Bird AlbumUganda · Western Region
Murchison Falls NP – Boat trip Paraa to Murchison Falls
403 species and 17,224 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: July, with up to 159 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
African Fish EagleIcthyophaga vocifer
Red-throated Bee-eaterMerops bulocki
African DarterAnhinga rufa
Goliath HeronArdea goliath
Spur-winged LapwingVanellus spinosus
Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca
Pied KingfisherCeryle rudis
Black KiteMilvus migrans
African JacanaActophilornis africanus
Western Cattle EgretArdea ibis
Grey HeronArdea cinerea
Rock PratincoleGlareola nuchalis
Rüppell's StarlingLamprotornis purpuroptera
African Palm SwiftCypsiurus parvus82 species seen regularly here in November · showing the 14 most recorded. All 403 species recorded here ↓
Species seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Murchison Falls NP – Nile River6 km413 species
- Murchison Falls NP – Boat trip Paraa to Victoria Nile Delta10 km418 species
- Murchison Falls NP – North side14 km521 species
- Murchison Falls NP – Pakuba18 km398 species
- Budongo Forest Reserve – Royal Mile63 km530 species
All 403 species recorded here
- African Darter Anhinga rufa
- African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer
- Red-throated Bee-eater Merops bulocki
- Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis
- Egyptian Goose Alopochen aegyptiaca
- Goliath Heron Ardea goliath
- African Jacana Actophilornis africanus
- Spur-winged Lapwing Vanellus spinosus
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- Rock Pratincole Glareola nuchalis
- Hadada Ibis Bostrychia hagedash
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- Rüppell's Starling Lamprotornis purpuroptera
- African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus
- Saddle-billed Stork Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis
- Grey-headed Kingfisher Halcyon leucocephala
- Giant Kingfisher Megaceryle maxima
- Yellow-billed Stork Mycteria ibis
- Eastern Plantain-eater Crinifer zonurus
- Reed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus
- Wire-tailed Swallow Hirundo smithii
- African Skimmer Rynchops flavirostris
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- African Sacred Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus
- Spur-winged Goose Plectropterus gambensis
- Black Crake Zapornia flavirostra
- African Pied Wagtail Motacilla aguimp
- African Grey Hornbill Lophoceros nasutus
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Long-toed Lapwing Vanellus crassirostris
- Yellow-billed Egret Ardea brachyrhyncha
- White-faced Whistling Duck Dendrocygna viduata
- Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
- Purple Heron Ardea purpurea
- Marabou Stork Leptoptilos crumenifer
- Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides
- Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris
- Senegal Thick-knee Burhinus senegalensis
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Hamerkop Scopus umbretta
- Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
- Piapiac Ptilostomus afer
- Angola Swallow Hirundo angolensis
- Grey Kestrel Falco ardosiaceus
- African Openbill Anastomus lamelligerus
- Northern Carmine Bee-eater Merops nubicus
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
- White-headed Saw-wing Psalidoprocne albiceps
- Water Thick-knee Burhinus vermiculatus
- Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
- Knob-billed Duck Sarkidiornis melanotos
- Palm-nut Vulture Gypohierax angolensis
- Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus
- Black-headed Weaver Ploceus melanocephalus
- African Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia microscelis
- African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus
- Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala
- Bateleur Terathopius ecaudatus
- Beautiful Sunbird Cinnyris pulchellus
- Black-headed Gonolek Laniarius erythrogaster
- Swamp Flycatcher Muscicapa aquatica
- Yellow-billed Oxpecker Buphagus africanus
- Broad-billed Roller Eurystomus glaucurus
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- White-winged Tern Chlidonias leucopterus
- Dark Chanting Goshawk Melierax metabates
- Woodland Kingfisher Halcyon senegalensis
- Speckled Mousebird Colius striatus
- Vinaceous Dove Streptopelia vinacea
- African Swamphen Porphyrio madagascariensis
- White-browed Coucal Centropus superciliosus
- African Grey Woodpecker Dendropicos goertae
- Northern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer griseus
- Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill Bycanistes subcylindricus
- Abdim's Stork Ciconia abdimii
- African Pygmy Kingfisher Ispidina picta
- Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu Uraeginthus bengalus
- Blue-spotted Wood Dove Turtur afer
- African Wattled Lapwing Vanellus senegallus
- Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula
- Winding Cisticola Cisticola marginatus
- Mourning Collared Dove Streptopelia decipiens
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Brown-throated Wattle-eye Platysteira cyanea
- Bronze Mannikin Spermestes cucullata
- Black-billed Wood Dove Turtur abyssinicus
- White-crested Turaco Tauraco leucolophus
- Lesser Striped Swallow Cecropis abyssinica
- White-rumped Swift Apus caffer
- Little Swift Apus affinis
- Western Banded Snake Eagle Circaetus cinerascens
- Crowned Hornbill Lophoceros alboterminatus
- Shikra Tachyspiza badia
- Grey Crowned Crane Balearica regulorum
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- Rüppell's Vulture Gyps rueppelli
- Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura
- Double-toothed Barbet Pogonornis bidentatus
- Ring-necked Dove Streptopelia capicola
- Grey-headed Gull Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus
- African Finfoot Podica senegalensis
- Abyssinian Ground Hornbill Bucorvus abyssinicus
- Wahlberg's Eagle Hieraaetus wahlbergi
- Silverbird Empidornis semipartitus
- Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura
- Little Stint Calidris minuta
- Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus chrysoconus
- African Green Pigeon Treron calvus
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird Chalcomitra senegalensis
- Violet-backed Starling Cinnyricinclus leucogaster
- Northern Red Bishop Euplectes franciscanus
- Little Bee-eater Merops pusillus
- African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis
- Spectacled Weaver Ploceus ocularis
- White-backed Night Heron Calherodius leuconotus
- Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis
- Western Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava
- Long-crested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis
- Western Barn Owl Tyto alba
- Pink-backed Pelican Pelecanus rufescens
- Cassin's Flycatcher Muscicapa cassini
- Eastern Chanting Goshawk Melierax poliopterus
- Black-billed Barbet Lybius guifsobalito
- Pied Crow Corvus albus
- Horus Swift Apus horus
- Blue-headed Coucal Centropus monachus
- Banded Martin Neophedina cincta
- Brown-throated Martin Riparia paludicola
- Black-headed Lapwing Vanellus tectus
- Ruff Calidris pugnax
- Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica
- Little Bittern Botaurus minutus
- Splendid Starling Lamprotornis splendidus
- Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybrida
- Lappet-faced Vulture Torgos tracheliotos
- Vieillot's Black Weaver Ploceus nigerrimus
- Crested Francolin Ortygornis sephaena
- Moustached Grass Warbler Melocichla mentalis
- Martial Eagle Polemaetus bellicosus
- Red-headed Quelea Quelea erythrops
- Grey-backed Fiscal Lanius excubitoroides
- Kittlitz's Plover Anarhynchus pecuarius
- Shoebill Balaeniceps rex
- Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus
- Brown Snake Eagle Circaetus cinereus
- Rattling Cisticola Cisticola chiniana
- Common Buzzard Buteo buteo
- Blue-naped Mousebird Urocolius macrourus
- Thick-billed Weaver Amblyospiza albifrons
- Cardinal Woodpecker Dendropicos fuscescens
- Swallow-tailed Bee-eater Merops hirundineus
- Pale-throated Greenbul Atimastillas flavigula
- Diederik Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius
- Red-winged Grey Warbler Drymocichla incana
- Striped Kingfisher Halcyon chelicuti
- Grasshopper Buzzard Butastur rufipennis
- African Spoonbill Platalea alba
- Red-breasted Swallow Cecropis semirufa
- Red-headed Weaver Anaplectes rubriceps
- Black-crowned Tchagra Tchagra senegalus
- White-crowned Lapwing Vanellus albiceps
- African Marsh Harrier Circus ranivorus
- Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
- Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava
- Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
- Tawny Eagle Aquila rapax
- Black Saw-wing Psalidoprocne pristoptera
- Lesser Jacana Microparra capensis
- Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea
- Denham's Bustard Neotis denhami
- Pel's Fishing Owl Scotopelia peli
- Heuglin's Spurfowl Pternistis icterorhynchus
- Common Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus
- Northern Puffback Dryoscopus gambensis
- Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago
- Black-necked Weaver Ploceus nigricollis
- Tambourine Dove Turtur tympanistria
- Western Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus
- Spotted Palm Thrush Cichladusa guttata
- Red-chested Sunbird Cinnyris erythrocercus
- Black-bellied Bustard Lissotis melanogaster
- Meyer's Parrot Poicephalus meyeri
- Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis
- Nubian Woodpecker Campethera nubica
- African Thrush Turdus pelios
- Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala
- Blue-breasted Kingfisher Halcyon malimbica
- Common Swift Apus apus
- Spotted Thick-knee Burhinus capensis
- Red-necked Falcon Falco chicquera
- Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis
- Black-rumped Waxbill Estrilda troglodytes
- Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser superciliosus
- Spot-flanked Barbet Tricholaema lacrymosa
- European Bee-eater Merops apiaster
- Sooty Chat Myrmecocichla nigra
- African Black Swift Apus barbatus
- White-browed Robin-Chat Cossypha heuglini
- Scarce Swift Schoutedenapus myoptilus
- Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat Cossypha niveicapilla
- Lizard Buzzard Kaupifalco monogrammicus
- Yellow-fronted Canary Crithagra mozambica
- Black-winged Red Bishop Euplectes hordeaceus
- Flappet Lark Amirafra rufocinnamomea
- Tropical Boubou Laniarius major
- Greater Swamp Warbler Acrocephalus rufescens
- Black Heron Egretta ardesiaca
- Bat Hawk Macheiramphus alcinus
- Speckle-fronted Weaver Sporopipes frontalis
- Common Hoopoe Upupa epops
- Northern Black Flycatcher Melaenornis edolioides
- Red-billed Quelea Quelea quelea
- Lesser Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chloropterus
- Lesser Swamp Warbler Acrocephalus gracilirostris
- Blue-breasted Bee-eater Merops variegatus
- Brown Babbler Turdoides plebejus
- African Hawk-Eagle Aquila spilogaster
- Collared Sunbird Hedydipna collaris
- Northern Yellow White-eye Zosterops senegalensis
- Red-headed Lovebird Agapornis pullarius
- White-headed Vulture Trigonoceps occipitalis
- Red-chested Cuckoo Cuculus solitarius
- Fulvous Whistling Duck Dendrocygna bicolor
- Slender-billed Weaver Ploceus pelzelni
- Allen's Gallinule Porphyrio alleni
- Yellow-mantled Widowbird Euplectes macroura
- Croaking Cisticola Cisticola natalensis
- Vitelline Masked Weaver Ploceus vitellinus
- Lesser Moorhen Paragallinula angulata
- Purple-headed Starling Hylopsar purpureiceps
- Namaqua Dove Oena capensis
- Cape Wagtail Motacilla capensis
- Green-headed Sunbird Cyanomitra verticalis
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Merops persicus
- Jacobin Cuckoo Clamator jacobinus
- Abyssinian Roller Coracias abyssinicus
- Wattled Starling Creatophora cinerea
- Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa
- Dwarf Bittern Botaurus sturmii
- Greater Honeyguide Indicator indicator
- African Pygmy Goose Nettapus auritus
- Copper Sunbird Cinnyris cupreus
- Whinchat Saxicola rubetra
- Blue-throated Roller Eurystomus gularis
- Gabar Goshawk Micronisus gabar
- Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo Cercococcyx mechowi
- White-thighed Hornbill Bycanistes albotibialis
- Congo Pied Hornbill Lophoceros fasciatus
- African Goshawk Aerospiza tachiro
- Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
- Scaly Spurfowl Pternistis squamatus
- Foxy Cisticola Cisticola troglodytes
- African Dusky Flycatcher Muscicapa adusta
- Sabine's Spinetail Rhaphidura sabini
- Senegal Lapwing Vanellus lugubris
- Grey-capped Warbler Eminia lepida
- White-throated Bee-eater Merops albicollis
- Golden-backed Weaver Ploceus jacksoni
- Holub's Golden Weaver Ploceus xanthops
- Mottled Swift Tachymarptis aequatorialis
- Chinspot Batis Batis molitor
- Blue Malkoha Ceuthmochares aereus
- Short-winged Cisticola Cisticola brachypterus
- Northern Fiscal Lanius humeralis
- Ross's Turaco Tauraco rossae
- Woodchat Shrike Lanius senator
- Garganey Spatula querquedula
- Kentish Plover Anarhynchus alexandrinus
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- White-tailed Lark Mirafra albicauda
- Red-winged Pytilia Pytilia phoenicoptera
- African Cuckoo Cuculus gularis
- Yellow-breasted Apalis Apalis flavida
- Red-necked Buzzard Buteo auguralis
- Grey Tit-Flycatcher Fraseria plumbea
- Ethiopian Swallow Hirundo aethiopica
- Brown-crowned Tchagra Tchagra australis
- Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo
- Eastern Olivaceous Warbler Iduna pallida
- Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater Merops oreobates
- Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata
- Green Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus purpureus
- Black-billed Turaco Tauraco schuettii
- African Crake Crecopsis egregia
- Caspian Plover Anarhynchus asiaticus
- Beaudouin's Snake Eagle Circaetus beaudouini
- Montagu's Harrier Circus pygargus
- Brown-rumped Bunting Emberiza affinis
- Shelley's Sparrow Passer shelleyi
- Green Crombec Sylvietta virens
- Yellow-throated Longclaw Macronyx croceus
- Mosque Swallow Cecropis senegalensis
- Trilling Cisticola Cisticola woosnami
- Little Weaver Ploceus luteolus
- Greater Painted-snipe Rostratula benghalensis
- Brubru Nilaus afer
- Olive Sunbird Cyanomitra olivacea
- Crimson-rumped Waxbill Estrilda rhodopyga
- Bronze-tailed Starling Lamprotornis chalcurus
- Green Twinspot Mandingoa nitidula
- Olive Bee-eater Merops superciliosus
- African Scops Owl Otus senegalensis
- White-browed Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser mahali
- White-crested Helmetshrike Prionops plumatus
- Cassin's Honeybird Prodotiscus insignis
- Cardinal Quelea Quelea cardinalis
- Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis
- Green-backed Eremomela Eremomela canescens
- Black Bishop Euplectes gierowii
- Fan-tailed Widowbird Euplectes axillaris
- Black Bee-eater Merops gularis
- White-spotted Flufftail Sarothrura pulchra
- Village Indigobird Vidua chalybeata
- Bare-faced Go-away-bird Crinifer personatus
- Western Black-headed Batis Batis erlangeri
- Yellow-browed Camaroptera Camaroptera superciliaris
- Grey-headed Bushshrike Malaconotus blanchoti
- Southern Red Bishop Euplectes orix
- Western Oriole Oriolus brachyrynchus
- Piping Hornbill Bycanistes fistulator
- Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild
- African Hobby Falco cuvierii
- Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
- Rufous-bellied Heron Ardeola rufiventris
- African Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis melanocrissus
- Mountain Buzzard Buteo oreophilus
- Isabelline Shrike Lanius isabellinus
- Bronze Sunbird Nectarinia kilimensis
- Egyptian Plover Pluvianus aegyptius
- Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus
- Purple-banded Sunbird Cinnyris bifasciatus
- Swamp Nightjar Caprimulgus natalensis
- Green-throated Sunbird Chalcomitra rubescens
- Cassin's Spinetail Neafrapus cassini
- White-throated Greenbul Phyllastrephus albigularis
- Western House Martin Delichon urbicum
- Northern Brown-throated Weaver Ploceus castanops
- Arrow-marked Babbler Turdoides jardineii
- Orange-breasted Bushshrike Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus
- Black-chested Snake Eagle Circaetus pectoralis
- Northern Crombec Sylvietta brachyura
- Plain Nightjar Caprimulgus inornatus
- Black-winged Pratincole Glareola nordmanni
- Eastern Crested Guineafowl Guttera pucherani
- African Dwarf Kingfisher Ispidina lecontei
- Crowned Eagle Stephanoaetus coronatus
- Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
- African Emerald Cuckoo Chrysococcyx cupreus
- Klaas's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas
- Black Cuckoo Cuculus clamosus
- Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus
- Chocolate-backed Kingfisher Halcyon badia
- Yellow-billed Duck Anas undulata
- Blue-billed Teal Spatula hottentota
- Little Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza minulla
- Cassin's Hawk-Eagle Aquila africana
- Red-billed Oxpecker Buphagus erythroryncha
- Black Coucal Centropus grillii
- Levaillant's Cuckoo Clamator levaillantii
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Great Blue Turaco Corythaeola cristata
- Pearl-spotted Owlet Glaucidium perlatum
- Bar-breasted Firefinch Lagonosticta rufopicta
- White-shouldered Black Tit Melaniparus guineensis
- Senegal Coucal Centropus senegalensis
- Bruce's Green Pigeon Treron waalia
- African Pipit Anthus cinnamomeus
- Purple Starling Lamprotornis purpureus
- Dusky Babbler Turdoides tenebrosa
- White-rumped Seedeater Crithagra leucopygia
- Highland Rush Warbler Bradypterus centralis
- Common Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus cyanomelas
- Plain-backed Pipit Anthus leucophrys
- Brown-eared Woodpecker Pardipicus caroli
- White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher Melaenornis fischeri
- Dusky Tit Melaniparus funereus
- Collared Pratincole Glareola pratincola
- Whistling Cisticola Cisticola lateralis
- Quailfinch Ortygospiza atricollis
- Spotted Eagle-Owl Bubo africanus
- Red-throated Rock Martin Ptyonoprogne rufigula
- Lesser Spotted Eagle Clanga pomarina
- Sooty Falcon Falco concolor
- Shining-blue Kingfisher Alcedo quadribrachys
- Standard-winged Nightjar Caprimulgus longipennis
- White-breasted Cuckooshrike Ceblepyris pectoralis
- Lesser Kestrel Falco naumanni
- Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus
- Greater Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chalybaeus
- Pied Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta
- Red-faced Crombec Sylvietta whytii
- Black-lored Babbler Turdoides sharpei
- Red-throated Pipit Anthus cervinus
- Black-headed Gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus
- Olive-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris chloropygius
- Pale Flycatcher Agricola pallidus
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Murchison Falls NP – Boat trip Paraa to Murchison Falls?
July. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 159 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Murchison Falls NP – Boat trip Paraa to Murchison Falls?
403 species, from 17,224 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Murchison Falls NP – Boat trip Paraa to Murchison Falls in November?
The most recorded in November: African Fish Eagle, Red-throated Bee-eater, African Darter, Goliath Heron and Spur-winged Lapwing.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.