Mgahinga National Park Birding Checklist
Mgahinga National Park Birding Checklist : Mgahinga national park is famous for housing the mountain gorillas in Africa that can be seen when you participate in gorilla trekking in Uganda which will lead you to hiking the Virunga mountains in Uganda like mount sabyinyo, mount bisoke and mount gahinga which has attracted a number of travellers interested in the primate safaris in Uganda however on reaching the park travellers will get to see that there’s more to the park than just the gorillas as over 200 bird species can be seen during your safari in the park. during your birding experience, here are some of the different bird species that can be seen as listed in our Mgahinga National Park Birding Checklist below.
| 1 | Handsome Spurfowl | Pternistis nobilis |
| 2 | Rameron Pigeon | Columba arquatrix |
| 3 | Rwenzori Turaco | Gallirex johnstoni |
| 4 | African Swift | Apus barbatus |
| 5 | Red-knobbed Coot | Fulica cristata |
| 6 | Gray Crowned-Crane | Balearica regulorum |
| 7 | Shoebill | Balaeniceps rex |
| 8 | #Egyptian Vulture# | Neophron percnopterus |
| 9 | Lappet-faced Vulture | Torgos tracheliotos |
| 10 | Hooded Vulture | Necrosyrtes monachus |
| 11 | White-backed Vulture | Gyps africanus |
| 12 | Bateleur | Terathopius ecaudatus |
| 13 | Crowned Eagle | Stephanoaetus coronatus |
| 14 | Martial Eagle | Polemaetus bellicosus |
| 15 | Tawny Eagle | Aquila rapax |
| 16 | /Steppe Eagle/ | Aquila nipalensis |
| 17 | Dark Chanting-Goshawk | Melierax metabates |
| 18 | Rufous-chested Sparrowhawk | Accipiter rufiventris |
| 19 | Mountain Buzzard | Buteo oreophilus |
| 20 | Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater | Merops oreobates |
| 21 | /European Bee-eater/ | Merops apiaster |
| 22 | Western Tinkerbird | Pogoniulus coryphaea |
| 23 | Wahlberg’s Honeyguide | Prodotiscus regulus |
| 24 | Dwarf Honeyguide | Indicator pumilio |
| 25 | Willcocks’s Honeyguide | Indicator willcocksi |
| 26 | Elliot’s Woodpecker | Dendropicos elliotii |
| 27 | Petit’s Cuckooshrike | Campephaga petiti |
| 28 | Rwenzori Batis | Batis diops |
| 29 | Papyrus Gonolek | Laniarius mufumbiri |
| 30 | Lowland Sooty Boubou | Laniarius leucorhynchus |
| 31 | Willard’s Sooty Boubou | Laniarius willardi |
| 32 | Albertine Boubou | Laniarius holomelas |
| 33 | Many-colored Bushshrike | Telophorus multicolor |
| 34 | Doherty’s Bushshrike | Telophorus dohertyi |
| 35 | Lagden’s Bushshrike | Malaconotus lagdeni |
| 36 | White-tailed Blue Flycatcher | Elminia albicauda |
| 37 | White-tailed Crested Flycatcher | Elminia albonotata |
| 38 | Stripe-breasted Tit | Melaniparus fasciiventer |
| 39 | White-browed Crombec | Sylvietta leucophrys |
| 40 | Grauer’s Warbler | Graueria vittata |
| 41 | Rwenzori Apalis | Oreolais ruwenzorii |
| 42 | Masked Apalis | Apalis binotata |
| 43 | Black-faced Apalis | Apalis personata |
| 44 | Chestnut-throated Apalis | Apalis porphyrolaema |
| 45 | Papyrus Yellow-Warbler | Calamonastides gracilirostris |
| 46 | African Yellow-Warbler | Iduna natalensis |
| 47 | Mountain Yellow-Warbler | Iduna similis |
| 48 | Bamboo Warbler | Locustella alfredi |
| 49 | Evergreen-forest Warbler | Bradypterus lopezi |
| 50 | Cinnamon Bracken-Warbler | Bradypterus cinnamomeus |
| 51 | Highland Rush Warbler | Bradypterus centralis |
| 52 | Shelley’s Greenbul | Arizelocichla masukuensis |
| 53 | Eastern Bearded-Greenbul | Criniger chloronotus |
| 54 | Yellow-streaked Greenbul | Phyllastrephus flavostriatus |
| 55 | Brown Woodland-Warbler | Phylloscopus umbrovirens |
| 56 | Red-faced Woodland-Warbler | Phylloscopus laetus |
| 57 | Rwenzori Hill Babbler | Sylvia atriceps |
| 58 | Yellow-billed Oxpecker | Buphagus africanus |
| 59 | Slender-billed Starling | Onychognathus tenuirostris |
| 61 | Abyssinian Ground-Thrush | Geokichla piaggiae |
| 62 | Yellow-eyed Black-Flycatcher | Melaenornis ardesiacus |
| 63 | White-bellied Robin-Chat | Cossyphicula roberti |
| 64 | Archer’s Robin-Chat | Cossypha archeri |
| 65 | Cape Robin-Chat | Cossypha caffra |
| 66 | Red-throated Alethe | Chamaetylas poliophrys |
| 67 | Blue-headed Sunbird | Cyanomitra alinae |
| 68 | Purple-breasted Sunbird | Nectarinia purpureiventris |
| 69 | Malachite Sunbird | Nectarinia famosa |
| 70 | Red-tufted Sunbird | Nectarinia johnstoni |
| 71 | Golden-winged Sunbird | Drepanorhynchus reichenowi |
| 72 | Stuhlmann’s Sunbird | Cinnyris stuhlmanni |
| 73 | Northern Double-collared Sunbird | Cinnyris reichenowi |
| 74 | Regal Sunbird | Cinnyris regius |
| 75 | Superb Sunbird | Cinnyris superbus |
| 76 | Strange Weaver | Ploceus alienus |
| 77 | Dusky Crimsonwing | Cryptospiza jacksoni |
| 78 | Abyssinian Crimsonwing | Cryptospiza salvadorii |
| 79 | Red-faced Crimsonwing | Cryptospiza reichenovii |
| 80 | Kandt’s Waxbill | Estrilda kandti |
| 81 | Dusky Twinspot | Euschistospiza cinereovinacea |
| 82 | Oriole Finch | Linurgus olivaceus |
| 83 | Papyrus Canary | Crithagra koliensis |
| 84 | Yellow-crowned Canary | Serinus flavivertex |
| 85 | Gray-chested Babbler | Kakamega poliothora |
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