Kingfisher Safaris Resort trip birds, 24-27 Nov 06

The Kingfisher Safaris Resort sits on a bay on the northern shore of Lake Victoria, just a few hundred meters from where the fabled White Nile spills out to begin its odyssey north to the Mediterranean Ocean. Like most locales in Uganda, birding there is excellent. I was able to see or hear the following species on this trip with only a couple of hours spent specifically looking for birds. Here's a picture of one I heard but didn't lay eyes on (typical with flufftails!)--a male white-spotted flufftail, illustrated on a stamp from neighboring Rwanda:







1. Marabou
2. Red-chested sunbird
3. Scarlet-chested sunbird
4. Green-throated sunbird
5. Black-headed heron
6. Little egret
7. Cattle egret
8. White-browed robin chat
9. Black-headed gonolek
10. Golden-backed weaver
11. Common camaroptera
12. Tawny-flanked prinia
13. Yellow-fronted canary
14. Brimstone canary
15. Palm swift
16. Yellow-billed kite (at nest)
17. Broad-billed roller
18. Bronze mannikin
19. Splendid starling
20. Lesser blue-eared starling
21. Yellow-fronted tinker bird
22. Black and white shrike flycatcher (male and female)
23. Common bulbul
24. Yellow white-eye
25. Eastern grey plantain-eater
26. Long-tailed cormorant
27. Paradise flycatcher
28. White-throated bee-eater
29. European hobby (pair)
30. African thrush
31. White-browed coucal
32. Woodland kingfisher
33. Pygmy kingfisher
34. Variable sunbird
35. Brown-crowned tchagra
36. White-spotted flufftail (voice)
37. African hobby
38. Double-toothed barbet
39. Piapiac
40. Red-billed firefinch
42. Lizard buzzard
43. African goshawk
44. Openbill stork
45. Hamerkop
46. Winding cisticola
47. Grey-headed sparrow
48. Red-eyed dove
49. Laughing dove
50. Speckled mousebird
51. African pied crow
52. Pied wagtail
53. Yellow wagtail
54. Ruppell's long-tailed starling
55. Palm nut vulture
56. Baglafecht weaver
57. Black-headed oriole (voice)
58. Grey-backed fiscal shrike
59. White-breasted cormorant
60. Pied kingfisher
61. Hadada ibis
62. Sacred ibis
63. Grey heron
64. Black-headed weaver (nesting colonies)
65. Shikra
66. African darter
67. African fish eagle
68. Harrier hawk (gymnogene) pair of adults
69. Osprey
70. African green pigeon
71. Hooded vulture
72. Long-crested eagle
73. Grey woodpecker
74. Blue-cheeked bee-eater
75. Brown-throated wattle-eye
76. Brown parrot
77. Black bishop
78. Red-faced cisticola
79. Squacco heron
80. Malachite kingfisher
81. Yellow-throated greenbul
82. Striated (green-backed) heron
83. Giant kingfisher
84. African jacana
85. Pink-backed pelican
86. Speckled pigeon
87. Grey-cap warbler (voice)
88. White-headed barbet
89. Spectacled weaver
90. Blue-spotted wood dove
91. Northern puffback
92. Black-crowned waxbill
93. African blue flycatcher
94. Little swift
95. Barn swallow
96. Black-shouldered kite
97. Ross’s turaco (voice)
98. Grey hornbill
99. Common sandpiper
100. Large number of migrating warblers, including willow warblers and other similar species
101. Single quail overhead one evening, probably a harlequin
102. Unidentified medium-sized falcon