Bird AlbumUganda · Central Region
Mabira Forest
418 species and 17,123 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: June–August, with up to 199 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Black-and-white-casqued HornbillBycanistes subcylindricus
Speckled TinkerbirdPogoniulus scolopaceus
Buff-throated ApalisApalis rufogularis
Little GreenbulEurillas virens
Grey-headed NigritaNigrita canicapillus
Tambourine DoveTurtur tympanistria
White-breasted NigritaNigrita fusconotus
Northern Yellow White-eyeZosterops senegalensis
Yellow-throated TinkerbirdPogoniulus subsulphureus
Yellow-breasted Forest RobinStiphrornis xanthogaster
Yellow-whiskered GreenbulEurillas latirostris
Grey-throated BarbetGymnobucco bonapartei
Fraser's Rufous ThrushStizorhina fraseri
Hairy-breasted BarbetTricholaema hirsutaSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Nabukosi22 km210 species
- Lutembe Bay Ramsar Site56 km321 species
- Entebbe Botanical Garden70 km510 species
- Uganda Wildlife Education Centre70 km282 species
All 418 species recorded here
- Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill Bycanistes subcylindricus
- Speckled Tinkerbird Pogoniulus scolopaceus
- Great Blue Turaco Corythaeola cristata
- Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
- Black-necked Weaver Ploceus nigricollis
- Little Greenbul Eurillas virens
- Fraser's Rufous Thrush Stizorhina fraseri
- Tambourine Dove Turtur tympanistria
- Buff-throated Apalis Apalis rufogularis
- Grey-headed Nigrita Nigrita canicapillus
- Northern Yellow White-eye Zosterops senegalensis
- Yellow-throated Tinkerbird Pogoniulus subsulphureus
- Yellow-spotted Barbet Buccanodon duchaillui
- Chestnut Wattle-eye Dyaphorophyia castanea
- Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone rufiventer
- White-breasted Nigrita Nigrita fusconotus
- Yellow-breasted Forest Robin Stiphrornis xanthogaster
- Yellow-whiskered Greenbul Eurillas latirostris
- Hairy-breasted Barbet Tricholaema hirsuta
- White-headed Saw-wing Psalidoprocne albiceps
- Grey-throated Barbet Gymnobucco bonapartei
- Congo Pied Hornbill Lophoceros fasciatus
- White-throated Greenbul Phyllastrephus albigularis
- Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura
- Western Oriole Oriolus brachyrynchus
- Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus bilineatus
- Red-tailed Bristlebill Bleda syndactylus
- Slender-billed Greenbul Stelgidillas gracilirostris
- Yellow-eyed Bristlebill Bleda ugandae
- White-spotted Flufftail Sarothrura pulchra
- Red-headed Malimbe Malimbus rubricollis
- Yellow-mantled Weaver Ploceus tricolor
- Olive Sunbird Cyanomitra olivacea
- African Shrike-flycatcher Megabyas flammulatus
- Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet Trachylaemus purpuratus
- White-throated Bee-eater Merops albicollis
- Forest Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus castaneiceps
- Lesser Striped Swallow Cecropis abyssinica
- Olive-green Camaroptera Camaroptera chloronota
- Purple-headed Starling Hylopsar purpureiceps
- Fire-crested Alethe Alethe castanea
- Jameson's Wattle-eye Platysteira jamesoni
- African Thrush Turdus pelios
- Velvet-mantled Drongo Dicrurus modestus
- Klaas's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas
- Purple-throated Cuckooshrike Campephaga quiscalina
- Weyns's Weaver Ploceus weynsi
- Little Grey Greenbul Eurillas gracilis
- Scaly-breasted Illadopsis Illadopsis albipectus
- Collared Sunbird Hedydipna collaris
- African Blue Flycatcher Elminia longicauda
- Toro Olive Greenbul Phyllastrephus hypochloris
- Black-billed Turaco Tauraco schuettii
- African Emerald Cuckoo Chrysococcyx cupreus
- Marabou Stork Leptoptilos crumenifer
- Grey Longbill Macrosphenus concolor
- Blue-throated Brown Sunbird Cyanomitra cyanolaema
- Black-crowned Waxbill Estrilda nonnula
- Grey-throated Tit-Flycatcher Fraseria griseigularis
- Blue-breasted Kingfisher Halcyon malimbica
- Blue Malkoha Ceuthmochares aereus
- Red-tailed Greenbul Criniger calurus
- Western Nicator Nicator chloris
- Pied Crow Corvus albus
- Northern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer griseus
- Red-headed Bluebill Spermophaga ruficapilla
- African Pied Wagtail Motacilla aguimp
- Grey-headed Sunbird Deleornis axillaris
- Vieillot's Black Weaver Ploceus nigerrimus
- Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
- Plain Greenbul Eurillas curvirostris
- African Pygmy Kingfisher Ispidina picta
- Green Crombec Sylvietta virens
- African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus
- Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat Cossypha cyanocampter
- Red-chested Cuckoo Cuculus solitarius
- Bronze Mannikin Spermestes cucullata
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Red-capped Robin-Chat Cossypha natalensis
- Little Green Sunbird Anthreptes seimundi
- Green Hylia Hylia prasina
- Lowland Sooty Boubou Laniarius leucorhynchus
- African Dusky Flycatcher Muscicapa adusta
- African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird Chalcomitra senegalensis
- Brown-throated Wattle-eye Platysteira cyanea
- Ashy Flycatcher Fraseria caerulescens
- Black-and-white Mannikin Spermestes bicolor
- Yellow-browed Camaroptera Camaroptera superciliaris
- Buff-spotted Woodpecker Pardipicus nivosus
- Brown Illadopsis Illadopsis fulvescens
- Olive-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris chloropygius
- Green-throated Sunbird Chalcomitra rubescens
- Brown-eared Woodpecker Pardipicus caroli
- Crowned Eagle Stephanoaetus coronatus
- Woodland Kingfisher Halcyon senegalensis
- Yellow Longbill Macrosphenus flavicans
- Crowned Hornbill Lophoceros alboterminatus
- Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo Cercococcyx mechowi
- Hadada Ibis Bostrychia hagedash
- Speckled Mousebird Colius striatus
- Angola Swallow Hirundo angolensis
- Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus
- Yellow-crested Woodpecker Chloropicus xantholophus
- Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat Cossypha niveicapilla
- Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher Bias musicus
- Thick-billed Weaver Amblyospiza albifrons
- Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava
- Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala
- Eastern Plantain-eater Crinifer zonurus
- Bocage's Bushshrike Chlorophoneus bocagei
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Northern Black Flycatcher Melaenornis edolioides
- Reed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus
- Red-chested Sunbird Cinnyris erythrocercus
- Honeyguide Greenbul Baeopogon indicator
- Green-headed Sunbird Cyanomitra verticalis
- Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala
- Green Twinspot Mandingoa nitidula
- Yellow-chinned Sunbird Anthreptes rectirostris
- Nahan's Partridge Ptilopachus nahani
- Little Swift Apus affinis
- Brown-chested Alethe Chamaetylas poliocephala
- Splendid Starling Lamprotornis splendidus
- Sabine's Spinetail Rhaphidura sabini
- Rüppell's Starling Lamprotornis purpuroptera
- Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
- Shining-blue Kingfisher Alcedo quadribrachys
- Afep Pigeon Columba unicincta
- Cassin's Spinetail Neafrapus cassini
- Superb Sunbird Cinnyris superbus
- Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- Broad-billed Roller Eurystomus glaucurus
- Long-crested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis
- Black-bellied Seedcracker Pyrenestes ostrinus
- Hamerkop Scopus umbretta
- Black Cuckoo Cuculus clamosus
- Fan-tailed Widowbird Euplectes axillaris
- Black-throated Apalis Apalis jacksoni
- White-rumped Swift Apus caffer
- Piapiac Ptilostomus afer
- Blue-spotted Wood Dove Turtur afer
- Palm-nut Vulture Gypohierax angolensis
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Narina Trogon Apaloderma narina
- Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea
- Diederik Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius
- African Openbill Anastomus lamelligerus
- Black Sparrowhawk Astur melanoleucus
- White-chinned Prinia Schistolais leucopogon
- Wahlberg's Eagle Hieraaetus wahlbergi
- African Green Pigeon Treron calvus
- Least Honeyguide Indicator exilis
- Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura
- Yellow-fronted Canary Crithagra mozambica
- Cassin's Hawk-Eagle Aquila africana
- Purple-banded Sunbird Cinnyris bifasciatus
- African Goshawk Aerospiza tachiro
- Lizard Buzzard Kaupifalco monogrammicus
- White-shouldered Black Tit Melaniparus guineensis
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- Baglafecht Weaver Ploceus baglafecht
- Eastern Crested Guineafowl Guttera pucherani
- African Dwarf Kingfisher Ispidina lecontei
- Western Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava
- Ayres's Hawk-Eagle Hieraaetus ayresii
- Grey Tit-Flycatcher Fraseria plumbea
- Striped Kingfisher Halcyon chelicuti
- African Wood Owl Strix woodfordii
- Magpie Mannikin Spermestes fringilloides
- African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis
- Sooty Flycatcher Artomyias fuliginosa
- Double-toothed Barbet Pogonornis bidentatus
- Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild
- Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis
- Ross's Turaco Tauraco rossae
- Tit Hylia Pholidornis rushiae
- Little Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza minulla
- White-browed Coucal Centropus superciliosus
- Leaf-love Phyllastrephus scandens
- White-browed Robin-Chat Cossypha heuglini
- Pink-backed Pelican Pelecanus rufescens
- Scaly Spurfowl Pternistis squamatus
- Winding Cisticola Cisticola marginatus
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- Dusky-blue Flycatcher Bradornis comitatus
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Brimstone Canary Crithagra sulphurata
- Lesser Honeyguide Indicator minor
- Red-faced Cisticola Cisticola erythrops
- Common Buzzard Buteo buteo
- Red-headed Lovebird Agapornis pullarius
- Black-headed Weaver Ploceus melanocephalus
- Meyer's Parrot Poicephalus meyeri
- Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu Uraeginthus bengalus
- Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
- African Sacred Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus
- Northern Puffback Dryoscopus gambensis
- Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
- Pale-breasted Illadopsis Illadopsis rufipennis
- Blue-headed Crested Flycatcher Trochocercus nitens
- Black Bishop Euplectes gierowii
- Chestnut-winged Starling Onychognathus fulgidus
- Copper Sunbird Cinnyris cupreus
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Cardinal Woodpecker Dendropicos fuscescens
- Black-headed Oriole Oriolus larvatus
- Wood Warbler Phylloscopus sibilatrix
- Shikra Tachyspiza badia
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- Grey-backed Fiscal Lanius excubitoroides
- Cassin's Honeybird Prodotiscus insignis
- Black Saw-wing Psalidoprocne pristoptera
- African Darter Anhinga rufa
- Pale-throated Greenbul Atimastillas flavigula
- Purple Starling Lamprotornis purpureus
- European Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus
- Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Dusky Tit Melaniparus funereus
- African Stonechat Saxicola torquatus
- African Firefinch Lagonosticta rubricata
- Western Citril Crithagra frontalis
- Bronze Sunbird Nectarinia kilimensis
- Village Indigobird Vidua chalybeata
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Violet-backed Starling Cinnyricinclus leucogaster
- Grey Crowned Crane Balearica regulorum
- Black-throated Canary Crithagra atrogularis
- Ring-necked Dove Streptopelia capicola
- Yellow-billed Stork Mycteria ibis
- Blue-throated Roller Eurystomus gularis
- Orange-breasted Bushshrike Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus
- Marico Sunbird Cinnyris mariquensis
- Common Swift Apus apus
- Tropical Boubou Laniarius major
- Northern Fiscal Lanius humeralis
- Golden-backed Weaver Ploceus jacksoni
- Variable Sunbird Cinnyris venustus
- Spot-flanked Barbet Tricholaema lacrymosa
- Black Cuckooshrike Campephaga flava
- African Golden Oriole Oriolus auratus
- Dusky Crested Flycatcher Elminia nigromitrata
- Compact Weaver Pachyphantes superciliosus
- Spectacled Weaver Ploceus ocularis
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Grey-capped Warbler Eminia lepida
- Brown-throated Martin Riparia paludicola
- Whistling Cisticola Cisticola lateralis
- Red-throated Rock Martin Ptyonoprogne rufigula
- Grey Kestrel Falco ardosiaceus
- Black-headed Gonolek Laniarius erythrogaster
- European Bee-eater Merops apiaster
- Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris
- Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus chrysoconus
- African Grey Hornbill Lophoceros nasutus
- Yellow-streaked Greenbul Phyllastrephus flavostriatus
- White-winged Black Tit Melaniparus leucomelas
- Swamp Flycatcher Muscicapa aquatica
- Slender-billed Weaver Ploceus pelzelni
- Tawny Eagle Aquila rapax
- White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus
- Brown-crowned Tchagra Tchagra australis
- Northern Brown-throated Weaver Ploceus castanops
- Little Weaver Ploceus luteolus
- Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis
- Red-fronted Barbet Tricholaema diademata
- Grey Penduline Tit Anthoscopus caroli
- Singing Cisticola Cisticola cantans
- Black-throated Wattle-eye Platysteira peltata
- Grey Apalis Apalis cinerea
- African Hawk-Eagle Aquila spilogaster
- Little Bee-eater Merops pusillus
- Mottled Spinetail Telacanthura ussheri
- African Yellow Warbler Iduna natalensis
- White-headed Barbet Lybius leucocephalus
- Latham's Francolin Peliperdix lathami
- Bearded Woodpecker Chloropicus namaquus
- Black-capped Apalis Apalis nigriceps
- Purple Heron Ardea purpurea
- Blue-headed Coucal Centropus monachus
- Scarce Swift Schoutedenapus myoptilus
- White-headed Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus bollei
- Fawn-breasted Waxbill Estrilda paludicola
- African Pipit Anthus cinnamomeus
- White-tailed Ant Thrush Neocossyphus poensis
- Whinchat Saxicola rubetra
- Yellow-throated Longclaw Macronyx croceus
- Red-tailed Ant Thrush Neocossyphus rufus
- Uganda Woodland Warbler Phylloscopus budongoensis
- African Grey Woodpecker Dendropicos goertae
- Pink-footed Puffback Dryoscopus angolensis
- Grey-headed Kingfisher Halcyon leucocephala
- Sooty Chat Myrmecocichla nigra
- Red-breasted Swallow Cecropis semirufa
- Buff-spotted Flufftail Sarothrura elegans
- African Hobby Falco cuvierii
- Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus
- Egyptian Goose Alopochen aegyptiaca
- African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Western Violet-backed Sunbird Anthreptes longuemarei
- Golden-tailed Woodpecker Campethera abingoni
- Western Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus
- Black-winged Red Bishop Euplectes hordeaceus
- Mourning Collared Dove Streptopelia decipiens
- Red-headed Weaver Anaplectes rubriceps
- Chinspot Batis Batis molitor
- African Marsh Harrier Circus ranivorus
- Grey-winged Robin-Chat Sheppardia polioptera
- Red-necked Falcon Falco chicquera
- Black-bellied Firefinch Lagonosticta rara
- Yellow-breasted Apalis Apalis flavida
- Western Black-headed Batis Batis erlangeri
- Vitelline Masked Weaver Ploceus vitellinus
- White-winged Tern Chlidonias leucopterus
- Yellow-mantled Widowbird Euplectes macroura
- Marsh Widowbird Euplectes hartlaubi
- Scaly-throated Honeyguide Indicator variegatus
- Black-billed Barbet Lybius guifsobalito
- Brown Babbler Turdoides plebejus
- Plain-backed Pipit Anthus leucophrys
- Lesser Spotted Eagle Clanga pomarina
- Nubian Woodpecker Campethera nubica
- Greater Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chalybaeus
- Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata
- Yellow-bellied Waxbill Coccopygia quartinia
- Green-backed Eremomela Eremomela canescens
- Northern Crombec Sylvietta brachyura
- Yellow-billed Egret Ardea brachyrhyncha
- Black-faced Rufous Warbler Bathmocercus rufus
- Augur Buzzard Buteo augur
- Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike Campephaga phoenicea
- Mosque Swallow Cecropis senegalensis
- Garden Warbler Sylvia borin
- African Wattled Lapwing Vanellus senegallus
- Crimson-rumped Waxbill Estrilda rhodopyga
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Western Barn Owl Tyto alba
- Lilac-breasted Roller Coracias caudatus
- African Jacana Actophilornis africanus
- Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides
- Lemon Dove Aplopelia larvata
- African Scops Owl Otus senegalensis
- African Cuckoo Cuculus gularis
- Croaking Cisticola Cisticola natalensis
- Lesser Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chloropterus
- Black-bellied Bustard Lissotis melanogaster
- Black Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus aterrimus
- Grey-headed Gull Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus
- Red-collared Widowbird Euplectes ardens
- Blue-naped Mousebird Urocolius macrourus
- Western Banded Snake Eagle Circaetus cinerascens
- Brown Snake Eagle Circaetus cinereus
- Black-chested Snake Eagle Circaetus pectoralis
- White-headed Vulture Trigonoceps occipitalis
- White-crested Turaco Tauraco leucolophus
- Common Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus
- Fan-tailed Grassbird Catriscus brevirostris
- Brown-backed Woodpecker Dendropicos obsoletus
- Moustached Grass Warbler Melocichla mentalis
- Blue-breasted Bee-eater Merops variegatus
- Lesser Jacana Microparra capensis
- African Pygmy Goose Nettapus auritus
- Narrow-tailed Starling Poeoptera lugubris
- Goliath Heron Ardea goliath
- Northern Red Bishop Euplectes franciscanus
- Red-chested Flufftail Sarothrura rufa
- African Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia microscelis
- Senegal Coucal Centropus senegalensis
- Rufous-naped Lark Corypha africana
- White-breasted Cuckooshrike Ceblepyris pectoralis
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Yellow-bellied Hyliota Hyliota flavigaster
- Greater Honeyguide Indicator indicator
- Giant Kingfisher Megaceryle maxima
- Martial Eagle Polemaetus bellicosus
- Cardinal Quelea Quelea cardinalis
- Red-faced Crombec Sylvietta whytii
- African Cuckoo-Hawk Aviceda cuculoides
- Spur-winged Lapwing Vanellus spinosus
- Yellow-billed Duck Anas undulata
- Bare-faced Go-away-bird Crinifer personatus
- Square-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus fossii
- Long-tailed Cisticola Cisticola angusticauda
- White-faced Whistling Duck Dendrocygna viduata
- Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
- Bat Hawk Macheiramphus alcinus
- Green Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus purpureus
- Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus
- Black Heron Egretta ardesiaca
- Crested Francolin Ortygornis sephaena
- Lappet-faced Vulture Torgos tracheliotos
- Pale Flycatcher Agricola pallidus
- Three-banded Plover Thinornis tricollaris
- Carruthers's Cisticola Cisticola carruthersi
- Golden-breasted Bunting Emberiza flaviventris
- Pearl-spotted Owlet Glaucidium perlatum
- Olive Bee-eater Merops superciliosus
- Buff-bellied Warbler Phyllolais pulchella
- Arrow-marked Babbler Turdoides jardineii
- Black-lored Babbler Turdoides sharpei
- African Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis melanocrissus
- Abyssinian Roller Coracias abyssinicus
- Freckled Nightjar Caprimulgus tristigma
- Jacobin Cuckoo Clamator jacobinus
- Gabar Goshawk Micronisus gabar
- Orange Weaver Ploceus aurantius
- Lesser Masked Weaver Ploceus intermedius
- Abdim's Stork Ciconia abdimii
- European Roller Coracias garrulus
- Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo
- Swamp Nightjar Caprimulgus natalensis
- Fiery-necked Nightjar Caprimulgus pectoralis
- Grey-headed Bushshrike Malaconotus blanchoti
- Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis
- Spotted Eagle-Owl Bubo africanus
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Mabira Forest?
June–August. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 199 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Mabira Forest?
418 species, from 17,123 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Mabira Forest in November?
The most recorded in November: Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill, Speckled Tinkerbird, Buff-throated Apalis, Little Greenbul and Grey-headed Nigrita.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.