Uganda is a paradise for bird watchers and the Kingfisher Safaris Resort has a perfect surrounding for bird spotting.
We offer paddle and motorized boat rides to the best places on the Lake Victoria and below the Bujagali Falls on the river Nile. The island Samuka is well known for its variety of birds. Only 1 hour boat ride from Kingfisher Safaris Resort it is ideal located to make a relaxing bird watching tour.
For bird enthusiasts we offer together with our partners several day trips to the best places in Uganda for bird watching.
Here you find a list of bird spotted by several guests, all around the lake Vicoria and our Resort.
If you want to help us, to make the birdlist complete, you can write us an email, telling us the birds you spotted, the date and your name, and then you may find yourself also listed here...
|
Name |
Second name |
Seen by |
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Great White Pelican |
Eastern White Pelican |
BB |
|
Pink –backed Pelican |
|
LB / ST/BB |
|
Great Cormorant |
White-breasted Cormorant |
LB / ST |
|
Long-tailed Cormorant |
Reed Cormorant |
ST |
|
African Darter |
|
LB / ST |
|
White-backed Night-Heron |
|
LB/ BB |
|
Black-crowned Night-Heron |
|
BB |
|
Dwarf Bittern |
|
BB |
|
Little Bittern |
|
BB |
|
Common Squacco Heron |
|
ST |
|
Striated Heron |
Green-backed Heron |
BB |
|
Cattle Egret |
|
LB / ST |
|
Great Egret |
Great White Egret |
BB |
|
Little Egret |
|
LB / ST |
|
Black-headed Heron |
|
LB / ST |
|
Grey Heron |
|
BB |
|
Purple Heron |
|
BB |
|
Hamerkop |
|
LB / ST |
|
African open-billed Stork |
Open-billed Stork |
LB / ST |
|
Marabou Stork |
|
ST |
|
Hadada Ibis |
Hadeda Ibis |
LB / ST |
|
Sacred Ibis |
|
BB |
|
Black Kite |
|
LB / ST |
|
Black-shouldered Kite |
|
ST |
|
Yellow-billed Kite |
|
BB |
|
Osprey |
|
ST |
|
African Fish Eagle |
|
ST |
|
Palm-nut Vulture |
Vulturine Fish Eagle |
ST |
|
Hooded Vulture |
|
BB |
|
Lizard Buzzard |
|
LB / ST |
|
Shikra |
Little Banded Goshawk |
ST |
|
African Goshawk |
|
BB |
|
African Harrier-Hawk |
Gymnogene |
ST |
|
Long-crested Eagle |
|
LB |
|
Grey Kestrel |
|
ST |
|
African Hobby |
|
BB |
|
Eurasian Hobby |
European Hobby |
ST |
|
Helmeted Guineafowl |
|
BB |
|
Black Crake |
|
ST |
|
African Jacana |
|
BB |
|
Grey Crowned Crane |
Southern Crowned Crane |
BB |
|
Black-winged Stilt |
|
BB |
|
Common Sandpiper |
|
ST |
|
Grey-headed Gull |
|
ST |
|
Lesser Black-backed Gull |
|
ST |
|
Gull-billed Tern |
|
ST |
|
Whiskered Tern |
|
ST |
|
White-winged Tern |
White-winged Black Tern |
ST |
|
African Green-Pigeon |
|
LB |
|
Tambourine Dove |
|
ST |
|
Blue-spotted Wood-Dove |
Blue-spotted Dove |
LB / ST |
|
Red-eyed Dove |
|
ST |
|
Laughing Dove |
|
BB |
|
Brown Parrot |
Meyer’s Parrot |
LB / ST |
|
Ross’s Turaco |
Ross’s Lourie |
BB |
|
Eastern Grey Plantain-eater |
|
LB / ST |
|
Levaillant´s Cuckoo |
Striped Cuckoo |
BB |
|
Klaas´s Cuckoo |
|
BB |
|
Diederik Cuckoo |
|
BB |
|
White-browed Coucal |
|
LB / ST |
|
Blue-headed Coucal |
|
BB |
|
White-faced Scops-owl |
White-faced Owl |
BB |
|
African Palm Swift |
|
ST |
|
Speckled Mousebird |
|
LB / ST |
|
Giant Kingfisher (seasonal?) |
|
BB |
|
Pied Kingfisher |
|
LB / ST |
|
Woodland Kingfisher |
|
BB |
|
Malachite Kingfisher |
|
LB / ST |
|
African Pygmy Kingfisher |
|
ST |
|
White-throated Bee-eater |
|
BB |
|
Broad-billed roller |
|
BB |
|
Crowned Hornbill |
|
ST |
|
African Grey Hornbill |
|
BB |
|
Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird |
Yellow-fronted Tinker Barbet |
ST |
|
Double-toothed Barbet |
|
LB / ST |
|
Plain or African Sand Martin |
|
ST |
|
Common House Martin |
Northern House Martin |
ST |
|
African Pied Wagtail |
|
ST |
|
Yellow Wagtail |
|
LB / ST |
|
Yellow-throated Longclaw |
|
BB |
|
Common Bulbul |
Black-eyed Bulbul |
LB / ST |
|
Yellow-throated Greenbul |
Yellow-throated Leaflove |
ST |
|
White-browed Robin-Chat |
Heuglin’s Robin |
BB |
|
African Trush |
|
BB |
|
Whinchat |
|
LB |
|
Willow Warbler |
|
LB / ST |
|
Red-faced Crombec |
|
BB |
|
Winding Cisticola |
Blacked-back Cisticola |
ST |
|
Red-faced Cisticola |
|
BB |
|
Grey-capped warbler |
|
LB |
|
Tawny-flanked Prinia |
|
LB / ST |
|
Grey-backed Camaroptera |
Grey-backed Bleating Warbler |
ST |
|
|
Green-backed Bleating Warbler |
|
|
Spotted Flycatcher |
|
ST |
|
Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher |
Vanga Flycatcher |
BB |
|
Brown-throated Wattle-eye |
Common Wattle-eye |
BB |
|
African Blue-flycatcher |
|
LB / ST |
|
White-tailed Blue-flycatcher |
|
BB |
|
Yellow White-eye |
|
LB / ST |
|
Green-headed Sunbird |
|
BB |
|
Olive-bellied Sunbird |
|
BB |
|
Copper Sunbird |
Coppery Sunbird |
LB / ST |
|
Marico Sunbird |
|
ST |
|
Red-chested Sunbird |
|
LB / ST |
|
Scarlet-chested Sunbird |
|
LB / ST |
|
Variable Sunbird |
Yellow-bellied Sunbird |
BB |
|
Black-headed Gonolek |
|
ST |
|
Northern Puffback |
|
BB |
|
Marsh Tchagra |
|
LB |
|
Brown-crowned Tchagra |
Three-streaked Tchagra |
BB |
|
Piapiac |
|
ST |
|
Pied Crow |
|
LB / ST |
|
Rüppell’s Long-tailed Starling |
|
LB |
|
Splendid Starling |
|
ST |
|
Grey-headed Sparrow |
|
LB / ST |
|
Black-headed Weaver |
Village Weaver, Spotted-backed Weaver |
LB / ST |
|
Spectacled Weaver |
|
LB |
|
Baglafecht Weaver |
|
ST |
|
Slender-billed Weaver |
|
ST |
|
Golden-backed Weaver |
Jackson’s Golden-backed Weaver |
LB / ST |
|
Yellow-backed Weaver |
|
BB |
|
Golden Palm Weaver |
|
BB |
|
Orange Weaver |
|
ST |
|
Fan-tailed Widowbird |
Red-shouldered Widow |
LB / ST |
|
Black Bishop |
|
BB |
|
Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu |
|
LB |
|
Red-billed Firefinch |
|
ST |
|
Common Waxbill |
|
BB |
|
Crimson-rumped Waxbill |
|
BB |
|
Black-crowned Waxbill |
|
BB |
|
Bronze Mannikin |
|
LB / ST |
|
Yellow-fronted Canary |
Yellow-eyed Canary |
ST |
|
African Citril |
|
BB |
|
Swamp Flycatcher |
|
RS, RL |
|
|
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Name of bird spotter |
from |
Sign |
|
Linda Barany |
Kampala |
LB |
|
Sheila Taylor |
Kampala |
ST |
|
Bill Bisset |
Jinja |
BB |
|
Rich Simpson |
Europe |
RS |
|
Rachel Lunney |
Europe |
RL |