The Bwindi
National Park is most well known for its Gorilla population, but we only had
one day in this lowland area of the park before moving up to the high altitudes. We spent the day birding as there are good numbers of rare and endemic birds in this lowland
area so to try and maximise our chances of seeing as many of them as we could, we hired a guide for the day.
The track through the forest was long and linear, walking roughly 6 kilometers
into the forest before walking back. In the end we saw many of the areas specialties
including Neumanns Warbler, Pink-footed Puffback and Equatorial Akalat, but it
was here that I saw my most wanted species for the trip; Black-faced Prinia, an
IOC split from Banded Prinia…
Our guide knew a location where we could find the bird, or so he said, but as the day wore on it looked like he had forgotten. However it was not so, and by early afternoon we were at the spot and enjoying fantastic views of the bird as it moved through the undergrowth. It was often reluctant to show in the open, which was frustrating, but on the occasions when it did we were able to get some photos. After such a successful day in the National Park we decided that it would not be worth paying the entry fee for a second day and as such we would move on with our trip and head to the higher elevations first thing in the morning.
Our guide knew a location where we could find the bird, or so he said, but as the day wore on it looked like he had forgotten. However it was not so, and by early afternoon we were at the spot and enjoying fantastic views of the bird as it moved through the undergrowth. It was often reluctant to show in the open, which was frustrating, but on the occasions when it did we were able to get some photos. After such a successful day in the National Park we decided that it would not be worth paying the entry fee for a second day and as such we would move on with our trip and head to the higher elevations first thing in the morning.
-Stuhlmann's Blue Monkey
-Equatorial Akalat
-White-tailed Ant Thrush
-Black-faced Prinia
-White-breasted Nigrita
-Bronzy Sunbird
-Black-billed Turaco
-Black Saw-wing
-Waller's Starling
-African Broadbill
-Dusky-blue Flycatcher
-White-eyed Slaty-Flycatcher
-Montane Side-striped Chameleon
Species
List:
Bwindi National Park – Buhoma: African Green Pigeon, Great Blue Turaco, Black-billed Turaco, Bar-tailed Trogon, White-headed Wood Hoopoe, Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill, Black Bee-eater, Speckled Tinkerbird, Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird, Yellow-spotted Barbet, Elliot's Woodpecker, Buff-spotted Woodpecker, African Broadbill, Petit's Cuckooshrike, Mountain Oriole, Pink-footed Puffback, Ludher's Bushshrike, African Paradise Flycatcher, White-tailed Blue Flycatcher, Dusky Tit, Green Hylia, Olive-green Camaroptera, Black-throated Apalis, Grey Apalis, Black-faced Prinia, Black-faced Rufous Warbler, Lesser Striped Swallow, Black Saw-wing, Honeyguide Greenbul, Red-tailed Greenbul, Plain Greenbul, Little Greenbul, Dark-capped Bulbul, Neumann's Warbler, Green White-eye, Waller's Starling, White-tailed Ant Thrush, Sooty Flycatcher, Dusky-blue Flycatcher, Grey-throated Tit-Flycatcher, Chapin's Flycatcher, White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher, White-bellied Robin-Chat, Grey-winged Robin-Chat, Red-throated Alethe, Equatorial Akalat, Grey-headed Sunbird, Grey-chinned Sunbird, Collared Sunbird, Blue-throated Brown Sunbird, Bronzy Sunbird, Northern Double-collared Sunbird, Black-billed Weaver, Brown-capped Weaver, White-breasted Nigrita, Northern Grey-headed Sparrow, African Pied Wagtail, Red-legged Sun Squirrel, Bohm’s Squirrel, Schmidt's Red-tailed Monkey, Stuhlmann's Blue Monkey, L'Hoest's Monkey, Mantled Guereza, Olive Baboon, Black-fronted Duiker,
Bwindi National Park – Buhoma: African Green Pigeon, Great Blue Turaco, Black-billed Turaco, Bar-tailed Trogon, White-headed Wood Hoopoe, Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill, Black Bee-eater, Speckled Tinkerbird, Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird, Yellow-spotted Barbet, Elliot's Woodpecker, Buff-spotted Woodpecker, African Broadbill, Petit's Cuckooshrike, Mountain Oriole, Pink-footed Puffback, Ludher's Bushshrike, African Paradise Flycatcher, White-tailed Blue Flycatcher, Dusky Tit, Green Hylia, Olive-green Camaroptera, Black-throated Apalis, Grey Apalis, Black-faced Prinia, Black-faced Rufous Warbler, Lesser Striped Swallow, Black Saw-wing, Honeyguide Greenbul, Red-tailed Greenbul, Plain Greenbul, Little Greenbul, Dark-capped Bulbul, Neumann's Warbler, Green White-eye, Waller's Starling, White-tailed Ant Thrush, Sooty Flycatcher, Dusky-blue Flycatcher, Grey-throated Tit-Flycatcher, Chapin's Flycatcher, White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher, White-bellied Robin-Chat, Grey-winged Robin-Chat, Red-throated Alethe, Equatorial Akalat, Grey-headed Sunbird, Grey-chinned Sunbird, Collared Sunbird, Blue-throated Brown Sunbird, Bronzy Sunbird, Northern Double-collared Sunbird, Black-billed Weaver, Brown-capped Weaver, White-breasted Nigrita, Northern Grey-headed Sparrow, African Pied Wagtail, Red-legged Sun Squirrel, Bohm’s Squirrel, Schmidt's Red-tailed Monkey, Stuhlmann's Blue Monkey, L'Hoest's Monkey, Mantled Guereza, Olive Baboon, Black-fronted Duiker,
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