Uganda

SUB-REGION
East Africa

SIZE
241,038 km²

BIRDS AND BIRDING

SPECIES
Diversity
Strongly Afrotropical avifauna
Approximately 1,070 recorded species (4th longest bird list of any country in the ABC region)

Endemics (E)
Karamoja Apalis (VU)
Fox’s Weaver (NT)

Near-endemics (NE)
Weyns’s Weaver

Proposed new species or splits not yet accepted by IOC
Crawshay’s Francolin
Archer’s Francolin (B2)
Schuett’s Spurfowl (B2)
Cranch’s Spurfowl (BT)
Black-shouldered Nightjar (B2)
Abyssinian Nightjar
Rwenzori Nightjar (ARE B2)
Black-faced Go-away-bird
Eastern Black-billed Turaco | Green-rumped Turaco (B2)
Neumann’s Coucal (BT)
White-breasted Cormorant
Dimorphic Egret
Red-chested Goshawk
[Chestnut Owlet]
Central African Hoopoe
African Hoopoe
Eastern Piping Hornbill
Grey-headed Barbet (B2)
Eastern Yellow-spotted Barbet
Streaky-throated Barbet
Thick-billed Honeyguide
Northern Olive Woodpecker | Red-bellied Woodpecker
Grey-headed Parrot
East African Pitta
Albertine Bushshrike (ARE BT)
Glossy-backed Drongo
Foxy Lark | Abyssinian Lark
Singing Bush Lark
Kakamega Greenbul
Dark-capped Bulbul
Mangbettu Saw-wing
African Reed Warbler
Rufous-crowned Cisticola
Mongalla Cisticola (BT)
Black-faced Prinia (BT)
Brown-tailed Apalis
Eastern Buff-throated Apalis
Tawny-breasted Camaroptera (BT)
Grey-caped Capuchin Babbler | Brown-throated Capuchin Babbler (BT)
Kivu Ground Thrush (ARE B2)
White-winged Scrub Robin
Ethiopian Stonechat
Ruaha Chat
Emin’s Weaver (B2)
Reichenow’s Weaver
Stuhlmann’s Weaver
“Victoria” Masked Weaver (E or hybrid)
Northern Red-headed Weaver
Black-fronted Red Bishop
Yellow-shouldered Widowbird (B2)
Black-faced Quailfinch
Black-chinned Quailfinch
Grey Firefinch
Jackson’s Pipit

National bird
Grey Crowned Crane | Ngaali | Owalu (EN)

MAIN HABITATS
Swamps, montane forest, tropical forest, moist savanna, arid savanna

BIRD AREAS
Albertine Rift mountains Endemic Bird Area (EBA)
Eastern Zaïre lowlands EBA
Kenyan mountains EBA
North Ugandan swamps Secondary Area (SA)
Dry woodlands west of Lake Victoria SA
North-east Uganda SA
34 Important Bird Areas

BIRDING SITES
Entebbe Botanical Gardens for Eastern Plantain-eater, Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill (subquadratus), Green White-eye (stuhlmanni), Swamp Flycatcher (infulata), Red-chested Sunbird, Slender-billed Weaver, Northern Brown-throated Weaver and Western Citril, Great Blue Turaco, Ross’s Turaco, African Emerald Cuckoo, Pink-backed Pelican, Bat Hawk, Southern White-faced Owl, Congo Pied Hornbill, Giant Kingfisher, Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird (extoni), Double-toothed Barbet (aequatorialis), African Hobby, Grey Parrot, Black-headed Gonolek, Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher, Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher (emini), African Paradise Flycatcher (ESS restricta), Pale-throated Greenbul (flavigula), Angola Swallow, Grey-capped Warbler, Rüppell’s Starling, Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat (melanonota), Green-throated Sunbird, Orange-tufted Sunbird, Orange Weaver (rex), Golden-backed Weaver and Grey-headed Nigrita (schistaceus), as well as more widespread or common birds such as Egyptian Goose, African Palm Swift, Little Swift, White-rumped Swift, White-browed Coucal (loandae), Diederik Cuckoo, Klaas’s Cuckoo, Red-chested Cuckoo, Speckled Pigeon, Red-eyed Dove, Blue-spotted Wood Dove, Tambourine Dove, African Green Pigeon (gibberifrons), Water Thick-knee, Black-winged Stilt, Spur-winged Lapwing, African Jacana, African Openbill, Marabou Stork, Reed Cormorant, Great Cormorant (lucidus), African Sacred Ibis, Hadada Ibis, Little Egret (garzetta/dimorpha), Little Heron, Western Cattle Egret, Grey Heron, Black-headed Heron, Hamerkop, Black-winged Kite, African Harrier-Hawk, Palm-nut Vulture, Hooded Vulture, Long-crested Eagle, Wahlberg’s Eagle, Lizard Buzzard, Gabar Goshawk, Little Sparrowhawk, Shikra, Yellow-billed Kite, African Fish Eagle, Western Barn Owl, Spotted Eagle-Owl, Speckled Mousebird (kiwuensis), Crowned Hornbill, Broad-billed Roller, Woodland Kingfisher, African Pygmy Kingfisher, Malachite Kingfisher, Pied Kingfisher, White-throated Bee-eater, African Grey Woodpecker, Common Kestrel, Brown-throated Wattle-eye, Northern Puffback (malzacii), Pied Crow, Little Greenbul, Common Bulbul (tricolor), Lesser Striped Swallow, Green Crombec (baraka), Common Reed Warbler (cinnamomeus), Tawny-flanked Prinia (melanorhyncha), Grey-backed Camaroptera (tincta), Splendid Starling, African Thrush (centralis), Northern Black Flycatcher (lugubris), White-browed Robin-Chat, Collared Sunbird (garguensis), Green-headed Sunbird (viridisplendens), Olive Sunbird (ragazzii), Scarlet-chested Sunbird (lamperti), Olive-bellied Sunbird (orphogaster), Superb Sunbird (buvuma), Northern Grey-headed Sparrow (ugandae), Little Weaver, Black-necked Weaver, Spectacled Weaver (crocatus), Lesser Masked Weaver, Vieillot’s Black Weaver, Black-headed Weaver (dimidiatus), Village Weaver (bohndorffi), Bronze Mannikin, Black-and-white Mannikin (poensis), Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu, Red-billed Firefinch (ruberrima), African Firefinch (haematocephala), Village Indigobird (centralis), African Pied Wagtail and Yellow-fronted Canary (barbata)
Mabamba Swamp for Shoebill, Red-headed Lovebird (ugandae), Papyrus Gonolek, White-winged Swamp Warbler, Carruthers’s Cisticola, Swamp Flycatcher, Red-chested Sunbird, Weyns’s Weaver, Slender-billed Weaver and Northern Brown-throated Weaver, as well as Blue-headed Coucal, Grey Crowned Crane, African Marsh Harrier, Blue-breasted Bee-eater (loringi), Grey Parrot, Marsh Tchagra (minuta), Black-headed Gonolek, Blue Swallow, Greater Swamp Warbler (ansorgei), Orange Weaver, Golden-backed Weaver and Cape Wagtail (wellsi), White-backed Duck, African Pygmy Goose, Yellow-billed Duck, Lesser Moorhen, African Swamphen, Red-knobbed Coot, Long-toed Lapwing, Lesser Jacana, Saddle-billed Stork, Black Heron, Rufous-bellied Heron, Goliath Heron and Pink-backed Pelican, along with White-faced Whistling Duck, Fulvous Whistling Duck, Spur-winged Goose, Knob-billed Duck, Blue-billed Teal, Common Moorhen, Allen’s Gallinule, Black Crake, African Snipe, Gull-billed Tern, Whiskered Tern, White-winged Tern, Grey-headed Gull, Squacco Heron, Great Egret, Yellow-billed Egret, Purple Heron, Osprey, Olive Bee-eater, African Blue Flycatcher (teresita), Rufous-naped Lark (ruwenzoria), Grey-rumped Swallow, Banded Martin, Angola Swallow, Lesser Swamp Warbler (jacksoni), Winding Cisticola (nyansae), Croaking Cisticola (strangei), White-chinned Prinia (reichenowi), Grey-capped Warbler, Sooty Chat, Copper Sunbird, Thick-billed Weaver (melanota), Fan-tailed Widowbird (phoeniceus), Fawn-breasted Waxbill (roseicrissa), Common Waxbill (adesma), Pin-tailed Whydah, Yellow-throated Longclaw, African Pipit (lacuum) and Brimstone Canary
Kakoge for Shoebill, Red-headed Lovebird, Red-chested Sunbird and Marsh Widowbird (humeralis), as well as Eastern Plantain-eater, Senegal Coucal, Grey Crowned Crane, African Woolly-necked Stork, Saddle-billed Stork, Pink-backed Pelican, Western Banded Snake Eagle, Black-headed Gonolek, Piapiac, Moustached Grass Warbler, Red-faced Cisticola, Grey-capped Warbler, Cardinal Quelea, Black Bishop and Yellow-mantled Widowbird (macrocercus)
Mabira Forest for Nahan’s Partridge, Forest Wood Hoopoe (brunneiceps), Jameson’s Wattle-eye, Yellow-eyed Bristlebill, Toro Olive Greenbul, Olive-green Camaroptera (toroensis), Yellow-breasted Forest Robin (mabirae) and Weyns’s Weaver, as well as Western Crested Guineafowl, Black-billed Turaco (emini), Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo, Grey-throated Barbet (cinereiceps), White-throated Greenbul, White-headed Saw-wing, Scaly-breasted Illadopsis, Purple-headed Starling, Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat, Grey-headed Sunbird and Red-headed Bluebill, Sabine’s Spinetail, Cassin’s Spinetail, Great Blue Turaco, Eastern Plantain-eater, Blue Malkoha, African Emerald Cuckoo, Black Cuckoo, Afep Pigeon, White-spotted Flufftail, Cassin’s Hawk-Eagle, Black Sparrowhawk, Congo Pied Hornbill, Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill, Blue-breasted Kingfisher, African Dwarf Kingfisher, Shining-blue Kingfisher, Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet (elgonensis), Speckled Tinkerbird, Yellow-throated Tinkerbird, Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird (leucolaimus), Yellow-spotted Barbet (duchaillui), Hairy-breasted Barbet (ansorgii), Cassin’s Honeybird, Least Honeyguide (pachyrhynchus), Buff-spotted Woodpecker (herberti), Brown-eared Woodpecker, Yellow-crested Woodpecker, Grey Parrot, Chestnut Wattle-eye, Bocage’s Bushshrike, Lowland Sooty Boubou, African Shrike-flycatcher, Purple-throated Cuckooshrike, Western Oriole (laetior), Velvet-mantled Drongo, Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher, African Blue Flycatcher, Dusky Crested Flycatcher, Dusky Tit, Western Nicator, Slender-billed Greenbul, Red-tailed Bristlebill (woosnami), Honeyguide Greenbul, Red-tailed Greenbul (emini), Yellow-whiskered Greenbul, Plain Greenbul, Little Grey Greenbul (ugandae), Yellow Longbill (hypochondriacus), Grey Longbill, Green Hylia, Tit Hylia (denti), White-chinned Prinia, Black-throated Apalis (jacksoni), Buff-throated Apalis (nigrescens), Grey-capped Warbler, Grey-backed Camaroptera (griseigula), Yellow-browed Camaroptera, Green White-eye, Pale-breasted Illadopsis, Fraser’s Rufous Thrush (vulpina), Fire-crested Alethe, Grey-throated Tit-Flycatcher, Ashy Flycatcher (brevicauda), Dusky-blue Flycatcher, Brown-chested Alethe (carruthersi), Red-capped Robin-Chat, Little Green Sunbird, Grey-chinned Sunbird, Blue-throated Brown Sunbird, Green-throated Sunbird, Yellow-mantled Weaver, Red-headed Malimbe, Magpie Mannikin, Green Twinspot, White-breasted Nigrita, Black-crowned Waxbill and Black-bellied Seedcracker
Lake Mburo National Park (NP) for Brown-chested Lapwing, Shoebill, Red-faced Barbet, Red-headed Lovebird, Papyrus Gonolek, White-headed Saw-wing, White-winged Swamp Warbler, Highland Rush Warbler (centralis), Carruthers’s Cisticola, Brown-backed Scrub Robin, Swamp Flycatcher, Red-chested Sunbird, Slender-billed Weaver and Northern Brown-throated Weaver, Bare-faced Go-away-bird (leopoldi), Ross’s Turaco, Grey Crowned Crane, Senegal Lapwing, Spot-flanked Barbet (radcliffei), White-headed Barbet (leucocephalus), Black-headed Gonolek, Trilling Cisticola (woosnami), Grey-capped Warbler, Black-lored Babbler (sharpei) and Golden-backed Weaver, waterbirds including Red-billed Teal, African Finfoot, African Rail, Little Grebe, Saddle-billed Stork, White-backed Night Heron and Rufous-bellied Heron, as well as Helmeted Guineafowl, Crested Francolin (grantii), Coqui Francolin, Red-winged Francolin (kikuyuensis), Red-necked Spurfowl (cranchii), Fiery-necked Nightjar (nigriscapularis), Freckled Nightjar, Pennant-winged Nightjar, Black-bellied Bustard, Levaillant’s Cuckoo, [Thick-billed Cuckoo,] African Cuckoo, Ring-necked Dove, Laughing Dove, Emerald-spotted Wood Dove, White-headed Vulture, Lappet-faced Vulture, White-backed Vulture, Rüppell’s Vulture, Bateleur, Western Banded Snake Eagle, Brown Snake Eagle, Martial Eagle, African Hawk-Eagle, Tawny Eagle, Pearl-spotted Owlet, African Scops Owl, Blue-naped Mousebird (griseogularis), Common Hoopoe (africana), Green Wood Hoopoe, Common Scimitarbill, African Grey Hornbill (epirhinus), Lilac-breasted Roller, Grey-headed Kingfisher, Striped Kingfisher, Giant Kingfisher, Little Bee-eater (meridionalis), Crested Barbet (suahelicus), Black-collared Barbet (pumilio), Brown-backed Honeybird, Lesser Honeyguide (riggenbachi), Greater Honeyguide, Nubian Woodpecker, Golden-tailed Woodpecker (chrysura), Little Green Woodpecker (permista), Bearded Woodpecker, Cardinal Woodpecker (lepidus), Grey Kestrel, Meyer’s Parrot (saturatus), Brown-necked Parrot (suahelicus), Chinspot Batis (puella), Orange-breasted Bushshrike (sulfureopectus), Brown-crowned Tchagra (emini), Black-crowned Tchagra (armenus), Tropical Boubou, Slate-colored Boubou, Brubru (massaicus), Black Cuckooshrike, Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike, Black-headed Oriole (rolleti), Fork-tailed Drongo (fugax), Grey-backed Fiscal (boehmi), White-winged Black Tit (insignis), Grey Penduline Tit (roccatii), [Dusky Lark,] Flappet Lark (kawirondensis), Pale-throated Greenbul, Angola Swallow, Red-breasted Swallow (gordoni), Mosque Swallow, Red-faced Crombec (jacksoni), Singing Cisticola (belli), Long-tailed Cisticola, Yellow-breasted Apalis (caniceps), Buff-bellied Warbler, Miombo Wren-Warbler, Green-capped Eremomela (citriniceps), Arrow-marked Babbler, Wattled Starling, Greater Blue-eared Starling, Rüppell’s Starling, Violet-backed Starling, Yellow-billed Oxpecker, White-browed Scrub Robin (zambesiana), Pale Flycatcher (murinus), Grey Tit-Flycatcher, Southern Black Flycatcher, Sooty Chat, [Capped Wheatear,] Marico Sunbird (suahelicus), Purple-banded Sunbird, Holub’s Golden Weaver, Red-headed Weaver (leuconotos), Red-billed Quelea, Southern Red Bishop (nigrifons), White-winged Widowbird (eques), Black-faced Waxbill (delamerei), Crimson-rumped Waxbill (centralis), Green-winged Pytilia (belli), Plain-backed Pipit, Striped Pipit and Golden-breasted Bunting (kalaharica)
Lake Bunyonyi for Papyrus Yellow Warbler and Papyrus Canary, also Victoria Masked Weaver (undescribed form), with Highland Rush Warbler and Arnot’s Chat (collaris) nearby
Akagera River for [Purple-crested Turaco and Collared Palm Thrush]
Mgahinga Gorilla NP for Handsome Spurfowl, Montane Nightjar (ruwenzorii), Rwenzori Turaco (kivuensis), Dwarf Honeyguide, Rwenzori Batis, Lagden’s Bushshrike (centralis), Albertine Sooty Boubou, Stripe-breasted Tit (fasciiventer), Red-faced Woodland Warbler (laetus), Rwenzori Apalis, Mountain Masked Apalis (personata), Abyssinian Ground Thrush (tanganjicae), Red-throated Alethe (poliophyrs), Archer’s Ground Robin (archeri), Blue-headed Sunbird (alinae), Rwenzori Double-collared Sunbird (graueri), Regal Sunbird (regius), Strange Weaver and Dusky Crimsonwing, as well as Scarce Swift, African Black Swift, African Olive Pigeon, Dusky Turtle Dove, Cassin’s Hawk-Eagle, African Goshawk (sparsimfasciata), Rufous-breasted Sparrowhawk, Mountain Buzzard, African Grass Owl, Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater, Western Tinkerbird (hildamariae), Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird (mfumbiri), Olive Woodpecker (ruwenzori), Doherty’s Bushshrike, Mountain Oriole, Northern Fiscal (capelli), Mackinnon’s Shrike, White-necked Raven, White-tailed Blue Flycatcher, White-tailed Crested Flycatcher, Kikuyu Mountain Greenbul, Yellow-whiskered Greenbul, Black Saw-wing (ruwenzori), Red-throated Rock Martin, African Red-rumped Swallow (emini), White-browed Crombec (chloronota), Brown Woodland Warbler (wilhelmi), Mountain Yellow Warbler, Cinnamon Bracken Warbler (cinnamomeus), Chubb’s Cisticola (chubbi), Chestnut-throated Apalis, Rwenzori Hill Babbler, Green White-eye (toroensis), Sharpe’s Starling, Abyssinian Thrush (bambusicola), White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher (toruensis), African Dusky Flycatcher, White-starred Robin (ruwenzorii), Brown-chested Alethe (carruthersi), Cape Robin-Chat (kivuensis), African Stonechat (axillaris), Familiar Chat (falkensteini), Bronze Sunbird (kilimensis), Malachite Sunbird (cupreonitens), Scarlet-tufted Sunbird (dartmouthi), Northern Double-collared Sunbird (reichenowi), Variable Sunbird (igneiventris), Baglafecht Weaver (stuhlmanni), Yellow Bishop, Yellow-bellied Waxbill, Black-crowned Waxbill, Kandt’s Waxbill, Cape Wagtail, Oriole Finch (prigoginei), Western Citril, Thick-billed Seedeater (tanganjicae), Streaky Seedeater (graueri) and Yellow-crowned Canary (sassii)
Bwindi Impenetrable NP for all of the Albertine Rift endemics occurring in Mgahinga Gorilla NP plus Grauer’s Broadbill, Willard’s Sooty Boubou, Neumann’s Warbler, Grauer’s Warbler, Grauer’s Swamp Warbler, Yellow-eyed Black Flycatcher, Purple-breasted Sunbird and Shelley’s Crimsonwing, Oberländer’s Ground Thrush, Chapin’s Flycatcher (lendu), Jameson’s Antpecker and Dusky Twinspot (graueri), Doherty’s Bushshrike, Mountain Oriole, Brown-capped Weaver and Kandt’s Waxbill, more montane forest birds including Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo (montanus), [Olive Ibis,] Bar-tailed Trogon, White-headed Wood Hoopoe, Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater, Western Tinkerbird, Fine-banded Woodpecker, Pink-footed Puffback, White-bellied Crested Flycatcher (toroensis), Mackinnon’s Shrike, White-tailed Blue Flycatcher, White-tailed Crested Flycatcher, Shelley’s Greenbul (kakamegae), Kikuyu Mountain Greenbul, Yellow-streaked Greenbul (olivaceogriseus), White-browed Crombec, Mountain Yellow Warbler, Evergreen Forest Warbler (barakae), Chubb’s Cisticola, Banded Prinia (obscura), Chestnut-throated Apalis, Buff-throated Apalis (ESS kigezi), Rwenzori Hill Babbler, Mountain Illadopsis, Grey-chested Babbler, Slender-billed Starling, Waller’s Starling, Stuhlmann’s Starling, Sharpe’s Starling, White-bellied Robin-Chat (rufescentior), Northern Double-collared Sunbird, Baglafecht Weaver, Black-billed Weaver, Yellow-bellied Waxbill, Abyssinian Crimsonwing (ruwenzori), Red-faced Crimsonwing (ocularis), Oriole Finch, Streaky Seedeater and Yellow-crowned Canary, as well as Western Crested Guineafowl, Black-billed Turaco, Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo, Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill, Grey-throated Barbet, Willcocks’s Honeyguide, Toro Olive Greenbul, Carruthers’s Cisticola, Olive-green Camaroptera (toroensis), Purple-headed Sunbird, Brown-backed Scrub Robin, Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat, Grey-headed Sunbird, White-collared Oliveback, Red-headed Bluebill and Western Citril, African Black Duck, Scaly Spurfowl (schuetti), Alpine Swift (maximus), Horus Swift, Great Blue Turaco, Blue Malkoha, African Emerald Cuckoo, Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo, Western Bronze-naped Pigeon, Lemon Dove, Red-chested Flufftail, African Cuckoo-Hawk, Crowned Eagle, Ayres’s Hawk-Eagle, Cassin’s Hawk-Eagle, African Goshawk, Ovambo Sparrowhawk, Augur Buzzard, Red-chested Owlet, [Fraser’s Eagle-Owl,] African Wood Owl, Narina Trogon (brachyurum), Black Bee-eater (australis), Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet, Cassin’s Honeybird, Buff-spotted Woodpecker, Elliot’s Woodpecker, Olive Woodpecker, African Broadbill, Chinspot Batis, Many-colored Bushshrike (batesi), Bocage’s Bushshrike, Lühder’s Bushshrike, Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher, Petit’s Cuckooshrike, Grey Cuckooshrike, Blue-mantled Crested Flycatcher (vivax), African Paradise Flycatcher (kivuensis), Dusky Tit, Slender-billed Greenbul, Red-tailed Bristlebill, Honeyguide Greenbul, Red-tailed Greenbul, Yellow-whiskered Greenbul, Plain Greenbul, Little Grey Greenbul, Ansorge’s Greenbul, Cabanis’s Greenbul (sucosus), Tit Hylia, White-chinned Prinia, Black-throated Apalis, Grey Apalis, Grey-backed Camaroptera (aschani), Black-faced Rufous Warbler, Narrow-tailed Starling, Fraser’s Rufous Thrush, White-tailed Ant Thrush, African Thrush (graueri), Grey-throated Tit-Flycatcher, Dusky-blue Flycatcher, Sooty Flycatcher, Cassin’s Flycatcher, Equatorial Akalat, Grey-winged Robin-Chat, Little Green Sunbird, Grey-chinned Sunbird, Blue-throated Brown Sunbird, Tiny Sunbird, Village Weaver (graueri), Red-headed Malimbe, White-breasted Nigrita, Grey-headed Nigrita, Black-crowned Waxbill, Mountain Wagtail, African Pipit (latistriatus) and Black-throated Canary
Queen Elizabeth NP for Greater Flamingo, Lesser Flamingo, Long-toed Lapwing, African Skimmer, Saddle-billed Stork, Dwarf Bittern, Goliath Heron, Great White Pelican and Pink-backed Pelican among other waterbirds including Southern Pochard, African Crake, Pied Avocet, [Forbes’s Plover,] Three-banded Plover, African Wattled Lapwing, Kittlitz’s Plover, White-fronted Plover, Greater Painted-snipe, Collared Pratincole, Yellow-billed Stork, Glossy Ibis, African Spoonbill, Little Bittern and Black-crowned Night Heron, as well as Western Crested Guineafowl, Bare-faced Go-away-bird, Eastern Plantain-eater, Ross’s Turaco, Black Coucal, Blue Malkoha, Grey Crowned Crane, Senegal Lapwing, Brown-chested Lapwing, Western Banded Snake Eagle, Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill, Blue-breasted Kingfisher, Black Bee-eater, Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater, Red-throated Bee-eater (frenatus), White-headed Barbet, Red-headed Lovebird, Marsh Tchagra, Papyrus Gonolek, Black-headed Gonolek, White-tailed Lark, Pale-throated Greenbul, White-winged Swamp Warbler, Trilling Cisticola, Carruthers’s Cisticola, Green White-eye, Black-lored Babbler, Brown-backed Scrub Robin, Swamp Flycatcher, Red-chested Sunbird, Slender-billed Weaver, Northern Brown-throated Weaver, Golden-backed Weaver, Fawn-breasted Waxbill (paludicola), Long-billed Pipit (dewittei) and Short-tailed Pipit (leggei), Helmeted Guineafowl, Crested Francolin, Blue Quail, Common Quail, Harlequin Quail, Scaly Spurfowl, Red-necked Spurfowl (cranchii), Swamp Nightjar, Square-tailed Nightjar, Mourning Collared Dove, Namaqua Dove, Common Buttonquail, Black-rumped Buttonquail, Crowned Lapwing, Caspian Plover, Temminck’s Courser, Black-chested Snake Eagle, African Marsh Harrier, Augur Buzzard, Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl and Marsh Owl among other raptors, Blue-naped Mousebird, Common Hoopoe (waibeli), Green Wood Hoopoe, Common Scimitarbill, Grey-headed Kingfisher, Striped Kingfisher, Little Bee-eater, [White-fronted Bee-eater,] Olive Bee-eater, Crested Barbet, Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird (chrysoconus), Spot-flanked Barbet, Double-toothed Barbet, Greater Honeyguide, Red-throated Wryneck (ruficollis), Nubian Woodpecker, Cardinal Woodpecker, Grey Kestrel, Peregrine Falcon, Western Black-headed Batis, Orange-breasted Bushshrike, Brown-crowned Tchagra, Black-crowned Tchagra, Tropical Boubou, Brubru, Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike, Black-headed Oriole, Fork-tailed Drongo, Grey-backed Fiscal (excubitoroides), Northern Fiscal (smithii), African Blue Flycatcher, Flappet Lark, Rufous-naped Lark, Red-capped Lark, White-headed Saw-wing, Black Saw-wing, Banded Martin, Brown-throated Martin, Angola Swallow, Wire-tailed Swallow, African Red-rumped Swallow, Red-breasted Swallow, Mosque Swallow, Moustached Grass Warbler, Red-faced Crombec, Greater Swamp Warbler, Lesser Swamp Warbler, Fan-tailed Grassbird, Red-faced Cisticola, Winding Cisticola, Croaking Cisticola, Short-winged Cisticola (ankole), Zitting Cisticola, Stout Cisticola (nuchalis), Wing-snapping Cisticola (entebbe), Yellow-breasted Apalis, Grey-capped Warbler, Buff-bellied Warbler, Arrow-marked Babbler, Wattled Starling, Rüppell’s Starling, Yellow-billed Oxpecker, White-browed Scrub Robin, African Dusky Flycatcher, Cassin’s Flycatcher, Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat, Sooty Chat, [Capped Wheatear,] Bronze Sunbird, Marico Sunbird, Purple-banded Sunbird, Copper Sunbird, Baglafecht Weaver, Holub’s Golden Weaver, Red-billed Quelea, Southern Red Bishop, Black-winged Red Bishop, Fan-tailed Widowbird, White-winged Widowbird, Red-collared Widowbird, Crimson-rumped Waxbill, Quailfinch (dorsostriata), Green-winged Pytilia, Pin-tailed Whydah, Yellow-throated Longclaw, African Pipit, Plain-backed Pipit, Brimstone Canary, Golden-breasted Bunting and Cinnamon-breasted Bunting
Fort Portal Wetlands and Crater Lakes for Great Crested Grebe, Highland Rush Warbler, Northern Brown-throated Weaver, Victoria Masked Weaver (undescribed form) and White-collared Oliveback, as well as Great Blue Turaco, Eastern Plantain-eater, Ross’s Turaco, Blue-headed Coucal, Grey Crowned Crane, Long-crested Eagle, African Marsh Harrier, Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill, Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater, Mackinnon’s Shrike, Northern Fiscal, African Blue Flycatcher, Angola Swallow, Mosque Swallow, Greater Swamp Warbler, Chubb’s Cisticola, White-chinned Prinia, Grey-capped Warbler, Green White-eye, Rüppell’s Starling, White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher, African Dusky Flycatcher, Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat, African Stonechat, Sooty Chat, Bronze Sunbird, Copper Sunbird, Baglafecht Weaver, Black-crowned Waxbill and Western Citril
Rwenzori Mountains NP for Handsome Spurfowl, Montane Nightjar (ruwenzorii), Rwenzori Turaco (johnstoni), Dwarf Honeyguide, Rwenzori Batis, Albertine Sooty Boubou, Stripe-breasted Tit, Red-faced Woodland Warbler, Rwenzori Apalis, Mountain Masked Apalis, Red-throated Alethe, Archer’s Ground Robin, Blue-headed Sunbird, Purple-breasted Sunbird, Rwenzori Double-collared Sunbird (stuhlmanni), Regal Sunbird, Strange Weaver and Dusky Crimsonwing, as well as African Black Duck, Scarce Swift, Alpine Swift, Black-billed Turaco, African Emerald Cuckoo, Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo, African Olive Pigeon, Lemon Dove, [Bearded Vulture,] Crowned Eagle, Mountain Buzzard, [Abyssinian Owl (graueri),] Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater, Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet, Western Tinkerbird, Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird, Olive Woodpecker, Chinspot Batis, Doherty’s Bushshrike, Lühder’s Bushshrike, Grey Cuckooshrike, Mackinnon’s Shrike, White-necked Raven, White-tailed Blue Flycatcher, White-tailed Crested Flycatcher, Shelley’s Greenbul (kakamegae), Kikuyu Mountain Greenbul, Yellow-whiskered Greenbul, Little Greenbul, Yellow-streaked Greenbul, Black Saw-wing, Red-throated Rock Martin, African Red-rumped Swallow, White-browed Crombec (leucophrys), Mountain Yellow Warbler, Brown Woodland Warbler (alpinus), Bamboo Warbler (alfredi), Evergreen Forest Warbler, Cinnamon Bracken Warbler (mildbreadi), Chubb’s Cisticola, Banded Prinia (obscura), Chestnut-throated Apalis, Grey Apalis, Black-faced Rufous Warbler, Mountain Illadopsis, Slender-billed Starling, Stuhlmann’s Starling, Sharpe’s Starling, Abyssinian Ground Thrush (ESS ruwenzorii), Abyssinian Thrush (baraka), White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher, African Dusky Flycatcher, Cassin’s Flycatcher, White-starred Robin, White-bellied Robin-Chat, Brown-chested Alethe, Grey-winged Robin-Chat, Northern Double-collared Sunbird, Bronze Sunbird, Malachite Sunbird, Scarlet-tufted Sunbird, Golden-winged Sunbird (shellyae), Variable Sunbird, Baglafecht Weaver, Brown-capped Weaver, Yellow-bellied Waxbill, Grey-headed Nigrita, Red-faced Crimsonwing, Black-crowned Waxbill, Dusky Twinspot, Cape Wagtail, Western Citril, Thick-billed Seedeater, Streaky Seedeater and Yellow-crowned Canary
Kibale NP and Bigodi Wetland Sanctuary for White-naped Pigeon, Speckle-breasted Woodpecker, Green-breasted Pitta, Jameson’s Wattle-eye, Joyful Greenbul and Toro Olive Greenbul, Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo, Grey-throated Barbet, Willcocks’s Honeyguide, Papyrus Gonolek, White-throated Greenbul, White-winged Swamp Warbler, Scaly-breasted Illadopsis, Purple-headed Starling, Brown-backed Scrub Robin, Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat, Orange-tufted Sunbird, Slender-billed Weaver, Black Bishop, White-collared Oliveback and Red-headed Bluebill, as well as Western Crested Guineafowl, Scaly Spurfowl, Sabine’s Spinetail, Great Blue Turaco, Eastern Plantain-eater, Ross’s Turaco, Blue-headed Coucal, Blue Malkoha, Afep Pigeon, White-spotted Flufftail, Grey Crowned Crane, Western Banded Snake Eagle, African Goshawk (canescens), Black Sparrowhawk, Red-chested Owlet (medje), Narina Trogon, Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill, Crowned Hornbill, Blue-throated Roller, Blue-breasted Kingfisher, Shining-blue Kingfisher, Giant Kingfisher, Black Bee-eater, Speckled Tinkerbird, Yellow-throated Tinkerbird, Yellow-spotted Barbet, Hairy-breasted Barbet, Cassin’s Honeybird, Least Honeyguide, Lesser Honeyguide (conirostris), Scaly-throated Honeyguide, Buff-spotted Woodpecker, Brown-eared Woodpecker, Yellow-crested Woodpecker, Grey Parrot, Meyer’s Parrot, Chestnut Wattle-eye, Bocage’s Bushshrike, Marsh Tchagra, Brown-crowned Tchagra, Tropical Boubou, African Shrike-flycatcher, Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher, Petit’s Cuckooshrike, Western Oriole, Velvet-mantled Drongo, Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher (ESS somereni), African Blue Flycatcher, Dusky Tit, Western Nicator, Slender-billed Greenbul, Red-tailed Bristlebill, Pale-throated Greenbul, Honeyguide Greenbul, Red-tailed Greenbul, Plain Greenbul, Little Grey Greenbul, White-headed Saw-wing, Angola Swallow, Green Hylia, African Yellow Warbler, Red-faced Cisticola, Buff-throated Apalis, Lowland Masked Apalis, White-chinned Prinia, Grey-capped Warbler, Green White-eye, Brown Illadopsis, Black-lored Babbler, Chestnut-winged Starling, Narrow-tailed Starling, Fraser’s Rufous Thrush, White-tailed Ant Thrush, Red-tailed Ant Thrush, Fire-crested Alethe, Grey-throated Tit-Flycatcher, Grey Tit-Flycatcher, Ashy Flycatcher, Dusky-blue Flycatcher, Sooty Flycatcher, Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat (niveicapilla), Red-capped Robin-Chat, Little Green Sunbird, Grey-chinned Sunbird, Blue-throated Brown Sunbird, Green-throated Sunbird, Tiny Sunbird, Purple-banded Sunbird, Superb Sunbird, Copper Sunbird, Thick-billed Weaver, Yellow-mantled Weaver, Dark-backed Weaver, Compact Weaver, Red-headed Malimbe, Red-headed Quelea, Southern Red Bishop, Fan-tailed Widowbird, Magpie Mannikin, Green Twinspot, White-breasted Nigrita, Common Waxbill, Black-bellied Seedcracker, African Firefinch (congica), Mountain Wagtail, Yellow-throated Longclaw, African Pipit (lichenya) and Brimstone Canary
Semuliki NP for Black-throated Coucal (neumanni), [African Barred Owlet (castaneum),] Eastern Dwarf Hornbill, [Sassi’s Olive Greenbul,] Capuchin Babbler (bohndorffi), Golden-naped Weaver and Grant’s Bluebill, Hartlaub’s Duck, Latham’s Francolin, Bates’s Nightjar, Yellow-throated Cuckoo, Grey-throated Rail, Nkulengu Rail, Spot-breasted Ibis, Congo Serpent Eagle, Long-tailed Hawk, Red-thighed Sparrowhawk (zenkeri), [Akun Eagle-Owl,] Red-billed Dwarf Hornbill, Piping Hornbill (duboisi), Black-casqued Hornbill, Eastern Long-tailed Hornbill, White-bellied Kingfisher, Red-rumped Tinkerbird, Zenker’s Honeyguide, Spotted Honeyguide, Lyre-tailed Honeyguide, African Piculet, Gabon Woodpecker, Black-collared Lovebird, Yellow-bellied Wattle-eye (graueri), [Fiery-breasted Bushshrike, Red-eyed Puffback,] Rufous-bellied Helmetshrike, Black-winged Oriole, Blue-headed Crested Flycatcher, Yellow-throated Nicator, Swamp Palm Bulbul, Simple Greenbul, Eastern Bearded Greenbul, Leaf-love, White-bibbed Swallow, Banded Prinia (bairdii), [Southern Hyliota (slatini),] Grey Ground Thrush, Forest Scrub Robin (collsi), Yellow-footed Flycatcher, Lowland Akalat, Maxwell’s Black Weaver, Blue-billed Malimbe, Red-bellied Malimbe, Chestnut-breasted Nigrita, Pale-fronted Nigrita and Orange-cheeked Waxbill, as well as Nahan’s Partridge, White-naped Pigeon, Rufous-sided Broadbill, Green-breasted Pitta, Jameson’s Wattle-eye, Yellow-eyed Bristlebill, Toro Olive Greenbul and Jameson’s Antpecker, Western Crested Guineafowl, Mottled Spinetail, Great Blue Turaco, Eastern Plantain-eater, Ross’s Turaco, Black-billed Turaco, Blue-headed Coucal, Blue Malkoha, Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo, Afep Pigeon, African Olive Pigeon, Western Bronze-naped Pigeon, White-spotted Flufftail, Western Banded Snake Eagle, Crowned Eagle, Ayres’s Hawk-Eagle, African Goshawk, Pel’s Fishing Owl, Narina Trogon, Congo Pied Hornbill, Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill, White-thighed Hornbill, Blue-throated Roller, Chocolate-backed Kingfisher, African Dwarf Kingfisher, Shining-blue Kingfisher, Black Bee-eater, Blue-breasted Bee-eater, Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet, Speckled Tinkerbird, Yellow-throated Tinkerbird, Yellow-spotted Barbet, Hairy-breasted Barbet, Willcocks’s Honeyguide, Least Honeyguide, Buff-spotted Woodpecker, Brown-eared Woodpecker, Yellow-crested Woodpecker, Grey Parrot, Chestnut Wattle-eye, Lowland Sooty Boubou, African Shrike-flycatcher, Western Oriole, Velvet-mantled Drongo, Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher, Dusky Crested Flycatcher, Western Nicator, Slender-billed Greenbul, Red-tailed Bristlebill, Honeyguide Greenbul, Red-tailed Greenbul, Yellow-whiskered Greenbul, Plain Greenbul, Little Grey Greenbul, White-throated Greenbul, Xavier’s Greenbul, Icterine Greenbul, Lemon-bellied Crombec, Yellow Longbill, Chestnut-capped Flycatcher, Green Hylia, Buff-throated Apalis, Yellow-browed Camaroptera, Olive-green Camaroptera, Black-faced Rufous Warbler, Brown Illadopsis, Pale-breasted Illadopsis, Scaly-breasted Illadopsis, Purple-headed Starling, Fraser’s Rufous Thrush, White-tailed Ant Thrush, Red-tailed Ant Thrush, Fire-crested Alethe, Grey-throated Tit-Flycatcher, Ashy Flycatcher, Dusky-blue Flycatcher, Yellow-breasted Forest Robin, Brown-chested Alethe, Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat, Grey-headed Sunbird, Little Green Sunbird, Blue-throated Brown Sunbird, Crested Malimbe, Black Bishop, Magpie Mannikin, Green Twinspot, White-breasted Nigrita, Black-crowned Waxbill, Fawn-breasted Waxbill, Red-headed Bluebill and Black-bellied Seedcracker
Budongo Forest for Nahan’s Partridge, White-naped Pigeon, Green-breasted Pitta, Ituri Batis, Jameson’s Wattle-eye, Toro Olive Greenbul, Uganda Woodland Warbler and Black-eared Ground Thrush (graueri), Cassin’s Spinetail, White-thighed Hornbill, Chocolate-backed Kingfisher, African Dwarf Kingfisher, Willcocks’s Honeyguide, Rufous-sided Broadbill, Dusky Crested Flycatcher, Spotted Greenbul, Xavier’s Greenbul, Icterine Greenbul, Lemon-bellied Crombec, Chestnut-capped Flycatcher, Olive-green Camaroptera (toroensis), Rufous-crowned Eremomela, Puvel’s Illadopsis, Fraser’s Forest Flycatcher, Yellow-breasted Forest Robin, Crested Malimbe and Red-headed Bluebill, Western Crested Guineafowl, Heuglin’s Spurfowl, Black-billed Turaco, Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo, Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill, Red-headed Lovebird, White-throated Greenbul, Green White-eye, Scaly-breasted Illadopsis, Purple-headed Starling, Brown-backed Scrub Robin, Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat, Grey-headed Sunbird, Black Bishop, Northern Red Bishop and Western Citril, as well as Mottled Spinetail, Sabine’s Spinetail, Great Blue Turaco, Senegal Coucal, Blue-headed Coucal, Blue Malkoha, African Emerald Cuckoo, Afep Pigeon, Lemon Dove, White-spotted Flufftail, Buff-spotted Flufftail, Crowned Eagle, Cassin’s Hawk-Eagle, Black Sparrowhawk, Red-chested Owlet, Narina Trogon, Congo Pied Hornbill, Blue-throated Roller, Blue-breasted Kingfisher, Shining-blue Kingfisher, Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet, Speckled Tinkerbird, Yellow-throated Tinkerbird, Yellow-spotted Barbet, Hairy-breasted Barbet, Buff-spotted Woodpecker, Brown-eared Woodpecker, Yellow-crested Woodpecker, Grey Parrot, African Pitta (longipennis), Chestnut Wattle-eye, Marsh Tchagra, African Shrike-flycatcher, Western Oriole, Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher, Dusky Tit, Western Nicator, Slender-billed Greenbul, Red-tailed Bristlebill, Honeyguide Greenbul, Red-tailed Greenbul, Yellow-whiskered Greenbul, Plain Greenbul, Little Grey Greenbul, Yellow-streaked Greenbul, White-headed Saw-wing, Angola Swallow, Moustached Grass Warbler, Yellow Longbill, Grey Longbill, Green Hylia, African Yellow Warbler, Red-faced Cisticola, Singing Cisticola, Whistling Cisticola, Black-throated Apalis, Black-capped Apalis, Buff-throated Apalis, Grey Apalis, Yellow-browed Camaroptera, Brown Illadopsis, Pale-breasted Illadopsis, Brown Babbler, Purple Starling, Fraser’s Rufous Thrush, White-tailed Ant Thrush, Red-tailed Ant Thrush, Fire-crested Alethe, Grey-throated Tit-Flycatcher, Ashy Flycatcher, Sooty Flycatcher, Brown-chested Alethe, Red-capped Robin-Chat, Little Green Sunbird, Grey-chinned Sunbird, Blue-throated Brown Sunbird, Purple-banded Sunbird, Superb Sunbird, Copper Sunbird, Thick-billed Weaver, Baglafecht Weaver, Compact Weaver, Red-headed Malimbe, Red-headed Quelea, Black-winged Red Bishop, Yellow-mantled Widowbird (macroura), Red-collared Widowbird, Green Twinspot, White-breasted Nigrita, Grey-headed Oliveback, Black-crowned Waxbill, Fawn-breasted Waxbill, Common Waxbill, Orange-breasted Waxbill, Black-bellied Seedcracker, Brown Twinspot, Black-bellied Firefinch, Plain-backed Pipit, Brimstone Canary and Cabanis’s Bunting
Murchison Falls NP for Heuglin’s Spurfowl, Eastern Plantain-eater, White-crested Turaco, Brown-chested Lapwing, Shoebill, Black-billed Barbet, Red-headed Lovebird, Foxy Cisticola, Red-winged Grey Warbler, Green-backed Eremomela (canescens), Green White-eye, Dusky Babbler, Swamp Flycatcher, Shelley’s Sparrow, Slender-billed Weaver, Baglafecht Weaver (emini), Northern Red Bishop and Black-bellied Firefinch, waterbirds including Senegal Thick-knee, Long-toed Lapwing, Rock Pratincole, African Skimmer, Saddle-billed Stork, African Darter, Goliath Heron and Pink-backed Pelican, as well as Helmeted Guineafowl, Crested Francolin, Plain Nightjar, Long-tailed Nightjar, Standard-winged Nightjar, Pennant-winged Nightjar, Denham’s Bustard, Black-bellied Bustard, Senegal Coucal, Jacobin Cuckoo, Vinaceous Dove, Black-billed Wood Dove, Bruce’s Green Pigeon, Grey Crowned Crane, Spotted Thick-knee, Black-headed Lapwing, [White-crowned Lapwing, Egyptian Plover,] Abdim’s Stork, African Woolly-necked Stork, Beaudouin’s Snake Eagle, Dark Chanting Goshawk, Red-necked Buzzard, Grasshopper Buzzard, Pearl-spotted Owlet, Greyish Eagle-Owl and Pel’s Fishing Owl among other raptors, Speckled Mousebird (jebelensis), Blue-naped Mousebird, Common Hoopoe (waibeli), Green Wood Hoopoe, Black Scimitarbill, Abyssinian Ground Hornbill, African Grey Hornbill (nasutus), Abyssinian Roller, Grey-headed Kingfisher, Striped Kingfisher, Giant Kingfisher, Swallow-tailed Bee-eater (heuglini), Little Bee-eater (ocularis), Red-throated Bee-eater, Northern Carmine Bee-eater, Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird, Spot-flanked Barbet (lacrymosa), Double-toothed Barbet, Greater Honeyguide, Nubian Woodpecker, Cardinal Woodpecker, Brown-backed Woodpecker (obsoletus), Grey Kestrel, Red-necked Falcon, Meyer’s Parrot, Western Black-headed Batis, Grey-headed Bushshrike (catharoxanthus), Orange-breasted Bushshrike, Black-crowned Tchagra, Black-headed Gonolek, Brubru (afer), White-crested Helmetshrike (concinnatus), White-breasted Cuckooshrike, Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike, Black-headed Oriole, African Golden Oriole, Fork-tailed Drongo (lugubris), African Paradise Flycatcher (ferreti), Yellow-billed Shrike (affinis), Emin’s Shrike, Grey-backed Fiscal, Piapiac, White-shouldered Black Tit, Flappet Lark (torrida), Rufous-rumped Lark, Pale-throated Greenbul, Ethiopian Swallow, Moustached Grass Warbler, Northern Crombec (carnapi), Rattling Cisticola (simplex), Winding Cisticola (marginatus), Croaking Cisticola, Short-winged Cisticola (hypoxanthus), Black-backed Cisticola, Tawny-flanked Prinia (subflava), Red-winged Prinia (jodoptera), Buff-bellied Warbler, Grey-capped Warbler, Grey-backed Camaroptera (abessinica), Brown Babbler, Yellow-bellied Hyliota, Wattled Starling, Lesser Blue-eared Starling, Bronze-tailed Starling, Rüppell’s Starling, Yellow-billed Oxpecker, Pale Flycatcher (parvus), Silverbird, [Gambaga Flycatcher,] Spotted Palm Thrush, Sooty Chat, White-fronted Black Chat (clericalis), Western Violet-backed Sunbird, Pygmy Sunbird, Scarlet-chested Sunbird (acik), Beautiful Sunbird, Copper Sunbird, White-browed Sparrow-Weaver, Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver, Speckle-fronted Weaver (emini), Heuglin’s Masked Weaver, Vitelline Masked Weaver, Red-headed Weaver, Red-billed Quelea, Black-winged Red Bishop, Yellow-mantled Widowbird, Grey-headed Oliveback, Black-faced Waxbill, Fawn-breasted Waxbill, Black-rumped Waxbill, Quailfinch (ugandae), Red-winged Pytilia, Brown Twinspot, Bar-breasted Firefinch, Black-faced Firefinch (nigricollis), Cuckoo-finch, White-rumped Seedeater, Brown-rumped Bunting and Cabanis’s Bunting
Far north-west for Red-throated Wryneck (pulchricollis), Black Saw-wing (mangbettorum), [Yellow Penduline Tit,] Sun Lark, Northern Yellow White-eye (senegalensis), [Palestine Sunbird, Splendid Sunbird,] Sahel Bush Sparrow and Dybowski’s Twinspot
Kidepo Valley NP for Karamoja Apalis, Ring-necked Francolin, Clapperton’s Spurfowl, Jackson’s Hornbill, Black-breasted Barbet, Kidepo Lark (kidepoensis) and Red-pate Cisticola (mongalla), Common Ostrich (camelus), Stone Partridge, Orange River Francolin (lorti), Yellow-necked Spurfowl, Slender-tailed Nightjar, Scarce Swift, Mottled Swift, Nyanza Swift, White-bellied Go-away-bird, White-bellied Bustard (canicollis), Hartlaub’s Bustard, White-browed Coucal (superciliosus), [Lichtenstein’s Sandgrouse (sukensis),] Four-banded Sandgrouse, Emerald-spotted Wood Dove, Secretarybird, Scissor-tailed Kite, Egyptian Vulture, Verreaux’s Eagle, Eastern Chanting Goshawk, Augur Buzzard and Northern White-faced Owl among other raptors, Blue-naped Mousebird (pulcher), Abyssinian Scimitarbill, Northern Red-billed Hornbill, Eastern Yellow-billed Hornbill, Hemprich’s Hornbill, Lilac-breasted Roller, [African Green Bee-eater,] Red-and-yellow Barbet (versicolor), D’Arnaud’s Barbet, Northern Red-fronted Tinkerbird (eupterus), Red-fronted Barbet, Lesser Honeyguide (teitensis), Brown-backed Woodpecker (ingens), Pygmy Falcon, [Greater Kestrel,] Fox Kestrel, Lanner Falcon, Rose-ringed Parakeet, Grey-headed Batis (bella), Pygmy Batis, Slate-colored Boubou, White-crested Helmetshrike (cristatus), Northern White-crowned Shrike, Grey-backed Fiscal (intercedens), Northern Fiscal (humeralis), Fan-tailed Raven, White-bellied Tit, Mouse-colored Penduline Tit, Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark, Singing Bush Lark (marginata), White-tailed Lark, Rufous-naped Lark (tropicalis), Northern Brownbul, Black Saw-wing, Red-throated Rock Martin, African Red-rumped Swallow, Red-faced Crombec (loringi), Rock-loving Cisticola (petrophilus), Boran Cisticola, Wing-snapping Cisticola (imatong), Red-fronted Prinia (smithi), Yellow-bellied Eremomela (griseoflava), Northern Yellow White-eye (gerhardi), Rufous Chatterer, Greater Blue-eared Starling, Superb Starling, Red-winged Starling (rueppellii), Red-billed Oxpecker, White-browed Scrub Robin (leucoptera), African Grey Flycatcher (neumanni), African Stonechat (albofasciatus), Mocking Cliff Chat (subrufipennis), Heuglin’s Wheatear, Familiar Chat (omoensis), Brown-tailed Rock Chat (turkana), Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird, Amethyst Sunbird (kirkii), Hunter’s Sunbird, Marico Sunbird (osiris), Abyssinian Sunbird (turkanae), Yellow-spotted Bush Sparrow, Chestnut Sparrow, White-billed Buffalo Weaver, White-headed Buffalo Weaver, Grey-capped Social Weaver, Black Bishop, [Grey-headed Silverbill,] African Silverbill, Black-cheeked Waxbill, Crimson-rumped Waxbill, Cut-throat Finch, Purple Grenadier, Green-winged Pytilia (soudanensis), Orange-winged Pytilia, Steel-blue Whydah, Straw-tailed Whydah, Long-tailed Paradise Whydah, Long-billed Pipit (hararensis), Reichenow’s Seedeater, Stripe-breasted Seedeater and Cinnamon-breasted Bunting, as well as Eastern Plantain-eater, White-crested Turaco, Black-billed Barbet, Foxy Cisticola, Shelley’s Sparrow, Baglafecht Weaver (emini), Northern Red Bishop and Black-bellied Firefinch, Helmeted Guineafowl, Crested Francolin, Common Quail, Harlequin Quail, Freckled Nightjar, Black-bellied Bustard, Senegal Coucal, Black Coucal, Great Spotted Cuckoo, Vinaceous Dove, Black-billed Wood Dove, Bruce’s Green Pigeon, African Crake, Black-headed Lapwing, Bronze-winged Courser, Dwarf Bittern, Dark Chanting Goshawk, Grasshopper Buzzard, Pearl-spotted Owlet, Greyish Eagle-Owl, Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl, Common Hoopoe (waibeli), Green Wood Hoopoe, Black Scimitarbill, Abyssinian Ground Hornbill, African Grey Hornbill, Purple Roller, Abyssinian Roller, Grey-headed Kingfisher, Striped Kingfisher, Swallow-tailed Bee-eater, Northern Carmine Bee-eater, Spot-flanked Barbet, White-headed Barbet, Greater Honeyguide, Nubian Woodpecker, Cardinal Woodpecker, Grey Kestrel, Red-necked Falcon, Meyer’s Parrot, Western Black-headed Batis, Orange-breasted Bushshrike (similis), Brown-crowned Tchagra, Black-crowned Tchagra, Black-headed Gonolek, Brubru, Western Oriole, Black-headed Oriole, African Golden Oriole, Yellow-billed Shrike, Piapiac, Flappet Lark, Mosque Swallow, Moustached Grass Warbler, Northern Crombec, Fan-tailed Grassbird, Rattling Cisticola, Winding Cisticola, Croaking Cisticola, Black-backed Cisticola, Buff-bellied Warbler, Brown Babbler, Wattled Starling, Lesser Blue-eared Starling, Bronze-tailed Starling, Rüppell’s Starling, Yellow-billed Oxpecker, Silverbird, Sooty Chat, White-fronted Black Chat, Pygmy Sunbird, Beautiful Sunbird, White-browed Sparrow-Weaver, Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver, Speckle-fronted Weaver, Red-headed Weaver, Cardinal Quelea, Red-billed Quelea, Black-winged Red Bishop, White-winged Widowbird, Fawn-breasted Waxbill, Red-winged Pytilia, Black-faced Firefinch, Plain-backed Pipit and Brown-rumped Bunting
Pian Upe, Bokora and Matheniko Wildlife Reserves and Mount Moroto Foothills for Karamoja Apalis and Fox’s Weaver, [Sombre Nightjar,] Kori Bustard, Buff-crested Bustard, Quail-plover, Black-throated Barbet, Pallid Honeyguide, Three-streaked Tchagra, Taita Fiscal, Acacia Tit, [Fischer’s Sparrow-Lark, Pink-breasted Lark,] Fawn-colored Lark (intercedens), Rattling Cisticola (humilis), Lynes’s Cisticola, Tiny Cisticola, Pale Prinia, Yellow-breasted Apalis (flavocincta), Grey Wren-Warbler, Yellow-vented Eremomela, Bristle-crowned Starling, Magpie Starling, Little Rock Thrush, Parrot-billed Sparrow, Red-billed Buffalo Weaver, Chestnut Weaver, Blue-capped Cordon-bleu, Jameson’s Firefinch, West African Seedeater (elgonensis), White-bellied Canary [and Somali Bunting], as well as Common Ostrich, Clapperton’s Spurfowl, Black Coucal, Grey Crowned Crane, White-headed Barbet, Yellow-billed Shrike, Kidepo Lark, White-tailed Lark, Boran Cisticola, Red-pate Cisticola, Foxy Cisticola, Green-backed Eremomela, Silverbird, Shelley’s Sparrow, Golden-backed Weaver, Cardinal Quelea, Black Bishop, Northern Red Bishop and Fawn-breasted Waxbill among other taxa
Mount Elgon for Elgon Francolin and Jackson’s Spurfowl, Montane Nightjar (poliocephalus), Hartlaub’s Turaco, Eastern Bronze-naped Pigeon, Moustached Tinkerbird, Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird (jacksoni), [Taita Falcon, Red-fronted Parrot,] White-bellied Tit, Joyful Greenbul, Black Saw-wing (massaica), Brown Woodland Warbler (mackenzianus), Evergreen Forest Warbler (mariae), Highland Rush Warbler (elgonensis), Hunter’s Cisticola, Banded Prinia (melanops), Black-collared Apalis, African Hill Babbler (abyssinica), Brown Parisoma (jacksoni), Northern Yellow White-eye (jacksoni), African Spotted Creeper (salvadori), Red-winged Starling (morio), Abyssinian Ground Thrush (piaggiae), Abyssinian Thrush (abyssinicus), White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher (fischeri), White-starred Robin (elgonensis), Cape Robin-Chat (iolaemus), Moorland Chat (ernesti), Tacazze Sunbird (jacksoni), Golden-winged Sunbird (reichenowi), Variable Sunbird (falkensteini), Baglafecht Weaver (reichenowi), Oriole Finch (elgonensis), Southern Citril (brittoni), Thick-billed Seedeater (kilimensis) and Streaky Seedeater (striolata), as well as Western Crested Guineafowl, Scaly Spurfowl, Scarce Swift, Alpine Swift, Great Blue Turaco, Ross’s Turaco, African Emerald Cuckoo, African Olive Pigeon, Lemon Dove, Dusky Turtle Dove, Ayres’s Hawk-Eagle, Mountain Buzzard, [Red-chested Owlet,] Narina Trogon, [Bar-tailed Trogon, Forest Wood Hoopoe,] White-headed Wood Hoopoe, Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill, Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater, Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet, Grey-throated Barbet, Least Honeyguide, Scaly-throated Honeyguide, Fine-banded Woodpecker, Chinspot Batis, Black-throated Wattle-eye, Doherty’s Bushshrike, Pink-footed Puffback, Lühder’s Bushshrike, Grey Cuckooshrike, Purple-throated Cuckooshrike, Western Oriole, Mountain Oriole, Mackinnon’s Shrike, White-necked Raven, African Blue Flycatcher, White-tailed Blue Flycatcher, White-tailed Crested Flycatcher, Slender-billed Greenbul, [Shelley’s Greenbul (kakamegae),] Kikuyu Mountain Greenbul, Yellow-whiskered Greenbul, Cabanis’s Greenbul, White-headed Saw-wing, Red-throated Rock Martin, White-browed Crombec (leucophrys), Mountain Yellow Warbler, [Bamboo Warbler,] Cinnamon Bracken Warbler, Chubb’s Cisticola, White-chinned Prinia, Black-throated Apalis, Chestnut-throated Apalis, Buff-throated Apalis, Grey Apalis, Black-faced Rufous Warbler, Mountain Illadopsis, [Grey-chested Babbler,] Slender-billed Starling, Waller’s Starling, Stuhlmann’s Starling, African Dusky Flycatcher, Brown-chested Alethe, Equatorial Akalat, Northern Double-collared Sunbird, Bronze Sunbird, Black-billed Weaver, Brown-capped Weaver, Dark-backed Weaver, Yellow-bellied Waxbill, Grey-headed Nigrita, Abyssinian Crimsonwing, Black-crowned Waxbill, Kandt’s Waxbill, Mountain Wagtail, Western Citril and Yellow-crowned Canary

TIMING (Jan, Jul–Aug)
Best when it is dry in the south (Dec–Feb, Jul–Sep) and wet in the north (Jul–Sep)
Green-breasted Pitta is best Jul–Aug
Afro-Palearctic migrants are present Oct–Mar
Avoid the main rains in the south (Mar–May, Oct–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)
Birds of Eastern Africa by Ber Van Perlo (2009)
Birds of Uganda: a Perfect Safari Companion by Quentin Meunier & Sherry McKelvie (2015)
Pocket Guide Birds of East Africa by Dave Richards (2016)
Collins Traveller’s Guide to Wildlife of Kenya, Tanzania & Uganda by David Hosking & Martin Withers (2007) is a pocket-sized photographic guide covering over 475 commonly-seen species of birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, insects, trees and flowers

Sounds
African Bird Sounds Vol 2: West and Central Africa by Claude Chappuis
100 Common Bird Calls in East Africa by Dave Richards & Brian Finch

Site guides
Where to Watch Birds in Uganda by Jonathan Rossouw & Marco Sacchi (1998)
Where to Watch Birds in World Cities by Paul Milne (2006) covers sites in and around Kampala and Entebbe
10,000 Birds’ How to Bird Murchison Falls by Mike Bergin (2019)

Atlases
African Bird Atlas Project
The Bird Atlas of Uganda by Margaret Carswell, Derek Pomeroy, Jake Reynolds & Herbert Tushabe (2005)

Further reading
The State of Uganda’s Birds: Indicators of Our Changing Environment compiled and edited by Achilles Byaruhanga, Dianah Nalwanga & Michael Opige Oduli (2014)
Uganda by Achilles Byaruhanga, Pantaleon Kasoma & Derek Pomeroy in Important Bird Areas in Africa and Associated Islands: Priority Sites for Conservation edited by Lincoln D C Fishpool & Michael I Evans (2001)
Birds of the Kampala Area by Margaret Carswell (1986) with an Update by NatureUganda (2012)
Towards Developing Sustainable, Biodiversity-Rich Agricultural Systems in Uganda by D E Chamberlain, R Katebaka, I Senfuma, D Pomeroy, D Nalwanga-Wabire, A Byaruhanga, P W Atkinson & J A Vickery (2009)
Uganda Wildlife Trafficking Assessment by Alessandra Rossi (2018)
Birds of East Africa: Their Habitat, Status and Distribution edited by P L Britton (1980)
The Breeding Seasons of East African Birds by L H Brown & P L Britton (1980)
Articles in Scopus, Journal of East African Natural History, Bull. ABC, The Naturalist (NatureUganda newsletter), African Skimmer, etc.

Websites
Birding Uganda
Uganda Bird Guides: Uganda Birding Information, Tips & Resources
UNESCO World Heritage List: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and Rwenzori Mountains National Park
Venture Uganda

Facebook groups
Birds of Uganda

Blogs
Birding Uganda by Derek Kverno (2015-2017)
Bukoba Steve’s Uganda Birding Blog (2016-2017)
Some of Uganda’s Top Birding and Wildlife Sites by Harriet Kemigisha (2020)

ORGANISATIONS

NatureUganda is the BirdLife Partner in Uganda

The Ringing Scheme of Eastern Africa coordinates and promotes bird ringing (banding) throughout the East African region and beyond through issuing of rings to qualified ringers, curating ringing data and tracking ring recoveries

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 Uganda include –
Uganda Wildlife Society (UWS)
The Environmental Conservation Trust of Uganda (ECOTRUST)
Uganda Conservation Foundation (UCF)
Uganda Wildlife Education Centre (UWEC)
A Rocha Uganda
Endangered Wildlife Conservation Organisation (EWCO)
Avian Conservation Uganda (ACUS)
Uganda Safari Guides Association
Uganda Bird Guides Club
Uganda Women Birders
Bwindi Mgahinga Conservation Trust (BMCT) 
Fort Portal Bird Guides Association
Village Bird Clubs – Kibale Forest
Musambwa Islands Joint Conservation Organisation (MIJCO)
Mabamba Wetland Eco-tourism Association (MWETA)
Lutembe Wetland Users Association (LWUA)
Katwe Tourism Information Centre (KATIC)
Albertine Rift Conservation Society (ARCOS)
NABU
Fauna & Flora International (FFI)
WWF Uganda
WCS Uganda

The Makerere University Institute of Environment and Natural Resources (MUIENR) in Kampala promotes the management of environmental and natural resources through training and research
Within MUIENR, the National Biodiversity Databank (NBDB) monitors the national biological resources in Uganda, including the country’s birds, and provides information to all those interested in the conservation and sustainable utilisation of these resources