Toro Semliki Wildlife Reserve Birding Checklist : Toro- semuliki national park is one of the national parks in Uganda which will lead you to a number of hidden gems like the hot springs, numerous primate species like the black and white colobus that will make your Uganda safari experience quite memorable. However as you hike through the forests, you will also get to watch a number of different bird species making the country quite a rewarding spot for birding in Uganda. and some of the different bird species that can be seen include;
1 | Rameron Pigeon | Columba arquatrix |
2 | White-naped Pigeon | Columba albinucha |
3 | Black-throated Coucal | Centropus leucogaster |
4 | Sabine’s Spinetail | Rhaphidura sabini |
5 | African Swift | Apus barbatus |
6 | /Curlew Sandpiper/ | Calidris ferruginea |
7 | African Woolly-necked Stork | Ciconia microscelis |
8 | Shoebill | Balaeniceps rex |
9 | White-headed Vulture | Trigonoceps occipitalis |
10 | Lappet-faced Vulture | Torgos tracheliotos |
11 | White-backed Vulture | Gyps africanus |
12 | Congo Serpent-Eagle | Dryotriorchis spectabilis |
13 | Bateleur | Terathopius ecaudatus |
14 | Beaudouin’s Snake-Eagle | Circaetus beaudouini |
15 | Crowned Eagle | Stephanoaetus coronatus |
16 | Martial Eagle | Polemaetus bellicosus |
17 | Tawny Eagle | Aquila rapax |
18 | Long-tailed Hawk | Urotriorchis macrourus |
19 | Mountain Buzzard | Buteo oreophilus |
20 | Grayish Eagle-Owl | Bubo cinerascens |
21 | Abyssinian Ground-Hornbill | Bucorvus abyssinicus |
22 | Red-billed Dwarf Hornbill | Lophoceros camurus |
23 | Eastern Long-tailed Hornbill | Horizocerus cassini |
24 | Eastern Dwarf Hornbill | Horizocerus granti |
25 | White-thighed Hornbill | Bycanistes albotibialis |
26 | Black Bee-eater | Merops gularis |
27 | Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater | Merops oreobates |
28 | /European Bee-eater/ | Merops apiaster |
29 | Willcocks’s Honeyguide | Indicator willcocksi |
30 | African Piculet | Verreauxia africana |
31 | Gabon Woodpecker | Dendropicos gabonensis |
32 | Red-necked Falcon | Falco chicquera |
33 | Petit’s Cuckooshrike | Campephaga petiti |
34 | Ituri Batis | Batis ituriensis |
35 | Lowland Sooty Boubou | Laniarius leucorhynchus |
36 | Many-colored Bushshrike | Telophorus multicolor |
37 | Yellow-throated Nicator | Nicator vireo |
38 | Lemon-bellied Crombec | Sylvietta denti |
39 | Yellow Longbill | Macrosphenus flavicans |
40 | Gray Longbill | Macrosphenus concolor |
41 | Masked Apalis | Apalis binotata |
42 | Swamp Greenbul | Thescelocichla leucopleura |
43 | Simple Greenbul | Chlorocichla simplex |
44 | Icterine Greenbul | Phyllastrephus icterinus |
45 | Cabanis’s Greenbul | Phyllastrephus cabanisi |
46 | Chestnut-capped Flycatcher | Erythrocercus mccallii |
47 | Yellow-billed Oxpecker | Buphagus africanus |
48 | Red-tailed Ant-Thrush | Neocossyphus rufus |
49 | Superb Sunbird | Cinnyris superbus |
50 | Blue-billed Malimbe | Malimbus nitens |
51 | Crested Malimbe | Malimbus malimbicus |
52 | Maxwell’s Black Weaver | Ploceus albinucha |
53 | Magpie Mannikin | Spermestes fringilloides |
54 | Jameson’s Antpecker | Parmoptila jamesoni |
55 | Pale-fronted Nigrita | Nigrita luteifrons |
56 | Chestnut-breasted Nigrita | Nigrita bicolor |
57 | Quailfinch | Ortygospiza atricollis |
58 | Grant’s Bluebill | Spermophaga poliogenys |
59 | White-rumped Seedeater | Crithagra leucopygius |