While Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is perhaps most famous for being home to roughly half of the world’s remaining population of endangered Mountain Gorillas, this 321-km2 national park is a superb birding site for any birder visiting Uganda. Located in the far southwestern corner of the country near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is a biodiversity hotspot and is home to over 320 species of birds, many of which are listed below and 23 of which are endemic to this particular area of the Albertine Rift. Birding enthusiats should be sure not to miss this great destination.
The key species here are:
Handsome Francolin
African Wood Owl
Rwenzori Nightjar
Bar-tailed Trogon
Black Bee-eater
Western Green Tinkerbird
Dwarf Honeyguide
Fine-banded Woodpecker
African Green Broadbill
Grey Cuckoo-shrike
Shelly’s Greenbul
Yellow-streaked Greenbul
Red-throated Alethe
Archer’s Robin-Chat
White-bellied Robin-Chat
Kivu Ground-Thrush
Mountain Yellow Warbler
Grauer’s Rush Warbler
Red-faced Woodland Warbler
Short tailed Warbler
Black-faced Rufous Warbler
Grauer’s Warbler
Chestnut-throated Apalis
Collared Apalis
Mountain Masked Apalis
Yellow-eyed Black Flycatcher
Chapin’s Flycatcher
Rwenzori Batis
Strip-breasted Tit
Tit Hylia
Purple-breasted Sunbird
Blue-headed Sunbird
Regal Sunbird
Lagden’s Bush Shrike
Doherty’s Bush Shrike
Montane Oriole
Strange Weaver
Brown-capped Weaver
Red-fronted Antpecker
Dusky Twinspot
Dusky Crimsonwing
Shelley’s Crimsonwing