Rwanda Bird List
Rwanda Bird List: Known as the “land of a thousand hills,” Rwanda is a popular tour destination in East Africa. Although it is best known for its mountain gorillas, Rwanda is also a fascinating place to see birds, with over 707 confirmed species, including two globally threatened species, two introduced species, and 29 endemics of the Albertine Rift.
Common species, extremely rare species, breeding resident species, and migratory species are among the bird species found in Rwanda. Akagera National Park, Nyungwe National Park, Volcanoes National Park, Gishwati-Mukura National Park, Lake Kivu, Rugezi Marsh Wetlands, and Kigali City are among Rwanda’s top locations for high bird populations.
The Rwandan Bird Checklist is shown below.
The Guineafowl (Numididae)
Guineafowl with a helmet
The Crested Guineafowl
Francolins: Phasiandae
Francolin Coqui
Francolin with a ring neck
Francolin with red wings
Francolin by Shelley
Francolin Scaly
Florence Hildebrandt’s Francolin
Charming Francolin
Spurfowl with a red neck
The common quail
The Harlequin Quail
The blue quail
Ducks and geese: Anatidae
Duck with Fulvous Whistling
Whistling Duck with White Face
Duck with a white back
Goose with Spur Wings
Pygmy Goose from Africa
Duck Maccoa
Goose from Egypt
Duck with a knob-billed bill
The Duck of Hartlaub
Black Ducks in Africa
Duck with a yellow bill
Shoveler in the North
Teal with a red bill
The Northern Pintail
The Garganey
Teal from Euraasia
Teal Hottentot
Pochard, Southern
Grebes: Podicipedidae
Tiny Grebe
The Great Crested Grebe
Flamingoes: Phoenicopteridae
lesser Flamingo
Storks: Ciconiidae
The yellow-billed stork
The Openbill Stork of Africa
The Black Stork
The Stork of Abdim
Stork with a woolly neck
The White Stork
The saddle-billed stork
The Marabou Stork
Ibis and spoonbill: Threskiornitidae
Sacred Ibis in Africa
Ibis Hadada
Shiny Ibis
Spoonbills from Africa
Bitterns, Herons and Egrets : Ardeidea
Tiny Bittern
Bittern Dwarf
Night Heron with White Back
Night Heron with a Black Crown
The Striated Heron
The Squacco Heron
Heron with Rufous Bellies
Egret of Western Cattle
The Grey Heron
Heron with a black head
Heron Goliath
Heron in Purple
Great Egret of the West
Egret Intermediate
The Black Heron
Tiny Egret
The Western Reef Heron
The Dimorphic Egret
Hamerkop: Scopidae
The Hamerkop
Shoebill : Balaenicipitidae
Shoebill
Pelicans: Pelicanidae
The Great White Pelican
Pelican with a pink back
Cormorants: Phalacrocoracidae
The Reed Cormorant
The Great Cormorant
The Cormorant White-breasted
Darter: Anhingidae
Darter from Africa
Secretary Bird : Sagittariidae
Bird, Secretary
Osprey: Pandionidae
The Western Osprey
Accipitridae includes kites, hawks, vultures, eagles, harriers, and buzzards.
Kite with Black Wings
Harrier-Hawk in Africa
The palm-nut vulture
The European Honey Buzzard
The African Cuckoo-Hawk
Vulture with a white back
The Rüppell’s Vulture
The Hooded Vulture
The Lappet-faced Vulture
Vulture with a white head
Snake Eagle with a black chest
And the Snake Eagle of Beaudouin
Eagle of the Brown Snake
Snake Eagle with Western Bands
Bateleur
The Bat Hawk
The Hawk Eagle of Cassin
Eagle Tawny
The Steppe Eagle
Hawk-Eagle in Africa
Bird List for Rwanda
Hawk-Eagle in Africa
The Eagle of Verreaux
Eagle Booted
The Hawk-Eagle of Ayres
The Eagle of Wahlberg
Eagle with a long crown
Eagle with a lesser spotting
The Martial Eagle
Eagle with a crown
The Black Kite
Kite with a yellow bill
Fish Eagles in Africa
Buzzard Grasshopper
Buzzard Augur
Typical Buzzard
The Mountain Buzzard
Buzzard Lizard
Goshawk Gabar
Goshawk, Dark Chanting
The Pallid Harrier
The Harrier by Montagu
Marsh Harrier in Africa
The African Goshawk
Shikra
The Great Sparrowhawk
Tiny Sparrowhawk
The Sparrowhawk with Red-Thighs
The Ovambo Sparrowhawk
Sparrowhawk with rufous breasts
Otididae are bustards.
Bustard with a Black stomach
The Bustard of Denham
Gruidae Cranes
Crane with a Grey Crown
Sarothruridae are the flufftails.
Fluffy white-winged
White-spotted Flufftail
Flufftail with buff spots
Fluffy red-chested hairstyle
Flufftail with a streaky hairstyle
Heliornithidae Finfoot
Finfoots from Africa
Moorhens and Coots, Gallinules, Rails, Crakes, Swamphens, Rwanda Bird List
Water Rail in Africa
The African Crake
Crake of corn
The Black Crake
The Crake of Baillon
Crake with Stripes
Swamphen in purple
The Gallinule of Allen
Typical Moorhen
Moorhen Lesser
Coot with a red knob
Turnicidae, or buttonquails,
Typical Buttonquail
Buttonquail with a black rump
Knees that are thick: Burhinidae
Water Knee
Thick-knee
Pluvialidae, the grey plover family
The Grey Plover
Anvocet and Stilts: Recurvirostridae
Stilt with Black Wings
Avocet Pied
Plovers and Lapwings: Charadriidae
Lapwing with long toes
Lapwing Blacksmith
Lapwing with spur wings
Lapwing with a white crown
Lapwing in Senegal
Lapwing with black wings
The Crowned Lapwing
Wattled Lapwing in Africa
Lapwing with a brown chest
The Common Ringed Plover
The Little Ringed Plover
The Plover of Kittlitz
Plover with three bands
Plover by Forbes
Plover, White-fronted
Smaller Sand Plover
The Caspian Plover
Bird List for Rwanda
The Caspian Plover
Snipe with Paint: Rostratulidae
Snipe with Greater Pain
Jacanas: Jacanidae
Reduced Jacana
African Jacana
Scolopacidae, Rwanda Bird List: Whimbrel, Curlew, Godwit, Turnstone, Sandpiper, Knot, Stint, Snipe, Ruff, Redshank, and Greenshank
Whimbrel
The Eurasian Curlew
Godwit with a black tail
Turnstone, Ruddy
Sandpiper with a broad bill
Rough
Sanderling
The Red Knot
Tiny Stint
The Stint of Temminck
Sandpiper Curlew
The common sandpiper
I saw Redshank.
Typical Redshank
The Marsh Sandpiper
Typical Greenshank
The Green Sandpiper
The Wood Sandpiper
Sandpiper Terek
The African Snipe
Typical Snipe
Fantastic Snipe
Glarolidae: Coursers and Pratincoles
The Courser by Temminck
Winged Courser in Bronze
Collared Pratincole
Winged Black Pratincole
Pratincole Rock
Pratincole, Grey
Terns, Gulls, and Skimmers: Laridae
The African Skimmer
Gull with a black head
Gull with a grey head
Black-backed Gull, Lesser
The Gull-billed Tern
Tern Caspian
The Lesser Crested Tern
Tern with whiskers
Tern with white wings
Tern in Black
Columbidae: Doves and Pigeons
Pigeon with speckles
Pigeon Afep
Olive Pigeons in Africa
Dove Lemon
Dark Turtle Dove
A Collared Dove in Mournment
Dove with red eyes
Dove with a ring neck
Dove Laughing
Wood Dove with Blue Spots
Wood Dove with Emerald Spots
Dove Tambourine
The Namaqua Dove
Green Pigeon of Africa
Go-away birds, Turacos, Plantain-eaters, Musophagidae, Rwanda Bird List
Turaco, Great Blue
Go-away Bird with a Bare Face
Grey Eastern Plantain-Eater
Turaco Ruwenzori
Turaco with purple-crested
Ross’s Turaco
Turaco with a black bill
Malkoha, Cuckoos, and Coucals Cuculidae
Coucal with a blue head
White-browed Coucal
Coucal in Black
Malkoha in blue
Fantastic Cuckoo Observation
The Cuckoo of Levaillant
Cuckoo Jacobin
Cuckoo with a thick bill
Cuckoo Diederik
The Cuckoo of Klaas
The African Emerald Cuckoo
Long-tailed Cuckoo with a bar
Cuckoo in Black
Cuckoo with a red chest
The Madagascar Cuckoo
The African Cuckoo
Typical Cuckoo
Tytonidae: Barn Owl, Bay Owl
Barn Owl in the West
The African Grass Owl
The Phodilus prigoginei, or Congo Bay Owl
Strigidae are owls.
The African Scops Owl
Owl with a Southern White Face
Eagle-Owl spotted
Fraser’s Eagle-Owl
The Verreaux Eagle-Owl
Pel’s Fishing Owl
African Wood Owl
Owlet with pearl spots
Owlet with a red chest
Barred Owlet of Africa
Owlet, Albertine
The Abyssinian Owl
The Marsh Owl
The Chestnut Owlet
The Caprimulgidae are nightjars.
Nightjar in Europe
Nightjar with Black Shoulders
Nightjar with a fiery neck
Nightjar Ruwenzori
Nightjar Swamp
Nightjar with freckles
The Nightjar with the Slender Tail
Nightjar with a square tail
The Nightjar with Pennant Wings
Apodidae: Swifts and Spinetails
Swift is scarce.
Spinetail Mottle
The African Palm Swift
The Alpine Swift
Swift with mottling
Typical Swift
Black Swift from Africa
Swift Little
Swift Horus
Swift with a white rump
Coliidae, or mousebirds
Mousebird with speckles
Mousebird with a blue nape
Trogons: The Trogonidae
Trogon Narina
Trogon with a bartail
Coraciidae rollers
The Purple Roller
Roller Lilac-breasted
The European Roller
The Broad-billed Roller
Kingfish from the Alcedinidae family
Pygmy Kingfisher in Africa
The Kingfisher of Malachite
Kingfisher, shining-blue
Kingfisher with half-collared neck
The enormous kingfisher
Kingfisher Pied
Kingfisher with a grey head
Kingfisher with a brown hood
Kingfisher with stripes
Kingfisher with a blue breast
Kingfisher in the Woodland
The Meropidae are bee-eaters.
Eater of Swallow-tailed Bees
Tiny Bee-eater
Bee-eater with a blue breast
Bee-eater with cinnamon-chested body
Bee-eater with a white face
Bee-eater with a white throat
Bee-eater with a blue cheek
Bee-eater Olive
Bee-eater from Europe
Bee-eater of Southern Carmine
Hoopoes: Upupidae
The Eurasian Hoopoe
Hoopoe from Africa
Phoeniculidae: Wood Hoopoes and Scimitarbills
Wooden Forest Hoopoe
Wood Hoopoe with a White Head
The Green Wood Hoopoe
Typical Scimitarbill
Birds of the Bucerotidae family
The Crowned Hornbill
The Grey Hornbill of Africa
Hornbill with black and white casque
Hornbill on the Ground: Bucorvidae
Ground-Hornbill in the South
Tinkerbirds and Barbets: Lybiidae
Barbet with a grey neck
Tinkerbirds from the West
Tinkerbird with yellow-rumped wings
Tinkerbird with a yellow front
Barbet that is spot-flanked
Barbet with a white head
Barbet with a red face
Barbet, Black-collared
Barbet with two teeth
Barbet with a yellow bill
Barbet with a crest
Guides for honey: Indicatoridae
The green-backed honeybird
Honeybird with a brown back
The Dwarf Honeyguide
Willcock’s Honeyguide
Honeyguide’s Least
Honeyguide Lesser
Scaly-throated Guide to Honey
The Greater Honeyguide
Woodpeckers and Wrynecks: Picidae
Wryneck with a red throat
The Woodpecker of Bennett
Woodpecker with a golden tail
Woodpecker with a green back
The Woodpecker of Tullberg
Woodpecker with buff spots
Woodpecker Cardinal
Woodpecker with speckled breasts
The Bearded Woodpecker
The Woodpecker of Elliot
The African Grey Woodpecker
Woodpecker Olive
Kestrels, Falcons, and Hobbies: Falconidae
The Pygmy Falcon
Kestrel Less
Typical Kestrel
Kestrel in Grey
Falcon with a red neck
Falcon with red feet
The Amur Falcon
The Falcon of Eleonora
The Sooty Falcon
Eurasian pastime
African pastime
The Lanner Falcon
The Peregrine Falcon
Parrots and lovebirds: Psittacidae
Lovebird with a red head
The Lovebird by Fischer
The Grey Parrot
The Cape Parrot
Meyer’s Parrot
Broadbill: The Calyptomenidae family
The Broadbill of Africa
Pitta: Pittidae
Pitta from Africa
Platysteiridae: Batises and Wattle-eyes
Batis Ruwenzori
Batis Chinspot
Wattle-eye with a brown throat
Wattle-eye with a black throat
Wattle-eye with a yellowbelly
Black-headed Batis in the West
Prionopidae Helmetshrikes
The Helmetshrike with White Crest
Helmetshrike with a Rufous Belly
Malaconotidae, including Bushshrikes, Tchagras, Puffbacks, Boubous, Gonoleks, and Brubru
Bushshrike with a grey head
Bushshrike by Lagden
Bushshrike with many colors
The Bushshrike of Bocage
Bushshrike with a sulphur breast
The Bushshrike of Doherty
Tchagra Marsh
Tchagra with a brown crown
Tchagra with a black crown
Yellow-footed Puffback
Puffback with red eyes
Puffback with a black back
The Northern Puffback
Boubou Mountain Sooty
The Sooty Boubou by Willard
Boubou in a slate color
The Bushshrike of Lühder
Tropical Boubou
Gonolek Papyrus
Gonolek with a black head
Brubru
The Camephagidae, or Cuckooshrikes
The grey Cuckooshrike
Cuckooshrike, White-breasted
Cuckooshrike in Black
Shouldered Cuckooshrike in Red
The Cuckoo Shrike of Petit
Fiscals and Shrikes: Laniidae
The Shrike of Souza
Shrike with a red back
Shrike with a red tail
The Shrike of MacKinnon
Diminished Grey Shrike
Fiscal Supported by Grey
Fiscal North
Isabelline Shrike
Oriolidae, the Orioles
The Golden Oriole of Eurasia
Golden Oriole from Africa
The Mountain Oriole
Oriole with a black head
Dicuridae are Drongos.
Drongo with a fork tail
Mantled with velvet, Drongo
Monarchidae: Paradise and Mantled Flycatchers
The Crested Flycatcher with the Blue Mantle
Flycatcher from African Paradise
Ravens and Crows: Corvidae
Pied Crow
Raven with a white neck
The Hyliotidae family
Hyliota with yellow bellies
Hyliota with a violet backing
Stenostiridae: Blue and Crested Flycatchers
The Blue Flycatcher with White Tails
Crested flycatcher with a white chest
The Crested Flycatcher with White Tails
Paridae Tits
Tit with white wings
Tit Dusky
Tit with stripes
Remizidae is the pendilune tip.
Penduline Tit in Grey
Alaudidae Larks
Lark was rapped by Rufous.
The Flappet Lark
Dark Lark
Lark with a red hat
The Bulbul, Greenbul, and Leaflove species are members of the Pycnonotidae family.
Dark-capped Bulbul
Greenbul Kakamega
Greenbul with olive breasts
Greenbul with a slim bill
Tiny Greenbul
Simple Greenbul
Greenbul with yellow-whiskered
Leaflove with a yellow throat
The Red-tailed Leaflove
The Greenbul of Cabanis
Greenbul speckled with yellow
White-collar worker Greenbul
Martins, Swallows, and Saw-wings: Hirundinidae
Saw-wing with a white head
Saw-wing in black
Swallow with a grey rump
Martin with a brown throat
Martin Sand
Martin with a band
Swallow Barn
Swallows from Angola
Swallow with Wire Tails
The Blue Swallow
Martin Rock
Martin in the Common House
Striped Swallow with Less
Swallow, Red-breasted
Swallow in the Mosque
The Red-rumped Swallow
Cisticolas, Prinia, Apalis, Camaroptera, Wren-warbler, Eremomelas, Blackcap, Whitethroat, Hill Babbler, Crombecs, Chiffchaff, and Apalis
The Macrosphenidae
The Grauer’s Warbler
Warbler of Moustached Grass
Crombec with a red face
Crombec with white eyebrows
The Cettiidae
The Neumann’s Warbler
The Phylloscopidae
The Willow Warbler
Typical Chiffchaff
The Wood Warbler
Woodland Warbler with a red face
The Brown Woodland Warbler
The Acrocephalidae
Yellow Papyrus Warbler
Warbler with a dark crown
Olivaceous Warbler of the East
Yellow Warbler of the Mountains
The Icterine Warbler
The Sedge Warbler
Reed Warbler of Africa
The Marsh Warbler
The Reed Warbler of Eurasia
The Great Reed Warbler
The little swamp warbler
The Greater Swamp Warbler
The Locustelllidae
Wide-ranging Warbler
The Little Rush Warbler
The Swamp Warbler of Grauer’s
The Swamp Warbler with White Wings
The Evergreen Forest Warbler
Bracken Warbler with Cinnamon
The Cisticolidae
Cisticola with a red face
Cisticola singing
Making fun of Cisticola
Chubb’s Cisticola
Lover of rock Cisticola
Cisticola Winding
Cisticola by Carruthers
Strong Cisticola
Cisticola Croaking
With short wings, Cisticola
Extended-tailed Cisticola
Cisticola Zitting Cisticola
Cisticola snatching its wings
Prinia with a tawny fringe
Prinia with a band
Prinia, with the white skin
Apalis Ruwenzori
The Warbler with a buff belly
Apalis, yellow-breasted
Apalis with a Mountain Mask
Apalis, Black-throated
Apalis, chestnut-throated
Apalis in Grey
Warbler with a grey crown
Camaroptera with a grey back
Green Olive Camaroptera
The Miombo Wren-warbler
Rufous Black-faced Warbler
Eremomela, backed by green
Eremomela with a green cap
Eremomela with a yellow belly
Camaroptera with a green back
The Sylviidae
Blackcap Eurasian
The Garden Warbler
Typical Whitethroat
Babbler on Ruwenzori Hill
The African Hill Babbler
Zosteropidae is the white-eye
Yellow White-eye African
Pellorneidae is the illadopsis.
Illadopsis brown
Illadopsis mountain
Conversationalists: Leicothrichidae
Babbler with a red collar
The Babbler of Black Legend
Babbler with an arrow
The Babbler of Hartlaub
Certhiidae Creeper
Observed Creeper
The Oxpecker Buphagidae
Oxpecker with a yellow bill
Oxpecker with a red bill
The Sturnidae family of starlings
The Wattled Starling
Rüppell’s Starling
Magnificent Starling
Blue-eared Starling, Greater
Starling with a violet back
Starling with slender bills
The Waller’s Starling
Stuhlmann’s Starling
Sharpe’s Starling
The Turdidae family of Thrushes
Rufous White-tailed Thrush
Ground Thrush of Kivu
Thrush in Africa
The Abyssinian Thrush
Thrush of the Abyssinian Ground
The Olive Thrush
Flycatchers, Alethes, Rock Thrushes, Akalat, Redstart, Whinchat, Stonechat, Chats, Wheatears, Scrub Robins, and Robin-chats
Scrub Robin with a brown back
A Scrub Robin with white eyebrows
The Slaty Flycatcher with White Eyes
The Black Flycatcher with Yellow Eyes
Black Flycatcher from the South
Flycatcher in Pale
The Grey-tit Flycatcher
The Ashy Flycatcher
A flycatcher was spotted.
The Swamp Flycatcher
The Flycatcher of Cassin
Dusky Flycatcher in Africa
Robin-Chat Cape
Robin the Archer’s Ground
Robin with a white star
White-bellied Chat Robin
Alethe with a red throat
Alethe with a brown chest
Browed White Robin-Chat
Robin-Chat with blue shoulders
Robin-Chat with a red cap
The Robin-Chat with the snow crown
Robin of the Eastern Forest
The Collared Palm Thrush
Akalat Equatorial
Chat, the grey-winged Robin
The Collared Flycatcher
The semicollared flycatcher
Typical Redstart
The Miombo Rock Thrush
Rock Thrush with Rufous Tails
Whinchat
Stonechat in Africa
Making fun of Cliff Chat
Sooty Conversation
Ruaha Conversation
Known Conversation
Name: Promeropidae Kakamega
Kakamega with a grey chest
Birds of the Nectariniidae genus
Violet-backed Sunbird of the West
Tiny Green Sunbird
The Collared Sunbird
Sunbird with a green head
Brown Sunbird with a Bluethroated
Sunbird with a blue head
The Olive Sunbird
Sunbird with a green throat
Sunbird in Amethyst
Red-breasted Sunbird
Sunbird Bronzy
Sunbird with a purple breast
Sunbird in Malachite
Sunbird with a scarlet tuft
Sunbird with an olive belly
Double-collared Ruwenzori Sunbird
Double-collared Sunbird of the North
The majestic sunbird
The Rockefeller Sunbird
Gorgeous Sunbird
Sunbird, Marico
Sunbird with a red breast
Banded Sunbird in Purple
Sunbird Variable
The Copper Sunbird
Sunbird with an Eastern Violet Back
Olive Sunbird in the West
The Ploceidae family includes widowbirds, bishops, weavers, and Queleas.
Weaver of the Red-billed Buffalo
Weaver with thick bills
Weaver Baglafecht
Weaver with slender bills
Spectacled Weaver
Weaver with a black neck
Unusual Weaver
Weaver with a black bill
The Golden Weaver of Holub
Brown-throated Weaver from the North
Weaver with a smaller mask
Weaver of the Village
The Black Weaver of Vieillot
Weaver with a black head
Small Weaver
Weaver with a dark back
Weaver with a brown cap
Weaver with a red head
Quelea, Cardinal
Quelea, the red-headed
Quelea with a red bill
Red Bishop with Black Wings
Red Bishop from the South
Bishop in Yellow
Widowbird with fan tails
Widowbird with White Wings
Widowbird with a crimson collar
The Rwandan Bird List includes Mannikins, Waxbills, Quail-finch, Cordon-bleu, Bluebill, Twinspots, Pytilias, Firefinches, Oliveback, and Crimsonwings.
Mannikin in Bronze
White-and-black Mannikin
Waxbill with an orange breast
Quailfinch with a black complexion
Cordon-bleu with a red cheek
Bluebill with a red head
Twinspot in the Dark
Winged Pytilia in orange
Winged green Pytilia
Firefinch with a red bill
Firefinch from Africa
Grey-headed Nigrita
Nigrita, who has white breasts
Waxbill with a yellow belly
Oliveback with a white collar
The Green Twinspot
Dark Crimsonwing
Angry Crimsonwing
Crimsonwing in the Abyssinian
The Crimsonwing by Shelley
Waxbill, Fawn-breasted
Yellow-cheeked Waxbill
Red-rumped Waxbill
Typical Waxbill
Crowned Waxbill in Black
The Waxbill of Kandt
Waxbill with a black face
Waxbill with a black head
The Viduidae family includes Cuckoo Finch, Whydas, and Indigobirds.
The Indigobird of the Village
Whydah with a pintail
Whydah’s Broad-tailed Paradise
The Cuckoo-Finch
Passeridae as Sparrows
Passer for House Sparrow
Grey-headed Sparrow from the North
Motacillidae: Wagtails, Pipits, and Longclaws
Yellow Wagtail in the West
Wagtail Cape
Wagtail in Grey
Wagtail Mountain
The White Wagtail
Pied Wagtails from Africa
Longclaw with a yellow throat
Grassland African Pipit
Pipit with a long bill
Pipit with a plain back
The Tree Pipit
The Red-throated Pipit
The Striped Pipit
The short-tailed pipit
The Woodland Pipit
Rwanda Bird List: Oriole Finch, Canaries, Citril, and Seed-eaters (Fringillidae)
Finch, Oriole
Heavy-billed Seed Eater
Unsettling Seed Eater
Canary Brimstone
Citril in the West
Canary Papyrus
Canary Yellow-Fronted
Black-throated Eater of Seeds
Canary with a yellow crown
Canary Island
The family Emberizidae
Bunting with cinnamon-breasted
Bunting with a golden breast color
The Bunting of Cabanis