Birding Checklist For Mabamba Swamp : Mamba swamp in Uganda is considered as one of the important birding destinations in Uganda that travellers can get to visit to participate in birding in Uganda. The swamp is located on the outer shores of Lake Victoria the freshest water body in Uganda.  The swamp is highly visited by people interested in fishing especially the local however for travellers that make their way to the swamp are interested in watching the numerous bird species and in this birding checklist for mabamba swamp, here are some of the different bird species that you will get to explore aside from the endangered shoe bill stork that will make your birding safaris in Uganda quite fulfilling.

Birding Checklist For Mabamba Swamp
1 Coqui Francolin Campocolinus coqui
2 Black-throated Coucal Centropus leucogaster
3 Lesser Moorhen Gallinula angulata
4 Red-knobbed Coot Fulica cristata
5 Gray Crowned-Crane Balearica regulorum
6 /Black-tailed Godwit/ Limosa limosa
7 /Great Snipe/ Gallinago media
8 African Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia microscelis
9 Shoebill Balaeniceps rex
10 #Egyptian Vulture# Neophron percnopterus
11 White-headed Vulture Trigonoceps occipitalis
12 Lappet-faced Vulture Torgos tracheliotos
13 Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus
14 White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus
15 Rueppell’s Griffon Gyps rueppelli
16 Bateleur Terathopius ecaudatus
17 Beaudouin’s Snake-Eagle Circaetus beaudouini
18 Martial Eagle Polemaetus bellicosus
19 Tawny Eagle Aquila rapax
20 /Steppe Eagle/ Aquila nipalensis
21 Dark Chanting-Goshawk Melierax metabates
22 Eastern Chanting-Goshawk Melierax poliopterus
23 /Pallid Harrier/ Circus macrourus
24 Swallow-tailed Bee-eater Merops hirundineus
25 /European Bee-eater/ Merops apiaster
26 Red-necked Falcon Falco chicquera
27 Gray Parrot Psittacus erithacus
28 Papyrus Gonolek Laniarius mufumbiri
29 Lowland Sooty Boubou Laniarius leucorhynchus
30 /Woodchat Shrike/ Lanius senator
31 Yellow Longbill Macrosphenus flavicans
32 Gray Longbill Macrosphenus concolor
33 Papyrus Yellow-Warbler Calamonastides gracilirostris
34 African Yellow-Warbler Iduna natalensis
35 Ethiopian Swallow Hirundo aethiopica
36 \Montane Blue Swallow\ Hirundo atrocaerulea
37 Red-billed Oxpecker Buphagus erythrorynchus
38 Superb Sunbird Cinnyris superbus
39 Orange Weaver Ploceus aurantius
40 Marsh Widowbird Euplectes hartlaubi
41 Papyrus Canary Crithagra koliensis

‘’Visit mabamba swamp and get to watch a number of rare bird species as you enjoy the boat rides as you hunt for the different bird species in the wild.’’

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