Mgahinga National Park Birding Checklist: To a number of travellers that make their way to participate in the Uganda safaris, Mgahinga national park is famous for the mountain gorillas in Uganda that can be seen when you participate in gorilla trekking in Mgahinga national park however once you make your way to the park, you will get to understand that there’s more to the park than just the Virunga mountain in Uganda and golden monkeys in Uganda as you participate in birding in Uganda and with this birding checklist for Mgahinga that will make your birding safaris in Uganda quite rewarding.
| 1 | Handsome Spurfowl | Pternistis nobilis |
| 2 | Rameron Pigeon | Columba arquatrix |
| 3 | Rwenzori Turaco | Ruwenzorornis johnstoni |
| 4 | African Swift | Apus barbatus |
| 5 | Red-knobbed Coot | Fulica cristata |
| 6 | Gray Crowned-Crane | Balearica regulorum |
| 7 | Shoebill | Balaeniceps rex |
| 8 | Egyptian Vulture | Neophron percnopterus |
| 9 | Lappet-faced Vulture | Torgos tracheliotos |
| 10 | Hooded Vulture | Necrosyrtes monachus |
| 11 | White-backed Vulture | Gyps africanus |
| 12 | Bateleur | Terathopius ecaudatus |
| 13 | Crowned Eagle | Stephanoaetus coronatus |
| 14 | Martial Eagle | Polemaetus bellicosus |
| 15 | Tawny Eagle | Aquila rapax |
| 16 | /Steppe Eagle/ | Aquila nipalensis |
| 17 | Dark Chanting-Goshawk | Melierax metabates |
| 18 | Rufous-chested Sparrowhawk | Accipiter rufiventris |
| 19 | Mountain Buzzard | Buteo oreophilus |
| 20 | Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater | Merops oreobates |
| 21 | /European Bee-eater/ | Merops apiaster |
| 22 | Western Tinkerbird | Pogoniulus coryphaea |
| 23 | Wahlberg’s Honeyguide | Prodotiscus regulus |
| 24 | Dwarf Honeyguide | Indicator pumilio |
| 25 | Willcocks’s Honeyguide | Indicator willcocksi |
| 26 | Elliot’s Woodpecker | Chloropicus elliotii |
| 27 | Petit’s Cuckooshrike | Campephaga petiti |
| 28 | Rwenzori Batis | Batis diops |
| 29 | Papyrus Gonolek | Laniarius mufumbiri |
| 30 | Lowland Sooty Boubou | Laniarius leucorhynchus |
| 31 | Willard’s Sooty Boubou | Laniarius willardi |
| 32 | Albertine Boubou | Laniarius holomelas |
| 33 | Many-colored Bushshrike | Telophorus multicolor |
| 34 | Doherty’s Bushshrike | Telophorus dohertyi |
| 35 | Lagden’s Bushshrike | Malaconotus lagdeni |
| 36 | White-tailed Blue Flycatcher | Elminia albicauda |
| 37 | White-tailed Crested-Flycatcher | Elminia albonotata |
| 38 | Stripe-breasted Tit | Melaniparus fasciiventer |
| 39 | White-browed Crombec | Sylvietta leucophrys |
| 40 | Grauer’s Warbler | Graueria vittata |
| 41 | Rwenzori Apalis | Oreolais ruwenzorii |
| 42 | Masked Apalis | Apalis binotata |
| 43 | Black-faced Apalis | Apalis personata |
| 44 | Chestnut-throated Apalis | Apalis porphyrolaema |
| 45 | Papyrus Yellow-Warbler | Calamonastides gracilirostris |
| 46 | African Yellow-Warbler | Iduna natalensis |
| 47 | Mountain Yellow-Warbler | Iduna similis |
| 48 | Bamboo Warbler | Locustella alfredi |
| 49 | Evergreen-forest Warbler | Bradypterus lopezi |
| 50 | Cinnamon Bracken-Warbler | Bradypterus cinnamomeus |
| 51 | Highland Rush Warbler | Bradypterus centralis |
| 52 | Shelley’s Greenbul | Arizelocichla masukuensis |
| 53 | Eastern Bearded-Greenbul | Criniger chloronotus |
| 54 | Yellow-streaked Greenbul | Phyllastrephus flavostriatus |
| 55 | Brown Woodland-Warbler | Phylloscopus umbrovirens |
| 56 | Red-faced Woodland-Warbler | Phylloscopus laetus |
| 57 | Rwenzori Hill Babbler | Sylvia atriceps |
| 58 | Yellow-billed Oxpecker | Buphagus africanus |
| 59 | Slender-billed Starling | Onychognathus tenuirostris |
| 60 | Oberlaender’s Ground-Thrush | Geokichla oberlaenderi |
| 61 | Abyssinian Ground-Thrush | Geokichla piaggiae |
| 62 | Yellow-eyed Black-Flycatcher | Melaenornis ardesiacus |
| 63 | White-bellied Robin-Chat | Cossyphicula roberti |
| 64 | Archer’s Robin-Chat | Cossypha archeri |
| 65 | Cape Robin-Chat | Cossypha caffra |
| 66 | Red-throated Alethe | Chamaetylas poliophrys |
| 67 | Blue-headed Sunbird | Cyanomitra alinae |
| 68 | Purple-breasted Sunbird | Nectarinia purpureiventris |
| 69 | Malachite Sunbird | Nectarinia famosa |
| 70 | Red-tufted Sunbird | Nectarinia johnstoni |
| 71 | Golden-winged Sunbird | Drepanorhynchus reichenowi |
| 72 | Stuhlmann’s Sunbird | Cinnyris stuhlmanni |
| 73 | Northern Double-collared Sunbird | Cinnyris reichenowi |
| 74 | Regal Sunbird | Cinnyris regius |
| 75 | Superb Sunbird | Cinnyris superbus |
| 76 | Strange Weaver | Ploceus alienus |
| 77 | Dusky Crimsonwing | Cryptospiza jacksoni |
| 78 | Abyssinian Crimsonwing | Cryptospiza salvadorii |
| 79 | Red-faced Crimsonwing | Cryptospiza reichenovii |
| 80 | Kandt’s Waxbill | Estrilda kandti |
| 81 | Dusky Twinspot | Euschistospiza cinereovinacea |
| 82 | Oriole Finch | Linurgus olivaceus |
| 83 | Papyrus Canary | Crithagra koliensis |
| 84 | Yellow-crowned Canary | Serinus flavivertex |
| 85 | Gray-chested Babbler | Kakamega poliothorax |
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