Bird AlbumCongo - Kinshasa · Kongo Central
Luki Biosphere Reserve
190 species and 913 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: June, with up to 84 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Little SwiftApus affinis
Congo Pied HornbillLophoceros fasciatus
African Palm SwiftCypsiurus parvus
Palm-nut VultureGypohierax angolensis
Yellow-rumped TinkerbirdPogoniulus bilineatus
Grey-headed NigritaNigrita canicapillus
Village WeaverPloceus cucullatus
Klaas's CuckooChrysococcyx klaas
African Emerald CuckooChrysococcyx cupreus
Banded PriniaPrinia bairdii
Green-capped EremomelaEremomela scotops
Lesser Striped SwallowCecropis abyssinica
Naked-faced BarbetGymnobucco calvus
Velvet-mantled DrongoDicrurus modestusSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
All 190 species recorded here
- Congo Pied Hornbill Lophoceros fasciatus
- Little Swift Apus affinis
- Lesser Striped Swallow Cecropis abyssinica
- Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
- Olive Sunbird Cyanomitra olivacea
- Naked-faced Barbet Gymnobucco calvus
- African Green Pigeon Treron calvus
- African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus
- Velvet-mantled Drongo Dicrurus modestus
- Palm-nut Vulture Gypohierax angolensis
- Piping Hornbill Bycanistes fistulator
- Great Blue Turaco Corythaeola cristata
- Little Greenbul Eurillas virens
- Northern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer griseus
- Chestnut Wattle-eye Dyaphorophyia castanea
- Western Oriole Oriolus brachyrynchus
- Yellow-whiskered Greenbul Eurillas latirostris
- Green Hylia Hylia prasina
- Cassin's Spinetail Neafrapus cassini
- Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus bilineatus
- Guinea Turaco Tauraco persa
- Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
- Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone rufiventer
- Collared Sunbird Hedydipna collaris
- Spotted Greenbul Ixonotus guttatus
- Yellow-throated Tinkerbird Pogoniulus subsulphureus
- Blue-spotted Wood Dove Turtur afer
- Olive-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris chloropygius
- Grey-headed Nigrita Nigrita canicapillus
- Honeyguide Greenbul Baeopogon indicator
- Yellow-lored Bristlebill Bleda notatus
- Yellow-spotted Barbet Buccanodon duchaillui
- Western Nicator Nicator chloris
- Icterine Greenbul Phyllastrephus icterinus
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- Swamp Palm Bulbul Thescelocichla leucopleura
- Hairy-breasted Barbet Tricholaema hirsuta
- Red-billed Dwarf Hornbill Lophoceros camurus
- Sooty Flycatcher Artomyias fuliginosa
- Fraser's Sunbird Deleornis fraseri
- Chestnut-capped Flycatcher Erythrocercus mccallii
- Little Grey Greenbul Eurillas gracilis
- Rufous-sided Broadbill Smithornis rufolateralis
- Green Crombec Sylvietta virens
- Klaas's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas
- Fraser's Rufous Thrush Stizorhina fraseri
- Chattering Cisticola Cisticola anonymus
- Red-eyed Puffback Dryoscopus senegalensis
- Splendid Starling Lamprotornis splendidus
- Little Grey Flycatcher Muscicapa epulata
- Yellow-mantled Weaver Ploceus tricolor
- Black Cuckoo Cuculus clamosus
- Black-and-white Mannikin Spermestes bicolor
- Blue-headed Wood Dove Turtur brehmeri
- Red-headed Malimbe Malimbus rubricollis
- Speckled Tinkerbird Pogoniulus scolopaceus
- Square-tailed Drongo Dicrurus ludwigii
- Rufous-crowned Eremomela Eremomela badiceps
- Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet Trachylaemus purpuratus
- Red-tailed Greenbul Criniger calurus
- African Emerald Cuckoo Chrysococcyx cupreus
- Brown Illadopsis Illadopsis fulvescens
- Yellow-billed Turaco Tauraco macrorhynchus
- Little Green Sunbird Anthreptes seimundi
- Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura
- Superb Sunbird Cinnyris superbus
- Yellow-chinned Sunbird Anthreptes rectirostris
- Grey Longbill Macrosphenus concolor
- Banded Prinia Prinia bairdii
- Square-tailed Saw-wing Psalidoprocne nitens
- Yellow-crested Woodpecker Chloropicus xantholophus
- Brown-eared Woodpecker Pardipicus caroli
- Red-necked Buzzard Buteo auguralis
- Western Bronze-naped Pigeon Columba iriditorques
- Violet-backed Hyliota Hyliota violacea
- Red-bellied Malimbe Malimbus erythrogaster
- Red-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus atroflavus
- Red-fronted Parrot Poicephalus gulielmi
- African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus
- Western Bluebill Spermophaga haematina
- Slender-billed Greenbul Stelgidillas gracilirostris
- Northern Yellow White-eye Zosterops senegalensis
- Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis
- Fraser's Forest Flycatcher Fraseria ocreata
- Bronze Mannikin Spermestes cucullata
- Chestnut-breasted Nigrita Nigrita bicolor
- Western Long-tailed Hornbill Horizocerus albocristatus
- Buff-throated Apalis Apalis rufogularis
- Golden Greenbul Calyptocichla serinus
- African Piculet Verreauxia africana
- Green-capped Eremomela Eremomela scotops
- Crested Malimbe Malimbus malimbicus
- Green Twinspot Mandingoa nitidula
- Narrow-tailed Starling Poeoptera lugubris
- Mottled Spinetail Telacanthura ussheri
- Blue-headed Crested Flycatcher Trochocercus nitens
- Pied Crow Corvus albus
- Yellow Longbill Macrosphenus flavicans
- Pale-fronted Nigrita Nigrita luteifrons
- African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis
- Buff-spotted Woodpecker Pardipicus nivosus
- White-bellied Kingfisher Corythornis leucogaster
- Cassin's Hawk-Eagle Aquila africana
- Olivaceous Flycatcher Fraseria olivascens
- Olive-green Camaroptera Camaroptera chloronota
- Yellow-browed Camaroptera Camaroptera superciliaris
- Senegal Coucal Centropus senegalensis
- Tambourine Dove Turtur tympanistria
- Blue-breasted Kingfisher Halcyon malimbica
- White-rumped Swift Apus caffer
- Sabine's Puffback Dryoscopus sabini
- Bristle-nosed Barbet Gymnobucco peli
- Cassin's Malimbe Malimbus cassini
- Cassin's Flycatcher Muscicapa cassini
- Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava
- Fire-crested Alethe Alethe castanea
- African Pygmy Kingfisher Ispidina picta
- Black Bee-eater Merops gularis
- White-breasted Nigrita Nigrita fusconotus
- Woodhouse's Antpecker Parmoptila woodhousei
- Long-tailed Hawk Urotriorchis macrourus
- Western Black-headed Batis Batis erlangeri
- Red-tailed Bristlebill Bleda syndactylus
- Brown-chested Alethe Chamaetylas poliocephala
- Petit's Cuckooshrike Campephaga petiti
- Purple-throated Cuckooshrike Campephaga quiscalina
- Blue Malkoha Ceuthmochares aereus
- Purple-headed Starling Hylopsar purpureiceps
- Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher Bias musicus
- White-thighed Hornbill Bycanistes albotibialis
- Gabon Coucal Centropus anselli
- Red-chested Cuckoo Cuculus solitarius
- White-throated Bee-eater Merops albicollis
- Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus
- Blue-throated Brown Sunbird Cyanomitra cyanolaema
- Elliot's Woodpecker Dendropicos elliotii
- Gabon Woodpecker Dendropicos gabonensis
- African Grey Woodpecker Dendropicos goertae
- Northern Puffback Dryoscopus gambensis
- Ansorge's Greenbul Eurillas ansorgei
- Black-eared Ground Thrush Geokichla camaronensis
- Blackcap Illadopsis Illadopsis cleaveri
- African Dwarf Kingfisher Ispidina lecontei
- Lizard Buzzard Kaupifalco monogrammicus
- Black-backed Barbet Pogonornis minor
- African Shrike-flycatcher Megabyas flammulatus
- Rosy Bee-eater Merops malimbicus
- White-spotted Wattle-eye Dyaphorophyia tonsa
- Black-bellied Seedcracker Pyrenestes ostrinus
- Shining-blue Kingfisher Alcedo quadribrachys
- Tiny Sunbird Cinnyris minullus
- Variable Sunbird Cinnyris venustus
- Blue Cuckooshrike Cyanograucalus azureus
- Falkenstein's Greenbul Chlorocichla falkensteini
- Plain Greenbul Eurillas curvirostris
- Striped Kingfisher Halcyon chelicuti
- Least Honeyguide Indicator exilis
- Lyre-tailed Honeyguide Melichneutes robustus
- Chestnut-winged Starling Onychognathus fulgidus
- Black-winged Oriole Oriolus nigripennis
- Tit Hylia Pholidornis rushiae
- African Wood Owl Strix woodfordii
- Black Sparrowhawk Astur melanoleucus
- African Goshawk Aerospiza tachiro
- Shikra Tachyspiza badia
- Chestnut-flanked Sparrowhawk Aerospiza castanilius
- Grey Tit-Flycatcher Fraseria plumbea
- Blue-headed Coucal Centropus monachus
- Green-throated Sunbird Chalcomitra rubescens
- Red-capped Robin-Chat Cossypha natalensis
- Orange-cheeked Waxbill Estrilda melpoda
- Broad-billed Roller Eurystomus glaucurus
- Swamp Boubou Laniarius bicolor
- Yellow-throated Nicator Nicator vireo
- Black Saw-wing Psalidoprocne pristoptera
- Crowned Hornbill Lophoceros alboterminatus
- Speckled Mousebird Colius striatus
- Blue-throated Roller Eurystomus gularis
- European Bee-eater Merops apiaster
- Little Bee-eater Merops pusillus
- Sabine's Spinetail Rhaphidura sabini
- African Thrush Turdus pelios
- Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo Cercococcyx olivinus
- Simple Greenbul Chlorocichla simplex
- African Cuckoo-Hawk Aviceda cuculoides
- Shining Drongo Dicrurus atripennis
- Chocolate-backed Kingfisher Halcyon badia
- White-throated Greenbul Phyllastrephus albigularis
- Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura
- White-bearded Greenbul Criniger ndussumensis
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Luki Biosphere Reserve?
June. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 84 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Luki Biosphere Reserve?
190 species, from 913 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Luki Biosphere Reserve in November?
The most recorded in November: Little Swift, Congo Pied Hornbill, African Palm Swift, Palm-nut Vulture and Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.