Bird Species In Budongo Forest : Budongo forest is one of the most notable stopover that travellers can visit while making their way to Murchison Falls National park to participate in the game drives in Murchison falls national park, and the boat cruise in Murchison falls national park which will lead to the world’s most powerful waterfalls. However, making your way to Budongo forest you will get to realize that the forest has a lot more to offer for travellers interested in the wildlife safaris in Uganda like the chimpanzee trekking, you can also participate in primate safaris and the nature walks in Budongo where you will get to watch a number of primates like the vervet monkeys, the baboons and other monkey species. You should also not miss out on participating in birding in the forest where you will get to watch a number of different bird species to make your birding safaris in Uganda quite memorable. Some of the bird species in Budongo forest that can be seen include;
| Bird species | Scientific names | ||
| 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 | Chocolate-backed Kingfisher | Halcyon badia | |
| 21 | Black Bee-eater | Merops gularis | |
| 22 | Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater | Merops oreobates | |
| 23 | Swallow-tailed Bee-eater | Merops hirundineus | |
| 24 | /European Bee-eater/ | Merops apiaster | |
| 25 | /Northern Carmine Bee-eater/ | Merops nubicus | |
| 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 | |
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