Birding Safaris Archives - Gorilla Jungle Trekking

On March 28, 2019
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Tags: (Western) Bronze-naped Pigeon, Abdim’s Stork, Abyssinian Roller and Ground Hornbill, African Broadbill, African Crake, African Emerald and Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoos, African Finfoot, African Fish Eagle, African Golden Oriole, African Green Broadbill, African Grey Parrot, African Harrier Hawk, African Hill-Babbler, African Jacana, African Marsh Harrier, African piculet, African Pied Wagtail, African Purple Swamphen, African Pygmy Goose, African Skimmer, African Spoonbill, African Water Rail, African Wood-Owl, along with Red-tailed and Blue Monkeys. Overhead, Alpine Swift, Amur Falcon, and Black billed Weavers, and both White-breasted and Grey-headed Negrofinches. Lower down we should see Chocolate-backed and African Dwarf Kingfishers, and Secretary Bird, and the African Finfoot, Angola Swallow, Ansorge’s Greenbul, Archer’s Ground Robin, as do Red-tailed Bristlebill, Ashy Flycatcher, Ayre’s Hawk-eagle, Banded Prinia, Bar-breasted Firefinch, Bar-tailed Trogon, Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo, Bateleur, Beautiful Sunbird, Black and White Casqued Hornbill, Black and White Mannikin, Black Bee-eater, Black Bellied Firefinch, Black Bishop, Black Crake, Black headed, Black Weaver, Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher, Black-billed Turacco, Black-billed Turaco, Black-billed Weaver, Black-casqued Wattled Hornbill, Black-crowned Waxbill, Black-faced Apalis, Black-faced Rufous Warbler, Black-faced Waxbill and March Tchagra, Black-headed Bush Shrike, Black-headed Gonolek, Black-headed Heron, Black-headed Lapwing, Black-headed Oriole, Black-necked, Black-shouldered Kite, Black-throated and Black-capped Apalis, Black-throated Apalis, Blue, Blue Flycatcher, Blue Sunbird, Blue-breasted Bee-eater, Blue-headed Coucal, Blue-headed Cuckoo, Blue-headed Sunbird, Blue-shouldered Robin Chat, Blue-throated Brown and Little Green Sunbirds, Blue-throated Brown Sunbird, Blue-throated Roller, Bocages (Grey Green) Bush Shrike, Broad-billed Roller, Bronze-tailed Starlings, Brown and Grey-chested Illadopsis, Brown Parrot, Brown-backed, Brown-capped Weaver, Brown-chested Alethe, Brown-chested Plover, Brown-crowned Eremomela, Brown-eared Woodpecker, Brown-tailed, Bruce’s Green Pigeon, Buff-throated Apalis, Buffalo, Cabanis’s Greenbul and Joyful Greenbul as well as White-spotted Flufftail, Cameroon Sombre, Cameroon Sombre Greenbul, Carmine Bee-eater, Carruthers Cisticola, Caruthers’s Cisticola, Cassin’s Hawk-eagle, Cassin’s Spinetail, Chapin’s Flycatcher, Chestnut Wattle-eye, Chestnut-capped Flycatcher, Chestnut-crowned Sparrow Weaver, Chin-spot Batis, Chinspot, Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater, Cliff Chat, Collared Sunbird, Common Bulbul, Common Moorhen, Common Waxbill, Coqui Francolin, Crested Francolin, Crested Guinea-fowl, Dark-capped Yellow, Doherty’s Bush-shrike, Double-collared Sunbird, Dusky and Olive Longtailed Cuckoo, Dusky Crimsonwing, Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo, Dusky Tit, Dusky-blue Flycatcher, Dwarf Honeyguide, Eland, Elephant, Elliot’s Woodpecker, Emerald Cuckoo, Equatorial Akalat, Fan-tailed Widowbird, Forest Robin, Fulvous Whistling-Duck, Golden-breasted Bunting, Goliath Heron, Grassland Pipit, Grauer’s Rush-warbler, Grauer’s Warbler, Gray-headed Gull, Greater and Lesser Flamingo, Greater Honeyguide, Green, Green Crombec, Green Sunbird, Green-backed Woodpecker, Green-throated Sunbird, Green-winged Pytilia, Grey Apalis, Grey Cuckoo-shrike, Grey Greenbul, Grey headed Bush Shrike, Grey Hornbill, Grey Kestrel, Grey Parrot, Grey-capped Warblers, Grey-headed Sunbird, Grey-winged Robin-chat, Grosbeak, Hadada Ibis, Hairy-breasted Barbet, Hamerkop, Handsome Francolin, Honeyguide and Spotted, Honeyguide Greenbul, Icterine Greenbul, Impala, Intermediate Egret, Ituri Batis, Jameson’s Wattle-eye, Lagdens Bush Shrike, Lead-colored Flycatcher, Least Honeyguide, Lemon-bellied Crombec, Lesser Honeyguide, Lesser Jacana, Lesser Masked Weaver, Little Bee-eater, Little Bittern, Little Green Sunbird, Little Greenbul, Little Grey and Joyful Greenbuls, Long-crested Eagle, Long-toed Lapwing, Lowland Akalat, Mackinnon’s Fiscal, Magpie Mannikin, Malachite and Pied Kingfishers, Marabou Stork, Marsh, Martial Eagle, Montane Oriole, Mosque Swallow, Mountain Buzzard, Mountain Illadopsis, Mountain Masked Apalis, Mountain Wagtail, Namaqua Dove, Narina Trogon, Narrow-tailed Starling, Neumann’s Warbler and Red faced Woodland-Warbler, Night jars (Pennant-winged &Standard-winged), Northern and Black-winged Red Bishops, Northern Brown-throated Weaver, Northern Brubru, Northern Double-collared Sunbird, Olive Thrush, Olive-bellied Sunbird, Olive-green Camaroptera and White-collared Oliveback, Open-billed Stork, Oriole Finch, Osprey, Ovampo Sparrow-hawk, Pale-breasted and Brown Illadopsis. Greenbuls are ever a challenge and include Cameroon Sombre, Pale-breasted Illadopsis, Papyrus Gonolek, Papyrus Sunbird, Papyrus Yellow Warbler, Paradise Flycatcher, Pel’s Fishing Owl, Petit’s Cuckoo-shrike, Pied Kingfisher, Pied Kingfishers, Pigmy Sunbird, Pink-footed Puffback, Plain Martin Lesser Swamp-Warbler, Plain-backed Pipit, Purple-headed Starling, rare Shoebill, Red-backed Shrike, Red-billed Fire-finch, Red-chested Owlet, Red-eyed Dove, Red-faced and Black-collared Barbets; White-winged Warbler, Red-faced Cisicola, Red-faced Crombec, Red-headed and Red-billed Quelleas, Red-headed Bluebill, Red-headed Bristlebill, Red-headed Malimbe, Red-headed Malimbe and Uganda Woodland Warbler, Red-necked Falcon, Red-tailed Ant-thrush, Red-tailed Ant-Thrushes skulk in the shadows, Red-throated Alethe, Red-throated Bee-eater, Red-throated Bee-eaters, Red-winged Grey Warbler, Rufous Flycatcher Thrush, Rufous-bellied and Purple Heron, Rufous-crowned Eremomela, Rufous-sided Broadbill, Ruppel’s Griffon Vulture, Ruppel’s Long-tailed Starling, Rwenzori Batis, Rwenzori Nightjar, Rwenzori Turaco, Sabine’s and Cassin’s Spinetails, Sabine’s and sometimes Cassin’s Spinetails soar over the clearings. As we walk quietly along the trail, Sabine’s Spinetail, Sacred Ibis, Saddle-billed Stork, Scaly-breasted, Scarce Swift, Secretary Bird, Senegal Coucal, Senegal Lapwing, Senegal Plover, Senegal Thick-knee, Shelly’s Crimsonwing, Shining Blue Kingfisher, Shinning Blue Kingfisher, Shoebill, Short Tailed Warbler, Silver Bird, Singing Cisticola, Slender-billed, Slender-billed Greenbul, Small (Common) Button Quails, Sooty Boubou, Sooty Chat, Sooty Flycatcher, Southern Ground-hornbill, Speckle-breasted Woodpecker, Speckle-fronted and Golden-backed Weavers, Speckled Mouse-bird, Speckled Tinkerbird, Spectacled Weaver, Spot-flanked, Spotted Morning-Thrush, Squacco, Strange Weaver, Streaky Seedeater, Striated Heron, Stuhlmann’s Starling, Superb Sunbird, Swamp Flycatcher, Tabora Cisiticola, Tambourine Dove, Tawny Eagle, Tawny-flanked Prinia, Temminck’s Courserfrican Skimmer, Terek Sandpiper, the very rare Puvell’s Illadopsis, Thick- billed Seedeater, Three-banded Plover, Tit Hylia, to the large Handsome Francolin, Topi, Toro Olive-Greenbul, Tullberg’s Woodpecker, Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl, Verreux’s Eagle Owl, Vieillot’s, Vinaceous Dove and Grosbeak Weaver. Other specials include; Buff-bellied Warbler, Waller’s Starling, Water Buck, Water Thick-knee, Western Black-headed Oriole, Western Green Tinkerbird, Western Nicator, whilst other regular species are; Speckled Tinkerbird, Whistling Cisticola, White Crested Turaco, White rumped canary, White-backed Scrub Robin, White-bellied Crested-flycatcher, White-bellied Robin-chat, White-breasted Negro-finch, White-browed Coucal, White-chinned Prinia, White-crowned Scrub-robins, White-faced Whistling-duck, White-headed Saw-wing, White-naped Raven, White-rumped Seedeater, White-rumped Spinetail, White-spotted Flufftail, White-spotted Flufftails and the elusive Nahan’s Francolin. Other possibilities here are; Great Sparrow-hawk, White-tailed and Red-tailed Ant-Thrush, White-tailed Ant-Thrush, White-thighed and Black-and-white-casqued Hornbills, White-throated Apalis, White-throated Bee-eater, White-winged Warbler, Wilcock’s Honeyguide, Winding Cisticola, Wood and Common Sandpiper, Wood Hoopoe, Woodland Kingfisher, Xavier’s Greenbul, Yellow and Grey Long bills, Yellow and Grey Longbills, Yellow White-eye, Yellow-backed Weaver, Yellow-bellied and Jameson’s Wattle-eyes, Yellow-bellied Waxbill, Yellow-billed Duck, Yellow-billed Oxpecker, Yellow-billed Oxpecker and Northern Brown-throated Weaver, Yellow-billed Shrike, Yellow-browed Camaroptera, Yellow-crested Woodpecker, Yellow-crowned Canary, Yellow-eyed Black-Flycatcher, Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird, Yellow-mantled Weaver, Yellow-spotted and Yellow billed Barbets, Yellow-spotted Barbet, Yellow-throated Tinkerbird, Yellowbill, Zebra

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