weaver, Black-winged Red Bishop, Black-crowned Waxbill, Fawn-breasted Waxbill, Cape Wagtail, Western Citril and Streaky Seedeater
Lake Kivu for Horus Swift, Ross’s Turaco, Blue-headed Coucal, [White-fronted Plover,] White-winged Tern, Grey-headed Gull, Ovambo Sparrowhawk, Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl, Narina Trogon, [White-fronted Bee-eater,] Red-throated Wryneck, Red-necked Falcon, Pale-throated Greenbul, [Little Greenbul,] Green White-eye, Black-lored Babbler, Grey Tit-Flycatcher, Red-capped Robin-Chat, Red-chested Sunbird, Slender-billed Weaver, Red-collared Widowbird and Red-throated Twinspot
Gashora Swamp for Papyrus Gonolek, White-winged Swamp Warbler, [Papyrus Yellow Warbler,] Carruthers’s Cisticola, Arnot’s Chat (collaris), Northern Brown-throated Weaver and Papyrus Canary, as well as Blue-headed Coucal, African Marsh Harrier, Blue-breasted Bee-eater, Black-headed Gonolek, Angola Swallow, Greater Swamp Warbler, Rüppell’s Starling, Swamp Flycatcher, Red-chested Sunbird, Slender-billed Weaver, Cape Wagtail and waterbirds including Fulvous Whistling Duck, White-backed Duck, African Pygmy Goose, Blue-billed Teal, Yellow-billed Duck, Lesser Moorhen, Allen’s Gallinule, African Swamphen, Long-toed Lapwing, Lesser Jacana, African Snipe and Pink-backed Pelican
Also Gishwati-Mukura NP

TIMING (Jan, Jul–Aug)
Best in the dry season (Jun–Sep) when most birds breed
Dec–Feb is drier too, and Afro-Palearctic migrants are also present then
Avoid the main rains (Feb–May, Sep–Nov)

RESOURCES
Apps
Birds of Africa (iOS or Android)
eGuide to Birds of East Africa

Field guides
Birds of East Africa by Terry Stevenson & John Fanshawe (2020)

Site guides
Wild Rwanda: Where to Watch Birds, Primates, and Other Wildlife by Ken Behrens, Christian Boix & Keith Barnes with contributions from Jason Anderson & Claver Ntoyinkima (2015)
Birding Rwanda: in Search of Red-collared Babbler, Albertine Rift Endemics and More by Callan Cohen, Peter Ryan, Marcell Claasen & Claver Ntoyinkima (2010)

Further reading
Birds in Rwanda: an Atlas and Handbook by Jean P Vande weghe & Gaël R Vande weghe (2011)
Birds of Rwanda: a Checklist by Gaël R Vande weghe (2018)
Rwanda by Samuel Kanyamibwa in Important Bird Areas in Africa and Associated Islands: Priority Sites for Conservation edited by Lincoln D C Fishpool & Michael I Evans (2001)
Enquête Faunistique et Floristique dans la Forêt de Nyungwe, Rwanda/Survey of the Fauna and Flora of Nyungwe Forest, Rwanda edited by Robert J Dowsett (1990)
Articles in Scopus, Bull. ABC, Malimbus, Le Nectar (ACNR newsletter), etc.

Websites
The Rwanda Biodiversity Information System (RBIS) takes bird observation records that are stored in a variety of sources and formats and puts them into a standardized format on a viewing platform for stakeholders to access and use the information
UNESCO World Heritage List: Nyungwe National Park

Blogs
Rwanda Dreaming – 10,000 Birds by Dragan Simic (2018)
Birding in Rwanda by Marcell Claasen (2009-2013)
Rwanda on the Wing by Jared Cole (2011-2013)
The Beginner’s Guide to Birding in Akagera by Leigh Woods (2017)

Facebook groups
Rwanda Birding Club is a group for posting pictures of Rwandan birds and discussing aspects of birding in Rwanda

ORGANISATIONS

Nature Rwanda is the BirdLife Partner in Rwanda

The East African Rarities Committee assesses records of new and very rare birds occurring in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi

Other bird or conservation organisations active in Rwanda include –
Rwanda Wildlife Conservation Association (RWCA)
Association pour la Conservation de la Nature au Rwanda (ACNR)
Rwanda Women Birders
Rwanda Youth Birders (RYB)
CEDINYA (formerly Inyange Club) 
Association Rwandaise des Ecologistes (ARECO)
Rwanda Environmental Conservation Organization (RECOR)
Albertine Rift Conservation Society (ARCOS)
African Parks: Akagera National Park and Nyungwe National Park
African Community & Conservation Foundation (ACCF)
Planet Birdsong
Fauna & Flora International (FFI)
WCS Rwanda

The ALU School of Wildlife Conservation in Kigali is the first of its kind in Africa, dedicated to growing the next generation of world-class conservation leaders on the continent