Uganda · Western Region
Bwindi-Impenetrable Forest NP – Buhoma Track
321 species and 14,285 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: June–August, with up to 157 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Black-faced Rufous WarblerBathmocercus rufus
Northern Double-collared SunbirdCinnyris reichenowi
Yellow-whiskered GreenbulEurillas latirostris
African Paradise FlycatcherTerpsiphone viridis
Elliot's WoodpeckerDendropicos elliotii
Northern Yellow White-eyeZosterops senegalensis
Lühder's BushshrikeLaniarius luehderi
Speckled TinkerbirdPogoniulus scolopaceus
Slender-billed GreenbulStelgidillas gracilirostris
Petit's CuckooshrikeCampephaga petiti
Buff-throated ApalisApalis rufogularis
Black-billed TuracoTauraco schuettii
Little GreenbulEurillas virens
Dusky-blue FlycatcherBradornis comitatusSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Bwindi-Impenetrable Forest NP – Waterfall Walk0 km379 species
- Bwindi-Impenetrable Forest NP – Entrance Road1 km357 species
- Bwindi-Impenetrable Forest NP – Buhoma3 km516 species
- Bwindi-Impenetrable NP – 'The Neck'9 km414 species
- Bwindi-Impenetrable NP – Mubwindi Swamp19 km435 species
- Bwindi-Impenetrable NP – Ruhija19 km539 species
All 321 species recorded here
- Black-faced Rufous Warbler Bathmocercus rufus
- Red-tailed Greenbul Criniger calurus
- Speckled Tinkerbird Pogoniulus scolopaceus
- Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus bilineatus
- Northern Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris reichenowi
- Black-necked Weaver Ploceus nigricollis
- Little Greenbul Eurillas virens
- Black Saw-wing Psalidoprocne pristoptera
- Lühder's Bushshrike Laniarius luehderi
- Black Bee-eater Merops gularis
- Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
- Black-throated Apalis Apalis jacksoni
- Brown-capped Weaver Ploceus insignis
- Slender-billed Greenbul Stelgidillas gracilirostris
- Pink-footed Puffback Dryoscopus angolensis
- Olive Sunbird Cyanomitra olivacea
- Petit's Cuckooshrike Campephaga petiti
- Grey-throated Barbet Gymnobucco bonapartei
- Dusky-blue Flycatcher Bradornis comitatus
- Great Blue Turaco Corythaeola cristata
- Elliot's Woodpecker Dendropicos elliotii
- Yellow-whiskered Greenbul Eurillas latirostris
- Ansorge's Greenbul Eurillas ansorgei
- Green Hylia Hylia prasina
- African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis
- Grey Apalis Apalis cinerea
- Buff-throated Apalis Apalis rufogularis
- Red-throated Alethe Chamaetylas poliophrys
- Yellow-spotted Barbet Buccanodon duchaillui
- Grey-winged Robin-Chat Sheppardia polioptera
- Red-faced Woodland Warbler Phylloscopus laetus
- Equatorial Akalat Sheppardia aequatorialis
- African Pied Wagtail Motacilla aguimp
- Brown-throated Wattle-eye Platysteira cyanea
- Black-billed Turaco Tauraco schuettii
- Tambourine Dove Turtur tympanistria
- Olive-green Camaroptera Camaroptera chloronota
- Plain Greenbul Eurillas curvirostris
- Bar-tailed Trogon Apaloderma vittatum
- Northern Yellow White-eye Zosterops senegalensis
- Shelley's Greenbul Arizelocichla masukuensis
- Dusky Tit Melaniparus funereus
- Sooty Flycatcher Artomyias fuliginosa
- Bocage's Bushshrike Chlorophoneus bocagei
- White-bellied Robin-Chat Cossyphicula roberti
- Chestnut Wattle-eye Dyaphorophyia castanea
- White-breasted Nigrita Nigrita fusconotus
- Black-billed Weaver Ploceus melanogaster
- Collared Sunbird Hedydipna collaris
- Fraser's Rufous Thrush Stizorhina fraseri
- Grey-headed Sunbird Deleornis axillaris
- Mountain Illadopsis Illadopsis pyrrhoptera
- Red-tailed Bristlebill Bleda syndactylus
- Yellow-chinned Sunbird Anthreptes rectirostris
- Honeyguide Greenbul Baeopogon indicator
- Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo Cercococcyx mechowi
- Mountain Oriole Oriolus percivali
- White-tailed Ant Thrush Neocossyphus poensis
- Chapin's Flycatcher Fraseria lendu
- Red-headed Malimbe Malimbus rubricollis
- White-headed Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus bollei
- Green-headed Sunbird Cyanomitra verticalis
- Grey-throated Tit-Flycatcher Fraseria griseigularis
- Grey-headed Nigrita Nigrita canicapillus
- White-chinned Prinia Schistolais leucopogon
- Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher Bias musicus
- African Dusky Flycatcher Muscicapa adusta
- Scaly-breasted Illadopsis Illadopsis albipectus
- Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura
- African Emerald Cuckoo Chrysococcyx cupreus
- Little Green Sunbird Anthreptes seimundi
- Blue-throated Brown Sunbird Cyanomitra cyanolaema
- African Broadbill Smithornis capensis
- Many-colored Bushshrike Chlorophoneus multicolor
- Cabanis's Greenbul Phyllastrephus cabanisi
- Angola Swallow Hirundo angolensis
- White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher Melaenornis fischeri
- Neumann's Warbler Hemitesia neumanni
- Buff-spotted Woodpecker Pardipicus nivosus
- Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater Merops oreobates
- Mountain Wagtail Motacilla clara
- Narrow-tailed Starling Poeoptera lugubris
- Lesser Striped Swallow Cecropis abyssinica
- African Shrike-flycatcher Megabyas flammulatus
- Green Crombec Sylvietta virens
- Green-throated Sunbird Chalcomitra rubescens
- Northern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer griseus
- Hairy-breasted Barbet Tricholaema hirsuta
- Bronze Sunbird Nectarinia kilimensis
- Western Bronze-naped Pigeon Columba iriditorques
- Toro Olive Greenbul Phyllastrephus hypochloris
- African Blue Flycatcher Elminia longicauda
- Blue-throated Roller Eurystomus gularis
- Fine-banded Woodpecker Campethera taeniolaema
- Baglafecht Weaver Ploceus baglafecht
- Yellow-throated Tinkerbird Pogoniulus subsulphureus
- Pied Crow Corvus albus
- Speckled Mousebird Colius striatus
- Blue-headed Sunbird Cyanomitra alinae
- Jameson's Antpecker Parmoptila jamesoni
- Willcocks's Honeyguide Indicator willcocksi
- White-tailed Blue Flycatcher Elminia albicauda
- Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill Bycanistes subcylindricus
- Stuhlmann's Starling Poeoptera stuhlmanni
- Yellow-crested Woodpecker Chloropicus xantholophus
- Waller's Starling Onychognathus walleri
- White-rumped Swift Apus caffer
- Red-throated Rock Martin Ptyonoprogne rufigula
- African Thrush Turdus pelios
- Streaky Seedeater Crithagra striolata
- African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus
- Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat Cossypha niveicapilla
- Willard's Sooty Boubou Laniarius willardi
- African Green Pigeon Treron calvus
- Ross's Turaco Tauraco rossae
- Red-chested Cuckoo Cuculus solitarius
- Vieillot's Black Weaver Ploceus nigerrimus
- African Goshawk Aerospiza tachiro
- Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat Cossypha cyanocampter
- Chubb's Cisticola Cisticola chubbi
- Mackinnon's Shrike Lanius mackinnoni
- Cape Wagtail Motacilla capensis
- Black Cuckoo Cuculus clamosus
- Least Honeyguide Indicator exilis
- Crowned Eagle Stephanoaetus coronatus
- Golden-breasted Bunting Emberiza flaviventris
- Thick-billed Seedeater Crithagra burtoni
- Banded Prinia Prinia bairdii
- Cassin's Honeybird Prodotiscus insignis
- Grey-capped Warbler Eminia lepida
- Purple-headed Starling Hylopsar purpureiceps
- Purple-breasted Sunbird Nectarinia purpureiventris
- Red-headed Bluebill Spermophaga ruficapilla
- Cardinal Woodpecker Dendropicos fuscescens
- White-browed Crombec Sylvietta leucophrys
- Little Grey Greenbul Eurillas gracilis
- Klaas's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas
- Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet Trachylaemus purpuratus
- Tiny Sunbird Cinnyris minullus
- Hadada Ibis Bostrychia hagedash
- Black Sparrowhawk Astur melanoleucus
- Black Cuckooshrike Campephaga flava
- Olive-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris chloropygius
- White-necked Raven Corvus albicollis
- Dwarf Honeyguide Indicator pumilio
- Lesser Honeyguide Indicator minor
- Western Citril Crithagra frontalis
- Bronze Mannikin Spermestes cucullata
- African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus
- Blue-spotted Wood Dove Turtur afer
- Cassin's Hawk-Eagle Aquila africana
- Red-capped Robin-Chat Cossypha natalensis
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- Scarce Swift Schoutedenapus myoptilus
- Black-and-white Mannikin Spermestes bicolor
- Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
- Little Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza minulla
- Eastern Crested Guineafowl Guttera pucherani
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird Chalcomitra senegalensis
- Mosque Swallow Cecropis senegalensis
- Brown Illadopsis Illadopsis fulvescens
- Levaillant's Cuckoo Clamator levaillantii
- African Pygmy Kingfisher Ispidina picta
- Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura
- Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo Cercococcyx montanus
- Yellow-streaked Greenbul Phyllastrephus flavostriatus
- Pale-throated Greenbul Atimastillas flavigula
- Green Twinspot Mandingoa nitidula
- Little Swift Apus affinis
- White-throated Bee-eater Merops albicollis
- Variable Sunbird Cinnyris venustus
- Kikuyu Mountain Greenbul Arizelocichla kikuyuensis
- White-browed Robin-Chat Cossypha heuglini
- Ashy Flycatcher Fraseria caerulescens
- Abyssinian Ground Thrush Geokichla piaggiae
- Western Oriole Oriolus brachyrynchus
- White-headed Saw-wing Psalidoprocne albiceps
- Pale-breasted Illadopsis Illadopsis rufipennis
- African Olive Pigeon Columba arquatrix
- Chinspot Batis Batis molitor
- Mountain Masked Apalis Apalis personata
- Red-tailed Ant Thrush Neocossyphus rufus
- African Wood Owl Strix woodfordii
- Abyssinian Thrush Turdus abyssinicus
- Velvet-mantled Drongo Dicrurus modestus
- Black-crowned Waxbill Estrilda nonnula
- Augur Buzzard Buteo augur
- Grey Tit-Flycatcher Fraseria plumbea
- Horus Swift Apus horus
- Afep Pigeon Columba unicincta
- Rwenzori Batis Batis diops
- Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala
- Tropical Boubou Laniarius major
- Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala
- Palm-nut Vulture Gypohierax angolensis
- Ayres's Hawk-Eagle Hieraaetus ayresii
- African Black Swift Apus barbatus
- Black-headed Weaver Ploceus melanocephalus
- Cassin's Flycatcher Muscicapa cassini
- Yellow-breasted Apalis Apalis flavida
- African Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia microscelis
- Handsome Spurfowl Pternistis nobilis
- Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo Cercococcyx olivinus
- Blue Malkoha Ceuthmochares aereus
- Northern Puffback Dryoscopus gambensis
- Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone rufiventer
- White-throated Greenbul Phyllastrephus albigularis
- Icterine Greenbul Phyllastrephus icterinus
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Stripe-breasted Tit Melaniparus fasciiventer
- African Firefinch Lagonosticta rubricata
- Splendid Starling Lamprotornis splendidus
- Yellow-eyed Black Flycatcher Melaenornis ardesiacus
- Slender-billed Starling Onychognathus tenuirostris
- Lemon-bellied Crombec Sylvietta denti
- Regal Sunbird Cinnyris regius
- Village Indigobird Vidua chalybeata
- Banded Martin Neophedina cincta
- Grey Crowned Crane Balearica regulorum
- White-spotted Flufftail Sarothrura pulchra
- African Black Duck Anas sparsa
- Fire-crested Alethe Alethe castanea
- Diederik Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius
- Red-faced Cisticola Cisticola erythrops
- Rwenzori Hill Babbler Sylvia atriceps
- Lowland Masked Apalis Apalis binotata
- Arrow-marked Babbler Turdoides jardineii
- Red-faced Crimsonwing Cryptospiza reichenovii
- Grauer's Warbler Graueria vittata
- Western Tinkerbird Pogoniulus coryphaea
- Mountain Buzzard Buteo oreophilus
- Broad-billed Roller Eurystomus glaucurus
- Rwenzori Apalis Oreolais ruwenzorii
- Brown-eared Woodpecker Pardipicus caroli
- White-bellied Crested Flycatcher Elminia albiventris
- European Bee-eater Merops apiaster
- Southern Red Bishop Euplectes orix
- Brown-crowned Tchagra Tchagra australis
- Doherty's Bushshrike Telophorus dohertyi
- Wattled Starling Creatophora cinerea
- Yellow-fronted Canary Crithagra mozambica
- Yellow Bishop Euplectes capensis
- Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo
- Magpie Mannikin Spermestes fringilloides
- African Stonechat Saxicola torquatus
- Alpine Swift Tachymarptis melba
- Chestnut-winged Starling Onychognathus fulgidus
- Dusky Crimsonwing Cryptospiza jacksoni
- Strange Weaver Ploceus alienus
- Mottled Swift Tachymarptis aequatorialis
- Black-headed Oriole Oriolus larvatus
- Black-capped Apalis Apalis nigriceps
- Evergreen Forest Warbler Bradypterus lopezi
- Narina Trogon Apaloderma narina
- Buff-bellied Warbler Phyllolais pulchella
- Black-throated Wattle-eye Platysteira peltata
- Oriole Finch Linurgus olivaceus
- Rufous-breasted Sparrowhawk Accipiter rufiventris
- Red-thighed Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza erythropus
- African Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis melanocrissus
- Red-breasted Swallow Cecropis semirufa
- Chestnut-capped Flycatcher Erythrocercus mccallii
- Red-throated Bee-eater Merops bulocki
- Chestnut-throated Apalis Apalis porphyrolaema
- Black-casqued Hornbill Ceratogymna atrata
- African Yellow Warbler Iduna natalensis
- Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu Uraeginthus bengalus
- Shikra Tachyspiza badia
- Nubian Woodpecker Campethera nubica
- Senegal Coucal Centropus senegalensis
- African Piculet Verreauxia africana
- Black Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus aterrimus
- Black-throated Canary Crithagra atrogularis
- Black Bishop Euplectes gierowii
- Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
- Crowned Hornbill Lophoceros alboterminatus
- Common Swift Apus apus
- Long-crested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis
- Red-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus atroflavus
- Grey-backed Fiscal Lanius excubitoroides
- Black-bellied Seedcracker Pyrenestes ostrinus
- Red-chested Sunbird Cinnyris erythrocercus
- Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea
- Eastern Plantain-eater Crinifer zonurus
- Dusky Twinspot Euschistospiza cinereovinacea
- Red-chested Owlet Glaucidium tephronotum
- Grey-headed Bushshrike Malaconotus blanchoti
- Little Bee-eater Merops pusillus
- Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava
- Red-necked Spurfowl Pternistis afer
- Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
- Crested Francolin Ortygornis sephaena
- Montane Nightjar Caprimulgus poliocephalus
- Sharpe's Starling Pholia sharpii
- Olive Woodpecker Dendropicos griseocephalus
- Lagden's Bushshrike Malaconotus lagdeni
- Western Nicator Nicator chloris
- Black-billed Wood Dove Turtur abyssinicus
- Albertine Sooty Boubou Laniarius holomelas
- Kandt's Waxbill Estrilda kandti
- Lizard Buzzard Kaupifalco monogrammicus
- Jameson's Wattle-eye Platysteira jamesoni
- Slender-billed Weaver Ploceus pelzelni
- Yellow-crowned Canary Serinus flavivertex
- Western Black-headed Batis Batis erlangeri
- Brown-chested Alethe Chamaetylas poliocephala
- Pale Flycatcher Agricola pallidus
- Shining-blue Kingfisher Alcedo quadribrachys
- African Pipit Anthus cinnamomeus
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- White-winged Black Tit Melaniparus leucomelas
- Brown-backed Honeybird Prodotiscus regulus
- Rwenzori Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris stuhlmanni
- Blue-breasted Kingfisher Halcyon malimbica
- Black-throated Coucal Centropus leucogaster
- Copper Sunbird Cinnyris cupreus
- Yellow-breasted Forest Robin Stiphrornis xanthogaster
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Bwindi-Impenetrable Forest NP – Buhoma Track?
June–August. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 157 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Bwindi-Impenetrable Forest NP – Buhoma Track?
321 species, from 14,285 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Bwindi-Impenetrable Forest NP – Buhoma Track in November?
The most recorded in November: Black-faced Rufous Warbler, Northern Double-collared Sunbird, Yellow-whiskered Greenbul, African Paradise Flycatcher and Elliot's Woodpecker.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.