List of Birds of Uganda
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List of Birds of Uganda
Uganda’s birdlife is extraordinary and its location on the equator line has made it a top birding destination in Africa.
The country’s location on the equatorial region has proven with no doubts that its one best areas for birding with its endemics such as the Fox’s weaver which is endemic to the eastern Uganda and also the country is a home to about 23 Albertine rift endemics, the country’s lower basin in the semuliki national park has given it top spot as it attracts west and central African bird species.
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- Abdim’s stork
- Abyssinian crimsonwing
- Abyssinian ground -hornbill
- Abyssinian ground thrush
- Abyssinian nightjar
- Abyssinian roller
- Abyssinian scimitarbill
- Abyssinian thrush
- Afep pigeon
- African barred owlet
- African black duck
- African black-headed oriole
- African blue flycatcher
- African broadbill
- African citril
- African crake
- African crested fly-catcher
- African cuckoo
- African cuckoo hawk
- African darter
- African dusky flycatcher
- African dwarf kingfisher
- African emerald cuckoo
- African finfoot
- African firefinch
- African fish eagle
- African forest flycatcher
- African golden oriole
- African goshawk
- African grass-owl
- African gray flycatcher
- African gray hornbill
- African gray woodpecker
- African green pigeon
- African harrier hawk
- African hawk eagle
- African hill babbler
- African hobby
- African jacana
- African marsh-harrier
- African openbill
- African paradise fly-catcher
- African penduline-tit
- African piculet
- African pied hornbill
- African pied wagtail
- African pipit
- African pitta
- African pygmy goose
- African rail
- African sacred ibis
- African scops-owl
- African shrike-flycatcher
- African silverbill
- African skimmer
- African snipe
- African spoonbill
- African spotted creeper
- African stonechat
- African swamphen
- African swift
- African thrush
- African wood owl
- African yellow warbler
- African yellow-white eye
- African-palm swift
- African-pygmy kingfisher
- African-reed warbler
- Akun eagle-owl
- Albertine boubou
- Allen’s gallinule
- Alpine swift
- Amethyst sunbird
- Amur falcon
- Angola swallow
- Ansorge’s greenbul
- Archer’s robin-chat
- Arnot’s chat
- Arrow-marked babbler
- Ashy flycatcher
- Augur buzzard
- Ayres’s-hawk eagle
- Baglafech weaver
- Baillon’s crake
- Bamboo warbler
- Banded martin
- Banded prinia
- Banded snake-eagle
- Bank swallow
- Bar-breasted firefinch
- Bare-faced go-away bird
- Barn owl
- Barn swallow
- Barred long-tailed cuckoo
- Barred warbler
- Bar-tailed godwit
- Bar-tailed trogon
- Basra reed warbler
- Bat hawk
- Bate’s nightjar
- Bateleur
- Bearded vulture
- Bearded woodpecker
- Beaudouin’s snake- eagle
- Beautiful sunbird
- Black bee-eater
- Black bishop
- Black casqued hornbill
- Black coucal
- Black crake
- Black crown-crane
- Black cuckoo
- Black dwarf hornbill
- Black goshawk
- Black heron
- Black kite
- Black sawwing
- Black scimitarbill
- Black stork
- Black-and white casqued-hornbill
- Black-and white-mannikin
- Black-and white-shrike-flycatcher
- Black-backed cisticola
- Black-bellied bustard
- Black-bellied firefinch
- Black-bellied plover
- Black-bellied seed cracker
- Black-billed barbet
- Black-billed turaco
- Black-billed weaver
- Black-billed wood-dove
- Black-breasted barbet
- Black-capped apalis
- Black-cheeked waxbill
- Black-chested snake-eagle
- Black-collared apalis
- Black-collared barbet
- Black-collared lovebird
- Black-crowned night-heron
- Black-crowned tchagra
- Black-crowned waxbill
- Black-cuckoo shrike
- Black-eared ground-thrush
- Black-faced apalis
- Black-faced firefinch
- Black-faced rufous warbler
- Black-faced waxbill
- Black-headed gonolek
- Black-headed gull
- Black-headed heron
- Black-headed lapwing
- Black-headed paradise fly-catcher
- Black-headed waxbill
- Black-headed weaver
- Black-lored babbler
- Black-necked weaver
- Black-rumped button quail
- Black-rumped waxbill
- Black-shouldered nightjar
- Black-tailed godwit
- Black-tailed oriole
- Black-throated apalis
- Black-throated barbet
- Black-throated canary
- Black-throated coucal
- Black-throated wattle-eye
- Black-winged bishop
- Black-winged kite
- Black-winged oriole
- Black-winged pranticole
- Black-winged stilt
- Blue malkoha
- Blue quail
- Blue-billed malimbe
- Blue-breasted bee-eater
- Blue-breasted kingfisher
- Blue-cheeked bee-eater
- Blue-headed coucal
- Blue-headed crested fly-catcher
- Blue-headed sunbird
- Blue-napped mouse-bird
- Blue-shouldered robin-chat
- Blue-spotted wood-dove
- Blue-throated brown sunbird
- Blue-throated roller
- Booted eagle
- Boran cisticola
- Brimstone canary
- Bristle-crowned starling
- Broad-billed roller
- Broad-billed sandpiper
- Broad-tailed paradise- whydah
- Bronze mannikin
- Bronze sunbird
- Bronze-naped pigeon
- Bronze-tailed starling
- Bronze-winged courser
- Brown babbler
- Brown illadopsis
- Brown parisoma
- Brown snake-eagle
- Brown twinspot
- Brown woodland-warbler
- Brown-backed scrub-robin
- Brown-backed woodpecker
- Brown-capped weaver
- Brown-chested alethe
- Brown-chested lapwing
- Brown-crowned tchagra
- Brown-eared woodpecker
- Brown-necked parrot
- Brown-rumped bunting
- Brown-throated-wattle -eye
- Brubru
- Bruce’s green pigeon
- Buff-bellied warbler
- Buff-crested bustard
- Buff-spotted flufftail
- Buff-spotted woodpecker
- Buff-throated apalis
- Cabanis’s bunting
- Cabanis’s greenbul
- Cape crow
- Cape eagle owl
- Cape robin-chat
- Cape teal
- Cape wagtail
- Capped wheatear
- Capuchin babbler
- Cardinal quelea
- Cardinal Woodpecker
- Carruther’s cisticola
- Caspian gull
- Caspian plover
- Caspian tern
- Cassin’s flycatcher
- Cassin’s hawk eagle
- Cassin’s honey guide
- Cassin’s spinetail
- Cattle egret
- Chapin’s flycatcher
- Chestnut capped-flycatcher
- Chestnut owlet
- Chestnut sparrow
- Chestnut wattle-eye
- Chestnut weaver
- Chestnut-backed-sparrow lark
- Chestnut-breasted nigrita
- Chestnut-crowned sparrow-weaver
- Chestnut-throated apalis
- Chestnut-winged starling
- Chinspot batis
- Chocolate-backed kingfisher
- Chubb’s cisticola
- Cinnamon-bracken warbler
- Cinnamon-breasted bee-eater
- Cinnamon-breasted bunting
- Clapperton’s francolin
- Collard pranticole
- Collared flycatcher
- Collared palm-thrush
- Collared sunbird
- Common bulbul
- Common buzzard
- Common chiffchaff
- Common cuckoo
- Common greenshank
- Common house-martin
- Common nightingale
- Common ostrich
- Common pochard
- Common quail
- Common redshank
- Common redstart
- Common ringed plover
- Common sandpiper
- Common scimitarbill
- Common snipe
- Common swift
- Common tern
- Common waxbill
- Compact weaver
- Congo serpent-eagle
- Copper sunbird
- Coqui francolin
- Corn crake
- Crested barbet
- Crested francolin
- Crested guineafowl
- Crested malimbe
- Crimson-rumped waxbill
- Croaking cisticola
- Crowned eagle
- Crowned hornbill
- Crowned lapwing
- Curlew sandpiper
- Cut-throat
- D’arnaudi’s barbet
- Dark-chanting goshawk
- Delegorgues pigeon
- Denham’s bustard
- Desert cisticola
- Dickinson’s kestrel
- Dideric cuckoo
- Doherty’s bushshrike
- Double-toothed barbet
- Dunlin
- Dusky bubbler
- Dusky crimsonwing
- Dusky lark
- Dusky long-tailed cuckoo
- Dusky tit
- Dusky turtle-dove
- Dusky twinspot
- Dusky-blue flycatcher
- Dusky-crested flycatcher
- Dwarf bittern
- Dwarf honeyguide
- Dybowski’s twinspot
- Eared grebe
- Eastern bearded-greenbul
- Eastern mountain greenbul
- Eastern olivaceous warbler
- Eastern paradise-whydah
- Eastern plantain-eater
- Eastern violet-backed sunbird
- Eastern yellow-billed hornbill
- Eastern-chanting goshawk
- Egyptian goose
- Egyptian plover
- Egyptian vulture
- Eleonora’s falcon
- Elliot’s woodpecker
- Emin’s shrike
- Emerald-spotted wood-dove
- Equatorial akalat
- Ethiopian swallow
- Eurasian blackcap
- Eurasian curlew
- Eurasian golden oriole
- Eurasian hobby
- Eurasian hoopoe
- Eurasian kestrel
- Eurasian marsh-harrier
- Eurasian moorhen
- Eurasian nightjar
- Eurasian oyster-catcher
- Eurasian spoonbill
- Eurasian thick-knee
- Eurasian wigeon
- Eurasian wryneck
- Eurasian-reed warbler
- Eurasian scops- owl
- European bee-eater
- European honey buzzard
- European pied flycatcher
- European roller
- European turtle-dove
- Ever-green forest warbler
- Familiar chat
- Fan-tailed grass bird
- Fan-tailed raven
- Fan-tailed widow bird
- Fawn-breasted waxbill
- Ferruginous duck
- Fiery-breasted bushshrike
- Fire-crested alethe
- Fischer’s lovebird
- Fischer’s sparrow-lark
- Flappet lark
- Forbe’s plover
- Forest robin
- Forest scrub-robin
- Forest weaver
- Forest wood hoopoe
- Fork-tailed drongo
- Four-banded sandgrouse
- Fox kestrel
- Fox’s weaver
- Foxy cisticola
- Foxy lark
- Fraser’s eagle owl
- Freckled nightjar
- Fulvous whistling-duck
- Gabar goshawk
- Gabon woodpecker
- Gambaga flycatcher
- Garden warbler
- Garganey
- Giant kingfisher
- Glossy ibis
- Glossy-backed drongo
- Golden pipit
- Golden-backed weaver
- Golden-breasted bunting
- Golden-crowned woodpecker
- Golden-napped weaver
- Golden-tailed woodpecker
- Golden-winged sunbird
- Goliath heron
- Grant’s bluebill
- Grasshopper buzzard
- Grauer’s broadbill
- Grauer’s cuckoo shrike
- Grauer’s swamp warbler
- Grauer’s warbler
- Gray apalis
- Gray crown-crane
- Gray cuckoo shrike
- Gray greenbul
- Gray ground thrush
- Gray heron
- Gray kestrel
- Gray longbill
- Gray parrot
- Gray tit-flycatcher
- Gray wagtail
- Gray-backed fiscal
- Gray-capped warbler
- Gray-chested babbler
- Gray-green bushshrike
- Gray-headed batis
- Gray-headed bushshrike
- Gray-headed kingfisher
- Gray-headed nigrita
- Gray-headed oliveback
- Gray-headed silverbill
- Gray-headed social-weaver
- Gray-headed sunbird
- Gray-hooded gull
- Grayish-eagle owl
- Gray-rumped swallow
- Gray-throated barbet
- Gray-throated rail
- Gray-throated tit-flycatcher
- Gray-winged robin-chat
- Gray-wren warbler
- Great bittern
- Great cormorant
- Great crested grebe
- Great egret
- Great reed warbler
- Great snipe
- Great spotted cuckoo
- Great-blue turaco
- Greater blue-eared starling
- Greater flamingo
- Greater honeyguide
- Greater kestrel
- Greater painted -snipe
- Greater sand-plover
- Greater swamp warbler
- Greater whitethroat
- Greater-spotted eagle
- Great-white pelican
- Green cap eremomela
- Green crombec
- Green hylia
- Green sandpiper
- Green sunbird
- Green wood hoopoe
- Green-backed camaroptera
- Green-backed eremomela
- Green-backed twinspot
- Green-backed woodpecker
- Green-bee-eater
- Green-breasted pitta
- Green-headed sunbird
- Green-throated sunbird
- Green-winged pytilia
- Green-winged sunbird
- Green-winged teal
- Grose beak weaver
- Gull-billed tern
- Hadada ibis
- Hairy-breasted barbet
- Half collard kingfisher
- Hamerkop
- Handsome francolin
- Harlequin quail
- Hartlaub’s bustard
- Hartlaub’s duck
- Hartlaub’s turaco
- Helmeted guineafowl
- Hemprich’s hornbill
- Heuglin’s masked weaver
- Heuglin’s wheatear
- Holub’s golden weaver
- Honeyguide greenbul
- Hooded vulture
- Horus swift
- Hottentot teal
- House sparrow
- Hueglin’s francolin
- Hunter’s cisticola
- Hunter’s sunbird
- Icterine greenbul
- Icterine warbler
- Intermediate egret
- Isabelline shrike
- Isabelline wheatear
- Ituri batis
- Jacksnipe
- Jackson’s francolin
- Jackson’s hornbill
- Jameson’s ant pecker
- Jameson’s firefinch
- Jameson’s wattle-eye
- Joyful greenbul
- Kandt’s waxbill
- Karamoja apalis
- Kentish plover
- Kittlitz’s plover
- Klaas’s cuckoo
- Knob-billed duck
- Kori bustard
- Lagden’s bushshrike
- Lanner falcon
- Lappet-faced vulture
- Latham’s francolin
- Laughing dove
- Leaf-love
- Least honeyguide
- Lemon dove
- Lemon-bellied crombec
- Lesser black-backed gull
- Lesser bristlebill
- Lesser crested tern
- Lesser cuckoo
- Lesser flamingo
- Lesser gray shrike
- Lesser honeyguide
- Lesser jacana
- Lesser kestrel
- Lesser moorhen
- Lesser sand-plover
- Lesser striped swallow
- Lesser swamp warbler
- Lesser-blue-eared starling
- Lesser-masked weaver
- Lesser-spotted eagle
- Levailant’s cuckoo
- Levant sparrow hawk
- Lichtenstein’s sandgrouse
- Lilac-breasted roller
- Little bee-eater
- Little bittern
- Little crake
- Little egret
- Little grebe
- Little green sunbird
- Little greenbul
- Little ringed plover
- Little rock thrush
- Little sparrow hawk
- Little stint
- Little swift
- Little weaver
- Little-rush warbler
- Lizard buzzard
- Long-billed pipit
- Long-crested eagle
- Long-legged buzzard
- Long-tailed hawk
- Long-tailed jaeger
- Long-tailed nightjar
- Long-tailed cormorant
- Long-toed lapwing
- Low land akalat
- Lowland sooty boubou
- Luhder’s bushshrike
- Lyre-tailed honeyguide
- Maccoa duck
- Mackinnon’s shrike
- Madagascar bee-eater
- Madagascar cuckoo
- Madagascar pond-heron
- Magpie mannikin
- Magpie starling
- Malachite kingfisher
- Malachite sunbird
- Many-colored bushshrike
- Marabou stork
- Mariqua sunbird
- Marsh owl
- Marsh sandpiper
- Marsh tchagra
- Marsh warbler
- Marsh widow bird
- Martial eagle
- Masked apalis
- Masked shrike
- Maxwell’s black weaver
- Melodious warbler
- Meyer’s parrot
- Miombo-wren warbler
- Mocking cliff chat
- Montagu’s harrier
- Montane blue swallow
- Mooreland chat
- Moorland francolin
- Mosque swallow
- Mottled spinetail
- Mottled swift
- Mountain buzzard
- Mountain illadopsis
- Mountain wagtail
- Mountain-yellow warbler
- Mourning collared-dove
- Mouse-collared-penduline tit
- Moustached grass-warbler
- Moustached tinkerbird
- Nahan’s francolin
- Namaqua dove
- Narina trogon
- Narrow-tailed starling
- Neumann’s warbler
- Nkulengu rail
- Northern black-flycatcher
- Northern brownbul
- Northern brown-throated weaver
- Northern -carmine bee-eater
- Northern crombec
- Northern double-collared sunbird
- Northern fiscal
- Northern gray-headed sparrow
- Northern pintail
- Northern puffback
- Northern red bishop
- Northern red-billed hornbill
- Northern shoveler
- Northern wheatear
- Northern white-faced owl
- Nubian woodpecker
- Nyanza swift
- Ostrich
- Oberlander’s ground thrush
- Olive ibis
- Olive long-tailed cuckoo
- Olive sunbird
- Olive woodpecker
- Olive-bellied sunbird
- Olive-green camaroptera
- Orange river francolin
- Orange tufted sunbird
- Orange weaver
- Orange-cheeked waxbill
- Orange-winged pytilia
- Oriole finch
- Ortolan bunting
- Osprey
- Ovambo sparrow hawk
- Pacific golden-plover
- Pale flycatcher
- Pale prinia
- Pale-breasted illadopsis
- Pale-fronted nigrita
- Palestine sunbird
- Pallas’s gull
- Pallid harrier
- Pallid honey guide
- Pallid swift
- Palm-nut vulture
- Papyrus canary
- Papyrus gonolek
- Papyrus-yellow warbler
- Parasitic weaver
- Parrot-billed sparrow
- Pearl-spotted owlet
- Pectoral sandpiper
- Pel’s fishing owl
- Pennant-winged cuckoo
- Peregrine falcon
- Peter’s twinspot
- Petit’s cuckoo shrike
- Piapiac
- Pied avocet
- Pied crow
- Pied cuckoo
- Pied kingfisher
- Pied wheatear
- Pink-backed pelican
- Pink-breasted lark
- Pink-footed puffback
- Pin-tailed whydah
- Piping hornbill
- Plain greenbul
- Plain martin
- Plain nightjar
- Plain-backed pipit
- Purple grenadier
- Purple heron
- Purple starling
- Purple-banded sunbird
- Purple-breasted sunbird
- Purple-crested turaco
- Purple-headed starling
- Purple-throated cuckoo shrike
- Puvel’s illadopsis
- Pygmy batis
- Pygmy falcon
- Pygmy sunbird
- Quail finch
- Quail plover
- Rameron pigeon
- Rattling cisticola
- Red-and-yellow barbet
- Red-backed scrub-robin
- Red-backed shrike
- Red-bellied malimbe
- Red-billed buffalo-weaver
- Red-billed duck
- Red-billed dwarf hornbill
- Red-billed firefinch
- Red-billed ox-pecker
- Red-billed quelea
- Red-capped lark
- Red-capped robin-chat
- Red-cheeked cordonbleu
- Red-chested cuckoo
- Red-chested flufftail
- Red-chested goshawk
- Red-chested owlet
- Red-chested sunbird
- Red-collared mountain-babbler
- Red-collared widow bird
- Red-eyed dove
- Red-eyed puffback
- Red-faced barbet
- Red-faced cisticola
- Red-faced crimsonwing
- Red-faced crombec
- Red-faced woodland warbler
- Red-footed falcon
- Red-fronted barbet
- Red-fronted prinia
- Red-fronted tinkerbird
- Red-headed bluebill
- Red-headed lovebird
- Red-headed malimbe
- Red-headed quelea
- Red-knobbed coot
- Red-necked buzzard
- Red-necked falcon
- Red-necked francolin
- Red-necked phalarope
- Red-pate cisticola
- Red-rumped swallow
- Red-rumped tinkerbird
- Red-shouldered cuckoo shrike
- Red-tailed ant-thrush
- Red-tailed bristlebill
- Red-tailed greenbul
- Red-tailed shrike
- Red-thighed sparrow hawk
- Red-throated alethe
- Red-throated bee-eater
- Red-throated pipit
- Red-tufted sunbird
- Red-winged francolin
- Red-winged gray warbler
- Red-winged lark
- Red-winged prinia
- Red-winged pytilia
- Red-winged starling
- Regal sunbird
- Reichenow’s seedeater
- Ring-necked dove
- Riverwarbler
- Rock martin
- Rock pigeon
- Rock pranticole
- Rock-loving cisticola
- Rose-ringed parakeet
- Ross’s turaco
- Ruaha chat
- Ruddy turnstone
- Ruff
- Rufous bellied heron
- Rufous chatterer
- Rufous thrush-flycatcher
- Rufous-bellied helmetshrike
- Rufous-breasted sparrow hawk
- Rufous-chested swallow
- Rufous-crowned eremomela
- Rufous-crowned roller
- Rufous-napped lark
- Rufous-necked wryneck
- Rufous-rumped lark
- Rufous-sided broadbill
- Rufous-tailed rock-thrush
- Rufous-tailed scrub-robin
- Ruppel’s griffon
- Ruppell’s starling
- Rwenzori apalis
- Rwenzori batis
- Rwenzori hill babbler
- Rwenzori nightjar
- Rwenzori turaco
- Sabine’s spinetail
- Saddle-billed stork
- Sahel bush sparrow
- Saker falcon
- Sanderling
- Sassi’s greenbul
- Scaly francolin
- Scaly-breasted illadopsis
- Scaly-throated honeyguide
- Scarce swift
- Scarlet-chested sunbird
- Scissor-tailed kite
- Secretary bird
- Sedge warbler
- Semi-collared flycatcher
- Senegal coucal
- Senegal lapwing
- Senegal thick-knee
- Sharpe’s drongo
- Sharpe’s starling
- Shelley’s crimsonwing
- Shelley’s greenbul
- Shelley’s rufous sparrow
- Shikra
- Shining sunbird
- Shining-blue kingfisher
- Shoebill stork
- Short-tailed pipit
- Short-toed snake eagle
- Siffling cisticola
- Silver bird
- Simple greenbul
- Singing bush lark
- Singing cisticola
- Slate-colored boubou
- Slender -billed greenbul
- Slender-billed gull
- Slender-billed starling
- Slender-billed weaver
- Slender-tailed nightjar
- Small button quail
- Snowy-crowned robin-chat
- Somali bunting
- Somali crow
- Somali tit
- Somber nightjar
- Sooty chat
- Sooty falcon
- Sooty flycatcher
- Southern black-flycatcher
- Southern carmine bee-eater
- Southern citril
- Southern ground-hornbill
- Southern hyliota
- Southern pochard
- Southern red bishop
- Southern white-faced owl
- Souza’s shrike
- Speckle-breasted woodpecker
- Speckled pigeon
- Speckled tinkerbird
- Speckle-fronted weaver
- Spectacled weaver
- Splendid starling
- Spot-breasted ibis
- Spot-flanked barbet
- Spotted crake
- Spotted eagle owl
- Spotted flycatcher
- Spotted greenbul
- Spotted honeyguide
- Spotted morning thrush
- Spotted redshank
- Spotted thick-knee
- Spur-winged goose
- Spur-winged plover
- Squacco heron
- Square-tailed nightjar
- Standard-winged nightjar
- Steel-blue whydah
- Steppe eagle
- Stone patridge
- Stout cisticola
- Strange weaver
- Straw-tailed whydah
- Streaky seedeater
- Striated heron
- Stripe-breasted tit
- Striped crake
- Striped kingfisher
- Striped pipit
- Stuhlmann’s starling
- Stuhlmann’s sunbird
- Sulfur-breasted bushshrike
- Sun lark
- Superb starling
- Superb sunbird
- Swallow-tailed bee-eater
- Swamp flycatcher
- Swamp greenbul
- Swamp nightjar
- Tabora cisticola
- Tacazze sunbird
- Taita falcon
- Taita fiscal
- Tambourine dove
- Tawny eagle
- Tawny pipit
- Tawny-flanked prinia
- Temmnick’s courser
- Temmnick’s stint
- Terek sandpiper
- Thick-billed cuckoo
- Thick-billed honeyguide
- Thick-billed seedeater
- Three-banded courser
- Three-banded plover
- Three-streaked tchagra
- Thrush nightingale
- Tiny cisticola
- Tiny sunbird
- Tit hylia
- Toro olive-greenbul
- Tree pipit
- Trilling cisticola
- Tropical boubou
- Tufted duck
- Tullberg’s woodpecker
- Turner’s eremomela
- Uganda woodland-warbler
- Upcher’s warbler
- Vanaceous dove
- Variable sunbird
- Velvet-mantled drongo
- Verreaux’s eagle
- Vieillot’s weaver
- Village indigobird
- Village weaver
- Violet-backed starling
- Vitelline masked-weaver
- Von der decken’s hornbill
- Wahlberg’s eagle
- Wahlberg’s honeyguide
- Wailing cisticola
- Waller’s starling
- Water thick-knee
- Wattled lapwing
- Wattled starling
- West African seedeater
- Western black-headed batis
- Western black-headed oriole
- Western citril
- Western nicator
- Western tinkerbird
- Western violet-backed sunbird
- Western-reef heron
- Western-yellow wagtail
- Weyn’s weaver
- Whimbrel
- Whinchat
- Whiskered tern
- Whistling cisticola
- White -crested turaco
- White faced whistling duck
- White helmetshrike
- White stork
- White wagtail
- White-backed duck
- White-backed night-heron
- White-bellied bustard
- White-bellied canary
- White-bellied crested-flycatcher
- White-bellied go-away bird
- White-bellied kingfisher
- White-bellied robin-chat
- White-bellied tit
- White-billed buffalo-weaver
- White-breasted cuckoo shrike
- White-breasted nigrita
- White-browed coucal
- White-browed crombec
- White-browed robin-chat
- White-browed sparrow-weaver
- White-chinned prinia
- White-collared olive back
- White-crested hornbill
- White-eyed slaty-flycatcher
- White-fronted bee-eater
- White-fronted black chat
- White-fronted plover
- White-headed barbet
- White-headed buffalo-weaver
- White-headed lapwing
- White-headed sawwing
- White-headed vulture
- White-headed wood hoopoe
- White-napped pigeon
- White-necked-raven
- White-rumped seedeater
- White-rumped shrike
- White-rumped swift
- White-shouldered-black tit
- White-spotted flufftail
- White-starred robin
- White-tailed ant-thrush
- White-tailed blue flycatcher
- White-tailed crested-flycatcher
- White-tailed lark
- White-thighed hornbill
- White-throated bee-eater
- White-throated blue swallow
- White-throated greenbul
- White-winged black tit
- White-winged swamp warbler
- White-winged tern
- White-winged widow bird
- Willard’s sooty boubou
- Willcock’s honeyguide
- Willow warbler
- Winding cisticola
- Wing-snapping cisticola
- Wire-tailed swallow
- Wood sandpiper
- Wood warbler
- Woodchat shrike
- Woodland kingfisher
- Wooly-necked stork
- Xavier’s greenbul
- Yellow bishop
- Yellow penduline-tit
- Yellow-bellied eremomela
- Yellow-bellied hyliota
- Yellow-bellied wattle-eye
- Yellow-bellied waxbill
- Yellow-billed barbet
- Yellow-billed duck
- Yellow-billed ox-pecker
- Yellow-billed shrike
- Yellow-billed stork
- Yellow-breasted apalis
- Yellow-browed camaroptera
- Yellow-crested helmetshrike
- Yellow-crowned bishop
- Yellow-crowned canary
- Yellow-eyed black-flycatcher
- Yellow-footed flycatcher
- Yellow-fronted canary
- Yellow-fronted tinkerbird
- Yellow-longbill
- Yellow-mantled weaver
- Yellow-mantled widow bird
- Yellow-necked francolin
- Yellow-rumped tinkerbird
- Yellow-spotted barbet
- Yellow-spotted bush sparrow
- Yellow-streaked greenbul
- Yellow-throated cuckoo
- Yellow-throated greenbul
- Yellow-throated longclaw
- Yellow-throated nicator
- Yellow-throated tinkerbird
- Yellow-vented eremomela
- Yellow-whiskered greenbul
- Zebra waxbill
- Zenker’s honeyguide
- Zitting cisticola