14th – 27th/Aug/2022
Uganda birding and wildlife safari with Epic Uganda Vacation.
Summary: An amazing trip with lush green vegetation and somewhat dry savannah made us visit different sites such as Mabamba swamp, Ziwa rhino sanctuary, Murchison fall national park, kibale forest national park, Queen Elizabeth national park, Bwindi impenetrable national park, Mgahinga gorilla national park, lake bunyonyi, lake Mburo national park.
Tips on this tour. We did not details everything here on each bird however we believe everyone will enjoy checking through on our list. I am pretty sure Birds can be seen everywhere in Uganda except for certain species such as albertine endemics and others like shoebill. Be sure to have fun on your birding excursion with us. While on this tour many animal were seen such as elephants, leopards, lions, buffaloes, Rhinos, hippos, Uganda Kobs, Hyenas, Giraffes, Tops and elands among others
TOPIC: Birds, Gorillas, shoebill, general wildlife and much more…..
With Guides: Niwamanya Moses, Stephen Ingraham and Gordon Tumukwasibwe, Liza, Tanya, Stanley wallen and Doug
Location;
Day 1: Entebbe Airport
Day 2: Mabamba and Entebbe botanical gardens
Day 3: Ziwa Rhino sanctuary
Day 4: Royal mile budongo
Day 5: Murchison falls national park
Day 6: Kibale national park forest edges
Day 7: bigodi swamp I kibale national park
Day 8: Travel to QENP I Equator crossing I boat cruise
Day 9: Excursion and Ishasha
Day 10: travel to Bwindi NP
Day 11: Bwindi gorilla trekking
Day 12: Mgahinga gorilla national park
Day 13: Bunyonyi-Mburo Np
Day 14: Mburo Np-EBB
BIRDS;
PODICIPDEDAE CREBES
LITTLE CREBES Techbaptus ruficollis
Pelecanidae PELICANS
PINK-BACKED PELICAN Pelacanus restfescens
Phalacroracidae COMORANTS
Great cormorant Phalaracrocorax carbo
Long tailed cormorant Phalacrocorax Africanus
ARDEIDAE HERONS, BITTERNS & EGRETS
Gray heron Ardea cinerea
Black-Headed Heron Ardea Melanocephala
Gorilath Heron Ardea Goriath
Purple heron ardea pupurea
Greaty Egret Ardea Alba
Black Heron Egretta Ardeasiaca
Intermediate Egret Egretta Intermedia
Little Egret Egretta Garzetta
Squacco heron Ardeola ralloides
Madagascar pond heron Ardeola idea vulture
Rufous Bellied heron Ardeola Refuventris
Cattle egret Bublcus ibis
Striated heron Butorides straita
Black-crowned Night Heron Garachiue Leuconotus
SCOPIDAE HAMERKOP
Hamerkop Scopus Umberetta
CIOCONIIDAE STORKS
African open billed stork
Yellow-billed stork mycteria ibis(4)
Black stork ciconia nigra(1)
Saddle billed stork Ephippiorhychus senegalensis (6)
Balaenicipididea SHOEBILL
Shoebill balaenicips rex (1)
Threskionithiadae IBIS & SPOONBILLS
Sacred ibis Threskiornis Aethiopicus (3)
Hadada Ibis Bostrychua hagadash(11)
Glossy ibis (1)
Anatidae DUCKS, TEALS & POCHARDS
White faced whistling duck Dendrocygna viduata (1)
Egyptian goos Alopochen Aegyptiacus 950
African black duck Anas penelope(1)
Yellow-billed stork(1)
Pandionidae OSPREY
Ospery (1)
Accipitridae KITES, VOLUTURES, SANKE, EAGLES, EAGLES, BUZZARDS & HARRIERS
Black-Shouldered Eagle (4)
Black kite Milvus migrans(3)
African fish eagle Haliaeetus vocifer(5)
Palm nut vulture Gypohierax angolensis(3)
Hooded vulture Necrosyrtes monachus(1)
Egyptian vulture neophron percnopterus(2)
White backed vulture gyps africanus(1)
Lappet faced vulture Tracheliotus vulnerable(1)
White headed vulture Tigonoceps occipitalis(6)
Black-breasted snake-eagle Circaetus Vulnerable(3)
Bateleur Terathopius Ecaudatus(4)
African marsh Harrier (4)
Lizard buzzard Kaupifalco Monogrammeicus(5)
Little sparrowhawk Accipiter Minullus(1)
Mountain buzzard Buteo Oreophilus(2)
Brown snake eagle (1)
Augur Buzzard Buteo Auger (3)
Lesser sported eagle Aquila Rapex (1)
Tawny Eagle Acquila Rapex(1)
African Hawk Eagle Aquila spilogaster
Martial eagle pilemaetus Bellicosus(1)
Long crested eagle Lophatus pccipitalis(4)
Gray kestrel Falco Ardosiaceus (3)
Sooty Falcon Falco concolor (3)
Lanner Falcon Falco Biarmicus(1)
FRANCOLINS & QUAILS Phasianidae
Cresting francolin francolinus streptophuorus(2)
Ring necked francolin francolinus afer(1)
Scaly francolin francolinus squamatus(2)
Gray crowned crane Balearica regulorum(4)
Rallidae COOTS, MOORHENS, CRAKES, FLUFTAILS
Buff-spotted flufftails sorothrura pulchra(1)
Black crake Amaurornis Flavirostiris (6)
Purple swamphen porphyria porphyria (1)
Gruidae CRANES
Gray crowned –crane balearica regulorum(5)
Attidae BUSTARDS
Stanley bustard Ardeotis kori(1)
Black-bellied Bustard lessotis melanogaster(20
Jacanidae JACANAS
Afrivcan jacan Actophilornis Hartlaubii(5)
Burhinidae THICKNEES
Water thicknee burhinus verniculatus(4)
Eurasian thick-nee Burhinus oedicnemus(2)
Senegal thick-nee Burhinus senagalensis (3)
Glareolidae COURSERS & PRACTICOLES
Rock practicole Glareola Nuchalis(1)
Charadriidae PLOVERS & LAPWINGS
Long-Toed Lapwing Vanellus (1)
Spur-winged plover Vanellus spinosus(5)
Senegal lapwing venellus lugubris(1)
Common ring plover charadius Haiticula (1)
Forbes Plover charadrius Forbes(1)
Scolopacidae SNIPWITS, SHARKS, SANDPIPERS
Common green shank Tringa Nebularia(2)
Common sandpiper Actitis Hypoleucos(2)
Laridae GULLS
Gray headed gull Larus Cirrocephalus(1)
Columbidae PIGEONS & DOVE
Rock pigeon clolumbia livia (3)
African green pigeon (2)
Speckled pigeon Coluba guinea(1)
African mourning dove streptopelia decipiens (3)
Red-eyed dove streptopdelia semitorquata(7)
Ring-necked dove streptopelia capicola (3)
Laughing dove streptopelia senegalensis (4)
Black billed wood dove Turtur Abyssinicus (1)
Tambourine dove Turtur Tympanistria(3)
Blue-spotted wood-dove Turtur afer(2)
Namaqua dove Oena Capensis (1)
African green-pigeon treron calva (2)
Psittacidae PARROTS AND LOVE BIRDS
Red-headed lovebird Agapornis pullarius()
Grey parrot psittacus Erithacus (2)
Brown-necked parrot Poicehalus robustus (1)
Musophagiadae TURACOS, GOAWAYS & PLANTAIN EATERS.
Great blue turaco corythaelo Cristata(6)
Black-bulled turaco tauraco schuetti
Ross’s turaco Musophaga rossae
Eastern grey plantain eater crinizer zonnurus(5)
Cuculidae CUCKOOS & COUCALS
Pied cuckoo clamator jacobinus
Red-chested cuckoo Cuculus solitaries
Dusky long-tailed cuckoo Cerococcx montanus
Diedrick cuckoo
Klass cuckoo
White browed coucal Centrapus supercilious
Apodidae SWIFTS
African palm-swift Tachymarptis Melba(2)
Common swift Apus Apus(4)
African swift Apus Barbatus (6)
Little swift Apus Affinis (4)
White rumped swift Apus caffer
Collidae MOUSE BIRDS
Speckled mouse birds Colius striatus(9)
Blue-napedbmouse birds Urocoliys Macrourus(1)
Trigonidae TROGONS
Bar tailed tragob Apaloderma vitatum
Alcedininidae KINGFISHER
Malachite king fisher Alcedo cristata (5)
African pygm-kingfisher Ispidina picta(1)
Chocolate backed kingfisher Halcyonn Badia
Dwarf kingfisher Isipidina Lecontei(1)
Blue-breasted kingfisher Halcyon malimbiaca(1)
Woodland kingfisher Halcyon senegalensis (5)
Giant kingfisher Megaceryle mazimus(1)
Pied kingfisher Ceryle Rudis(5)
Merpidae BEE–EATERS
Red-throated beeEaters merops gularis (1)
Red-throated bee eater Merops Bulocki(1)
Little bee eater Merops Variegatus(1)
Blue-breasted Bee-eater Merops oreobates(2)
White throated bee-eater Merops persicus(2)
Madagascar bee-eater Merops Supercillious(2)
Northern carmine bee-Eater Merops Nubiscus(1)
Coraciidae ROLLERS
Broad billed roller Eurystomus Gaucurus (2)
Lilac breasted rollers Coracias Caudata(1)
Bucerotidae HORNBILLS
Crowned hornbill Tockus alboterminatus (1)
African grey billed hornbill Tockus nasutus
White-thighed hornbill Ceratogymna Fistulator(1)
Abyssinian gorund hornbill Bucorvus Abyssinicus (1)
Black and white casqued hornbill Ceratogymna subcylindricus (5)
Capitonidae BARBERS & TINKER BIRDS
Gray throated Barbet Gymnobucco Bonapartei(1)
Speckled Tinkled Pogoniulus Scolopaceus(2)
Western tinkerbird pogoniulus Leucomystax(1)
Yellow throated tinkerbird pogoniulus subsulphureus(1)
Yellow rumped tinkerbird Pogoniulus Bilineatus(9)
Yellow fronted tinkerbird pogoniulus Chryscoconus (4)
Yellow spotted barbet Buccadon Duchaillui(1)
White headed barbet Lybius Leucocephalus(1)
Double toothed barbet Lybius Rollet (7)
Indicatoridae HONEYGUIDE
Scaly throated honey Guide Indicator varegatus(1)
Least honey guide Indicator Exillis(1)
Pididae WOODPECKERS
Tullbergs woodpecker Campethera Ellioti(1)
Buff spotted wood pecker Campethera nivosa(1)
Brown eared woodpecker Campathera Carol(1)
Cardinal wood pecker dendropicos Poecilolaemus(1)
Golden crowned woodpecker Dendropicos xantholophus(1)
Gray woodpecker Dendropicos goertae (1)
Olive woodpecker dendropicos Griseocephalus(1)
Alaudidae LARKS
Flppet lark Mirafra cinnamomesa(2)
Hirundinidaeb SWALLOWS AND MARTINS
Bank swallows Riparia Riparia(1)
Gray rumped swallow PseudrhirundoGriseopygula(1)
Barn swallow Hirundo Rustica(4)
Angola swallow Hirundo Angolensis(1)
Wire tailed swallow Hirundo smithi(4)
Lesser striped swallow Cecropis Abyssinica(3)
Mosque swallow Cecropis senegalensis (3)
White-headed sawing Psalidoprocne Albiceps(3)
Black sawing Psalidoprocne Prestoptera(5)
Motacilidae WAGTAILS, LONGCLAWS AND PIPITS
African pied wagtail Motacilla Alba(9)
Yellow throated longclaw Macronyx Croceus(2)
Glassland pipit(1)
Compehagidae CUCKOO SHRIKES
Gray cuckoo shrike Coracina caesia(1)
Petit’s cuckoo shrike Compephaga Petiti(2)
Pycnonotidae GREENBULLS
Common bulbul Pyconotus Barbatus (8)
Little greenbul Andropadus Virens (3)
Ansorg’s Greenbul Andropadus Ansorgei (1)
Slender-billed Greenbul Andropadus Gracilirostris(3)
Eastern mountain greenbul Andropadus Nigriceps (2)
Honey guide Greenbul Baecopogon Indicator(1)
Yellow throated greenbul Chlorochlas Flavicollis(2)
Joyful greenbull chlorochlas Laetissima(1)
Green tailed blistle bill Bleda Eximia(1)
Turididae THRUSH & ALETHE
Red tailed ant thrush Neocossyphus Angolensis(1)
Olive thrush turdus oliveceus(1)
African thrush turdus pelios(5)
Brown chested alethe (alethe polocephala(1)
Cisticolidae CISTICOLAS, PRINIAS, APALIS AND CAMEROPTERA
Red-faced cisticola Cisticola Erythrops(6)
Singing cisticola Cisticola cantans (2)
Whistling cisticola Cisticola Lateralis(1)
Winding cisticola cisticola Galactotes(5)
Stout cisticola Cisticola Robustus (1)
Zitting cisticola cisticola Troglodytes(1)
Tawny flanked prinia pirnia subflava(3)
White chinned prinia prinia Leucopogon (1)
Banded prinia Prinia Bairdii(2)
Ruwenzori Apalis Apalis Ruwenzori(1)
Black faced Apalis Apalis Personata (3)
Chestnut throated Apalis Apalis Porphyrolaema(3)
Gray capped warbler Eminia Lepada (3)
Green backed cameroptera Camaroptera Brachyura(5)
Sylviidae SYLVIA WARBLERS, CROMBECKA & EREMOMELAS
Cinnamon bracked warbler Bradypterus Cinnamomeus(1)
Black faced Rufous warbler Barthmocerus Rufus(1)
Mountain yellow warbler Chloroptera similis(1)
Uganda woodland warbler(1)
Rufous crowned eremomela Eremomela Badiceps(1)
Green crombec sylvietta wirens(1)
White browed crombec Sylvietta Leucophyura(2)
Northern crombec Sylvietta Brachyura(1)
Red faced woodland warbler Phylloscopus laetus(1)
Muscicapidae FLYCATCHERS, ROBINS,WHEATEARS AND CHATS
Silver bird Embidornis semipartitus(1)
White eyed slaty flycatcher Melaenornis Fisheri(2)
Northern black –flycatcher Melaenornis Edolioides(4)
Sooty fly catcher Fraseria Ocreata(1)
Swamp flycatcher Muscicapa Aquatica (4)
African dusky flycatcher Muscicapa Adustra(2)
Ashy flycatcher Muscicapa Caerulescens(2)
Gray throated tit flycatcher Myoparus Griseigularis(2)
White starred robin Pogococishla Stellae (1)
Archers robin chat Cossypha Archeri(H)
White browed robinchat Cossypha Heugluni(8)
Snow capped robinchat Cossypha Niveicapilla(3)
Forest scrub robin Cercotrichas Hrtlaubi(1)
African stone chat Saxicola Torquata(1)
Sooty chat Myrmecocichla Arnotti(2)
Platysteiridae BATTIS, SHRIKES FLYCATCHER AND WATTLE EYES
Black white shrike flycatcher Bias Musicus (4)
Brown throated wattle eye Playsteira Cyanea (6)
Ruwenzori batis Batis Diops(1)
Chinspot batis batis Molitor(2)
Ituri batis Batis Ituriensis(1)
Monarchidae Monarch FLYCATCHERS
African blue Flycatcher Elminia longicauda(3)
White tailed blue flycatcher Elmminia Albicauda(6)
White bellied crested flycatcher Elmina Albiventris(1)
Black headed paradise flycatcher Terpsiphone Tefiventer(3)
African paradise flycatcher Terpsiphone Viridis(2)
Tamalidae ILLADOPSES & BABBLERS
African hill babbler Illadopsis Abyssinica(2)
Paridae TITS
Strip breasted tit Melaniparur Fasciiventer(1)
Nectarinidae sunbirds
Green sunbird Anthrepets Rectirostris(1)
Collared sunbird Hedydipna Collaris(4)
Green headed sunbird Cyanomitra Olivacea(6)
Blue headed sunbird Cyanomitra Alinae(1)
Green throated sunbird Chalcomitra Rubbescens(1)
Scarlet chested sunbird Chalcomitra senegalensis(3)
Bronze sunbirdNectalinia Kilimmensia(5)
Stuhlmans sunbird Cinnyris Stuhlmanni Endemic (1)
Northern double collared sunbird Cinnyris Preussi(3)
Regal sunbird Cinnyris Regius Afer (6)
Redchested sunbird(5)
Variable sunbird Cinnyris Venustus(4)
Copper sunburd Cinnyris Cupreus(3)
African yellow white eye Zosterops senegalensis(8)
Oriolidae ORIOLES
Western black headed oriole Oriolus suratus(1)
Black tailed oriole Oriole Nigripennis(3)
Laniidae SHRIKES & FISCALS
Gray backed fiscal Lanius Excubitoroided(5)
Common fiscal Lanius collaris(3)
Mackinon’s fiscal lanius Mackinoni(1)
Malaconotidae PUFFBACKS, BOUBOUS, TCHAGRAS & BUSHRIKES.
Red eyed puffback Driscopus Gambensis
Black crowned tchagra Tchagra senegala
Brown crowned tchagra Tchagra Austrailis
Lauhders Bushrike Laniarius Luehderi(2)
Tropic boubou Laniaris Erthrogaster
Papyrus gonolek Laniarius Mufumbiri near(1)
Black headed gonoleka Lanirius Aethiopicus(3)
Gray-green bushrike Telophorus Bocagei(1)
White helmetshrike Prionops Plumatus
Dicruidae Drongo
Fork tailed drongo Dicrurus Adaimilis (2)
Corviade CROW & RAVENS
Piapiac Ptilostomus Afer(3)
Pied crow Corvus Albus (8)
White Necked Raven Corvus Albicollins(1)
Aturniadae STARLING
Splendid Glossy starling Lamprotornis Spendidus(4)
Ruppell’s glossy starling lamprotonis(5)
Purple headed glossy starling Lamprotornis Purpoureiceps(1)
Waller’s starling Onychognathus Walleri(2)
Stuhlmanns starling poeptera Stuhlman’s (1)
Sharps starling Pholia sharpie(1)
Vilots backed starling(4)
Placeidae WEAVERS, WIDOWBIRDS, MALIMBE & BISHOPS
Baglafecht weaver Ploceus Baglafecht(4)
Slender billed weaver Ploceus Pelzelni(2)
Spectacled weaver Ploceus Nigricollis(3)
Strange weaver Ploceusalienus(2)
Holub’s golden weaver Ploceus Xanthops(1)
Village weaver Poleus Cucullatus(2)
Viollet’s black weaver Ploceus Nigerrimus(3)
Black headed weaver Ploceus Melanocephalus(5)
Brown capped weaver Ploceus Insignis(1)
Compact weaver Pachyhantes Supercilliousus(2)
Red bellied malimbe Malimbus Erythrigaster(1)
Black winged bishop Eupletctes Hordeaceus(2)
Black bishop Euplectes Gierowii(4)
Northern red bishop Euplectes Franciscanus(1)
Yellow shouldered windowbird Euplectes Axullaris(2)
Red collared windowbird Euplectes Ardens(1)
Grossbeak weaver Amblyospiza Albifrons(2)
Fan tailed windowbird Euplectes Axillaris(2)
Estildidae FINCHES, PTYILIAS, WAXBILLS & MANKINS
White breasted Negofincsh Nigrita fusconota(3)
Gray headed Negrofincsh Nigrita Canacapilla(4)
White collared olivback Nesocharis Capistrata(1)
Dusky crimson-wing Cryptospiza Jackson(2)
Red billed firefinch Lagonostricta Senegala(4)
Red cheeked cordonblue Uraebinthus Bangalus(3)
Fawn breasted waxbillnEstrilda Paludicola(1)
Common waxbill Estrilda Astrild(4)
Kandt’s waxbill Estrilda Kandti(1)
Bronze mankin spermestes Cucullatus(9)
Black and white manikin Spermestes Bocolor (3)
Viduidae whydahs
Pintailed whydah
PARASITIC WEAVERS Plocedae
Golden breasted bunting Emberiza Flaviverntris(1)
Fringillidae CANARY, SEE EATERS & CITRILS
Yellow crowned canary seinus Flavuvertex(2)
Western citril Serinus Frontalis
(2)brimstone canary sernus Sulphuratus(2)
Streaky seed eater sernus stiolatus(2)
Thick billed seedeater Serinus Birtoni(2)
Passeridae SPARROWS & PETRONIAS
Grey headed sparrow Passer Griseus(8)