Nyungwe Forest Bird Checklist

Nyungwe Forest Bird Checklist : Nyungwe Forest National Park is one of the top tourist destinations in Rwanda and a must visit for nature lovers, the forest is popular for hosting huge population of chimpanzees and is an incredible destination for chimpanzee trekking in Rwanda as well as Africa.

Nyungwe forest National Park is not only a great birding destination but also an amazing birding destination, the park is home to over 300 bird species including 27 Albertine rift endemics. Below is a bird checklist for Nyungwe Forest National Park.

ANSERIFORMES: Anatidae

• Spur-winged Goose
• African Black Duck
• Yellow-billed Duck

GALLIFORMES: Phasianidae

• Handsome Spurfowl
• Scaly Spurfowl

PODICIPEDIFORMES: Podicipedidae

• Little Grebe

COLUMBIFORMES: Columbidae

• Speckled Pigeon
• Afep Pigeon
• Rameron Pigeon
• Lemon Dove
• Dusky Turtle-Dove
• Red-eyed Dove
• Ring-necked Dove
• Laughing Dove
• Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove
• Blue-spotted Wood-Dove
• Tambourine Dove
• African Green-Pigeon

  

MUSOPHAGIFORMES: Musophagidae

• Great Blue Turaco
• Black-billed Turaco
• Rwenzori Turaco
• Ross’s Turaco

CUCULIFORMES: Cuculidae

• Blue-headed Coucal
• White-browed Coucal
• Blue Malkoha
• Levaillant’s Cuckoo
• Dideric Cuckoo
• Klaas’s Cuckoo
• African Emerald Cuckoo
• Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo
• Black Cuckoo
• Red-chested Cuckoo
• Common Cuckoo

CAPRIMULGIFORMES: Caprimulgidae

• Montane Nightjar
• Square-tailed Nightjar

CAPRIMULGIFORMES: Apodidae

• Scarce Swift
• Common Swift
• African Swift
• Little Swift
• Horus Swift
• White-rumped Swift
• African Palm Swift

GRUIFORMES: Sarothruridae

• Red-chested Flufftail

GRUIFORMES: Rallidae

• African Rail

GRUIFORMES: Gruidae

• Gray Crowned-Crane

CICONIIFORMES: Ciconiidae

• African Openbill
• Marabou Stork
• Yellow-billed Stork

SULIFORMES: Phalacrocoracidae

• Long-tailed Cormorant
• Great Cormorant

PELECANIFORMES: Pelecanidae

• Pink-backed Pelican

PELECANIFORMES: Scopidae

• Hamerkop

PELECANIFORMES: Ardeidae

• Gray Heron
• Black-headed Heron
• Purple Heron
• Great Egret
• Little Egret
• Cattle Egret
• Squacco Heron
• Black-crowned Night-Heron

  

PELECANIFORMES: Threskiornithidae

• Glossy Ibis
• African Sacred Ibis
• Hadada Ibis
• African Spoonbill

ACCIPITRIFORMES: Accipitridae

• Black-winged Kite
• African Harrier-Hawk
• Palm-nut Vulture
• European Honey-buzzard
• Hooded Vulture
• Brown Snake-Eagle
• Crowned Eagle
• Long-crested Eagle
• Wahlberg’s Eagle
• Cassin’s Hawk-Eagle
• African Hawk-Eagle
• Lizard Buzzard
• African Goshawk
• Shikra
• Little Sparrowhawk
• Ovambo Sparrowhawk
• Rufous-breasted Sparrowhawk
• Black Goshawk
• Black Kite
• African Fish-Eagle
• Common Buzzard
• Mountain Buzzard
• Augur Buzzard

STRIGIFORMES: Tytonidae

• African Grass-Owl
• Barn Owl

STRIGIFORMES: Strigidae

• Spotted Eagle-Owl
• Fraser’s Eagle-Owl
• Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl
• Red-chested Owlet
• Albertine Owlet
• African Wood-Owl
• Abyssinian Owl

COLIIFORMES: Coliidae

• Speckled Mousebird

TROGONIFORMES: Trogonidae

• Narina Trogon
• Bar-tailed Trogon

BUCEROTIFORMES: Upupidae

• Eurasian Hoopoe

BUCEROTIFORMES: Phoeniculidae

• Green Woodhoopoe
• White-headed Woodhoopoe
• Forest Scimitarbill

BUCEROTIFORMES: Bucerotidae

• Crowned Hornbill
• Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill

CORACIIFORMES: Alcedinidae

• Malachite Kingfisher
• African Pygmy Kingfisher
• Gray-headed Kingfisher
• Woodland Kingfisher
• Giant Kingfisher
• Pied Kingfisher

CORACIIFORMES: Meropidae

• Little Bee-eater
• Blue-breasted Bee-eater
• Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater
• White-throated Bee-eater
• European Bee-eater

CORACIIFORMES: Coraciidae

• Broad-billed Roller

  

PICIFORMES: Lybiidae

• Gray-throated Barbet
• Western Tinkerbird
• Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird
• Black-collared Barbet
• Double-toothed Barbet

PICIFORMES: Indicatoridae

• Dwarf Honeyguide
• Least Honeyguide
• Lesser Honeyguide
• Scaly-throated Honeyguide
• Greater Honeyguide

PICIFORMES: Picidae

• Rufous-necked Wryneck
• Elliot’s Woodpecker
• Cardinal Woodpecker
• Olive Woodpecker
• Tullberg’s Woodpecker

FALCONIFORMES: Falconidae

• Eurasian Kestrel
• Gray Kestrel
• Red-necked Falcon
• Eurasian Hobby
• African Hobby
• Lanner Falcon
• Peregrine Falcon

PASSERIFORMES: Calyptomenidae

• African Broadbill

PASSERIFORMES: Campephagidae

• Gray Cuckooshrike
• Black Cuckooshrike
• Petit’s Cuckooshrike

PASSERIFORMES: Oriolidae

• Eurasian Golden Oriole
• African Golden Oriole
• African Black-headed Oriole
• Black-tailed Oriole

PASSERIFORMES: Platysteiridae

• Brown-throated Wattle-eye
• Yellow-bellied Wattle-eye
• Rwenzori Batis
• Chinspot Batis

PASSERIFORMES: Malaconotidae

• Northern Puffback
• Pink-footed Puffback
• Black-crowned Tchagra
• Brown-crowned Tchagra
• Lühder’s Bushshrike
• Tropical Boubou
• Black-headed Gonolek
• Willard’s Sooty Boubou
• Albertine Boubou
• Sulphur-breasted Bushshrike
• Many-colored Bushshrike
• Doherty’s Bushshrike
• Lagden’s Bushshrike
• Gray-headed Bushshrike

PASSERIFORMES: Dicruridae

• Fork-tailed Drongo
• Velvet-mantled Drongo

  

PASSERIFORMES: Monarchidae

• African Crested-Flycatcher
• African Paradise-Flycatcher

PASSERIFORMES: Laniidae

• Lesser Gray Shrike
• Gray-backed Fiscal
• Mackinnon’s Shrike
• Northern Fiscal

PASSERIFORMES: Corvidae

• Pied Crow
• White-necked Raven

PASSERIFORMES: Hyliotidae

• Violet-backed Hyliota

PASSERIFORMES: Stenostiridae

• White-tailed Blue Flycatcher
• White-bellied Crested-Flycatcher
• White-tailed Crested-Flycatcher

PASSERIFORMES: Paridae

• Dusky Tit
• Stripe-breasted Tit

PASSERIFORMES: Alaudidae

• Dusky Lark

PASSERIFORMES: Macrosphenidae

• White-browed Crombec
• Red-faced Crombec
• Grauer’s Warbler

PASSERIFORMES: Cisticolidae

• White-chinned Prinia
• Rwenzori Apalis
• Green-backed Camaroptera
• Black-throated Apalis
• Black-faced Apalis
• Yellow-breasted Apalis
• Kungwe Apalis
• Chestnut-throated Apalis
• Gray Apalis
• Tawny-flanked Prinia
• Banded Prinia
• Black-faced Rufous-Warbler
• Gray-capped Warbler
• Red-faced Cisticola
• Singing Cisticola
• Chubb’s Cisticola
• Winding Cisticola
• Siffling Cisticola
• Wing-snapping Cisticola

PASSERIFORMES: Acrocephalidae

• African Yellow-Warbler
• Mountain Yellow-Warbler
• Icterine Warbler
• Lesser Swamp Warbler

PASSERIFORMES: Locustellidae

• Evergreen-forest Warbler
• Cinnamon Bracken-Warbler
• Grauer’s Swamp Warbler
• Highland Rush Warbler

PASSERIFORMES: Hirundinidae

• Plain Martin
• Bank Swallow
• Rock Martin
• Barn Swallow
• Angola Swallow
• Wire-tailed Swallow
• Red-rumped Swallow
• Lesser Striped Swallow
• Mosque Swallow
• Common House-Martin
• White-headed Sawwing
• Black Sawwing

PASSERIFORMES: Pycnonotidae

• Slender-billed Greenbul
• Shelley’s Greenbul
• Eastern Mountain Greenbul
• Yellow-throated Greenbul
• Plain Greenbul
• Yellow-whiskered Greenbul
• Cabanis’s Greenbul
• Yellow-streaked Greenbul
• Common Bulbul

PASSERIFORMES: Phylloscopidae

• Wood Warbler
• Willow Warbler
• Brown Woodland-Warbler
• Red-faced Woodland-Warbler

PASSERIFORMES: Scotocercidae

• Neumann’s Warbler

PASSERIFORMES: Sylviidae

• Eurasian Blackcap
• Rwenzori Hill Babbler

PASSERIFORMES: Zosteropidae

• Green White-eye

PASSERIFORMES: Pellorneidae

• Mountain Illadopsis

PASSERIFORMES: Leiothrichidae

• Red-collared Mountain-Babbler
• Arrow-marked Babbler
• Black-lored Babbler

PASSERIFORMES: Sturnidae

• Violet-backed Starling
• Slender-billed Starling
• Waller’s Starling
• Sharpe’s Starling
• Stuhlmann’s Starling
• Rüppell’s Starling

PASSERIFORMES: Turdidae

• White-tailed Ant-Thrush
• Abyssinian Ground-Thrush
• Abyssinian Thrush
• African Thrush

PASSERIFORMES: Muscicapidae

• African Dusky Flycatcher
• Spotted Flycatcher
• Swamp Flycatcher
• Pale Flycatcher
• Ashy Flycatcher
• Yellow-eyed Black-Flycatcher
• Southern Black-Flycatcher
• White-eyed Slaty-Flycatcher
• White-bellied Robin-Chat
• Archer’s Robin-Chat
• Cape Robin-Chat
• White-browed Robin-Chat
• Red-capped Robin-Chat
• Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat
• White-starred Robin
• Red-throated Alethe
• Equatorial Akalat
• Miombo Rock-Thrush
• African Stonechat
• Sooty Chat
• Arnot’s Chat
• Familiar Chat

PASSERIFORMES: Modulatricidae

• Gray-chested Babbler

PASSERIFORMES: Nectariniidae

• Collared Sunbird
• Green-headed Sunbird
• Blue-throated Brown Sunbird
• Blue-headed Sunbird
• Olive Sunbird
• Scarlet-chested Sunbird
• Purple-breasted Sunbird
• Bronze Sunbird
• Malachite Sunbird
• Olive-bellied Sunbird
• Stuhlmann’s Sunbird
• Northern Double-collared Sunbird
• Regal Sunbird
• Rockefeller’s Sunbird
• Mariqua Sunbird
• Red-chested Sunbird
• Purple-banded Sunbird
• Variable Sunbird

PASSERIFORMES: Ploceidae

• Red-headed Weaver
• Baglafecht Weaver
• Spectacled Weaver
• Black-billed Weaver
• Strange Weaver
• Holub’s Golden-Weaver
• Village Weaver
• Black-headed Weaver
• Forest Weaver
• Brown-capped Weaver
• Southern Red Bishop
• Fan-tailed Widowbird
• Grosbeak Weaver

PASSERIFORMES: Estrildidae

• Bronze Mannikin
• Black-and-white Mannikin
• White-collared Oliveback
• Yellow-bellied Waxbill
• Green-backed Twinspot
• Dusky Crimsonwing
• Abyssinian Crimsonwing
• Red-faced Crimsonwing
• White-breasted Nigrita
• Gray-headed Nigrita
• Black-crowned Waxbill
• Kandt’s Waxbill
• Fawn-breasted Waxbill
• Common Waxbill
• Crimson-rumped Waxbill
• Red-cheeked Cordonbleu
• Red-headed Bluebill
• Dusky Twinspot
• Red-billed Firefinch
• African Firefinch

PASSERIFORMES: Viduidae

• Pin-tailed Whydah

PASSERIFORMES: Passeridae

• House Sparrow
• Northern Gray-headed Sparrow

PASSERIFORMES: Motacillidae

• Cape Wagtail
• Mountain Wagtail
• Gray Wagtail
• Western Yellow Wagtail
• African Pied Wagtail
• African Pipit
• Tree Pipit
• Yellow-throated Longclaw

PASSERIFORMES: Fringillidae

• Oriole Finch
• Yellow-fronted Canary
• Western Citril
• Brimstone Canary
• Streaky Seedeater
• Thick-billed Seedeater
• Yellow-crowned Canary

PASSERIFORMES: Emberizidae

• Golden-breasted Bunting

In summary; the above article shows Nyungwe Forest Bird Checklist