Bird AlbumUganda · Western Region
Chimpanzee Forest Lodge
340 species and 11,848 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: February and July–August, with up to 127 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Black-crowned WaxbillEstrilda nonnula
African Pied WagtailMotacilla aguimp
Bronze MannikinSpermestes cucullata
Hadada IbisBostrychia hagedash
Scarlet-chested SunbirdChalcomitra senegalensis
Lesser Striped SwallowCecropis abyssinica
Double-toothed BarbetPogonornis bidentatus
White-browed Robin-ChatCossypha heuglini
Speckled MousebirdColius striatus
Bronze SunbirdNectarinia kilimensis
African Dusky FlycatcherMuscicapa adusta
Northern Yellow White-eyeZosterops senegalensis
Great Blue TuracoCorythaeola cristata
Common BulbulPycnonotus barbatusSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Kibale NP4 km598 species
- Bigodi Swamp12 km487 species
- Bigodi Ecotourism Research Centre13 km361 species
- Semuliki NP – Kirumya Trail42 km416 species
- Semuliki NP49 km575 species
- Queen Elizabeth II NP – Kasenyi Track70 km447 species
All 340 species recorded here
- Bronze Sunbird Nectarinia kilimensis
- Black-crowned Waxbill Estrilda nonnula
- Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
- African Pied Wagtail Motacilla aguimp
- Speckled Mousebird Colius striatus
- African Blue Flycatcher Elminia longicauda
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird Chalcomitra senegalensis
- Northern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer griseus
- African Thrush Turdus pelios
- Bronze Mannikin Spermestes cucullata
- Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
- African Dusky Flycatcher Muscicapa adusta
- Olive-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris chloropygius
- Northern Yellow White-eye Zosterops senegalensis
- Double-toothed Barbet Pogonornis bidentatus
- Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill Bycanistes subcylindricus
- White-browed Robin-Chat Cossypha heuglini
- Vieillot's Black Weaver Ploceus nigerrimus
- Lesser Striped Swallow Cecropis abyssinica
- Great Blue Turaco Corythaeola cristata
- Brimstone Canary Crithagra sulphurata
- Hadada Ibis Bostrychia hagedash
- Little Swift Apus affinis
- Red-throated Rock Martin Ptyonoprogne rufigula
- Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura
- Eastern Plantain-eater Crinifer zonurus
- Copper Sunbird Cinnyris cupreus
- Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus bilineatus
- Grey-headed Nigrita Nigrita canicapillus
- Violet-backed Starling Cinnyricinclus leucogaster
- Yellow-fronted Canary Crithagra mozambica
- Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura
- Palm-nut Vulture Gypohierax angolensis
- Brown-throated Wattle-eye Platysteira cyanea
- Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala
- Speckle-breasted Woodpecker Dendropicos poecilolaemus
- Green-headed Sunbird Cyanomitra verticalis
- White-rumped Swift Apus caffer
- Klaas's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas
- White-headed Saw-wing Psalidoprocne albiceps
- Variable Sunbird Cinnyris venustus
- Collared Sunbird Hedydipna collaris
- Ross's Turaco Tauraco rossae
- Blue-spotted Wood Dove Turtur afer
- Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater Merops oreobates
- Crowned Hornbill Lophoceros alboterminatus
- Purple-headed Starling Hylopsar purpureiceps
- Thick-billed Weaver Amblyospiza albifrons
- Purple-banded Sunbird Cinnyris bifasciatus
- Red-chested Cuckoo Cuculus solitarius
- Black-necked Weaver Ploceus nigricollis
- Alpine Swift Tachymarptis melba
- Long-crested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis
- Grey Kestrel Falco ardosiaceus
- Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher Bias musicus
- Mosque Swallow Cecropis senegalensis
- Green-throated Sunbird Chalcomitra rubescens
- Speckled Tinkerbird Pogoniulus scolopaceus
- Cardinal Woodpecker Dendropicos fuscescens
- Lizard Buzzard Kaupifalco monogrammicus
- White-breasted Nigrita Nigrita fusconotus
- African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus
- Slender-billed Greenbul Stelgidillas gracilirostris
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Yellow-bellied Waxbill Coccopygia quartinia
- Pied Crow Corvus albus
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Brown-crowned Tchagra Tchagra australis
- Red-chested Sunbird Cinnyris erythrocercus
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus
- Grey-capped Warbler Eminia lepida
- Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala
- Tropical Boubou Laniarius major
- Yellow-throated Tinkerbird Pogoniulus subsulphureus
- African Emerald Cuckoo Chrysococcyx cupreus
- White-chinned Prinia Schistolais leucopogon
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- Northern Black Flycatcher Melaenornis edolioides
- Red-faced Cisticola Cisticola erythrops
- Western Citril Crithagra frontalis
- Spectacled Weaver Ploceus ocularis
- Grey Tit-Flycatcher Fraseria plumbea
- European Bee-eater Merops apiaster
- Marico Sunbird Cinnyris mariquensis
- Blue-throated Brown Sunbird Cyanomitra cyanolaema
- Tambourine Dove Turtur tympanistria
- Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat Cossypha niveicapilla
- Black-and-white Mannikin Spermestes bicolor
- Verreaux's Eagle-Owl Ketupa lactea
- Olive Sunbird Cyanomitra olivacea
- Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
- Hairy-breasted Barbet Tricholaema hirsuta
- Bocage's Bushshrike Chlorophoneus bocagei
- Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava
- Northern Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris reichenowi
- White-browed Coucal Centropus superciliosus
- Angola Swallow Hirundo angolensis
- Wahlberg's Eagle Hieraaetus wahlbergi
- Western Nicator Nicator chloris
- African Pygmy Kingfisher Ispidina picta
- Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone rufiventer
- Lesser Honeyguide Indicator minor
- Northern Puffback Dryoscopus gambensis
- Hamerkop Scopus umbretta
- African Green Pigeon Treron calvus
- Horus Swift Apus horus
- Little Greenbul Eurillas virens
- Diederik Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius
- Black Bishop Euplectes gierowii
- African Firefinch Lagonosticta rubricata
- African Goshawk Aerospiza tachiro
- Splendid Starling Lamprotornis splendidus
- Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild
- Lühder's Bushshrike Laniarius luehderi
- Chestnut Wattle-eye Dyaphorophyia castanea
- Pink-backed Pelican Pelecanus rufescens
- Honeyguide Greenbul Baeopogon indicator
- Cassin's Honeybird Prodotiscus insignis
- Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis
- Dusky-blue Flycatcher Bradornis comitatus
- Yellow-spotted Barbet Buccanodon duchaillui
- African Sacred Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus
- Grey-throated Barbet Gymnobucco bonapartei
- Green Hylia Hylia prasina
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Joyful Greenbul Chlorocichla laetissima
- Sooty Chat Myrmecocichla nigra
- Ring-necked Dove Streptopelia capicola
- Fawn-breasted Waxbill Estrilda paludicola
- Baglafecht Weaver Ploceus baglafecht
- Green Crombec Sylvietta virens
- Blue Malkoha Ceuthmochares aereus
- Rüppell's Starling Lamprotornis purpuroptera
- Northern Fiscal Lanius humeralis
- Yellow-crested Woodpecker Chloropicus xantholophus
- Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet Trachylaemus purpuratus
- Buff-throated Apalis Apalis rufogularis
- Black Saw-wing Psalidoprocne pristoptera
- African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis
- Black Cuckoo Cuculus clamosus
- Buff-spotted Woodpecker Pardipicus nivosus
- Giant Kingfisher Megaceryle maxima
- Yellow-throated Longclaw Macronyx croceus
- African Grey Woodpecker Dendropicos goertae
- Brown Illadopsis Illadopsis fulvescens
- Black-crowned Tchagra Tchagra senegalus
- African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer
- African Openbill Anastomus lamelligerus
- Grey-throated Tit-Flycatcher Fraseria griseigularis
- Superb Sunbird Cinnyris superbus
- Ayres's Hawk-Eagle Hieraaetus ayresii
- Willcocks's Honeyguide Indicator willcocksi
- Black Sparrowhawk Astur melanoleucus
- Scaly-breasted Illadopsis Illadopsis albipectus
- Toro Olive Greenbul Phyllastrephus hypochloris
- Black-billed Turaco Tauraco schuettii
- Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo Cercococcyx mechowi
- Fraser's Rufous Thrush Stizorhina fraseri
- Brown-eared Woodpecker Pardipicus caroli
- African Hawk-Eagle Aquila spilogaster
- Western Banded Snake Eagle Circaetus cinerascens
- Afep Pigeon Columba unicincta
- Brown-throated Martin Riparia paludicola
- Narrow-tailed Starling Poeoptera lugubris
- African Black Swift Apus barbatus
- Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus chrysoconus
- European Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus
- Magpie Mannikin Spermestes fringilloides
- Broad-billed Roller Eurystomus glaucurus
- White-throated Bee-eater Merops albicollis
- Cassin's Flycatcher Muscicapa cassini
- Black-headed Weaver Ploceus melanocephalus
- Crowned Eagle Stephanoaetus coronatus
- Little Green Sunbird Anthreptes seimundi
- Woodland Kingfisher Halcyon senegalensis
- Marabou Stork Leptoptilos crumenifer
- Black Bee-eater Merops gularis
- Yellow-billed Duck Anas undulata
- Red-capped Robin-Chat Cossypha natalensis
- Garden Warbler Sylvia borin
- Winding Cisticola Cisticola marginatus
- Shikra Tachyspiza badia
- Blue-headed Coucal Centropus monachus
- Village Indigobird Vidua chalybeata
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Yellow-chinned Sunbird Anthreptes rectirostris
- Blue-breasted Kingfisher Halcyon malimbica
- Streaky Seedeater Crithagra striolata
- Grey-chested Babbler Kakamega poliothorax
- Red-headed Malimbe Malimbus rubricollis
- African Shrike-flycatcher Megabyas flammulatus
- Western Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava
- Red-headed Bluebill Spermophaga ruficapilla
- Shining-blue Kingfisher Alcedo quadribrachys
- White-spotted Flufftail Sarothrura pulchra
- Sooty Flycatcher Artomyias fuliginosa
- Fiery-necked Nightjar Caprimulgus pectoralis
- Dusky Tit Melaniparus funereus
- Red-breasted Swallow Cecropis semirufa
- Black-casqued Hornbill Ceratogymna atrata
- White-tailed Blue Flycatcher Elminia albicauda
- Grey-backed Fiscal Lanius excubitoroides
- Eastern Crested Guineafowl Guttera pucherani
- Northern Brown-throated Weaver Ploceus castanops
- Abdim's Stork Ciconia abdimii
- Narina Trogon Apaloderma narina
- African Hobby Falco cuvierii
- Little Bee-eater Merops pusillus
- Scarce Swift Schoutedenapus myoptilus
- White-tailed Ant Thrush Neocossyphus poensis
- Western Oriole Oriolus brachyrynchus
- Plain Greenbul Eurillas curvirostris
- Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus
- Grey-headed Sunbird Deleornis axillaris
- Abyssinian Thrush Turdus abyssinicus
- Mackinnon's Shrike Lanius mackinnoni
- Striped Kingfisher Halcyon chelicuti
- Marsh Tchagra Bocagia minuta
- Lesser Masked Weaver Ploceus intermedius
- Compact Weaver Pachyphantes superciliosus
- Weyns's Weaver Ploceus weynsi
- Holub's Golden Weaver Ploceus xanthops
- Gabar Goshawk Micronisus gabar
- Pale-throated Greenbul Atimastillas flavigula
- Blue-throated Roller Eurystomus gularis
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Merops persicus
- Arrow-marked Babbler Turdoides jardineii
- Western Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus
- Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis
- African Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia microscelis
- Common Swift Apus apus
- Red-tailed Bristlebill Bleda syndactylus
- Common Buzzard Buteo buteo
- Western House Martin Delichon urbicum
- Little Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza minulla
- African Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis melanocrissus
- Green-breasted Pitta Pitta reichenowi
- Sabine's Spinetail Rhaphidura sabini
- African Wood Owl Strix woodfordii
- Grey Crowned Crane Balearica regulorum
- Petit's Cuckooshrike Campephaga petiti
- Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo
- Black Cuckooshrike Campephaga flava
- Purple Starling Lamprotornis purpureus
- Black-headed Gonolek Laniarius erythrogaster
- Reed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus
- Mottled Spinetail Telacanthura ussheri
- Chinspot Batis Batis molitor
- Tiny Sunbird Cinnyris minullus
- African Pipit Anthus cinnamomeus
- Grey-headed Kingfisher Halcyon leucocephala
- Brown-chested Alethe Chamaetylas poliocephala
- Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis
- Eastern Olivaceous Warbler Iduna pallida
- Cassin's Hawk-Eagle Aquila africana
- Mountain Wagtail Motacilla clara
- Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
- Brown-capped Weaver Ploceus insignis
- Beautiful Sunbird Cinnyris pulchellus
- Quailfinch Ortygospiza atricollis
- White-browed Crombec Sylvietta leucophrys
- Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus
- Lowland Masked Apalis Apalis binotata
- Augur Buzzard Buteo augur
- Velvet-mantled Drongo Dicrurus modestus
- Chestnut-winged Starling Onychognathus fulgidus
- Freckled Nightjar Caprimulgus tristigma
- Fire-crested Alethe Alethe castanea
- Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat Cossypha cyanocampter
- Southern Red Bishop Euplectes orix
- Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
- Kandt's Waxbill Estrilda kandti
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Red-chested Owlet Glaucidium tephronotum
- Pale-breasted Illadopsis Illadopsis rufipennis
- Papyrus Gonolek Laniarius mufumbiri
- Green Twinspot Mandingoa nitidula
- Xavier's Greenbul Phyllastrephus xavieri
- Red-winged Pytilia Pytilia phoenicoptera
- White-crested Turaco Tauraco leucolophus
- Chubb's Cisticola Cisticola chubbi
- White-naped Pigeon Columba albinucha
- Red-headed Lovebird Agapornis pullarius
- African Cuckoo Cuculus gularis
- Red-winged Grey Warbler Drymocichla incana
- Yellow-mantled Widowbird Euplectes macroura
- Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris
- African Stonechat Saxicola torquatus
- Whinchat Saxicola rubetra
- Red-tailed Ant Thrush Neocossyphus rufus
- Purple Heron Ardea purpurea
- Spotted Palm Thrush Cichladusa guttata
- Brown Twinspot Clytospiza monteiri
- Common Hoopoe Upupa epops
- Black-billed Wood Dove Turtur abyssinicus
- Black-throated Canary Crithagra atrogularis
- Least Honeyguide Indicator exilis
- Ashy Flycatcher Fraseria caerulescens
- Levaillant's Cuckoo Clamator levaillantii
- Purple-breasted Sunbird Nectarinia purpureiventris
- Slender-billed Starling Onychognathus tenuirostris
- Jameson's Wattle-eye Platysteira jamesoni
- Regal Sunbird Cinnyris regius
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- Saddle-billed Stork Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis
- Stripe-breasted Tit Melaniparus fasciiventer
- Yellow-whiskered Greenbul Eurillas latirostris
- Black-billed Barbet Lybius guifsobalito
- Moustached Grass Warbler Melocichla mentalis
- Yellow-mantled Weaver Ploceus tricolor
- Black-bellied Seedcracker Pyrenestes ostrinus
- Whistling Cisticola Cisticola lateralis
- Black-winged Red Bishop Euplectes hordeaceus
- Yellow Bishop Euplectes capensis
- Yellow-billed Stork Mycteria ibis
- Cape Wagtail Motacilla capensis
- Spot-flanked Barbet Tricholaema lacrymosa
- Spur-winged Lapwing Vanellus spinosus
- African Grey Hornbill Lophoceros nasutus
- Black-faced Rufous Warbler Bathmocercus rufus
- White-winged Swamp Warbler Bradypterus carpalis
- Cape Robin-Chat Dessonornis caffer
- Grey-winged Robin-Chat Sheppardia polioptera
- Brown Snake Eagle Circaetus cinereus
- African Marsh Harrier Circus ranivorus
- Croaking Cisticola Cisticola natalensis
- African Olive Pigeon Columba arquatrix
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Grey-headed Bushshrike Malaconotus blanchoti
- Orange-tufted Sunbird Cinnyris bouvieri
- Western Long-tailed Hornbill Horizocerus albocristatus
- Red-tailed Greenbul Criniger calurus
- Senegal Lapwing Vanellus lugubris
- Egyptian Goose Alopochen aegyptiaca
- Martial Eagle Polemaetus bellicosus
- Black-headed Oriole Oriolus larvatus
- Orange-cheeked Waxbill Estrilda melpoda
- Vitelline Masked Weaver Ploceus vitellinus
- Brown-backed Honeybird Prodotiscus regulus
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Chimpanzee Forest Lodge?
February and July–August. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 127 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Chimpanzee Forest Lodge?
340 species, from 11,848 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Chimpanzee Forest Lodge in November?
The most recorded in November: Black-crowned Waxbill, African Pied Wagtail, Bronze Mannikin, Hadada Ibis and Scarlet-chested Sunbird.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.