Mabamba Swamp Bird Checklist

Mabamba Swamp Bird Checklist: Mabamba swamp is famous for being an important birding destination in Uganda for travelers interested in Uganda and also being home to the endangered shoebill stork which is a pre- historic bird with a number of rewarding features like its sound being similar to a machine gun and its ability to stand motionless for hours while hunting. Choosing the swamp as your destination for birding in Uganda will give you the opportunity to access different bird species like the water birds, migrant species from Europe, Asia, and America, running away from harsh winter conditions. Visiting the swamp will not only give you access to the shoe bill stork but also other rewarding bird species, among which include;

1	Nahan’s Partridge	Ptilopachus nahani
2	Rameron Pigeon	Columba arquatrix
3	Black-throated Coucal	Centropus leucogaster
4	Sabine’s Spinetail	Rhaphidura sabini
5	Cassin’s Spinetail	Neafrapus cassini
6	African Swift	Apus barbatus
7	Gray Crowned-Crane	Balearica regulorum
8	African Woolly-necked Stork	Ciconia microscelis
9	Shoebill	Balaeniceps rex
10	Hooded Vulture	Necrosyrtes monachus
11	Bateleur	Terathopius ecaudatus
12	Beaudouin’s Snake-Eagle	Circaetus beaudouini
13	Crowned Eagle	Stephanoaetus coronatus
14	Martial Eagle	Polemaetus bellicosus
15	Dark Chanting-Goshawk	Melierax metabates
16	Eastern Chanting-Goshawk	Melierax poliopterus
17	Forest Scimitarbill	Rhinopomastus castaneiceps
18	Abyssinian Ground-Hornbill	Bucorvus abyssinicus
19	White-thighed Hornbill	Bycanistes albotibialis
20	Black Bee-eater	Merops gularis
21	Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater	Merops oreobates
22	Swallow-tailed Bee-eater	Merops hirundineus
23	/European Bee-eater/	Merops apiaster
24	/Northern Carmine Bee-eater/	Merops nubicus
25	Chocolate-backed Kingfisher	Halcyon badia
26	Willcocks’s Honeyguide	Indicator willcocksi
27	Red-necked Falcon	Falco chicquera
28	Gray Parrot	Psittacus erithacus
29	Petit’s Cuckooshrike	Campephaga petiti
30	Ituri Batis	Batis ituriensis
31	Papyrus Gonolek	Laniarius mufumbiri
32	African Crested Flycatcher	Trochocercus cyanomelas
33	Lemon-bellied Crombec	Sylvietta denti
34	Yellow Longbill	Macrosphenus flavicans
35	Gray Longbill	Macrosphenus concolor
36	Masked Apalis	Apalis binotata
37	African Yellow-Warbler	Iduna natalensis
38	Icterine Greenbul	Phyllastrephus icterinus
39	Cabanis’s Greenbul	Phyllastrephus cabanisi
40	Uganda Woodland-Warbler	Phylloscopus budongoensis
41	Chestnut-capped Flycatcher	Erythrocercus mccallii
42	Puvel’s Illadopsis	Illadopsis puveli
43	Red-tailed Ant-Thrush	Neocossyphus rufus
44	Yellow-footed Flycatcher	Muscicapa sethsmithi
45	Chapin’s Flycatcher	Fraseria lendu
46	Superb Sunbird	Cinnyris superbus
47	Red-bellied Malimbe	Malimbus erythrogaster
48	Crested Malimbe	Malimbus malimbicus
49	Magpie Mannikin	Spermestes fringilloides
50	Kandt’s Waxbill	Estrilda kandti
51	Oriole Finch	Linurgus olivaceus
52	White-rumped Seedeater	Crithagra leucopygius