Uganda · Western Region
Mgahinga Gorilla NP
399 species and 11,394 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: July–August, with up to 125 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Streaky SeedeaterCrithagra striolata
Common BulbulPycnonotus barbatus
Regal SunbirdCinnyris regius
Black Saw-wingPsalidoprocne pristoptera
Chubb's CisticolaCisticola chubbi
Rwenzori Double-collared SunbirdCinnyris stuhlmanni
Rwenzori TuracoGallirex johnstoni
White-starred RobinPogonocichla stellata
White-necked RavenCorvus albicollis
Northern Double-collared SunbirdCinnyris reichenowi
Cinnamon-chested Bee-eaterMerops oreobates
Kandt's WaxbillEstrilda kandti
Archer's Ground RobinDessonornis archeri
Rwenzori BatisBatis diops71 species seen regularly here in November · showing the 14 most recorded. All 399 species recorded here ↓
Species seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Rumangabo ICCN Camp & Mikeno Lodge and trails31 km227 species
- Kibumba Tented Camp32 km102 species
- Bwindi-Impenetrable NP – Mubwindi Swamp34 km435 species
- Bwindi-Impenetrable Forest NP – Ruhija to Broadbill Walk36 km353 species
- Bwindi-Impenetrable NP – Ruhija39 km539 species
- Bwindi-Impenetrable Forest NP – Buhoma40 km516 species
All 399 species recorded here
- Kikuyu Mountain Greenbul Arizelocichla kikuyuensis
- Chubb's Cisticola Cisticola chubbi
- Rwenzori Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris stuhlmanni
- Rwenzori Turaco Gallirex johnstoni
- White-starred Robin Pogonocichla stellata
- Kandt's Waxbill Estrilda kandti
- Northern Yellow White-eye Zosterops senegalensis
- Streaky Seedeater Crithagra striolata
- Regal Sunbird Cinnyris regius
- Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
- Archer's Ground Robin Dessonornis archeri
- Rwenzori Hill Babbler Sylvia atriceps
- Rwenzori Batis Batis diops
- Red-faced Woodland Warbler Phylloscopus laetus
- White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher Melaenornis fischeri
- Mountain Yellow Warbler Iduna similis
- Speckled Mousebird Colius striatus
- Northern Puffback Dryoscopus gambensis
- Cinnamon Bracken Warbler Bradypterus cinnamomeus
- Chestnut-throated Apalis Apalis porphyrolaema
- Dusky Turtle Dove Streptopelia lugens
- Mountain Masked Apalis Apalis personata
- Western Tinkerbird Pogoniulus coryphaea
- Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus bilineatus
- Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
- Yellow-whiskered Greenbul Eurillas latirostris
- Variable Sunbird Cinnyris venustus
- Albertine Sooty Boubou Laniarius holomelas
- Doherty's Bushshrike Telophorus dohertyi
- Black Saw-wing Psalidoprocne pristoptera
- White-tailed Blue Flycatcher Elminia albicauda
- Bronze Sunbird Nectarinia kilimensis
- Abyssinian Thrush Turdus abyssinicus
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- African Dusky Flycatcher Muscicapa adusta
- Baglafecht Weaver Ploceus baglafecht
- White-necked Raven Corvus albicollis
- Pied Crow Corvus albus
- Rwenzori Apalis Oreolais ruwenzorii
- Dusky Crimsonwing Cryptospiza jacksoni
- African Olive Pigeon Columba arquatrix
- Strange Weaver Ploceus alienus
- Mountain Buzzard Buteo oreophilus
- Northern Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris reichenowi
- African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis
- White-tailed Crested Flycatcher Elminia albonotata
- African Stonechat Saxicola torquatus
- Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater Merops oreobates
- Augur Buzzard Buteo augur
- Tropical Boubou Laniarius major
- Cape Robin-Chat Dessonornis caffer
- African Pied Wagtail Motacilla aguimp
- Western Citril Crithagra frontalis
- Green-headed Sunbird Cyanomitra verticalis
- Northern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer griseus
- Olive Woodpecker Dendropicos griseocephalus
- Thick-billed Seedeater Crithagra burtoni
- Dwarf Honeyguide Indicator pumilio
- Hadada Ibis Bostrychia hagedash
- Yellow-crowned Canary Serinus flavivertex
- Stripe-breasted Tit Melaniparus fasciiventer
- Cape Wagtail Motacilla capensis
- Chinspot Batis Batis molitor
- Blue-headed Sunbird Cyanomitra alinae
- Mackinnon's Shrike Lanius mackinnoni
- Yellow Bishop Euplectes capensis
- Angola Swallow Hirundo angolensis
- Handsome Spurfowl Pternistis nobilis
- Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild
- Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala
- Bronze Mannikin Spermestes cucullata
- Black Cuckooshrike Campephaga flava
- Tambourine Dove Turtur tympanistria
- Yellow-bellied Waxbill Coccopygia quartinia
- Northern Fiscal Lanius humeralis
- Collared Sunbird Hedydipna collaris
- Red-throated Rock Martin Ptyonoprogne rufigula
- Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala
- African Thrush Turdus pelios
- Levaillant's Cuckoo Clamator levaillantii
- White-browed Crombec Sylvietta leucophrys
- Malachite Sunbird Nectarinia famosa
- Sharpe's Starling Pholia sharpii
- Black-crowned Waxbill Estrilda nonnula
- Lagden's Bushshrike Malaconotus lagdeni
- Red-throated Alethe Chamaetylas poliophrys
- Klaas's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas
- African Pipit Anthus cinnamomeus
- Rufous-breasted Sparrowhawk Accipiter rufiventris
- Grey-capped Warbler Eminia lepida
- White-browed Robin-Chat Cossypha heuglini
- Golden-breasted Bunting Emberiza flaviventris
- Montane Nightjar Caprimulgus poliocephalus
- Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura
- Black-and-white Mannikin Spermestes bicolor
- Abyssinian Ground Thrush Geokichla piaggiae
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird Chalcomitra senegalensis
- Black-headed Weaver Ploceus melanocephalus
- Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura
- African Goshawk Aerospiza tachiro
- Yellow-fronted Canary Crithagra mozambica
- African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus
- Red-chested Cuckoo Cuculus solitarius
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus
- Black Sparrowhawk Astur melanoleucus
- Scarce Swift Schoutedenapus myoptilus
- Black-billed Turaco Tauraco schuettii
- Mountain Oriole Oriolus percivali
- Willcocks's Honeyguide Indicator willcocksi
- African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus
- Cardinal Woodpecker Dendropicos fuscescens
- White-bellied Crested Flycatcher Elminia albiventris
- African Blue Flycatcher Elminia longicauda
- Mountain Illadopsis Illadopsis pyrrhoptera
- European Bee-eater Merops apiaster
- Red-faced Crimsonwing Cryptospiza reichenovii
- Yellow-streaked Greenbul Phyllastrephus flavostriatus
- Petit's Cuckooshrike Campephaga petiti
- Brown-crowned Tchagra Tchagra australis
- Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea
- Evergreen Forest Warbler Bradypterus lopezi
- Hamerkop Scopus umbretta
- Grey Crowned Crane Balearica regulorum
- Scaly-throated Honeyguide Indicator variegatus
- Little Swift Apus affinis
- African Black Swift Apus barbatus
- Common Buzzard Buteo buteo
- Lowland Masked Apalis Apalis binotata
- Blue-headed Coucal Centropus monachus
- Martial Eagle Polemaetus bellicosus
- Slender-billed Greenbul Stelgidillas gracilirostris
- Ring-necked Dove Streptopelia capicola
- Brimstone Canary Crithagra sulphurata
- Stuhlmann's Starling Poeoptera stuhlmanni
- Brown-throated Wattle-eye Platysteira cyanea
- Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava
- Eurasian Blackcap Sylvia atricapilla
- Alpine Swift Tachymarptis melba
- Black-throated Apalis Apalis jacksoni
- African Firefinch Lagonosticta rubricata
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- Little Green Sunbird Anthreptes seimundi
- Violet-backed Starling Cinnyricinclus leucogaster
- African Green Pigeon Treron calvus
- Red-chested Sunbird Cinnyris erythrocercus
- Wahlberg's Eagle Hieraaetus wahlbergi
- Olive Sunbird Cyanomitra olivacea
- Shikra Tachyspiza badia
- Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus
- Lühder's Bushshrike Laniarius luehderi
- Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
- African Hobby Falco cuvierii
- Brown Woodland Warbler Phylloscopus umbrovirens
- White-chinned Prinia Schistolais leucopogon
- Horus Swift Apus horus
- Little Greenbul Eurillas virens
- Swamp Flycatcher Muscicapa aquatica
- African Sacred Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus
- Yellow-billed Stork Mycteria ibis
- Grey-throated Barbet Gymnobucco bonapartei
- Dusky Tit Melaniparus funereus
- Brown-throated Martin Riparia paludicola
- African Jacana Actophilornis africanus
- Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis
- Dusky Twinspot Euschistospiza cinereovinacea
- Banded Prinia Prinia bairdii
- Narina Trogon Apaloderma narina
- Lesser Striped Swallow Cecropis abyssinica
- White-headed Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus bollei
- Brown-capped Weaver Ploceus insignis
- Red-capped Robin-Chat Cossypha natalensis
- Olive-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris chloropygius
- Ayres's Hawk-Eagle Hieraaetus ayresii
- Ashy Flycatcher Fraseria caerulescens
- Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
- Slender-billed Weaver Ploceus pelzelni
- Fan-tailed Widowbird Euplectes axillaris
- African Yellow Warbler Iduna natalensis
- Cassin's Hawk-Eagle Aquila africana
- Pale-throated Greenbul Atimastillas flavigula
- Holub's Golden Weaver Ploceus xanthops
- Willard's Sooty Boubou Laniarius willardi
- African Spoonbill Platalea alba
- Long-crested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis
- Abyssinian Crimsonwing Cryptospiza salvadorii
- African Grey Woodpecker Dendropicos goertae
- Black-faced Rufous Warbler Bathmocercus rufus
- Great Blue Turaco Corythaeola cristata
- Grey-headed Nigrita Nigrita canicapillus
- Yellow-billed Duck Anas undulata
- Lesser Swamp Warbler Acrocephalus gracilirostris
- Thick-billed Weaver Amblyospiza albifrons
- Black Crake Zapornia flavirostra
- Grey Apalis Apalis cinerea
- Grey-backed Fiscal Lanius excubitoroides
- Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Merops persicus
- Tawny Eagle Aquila rapax
- Red-faced Cisticola Cisticola erythrops
- Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
- Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo Cercococcyx montanus
- Arrow-marked Babbler Turdoides jardineii
- African Openbill Anastomus lamelligerus
- Lowland Sooty Boubou Laniarius leucorhynchus
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Fine-banded Woodpecker Campethera taeniolaema
- Shelley's Greenbul Arizelocichla masukuensis
- Grey Kestrel Falco ardosiaceus
- Little Bee-eater Merops pusillus
- Yellow-chinned Sunbird Anthreptes rectirostris
- Wattled Starling Creatophora cinerea
- Dusky Crested Flycatcher Elminia nigromitrata
- Mountain Wagtail Motacilla clara
- Scarlet-tufted Sunbird Nectarinia johnstoni
- Familiar Chat Oenanthe familiaris
- Buff-bellied Warbler Phyllolais pulchella
- Crowned Eagle Stephanoaetus coronatus
- Marico Sunbird Cinnyris mariquensis
- African Hawk-Eagle Aquila spilogaster
- Green-throated Sunbird Chalcomitra rubescens
- White-bellied Robin-Chat Cossyphicula roberti
- Black-necked Weaver Ploceus nigricollis
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Singing Cisticola Cisticola cantans
- Red-throated Wryneck Jynx ruficollis
- Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone rufiventer
- Green Hylia Hylia prasina
- Green Crombec Sylvietta virens
- Bar-tailed Trogon Apaloderma vittatum
- Highland Rush Warbler Bradypterus centralis
- Jacobin Cuckoo Clamator jacobinus
- Pink-footed Puffback Dryoscopus angolensis
- Lesser Honeyguide Indicator minor
- Slender-billed Starling Onychognathus tenuirostris
- Red-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus atroflavus
- Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike Campephaga phoenicea
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Lizard Buzzard Kaupifalco monogrammicus
- Rüppell's Starling Lamprotornis purpuroptera
- Yellow-eyed Black Flycatcher Melaenornis ardesiacus
- Cassin's Flycatcher Muscicapa cassini
- White-collared Oliveback Nesocharis ansorgei
- Black-lored Babbler Turdoides sharpei
- Emerald-spotted Wood Dove Turtur chalcospilos
- Goliath Heron Ardea goliath
- Winding Cisticola Cisticola marginatus
- Red-knobbed Coot Fulica cristata
- Striped Kingfisher Halcyon chelicuti
- Marabou Stork Leptoptilos crumenifer
- Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris
- Yellow-throated Longclaw Macronyx croceus
- White-headed Saw-wing Psalidoprocne albiceps
- African Grey Hornbill Lophoceros nasutus
- Blue-billed Teal Spatula hottentota
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Olive-green Camaroptera Camaroptera chloronota
- Carruthers's Cisticola Cisticola carruthersi
- Trilling Cisticola Cisticola woosnami
- Fawn-breasted Waxbill Estrilda paludicola
- Purple-breasted Sunbird Nectarinia purpureiventris
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Equatorial Akalat Sheppardia aequatorialis
- Many-colored Bushshrike Chlorophoneus multicolor
- Grey-chested Babbler Kakamega poliothorax
- European Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus
- African Wood Owl Strix woodfordii
- Little Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza minulla
- Dusky-blue Flycatcher Bradornis comitatus
- Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus
- Plain Greenbul Eurillas curvirostris
- Pale Flycatcher Agricola pallidus
- Dark-backed Weaver Ploceus bicolor
- Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
- Yellow-mantled Weaver Ploceus tricolor
- Diederik Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius
- Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus chrysoconus
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat Cossypha cyanocampter
- Golden-winged Sunbird Drepanorhynchus reichenowi
- Grauer's Warbler Graueria vittata
- Papyrus Gonolek Laniarius mufumbiri
- Waller's Starling Onychognathus walleri
- Red-necked Spurfowl Pternistis afer
- Green-winged Pytilia Pytilia melba
- Black-crowned Tchagra Tchagra senegalus
- Orange-breasted Bushshrike Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus
- Purple-banded Sunbird Cinnyris bifasciatus
- Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher Bias musicus
- Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis
- Woodland Kingfisher Halcyon senegalensis
- Wire-tailed Swallow Hirundo smithii
- Double-toothed Barbet Pogonornis bidentatus
- Brubru Nilaus afer
- White-tailed Ant Thrush Neocossyphus poensis
- African Golden Oriole Oriolus auratus
- Spot-flanked Barbet Tricholaema lacrymosa
- Blue-naped Mousebird Urocolius macrourus
- African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer
- Yellow-breasted Apalis Apalis flavida
- Rufous-bellied Heron Ardeola rufiventris
- White-winged Swamp Warbler Bradypterus carpalis
- Nubian Woodpecker Campethera nubica
- Pennant-winged Nightjar Caprimulgus vexillarius
- Harlequin Quail Coturnix delegorguei
- Western House Martin Delichon urbicum
- Cinnamon-breasted Bunting Emberiza tahapisi
- Reed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus
- Superb Sunbird Cinnyris superbus
- Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo
- Oriole Finch Linurgus olivaceus
- Purple Heron Ardea purpurea
- Bamboo Warbler Locustella alfredi
- Black-billed Weaver Ploceus melanogaster
- African Cuckoo-Hawk Aviceda cuculoides
- Bocage's Bushshrike Chlorophoneus bocagei
- Buff-throated Apalis Apalis rufogularis
- Icterine Warbler Hippolais icterina
- Banded Martin Neophedina cincta
- Blue-breasted Bee-eater Merops variegatus
- Whinchat Saxicola rubetra
- Western Bronze-naped Pigeon Columba iriditorques
- Greater Honeyguide Indicator indicator
- African Cuckoo Cuculus gularis
- Sooty Chat Myrmecocichla nigra
- White-throated Greenbul Phyllastrephus albigularis
- Common Swift Apus apus
- Yellow-breasted Forest Robin Stiphrornis xanthogaster
- African Marsh Harrier Circus ranivorus
- Cardinal Quelea Quelea cardinalis
- Dark Chanting Goshawk Melierax metabates
- African Scops Owl Otus senegalensis
- Blue-spotted Wood Dove Turtur afer
- Long-billed Pipit Anthus similis
- Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus
- Western Black-headed Batis Batis erlangeri
- Northern Black Flycatcher Melaenornis edolioides
- White-throated Bee-eater Merops albicollis
- Green Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus purpureus
- Golden-backed Weaver Ploceus jacksoni
- Green Tinkerbird Pogoniulus simplex
- Yellow-throated Tinkerbird Pogoniulus subsulphureus
- Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo Cercococcyx olivinus
- Yellow-mantled Widowbird Euplectes macroura
- Pink-backed Pelican Pelecanus rufescens
- Grey-rumped Swallow Pseudhirundo griseopyga
- African Swamphen Porphyrio madagascariensis
- Spotted Eagle-Owl Bubo africanus
- Mosque Swallow Cecropis senegalensis
- Fulvous Whistling Duck Dendrocygna bicolor
- Broad-billed Roller Eurystomus glaucurus
- White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus
- African Pygmy Goose Nettapus auritus
- Leaf-love Phyllastrephus scandens
- Northern Brown-throated Weaver Ploceus castanops
- Brown-backed Honeybird Prodotiscus regulus
- Shining-blue Kingfisher Alcedo quadribrachys
- Plain-backed Pipit Anthus leucophrys
- Yellow-billed Oxpecker Buphagus africanus
- Red-capped Lark Calandrella cinerea
- Joyful Greenbul Chlorocichla laetissima
- Yellow-throated Cuckoo Chrysococcyx flavigularis
- Greater Swamp Warbler Acrocephalus rufescens
- Papyrus Canary Crithagra koliensis
- Eastern Bearded Greenbul Criniger chloronotus
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- African Pygmy Kingfisher Ispidina picta
- Red-chested Flufftail Sarothrura rufa
- Arnot's Chat Myrmecocichla arnotti
- Spur-winged Goose Plectropterus gambensis
- Knob-billed Duck Sarkidiornis melanotos
- Bateleur Terathopius ecaudatus
- Senegal Lapwing Vanellus lugubris
- African Wattled Lapwing Vanellus senegallus
- Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet Trachylaemus purpuratus
- Crowned Hornbill Lophoceros alboterminatus
- Bare-faced Go-away-bird Crinifer personatus
- Verreaux's Eagle-Owl Ketupa lactea
- Lappet-faced Vulture Torgos tracheliotos
- White-rumped Swift Apus caffer
- Grauer's Swamp Warbler Bradypterus graueri
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill Bycanistes subcylindricus
- Grey Tit-Flycatcher Fraseria plumbea
- Papyrus Yellow Warbler Calamonastides gracilirostris
- Blue-throated Brown Sunbird Cyanomitra cyanolaema
- Elliot's Woodpecker Dendropicos elliotii
- Olive Bee-eater Merops superciliosus
- Copper Sunbird Cinnyris cupreus
- Village Indigobird Vidua chalybeata
- Black-capped Apalis Apalis nigriceps
- Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides
- Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat Cossypha niveicapilla
- Ovambo Sparrowhawk Accipiter ovampensis
- Grey-winged Robin-Chat Sheppardia polioptera
- Compact Weaver Pachyphantes superciliosus
- Reichenow's Seedeater Crithagra reichenowi
- White-winged Black Tit Melaniparus leucomelas
- White-browed Coucal Centropus superciliosus
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Mgahinga Gorilla NP?
July–August. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 125 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Mgahinga Gorilla NP?
399 species, from 11,394 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Mgahinga Gorilla NP in November?
The most recorded in November: Streaky Seedeater, Common Bulbul, Regal Sunbird, Black Saw-wing and Chubb's Cisticola.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.