Uganda · Western Region
Bwindi-Impenetrable Forest NP – Waterfall Walk
379 species and 17,430 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: June–July, with up to 179 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Northern Double-collared SunbirdCinnyris reichenowi
Yellow-whiskered GreenbulEurillas latirostris
Brown-throated Wattle-eyePlatysteira cyanea
Grey-throated BarbetGymnobucco bonapartei
Red-tailed GreenbulCriniger calurus
Black-faced Rufous WarblerBathmocercus rufus
Lühder's BushshrikeLaniarius luehderi
Buff-throated ApalisApalis rufogularis
Slender-billed GreenbulStelgidillas gracilirostris
African Paradise FlycatcherTerpsiphone viridis
Black Bee-eaterMerops gularis
African Dusky FlycatcherMuscicapa adusta
Yellow-rumped TinkerbirdPogoniulus bilineatus
Speckled TinkerbirdPogoniulus scolopaceus137 species seen regularly here in November · showing the 14 most recorded. All 379 species recorded here ↓
Species seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Bwindi-Impenetrable Forest NP – Buhoma Track0 km321 species
- Bwindi-Impenetrable Forest NP – Entrance Road0 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 379 species recorded here
- Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus bilineatus
- Speckled Tinkerbird Pogoniulus scolopaceus
- Red-tailed Greenbul Criniger calurus
- Little Greenbul Eurillas virens
- Northern Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris reichenowi
- Black-faced Rufous Warbler Bathmocercus rufus
- Lühder's Bushshrike Laniarius luehderi
- Buff-throated Apalis Apalis rufogularis
- Grey Apalis Apalis cinerea
- Petit's Cuckooshrike Campephaga petiti
- Grey-throated Barbet Gymnobucco bonapartei
- Olive Sunbird Cyanomitra olivacea
- Black-throated Apalis Apalis jacksoni
- Slender-billed Greenbul Stelgidillas gracilirostris
- Yellow-spotted Barbet Buccanodon duchaillui
- Pink-footed Puffback Dryoscopus angolensis
- Black-billed Turaco Tauraco schuettii
- Yellow-whiskered Greenbul Eurillas latirostris
- Collared Sunbird Hedydipna collaris
- Tambourine Dove Turtur tympanistria
- African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis
- Black Saw-wing Psalidoprocne pristoptera
- Dusky-blue Flycatcher Bradornis comitatus
- Brown-capped Weaver Ploceus insignis
- Mountain Oriole Oriolus percivali
- Grey-winged Robin-Chat Sheppardia polioptera
- Plain Greenbul Eurillas curvirostris
- Equatorial Akalat Sheppardia aequatorialis
- Olive-green Camaroptera Camaroptera chloronota
- Brown-throated Wattle-eye Platysteira cyanea
- White-breasted Nigrita Nigrita fusconotus
- Honeyguide Greenbul Baeopogon indicator
- Great Blue Turaco Corythaeola cristata
- Ansorge's Greenbul Eurillas ansorgei
- Black Bee-eater Merops gularis
- Black-necked Weaver Ploceus nigricollis
- Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
- Northern Yellow White-eye Zosterops senegalensis
- Dusky Tit Melaniparus funereus
- Bar-tailed Trogon Apaloderma vittatum
- Red-throated Alethe Chamaetylas poliophrys
- African Dusky Flycatcher Muscicapa adusta
- Grey-throated Tit-Flycatcher Fraseria griseigularis
- Bocage's Bushshrike Chlorophoneus bocagei
- Green Hylia Hylia prasina
- Elliot's Woodpecker Dendropicos elliotii
- African Pied Wagtail Motacilla aguimp
- Chestnut Wattle-eye Dyaphorophyia castanea
- Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher Bias musicus
- Black-billed Weaver Ploceus melanogaster
- Red-tailed Bristlebill Bleda syndactylus
- Shelley's Greenbul Arizelocichla masukuensis
- Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura
- Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo Cercococcyx mechowi
- Cabanis's Greenbul Phyllastrephus cabanisi
- White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher Melaenornis fischeri
- White-bellied Robin-Chat Cossyphicula roberti
- Narrow-tailed Starling Poeoptera lugubris
- Red-faced Woodland Warbler Phylloscopus laetus
- Mountain Illadopsis Illadopsis pyrrhoptera
- Grey-headed Nigrita Nigrita canicapillus
- Fraser's Rufous Thrush Stizorhina fraseri
- Little Green Sunbird Anthreptes seimundi
- Red-headed Malimbe Malimbus rubricollis
- Green-headed Sunbird Cyanomitra verticalis
- White-headed Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus bollei
- Yellow-chinned Sunbird Anthreptes rectirostris
- White-chinned Prinia Schistolais leucopogon
- Scaly-breasted Illadopsis Illadopsis albipectus
- Yellow-throated Tinkerbird Pogoniulus subsulphureus
- African Emerald Cuckoo Chrysococcyx cupreus
- White-tailed Ant Thrush Neocossyphus poensis
- Mountain Wagtail Motacilla clara
- Bronze Sunbird Nectarinia kilimensis
- Grey-headed Sunbird Deleornis axillaris
- Lesser Striped Swallow Cecropis abyssinica
- Neumann's Warbler Hemitesia neumanni
- Many-colored Bushshrike Chlorophoneus multicolor
- Blue-throated Brown Sunbird Cyanomitra cyanolaema
- Green Crombec Sylvietta virens
- Chapin's Flycatcher Fraseria lendu
- Angola Swallow Hirundo angolensis
- Sooty Flycatcher Artomyias fuliginosa
- Hairy-breasted Barbet Tricholaema hirsuta
- White-tailed Blue Flycatcher Elminia albicauda
- Western Bronze-naped Pigeon Columba iriditorques
- Stuhlmann's Starling Poeoptera stuhlmanni
- African Broadbill Smithornis capensis
- Toro Olive Greenbul Phyllastrephus hypochloris
- Waller's Starling Onychognathus walleri
- Baglafecht Weaver Ploceus baglafecht
- Green-throated Sunbird Chalcomitra rubescens
- Northern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer griseus
- African Thrush Turdus pelios
- Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill Bycanistes subcylindricus
- African Green Pigeon Treron calvus
- Banded Prinia Prinia bairdii
- African Shrike-flycatcher Megabyas flammulatus
- Blue-headed Sunbird Cyanomitra alinae
- Buff-spotted Woodpecker Pardipicus nivosus
- Pied Crow Corvus albus
- Golden-breasted Bunting Emberiza flaviventris
- Willcocks's Honeyguide Indicator willcocksi
- Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater Merops oreobates
- Cassin's Honeybird Prodotiscus insignis
- Purple-breasted Sunbird Nectarinia purpureiventris
- Fine-banded Woodpecker Campethera taeniolaema
- Willard's Sooty Boubou Laniarius willardi
- Blue-throated Roller Eurystomus gularis
- African Blue Flycatcher Elminia longicauda
- Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat Cossypha niveicapilla
- Grey-capped Warbler Eminia lepida
- Speckled Mousebird Colius striatus
- Least Honeyguide Indicator exilis
- Streaky Seedeater Crithagra striolata
- Red-chested Cuckoo Cuculus solitarius
- Jameson's Antpecker Parmoptila jamesoni
- Red-throated Rock Martin Ptyonoprogne rufigula
- Mackinnon's Shrike Lanius mackinnoni
- African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus
- Vieillot's Black Weaver Ploceus nigerrimus
- White-rumped Swift Apus caffer
- Crowned Eagle Stephanoaetus coronatus
- Chubb's Cisticola Cisticola chubbi
- Ross's Turaco Tauraco rossae
- Blue Malkoha Ceuthmochares aereus
- Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat Cossypha cyanocampter
- Black Cuckoo Cuculus clamosus
- White-browed Crombec Sylvietta leucophrys
- Blue-spotted Wood Dove Turtur afer
- Little Grey Greenbul Eurillas gracilis
- Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet Trachylaemus purpuratus
- Yellow-streaked Greenbul Phyllastrephus flavostriatus
- Eastern Crested Guineafowl Guttera pucherani
- Purple-headed Starling Hylopsar purpureiceps
- Pale-throated Greenbul Atimastillas flavigula
- Yellow-crested Woodpecker Chloropicus xantholophus
- Klaas's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas
- Levaillant's Cuckoo Clamator levaillantii
- Dwarf Honeyguide Indicator pumilio
- Chinspot Batis Batis molitor
- Pale-breasted Illadopsis Illadopsis rufipennis
- Diederik Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius
- Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo Cercococcyx montanus
- Thick-billed Seedeater Crithagra burtoni
- Abyssinian Ground Thrush Geokichla piaggiae
- Little Swift Apus affinis
- White-browed Robin-Chat Cossypha heuglini
- Abyssinian Thrush Turdus abyssinicus
- African Olive Pigeon Columba arquatrix
- Western Tinkerbird Pogoniulus coryphaea
- African Goshawk Aerospiza tachiro
- Red-capped Robin-Chat Cossypha natalensis
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Tiny Sunbird Cinnyris minullus
- Bronze Mannikin Spermestes cucullata
- White-necked Raven Corvus albicollis
- Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura
- Hadada Ibis Bostrychia hagedash
- African Wood Owl Strix woodfordii
- Cassin's Hawk-Eagle Aquila africana
- Rwenzori Batis Batis diops
- Augur Buzzard Buteo augur
- Olive-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris chloropygius
- Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo Cercococcyx olivinus
- Western Citril Crithagra frontalis
- African Pygmy Kingfisher Ispidina picta
- Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala
- Scarce Swift Schoutedenapus myoptilus
- Little Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza minulla
- Cardinal Woodpecker Dendropicos fuscescens
- Handsome Spurfowl Pternistis nobilis
- Kikuyu Mountain Greenbul Arizelocichla kikuyuensis
- Black-and-white Mannikin Spermestes bicolor
- Cape Wagtail Motacilla capensis
- Mountain Masked Apalis Apalis personata
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird Chalcomitra senegalensis
- Red-headed Bluebill Spermophaga ruficapilla
- Chestnut-winged Starling Onychognathus fulgidus
- Black Cuckooshrike Campephaga flava
- Splendid Starling Lamprotornis splendidus
- Lesser Honeyguide Indicator minor
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- African Black Duck Anas sparsa
- Mosque Swallow Cecropis senegalensis
- Black Sparrowhawk Astur melanoleucus
- Oriole Finch Linurgus olivaceus
- Northern Puffback Dryoscopus gambensis
- White-throated Bee-eater Merops albicollis
- Variable Sunbird Cinnyris venustus
- Ashy Flycatcher Fraseria caerulescens
- Brown-crowned Tchagra Tchagra australis
- Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
- Ayres's Hawk-Eagle Hieraaetus ayresii
- Red-tailed Ant Thrush Neocossyphus rufus
- Brown Illadopsis Illadopsis fulvescens
- Chestnut-throated Apalis Apalis porphyrolaema
- Green Twinspot Mandingoa nitidula
- Velvet-mantled Drongo Dicrurus modestus
- Village Indigobird Vidua chalybeata
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Black-headed Weaver Ploceus melanocephalus
- Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
- White-bellied Crested Flycatcher Elminia albiventris
- Yellow-eyed Black Flycatcher Melaenornis ardesiacus
- Sharpe's Starling Pholia sharpii
- Tropical Boubou Laniarius major
- Thick-billed Weaver Amblyospiza albifrons
- Grey Kestrel Falco ardosiaceus
- Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala
- Northern Fiscal Lanius humeralis
- Slender-billed Starling Onychognathus tenuirostris
- Yellow Bishop Euplectes capensis
- Double-toothed Barbet Pogonornis bidentatus
- Grey Tit-Flycatcher Fraseria plumbea
- White-throated Greenbul Phyllastrephus albigularis
- Palm-nut Vulture Gypohierax angolensis
- Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone rufiventer
- Blue-breasted Bee-eater Merops variegatus
- African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus
- Giant Kingfisher Megaceryle maxima
- Black-crowned Waxbill Estrilda nonnula
- Grauer's Warbler Graueria vittata
- Rwenzori Apalis Oreolais ruwenzorii
- Verreaux's Eagle-Owl Ketupa lactea
- Hamerkop Scopus umbretta
- White-spotted Flufftail Sarothrura pulchra
- Cassin's Flycatcher Muscicapa cassini
- Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus chrysoconus
- Rufous-breasted Sparrowhawk Accipiter rufiventris
- Lemon Dove Aplopelia larvata
- Buff-spotted Flufftail Sarothrura elegans
- Arrow-marked Babbler Turdoides jardineii
- Kandt's Waxbill Estrilda kandti
- African Firefinch Lagonosticta rubricata
- Holub's Golden Weaver Ploceus xanthops
- Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava
- Yellow-crowned Canary Serinus flavivertex
- Mottled Swift Tachymarptis aequatorialis
- Yellow-bellied Waxbill Coccopygia quartinia
- Rwenzori Hill Babbler Sylvia atriceps
- Mountain Buzzard Buteo oreophilus
- Western Oriole Oriolus brachyrynchus
- Dusky Crimsonwing Cryptospiza jacksoni
- Long-crested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis
- Western Nicator Nicator chloris
- Brown-backed Honeybird Prodotiscus regulus
- Western Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava
- Black-lored Babbler Turdoides sharpei
- Yellow-fronted Canary Crithagra mozambica
- Magpie Mannikin Spermestes fringilloides
- African Stonechat Saxicola torquatus
- White-headed Saw-wing Psalidoprocne albiceps
- Narina Trogon Apaloderma narina
- Grauer's Swamp Warbler Bradypterus graueri
- Leaf-love Phyllastrephus scandens
- Brown-eared Woodpecker Pardipicus caroli
- Grey Crowned Crane Balearica regulorum
- Purple-banded Sunbird Cinnyris bifasciatus
- Jameson's Wattle-eye Platysteira jamesoni
- Black-headed Oriole Oriolus larvatus
- Speckle-breasted Woodpecker Dendropicos poecilolaemus
- Spotted Honeyguide Indicator maculatus
- Red-chested Flufftail Sarothrura rufa
- African Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia microscelis
- Alpine Swift Tachymarptis melba
- African Black Swift Apus barbatus
- Red-chested Sunbird Cinnyris erythrocercus
- Regal Sunbird Cinnyris regius
- Black-throated Canary Crithagra atrogularis
- Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis
- White-starred Robin Pogonocichla stellata
- Cinnamon Bracken Warbler Bradypterus cinnamomeus
- Archer's Ground Robin Dessonornis archeri
- Albertine Sooty Boubou Laniarius holomelas
- Stripe-breasted Tit Melaniparus fasciiventer
- Brimstone Canary Crithagra sulphurata
- Scaly Spurfowl Pternistis squamatus
- Black-crowned Tchagra Tchagra senegalus
- Sooty Chat Myrmecocichla nigra
- White-backed Duck Thalassornis leuconotus
- Yellow-breasted Apalis Apalis flavida
- Green-backed Woodpecker Campethera maculosa
- Blue-headed Coucal Centropus monachus
- Eastern Plantain-eater Crinifer zonurus
- Wahlberg's Eagle Hieraaetus wahlbergi
- Marabou Stork Leptoptilos crumenifer
- Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris
- Grey-chested Babbler Kakamega poliothorax
- European Bee-eater Merops apiaster
- Crowned Hornbill Lophoceros alboterminatus
- African Hobby Falco cuvierii
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Lemon-bellied Crombec Sylvietta denti
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- Temminck's Courser Cursorius temminckii
- Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
- Dusky Twinspot Euschistospiza cinereovinacea
- Red-throated Wryneck Jynx ruficollis
- Papyrus Gonolek Laniarius mufumbiri
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Eurasian Blackcap Sylvia atricapilla
- Doherty's Bushshrike Telophorus dohertyi
- Red-collared Widowbird Euplectes ardens
- Black Bishop Euplectes gierowii
- Blue-breasted Kingfisher Halcyon malimbica
- African Wattled Lapwing Vanellus senegallus
- Lappet-faced Vulture Torgos tracheliotos
- African Hawk-Eagle Aquila spilogaster
- White-winged Swamp Warbler Bradypterus carpalis
- White-browed Coucal Centropus superciliosus
- Rufous-naped Lark Corypha africana
- Western Banded Snake Eagle Circaetus cinerascens
- Brown Snake Eagle Circaetus cinereus
- Trilling Cisticola Cisticola woosnami
- Brown Twinspot Clytospiza monteiri
- Purple Starling Lamprotornis purpureus
- Black-throated Wattle-eye Platysteira peltata
- Wood Warbler Phylloscopus sibilatrix
- Ovambo Sparrowhawk Accipiter ovampensis
- Common Buzzard Buteo buteo
- Fiery-necked Nightjar Caprimulgus pectoralis
- Swamp Flycatcher Muscicapa aquatica
- African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer
- Montagu's Harrier Circus pygargus
- Red-faced Cisticola Cisticola erythrops
- White-naped Pigeon Columba albinucha
- Red-breasted Swallow Cecropis semirufa
- Lizard Buzzard Kaupifalco monogrammicus
- Rüppell's Starling Lamprotornis purpuroptera
- Northern Black Flycatcher Melaenornis edolioides
- Brown-throated Martin Riparia paludicola
- Black-chested Snake Eagle Circaetus pectoralis
- Copper Sunbird Cinnyris cupreus
- Winding Cisticola Cisticola marginatus
- Fraser's Forest Flycatcher Fraseria ocreata
- Woodland Kingfisher Halcyon senegalensis
- Brown Woodland Warbler Phylloscopus umbrovirens
- African Openbill Anastomus lamelligerus
- Red-chested Owlet Glaucidium tephronotum
- Lagden's Bushshrike Malaconotus lagdeni
- African Yellow Warbler Iduna natalensis
- Lowland Masked Apalis Apalis binotata
- African Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis melanocrissus
- Purple-throated Cuckooshrike Campephaga quiscalina
- Black-casqued Hornbill Ceratogymna atrata
- Rattling Cisticola Cisticola chiniana
- Grey-headed Kingfisher Halcyon leucocephala
- Mountain Yellow Warbler Iduna similis
- Carruthers's Cisticola Cisticola carruthersi
- Afep Pigeon Columba unicincta
- Brown-backed Woodpecker Dendropicos obsoletus
- Bat Hawk Macheiramphus alcinus
- Forest Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus castaneiceps
- Mottled Spinetail Telacanthura ussheri
- Shining-blue Kingfisher Alcedo quadribrachys
- Evergreen Forest Warbler Bradypterus lopezi
- African Cuckoo Cuculus gularis
- Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo
- Black-winged Oriole Oriolus nigripennis
- Red-faced Crimsonwing Cryptospiza reichenovii
- Horus Swift Apus horus
- Black-headed Gonolek Laniarius erythrogaster
- Slate-colored Boubou Laniarius funebris
- Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio
- Grey-backed Fiscal Lanius excubitoroides
- Isabelline Shrike Lanius isabellinus
- Gabar Goshawk Micronisus gabar
- Lesser Masked Weaver Ploceus intermedius
- Little Weaver Ploceus luteolus
- Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis
- Blue-mantled Crested Flycatcher Trochocercus cyanomelas
- Brown Babbler Turdoides plebejus
- Brubru Nilaus afer
- Cape Robin-Chat Dessonornis caffer
- Montane Nightjar Caprimulgus poliocephalus
- Yellow-breasted Forest Robin Stiphrornis xanthogaster
- Jacobin Cuckoo Clamator jacobinus
- Congo Pied Hornbill Lophoceros fasciatus
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 – Waterfall Walk?
June–July. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 179 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Bwindi-Impenetrable Forest NP – Waterfall Walk?
379 species, from 17,430 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Bwindi-Impenetrable Forest NP – Waterfall Walk in November?
The most recorded in November: Northern Double-collared Sunbird, Yellow-whiskered Greenbul, Brown-throated Wattle-eye, Grey-throated Barbet and Red-tailed Greenbul.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.