Birds of Uganda

List of Common Birds Found in Uganda

Native Birds

• Abyssinian Ground Hornbill 
• Abyssinian Roller 
• African Black Crake
• African Black-headed Oriole
• African Blue Flycatcher
• African Broadbill
• African Crowned Crane
• African Crowned Eagle
• African Darter
• African Emerald Cuckoo
• African Finfoot 
• African Firefinch
• African Fish Eagle
• African Golden-breasted Bunting
• African Golden Oriole
• African Goshawk
• African Gray Flycatcher
• African Gray Hornbill
• African Gray Parrot
• African Green Broadbill 
• African Green Pigeon
• African Harrier-hawk
• African Jacana
• African Mourning Dove
• African Palm Swift
• African Paradise Flycatcher
• African Pied Hornbill
• African Pygmy Goose
• African Pygmy Kingfisher
• African Reed Warbler
• African Sacred Ibis 
• African Spoonbill
• African Stonechat
• African Thrush
• African Wattled Lapwing
• Angola Swallow
• Bar-tailed Trogon
• Bateleur
• Beautiful Sunbird 
• Black-and-white Casqued Hornbill
• Black Bee-eater 
• Black-bellied Seedcracker
• Black-billed Barbet
• Black-breasted Barbet
• Black Crake
• Black-faced Waxbill
• Black-headed Gonolek
• Black-headed Heron
• Black-lored Babbler
• Black-throated Wattle-eye
• Black-winged Red Bishop
• Blue-breasted Kingfisher
• Blue-naped Mousebird
• Blue-spotted Wood Dove
• Brown-backed Scrub Robin
• Brown Parrot
• Brown-throated Martin
• Brown-throated Wattle-eye
• Buff-bellied Warbler
• Chocolate-Backed Kingfisher
• Chubb’s Cisticola
• Collared Sunbird
• Common Hoopoe 
• Common Ostrich 
• Common Waxbill
• Crested Crane
• Dark-capped Yellow Warbler
• Doherty’s Bushshrike
• Dusky Turtle Dove
• Eastern Gray Plantain-eater
• Giant Kingfisher
• Goliath Heron 
• Gray Crowned Crane
• Gray-headed Kingfisher
• Gray Kestrel
• Gray-throated Barbet
• Great Blue Turaco
• Greater Flamingo
• Great White Pelican
• Green-backed Camaroptera
• Green-Breasted Pitta 
• Green Wood Hoopoe
• Hadada Ibis
• Hamerkop 
• Handsome Francolin
• Helmeted Guinea Fowl 
• Hildebrandt’s Francolin
• Hooded Vulture 
• Lesser Flamingo
• Lesser Striped Swallow
• Lilac-breasted Roller
• Little Bee-eater
• Little Grebe
• Long-crested Eagle
• Lühder’s Bushshrike
• Marabou Stork
• Northern Carmine Bee-eater
• Northern Red-billed Hornbill 
• Northern Red Bishop
• Nubian Woodpecker
• Pied Crow 
• Pied Kingfisher
• Pink-backed Pelican
• Pin-tailed Whydah 
• Purple-breasted Sunbird
• Purple Roller
• Red-chested Cuckoo
• Red-chested Sunbird
• Red-eyed Dove
• Red-faced Barbet
• Red-faced Cisticola
• Red-throated Bee-eater
• Red-throated Wryneck
• Ross’s Turaco
• Saddle-billed Stork
• Scaly-throated Honeyguide
• Secretary Bird
• Shelley’s Crimsonwing
• Shoebill
• Short-tailed warbler
• Speckled Mousebird
• Speckled Pigeon 
• Standard-winged Nightjar
• Superb Starling
• Verreaux’s Eagle-owl
• Village Weaver 
• Wahlberg’s Eagle
• White-backed Vulture
• White-bellied Kingfisher
• White-breasted Cuckooshrike
• White-browed Coucal
• White-browed Robin-chat
• White-chinned Prinia
• White-crested Turaco
• White-crowned Lapwing
• White-headed Barbet
• White-headed Vulture
• White-headed Woodhoopoe
• White-tailed Lark
• White-throated Bee Eater 
• White-winged Black Tit
• White-winged Warbler
• Woodland Kingfisher 
• Yellow-billed Kite
• Yellow-billed Oxpecker
• Yellow-billed Stork
• Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird

Non-native Birds

• African Citril
• Capped Wheatear
• Gambaga Flycatcher
• House Sparrow
• Magpie Starling
• Rock Pigeon
• Sassi’s Greenbul
• Somali Bunting
• Tawny Pipit

Some of Uganda’s best places to go birding include Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Queen Elizabeth National Park, and Murchison Falls National Park. The peak season for birdwatching in Uganda generally coincides with the country’s two dry seasons (December to February and June to August), which offer the best birding conditions and opportunities for spotting various species.