Birds of Rwanda

List of Common Birds Found in Rwanda

Native Birds

• Abyssinian Ground Hornbill
• African Black Duck
• African Blue Flycatcher
• African Dusky Flycatcher
• African Firefinch
• African Fish Eagle
• African Golden Oriole
• African Goshawk
• African Gray Flycatcher
• African Gray Hornbill
• African Green Pigeon
• African Harrier Hawk
• African Hill Babbler
• African Hoopoe
• African Jacana
• African Palm Swift
• African Paradise Flycatcher
• African Pied Hornbill
• African Pygmy Kingfisher
• African Sacred Ibis 
• African Stonechat
• African Thrush
• African Wattled Lapwing
• African Wood Owl
• Augur Buzzard
• Baglafecht Weaver
• Bar-tailed Trogon
• Black-and-white Casqued Hornbill
• Black-and-white Mannikin
• Black-backed Puffback
• Black-bellied Seedcracker
• Black Crake
• Black-crowned Waxbill
• Black Cuckoo
• Black-headed Gonolek
• Black-headed Heron
• Black-headed Lapwing
• Black-headed Oriole
• Black-headed Weaver
• Black-throated Wattle-eye
• Black-winged Red Bishop
• Blue-headed Coucal
• Blue-naped Mousebird
• Blue-spotted Wood Dove
• Broad-billed Roller
• Bronze Sunbird
• Brown-backed Scrub Robin
• Brown Parrot
• Brown Snake Eagle
• Cattle Egret
• Chubb’s Cisticola
• Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater
• Cinnamon-chested Flycatcher
• Common Bulbul
• Common Hoopoe 
• Crowned Hornbill
• Dark-capped Yellow Warbler
• Dusky Turtle Dove
• Eastern Gray Plantain-eater
• Gray-backed Fiscal
• Gray-capped Warbler
• Gray Crowned Crane 
• Gray-headed Kingfisher
• Great Blue Turaco
• Great Egret
• Greater Honeyguide
• Green-backed Camaroptera
• Hadada Ibis 
• Hamerkop 
• Hartlaub’s Turaco
• Helmeted Guinea Fowl 
• Hildebrandt’s Francolin
• Hooded Vulture 
• Klaas’s Cuckoo
• Lilac-breasted Roller 
• Little Bee-eater 
• Little Rush Warbler
• Little Sparrowhawk
• Long-crested Eagle
• Marabou Stork 
• Marico Sunbird
• Mountain Masked Apalis
• Mountain Yellow Warbler
• Northern Black Flycatcher
• Northern Fiscal
• Olive Baboob
• Olive-green Camaroptera
• Pied Crow 
• Pied Kingfisher
• Pink-backed Pelican
• Pin-tailed Whydah
• Purple-breasted Sunbird
• Purple Roller
• Purple Starling
• Red-chested Flufftail
• Red-chested Sunbird
• Red-eyed Dove
• Red-faced Cisticola
• Red-throated Wryneck
• Ross’s Turaco
• Ruwenzori Batis
• Rwenzori Nightjar
• Rwenzori Turaco
• Scarlet-chested Sunbird
• Slender-billed Weaver
• Southern Banded Snake Eagle
• Southern Ground Hornbill
• Speckled Mousebird
• Speckled Pigeon 
• Spur-winged Lapwing
• Striated Heron
• Striped Kingfisher
• Taveta Golden Weaver
• Tawny-flanked Prinia
• Variable Sunbird
• Vieillot’s Black Weaver
• Village Weaver 
• White-backed Vulture
• White-bellied Tit
• White-breasted Cuckooshrike
• White-browed Coucal
• White-browed Robin-chat
• White-eyed River Martin
• White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher
• White-headed Barbet
• White-headed Woodhoopoe
• White-necked Raven
• White-shouldered Black Tit
• White-tailed Blue Flycatcher
• White-tailed Crested Flycatcher
• White-winged Widowbird
• Woodland Kingfisher 
• Yellow-bellied Waxbill
• Yellow-billed Stork
• Yellow-fronted Canary

Non-native Birds

• Amethyst Sunbird
• Beautiful Sunbird
• House Sparrow
• Little Weaver
• Rock Pigeon
• White Wagtail

Some of Rwanda’s best places to go birdwatching include Akagera National Park, Nyungwe Forest National Park, and Volcanoes National Park. The peak season for birdwatching in Rwanda typically coincides with the dry season, considered the best time to visit the country.