Uganda · Western Region
Queen Elizabeth II NP – Northern Sector
427 species and 11,362 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: June–July, with up to 199 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Pin-tailed WhydahVidua macroura
Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
Rüppell's StarlingLamprotornis purpuroptera
Grey-headed KingfisherHalcyon leucocephala
Grey KestrelFalco ardosiaceus
Speckled MousebirdColius striatus
Common BulbulPycnonotus barbatus
Red-necked SpurfowlPternistis afer
Helmeted GuineafowlNumida meleagris
Yellow-throated LongclawMacronyx croceus
White-browed CoucalCentropus superciliosus
Ring-necked DoveStreptopelia capicola
Little SwiftApus affinis
Black-headed WeaverPloceus melanocephalusSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Queen Elizabeth II NP – Kazinga Channel5 km421 species
- Queen Elizabeth II NP5 km614 species
- Queen Elizabeth II NP – Kazinga Channel Boat Trip6 km427 species
- Queen Elizabeth II NP – Kazinga Channel Bridge7 km377 species
- Queen Elizabeth NP – Ishasha Rd10 km430 species
- Queen Elizabeth II NP – Kasenyi Track12 km447 species
All 427 species recorded here
- White-browed Coucal Centropus superciliosus
- Speckled Mousebird Colius striatus
- Rüppell's Starling Lamprotornis purpuroptera
- Grey-backed Fiscal Lanius excubitoroides
- Black-headed Gonolek Laniarius erythrogaster
- Ring-necked Dove Streptopelia capicola
- Red-necked Spurfowl Pternistis afer
- Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
- Senegal Lapwing Vanellus lugubris
- Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris
- Yellow-throated Longclaw Macronyx croceus
- Marabou Stork Leptoptilos crumenifer
- African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer
- Hamerkop Scopus umbretta
- Palm-nut Vulture Gypohierax angolensis
- Northern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer griseus
- Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis
- Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura
- White-browed Robin-Chat Cossypha heuglini
- Northern Black Flycatcher Melaenornis edolioides
- Grey-headed Kingfisher Halcyon leucocephala
- Long-crested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis
- Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis
- African Wattled Lapwing Vanellus senegallus
- Rufous-naped Lark Corypha africana
- Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala
- Blue-naped Mousebird Urocolius macrourus
- Yellow-billed Oxpecker Buphagus africanus
- Egyptian Goose Alopochen aegyptiaca
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Bateleur Terathopius ecaudatus
- Black-headed Weaver Ploceus melanocephalus
- White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus
- Red-chested Sunbird Cinnyris erythrocercus
- Spur-winged Lapwing Vanellus spinosus
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Hadada Ibis Bostrychia hagedash
- Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
- Blue-spotted Wood Dove Turtur afer
- Pied Crow Corvus albus
- Grey Kestrel Falco ardosiaceus
- Red-billed Quelea Quelea quelea
- Pink-backed Pelican Pelecanus rufescens
- Flappet Lark Amirafra rufocinnamomea
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- Little Swift Apus affinis
- Black-lored Babbler Turdoides sharpei
- Yellow-fronted Canary Crithagra mozambica
- African Pied Wagtail Motacilla aguimp
- Little Bee-eater Merops pusillus
- Kittlitz's Plover Anarhynchus pecuarius
- Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis
- Plain-backed Pipit Anthus leucophrys
- Sooty Chat Myrmecocichla nigra
- Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
- Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Black-chested Snake Eagle Circaetus pectoralis
- Water Thick-knee Burhinus vermiculatus
- African Pipit Anthus cinnamomeus
- Southern Red Bishop Euplectes orix
- Crowned Lapwing Vanellus coronatus
- Woodland Kingfisher Halcyon senegalensis
- Lesser Striped Swallow Cecropis abyssinica
- Slender-billed Weaver Ploceus pelzelni
- Brown Snake Eagle Circaetus cinereus
- Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura
- Mourning Collared Dove Streptopelia decipiens
- Swamp Flycatcher Muscicapa aquatica
- African Sacred Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus
- Croaking Cisticola Cisticola natalensis
- Olive Bee-eater Merops superciliosus
- Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis
- Lesser Flamingo Phoeniconaias minor
- Black-crowned Tchagra Tchagra senegalus
- Yellow-billed Stork Mycteria ibis
- White-rumped Swift Apus caffer
- African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus
- Arrow-marked Babbler Turdoides jardineii
- African Crake Crecopsis egregia
- Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
- Lesser Masked Weaver Ploceus intermedius
- African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus
- Grey-capped Warbler Eminia lepida
- Reed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus
- Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava
- Bronze Mannikin Spermestes cucullata
- Northern Fiscal Lanius humeralis
- Crested Francolin Ortygornis sephaena
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Martial Eagle Polemaetus bellicosus
- Double-toothed Barbet Pogonornis bidentatus
- White-throated Bee-eater Merops albicollis
- White-headed Saw-wing Psalidoprocne albiceps
- Wahlberg's Eagle Hieraaetus wahlbergi
- Western Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava
- Black Crake Zapornia flavirostra
- Fawn-breasted Waxbill Estrilda paludicola
- Angola Swallow Hirundo angolensis
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- Brown-crowned Tchagra Tchagra australis
- African Thrush Turdus pelios
- Common Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus cyanomelas
- Trilling Cisticola Cisticola woosnami
- Black-bellied Bustard Lissotis melanogaster
- Brimstone Canary Crithagra sulphurata
- Spot-flanked Barbet Tricholaema lacrymosa
- Wattled Starling Creatophora cinerea
- Brown-throated Wattle-eye Platysteira cyanea
- Moustached Grass Warbler Melocichla mentalis
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
- Collared Pratincole Glareola pratincola
- Wire-tailed Swallow Hirundo smithii
- Winding Cisticola Cisticola marginatus
- Verreaux's Eagle-Owl Ketupa lactea
- Diederik Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius
- Red-chested Cuckoo Cuculus solitarius
- African Pygmy Kingfisher Ispidina picta
- Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides
- Copper Sunbird Cinnyris cupreus
- Fan-tailed Widowbird Euplectes axillaris
- Western Banded Snake Eagle Circaetus cinerascens
- African Blue Flycatcher Elminia longicauda
- Golden-breasted Bunting Emberiza flaviventris
- Spectacled Weaver Ploceus ocularis
- Klaas's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas
- Common Buttonquail Turnix sylvaticus
- African Jacana Actophilornis africanus
- Temminck's Courser Cursorius temminckii
- African Firefinch Lagonosticta rubricata
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- Saddle-billed Stork Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis
- Yellow-billed Egret Ardea brachyrhyncha
- Red-capped Lark Calandrella cinerea
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- White-winged Widowbird Euplectes albonotatus
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird Chalcomitra senegalensis
- Papyrus Gonolek Laniarius mufumbiri
- White-tailed Lark Mirafra albicauda
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- Banded Martin Neophedina cincta
- Black Coucal Centropus grillii
- Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica
- Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus
- White-winged Tern Chlidonias leucopterus
- Striped Kingfisher Halcyon chelicuti
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- Nubian Woodpecker Campethera nubica
- Western Black-headed Batis Batis erlangeri
- Levaillant's Cuckoo Clamator levaillantii
- African Marsh Harrier Circus ranivorus
- Eastern Plantain-eater Crinifer zonurus
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Lappet-faced Vulture Torgos tracheliotos
- Three-banded Plover Thinornis tricollaris
- Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus chrysoconus
- Square-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus fossii
- Chinspot Batis Batis molitor
- Tropical Boubou Laniarius major
- Grey-headed Gull Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus
- Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild
- Goliath Heron Ardea goliath
- Holub's Golden Weaver Ploceus xanthops
- Whinchat Saxicola rubetra
- Crowned Hornbill Lophoceros alboterminatus
- Mosque Swallow Cecropis senegalensis
- Carruthers's Cisticola Cisticola carruthersi
- Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat Cossypha niveicapilla
- Crimson-rumped Waxbill Estrilda rhodopyga
- African Skimmer Rynchops flavirostris
- Violet-backed Starling Cinnyricinclus leucogaster
- Red-faced Cisticola Cisticola erythrops
- African Openbill Anastomus lamelligerus
- African Grey Hornbill Lophoceros nasutus
- Grey Crowned Crane Balearica regulorum
- Lizard Buzzard Kaupifalco monogrammicus
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Merops persicus
- Green-winged Pytilia Pytilia melba
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
- Common Buzzard Buteo buteo
- Quailfinch Ortygospiza atricollis
- African Grey Woodpecker Dendropicos goertae
- Cardinal Woodpecker Dendropicos fuscescens
- Marico Sunbird Cinnyris mariquensis
- Purple-banded Sunbird Cinnyris bifasciatus
- Red-headed Lovebird Agapornis pullarius
- Green-headed Sunbird Cyanomitra verticalis
- Village Indigobird Vidua chalybeata
- Red-breasted Swallow Cecropis semirufa
- Broad-billed Roller Eurystomus glaucurus
- Meyer's Parrot Poicephalus meyeri
- Shikra Tachyspiza badia
- Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus
- Blue-breasted Kingfisher Halcyon malimbica
- African Spoonbill Platalea alba
- African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis
- Stout Cisticola Cisticola robustus
- Rüppell's Vulture Gyps rueppelli
- Blue-breasted Bee-eater Merops variegatus
- Red-throated Bee-eater Merops bulocki
- Buff-bellied Warbler Phyllolais pulchella
- Compact Weaver Pachyphantes superciliosus
- Pallid Harrier Circus macrourus
- Tawny Eagle Aquila rapax
- Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus
- Rattling Cisticola Cisticola chiniana
- Alpine Swift Tachymarptis melba
- Caspian Plover Anarhynchus asiaticus
- Wing-snapping Cisticola Cisticola ayresii
- Green Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus purpureus
- Little Weaver Ploceus luteolus
- Black-and-white Mannikin Spermestes bicolor
- Fiery-necked Nightjar Caprimulgus pectoralis
- Western Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus
- White-headed Vulture Trigonoceps occipitalis
- Yellow-breasted Apalis Apalis flavida
- White-winged Swamp Warbler Bradypterus carpalis
- Bronze Sunbird Nectarinia kilimensis
- Long-billed Pipit Anthus similis
- Brown-throated Martin Riparia paludicola
- European Bee-eater Merops apiaster
- Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus
- Beaudouin's Snake Eagle Circaetus beaudouini
- Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus
- Little Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza minulla
- Cinnamon-breasted Bunting Emberiza tahapisi
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Dwarf Bittern Botaurus sturmii
- Horus Swift Apus horus
- African Green Pigeon Treron calvus
- Lesser Moorhen Paragallinula angulata
- Marsh Tchagra Bocagia minuta
- African Dusky Flycatcher Muscicapa adusta
- European Roller Coracias garrulus
- Little Stint Calidris minuta
- Emerald-spotted Wood Dove Turtur chalcospilos
- Common Quail Coturnix coturnix
- Lesser Swamp Warbler Acrocephalus gracilirostris
- White-necked Raven Corvus albicollis
- White-faced Whistling Duck Dendrocygna viduata
- Orange-breasted Bushshrike Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus
- Long-toed Lapwing Vanellus crassirostris
- Fan-tailed Grassbird Catriscus brevirostris
- Harlequin Quail Coturnix delegorguei
- Red-faced Crombec Sylvietta whytii
- Black-winged Red Bishop Euplectes hordeaceus
- Black-headed Oriole Oriolus larvatus
- Baglafecht Weaver Ploceus baglafecht
- Vieillot's Black Weaver Ploceus nigerrimus
- Common Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus
- Black-billed Barbet Lybius guifsobalito
- Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio
- Greater Flamingo Phoenicopterus roseus
- White-chinned Prinia Schistolais leucopogon
- Red-throated Rock Martin Ptyonoprogne rufigula
- Little Greenbul Eurillas virens
- Black Saw-wing Psalidoprocne pristoptera
- Black Sparrowhawk Astur melanoleucus
- Northern Crombec Sylvietta brachyura
- Grey Tit-Flycatcher Fraseria plumbea
- Northern Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe
- Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis
- Tambourine Dove Turtur tympanistria
- Red-collared Widowbird Euplectes ardens
- Swamp Nightjar Caprimulgus natalensis
- Splendid Starling Lamprotornis splendidus
- Black-necked Weaver Ploceus nigricollis
- African Stonechat Saxicola torquatus
- Dusky Turtle Dove Streptopelia lugens
- Common Hoopoe Upupa epops
- Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea
- Scarce Swift Schoutedenapus myoptilus
- Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
- Bare-faced Go-away-bird Crinifer personatus
- Black-winged Pratincole Glareola nordmanni
- Isabelline Shrike Lanius isabellinus
- Lesser Spotted Eagle Clanga pomarina
- Red-winged Pytilia Pytilia phoenicoptera
- Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybrida
- White-headed Barbet Lybius leucocephalus
- Thick-billed Weaver Amblyospiza albifrons
- Pale Flycatcher Agricola pallidus
- Senegal Thick-knee Burhinus senegalensis
- Cardinal Quelea Quelea cardinalis
- Yellow-crowned Canary Serinus flavivertex
- Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
- Black Cuckooshrike Campephaga flava
- Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike Campephaga phoenicea
- Jacobin Cuckoo Clamator jacobinus
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Ross's Turaco Tauraco rossae
- Northern Yellow White-eye Zosterops senegalensis
- Variable Sunbird Cinnyris venustus
- Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher Bias musicus
- Black-throated Canary Crithagra atrogularis
- Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill Bycanistes subcylindricus
- Montagu's Harrier Circus pygargus
- Mottled Swift Tachymarptis aequatorialis
- Yellow-bellied Waxbill Coccopygia quartinia
- Western Citril Crithagra frontalis
- Blue-headed Coucal Centropus monachus
- Yellow-mantled Weaver Ploceus tricolor
- Northern Puffback Dryoscopus gambensis
- Gabar Goshawk Micronisus gabar
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Northern Brown-throated Weaver Ploceus castanops
- African Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia microscelis
- Black Bishop Euplectes gierowii
- Knob-billed Duck Sarkidiornis melanotos
- Senegal Coucal Centropus senegalensis
- Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater Merops oreobates
- Brown-chested Lapwing Vanellus superciliosus
- Spotted Eagle-Owl Bubo africanus
- Isabelline Wheatear Oenanthe isabellina
- Scaly Spurfowl Pternistis squamatus
- Ring-necked Francolin Scleroptila streptophora
- African Hobby Falco cuvierii
- Greater Honeyguide Indicator indicator
- Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo
- African Black Swift Apus barbatus
- European Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus
- African Cuckoo Cuculus gularis
- Grey-rumped Swallow Pseudhirundo griseopyga
- Ruff Calidris pugnax
- Red-billed Oxpecker Buphagus erythroryncha
- Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula
- Short-tailed Pipit Anthus brachyurus
- Cape Wagtail Motacilla capensis
- Purple Heron Ardea purpurea
- Black-crowned Waxbill Estrilda nonnula
- Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
- Brown-backed Honeybird Prodotiscus regulus
- Bronze-winged Courser Rhinoptilus chalcopterus
- Greater Painted-snipe Rostratula benghalensis
- Hairy-breasted Barbet Tricholaema hirsuta
- Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
- African Goshawk Aerospiza tachiro
- Plain Nightjar Caprimulgus inornatus
- Cassin's Flycatcher Muscicapa cassini
- Slender-billed Starling Onychognathus tenuirostris
- Piapiac Ptilostomus afer
- Spur-winged Goose Plectropterus gambensis
- Red-headed Weaver Anaplectes rubriceps
- Mackinnon's Shrike Lanius mackinnoni
- Namaqua Dove Oena capensis
- Congo Pied Hornbill Lophoceros fasciatus
- White-breasted Cuckooshrike Ceblepyris pectoralis
- Great Blue Turaco Corythaeola cristata
- Eurasian Wryneck Jynx torquilla
- Lühder's Bushshrike Laniarius luehderi
- Dark-backed Weaver Ploceus bicolor
- Brown-capped Weaver Ploceus insignis
- Pied Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta
- Black-billed Turaco Tauraco schuettii
- Little Ringed Plover Thinornis dubius
- Many-colored Bushshrike Chlorophoneus multicolor
- Beautiful Sunbird Cinnyris pulchellus
- Yellow Bishop Euplectes capensis
- Northern Red Bishop Euplectes franciscanus
- Pied Wheatear Oenanthe pleschanka
- Buff-spotted Woodpecker Pardipicus nivosus
- Temminck's Stint Calidris temminckii
- Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago
- Giant Kingfisher Megaceryle maxima
- Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata
- Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu Uraeginthus bengalus
- Lesser Grey Shrike Lanius minor
- Common Whitethroat Curruca communis
- Black-faced Waxbill Brunhilda erythronotos
- Orange-cheeked Waxbill Estrilda melpoda
- Ethiopian Swallow Hirundo aethiopica
- Leaf-love Phyllastrephus scandens
- Olive-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris chloropygius
- Pale-throated Greenbul Atimastillas flavigula
- African Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis melanocrissus
- Grey-throated Tit-Flycatcher Fraseria griseigularis
- Fulvous Whistling Duck Dendrocygna bicolor
- White-tailed Blue Flycatcher Elminia albicauda
- Bat Hawk Macheiramphus alcinus
- Brown Babbler Turdoides plebejus
- African Cuckoo-Hawk Aviceda cuculoides
- African Yellow Warbler Iduna natalensis
- African Golden Oriole Oriolus auratus
- Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone rufiventer
- Blue Malkoha Ceuthmochares aereus
- Short-winged Cisticola Cisticola brachypterus
- African Snipe Gallinago nigripennis
- Lesser Honeyguide Indicator minor
- Slate-colored Boubou Laniarius funebris
- Dark Chanting Goshawk Melierax metabates
- Black-rumped Buttonquail Turnix nanus
- Lilac-breasted Roller Coracias caudatus
- Grey-headed Nigrita Nigrita canicapillus
- Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa
- Yellow-billed Duck Anas undulata
- Spotted Thick-knee Burhinus capensis
- White-winged Black Tit Melaniparus leucomelas
- Red-capped Robin-Chat Cossypha natalensis
- Collared Sunbird Hedydipna collaris
- Chestnut Wattle-eye Dyaphorophyia castanea
- Yellow-throated Tinkerbird Pogoniulus subsulphureus
- Red-headed Quelea Quelea erythrops
- African Rail Rallus caerulescens
- Superb Sunbird Cinnyris superbus
- White-tailed Ant Thrush Neocossyphus poensis
- Fraser's Rufous Thrush Stizorhina fraseri
- Western Oriole Oriolus brachyrynchus
- Little Bittern Botaurus minutus
- Western House Martin Delichon urbicum
- Pearl-spotted Owlet Glaucidium perlatum
- Familiar Chat Oenanthe familiaris
- African Emerald Cuckoo Chrysococcyx cupreus
- Northern Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris reichenowi
- Southern Black Flycatcher Melaenornis pammelaina
- Shoebill Balaeniceps rex
- Yellow-spotted Barbet Buccanodon duchaillui
- Dusky-blue Flycatcher Bradornis comitatus
- Golden-backed Weaver Ploceus jacksoni
- Black-headed Gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus
- Abdim's Stork Ciconia abdimii
- Black Heron Egretta ardesiaca
- Augur Buzzard Buteo augur
- Silverbird Empidornis semipartitus
- Greater Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chalybaeus
- African Wood Owl Strix woodfordii
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Queen Elizabeth II NP – Northern Sector?
June–July. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 199 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Queen Elizabeth II NP – Northern Sector?
427 species, from 11,362 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Queen Elizabeth II NP – Northern Sector in November?
The most recorded in November: Pin-tailed Whydah, Barn Swallow, Rüppell's Starling, Grey-headed Kingfisher and Grey Kestrel.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.