Birding Checklist In Queen Elizabeth National Park

Birding Checklist In Queen Elizabeth

Birding Checklist In Queen Elizabeth National Park : To a number of travellers that visit Queen Elizabeth national park they are interested in watching a number of different wildlife species as you embark on a number of different activities in queen Elizabeth national park where you will get to access a number of different wildlife species in the wild.

You will get to watch the tree climbing lions in Uganda as you participate in lion tracking in queen Elizabeth national park, the game drives in queen Elizabeth national park will lead you to four of the big five animals in Uganda, in the park, you will also have the chance to participate in chimpanzee trekking in queen Elizabeth national park which will lead you to the Kyambura gorge the only area in the park were you will get to access the different primates in the wild.

Among all the different attractions that can be seen in the park, travellers can also have the chance to participate in birding for travellers interesting in the birding safaris in Uganda and interesting about the activity, you will have the chance to watch a number of different bird species from the endemic species, migratory species running away from winter conditions from the different parts of the world and so on and in this article we are going to help you explore the different bird species found on our birding checklist in Queen Elizabeth National Park;

 

Bird species

 

Scientific name

1 Coqui Francolin Campocolinus coqui
   
2 Ring-necked Francolin Scleroptera streptophorus
3 Handsome Spurfowl Pternistis nobilis
4 Lesser Flamingo Phoenicoparrus minor
5 Rameron Pigeon Columba arquatrix
6 Denham’s Bustard Neotis denhami
7 Nubian Nightjar Caprimulgus nubicus
8 Sabine’s Spinetail Rhaphidura sabini
9 African Swift Apus barbatus
10 Lesser Moorhen Gallinula angulata
11 Red-knobbed Coot Fulica cristata
12 Gray Crowned-Crane Balearica regulorum
13 Spotted Thick-knee Burhinus capensis
14 Senegal Thick-knee Burhinus senegalensis
15 Forbes’s Plover Charadrius forbesi
16 /Black-tailed Godwit/ Limosa limosa
17 /Curlew Sandpiper/ Calidris ferruginea
18 |Black-winged Pratincole| Glareola nordmanni
19 African Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia microscelis
20 Shoebill Balaeniceps rex
21 #Egyptian Vulture# Neophron percnopterus
22 White-headed Vulture Trigonoceps occipitalis
23 Lappet-faced Vulture Torgos tracheliotos
24 Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus
25 White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus
26 Rueppell’s Griffon Gyps rueppelli
27 Bateleur Terathopius ecaudatus
28 Beaudouin’s Snake-Eagle Circaetus beaudouini
29 Crowned Eagle Stephanoaetus coronatus
30 Martial Eagle Polemaetus bellicosus
31 Tawny Eagle Aquila rapax
32 /Steppe Eagle/ Aquila nipalensis
33 Dark Chanting-Goshawk Melierax metabates
34 Eastern Chanting-Goshawk Melierax poliopterus
35 /Pallid Harrier/ Circus macrourus
36 Mountain Buzzard Buteo oreophilus
37 Grayish Eagle-Owl Bubo cinerascens
38 Red-chested Owlet Glaucidium tephronotum
39 Abyssinian Ground-Hornbill Bucorvus abyssinicus
40 Eastern Long-tailed Hornbill Horizocerus cassini
41 White-thighed Hornbill Bycanistes albotibialis
42 Black Bee-eater Merops gularis
43 Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater Merops oreobates
44 Swallow-tailed Bee-eater Merops hirundineus
45 /European Bee-eater/ Merops apiaster
46 /Northern Carmine Bee-eater/ Merops nubicus
47 Western Tinkerbird Pogoniulus coryphaea
48 Red-necked Falcon Falco chicquera
49 |Sooty Falcon| Falco concolor
50 Petit’s Cuckooshrike Campephaga petiti
51 Yellow-bellied Wattle-eye Platysteira concreta
52 Papyrus Gonolek Laniarius mufumbiri
53 Slate-colored Boubou Laniarius funebris
54 Many-colored Bushshrike Telophorus multicolor
55 /Woodchat Shrike/ Lanius senator
56 White-tailed Blue Flycatcher Elminia albicauda
57 Stripe-breasted Tit Melaniparus fasciiventer
58 Yellow-throated Nicator Nicator vireo
59 Yellow Longbill Macrosphenus flavicans
60 Tabora Cisticola Cisticola angusticauda
61 African Yellow-Warbler Iduna natalensis
62 Grauer’s Swamp Warbler Bradypterus graueri
63 Highland Rush Warbler Bradypterus centralis
64 Red-faced Woodland-Warbler Phylloscopus laetus
65 Red-billed Oxpecker Buphagus erythrorynchus
66 Yellow-billed Oxpecker Buphagus africanus
67 Slender-billed Starling Onychognathus tenuirostris
68 Chapin’s Flycatcher Fraseria lendu
69 Yellow-eyed Black-Flycatcher Melaenornis ardesiacus
70 White-bellied Robin-Chat Cossyphicula roberti
71 Northern Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris reichenowi
72 Superb Sunbird Cinnyris superbus
73 Crested Malimbe Malimbus malimbicus
74 Magpie Mannikin Spermestes fringilloides
75 Jameson’s Antpecker Parmoptila jamesoni
76 Chestnut-breasted Nigrita Nigrita bicolor
77 Quailfinch Ortygospiza atricollis
78 Papyrus Canary Crithagra koliensis
79 Reichenow’s Seedeater Crithagra reichenowi
80 Yellow-crowned Canary Serinus flavivertex

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