Birds seen around cuckooland area
CUCKOOLAND BIRD LIST OCTOBER 2022
Waterbirds 1
Dwarf Bittern 5
Grey Heron 5
Black-headed Heron 3
Hammerkop 3
Hadada Ibis 2
African Black Duck 4
Raptors
Black Kite 5
Osprey 5
Black-chested Snake Eagle 4
Western Banded Snake Eagle 5
African marsh harrier 5
Lizard Buzzard 4
African Goshawk 3
Rufous-breasted Sparrowhawk ?
Little Sparowhawk ?
Great Sparrowhawk 4
African Cuckoo Hawk 3
African Harrier Hawk 2
European Honey Buzzard 5
Augur Buzzard 2
Mountain Buzzard 3
Common Buzzard 3
African Hawk-Eagle 4
Booted Eagle 5
Ayres Hawk-Eagle 5
Cassin’s Hawk-Eagle 4
Long-Crested Eagle 2
African Crowned Eagle 3
Lanner Falcon 4
African Hobby 5
Common Kestrel 4
Waterbirds II
Grey Crowned Crane 3
Handsome Francolin 3
Red-necked Spurfowl 4
Green Sandpiper 5
Pigeons
African Green Pigeon 2
Afep Pigeon 5
Olive Pigeon 4
White-naped pigeon 5
Blue-spotted Wood-Dove 3
Tambourine Dove 2
Ring-necked Dove 4
Red-eyed Dove 2
Parrots
Grey Parrot 2
Turacos
Great Blue Turaco 2
Ross’s Turaco 4
Black-billed Turaco 2
Cuckoos etc
Levaillant’s Cuckoo 2
Black and White Cuckoo 5
African Cuckoo 4
Common Cuckoo 5
Red-chested Cuckoo 3
Black Cuckoo 2
Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo 3
Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo 4
Diederik Cuckoo 2
Madagascar Lesser Cuckoo 5
Klaas’s Cuckoo 3
African Emerald Cuckoo 3
Yellowbill 3
Blue-headed Coucal 4
White-browed Coucal 4
Owls &Nightjars
African Wood owl 4
Pennant-Winged Nightjar 4
Eurasian Nightjar 5
Swifts
White-rumped Swift 3
Alpine swift 3
African Black Swift 3
Scarce Swift 4
Speckled Mousebird 1
Bar-tailed Trogon 4
African Pygmy Kingfisher 4
Grey-headed kingfisher 4
Bee-eaters & Rollers
Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater 1
Black Bee-eater 3
Blue-cheeked Bee-eater 4
European Bee-eater 2
Rollers Broad-billed Roller 4
Blue-throated Roller 5
Hoopoes, Hornbills
White-headed Wood-hoopoe 5
Crowned Hornbill 2
Black and white casqued Hornbill 2
Tinkerbirds & Barbets
Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird 1
Speckled Tinkerbird 2
Western green tinkerbird 4
Grey-throated Barbet 1
Hairy-breasted Barbet 3
Yellow-spotted Barbet 3
Double-toothed Barbet 5
Honeyguides
Greater Honeyguide 3
Scaly-throated Honeyguide 4
Lesser Honeyguide 3
Thick-billed honeyguide 4
Least honeyguide 4
Willcock’s Honeyguide 3
Cassin’s Honeybird 4
Woodpeckers
Tullberg’s Woodpecker 3
Buff-spotted Woodpecker 4
Cardinal Woodpecker 2
Yellow-crested Woodpecker 4
Elliot’s Woodpecker 3
Speckle-breasted Woodpecker ?
Grey Woodpecker 5
African Broadbill 4
Martins,Swallows etc
Rock Martin 4
Plain Martin 3
Sand Martin 3
Banded Martin 3
Common House Martin 3
Red-rumped Swallow 2
Lesser-striped Swallow 3
Barn Swallow 3
Angola Swallow 1
Black Saw-wing 1
White-headed Saw-wing 4
Wagtails,Pipits etc
African Pied Wagtail 1
Mountain Wagtail 4
Cape Wagtail 1
Yellow-throated Longclaw 5
Grassland Pipit 2
Cuckoo Shrikes
Black Cuckoo Shrike 2
Petit’s Cuckoo Shrike 2
Grey Cuckoo Shrike 3
Greenbuls
Common Bulbul 1
Yellow-whiskered Greenbul 1
Little Greenbul 1
Mountain Greenbul 2
Slender-billed Greenbul 1
Shelley’s Greenbul 4
Yellow-streaked Greenbul 3
Cabani’s Greenbul 4
Little Grey Greenbul 2
Toro Olive Greenbul ?
Cameroon Sombre Greenbul 4
Red-tailed Bristlebill 4
Red-tailed Greenbul 3
White-throated Greenbul 2
Yellow-throated Greenbul 3
Honeyguide Greenbul 2
Robins etc
White-starred Robin 5
Equatorial Akalat 3
Brown-chested Alethe 5
Red-throated Alethe A3
White-browed Robin-chat 2
Snowy-headed Robin-Chat 3
Red-capped Robin-Chat 3
White-bellied Robin-Chat 3
Olive Thrush 3
African Thrush 3
Kivu Ground-Thrush A5
White-Tailed Ant-thrush 3
Common Stonechat 3
Brown-backed Scrub-Robin 2
Warblers
Mountain Yellow Warbler 5
Olivaceous Warbler 3
Garden Warbler 4
Blackcap 3
Willow warbler 3
Wood warbler 4
Uganda Woodland Warbler 5
Brown Woodland Warbler 4
Red-faced Woodland Warbler
Green Hylia 3
Short-tailed Warbler A5
White-browed Crombec 3
Black-faced Rufous Warbler 3
Chubb’s Cisticola 1
Whistling Cisticola 5
Siffling Cisticola 5
White-chinned Prinia 1
Banded Prinia 3
Grey-capped Warbler 2
Grey-backed Cameroptera 2
Olive-green Cameroptera 4
Apalis
Grey Apalis 1
Buff-throated Apalis 4
Collared Apaliis A4
Black-throated Apalis 2
Mountain-masked Apalis A2
Flycatchers
White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher 1
Yellow-eyed Black Flycatcher A4
Semi-collared Flycatcher 5
Ashy Flycatcher 4
Spotted Flycatcher 4
African Dusky Flycatcher 1
Grey-throated Flycatcher 5
Cassin’s grey Flycatcher 4
Dusky-blue Flycatcher 4
Chin-spot Batis 1
Ruwenzori Batis A4
African Shrike-Flycatcher 2
Black and white Shrike-Flycatcher 3
Brown-throated Wattle-eye 1
Chestnut Wattle-eye 5
African Paradise Flycatcher 1
White-Tailed Crested Flycatcher 5
White-bellied crested Flycatcher 3
Dusky Crested Flycatcher 4
White-tailed Blue Flycatcher 2
Illadopses ,Tits etc
Scaly-breasted Illadopsis 4
Mountain Illadopsis 4
Brown Illadopsis
African Hill-Babbler 4
Arrow-marked Babbler 1
Dusky Tit 5
White-winged Tit 3
White-shouldered Tit 4
Yellow White-eye 1
Sunbirds
Tiny Sunbird 2
Bronze Sunbird 1
Purple-breasted Sunbird A4
Green-headed Sunbird 1
Blue-throated Brown Sunbird 2
Blue-headed Sunbird A3
Northern Double-collared Sunbird 1
Olive-bellied Sunbird 3
Regal Sunbird A?
Green-throated Sunbird 4
Green Sunbird 2
Olive Sunbird 2
Grey-headed Sunbird 4
Superb Sunbird 5
Purple-banded Sunbird 4
Scarlet-chested Sunbird 1
Variable Sunbird 3
Collared Sunbird 2
Little Green Sunbird 3
Shrikes etc
Common Fiscal 3
Mackinnon’s Fiscal 1
Lesser Grey Shrike 5
Tropical Boubou 2
Ludher’s Bush-shrike 1
Mountain Black Boubou 4
Northern Puffback 3
Pink-footed Puffback 2
Brown-crowned Tchagra 1
Sulphur-breasted bush-shrike 5
Doherty’s Bush-shrike 4
Many-Coloured Bush-Shrike 5
Bocage’s Bush-shrike 2
Drongos, Crows, Orioles etc
Velvet-mantled Drongo 5
Pied Crow 4
White-naped Raven 3
Montane Oriole 2
Western Black-headed Oriole 5
Eurasian Golden Oriole 5
Starlings
Stuhlman’s Starling
Narrow-tailed Starling 2
Waller’s Starling 2
Slender-billed Starling 3
Greater Blue-eared Starling 3
Purple-headed Starling 3
Splendid Starling 3
Violet-backed Starling 4
Sharpe’s Starling 4
Wattled Starling 5
Weavers, Sparrows etc
Grey-headed Sparrow 1
Spectacled Weaver 4
Black-necked Weaver 2
Baglafecht Weaver 2
Grosbeak Weaver 3
Holub’s Golden Weaver 5
Strange Weaver A
Dark-backed Weaver 5
Brown-capped Weaver 2
Black-billed Weaver 2
Veillot’s Black Weaver 1
Cardinal Quelea 5
Red-headed Malimbe 2
Yellow Bishop 3
Finches etc
Grey-headed Negrofinch 2
White-breasted Negrofinch 2
Woodhouse’s Antpecker 5
Green-backed Twinspot 5
Dusky Twinspot 5
Red-faced Crimsonwing 3
Dusky Crimsonwing A5
Red-headed Bluebill 3
Red-billed Firefinch 4
African Firefinch 5
Yellow-bellied Waxbill 4
Common Waxbill 3
Fawn-breasted Waxbill 5
Black-crowned Waxbill 2
Black-headed waxbill 4
Bronze Mannikin 2
Black and white Mannikin 1
Pin-tailed Whydah 3
Canaries Seed-eaters etc
Yellow-fronted Canary 4
Yellow-crowned Canary 3
Thick-billed Seedeater 3
African Citril 3
Streaky Seedeater 2
Oriole-Finch 4
African Golden-breasted Bunting 1
Key
1=Very common
2=Common
3 Occasional/ seasonal
4=Rare
5= Very rare
A= Albertine Rift Endemic