Bird Species In Queen Elizabeth National Park : Queen Elizabeth national park is one of the most visited national parks in Uganda because of its rich flora and fauna. The park boosts of over 2000 mammals, primate species, bird species, a number of different water sources where a number of animals converge to take dips, quench their thirst and a number of different water birds catching their prey in the wild. For a number of travellers interested in birding in Queen Elizabeth National Park,
Here are some of the different bird species that you will watch during your birding expedition in Uganda.
| 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 |
