UGANDA SPECIALTY BIRDS LIST
Accessible Species
AFRICA UGANDA
| # Species: | 1047 |
| # Excl Vagrants: | 1013 |
| # Endemics: | 2 |
| # Near Endemics: | 12 |
OTHER COUNTRIES IN AFRICA
BIRDING LOCALES
DISTRIBUTION CODES
| Code | Description | ## |
| E | Endemic | 1 |
| LC | Local | 1 |
| NE | Near Endemic | 8 |
| RR | Restricted Range | 178 |
STATUS CODES
| Code | Description | ## |
| NT | Near Threatened | 22 |
| V | Vulnerable | 17 |
| EN | Endangered | 11 |
| CR | Critically Endangered | 4 |
Species counts in code tables depend on completeness of the data. For some countries or locales, data may not include all species or information on species presence may be incomplete.
List of all specialty birds in the country occurring in locales typically visited by birding tours. Specialties include endemics and globally threatened, vulnerable or endangered. Table indicates whether each species is globally threatened or endangered according to the IUCN and also whether it is migratory, very rare, or accidental in the country. See sidebar for meaning of location codes and symbols associated with common names.*
| 1 | Stone Partridge | Ptilopachus petrosus | RR | |
| 2 | Nahan's Partridge | Ptilopachus nahani | NE | V |
| 3 | Coqui Francolin | Campocolinus coqui | RR | |
| 4 | Ring-necked Francolin | Scleroptera streptophorus | NT | |
| 5 | Orange River Francolin | Scleroptera levaillantoides | RR | |
| 6 | Handsome Spurfowl | Pternistis nobilis | RR | |
| 7 | Rameron Pigeon | Columba arquatrix | RR | |
| 8 | White-naped Pigeon | Columba albinucha | NT | |
| 9 | Kori Bustard | Ardeotis kori | NT | |
| 10 | Denham's Bustard | Neotis denhami | NT | |
| 11 | Rwenzori Turaco | Gallirex johnstoni | NE | |
| 12 | Black-throated Coucal | Centropus leucogaster | RR | |
| 13 | Thick-billed Cuckoo | Pachycoccyx audeberti | RR | |
| 14 | Nubian Nightjar | Caprimulgus nubicus | RR | |
| 15 | Sabine's Spinetail | Rhaphidura sabini | RR | |
| 16 | Cassin's Spinetail | Neafrapus cassini | RR | |
| 17 | African Swift | Apus barbatus | RR | |
| 18 | Gray-throated Rail | Gallirallus oculeus | RR | |
| 19 | Lesser Moorhen | Gallinula angulata | RR | |
| 20 | Red-knobbed Coot | Fulica cristata | RR | |
| 21 | Gray Crowned-Crane | Balearica regulorum | EN | |
| 22 | Black Crowned-Crane | Balearica pavonina | RR | V |
| 23 | Spotted Thick-knee | Burhinus capensis | RR | |
| 24 | Senegal Thick-knee | Burhinus senegalensis | RR | |
| 25 | Forbes's Plover | Thinornis forbesi | RR | |
| 26 | /Eurasian Curlew/ | Numenius arquata | NT | |
| 27 | /Black-tailed Godwit/ | Limosa limosa | NT | |
| 28 | /Great Snipe/ | Gallinago media | NT | |
| 29 | /Curlew Sandpiper/ | Calidris ferruginea | NT | |
| 30 | |Black-winged Pratincole| | Glareola nordmanni | NT | |
| 31 | Lesser Flamingo | Phoenicoparrus minor | V | |
| 32 | African Woolly-necked Stork | Ciconia microscelis | NT | |
| 33 | /Malagasy Pond-Heron/ | Ardeola idae | EN | |
| 34 | Shoebill | Balaeniceps rex | V | |
| 35 | Secretarybird | Sagittarius serpentarius | EN | |
| 36 | Scissor-tailed Kite | Chelictinia riocourii | RR | V |
| 37 | Bearded Vulture | Gypaetus barbatus | NT | |
| 38 | #Egyptian Vulture# | Neophron percnopterus | RR | EN |
| 39 | White-headed Vulture | Trigonoceps occipitalis | CR | |
| 40 | Lappet-faced Vulture | Torgos tracheliotos | EN | |
| 41 | Hooded Vulture | Necrosyrtes monachus | CR | |
| 42 | White-backed Vulture | Gyps africanus | CR | |
| 43 | Rueppell's Griffon | Gyps rueppelli | CR | |
| 44 | Bateleur | Terathopius ecaudatus | EN | |
| 45 | Congo Snake-Eagle | Circaetus spectabilis | RR | |
| 46 | Beaudouin's Snake-Eagle | Circaetus beaudouini | V | |
| 47 | Crowned Eagle | Stephanoaetus coronatus | NT | |
| 48 | Martial Eagle | Polemaetus bellicosus | EN | |
| 49 | Tawny Eagle | Aquila rapax | V | |
| 50 | /Steppe Eagle/ | Aquila nipalensis | EN | |
| 51 | Verreaux's Eagle | Aquila verreauxii | RR | |
| 52 | Long-tailed Hawk | Urotriorchis macrourus | RR | |
| 53 | Dark Chanting-Goshawk | Melierax metabates | RR | |
| 54 | Eastern Chanting-Goshawk | Melierax poliopterus | RR | |
| 55 | Red-thighed Sparrowhawk | Tachyspiza erythropus | RR | |
| 56 | Rufous-breasted Sparrowhawk | Accipiter rufiventris | RR | |
| 57 | /Pallid Harrier/ | Circus macrourus | NT | |
| 58 | Mountain Buzzard | Buteo oreophilus | NT | |
| 59 | Grayish Eagle-Owl | Bubo cinerascens | RR | |
| 60 | Fraser's Eagle-Owl | Ketupa poensis | RR | |
| 61 | Pel's Fishing-Owl | Scotopelia peli | RR | |
| 62 | Red-chested Owlet | Glaucidium tephronotum | RR | |
| 63 | Forest Scimitarbill | Rhinopomastus castaneiceps | RR | |
| 64 | Abyssinian Ground-Hornbill | Bucorvus abyssinicus | RR | V |
| 65 | Red-billed Dwarf Hornbill | Lophoceros camurus | RR | |
| 66 | Hemprich's Hornbill | Lophoceros hemprichii | RR | |
| 67 | Jackson's Hornbill | Tockus jacksoni | RR | |
| 68 | Eastern Long-tailed Hornbill | Horizocerus cassini | RR | |
| 69 | Eastern Dwarf Hornbill | Horizocerus granti | RR | |
| 70 | White-thighed Hornbill | Bycanistes albotibialis | RR | |
| 71 | Black Bee-eater | Merops gularis | RR | |
| 72 | Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater | Merops oreobates | RR | |
| 73 | Swallow-tailed Bee-eater | Merops hirundineus | RR | |
| 74 | African Green Bee-eater | Merops viridissimus | RR | |
| 75 | /European Bee-eater/ | Merops apiaster | RR | |
| 76 | /Northern Carmine Bee-eater/ | Merops nubicus | RR | |
| 77 | Chocolate-backed Kingfisher | Halcyon badia | RR | |
| 78 | Crested Barbet | Trachyphonus vaillantii | RR | |
| 79 | Moustached Tinkerbird | Pogoniulus leucomystax | RR | |
| 80 | Western Tinkerbird | Pogoniulus coryphaea | RR | |
| 81 | Northern Red-fronted Tinkerbird | Pogoniulus uropygialis | RR | |
| 82 | Red-faced Barbet | Lybius rubrifacies | NT | |
| 83 | Brown-backed Honeybird | Prodotiscus regulus | RR | |
| 84 | Dwarf Honeyguide | Indicator pumilio | NE | |
| 85 | Willcocks's Honeyguide | Indicator willcocksi | RR | |
| 86 | African Piculet | Verreauxia africana | RR | |
| 87 | Gabon Woodpecker | Dendropicos gabonensis | RR | |
| 88 | Elliot's Woodpecker | Dendropicos elliotii | RR | |
| 89 | Fox Kestrel | Falco alopex | RR | |
| 90 | Red-necked Falcon | Falco chicquera | NT | |
| 91 | |Red-footed Falcon| | Falco vespertinus | V | |
| 92 | |Sooty Falcon| | Falco concolor | V | |
| 93 | Rose-ringed Parakeet | Psittacula krameri | RR | |
| 94 | Gray Parrot | Psittacus erithacus | EN | |
| 95 | Brown-necked Parrot | Poicephalus fuscicollis | RR | |
| 96 | Grauer's Broadbill | Pseudocalyptomena graueri | V | |
| 97 | Petit's Cuckooshrike | Campephaga petiti | RR | |
| 98 | Black-winged Oriole | Oriolus nigripennis | RR | |
| 99 | Yellow-bellied Wattle-eye | Platysteira concreta | RR | |
| 100 | Rwenzori Batis | Batis diops | RR | |
| 101 | Gray-headed Batis | Batis orientalis | RR | |
| 102 | Pygmy Batis | Batis perkeo | RR | |
| 103 | Ituri Batis | Batis ituriensis | RR | |
| 104 | Rufous-bellied Helmetshrike | Prionops rufiventris | RR | |
| 105 | Three-streaked Tchagra | Tchagra jamesi | RR | |
| 106 | Papyrus Gonolek | Laniarius mufumbiri | NT | |
| 107 | Slate-colored Boubou | Laniarius funebris | RR | |
| 108 | Lowland Sooty Boubou | Laniarius leucorhynchus | RR | |
| 109 | Willard's Sooty Boubou | Laniarius willardi | RR | |
| 110 | Albertine Boubou | Laniarius holomelas | RR | |
| 111 | Doherty's Bushshrike | Telophorus dohertyi | RR | |
| 112 | Many-colored Bushshrike | Chlorophoneus multicolor | RR | |
| 113 | Lagden's Bushshrike | Malaconotus lagdeni | RR | NT |
| 114 | African Crested Flycatcher | Trochocercus cyanomelas | RR | |
| 115 | /Woodchat Shrike/ | Lanius senator | NT | |
| 116 | White-rumped Shrike | Eurocephalus ruppelli | RR | |
| 117 | White-tailed Blue Flycatcher | Elminia albicauda | RR | |
| 118 | White-tailed Crested Flycatcher | Elminia albonotata | RR | |
| 119 | White-bellied Tit | Melaniparus albiventris | RR | |
| 120 | Stripe-breasted Tit | Melaniparus fasciiventer | RR | |
| 121 | Kidepo Lark | Corypha kidepoensis | RR | |
| 122 | Yellow-throated Nicator | Nicator vireo | RR | |
| 123 | Lemon-bellied Crombec | Sylvietta denti | RR | |
| 124 | White-browed Crombec | Sylvietta leucophrys | RR | |
| 125 | Yellow Longbill | Macrosphenus flavicans | RR | |
| 126 | Gray Longbill | Macrosphenus concolor | RR | |
| 127 | Grauer's Warbler | Graueria vittata | RR | |
| 128 | Rwenzori Apalis | Oreolais ruwenzorii | RR | |
| 129 | Masked Apalis | Apalis binotata | RR | |
| 130 | Black-faced Apalis | Apalis personata | RR | |
| 131 | Chestnut-throated Apalis | Apalis porphyrolaema | RR | |
| 132 | Karamoja Apalis | Apalis karamojae | E | V |
| 133 | Pale Prinia | Prinia somalica | RR | |
| 134 | Red-fronted Warbler | Prinia rufifrons | RR | |
| 135 | Boran Cisticola | Cisticola bodessa | LC | |
| 136 | Red-pate Cisticola | Cisticola ruficeps | RR | |
| 137 | Tabora Cisticola | Cisticola angusticauda | RR | |
| 138 | Black-backed Cisticola | Cisticola eximius | RR | |
| 139 | Papyrus Yellow-Warbler | Calamonastides gracilirostris | RR | V |
| 140 | African Yellow-Warbler | Iduna natalensis | RR | |
| 141 | Mountain Yellow-Warbler | Iduna similis | RR | |
| 142 | |Basra Reed Warbler| | Acrocephalus griseldis | EN | |
| 143 | Bamboo Warbler | Locustella alfredi | RR | |
| 144 | Evergreen-forest Warbler | Bradypterus lopezi | RR | |
| 145 | Cinnamon Bracken-Warbler | Bradypterus cinnamomeus | RR | |
| 146 | Grauer's Swamp Warbler | Bradypterus graueri | RR | V |
| 147 | Highland Rush Warbler | Bradypterus centralis | RR | |
| 148 | \Montane Blue Swallow\ | Hirundo atrocaerulea | V | |
| 149 | Ethiopian Swallow | Hirundo aethiopica | RR | |
| 150 | White-throated Blue Swallow | Hirundo nigrita | RR | |
| 151 | Swamp Greenbul | Thescelocichla leucopleura | RR | |
| 152 | Simple Greenbul | Chlorocichla simplex | RR | |
| 153 | Shelley's Greenbul | Arizelocichla masukuensis | RR | |
| 154 | Eastern Bearded-Greenbul | Criniger chloronotus | RR | |
| 155 | Ansorge's Greenbul | Eurillas ansorgei | RR | |
| 156 | Yellow-streaked Greenbul | Phyllastrephus flavostriatus | RR | |
| 157 | Icterine Greenbul | Phyllastrephus icterinus | RR | |
| 158 | Cabanis's Greenbul | Phyllastrephus cabanisi | RR | |
| 159 | Brown Woodland-Warbler | Phylloscopus umbrovirens | RR | |
| 160 | Red-faced Woodland-Warbler | Phylloscopus laetus | RR | |
| 161 | Uganda Woodland-Warbler | Phylloscopus budongoensis | RR | |
| 162 | Tit-hylia | Pholidornis rushiae | RR | |
| 163 | Chestnut-capped Flycatcher | Erythrocercus mccallii | RR | |
| 164 | Neumann's Warbler | Hemitesia neumanni | RR | |
| 165 | Rwenzori Hill Babbler | Sylvia atriceps | RR | |
| 166 | Puvel's Illadopsis | Illadopsis puveli | RR | |
| 167 | Red-billed Oxpecker | Buphagus erythroryncha | RR | |
| 168 | Yellow-billed Oxpecker | Buphagus africanus | RR | |
| 169 | Slender-billed Starling | Onychognathus tenuirostris | RR | |
| 170 | Red-tailed Ant-Thrush | Neocossyphus rufus | RR | |
| 171 | Black-eared Ground-Thrush | Geokichla camaronensis | RR | |
| 172 | Oberlaender's Ground-Thrush | Geokichla oberlaenderi | NE | NT |
| 173 | Abyssinian Ground-Thrush | Geokichla piaggiae | RR | |
| 174 | Yellow-footed Flycatcher | Muscicapa sethsmithi | RR | |
| 175 | Chapin's Flycatcher | Fraseria lendu | NE | V |
| 176 | Yellow-eyed Black-Flycatcher | Melaenornis ardesiacus | RR | |
| 177 | Southern Black-Flycatcher | Melaenornis pammelaina | RR | |
| 178 | /Rufous-tailed Scrub-Robin/ | Cercotrichas galactotes | RR | |
| 179 | White-bellied Robin-Chat | Cossyphicula roberti | RR | |
| 180 | Archer's Robin-Chat | Dessonornis archeri | NE | |
| 181 | Cape Robin-Chat | Dessonornis caffra | RR | |
| 182 | Red-throated Alethe | Chamaetylas poliophrys | RR | |
| 183 | Familiar Chat | Oenanthe familiaris | RR | |
| 184 | Blue-headed Sunbird | Cyanomitra alinae | NE | |
| 185 | Purple-breasted Sunbird | Nectarinia purpureiventris | RR | |
| 186 | Malachite Sunbird | Nectarinia famosa | RR | |
| 187 | Red-tufted Sunbird | Nectarinia johnstoni | RR | |
| 188 | Golden-winged Sunbird | Drepanorhynchus reichenowi | RR | |
| 189 | Tiny Sunbird | Cinnyris minullus | RR | |
| 190 | Stuhlmann's Sunbird | Cinnyris stuhlmanni | RR | |
| 191 | Northern Double-collared Sunbird | Cinnyris reichenowi | RR | |
| 192 | Regal Sunbird | Cinnyris regius | RR | |
| 193 | Superb Sunbird | Cinnyris superbus | RR | |
| 194 | Gray-capped Social-Weaver | Pseudonigrita arnaudi | RR | |
| 195 | Red-bellied Malimbe | Malimbus erythrogaster | RR | |
| 196 | Blue-billed Malimbe | Malimbus nitens | RR | |
| 197 | Crested Malimbe | Malimbus malimbicus | RR | |
| 198 | Strange Weaver | Ploceus alienus | NE | |
| 199 | Orange Weaver | Ploceus aurantius | RR | |
| 200 | Chestnut Weaver | Ploceus rubiginosus | RR | |
| 201 | Maxwell's Black Weaver | Ploceus albinucha | RR | |
| 202 | Yellow-crowned Bishop | Euplectes afer | RR | |
| 203 | Marsh Widowbird | Euplectes hartlaubi | RR | |
| 204 | Magpie Mannikin | Spermestes fringilloides | RR | |
| 205 | African Silverbill | Euodice cantans | RR | |
| 206 | Dusky Crimsonwing | Cryptospiza jacksoni | RR | |
| 207 | Abyssinian Crimsonwing | Cryptospiza salvadorii | RR | |
| 208 | Red-faced Crimsonwing | Cryptospiza reichenovii | RR | |
| 209 | Jameson's Antpecker | Parmoptila jamesoni | RR | |
| 210 | Pale-fronted Nigrita | Nigrita luteifrons | RR | |
| 211 | Chestnut-breasted Nigrita | Nigrita bicolor | RR | |
| 212 | Kandt's Waxbill | Estrilda kandti | RR | |
| 213 | Quailfinch | Ortygospiza atricollis | RR | |
| 214 | Cut-throat | Amadina fasciata | RR | |
| 215 | Grant's Bluebill | Spermophaga poliogenys | RR | |
| 216 | Orange-winged Pytilia | Pytilia afra | RR | |
| 217 | Dusky Twinspot | Euschistospiza cinereovinacea | RR | |
| 218 | Steel-blue Whydah | Vidua hypocherina | RR | |
| 219 | Yellow-spotted Bush Sparrow | Gymnornis pyrgita | RR | |
| 220 | Oriole Finch | Linurgus olivaceus | RR | |
| 221 | White-rumped Seedeater | Crithagra leucopygius | RR | |
| 222 | Papyrus Canary | Crithagra koliensis | RR | |
| 223 | Reichenow's Seedeater | Crithagra reichenowi | RR | |
| 224 | White-bellied Canary | Crithagra dorsostriatus | RR | |
| 225 | Yellow-crowned Canary | Serinus flavivertex | RR | |
| 226 | Gray-chested Babbler | Kakamega poliothorax | RR |
*Nomenclature and taxonomic affinities are based on Clements 6th Edition published 2007 with updates through 2021 maintained by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, which relies largely on the AOU and SACC nomenclature committees. IUCN status may reflect splits not currently recognized by Clements.
**Species not accepted by Clements, AOU, or SACC that we recognize based on the IOC, field observations along with geographical separation, consensus opinions of field guide authors, and other sources. These species are potential splits in future Clements updates.