Kibale Forest National Park Bird check list : Kibale Forest National Park is listed among the great birding destinations in Uganda hosting over 602 bird species with most of them being forest birds, the park boasts over 6 Albertine endemic bird species and 4 endemic bird species.
Here is a list of birds found in Kibale Forest National Park
ANSERIFORMES: Anatidae
White-faced Whistling-Duck
Fulvous Whistling-Duck
Knob-billed Duck
Egyptian Goose
Spur-winged Goose
African Pygmy-Goose
African Black Duck
Yellow-billed Duck
GALLIFORMES: Numididae
Helmeted Guineafowl
Western Crested Guineafowl
GALLIFORMES: Odontophoridae
Nahan’s Partridge
GALLIFORMES: Phasianidae
Crested Francolin
Ring-necked Francolin
Scaly Spurfowl
Heuglin’s Spurfowl
Red-necked Spurfowl
PHOENICOPTERIFORMES: Phoenicopteridae
Greater Flamingo
PODICIPEDIFORMES: Podicipedidae
Little Grebe
Great Crested Grebe
COLUMBIFORMES: Columbidae
Speckled Pigeon
Afep Pigeon
Rameron Pigeon
Bronze-naped Pigeon
White-naped Pigeon
Lemon Dove
Mourning Collared-Dove
Red-eyed Dove
Ring-necked Dove
Vinaceous Dove
Laughing Dove
Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove
Black-billed Wood-Dove
Blue-spotted Wood-Dove
Tambourine Dove
Bruce’s Green-Pigeon
African Green-Pigeon
OTIDIFORMES: Otididae
Black-bellied Bustard
MUSOPHAGIFORMES: Musophagidae
Great Blue Turaco
Black-billed Turaco
White-crested Turaco
Ross’s Turaco
Bare-faced Go-away-bird
Eastern Plantain-eater
CUCULIFORMES: Cuculidae
Senegal Coucal
Blue-headed Coucal
White-browed Coucal
Black Coucal
Blue Malkoha
Great Spotted Cuckoo
Levaillant’s Cuckoo
Pied Cuckoo
Dideric Cuckoo
Klaas’s Cuckoo
African Emerald Cuckoo
Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo
Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo
Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo
Black Cuckoo
Red-chested Cuckoo
African Cuckoo
CAPRIMULGIFORMES: Caprimulgidae
Pennant-winged Nightjar
Nubian Nightjar
Fiery-necked Nightjar
Swamp Nightjar
Plain Nightjar
Square-tailed Nightjar
CAPRIMULGIFORMES: Apodidae
Mottled Spinetail
Sabine’s Spinetail
Cassin’s Spinetail
Scarce Swift
Alpine Swift
Mottled Swift
Common Swift
African Swift
Little Swift
Horus Swift
White-rumped Swift
African Palm Swift
GRUIFORMES: Sarothruridae
White-spotted Flufftail
GRUIFORMES: Rallidae
African Rail
African Crake
Eurasian Moorhen
Red-knobbed Coot
Black Crake
GRUIFORMES: Heliornithidae
African Finfoot
GRUIFORMES: Gruidae
Gray Crowned-Crane
CHARADRIIFORMES: Burhinidae
Water Thick-knee
CHARADRIIFORMES: Recurvirostridae
Black-winged Stilt
CHARADRIIFORMES: Charadriidae
Long-toed Lapwing
Spur-winged Lapwing
Senegal Lapwing
Crowned Lapwing
Wattled Lapwing
Brown-chested Lapwing
Kittlitz’s Plover
Little Ringed Plover
CHARADRIIFORMES: Jacanidae
African Jacana
CHARADRIIFORMES: Scolopacidae
Ruff
Little Stint
Common Sandpiper
Common Greenshank
Wood Sandpiper
CHARADRIIFORMES: Glareolidae
Collared Pratincole
CHARADRIIFORMES: Laridae
Gray-hooded Gull
Black-headed Gull
Gull-billed Tern
Whiskered Tern
African Skimmer
CICONIIFORMES: Ciconiidae
African Openbill
Abdim’s Stork
African Woolly-necked Stork
Saddle-billed Stork
Marabou Stork
Yellow-billed Stork
SULIFORMES: Anhingidae
African Darter
SULIFORMES: Phalacrocoracidae
Long-tailed Cormorant
Great Cormorant
PELECANIFORMES: Pelecanidae
Great White Pelican
Pink-backed Pelican
PELECANIFORMES: Scopidae
Hamerkop
PELECANIFORMES: Ardeidae
Little Bittern
Dwarf Bittern
Gray Heron
Black-headed Heron
Goliath Heron
Purple Heron
Great Egret
Intermediate Egret
Little Egret
Black Heron
Cattle Egret
Squacco Heron
Rufous-bellied Heron
Striated Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
White-backed Night-Heron
PELECANIFORMES: Threskiornithidae
African Sacred Ibis
Hadada Ibis
African Spoonbill
ACCIPITRIFORMES: Accipitridae
Black-winged Kite
African Harrier-Hawk
Palm-nut Vulture
European Honey-buzzard
African Cuckoo-Hawk
White-headed Vulture
Hooded Vulture
White-backed Vulture
Rüppell’s Griffon
Bateleur
Black-chested Snake-Eagle
Brown Snake-Eagle
Banded Snake-Eagle
Bat Hawk
Crowned Eagle
Martial Eagle
Long-crested Eagle
Wahlberg’s Eagle
Booted Eagle
Ayres’s Hawk-Eagle
Tawny Eagle
Cassin’s Hawk-Eagle
African Hawk-Eagle
Lizard Buzzard
Dark Chanting-Goshawk
Gabar Goshawk
Grasshopper Buzzard
Eurasian Marsh-Harrier
African Marsh-Harrier
Montagu’s Harrier
African Goshawk
Shikra
Little Sparrowhawk
Rufous-breasted Sparrowhawk
Black Goshawk
Black Kite
African Fish-Eagle
Common Buzzard
Mountain Buzzard
Augur Buzzard
STRIGIFORMES: Tytonidae
Barn Owl
STRIGIFORMES: Strigidae
African Scops-Owl
Southern White-faced Owl
Spotted Eagle-Owl
Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl
Pearl-spotted Owlet
Red-chested Owlet
African Wood-Owl
COLIIFORMES: Coliidae
Speckled Mousebird
Blue-naped Mousebird
TROGONIFORMES: Trogonidae
Narina Trogon
Bar-tailed Trogon
BUCEROTIFORMES: Upupidae
Eurasian Hoopoe
BUCEROTIFORMES: Phoeniculidae
Green Woodhoopoe
White-headed Woodhoopoe
Forest Scimitarbill
Common Scimitarbill
BUCEROTIFORMES: Bucorvidae
Abyssinian Ground-Hornbill
BUCEROTIFORMES: Bucerotidae
Red-billed Dwarf Hornbill
Crowned Hornbill
African Pied Hornbill
African Gray Hornbill
White-crested Hornbill
Black Dwarf Hornbill
Black-casqued Hornbill
Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill
White-thighed Hornbill
Piping Hornbill
CORACIIFORMES: Alcedinidae
Shining-blue Kingfisher
Malachite Kingfisher
White-bellied Kingfisher
African Pygmy Kingfisher
African Dwarf Kingfisher
Chocolate-backed Kingfisher
Gray-headed Kingfisher
Woodland Kingfisher
Blue-breasted Kingfisher
Striped Kingfisher
Giant Kingfisher
Pied Kingfisher
CORACIIFORMES: Meropidae
Black Bee-eater
Red-throated Bee-eater
Little Bee-eater
Blue-breasted Bee-eater
Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater
Swallow-tailed Bee-eater
White-throated Bee-eater
Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
Madagascar Bee-eater
European Bee-eater
CORACIIFORMES: Coraciidae
European Roller
Lilac-breasted Roller
Broad-billed Roller
Blue-throated Roller
PICIFORMES: Lybiidae
Yellow-billed Barbet
Gray-throated Barbet
Speckled Tinkerbird
Red-rumped Tinkerbird
Yellow-throated Tinkerbird
Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird
Red-fronted Tinkerbird
Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird
Yellow-spotted Barbet
Hairy-breasted Barbet
Red-fronted Barbet
Spot-flanked Barbet
White-headed Barbet
Red-faced Barbet
Black-billed Barbet
Double-toothed Barbet
PICIFORMES: Indicatoridae
Cassin’s Honeyguide
Wahlberg’s Honeyguide
Zenker’s Honeyguide
Dwarf Honeyguide
Willcocks’s Honeyguide
Least Honeyguide
Lesser Honeyguide
Scaly-throated Honeyguide
Greater Honeyguide
PICIFORMES: Picidae
Rufous-necked Wryneck
Elliot’s Woodpecker
Speckle-breasted Woodpecker
Cardinal Woodpecker
Bearded Woodpecker
Golden-crowned Woodpecker
Brown-backed Woodpecker
African Gray Woodpecker
Olive Woodpecker
Brown-eared Woodpecker
Buff-spotted Woodpecker
Tullberg’s Woodpecker
Nubian Woodpecker
Golden-tailed Woodpecker
FALCONIFORMES: Falconidae
Eurasian Kestrel
Gray Kestrel
Eurasian Hobby
African Hobby
Lanner Falcon
Peregrine Falcon
PSITTACIFORMES: Psittaculidae
Red-headed Lovebird
PSITTACIFORMES: Psittacidae
Gray Parrot
Brown-necked Parrot
Meyer’s Parrot
PASSERIFORMES: Calyptomenidae
African Broadbill
PASSERIFORMES: Pittidae
African Pitta
Green-breasted Pitta
PASSERIFORMES: Campephagidae
Gray Cuckooshrike
Black Cuckooshrike
Petit’s Cuckooshrike
Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike
Purple-throated Cuckooshrike
PASSERIFORMES: Oriolidae
African Golden Oriole
Western Black-headed Oriole
African Black-headed Oriole
Black-tailed Oriole
Black-winged Oriole
PASSERIFORMES: Platysteiridae
Brown-throated Wattle-eye
Black-throated Wattle-eye
Chestnut Wattle-eye
Jameson’s Wattle-eye
Chinspot Batis
Western Black-headed Batis
Ituri Batis
PASSERIFORMES: Vangidae
African Shrike-flycatcher
Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher
PASSERIFORMES: Malaconotidae
Northern Puffback
Pink-footed Puffback
Marsh Tchagra
Black-crowned Tchagra
Brown-crowned Tchagra
Lühder’s Bushshrike
Tropical Boubou
Black-headed Gonolek
Papyrus Gonolek
Slate-colored Boubou
Gray-green Bushshrike
Sulphur-breasted Bushshrike
Many-colored Bushshrike
Doherty’s Bushshrike
PASSERIFORMES: Dicruridae
Fork-tailed Drongo
Velvet-mantled Drongo
PASSERIFORMES: Monarchidae
Blue-headed Crested-Flycatcher
African Crested-Flycatcher
Black-headed Paradise-Flycatcher
African Paradise-Flycatcher
PASSERIFORMES: Laniidae
Red-backed Shrike
Isabelline Shrike
Lesser Gray Shrike
Gray-backed Fiscal
Mackinnon’s Shrike
Northern Fiscal
Woodchat Shrike
White-rumped Shrike
PASSERIFORMES: Corvidae
Piapiac
Pied Crow
White-necked Raven
PASSERIFORMES: Hyliotidae
Yellow-bellied Hyliota
PASSERIFORMES: Stenostiridae
African Blue Flycatcher
White-tailed Blue Flycatcher
Dusky Crested-Flycatcher
White-tailed Crested-Flycatcher
PASSERIFORMES: Paridae
White-winged Black-Tit
Dusky Tit
PASSERIFORMES: Remizidae
African Penduline-Tit
PASSERIFORMES: Alaudidae
Rufous-naped Lark
Flappet Lark
White-tailed Lark
Red-capped Lark
PASSERIFORMES: Nicatoridae
Western Nicator
Yellow-throated Nicator
PASSERIFORMES: Macrosphenidae
Green Crombec
Lemon-bellied Crombec
White-browed Crombec
Northern Crombec
Red-faced Crombec
Moustached Grass-Warbler
Yellow Longbill
Gray Longbill
Green Hylia
Tit-hylia
PASSERIFORMES: Cisticolidae
Yellow-vented Eremomela
Green-backed Eremomela
Rufous-crowned Eremomela
Red-winged Gray Warbler
White-chinned Prinia
Green-backed Camaroptera
Yellow-browed Camaroptera
Olive-green Camaroptera
Buff-bellied Warbler
Black-capped Apalis
Black-throated Apalis
Masked Apalis
Black-faced Apalis
Yellow-breasted Apalis
Buff-throated Apalis
Chestnut-throated Apalis
Gray Apalis
Tawny-flanked Prinia
Banded Prinia
Black-faced Rufous-Warbler
Gray-capped Warbler
Red-faced Cisticola
Singing Cisticola
Whistling Cisticola
Trilling Cisticola
Chubb’s Cisticola
Rattling Cisticola
Winding Cisticola
Carruthers’s Cisticola
Croaking Cisticola
Siffling Cisticola
Zitting Cisticola
Wing-snapping Cisticola
PASSERIFORMES: Acrocephalidae
African Yellow-Warbler
Sedge Warbler
Common Reed Warbler
Lesser Swamp Warbler
Greater Swamp Warbler
PASSERIFORMES: Locustellidae
Fan-tailed Grassbird
White-winged Swamp Warbler
Highland Rush Warbler
PASSERIFORMES: Hirundinidae
Plain Martin
Bank Swallow
Banded Martin
Rock Martin
Barn Swallow
Angola Swallow
Wire-tailed Swallow
Red-rumped Swallow
Lesser Striped Swallow
Rufous-chested Swallow
Mosque Swallow
Common House-Martin
White-headed Sawwing
Black Sawwing
Gray-rumped Swallow
PASSERIFORMES: Pycnonotidae
Slender-billed Greenbul
Red-tailed Bristlebill
Lesser Bristlebill
Shelley’s Greenbul
Eastern Mountain Greenbul
Joyful Greenbul
Honeyguide Greenbul
Yellow-throated Greenbul
Spotted Greenbul
Swamp Greenbul
Red-tailed Greenbul
Gray Greenbul
Ansorge’s Greenbul
Plain Greenbul
Yellow-whiskered Greenbul
Little Greenbul
Leaf-love
Toro Olive-Greenbul
Cabanis’s Greenbul
Icterine Greenbul
Xavier’s Greenbul
White-throated Greenbul
Yellow-streaked Greenbul
Common Bulbul
PASSERIFORMES: Phylloscopidae
Wood Warbler
Willow Warbler
Red-faced Woodland-Warbler
Uganda Woodland-Warbler
PASSERIFORMES: Sylviidae
Garden Warbler
PASSERIFORMES: Zosteropidae
Green White-eye
Northern Yellow White-eye
PASSERIFORMES: Pellorneidae
Brown Illadopsis
Pale-breasted Illadopsis
Scaly-breasted Illadopsis
Puvel’s Illadopsis
PASSERIFORMES: Leiothrichidae
Brown Babbler
Arrow-marked Babbler
Black-lored Babbler
PASSERIFORMES: Buphagidae
Yellow-billed Oxpecker
PASSERIFORMES: Sturnidae
Wattled Starling
Violet-backed Starling
Slender-billed Starling
Chestnut-winged Starling
Waller’s Starling
Sharpe’s Starling
Narrow-tailed Starling
Stuhlmann’s Starling
Purple-headed Starling
Rüppell’s Starling
Splendid Starling
Lesser Blue-eared Starling
Greater Blue-eared Starling
Purple Starling
Bronze-tailed Starling
PASSERIFORMES: Turdidae
Rufous Flycatcher-Thrush
Red-tailed Ant-Thrush
White-tailed Ant-Thrush
Black-eared Ground-Thrush
Abyssinian Ground-Thrush
Abyssinian Thrush
African Thrush
PASSERIFORMES: Muscicapidae
African Dusky Flycatcher
Spotted Flycatcher
Swamp Flycatcher
Cassin’s Flycatcher
Sooty Flycatcher
Dusky-blue Flycatcher
Pale Flycatcher
African Forest-Flycatcher
Gray-throated Tit-Flycatcher
Gray Tit-Flycatcher
Ashy Flycatcher
Silverbird
Yellow-eyed Black-Flycatcher
Northern Black-Flycatcher
White-eyed Slaty-Flycatcher
Fire-crested Alethe
Brown-backed Scrub-Robin
Red-backed Scrub-Robin
Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat
White-browed Robin-Chat
Red-capped Robin-Chat
Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat
Brown-chested Alethe
Gray-winged Robin-Chat
Equatorial Akalat
Semicollared Flycatcher
Whinchat
African Stonechat
Sooty Chat
PASSERIFORMES: Nectariniidae
Gray-headed Sunbird
Western Violet-backed Sunbird
Little Green Sunbird
Green Sunbird
Collared Sunbird
Green-headed Sunbird
Blue-throated Brown Sunbird
Blue-headed Sunbird
Olive Sunbird
Green-throated Sunbird
Scarlet-chested Sunbird
Purple-breasted Sunbird
Bronze Sunbird
Malachite Sunbird
Olive-bellied Sunbird
Tiny Sunbird
Northern Double-collared Sunbird
Regal Sunbird
Beautiful Sunbird
Mariqua Sunbird
Red-chested Sunbird
Purple-banded Sunbird
Orange-tufted Sunbird
Superb Sunbird
Variable Sunbird
Copper Sunbird
PASSERIFORMES: Ploceidae
White-browed Sparrow-Weaver
Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver
Red-bellied Malimbe
Crested Malimbe
Red-headed Malimbe
Red-headed Weaver
Baglafecht Weaver
Little Weaver
Slender-billed Weaver
Black-necked Weaver
Spectacled Weaver
Black-billed Weaver
Strange Weaver
Holub’s Golden-Weaver
Northern Brown-throated Weaver
Lesser Masked-Weaver
Vitelline Masked-Weaver
Vieillot’s Black Weaver
Village Weaver
Weyns’s Weaver
Black-headed Weaver
Golden-backed Weaver
Yellow-mantled Weaver
Maxwell’s Black Weaver
Forest Weaver
Brown-capped Weaver
Compact Weaver
Cardinal Quelea
Red-headed Quelea
Red-billed Quelea
Northern Red Bishop
Southern Red Bishop
Black-winged Bishop
Black Bishop
Yellow-crowned Bishop
Yellow Bishop
White-winged Widowbird
Yellow-mantled Widowbird
Red-collared Widowbird
Fan-tailed Widowbird
Marsh Widowbird
Grosbeak Weaver
PASSERIFORMES: Estrildidae
Bronze Mannikin
Magpie Mannikin
Black-and-white Mannikin
White-collared Oliveback
Yellow-bellied Waxbill
Green-backed Twinspot
Abyssinian Crimsonwing
Red-faced Crimsonwing
Jameson’s Antpecker
White-breasted Nigrita
Chestnut-breasted Nigrita
Gray-headed Nigrita
Pale-fronted Nigrita
Gray-headed Oliveback
Black-faced Waxbill
Black-crowned Waxbill
Kandt’s Waxbill
Orange-cheeked Waxbill
Fawn-breasted Waxbill
Common Waxbill
Crimson-rumped Waxbill
Quailfinch
Red-cheeked Cordonbleu
Red-headed Bluebill
Black-bellied Seedcracker
Green-winged Pytilia
Brown Twinspot
Red-billed Firefinch
African Firefinch
Black-bellied Firefinch
Bar-breasted Firefinch
PASSERIFORMES: Viduidae
Pin-tailed Whydah
Village Indigobird
PASSERIFORMES: Passeridae
House Sparrow
Northern Gray-headed Sparrow
PASSERIFORMES: Motacillidae
Cape Wagtail
Mountain Wagtail
Western Yellow Wagtail
African Pied Wagtail
Richard’s Pipit
African Pipit
Plain-backed Pipit
Tree Pipit
Yellow-throated Longclaw
PASSERIFORMES: Fringillidae
Oriole Finch
Yellow-fronted Canary
Western Citril
Papyrus Canary
Brimstone Canary
Streaky Seedeater
Thick-billed Seedeater
Yellow-crowned Canary
PASSERIFORMES: Emberizidae
Golden-breasted Bunting
Cinnamon-breasted Bunting
