Uganda Bird Checklist, Birds of Uganda List
Today, Uganda christened Africa’s birding capital by many birders boasts 1078 species bird Checklist. This is up to 60% of the Birds of Africa and 11% of the worlds. The juicy checklist which is a result of major African avifauna biomes has got the country a top rated birding destination in Arica.
| Number of species: 1078 | ||
| Number of endemics: 1 | ||
| Number of globally threatened species: 35 | ||
| Number of introduced species: 1 | ||
| Date last reviewed: 2016-07-01 | ||
| Last modified: 2018-02-18 | ||
| STRUTHIONIFORMES: Struthionidae | ||
| Common Ostrich | Struthio camelus | |
| ANSERIFORMES: Anatidae | ||
| White-faced Whistling-Duck | Dendrocygna viduata | |
| Fulvous Whistling-Duck | Dendrocygna bicolor | |
| White-backed Duck | Thalassornis leuconotus | |
| Comb Duck | Sarkidiornis melanotos | |
| Hartlaub’s Duck | Pteronetta hartlaubii | |
| Egyptian Goose | Alopochen aegyptiaca | |
| Spur-winged Goose | Plectropterus gambensis | |
| African Pygmy-Goose | Nettapus auritus | |
| Garganey | Spatula querquedula | |
| Hottentot Teal | Spatula hottentota | |
| Northern Shoveler | Spatula clypeata | |
| Eurasian Wigeon | Mareca penelope | Rare/Accidental |
| African Black Duck | Anas sparsa | |
| Yellow-billed Duck | Anas undulata | |
| Red-billed Duck | Anas erythrorhyncha | |
| Northern Pintail | Anas acuta | |
| Green-winged Teal | Anas crecca | |
| Southern Pochard | Netta erythrophthalma | |
| Common Pochard | Aythya ferina | Vulnerable |
| Ferruginous Duck | Aythya nyroca | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Tufted Duck | Aythya fuligula | |
| Maccoa Duck | Oxyura maccoa | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| GALLIFORMES: Numididae | ||
| Helmeted Guineafowl | Numida meleagris | |
| Crested Guineafowl | Guttera pucherani | |
| GALLIFORMES: Odontophoridae | ||
| Stone Partridge | Ptilopachus petrosus | |
| Nahan’s Francolin | Ptilopachus nahani | Vulnerable |
| GALLIFORMES: Phasianidae | ||
| Blue Quail | Synoicus adansonii | |
| Common Quail | Coturnix coturnix | |
| Harlequin Quail | Coturnix delegorguei | |
| Handsome Francolin | Pternistis nobilis | |
| Heuglin’s Francolin | Pternistis icterorhynchus | |
| Scaly Francolin | Pternistis squamatus | |
| Hildebrandt’s Francolin | Pternistis hildebrandti | |
| Jackson’s Francolin | Pternistis jacksoni | |
| Clapperton’s Francolin | Pternistis clappertoni | |
| Yellow-necked Francolin | Pternistis leucoscepus | |
| Red-necked Francolin | Pternistis afer | |
| Crested Francolin | Dendroperdix sephaena | |
| Coqui Francolin | Peliperdix coqui | |
| Latham’s Francolin | Peliperdix lathami | |
| Red-winged Francolin | Scleroptila levaillantii | |
| Ring-necked Francolin | Scleroptila streptophora | Near-threatened |
| Orange River Francolin | Scleroptila gutturalis | |
| Moorland Francolin | Scleroptila psilolaema | |
| Shelley’s Francolin | Scleroptila shelleyi | |
| PODICIPEDIFORMES: Podicipedidae | ||
| Little Grebe | Tachybaptus ruficollis | |
| Great Crested Grebe | Podiceps cristatus | |
| Eared Grebe | Podiceps nigricollis | Rare/Accidental |
| PHOENICOPTERIFORMES: Phoenicopteridae | ||
| Greater Flamingo | Phoenicopterus roseus | |
| Lesser Flamingo | Phoeniconaias minor | Near-threatened |
| PROCELLARIIFORMES: Procellariidae | ||
| Southern Giant-Petrel | Macronectes giganteus | Rare/Accidental |
| CICONIIFORMES: Ciconiidae | ||
| African Openbill | Anastomus lamelligerus | |
| Black Stork | Ciconia nigra | |
| Abdim’s Stork | Ciconia abdimii | |
| Woolly-necked Stork | Ciconia episcopus | |
| White Stork | Ciconia ciconia | |
| Saddle-billed Stork | Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis | |
| Marabou Stork | Leptoptilos crumenifer | |
| Yellow-billed Stork | Mycteria ibis | |
| SULIFORMES: Phalacrocoracidae | ||
| Long-tailed Cormorant | Microcarbo africanus | |
| Great Cormorant | Phalacrocorax carbo | |
| SULIFORMES: Anhingidae | ||
| African Darter | Anhinga rufa | |
| PELECANIFORMES: Pelecanidae | ||
| Great White Pelican | Pelecanus onocrotalus | |
| Pink-backed Pelican | Pelecanus rufescens | |
| PELECANIFORMES: Balaenicipitidae | ||
| Shoebill | Balaeniceps rex | Vulnerable |
| PELECANIFORMES: Scopidae | ||
| Hamerkop | Scopus umbretta | |
| PELECANIFORMES: Ardeidae | ||
| Great Bittern | Botaurus stellaris | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Bittern | Ixobrychus minutus | |
| Dwarf Bittern | Ixobrychus sturmii | |
| White-crested Bittern | Tigriornis leucolopha | Rare/Accidental |
| Gray Heron | Ardea cinerea | |
| Black-headed Heron | Ardea melanocephala | |
| Goliath Heron | Ardea goliath | |
| Purple Heron | Ardea purpurea | |
| Great Egret | Ardea alba | |
| Intermediate Egret | Ardea intermedia | |
| Little Egret | Egretta garzetta | |
| Western Reef-Heron | Egretta gularis | Rare/Accidental |
| Black Heron | Egretta ardesiaca | |
| Cattle Egret | Bubulcus ibis | |
| Squacco Heron | Ardeola ralloides | |
| Madagascar Pond-Heron | Ardeola idae | Rare/Accidental Endangered |
| Rufous-bellied Heron | Ardeola rufiventris | |
| Striated Heron | Butorides striata | |
| Black-crowned Night-Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax | |
| White-backed Night-Heron | Gorsachius leuconotus | |
| PELECANIFORMES: Threskiornithidae | ||
| Glossy Ibis | Plegadis falcinellus | |
| Sacred Ibis | Threskiornis aethiopicus | |
| Olive Ibis | Bostrychia olivacea | |
| Spot-breasted Ibis | Bostrychia rara | |
| Hadada Ibis | Bostrychia hagedash | |
| Eurasian Spoonbill | Platalea leucorodia | |
| African Spoonbill | Platalea alba | |
| ACCIPITRIFORMES: Sagittariidae | ||
| Secretarybird | Sagittarius serpentarius | Vulnerable |
| ACCIPITRIFORMES: Pandionidae | ||
| Osprey | Pandion haliaetus | |
| ACCIPITRIFORMES: Accipitridae | ||
| Black-shouldered Kite | Elanus caeruleus | |
| Scissor-tailed Kite | Chelictinia riocourii | |
| African Harrier-Hawk | Polyboroides typus | |
| Palm-nut Vulture | Gypohierax angolensis | |
| Bearded Vulture | Gypaetus barbatus | Near-threatened |
| Egyptian Vulture | Neophron percnopterus | Endangered |
| European Honey-buzzard | Pernis apivorus | |
| African Cuckoo-Hawk | Aviceda cuculoides | |
| White-headed Vulture | Trigonoceps occipitalis | Critically endangered |
| Lappet-faced Vulture | Torgos tracheliotos | Endangered |
| Hooded Vulture | Necrosyrtes monachus | Critically endangered |
| White-backed Vulture | Gyps africanus | Critically endangered |
| Rüppell’s Griffon | Gyps rueppelli | Critically endangered |
| Bateleur | Terathopius ecaudatus | Near-threatened |
| Congo Serpent-Eagle | Dryotriorchis spectabilis | |
| Short-toed Snake-Eagle | Circaetus gallicus | Rare/Accidental |
| Beaudouin’s Snake-Eagle | Circaetus beaudouini | Vulnerable |
| Black-breasted Snake-Eagle | Circaetus pectoralis | |
| Brown Snake-Eagle | Circaetus cinereus | |
| Banded Snake-Eagle | Circaetus cinerascens | |
| Bat Hawk | Macheiramphus alcinus | |
| Crowned Eagle | Stephanoaetus coronatus | Near-threatened |
| Martial Eagle | Polemaetus bellicosus | Vulnerable |
| Long-crested Eagle | Lophaetus occipitalis | |
| Lesser Spotted Eagle | Clanga pomarina | |
| Greater Spotted Eagle | Clanga clanga | Vulnerable |
| Wahlberg’s Eagle | Hieraaetus wahlbergi | |
| Booted Eagle | Hieraaetus pennatus | |
| Ayres’s Hawk-Eagle | Hieraaetus ayresii | |
| Tawny Eagle | Aquila rapax | |
| Steppe Eagle | Aquila nipalensis | Endangered |
| Cassin’s Hawk-Eagle | Aquila africana | |
| Verreaux’s Eagle | Aquila verreauxii | |
| African Hawk-Eagle | Aquila spilogaster | |
| Lizard Buzzard | Kaupifalco monogrammicus | |
| Dark Chanting-Goshawk | Melierax metabates | |
| Eastern Chanting-Goshawk | Melierax poliopterus | |
| Gabar Goshawk | Micronisus gabar | |
| Grasshopper Buzzard | Butastur rufipennis | |
| Eurasian Marsh-Harrier | Circus aeruginosus | |
| African Marsh-Harrier | Circus ranivorus | |
| Pallid Harrier | Circus macrourus | Near-threatened |
| Montagu’s Harrier | Circus pygargus | |
| Red-chested Goshawk | Accipiter toussenelii | |
| African Goshawk | Accipiter tachiro | |
| Chestnut-flanked Sparrowhawk | Accipiter castanilius | |
| Shikra | Accipiter badius | |
| Levant Sparrowhawk | Accipiter brevipes | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-thighed Sparrowhawk | Accipiter erythropus | |
| Little Sparrowhawk | Accipiter minullus | |
| Ovambo Sparrowhawk | Accipiter ovampensis | |
| Rufous-chested Sparrowhawk | Accipiter rufiventris | |
| Black Goshawk | Accipiter melanoleucus | |
| Long-tailed Hawk | Urotriorchis macrourus | |
| Black Kite | Milvus migrans | |
| African Fish-Eagle | Haliaeetus vocifer | |
| Common Buzzard | Buteo buteo | |
| Mountain Buzzard | Buteo oreophilus | Near-threatened |
| Long-legged Buzzard | Buteo rufinus | |
| Red-necked Buzzard | Buteo auguralis | |
| Augur Buzzard | Buteo augur | |
| OTIDIFORMES: Otididae | ||
| Kori Bustard | Ardeotis kori | Near-threatened |
| Denham’s Bustard | Neotis denhami | Near-threatened |
| White-bellied Bustard | Eupodotis senegalensis | |
| Buff-crested Bustard | Eupodotis gindiana | |
| Black-bellied Bustard | Lissotis melanogaster | |
| Hartlaub’s Bustard | Lissotis hartlaubii | |
| GRUIFORMES: Rallidae | ||
| Nkulengu Rail | Himantornis haematopus | |
| Corn Crake | Crex crex | |
| African Rail | Rallus caerulescens | |
| African Crake | Crecopsis egregia | |
| Striped Crake | Amaurornis marginalis | Rare/Accidental |
| Spotted Crake | Porzana porzana | Rare/Accidental |
| Black Crake | Zapornia flavirostra | |
| Little Crake | Zapornia parva | Rare/Accidental |
| Baillon’s Crake | Zapornia pusilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Allen’s Gallinule | Porphyrio alleni | |
| African Swamphen | Porphyrio madagascariensis | |
| Eurasian Moorhen | Gallinula chloropus | |
| Lesser Moorhen | Gallinula angulata | |
| Red-knobbed Coot | Fulica cristata | |
| GRUIFORMES: Sarothruridae | ||
| Gray-throated Rail | Canirallus oculeus | |
| White-spotted Flufftail | Sarothrura pulchra | |
| Buff-spotted Flufftail | Sarothrura elegans | |
| Red-chested Flufftail | Sarothrura rufa | |
| GRUIFORMES: Heliornithidae | ||
| African Finfoot | Podica senegalensis | |
| GRUIFORMES: Gruidae | ||
| Gray Crowned-Crane | Balearica regulorum | Endangered |
| Black Crowned-Crane | Balearica pavonina | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| CHARADRIIFORMES: Burhinidae | ||
| Water Thick-knee | Burhinus vermiculatus | |
| Eurasian Thick-knee | Burhinus oedicnemus | Rare/Accidental |
| Indian Thick-knee | Burhinus indicus | |
| Senegal Thick-knee | Burhinus senegalensis | |
| Spotted Thick-knee | Burhinus capensis | |
| CHARADRIIFORMES: Pluvianidae | ||
| Egyptian Plover | Pluvianus aegyptius | Rare/Accidental |
| CHARADRIIFORMES: Recurvirostridae | ||
| Black-winged Stilt | Himantopus himantopus | |
| Pied Avocet | Recurvirostra avosetta | |
| CHARADRIIFORMES: Haematopodidae | ||
| Eurasian Oystercatcher | Haematopus ostralegus | |
| CHARADRIIFORMES: Charadriidae | ||
| Black-bellied Plover | Pluvialis squatarola | |
| Pacific Golden-Plover | Pluvialis fulva | Rare/Accidental |
| Long-toed Lapwing | Vanellus crassirostris | |
| Spur-winged Lapwing | Vanellus spinosus | |
| Black-headed Lapwing | Vanellus tectus | |
| White-headed Lapwing | Vanellus albiceps | Rare/Accidental |
| Senegal Lapwing | Vanellus lugubris | |
| Crowned Lapwing | Vanellus coronatus | |
| Wattled Lapwing | Vanellus senegallus | |
| Brown-chested Lapwing | Vanellus superciliosus | |
| Lesser Sand-Plover | Charadrius mongolus | Rare/Accidental |
| Greater Sand-Plover | Charadrius leschenaultii | Rare/Accidental |
| Caspian Plover | Charadrius asiaticus | |
| Kittlitz’s Plover | Charadrius pecuarius | |
| Kentish Plover | Charadrius alexandrinus | |
| Common Ringed Plover | Charadrius hiaticula | |
| Little Ringed Plover | Charadrius dubius | |
| Three-banded Plover | Charadrius tricollaris | |
| Forbes’s Plover | Charadrius forbesi | Rare/Accidental |
| White-fronted Plover | Charadrius marginatus | |
| CHARADRIIFORMES: Rostratulidae | ||
| Greater Painted-Snipe | Rostratula benghalensis | |
| CHARADRIIFORMES: Jacanidae | ||
| Lesser Jacana | Microparra capensis | |
| African Jacana | Actophilornis africanus | |
| CHARADRIIFORMES: Scolopacidae | ||
| Whimbrel | Numenius phaeopus | |
| Eurasian Curlew | Numenius arquata | Near-threatened |
| Bar-tailed Godwit | Limosa lapponica | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Black-tailed Godwit | Limosa limosa | Near-threatened |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Arenaria interpres | |
| Ruff | Calidris pugnax | |
| Broad-billed Sandpiper | Calidris falcinellus | Rare/Accidental |
| Curlew Sandpiper | Calidris ferruginea | Near-threatened |
| Temminck’s Stint | Calidris temminckii | |
| Sanderling | Calidris alba | |
| Dunlin | Calidris alpina | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Stint | Calidris minuta | |
| Jack Snipe | Lymnocryptes minimus | |
| Great Snipe | Gallinago media | Near-threatened |
| Common Snipe | Gallinago gallinago | |
| African Snipe | Gallinago nigripennis | |
| Terek Sandpiper | Xenus cinereus | |
| Red-necked Phalarope | Phalaropus lobatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Sandpiper | Actitis hypoleucos | |
| Green Sandpiper | Tringa ochropus | |
| Spotted Redshank | Tringa erythropus | |
| Common Greenshank | Tringa nebularia | |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | Tringa flavipes | Rare/Accidental |
| Marsh Sandpiper | Tringa stagnatilis | |
| Wood Sandpiper | Tringa glareola | |
| Common Redshank | Tringa totanus | |
| CHARADRIIFORMES: Turnicidae | ||
| Small Buttonquail | Turnix sylvaticus | |
| Hottentot Buttonquail | Turnix hottentottus | |
| Quail-plover | Ortyxelos meiffrenii | Rare/Accidental |
| CHARADRIIFORMES: Glareolidae | ||
| Temminck’s Courser | Cursorius temminckii | |
| Three-banded Courser | Rhinoptilus cinctus | |
| Bronze-winged Courser | Rhinoptilus chalcopterus | |
| Collared Pratincole | Glareola pratincola | |
| Black-winged Pratincole | Glareola nordmanni | Near-threatened |
| Madagascar Pratincole | Glareola ocularis | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Rock Pratincole | Glareola nuchalis | |
| Gray Pratincole | Glareola cinerea | Rare/Accidental |
| CHARADRIIFORMES: Laridae | ||
| Slender-billed Gull | Chroicocephalus genei | Rare/Accidental |
| Gray-hooded Gull | Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus | |
| Black-headed Gull | Chroicocephalus ridibundus | |
| Pallas’s Gull | Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus | Rare/Accidental |
| Caspian Gull | Larus cachinnans | |
| Lesser Black-backed Gull | Larus fuscus | |
| Gull-billed Tern | Gelochelidon nilotica | |
| Caspian Tern | Hydroprogne caspia | Rare/Accidental |
| Black Tern | Chlidonias niger | |
| White-winged Tern | Chlidonias leucopterus | |
| Whiskered Tern | Chlidonias hybrida | |
| Common Tern | Sterna hirundo | Rare/Accidental |
| Lesser Crested Tern | Thalasseus bengalensis | Rare/Accidental |
| African Skimmer | Rynchops flavirostris | Near-threatened |
| PTEROCLIFORMES: Pteroclidae | ||
| Lichtenstein’s Sandgrouse | Pterocles lichtensteinii | Rare/Accidental |
| Four-banded Sandgrouse | Pterocles quadricinctus | |
| COLUMBIFORMES: Columbidae | ||
| Rock Pigeon | Columba livia | Introduced species |
| Speckled Pigeon | Columba guinea | |
| Afep Pigeon | Columba unicincta | |
| Rameron Pigeon | Columba arquatrix | |
| Delegorgue’s Pigeon | Columba delegorguei | |
| Bronze-naped Pigeon | Columba iriditorques | |
| Lemon Dove | Columba larvata | |
| White-naped Pigeon | Columba albinucha | Near-threatened |
| European Turtle-Dove | Streptopelia turtur | Vulnerable |
| Dusky Turtle-Dove | Streptopelia lugens | |
| Mourning Collared-Dove | Streptopelia decipiens | |
| Red-eyed Dove | Streptopelia semitorquata | |
| Ring-necked Dove | Streptopelia capicola | |
| Vinaceous Dove | Streptopelia vinacea | |
| Laughing Dove | Streptopelia senegalensis | |
| Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove | Turtur chalcospilos | |
| Black-billed Wood-Dove | Turtur abyssinicus | |
| Blue-spotted Wood-Dove | Turtur afer | |
| Tambourine Dove | Turtur tympanistria | |
| Namaqua Dove | Oena capensis | |
| Bruce’s Green-Pigeon | Treron waalia | |
| African Green-Pigeon | Treron calvus | |
| CUCULIFORMES: Musophagidae | ||
| Great Blue Turaco | Corythaeola cristata | |
| Black-billed Turaco | Tauraco schuettii | |
| White-crested Turaco | Tauraco leucolophus | |
| Hartlaub’s Turaco | Tauraco hartlaubi | |
| Purple-crested Turaco | Tauraco porphyreolophus | |
| Ruwenzori Turaco | Ruwenzorornis johnstoni | |
| Ross’s Turaco | Musophaga rossae | |
| Bare-faced Go-away-bird | Corythaixoides personatus | |
| White-bellied Go-away-bird | Corythaixoides leucogaster | |
| Eastern Plantain-eater | Crinifer zonurus | |
| CUCULIFORMES: Cuculidae | ||
| Black-throated Coucal | Centropus leucogaster | |
| Senegal Coucal | Centropus senegalensis | |
| Blue-headed Coucal | Centropus monachus | |
| White-browed Coucal | Centropus superciliosus | |
| Black Coucal | Centropus grillii | |
| Blue Malkoha | Ceuthmochares aereus | |
| Great Spotted Cuckoo | Clamator glandarius | |
| Levaillant’s Cuckoo | Clamator levaillantii | |
| Pied Cuckoo | Clamator jacobinus | |
| Thick-billed Cuckoo | Pachycoccyx audeberti | Rare/Accidental |
| Dideric Cuckoo | Chrysococcyx caprius | |
| Klaas’s Cuckoo | Chrysococcyx klaas | |
| Yellow-throated Cuckoo | Chrysococcyx flavigularis | |
| African Emerald Cuckoo | Chrysococcyx cupreus | |
| Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo | Cercococcyx mechowi | |
| Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo | Cercococcyx olivinus | |
| Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo | Cercococcyx montanus | |
| Black Cuckoo | Cuculus clamosus | |
| Red-chested Cuckoo | Cuculus solitarius | |
| Lesser Cuckoo | Cuculus poliocephalus | |
| African Cuckoo | Cuculus gularis | |
| Madagascar Cuckoo | Cuculus rochii | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Cuckoo | Cuculus canorus | |
| STRIGIFORMES: Tytonidae | ||
| African Grass-Owl | Tyto capensis | |
| Barn Owl | Tyto alba | |
| STRIGIFORMES: Strigidae | ||
| European Scops-Owl | Otus scops | |
| African Scops-Owl | Otus senegalensis | |
| Northern White-faced Owl | Ptilopsis leucotis | |
| Southern White-faced Owl | Ptilopsis granti | |
| Cape Eagle-Owl | Bubo capensis | |
| Spotted Eagle-Owl | Bubo africanus | |
| Grayish Eagle-Owl | Bubo cinerascens | |
| Fraser’s Eagle-Owl | Bubo poensis | |
| Shelley’s Eagle-Owl | Bubo shelleyi | Near-threatened |
| Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl | Bubo lacteus | |
| Pel’s Fishing-Owl | Scotopelia peli | |
| Pearl-spotted Owlet | Glaucidium perlatum | |
| Red-chested Owlet | Glaucidium tephronotum | |
| Chestnut Owlet | Glaucidium castaneum | Rare/Accidental |
| African Wood-Owl | Strix woodfordii | |
| Short-eared Owl | Asio flammeus | |
| Marsh Owl | Asio capensis | |
| CAPRIMULGIFORMES: Caprimulgidae | ||
| Pennant-winged Nightjar | Caprimulgus vexillarius | |
| Standard-winged Nightjar | Caprimulgus longipennis | |
| Eurasian Nightjar | Caprimulgus europaeus | |
| Sombre Nightjar | Caprimulgus fraenatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Nubian Nightjar | Caprimulgus nubicus | |
| Black-shouldered Nightjar | Caprimulgus nigriscapularis | |
| Fiery-necked Nightjar | Caprimulgus pectoralis | |
| Abyssinian Nightjar | Caprimulgus poliocephalus | |
| Montane Nightjar | Caprimulgus ruwenzorii | |
| Swamp Nightjar | Caprimulgus natalensis | |
| Plain Nightjar | Caprimulgus inornatus | |
| Star-spotted Nightjar | Caprimulgus stellatus | |
| Freckled Nightjar | Caprimulgus tristigma | |
| Bates’s Nightjar | Caprimulgus batesi | |
| Long-tailed Nightjar | Caprimulgus climacurus | |
| Slender-tailed Nightjar | Caprimulgus clarus | |
| Square-tailed Nightjar | Caprimulgus fossii | |
| CAPRIMULGIFORMES: Apodidae | ||
| Mottled Spinetail | Telacanthura ussheri | |
| Sabine’s Spinetail | Rhaphidura sabini | |
| Cassin’s Spinetail | Neafrapus cassini | |
| Scarce Swift | Schoutedenapus myoptilus | |
| Alpine Swift | Apus melba | |
| Mottled Swift | Apus aequatorialis | |
| Common Swift | Apus apus | |
| Nyanza Swift | Apus niansae | |
| Pallid Swift | Apus pallidus | Rare/Accidental |
| African Swift | Apus barbatus | |
| Little Swift | Apus affinis | |
| Horus Swift | Apus horus | |
| White-rumped Swift | Apus caffer | |
| African Palm-Swift | Cypsiurus parvus | |
| COLIIFORMES: Coliidae | ||
| Speckled Mousebird | Colius striatus | |
| Blue-naped Mousebird | Urocolius macrourus | |
| TROGONIFORMES: Trogonidae | ||
| Narina Trogon | Apaloderma narina | |
| Bar-tailed Trogon | Apaloderma vittatum | |
| BUCEROTIFORMES: Upupidae | ||
| Eurasian Hoopoe | Upupa epops | |
| BUCEROTIFORMES: Phoeniculidae | ||
| Green Woodhoopoe | Phoeniculus purpureus | |
| White-headed Woodhoopoe | Phoeniculus bollei | |
| Forest Woodhoopoe | Phoeniculus castaneiceps | |
| Black Scimitarbill | Rhinopomastus aterrimus | |
| Common Scimitarbill | Rhinopomastus cyanomelas | |
| Abyssinian Scimitarbill | Rhinopomastus minor | |
| BUCEROTIFORMES: Bucorvidae | ||
| Abyssinian Ground-Hornbill | Bucorvus abyssinicus | |
| Southern Ground-Hornbill | Bucorvus leadbeateri | Vulnerable |
| BUCEROTIFORMES: Bucerotidae | ||
| Red-billed Dwarf Hornbill | Lophoceros camurus | |
| Crowned Hornbill | Lophoceros alboterminatus | |
| African Pied Hornbill | Lophoceros fasciatus | |
| Hemprich’s Hornbill | Lophoceros hemprichii | |
| African Gray Hornbill | Lophoceros nasutus | |
| Eastern Yellow-billed Hornbill | Tockus flavirostris | |
| Jackson’s Hornbill | Tockus jacksoni | |
| Von der Decken’s Hornbill | Tockus deckeni | |
| Northern Red-billed Hornbill | Tockus erythrorhynchus | |
| White-crested Hornbill | Horizocerus albocristatus | |
| Black Dwarf Hornbill | Horizocerus hartlaubi | |
| Black-casqued Hornbill | Ceratogymna atrata | |
| Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill | Bycanistes subcylindricus | |
| Brown-cheeked Hornbill | Bycanistes cylindricus | Vulnerable |
| White-thighed Hornbill | Bycanistes albotibialis | |
| Piping Hornbill | Bycanistes fistulator | |
| CORACIIFORMES: Alcedinidae | ||
| Half-collared Kingfisher | Alcedo semitorquata | |
| Shining-blue Kingfisher | Alcedo quadribrachys | |
| Malachite Kingfisher | Corythornis cristatus | |
| White-bellied Kingfisher | Corythornis leucogaster | |
| African Pygmy-Kingfisher | Ispidina picta | |
| African Dwarf Kingfisher | Ispidina lecontei | |
| Chocolate-backed Kingfisher | Halcyon badia | |
| Gray-headed Kingfisher | Halcyon leucocephala | |
| Woodland Kingfisher | Halcyon senegalensis | |
| Blue-breasted Kingfisher | Halcyon malimbica | |
| Striped Kingfisher | Halcyon chelicuti | |
| Giant Kingfisher | Megaceryle maxima | |
| Pied Kingfisher | Ceryle rudis | |
| CORACIIFORMES: Meropidae | ||
| Black Bee-eater | Merops gularis | |
| Red-throated Bee-eater | Merops bulocki | |
| White-fronted Bee-eater | Merops bullockoides | |
| Little Bee-eater | Merops pusillus | |
| Blue-breasted Bee-eater | Merops variegatus | |
| Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater | Merops oreobates | |
| Swallow-tailed Bee-eater | Merops hirundineus | |
| White-throated Bee-eater | Merops albicollis | |
| Green Bee-eater | Merops orientalis | |
| Blue-cheeked Bee-eater | Merops persicus | |
| Madagascar Bee-eater | Merops superciliosus | |
| European Bee-eater | Merops apiaster | |
| Northern Carmine Bee-eater | Merops nubicus | |
| Southern Carmine Bee-eater | Merops nubicoides | Rare/Accidental |
| CORACIIFORMES: Coraciidae | ||
| European Roller | Coracias garrulus | |
| Abyssinian Roller | Coracias abyssinicus | |
| Lilac-breasted Roller | Coracias caudatus | |
| Rufous-crowned Roller | Coracias naevius | |
| Broad-billed Roller | Eurystomus glaucurus | |
| Blue-throated Roller | Eurystomus gularis | |
| PICIFORMES: Lybiidae | ||
| Yellow-billed Barbet | Trachyphonus purpuratus | |
| Crested Barbet | Trachyphonus vaillantii | |
| Red-and-yellow Barbet | Trachyphonus erythrocephalus | |
| D’Arnaud’s Barbet | Trachyphonus darnaudii | |
| Gray-throated Barbet | Gymnobucco bonapartei | |
| Speckled Tinkerbird | Pogoniulus scolopaceus | |
| Green Tinkerbird | Pogoniulus simplex | |
| Moustached Tinkerbird | Pogoniulus leucomystax | |
| Western Tinkerbird | Pogoniulus coryphaea | |
| Red-rumped Tinkerbird | Pogoniulus atroflavus | |
| Yellow-throated Tinkerbird | Pogoniulus subsulphureus | |
| Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird | Pogoniulus bilineatus | |
| Red-fronted Tinkerbird | Pogoniulus pusillus | |
| Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird | Pogoniulus chrysoconus | |
| Yellow-spotted Barbet | Buccanodon duchaillui | |
| Hairy-breasted Barbet | Tricholaema hirsuta | |
| Red-fronted Barbet | Tricholaema diademata | |
| Spot-flanked Barbet | Tricholaema lacrymosa | |
| Black-throated Barbet | Tricholaema melanocephala | |
| White-headed Barbet | Lybius leucocephalus | |
| Red-faced Barbet | Lybius rubrifacies | Near-threatened |
| Black-billed Barbet | Lybius guifsobalito | |
| Black-collared Barbet | Lybius torquatus | |
| Double-toothed Barbet | Lybius bidentatus | |
| Black-breasted Barbet | Lybius rolleti | |
| PICIFORMES: Indicatoridae | ||
| Cassin’s Honeyguide | Prodotiscus insignis | |
| Wahlberg’s Honeyguide | Prodotiscus regulus | |
| Zenker’s Honeyguide | Melignomon zenkeri | |
| Dwarf Honeyguide | Indicator pumilio | Near-threatened |
| Willcocks’s Honeyguide | Indicator willcocksi | |
| Pallid Honeyguide | Indicator meliphilus | |
| Least Honeyguide | Indicator exilis | |
| Thick-billed Honeyguide | Indicator conirostris | |
| Lesser Honeyguide | Indicator minor | |
| Spotted Honeyguide | Indicator maculatus | |
| Scaly-throated Honeyguide | Indicator variegatus | |
| Greater Honeyguide | Indicator indicator | |
| Lyre-tailed Honeyguide | Melichneutes robustus | |
| PICIFORMES: Picidae | ||
| Eurasian Wryneck | Jynx torquilla | |
| Rufous-necked Wryneck | Jynx ruficollis | |
| African Piculet | Sasia africana | |
| Nubian Woodpecker | Campethera nubica | |
| Golden-tailed Woodpecker | Campethera abingoni | |
| Green-backed Woodpecker | Campethera cailliautii | |
| Tullberg’s Woodpecker | Campethera tullbergi | |
| Buff-spotted Woodpecker | Campethera nivosa | |
| Brown-eared Woodpecker | Campethera caroli | |
| Speckle-breasted Woodpecker | Dendropicos poecilolaemus | |
| Cardinal Woodpecker | Dendropicos fuscescens | |
| Gabon Woodpecker | Dendropicos gabonensis | |
| Bearded Woodpecker | Dendropicos namaquus | |
| Golden-crowned Woodpecker | Dendropicos xantholophus | |
| Elliot’s Woodpecker | Dendropicos elliotii | |
| African Gray Woodpecker | Dendropicos goertae | |
| Olive Woodpecker | Dendropicos griseocephalus | |
| Brown-backed Woodpecker | Dendropicos obsoletus | |
| FALCONIFORMES: Falconidae | ||
| Pygmy Falcon | Polihierax semitorquatus | |
| Lesser Kestrel | Falco naumanni | |
| Eurasian Kestrel | Falco tinnunculus | |
| Greater Kestrel | Falco rupicoloides | Rare/Accidental |
| Fox Kestrel | Falco alopex | |
| Gray Kestrel | Falco ardosiaceus | |
| Red-necked Falcon | Falco chicquera | |
| Red-footed Falcon | Falco vespertinus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Amur Falcon | Falco amurensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Eleonora’s Falcon | Falco eleonorae | |
| Sooty Falcon | Falco concolor | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Eurasian Hobby | Falco subbuteo | |
| African Hobby | Falco cuvierii | |
| Lanner Falcon | Falco biarmicus | |
| Saker Falcon | Falco cherrug | Rare/Accidental Endangered |
| Peregrine Falcon | Falco peregrinus | |
| Taita Falcon | Falco fasciinucha | Vulnerable |
| PSITTACIFORMES: Psittaculidae | ||
| Rose-ringed Parakeet | Psittacula krameri | |
| Black-collared Lovebird | Agapornis swindernianus | |
| Red-headed Lovebird | Agapornis pullarius | |
| PSITTACIFORMES: Psittacidae | ||
| Gray Parrot | Psittacus erithacus | |
| Brown-necked Parrot | Poicephalus robustus | |
| Meyer’s Parrot | Poicephalus meyeri | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Calyptomenidae | ||
| African Broadbill | Smithornis capensis | |
| Rufous-sided Broadbill | Smithornis rufolateralis | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Eurylaimidae | ||
| Grauer’s Broadbill | Pseudocalyptomena graueri | Vulnerable |
| PASSERIFORMES: Pittidae | ||
| African Pitta | Pitta angolensis | |
| Green-breasted Pitta | Pitta reichenowi | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Platysteiridae | ||
| Brown-throated Wattle-eye | Platysteira cyanea | |
| Black-throated Wattle-eye | Platysteira peltata | |
| Chestnut Wattle-eye | Platysteira castanea | |
| Jameson’s Wattle-eye | Platysteira jamesoni | |
| Yellow-bellied Wattle-eye | Platysteira concreta | |
| Ruwenzori Batis | Batis diops | |
| Chinspot Batis | Batis molitor | |
| Gray-headed Batis | Batis orientalis | |
| Black-headed Batis | Batis minor | |
| Pygmy Batis | Batis perkeo | |
| Ituri Batis | Batis ituriensis | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Vangidae | ||
| White Helmetshrike | Prionops plumatus | |
| Yellow-crested Helmetshrike | Prionops alberti | Vulnerable |
| Red-billed Helmetshrike | Prionops caniceps | |
| Rufous-bellied Helmetshrike | Prionops rufiventris | |
| African Shrike-flycatcher | Megabyas flammulatus | |
| Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher | Bias musicus | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Malaconotidae | ||
| Brubru | Nilaus afer | |
| Northern Puffback | Dryoscopus gambensis | |
| Black-backed Puffback | Dryoscopus cubla | |
| Red-eyed Puffback | Dryoscopus senegalensis | |
| Pink-footed Puffback | Dryoscopus angolensis | |
| Marsh Tchagra | Tchagra minutus | |
| Black-crowned Tchagra | Tchagra senegalus | |
| Brown-crowned Tchagra | Tchagra australis | |
| Three-streaked Tchagra | Tchagra jamesi | |
| Lühder’s Bushshrike | Laniarius luehderi | |
| Tropical Boubou | Laniarius major | |
| Black-headed Gonolek | Laniarius erythrogaster | |
| Papyrus Gonolek | Laniarius mufumbiri | Near-threatened |
| Slate-colored Boubou | Laniarius funebris | |
| Lowland Sooty Boubou | Laniarius leucorhynchus | |
| Willard’s Sooty Boubou | Laniarius willardi | |
| Mountain Sooty Boubou | Laniarius poensis | |
| Fülleborn’s Boubou | Laniarius fuelleborni | |
| Gray-green Bushshrike | Telophorus bocagei | |
| Sulphur-breasted Bushshrike | Telophorus sulfureopectus | |
| Many-colored Bushshrike | Telophorus multicolor | |
| Doherty’s Bushshrike | Telophorus dohertyi | |
| Fiery-breasted Bushshrike | Malaconotus cruentus | |
| Lagden’s Bushshrike | Malaconotus lagdeni | Near-threatened |
| Gray-headed Bushshrike | Malaconotus blanchoti | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Campephagidae | ||
| Gray Cuckooshrike | Coracina caesia | |
| White-breasted Cuckooshrike | Coracina pectoralis | |
| Black Cuckooshrike | Campephaga flava | |
| Petit’s Cuckooshrike | Campephaga petiti | |
| Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike | Campephaga phoenicea | |
| Purple-throated Cuckooshrike | Campephaga quiscalina | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Laniidae | ||
| Red-backed Shrike | Lanius collurio | |
| Red-tailed Shrike | Lanius phoenicuroides | |
| Isabelline Shrike | Lanius isabellinus | |
| Emin’s Shrike | Lanius gubernator | |
| Lesser Gray Shrike | Lanius minor | |
| Gray-backed Fiscal | Lanius excubitoroides | |
| Taita Fiscal | Lanius dorsalis | |
| Mackinnon’s Shrike | Lanius mackinnoni | |
| Northern Fiscal | Lanius humeralis | |
| Souza’s Shrike | Lanius souzae | |
| Masked Shrike | Lanius nubicus | Rare/Accidental |
| Woodchat Shrike | Lanius senator | |
| Yellow-billed Shrike | Corvinella corvina | |
| White-rumped Shrike | Eurocephalus ruppelli | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Oriolidae | ||
| Eurasian Golden Oriole | Oriolus oriolus | |
| African Golden Oriole | Oriolus auratus | |
| Western Black-headed Oriole | Oriolus brachyrynchus | |
| African Black-headed Oriole | Oriolus larvatus | |
| Black-tailed Oriole | Oriolus percivali | |
| Black-winged Oriole | Oriolus nigripennis | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Dicruridae | ||
| Fork-tailed Drongo | Dicrurus adsimilis | |
| Velvet-mantled Drongo | Dicrurus modestus | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Monarchidae | ||
| Blue-headed Crested-Flycatcher | Trochocercus nitens | |
| African Crested-Flycatcher | Trochocercus cyanomelas | |
| Black-headed Paradise-Flycatcher | Terpsiphone rufiventer | |
| African Paradise-Flycatcher | Terpsiphone viridis | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Corvidae | ||
| Piapiac | Ptilostomus afer | |
| Pied Crow | Corvus albus | |
| Somali Crow | Corvus edithae | |
| Fan-tailed Raven | Corvus rhipidurus | |
| White-necked Raven | Corvus albicollis | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Nicatoridae | ||
| Western Nicator | Nicator chloris | |
| Yellow-throated Nicator | Nicator vireo | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Alaudidae | ||
| Rufous-rumped Lark | Pinarocorys erythropygia | |
| Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark | Eremopterix leucotis | |
| Fischer’s Sparrow-Lark | Eremopterix leucopareia | |
| Pink-breasted Lark | Calendulauda poecilosterna | |
| Foxy Lark | Calendulauda alopex | |
| Red-winged Lark | Mirafra hypermetra | |
| Rufous-naped Lark | Mirafra africana | |
| Flappet Lark | Mirafra rufocinnamomea | |
| White-tailed Lark | Mirafra albicauda | |
| Singing Bushlark | Mirafra cantillans | |
| Red-capped Lark | Calandrella cinerea | |
| Sun Lark | Galerida modesta | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Hirundinidae | ||
| Plain Martin | Riparia paludicola | |
| Bank Swallow | Riparia riparia | |
| Banded Martin | Riparia cincta | |
| Rock Martin | Ptyonoprogne fuligula | |
| Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | |
| Ethiopian Swallow | Hirundo aethiopica | |
| Angola Swallow | Hirundo angolensis | |
| White-throated Blue Swallow | Hirundo nigrita | |
| Wire-tailed Swallow | Hirundo smithii | |
| Montane Blue Swallow | Hirundo atrocaerulea | Vulnerable |
| Red-rumped Swallow | Cecropis daurica | |
| Lesser Striped-Swallow | Cecropis abyssinica | |
| Rufous-chested Swallow | Cecropis semirufa | |
| Mosque Swallow | Cecropis senegalensis | |
| Common House-Martin | Delichon urbicum | |
| White-headed Sawwing | Psalidoprocne albiceps | |
| Black Sawwing | Psalidoprocne pristoptera | |
| Gray-rumped Swallow | Pseudhirundo griseopyga | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Stenostiridae | ||
| African Blue Flycatcher | Elminia longicauda | |
| White-tailed Blue Flycatcher | Elminia albicauda | |
| Dusky Crested-Flycatcher | Elminia nigromitrata | |
| White-bellied Crested-Flycatcher | Elminia albiventris | |
| White-tailed Crested-Flycatcher | Elminia albonotata | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Paridae | ||
| White-shouldered Black-Tit | Melaniparus guineensis | |
| White-winged Black-Tit | Melaniparus leucomelas | |
| White-bellied Tit | Melaniparus albiventris | |
| Dusky Tit | Melaniparus funereus | |
| Stripe-breasted Tit | Melaniparus fasciiventer | |
| Somali Tit | Melaniparus thruppi | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Remizidae | ||
| Mouse-colored Penduline-Tit | Anthoscopus musculus | |
| Yellow Penduline-Tit | Anthoscopus parvulus | |
| African Penduline-Tit | Anthoscopus caroli | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Certhiidae | ||
| African Spotted-Creeper | Salpornis salvadori | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Pycnonotidae | ||
| Slender-billed Greenbul | Stelgidillas gracilirostris | |
| Red-tailed Bristlebill | Bleda syndactylus | |
| Lesser Bristlebill | Bleda notatus | |
| Shelley’s Greenbul | Arizelocichla masukuensis | |
| Eastern Mountain-Greenbul | Arizelocichla nigriceps | |
| Simple Greenbul | Chlorocichla simplex | |
| Joyful Greenbul | Chlorocichla laetissima | |
| Honeyguide Greenbul | Baeopogon indicator | |
| Yellow-throated Greenbul | Atimastillas flavicollis | |
| Spotted Greenbul | Ixonotus guttatus | |
| Swamp Greenbul | Thescelocichla leucopleura | |
| Red-tailed Greenbul | Criniger calurus | |
| Eastern Bearded-Greenbul | Criniger chloronotus | |
| Gray Greenbul | Eurillas gracilis | |
| Ansorge’s Greenbul | Eurillas ansorgei | Rare/Accidental |
| Plain Greenbul | Eurillas curvirostris | |
| Yellow-whiskered Greenbul | Eurillas latirostris | |
| Little Greenbul | Eurillas virens | |
| Leaf-love | Phyllastrephus scandens | |
| Northern Brownbul | Phyllastrephus strepitans | |
| Toro Olive-Greenbul | Phyllastrephus hypochloris | |
| Cabanis’s Greenbul | Phyllastrephus cabanisi | |
| Icterine Greenbul | Phyllastrephus icterinus | |
| Sassi’s Greenbul | Phyllastrephus lorenzi | |
| Xavier’s Greenbul | Phyllastrephus xavieri | |
| White-throated Greenbul | Phyllastrephus albigularis | |
| Yellow-streaked Greenbul | Phyllastrephus flavostriatus | |
| Common Bulbul | Pycnonotus barbatus | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Macrosphenidae | ||
| Green Crombec | Sylvietta virens | |
| Lemon-bellied Crombec | Sylvietta denti | |
| White-browed Crombec | Sylvietta leucophrys | |
| Northern Crombec | Sylvietta brachyura | |
| Red-faced Crombec | Sylvietta whytii | |
| Moustached Grass-Warbler | Melocichla mentalis | |
| Yellow Longbill | Macrosphenus flavicans | |
| Gray Longbill | Macrosphenus concolor | |
| Grauer’s Warbler | Graueria vittata | |
| Green Hylia | Hylia prasina | |
| Tit-hylia | Pholidornis rushiae | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Scotocercidae | ||
| Chestnut-capped Flycatcher | Erythrocercus mccallii | |
| Neumann’s Warbler | Urosphena neumanni | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Phylloscopidae | ||
| Red-faced Woodland-Warbler | Phylloscopus laetus | |
| Uganda Woodland-Warbler | Phylloscopus budongoensis | |
| Brown Woodland-Warbler | Phylloscopus umbrovirens | |
| Willow Warbler | Phylloscopus trochilus | |
| Common Chiffchaff | Phylloscopus collybita | |
| Wood Warbler | Phylloscopus sibilatrix | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Acrocephalidae | ||
| Papyrus Yellow-Warbler | Calamonastides gracilirostris | |
| Eastern Olivaceous Warbler | Iduna pallida | |
| African Yellow-Warbler | Iduna natalensis | |
| Mountain Yellow-Warbler | Iduna similis | |
| Upcher’s Warbler | Hippolais languida | |
| Icterine Warbler | Hippolais icterina | |
| Sedge Warbler | Acrocephalus schoenobaenus | |
| Marsh Warbler | Acrocephalus palustris | |
| Eurasian Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus scirpaceus | |
| African Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus baeticatus | |
| Basra Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus griseldis | Rare/Accidental Endangered |
| Lesser Swamp Warbler | Acrocephalus gracilirostris | |
| Greater Swamp Warbler | Acrocephalus rufescens | |
| Great Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus arundinaceus | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Locustellidae | ||
| Fan-tailed Grassbird | Schoenicola brevirostris | |
| Evergreen-forest Warbler | Bradypterus lopezi | |
| Cinnamon Bracken-Warbler | Bradypterus cinnamomeus | |
| Grauer’s Swamp Warbler | Bradypterus graueri | Endangered |
| Little Rush-Warbler | Bradypterus baboecala | |
| White-winged Swamp Warbler | Bradypterus carpalis | |
| Bamboo Warbler | Bradypterus alfredi | |
| Eurasian River Warbler | Locustella fluviatilis | Rare/Accidental |
| PASSERIFORMES: Cisticolidae | ||
| Black-collared Apalis | Apalis pulchra | |
| Ruwenzori Apalis | Apalis ruwenzorii | |
| Black-capped Apalis | Apalis nigriceps | |
| Black-throated Apalis | Apalis jacksoni | |
| Masked Apalis | Apalis binotata | |
| Black-faced Apalis | Apalis personata | |
| Yellow-breasted Apalis | Apalis flavida | |
| Buff-throated Apalis | Apalis rufogularis | |
| Chestnut-throated Apalis | Apalis porphyrolaema | |
| Gray Apalis | Apalis cinerea | |
| Karamoja Apalis | Apalis karamojae | Vulnerable |
| Green-backed Camaroptera | Camaroptera brachyura | |
| Yellow-browed Camaroptera | Camaroptera superciliaris | |
| Olive-green Camaroptera | Camaroptera chloronota | |
| Red-fronted Warbler | Urorhipis rufifrons | |
| Miombo Wren-Warbler | Calamonastes undosus | Rare/Accidental |
| Gray Wren-Warbler | Calamonastes simplex | |
| White-chinned Prinia | Schistolais leucopogon | |
| Red-winged Gray Warbler | Drymocichla incana | |
| Cricket Longtail | Spiloptila clamans | |
| Red-faced Cisticola | Cisticola erythrops | |
| Singing Cisticola | Cisticola cantans | |
| Whistling Cisticola | Cisticola lateralis | |
| Trilling Cisticola | Cisticola woosnami | |
| Chubb’s Cisticola | Cisticola chubbi | |
| Hunter’s Cisticola | Cisticola hunteri | |
| Rock-loving Cisticola | Cisticola aberrans | |
| Boran Cisticola | Cisticola bodessa | Rare/Accidental |
| Rattling Cisticola | Cisticola chiniana | |
| Red-pate Cisticola | Cisticola ruficeps | |
| Wailing Cisticola | Cisticola lais | |
| Winding Cisticola | Cisticola galactotes | |
| Carruthers’s Cisticola | Cisticola carruthersi | |
| Stout Cisticola | Cisticola robustus | |
| Croaking Cisticola | Cisticola natalensis | |
| Tabora Cisticola | Cisticola angusticauda | |
| Siffling Cisticola | Cisticola brachypterus | |
| Foxy Cisticola | Cisticola troglodytes | |
| Zitting Cisticola | Cisticola juncidis | |
| Black-backed Cisticola | Cisticola eximius | |
| Wing-snapping Cisticola | Cisticola ayresii | |
| Gray-capped Warbler | Eminia lepida | |
| Black-faced Rufous-Warbler | Bathmocercus rufus | |
| Buff-bellied Warbler | Phyllolais pulchella | |
| Tawny-flanked Prinia | Prinia subflava | |
| Pale Prinia | Prinia somalica | |
| Banded Prinia | Prinia bairdii | |
| Red-winged Prinia | Prinia erythroptera | |
| Yellow-vented Eremomela | Eremomela flavicrissalis | |
| Yellow-bellied Eremomela | Eremomela icteropygialis | |
| Green-backed Eremomela | Eremomela canescens | |
| Greencap Eremomela | Eremomela scotops | |
| Rufous-crowned Eremomela | Eremomela badiceps | |
| Turner’s Eremomela | Eremomela turneri | Endangered |
| PASSERIFORMES: Sylviidae | ||
| African Hill Babbler | Sylvia abyssinica | |
| Eurasian Blackcap | Sylvia atricapilla | |
| Garden Warbler | Sylvia borin | |
| Barred Warbler | Sylvia nisoria | |
| Brown Warbler | Sylvia lugens | |
| Greater Whitethroat | Sylvia communis | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Zosteropidae | ||
| African Yellow White-eye | Zosterops senegalensis | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Pellorneidae | ||
| Brown Illadopsis | Illadopsis fulvescens | |
| Pale-breasted Illadopsis | Illadopsis rufipennis | |
| Mountain Illadopsis | Illadopsis pyrrhoptera | |
| Scaly-breasted Illadopsis | Illadopsis albipectus | |
| Puvel’s Illadopsis | Illadopsis puveli | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Leiothrichidae | ||
| Rufous Chatterer | Turdoides rubiginosa | |
| Dusky Babbler | Turdoides tenebrosa | |
| Black-lored Babbler | Turdoides sharpei | |
| Brown Babbler | Turdoides plebejus | |
| Arrow-marked Babbler | Turdoides jardineii | |
| Red-collared Mountain-Babbler | Turdoides rufocincta | Near-threatened |
| Capuchin Babbler | Turdoides atripennis | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Modulatricidae | ||
| Gray-chested Babbler | Kakamega poliothorax | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Hyliotidae | ||
| Yellow-bellied Hyliota | Hyliota flavigaster | |
| Southern Hyliota | Hyliota australis | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Muscicapidae | ||
| Dusky-brown Flycatcher | Muscicapa adusta | |
| Yellow-footed Flycatcher | Muscicapa sethsmithi | |
| Spotted Flycatcher | Muscicapa striata | |
| Gambaga Flycatcher | Muscicapa gambagae | Rare/Accidental |
| Swamp Flycatcher | Muscicapa aquatica | |
| Cassin’s Flycatcher | Muscicapa cassini | |
| Sooty Flycatcher | Bradornis fuliginosus | |
| Dusky-blue Flycatcher | Bradornis comitatus | |
| Grayish Flycatcher | Bradornis microrhynchus | |
| Pale Flycatcher | Agricola pallidus | |
| African Forest-Flycatcher | Fraseria ocreata | |
| Gray-throated Tit-Flycatcher | Fraseria griseigularis | |
| Gray Tit-Flycatcher | Fraseria plumbea | |
| Chapin’s Flycatcher | Fraseria lendu | Vulnerable |
| Ashy Flycatcher | Fraseria caerulescens | |
| Silverbird | Melaenornis semipartitus | |
| Yellow-eyed Black-Flycatcher | Melaenornis ardesiacus | |
| Northern Black-Flycatcher | Melaenornis edolioides | |
| Southern Black-Flycatcher | Melaenornis pammelaina | |
| White-eyed Slaty-Flycatcher | Melaenornis fischeri | |
| Fire-crested Alethe | Alethe diademata | |
| Forest Scrub-Robin | Cercotrichas leucosticta | |
| Rufous-tailed Scrub-Robin | Cercotrichas galactotes | |
| Brown-backed Scrub-Robin | Cercotrichas hartlaubi | |
| Red-backed Scrub-Robin | Cercotrichas leucophrys | |
| White-bellied Robin-Chat | Cossyphicula roberti | |
| Archer’s Robin-Chat | Cossypha archeri | |
| Cape Robin-Chat | Cossypha caffra | |
| Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat | Cossypha cyanocampter | |
| Gray-winged Robin-Chat | Cossypha polioptera | |
| White-browed Robin-Chat | Cossypha heuglini | |
| Red-capped Robin-Chat | Cossypha natalensis | |
| Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat | Cossypha niveicapilla | |
| Collared Palm-Thrush | Cichladusa arquata | |
| Spotted Morning-Thrush | Cichladusa guttata | |
| White-starred Robin | Pogonocichla stellata | |
| Brown-chested Alethe | Pseudalethe poliocephala | |
| Red-throated Alethe | Pseudalethe poliophrys | |
| Forest Robin | Stiphrornis erythrothorax | |
| Lowland Akalat | Sheppardia cyornithopsis | |
| Equatorial Akalat | Sheppardia aequatorialis | |
| Thrush Nightingale | Luscinia luscinia | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Nightingale | Luscinia megarhynchos | |
| Semicollared Flycatcher | Ficedula semitorquata | |
| European Pied Flycatcher | Ficedula hypoleuca | |
| Collared Flycatcher | Ficedula albicollis | |
| Common Redstart | Phoenicurus phoenicurus | |
| Little Rock-Thrush | Monticola rufocinereus | |
| Rufous-tailed Rock-Thrush | Monticola saxatilis | |
| Miombo Rock-Thrush | Monticola angolensis | |
| Whinchat | Saxicola rubetra | |
| African Stonechat | Saxicola torquatus | |
| Sooty Chat | Myrmecocichla nigra | |
| White-fronted Black-Chat | Myrmecocichla albifrons | |
| Ruaha Chat | Myrmecocichla collaris | |
| Mocking Cliff-Chat | Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris | |
| Familiar Chat | Cercomela familiaris | |
| Moorland Chat | Cercomela sordida | |
| Northern Wheatear | Oenanthe oenanthe | |
| Pied Wheatear | Oenanthe pleschanka | |
| Desert Wheatear | Oenanthe deserti | |
| Capped Wheatear | Oenanthe pileata | Rare/Accidental |
| Isabelline Wheatear | Oenanthe isabellina | |
| Heuglin’s Wheatear | Oenanthe heuglini | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Turdidae | ||
| Rufous Flycatcher-Thrush | Neocossyphus fraseri | |
| Red-tailed Ant-Thrush | Neocossyphus rufus | |
| White-tailed Ant-Thrush | Neocossyphus poensis | |
| Black-eared Ground-Thrush | Geokichla camaronensis | |
| Gray Ground-Thrush | Geokichla princei | |
| Oberlaender’s Ground-Thrush | Geokichla oberlaenderi | Near-threatened |
| Abyssinian Ground-Thrush | Geokichla piaggiae | |
| Kivu Ground-Thrush | Geokichla tanganjicae | |
| Abyssinian Thrush | Turdus abyssinicus | |
| African Thrush | Turdus pelios | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Sturnidae | ||
| Wattled Starling | Creatophora cinerea | |
| Violet-backed Starling | Cinnyricinclus leucogaster | |
| Slender-billed Starling | Onychognathus tenuirostris | |
| Red-winged Starling | Onychognathus morio | |
| Chestnut-winged Starling | Onychognathus fulgidus | |
| Waller’s Starling | Onychognathus walleri | |
| Bristle-crowned Starling | Onychognathus salvadorii | |
| Magpie Starling | Speculipastor bicolor | Rare/Accidental |
| Sharpe’s Starling | Pholia sharpii | |
| Narrow-tailed Starling | Poeoptera lugubris | |
| Stuhlmann’s Starling | Poeoptera stuhlmanni | |
| Purple-headed Starling | Hylopsar purpureiceps | |
| Rüppell’s Starling | Lamprotornis purpuroptera | |
| Splendid Starling | Lamprotornis splendidus | |
| Superb Starling | Lamprotornis superbus | |
| Lesser Blue-eared Starling | Lamprotornis chloropterus | |
| Greater Blue-eared Starling | Lamprotornis chalybaeus | |
| Purple Starling | Lamprotornis purpureus | |
| Bronze-tailed Starling | Lamprotornis chalcurus | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Buphagidae | ||
| Red-billed Oxpecker | Buphagus erythrorhynchus | |
| Yellow-billed Oxpecker | Buphagus africanus | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Nectariniidae | ||
| Fraser’s Sunbird | Deleornis fraseri | |
| Gray-headed Sunbird | Deleornis axillaris | |
| Western Violet-backed Sunbird | Anthreptes longuemarei | |
| Kenya Violet-backed Sunbird | Anthreptes orientalis | |
| Seimund’s Sunbird | Anthreptes seimundi | |
| Green Sunbird | Anthreptes rectirostris | |
| Collared Sunbird | Hedydipna collaris | |
| Pygmy Sunbird | Hedydipna platura | |
| Green-headed Sunbird | Cyanomitra verticalis | |
| Blue-throated Brown Sunbird | Cyanomitra cyanolaema | |
| Blue-headed Sunbird | Cyanomitra alinae | |
| Olive Sunbird | Cyanomitra olivacea | |
| Green-throated Sunbird | Chalcomitra rubescens | |
| Amethyst Sunbird | Chalcomitra amethystina | |
| Scarlet-chested Sunbird | Chalcomitra senegalensis | |
| Purple-breasted Sunbird | Nectarinia purpureiventris | |
| Tacazze Sunbird | Nectarinia tacazze | |
| Bronze Sunbird | Nectarinia kilimensis | |
| Malachite Sunbird | Nectarinia famosa | |
| Red-tufted Sunbird | Nectarinia johnstoni | |
| Golden-winged Sunbird | Drepanorhynchus reichenowi | |
| Olive-bellied Sunbird | Cinnyris chloropygius | |
| Tiny Sunbird | Cinnyris minullus | |
| Stuhlmann’s Sunbird | Cinnyris stuhlmanni | |
| Prigogine’s Sunbird | Cinnyris prigoginei | Near-threatened |
| Northern Double-collared Sunbird | Cinnyris reichenowi | |
| Greater Double-collared Sunbird | Cinnyris afer | |
| Regal Sunbird | Cinnyris regius | |
| Beautiful Sunbird | Cinnyris pulchellus | |
| Mariqua Sunbird | Cinnyris mariquensis | |
| Red-chested Sunbird | Cinnyris erythrocercus | |
| Purple-banded Sunbird | Cinnyris bifasciatus | |
| Orange-tufted Sunbird | Cinnyris bouvieri | |
| Palestine Sunbird | Cinnyris osea | |
| Shining Sunbird | Cinnyris habessinicus | |
| Superb Sunbird | Cinnyris superbus | |
| Variable Sunbird | Cinnyris venustus | |
| Copper Sunbird | Cinnyris cupreus | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Motacillidae | ||
| Western Yellow Wagtail | Motacilla flava | |
| Cape Wagtail | Motacilla capensis | |
| Gray Wagtail | Motacilla cinerea | |
| Mountain Wagtail | Motacilla clara | |
| White Wagtail | Motacilla alba | |
| African Pied Wagtail | Motacilla aguimp | |
| African Pipit | Anthus cinnamomeus | |
| Jackson’s Pipit | Anthus latistriatus | |
| Long-billed Pipit | Anthus similis | |
| Tawny Pipit | Anthus campestris | Rare/Accidental |
| Plain-backed Pipit | Anthus leucophrys | |
| Striped Pipit | Anthus lineiventris | Rare/Accidental |
| Tree Pipit | Anthus trivialis | |
| Red-throated Pipit | Anthus cervinus | |
| Short-tailed Pipit | Anthus brachyurus | |
| Golden Pipit | Tmetothylacus tenellus | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow-throated Longclaw | Macronyx croceus | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Emberizidae | ||
| Ortolan Bunting | Emberiza hortulana | Rare/Accidental |
| Cinnamon-breasted Bunting | Emberiza tahapisi | |
| Golden-breasted Bunting | Emberiza flaviventris | |
| Somali Bunting | Emberiza poliopleura | Rare/Accidental |
| Brown-rumped Bunting | Emberiza affinis | |
| Cabanis’s Bunting | Emberiza cabanisi | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Fringillidae | ||
| Oriole Finch | Linurgus olivaceus | |
| White-rumped Seedeater | Crithagra leucopygia | |
| Yellow-fronted Canary | Crithagra mozambica | |
| Western Citril | Crithagra frontalis | |
| Papyrus Canary | Crithagra koliensis | |
| Black-throated Canary | Crithagra atrogularis | |
| Reichenow’s Seedeater | Crithagra reichenowi | |
| White-bellied Canary | Crithagra dorsostriata | |
| Brimstone Canary | Crithagra sulphurata | |
| Streaky Seedeater | Crithagra striolata | |
| Thick-billed Seedeater | Crithagra burtoni | |
| Streaky-headed Seedeater | Crithagra gularis | |
| Reichard’s Seedeater | Crithagra reichardi | |
| Yellow-crowned Canary | Serinus flavivertex | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Passeridae | ||
| House Sparrow | Passer domesticus | |
| Shelley’s Rufous Sparrow | Passer shelleyi | |
| Northern Gray-headed Sparrow | Passer griseus | |
| Parrot-billed Sparrow | Passer gongonensis | |
| Chestnut Sparrow | Passer eminibey | |
| Yellow-spotted Petronia | Petronia pyrgita | |
| Bush Petronia | Petronia dentata | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Ploceidae | ||
| White-billed Buffalo-Weaver | Bubalornis albirostris | |
| Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver | Bubalornis niger | |
| White-headed Buffalo-Weaver | Dinemellia dinemelli | |
| Speckle-fronted Weaver | Sporopipes frontalis | |
| White-browed Sparrow-Weaver | Plocepasser mahali | |
| Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver | Plocepasser superciliosus | |
| Gray-headed Social-Weaver | Pseudonigrita arnaudi | |
| Red-bellied Malimbe | Malimbus erythrogaster | |
| Blue-billed Malimbe | Malimbus nitens | |
| Crested Malimbe | Malimbus malimbicus | |
| Red-headed Malimbe | Malimbus rubricollis | |
| Red-headed Weaver | Anaplectes rubriceps | |
| Baglafecht Weaver | Ploceus baglafecht | |
| Little Weaver | Ploceus luteolus | |
| Slender-billed Weaver | Ploceus pelzelni | |
| Black-necked Weaver | Ploceus nigricollis | |
| Spectacled Weaver | Ploceus ocularis | |
| Black-billed Weaver | Ploceus melanogaster | |
| Strange Weaver | Ploceus alienus | |
| Holub’s Golden-Weaver | Ploceus xanthops | |
| Orange Weaver | Ploceus aurantius | |
| Northern Brown-throated Weaver | Ploceus castanops | |
| Northern Masked-Weaver | Ploceus taeniopterus | Rare/Accidental |
| Lesser Masked-Weaver | Ploceus intermedius | |
| Vitelline Masked-Weaver | Ploceus vitellinus | |
| Heuglin’s Masked-Weaver | Ploceus heuglini | |
| Fox’s Weaver | Ploceus spekeoides | Endemic Near-threatened |
| Vieillot’s Weaver | Ploceus nigerrimus | |
| Village Weaver | Ploceus cucullatus | |
| Weyns’s Weaver | Ploceus weynsi | |
| Black-headed Weaver | Ploceus melanocephalus | |
| Golden-backed Weaver | Ploceus jacksoni | |
| Chestnut Weaver | Ploceus rubiginosus | |
| Cinnamon Weaver | Ploceus badius | |
| Golden-naped Weaver | Ploceus aureonucha | Rare/Accidental Endangered |
| Yellow-mantled Weaver | Ploceus tricolor | |
| Maxwell’s Black Weaver | Ploceus albinucha | |
| Forest Weaver | Ploceus bicolor | |
| Brown-capped Weaver | Ploceus insignis | |
| Compact Weaver | Pachyphantes superciliosus | |
| Cardinal Quelea | Quelea cardinalis | |
| Red-headed Quelea | Quelea erythrops | |
| Red-billed Quelea | Quelea quelea | |
| Northern Red Bishop | Euplectes franciscanus | |
| Southern Red Bishop | Euplectes orix | |
| Black-winged Bishop | Euplectes hordeaceus | |
| Black Bishop | Euplectes gierowii | |
| Yellow-crowned Bishop | Euplectes afer | |
| Yellow Bishop | Euplectes capensis | |
| White-winged Widowbird | Euplectes albonotatus | |
| Yellow-mantled Widowbird | Euplectes macroura | |
| Red-collared Widowbird | Euplectes ardens | |
| Fan-tailed Widowbird | Euplectes axillaris | |
| Marsh Widowbird | Euplectes hartlaubi | |
| Grosbeak Weaver | Amblyospiza albifrons | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Estrildidae | ||
| Pale-fronted Nigrita | Nigrita luteifrons | |
| Gray-headed Nigrita | Nigrita canicapillus | |
| Chestnut-breasted Nigrita | Nigrita bicolor | |
| White-breasted Nigrita | Nigrita fusconotus | |
| Jameson’s Antpecker | Parmoptila jamesoni | |
| White-collared Oliveback | Nesocharis ansorgei | |
| Gray-headed Oliveback | Nesocharis capistrata | |
| Yellow-bellied Waxbill | Coccopygia quartinia | |
| Green-backed Twinspot | Mandingoa nitidula | |
| Shelley’s Crimsonwing | Cryptospiza shelleyi | Endangered |
| Dusky Crimsonwing | Cryptospiza jacksoni | |
| Abyssinian Crimsonwing | Cryptospiza salvadorii | |
| Red-faced Crimsonwing | Cryptospiza reichenovii | |
| Fawn-breasted Waxbill | Estrilda paludicola | |
| Orange-cheeked Waxbill | Estrilda melpoda | Rare/Accidental |
| Crimson-rumped Waxbill | Estrilda rhodopyga | |
| Black-rumped Waxbill | Estrilda troglodytes | |
| Common Waxbill | Estrilda astrild | |
| Black-crowned Waxbill | Estrilda nonnula | |
| Kandt’s Waxbill | Estrilda kandti | |
| Black-faced Waxbill | Estrilda erythronotos | |
| Black-cheeked Waxbill | Estrilda charmosyna | |
| Grant’s Bluebill | Spermophaga poliogenys | |
| Red-headed Bluebill | Spermophaga ruficapilla | |
| Black-bellied Seedcracker | Pyrenestes ostrinus | |
| Red-cheeked Cordonbleu | Uraeginthus bengalus | |
| Purple Grenadier | Granatina ianthinogaster | |
| Dybowski’s Twinspot | Euschistospiza dybowskii | |
| Dusky Twinspot | Euschistospiza cinereovinacea | |
| Brown Twinspot | Clytospiza monteiri | |
| Red-winged Pytilia | Pytilia phoenicoptera | |
| Green-winged Pytilia | Pytilia melba | |
| Orange-winged Pytilia | Pytilia afra | |
| Red-billed Firefinch | Lagonosticta senegala | |
| Bar-breasted Firefinch | Lagonosticta rufopicta | |
| Black-faced Firefinch | Lagonosticta larvata | |
| Black-bellied Firefinch | Lagonosticta rara | |
| African Firefinch | Lagonosticta rubricata | |
| Jameson’s Firefinch | Lagonosticta rhodopareia | |
| Cut-throat | Amadina fasciata | |
| Zebra Waxbill | Sporaeginthus subflavus | |
| Black-faced Quailfinch | Ortygospiza atricollis | |
| Black-chinned Quailfinch | Ortygospiza gabonensis | |
| Bronze Mannikin | Spermestes cucullata | |
| Black-and-white Mannikin | Spermestes bicolor | |
| Magpie Mannikin | Spermestes fringilloides | |
| African Silverbill | Euodice cantans | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Viduidae | ||
| Pin-tailed Whydah | Vidua macroura | |
| Broad-tailed Paradise-Whydah | Vidua obtusa | Rare/Accidental |
| Eastern Paradise-Whydah | Vidua paradisaea | |
| Steel-blue Whydah | Vidua hypocherina | |
| Straw-tailed Whydah | Vidua fischeri | |
| Village Indigobird | Vidua chalybeata | |
| Wilson’s Indigobird | Vidua wilsoni | |
| Parasitic Weaver | Anomalospiza imberbis |