List of Birds of Rwanda

Eurasian Curlew
Black-tailed godwit
Ruddy turnstone
Red knot
Ruff
Broad-billed sandpiper
Curlew sandpiper
Temmnick’s stint
Sanderling
- Little stint
Great snipe
Common snipe
African snipe
Terek sandpiper
Common sandpiper
Green sandpiper
Spotted red shank
Common green shank
Marsh sandpiper
Wood sandpiper
Common redshank
Small buttonquail
Black-rumped buttonquail
Temmnick’s courser
Bronze-winged courser
Collard pranticole
Black-winged pranticole
Rock pranticole
Gray pranticole
Gray-hooded gull
Black-headed gull
Lesser black-backed gull
Gull-billed tern
Caspian tern
Black tern
White-winged tern
Whiskered tern
Lesser crested tern
African skimmer
African open bill
Black stork
Abdim’s stork
Woolly-necked stork
White stork
Saddle-billed stork
Marabou stork
Rufous-chested swallow
Mosque swallow
Common-house martin
White-headed sawing
Black sawing
Gray-rumped swallow
Slender-billed greenbul
Black-collard bulbul
Shelley’s greenbul
Eastern mountain greenbul
Yellow-throated leaflove
Plain greenbul
Yellow-whiskered greenbul
Little greenbul
Leaf-love
Cabanis’s greenbul
Yellow-streaked greenbul
Common bulbul
Wood warbler
Willow warbler
Common chiffchaff
Brown-woodland warbler
Red-faced woodland-warbler
Neumann’s warbler
Rwenzori hill babler
Eurasian blackcap
Garden warbler
Greater whitethroat
African yellow white –eye
Brown illadopsis
Mountain illadopsis
Black-lored babbler

Hartlaub’s barbler
Arrow marked-babbler
Red-collard mountain –babbler
African spotted creeper
Red-billed oxpecker
Yellow-billed oxpecker
Wattled starling
Violet-backed starling
Slender-billed starling
Waller’s starling
Sharpe’s starling
Stuhlmann’s starling
Ruppell’s starling
Splendid starling
Greater blue-eared starling
White-tailed ant-thrush
Abyssinian ground-thrush
Abyssinian thrush
African thrush
African dusky flycatcher
Spotted flycatcher
Swamp flycatcher
Cassin’s flycatcher
Pale flycatcher
Gray-tit flycatcher
Ashy flycatcher
Yellow-eyed black-flycatcher
Southern-black flycatcher
White –eyed slaty-flycatcher
Brown -backed scrub-robin
Red-backed scrub-robin
White-bellied robin-chat
Archer’s robin-chat
Cape robin-chat
Blue-shouldered robin-chat
Gray-winged robin-chat
White-browed robin-chat
Red-caped robin-chat
Snowy-crowned robin-chat
Collard palm-thrush
White-starred robin
Brown-chested alethe
Brown-throated alethe
Red-throated alethe
Forest robin
Equatorial akalat
Semi-collard flycatcher
Collard flycatcher
Rufous-tailed rock thrush
Miombo rock -thrush
Whinchat
African stonechat
Mocking cliff-chat
Sooty chat
Ruaha chat
Northern wheatear
Capped wheatear
Isabelline wheatear
Familiar chat
Gray-chested babbler
Western violet-backed sunbird
Little green sunbird
Collard sunbird
Green-headed sunbird
Olive sunbird
Green throated sunbird
Amethyst sunbird
Scarlet-chested sunbird
Purple-breasted sunbird
Bronze sunbird
Malachite sunbird
Red-tufted sunbird
Olive-bellied sunbird
Stuhlmann’s sunbird
Northern double-collard sunbird
Regal sunbird
Rockefeller’s sunbird

Beautiful sunbird
Mariqua sunbird
Red-chested sunbird
Purple-banded sunbird
Variable sunbird
Copper sunbird
Red-billed buffalo-weaver
Red-headed weaver
Baglafecht weaver
Little weaver
Slender-billed weaver
Black-necked weaver
Spectacled weaver
Black-billed weaver
Strange weaver
Holub’s golden weaver
Northern-brown throated weaver
Lesser masked weaver
Veillot’s weaver
Village weaver
Black-headed weaver
Forest weaver
Brown-capped weaver
Compact weaver
Cardinal quelea
Red-headed quelea
Red-billed quelea
Southern red bishop
Black-winged bishop
Yellow bishop
White-winged widowbird
Red-collard widowbird
Fan-tailed widowbird
Grosbeak weaver
Gray-headed nigrita
White-breasted nigrita
White-collard oliveback
Yellow-bellied waxbill
Green backed twinspot
Shelley’s crimsonwing
Dusky crimsonwing
Abbysinian crimsonwing
Red-faced crimsonwing
Fawn-breasted waxbill
Orange-cheeked waxbill
Crimson-rumped waxbill
Common waxbill
Black-crowned waxbill
Kandt’s waxbill
Black-faced waxbill
Red-headed bluebill
Red- cheeked cordonbleu
Dusky twinspot
Peter’s twinspot
Green-winged pytillia
Orange-winged pytillia
Red-billed firefinch
African firefinch
Zebra waxbill
Quailfinch
Bronze manikin
Black-and-white manikin
Pin-tailed whydah
Broad-tailed-paradise whydah
Eastern paradise whydah
Village indigobird
Parasitic weaver
House sparrow
Northern-gray headed sparrow
Cape wagtail
Mountain wagtail
Gray wagtail
Western -yellow wagtail
African pied wagtail
White wagtail
African pipit
Long-billed pipit

Plain-backed pipit
Striped pipit
Tree pipit
Red-throated pipit
Short-tailed pipit
Yellow-throated longclaw
Yellow-fronted canary
Western citril
Papyrus canary
Black-throated canary
Brimstone canary
Streaky seedeater
Thick- billed seedeater
Yellow-crowned canary
Cabanisi’s bunting
Golden-breasted bunting
Cinamon -breasted bunting
Yellow -billed stork
African darter
Long-tailed cormorant
Great cormorant
Great white pelican
Pink-backed pelican
Shoe-bill stork
Hamerkop
Little bittern
Dwarf bittern
Gray heron
Black-headed heron
Goliath heron
Purple heron
Great egret
Intermediate egret
Little egret
Western reef-heron
Black heron
Cattle egret
Squacco heron
Madagascar pond-heron
Rufous bellied-heron
Striated heron
Black-crown night-heron
White-backed night-heron
Glossy ibis
African sacred ibis
Hadada ibis
African spoonbill
Secretary bird
Osprey
Black-winged kite
African harrier-hawk
Palm-nut vulture
European honey- buzzard
African cucoo-hawk
White-headed vulture
Lappet-faced vulture
Hooded vulture
White-backed vulture
Ruppell’s griffon vulture
Bateluer
Beaudouin’s snake-eagle
Black-chested snake-eagle
Brown snake –eagle
Banded snake-eagle
Bat hawk
Crowned eagle
Martial eagle
Long-crested eagle
Lesser spotted eagle
Wahlberg’s eagle
Booted eagle
Ayre’s hawk-eagle
Tawny eagle
Steppe eagle
Cassin’s hawk eagle
Verreaux’s eagle
African hawk-eagle

Lizard buzzard
Dark chanting-goshawk
Gabar goshawk
Grasshooper buzzard
Eurasian marsh- harrier
African marsh -harrier
Pallid harrier
Montagu’s harrier
African goshawk
Shikra
Red-thighed sparrowhawk
Little sparrowhawk
Ovambo sparrowhawk
Rufous-breasted sparrowhawk
Black goshawk
Black kite
African fish eagle
Common buzzard
Mountain buzzard
Augur buzzard
African grass owl
Barn owl
Congo-bay owl
African scop’s-owl
Southern white-faced owl
Spotted eagle-owl
Fraser’s eagle-owl
Verreaux’s eagle-owl
Pel’s fishing-owl
Pearl-spotted owlet
Red-chested owlet
Chestnut owlet
Albertine owlet
African wood-owl
Abyssinian owl
Marsh owl
Speckled mouse bird
Blue-napped mouse bird
Narina trogon
Bar-tailed trogon
Eurasian hoopoe
Green wood hoopoe
White-headed wood hoopoe
Forest wood hoopoe
Common scimitarbill
Southern ground hornbill
Crowned hornbill
African gray hornbill
Black-and white-casqued hornbill
Half collard kingfisher
Shinning-blue kingfisher
Malachite kingfisher
African pygmy-kingfisher
Gray-headed kingfisher
Woodland kingfisher
Blue-breasted kingfisher
Brown-hooded kingfisher
Striped kingfisher
Giant kingfisher
Pied kingfisher
White-fronted bee-eater
Little bee-eater
Blue-breasted bee-eater
Cinamon-breasted bee-eater
Swallow-tailed bee-eater
White -throated bee-eater
Blue-cheeked bee-eater
Madagascar bee-eater
European bee-eater
Southern carmine bee-eater
European roller
Lilac-breasted roller
Rufous-crowned roller
Broad -billed roller
Yellow-billed barbet
Crested barbet
Gray-throated barbet

Western tinker bird
Yellow-rumped tinker bird
Yellow-fronted tinkerbird
Spot flanked barbet
White-headed barbet
Red-faced barbet
Black-collard barbet
Double-toothed barbet
Green-backed honey-guide
Wahlberg’s honey guide
Dwarf honey guide
Willcock’s honey guide
Least honey guide
Lesser honey guide
Scaly-throated honey guide
Greater honey guide
Elliot’s woodpecker
Speckle-breasted woodpecker
Cardinal woodpecker
Bearded woodpecker
African gray woodpecker
Olive woodpecker
Buff-spotted woodpecker
Tullberg’s woodpecker
Green-backed woodpecker
Nubian woodpecker
Bennett’s woodpecker
Golden-tailed woodpecker
Pygmy falcon
Lesser kestrel
Eurasian kestrel
Gray kestrel
Red-necked falcon
Red-footed falcon
Amur falcon
Eleonora’s falcon
Sooty falcon
Eurasian hobby
African hobby
Lanner falcon
Peregrine falcon
Red-headed lovebird
Fischer’s lovebird
African gray parrot
Brown-necked parrot
Meyer’s parrot
African broadbill
African pitta
Gray cuckooshrike
White-breasted cucooshrike
Black cuckooshrike
Petit’s cuckooshrike
Red shouldered cuckooshrike
Eurasian golden oriole
African golden oriole
African black-headed oriole
Black-tailed oriole
Brown-throated wattle-eye
Black-throated wattle-eye
Yellow-billed wattle-eye
Rwenzori batis
Chinspot batis
White helmet shrike
Rufous-bellied helmet shrike
Brubru
Northern puffback
Black-backed puffback
Red-eyed puffback
Pink-footed puffback
Marsh tchagra
Black-crowned tchagra
Luhder’s bushshrike
Tropical boubou
Black headed gonolek
Papyrus gonolek
Slate colored boubou
Willard’s sooty boubou

Albertine boubou
Mountain sooty boubou
Sulfur-breasted bushshrike
Many-colored bushshrike
Doherty’s bushshrike
Lagden’s bushshrike
Gray-headed bushshrike
Fork-tailed drongo
Velvet-mantled drongo
African-crested flycatcher
African-paradise flycatcher
Red-backed shrike
Red-tailed shrike
Isabelline shrike
Lesser gray shrike
Gray-backed fiscal
Northern fiscal
Souza’s shrike
Woodchat shrike
Pied crow
White-necked raven
Yellow-bellied hyliota
Violet-backed hyliota
White-tailed blue flycatcher
White-bellied crested-flycatcher
White-tailed crested-flycatcher
White-winged black-tit
Dusky tit
Stipe-breasted tit
African penduline-tit
Dusky lark
Rufous-napped lark
Flappet lark
Red-capped lark
White-browed crombec
Red-faced crombec
Moustached grass warbler
Grauer’s warbler
Little rush warbler
White-winged swamp warbler
Plain martin
Bank swallow
Banded martin
Rock martin
Barn swallow
Angola swallow
Wire-tailed swallow
Montane blue swallow
Red-rumped swallow
Lesser striped swallow
Yellow billed eremomela
Green-backed eremomela
Greencap eremomela
White chinned prinia
Rwenzori apalis
Miombo wren warbler
Green-backed camoroptera
Olive-green camoroptera
Buff-bellied warbler
Black-throated apalis
Black-faced apalis
Yellow-breasted apalis
Kungwe apalis
Chestnut-throated apalis
Gray apalis
Tawny-flanked prinia
Banded prinia
Black-faced rufous-warbler
Gray-capped warbler
Red-faced cisticola
Singing cisticola
Trilling cisticola
Chubb’s cisticola
Rock-loving cisticola
Winding cisticola
Carruther’s cisticola
Stout cisticola
Croaking cisticola

Tabora cisticola
Siffling cisticola
Zitting cisticola
Wing-snapping cisticola
Papyrus-yellow warbler
Easter olivaceous warbler
African-yellow warbler
Mountain yellow warbler
Icterine warbler
Sedge warbler
Marsh warbler
Eurasian reed warbler
African reed warbler
Lesser swamp warbler
Greater swamp warbler
Great reed warbler
Fan-tailed grass bird
Ever-green forest warbler
Cinamon bracken-warbler
Grauer’s swamp warbler
White-faced whistling duck
Fulvous whistling duck
White bucked duck
Knob-billed duck
Hurtlaub’s duck
Egyptian goose
Spur-winged goose
African pygmy- goose
Garganey
Hottentot teal
Northern shoveler
African black duck
Yellow-billed duck
Red-billed duck
Northern pintail
Green winged teal
Southern pochard
Maccoa duck
Helmeted guinea fowl
Crested guinea fowl
Blue quail
Common quail
Harlequin quail
Handsome francolin
Scaly francolin
Hildebrandt’s francolin
Red-necked francolin
Crested francolin
Coqui francolin
Red-winged francolin
Shelley’s francolin
Lesser flamingo
Little grebe
Great crested grebe
Rock pigeon
Speckled pigeon
Afep pigeon
Rameron pigeon
Lemon dove
Dusky turtle dove
Mourning-collard dove
Red-eyed dove
Ring-necked dove
Laughing dove
Emerald-spotted wood-dove
Blue-spotted wood-dove
Tambourine dove
Namaqua dove
African-green pigeon
Denham’s bustard
Black-bellied bustard
Great blue turaco
Black-billed turaco
White-crested turaco
Purple-crested turaco
Rwenzori turaco
Ross’s turaco
Bare-faced go-away –bird

Eastern plantain-eater
Black-headed coucal
Black coucal
Blue malkoha
Great spotted cuckoo
Levaillant’s cuckoo
Pied cuckoo/Jacobin cuckoo
Thick- billed cuckoo
Diderick cuckoo
Klaas’s cuckoo
African emrald cuckoo
Barred-long tailed cuckoo
Black cuckoo
Red-chested cuckoo
African cuckoo
Madagascar cuckoo
Common cuckoo
Pennant-winged nightjar
Eurasian nightjar
Black-shouldered nightjar
Fiery-necked nightjar
Rwenzori nightjar
Swamp nightjar
Freckled nightjar
Slender-tailed nightjar
Square-tailed nightjar
Scarce swift
Alpine swift
Mottled swift
Common swift
African swift
Little swift
Horus swift
White-rumped swift
African palm swift
White-spotted flufftail
Buff-spotted flufftail
Red-chested flufftail
Streaky-breasted flufftail
African rail
Corn crake
African crake
Lesser moorhen
Eurasian moorhen
Red-knobbed coot
Allen’s gallinule
African swamphen
Striped crake
Black crake
Baillon’s crake
African finfoot
Gray-crowned crane
Water thick-knee
Spotted thick-knee
Black-winged stilt
Pied avocet
Black-bellied plover
Long-toed lapwing
Blacksmith lapwing
Spur-winged lapwing
White-headed lapwing
Senagal lapwing
Wattled lapwing
Brown-chested lapwing
Lesser sand-plover
Caspian plover
Kitlitz’s plover
Common ringed plover
Little ringed plover
Three-banded plover
Forbes plover
White-fronted plover
Greater painted-snipe
Lesser Jacana
African jacana
Whimbrel