Birds of Akagara National Park

Birds of Akagara National Park

Akagare national park is one of the birder’s haven in Rwanda and the only savannah national park is Rwanda, the park is located in eastern Rwanda covering an area of 2500 square kilometers. Akagera national park is a great host for bird with over 482 bird species including endemic species as well as rare gems such as the near threatened papyrus Gonolex that are restricted to the Papyrus swamps.

Below is the lisit of Birds found in Akagera national park

ANSERIFORMES: Anatidae

• White-faced Whistling-Duck
• Fulvous Whistling-Duck
• White-backed Duck
• Knob-billed Duck
• Egyptian Goose
• Spur-winged Goose
• African Pygmy-Goose
• Blue-billed Teal
• Yellow-billed Duck
• Red-billed Duck

GALLIFORMES: Numididae

• Helmeted Guineafowl

GALLIFORMES: Phasianidae

• Crested Francolin
• Coqui Francolin
• Ring-necked Francolin
• Red-winged Francolin
• Shelley’s Francolin
• Blue Quail
• Harlequin Quail
• Hildebrandt’s Francolin
• Scaly Francolin
• Red-necked Francolin
• Scaly Francolin

PODICIPEDIFORMES: Podicipedidae

• Little Grebe

COLUMBIFORMES: Columbidae

• Speckled Pigeon
• Dusky Turtle-Dove
• Mourning Collared-Dove
• Red-eyed Dove
• Ring-necked Dove
• Laughing Dove
• Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove
• Blue-spotted Wood-Dove
• Tambourine Dove
• Namaqua Dove
• African Green-Pigeon

OTIDIFORMES: Otididae

• Denham’s Bustard
• Black-bellied Bustard

MUSOPHAGIFORMES: Musophagidae

• White-crested Turaco
• Purple-crested Turaco
• Ross’s Turaco
• Bare-faced Go-away-bird
• Eastern Plantain-eater

CUCULIFORMES: Cuculidae

• Blue-headed Coucal
• White-browed Coucal
• Black Coucal
• Blue Malkoha
• Great Spotted Cuckoo
• Levaillant’s Cuckoo
• Pied Cuckoo
• Thick-billed Cuckoo
• Dideric Cuckoo
• Klaas’s Cuckoo
• African Emerald Cuckoo
• Black Cuckoo
• Red-chested Cuckoo
• African Cuckoo
• Common Cuckoo

CAPRIMULGIFORMES: Caprimulgidae

• Pennant-winged Nightjar
• Eurasian Nightjar
• Black-shouldered Nightjar
• Swamp Nightjar
• Freckled Nightjar
• Square-tailed Nightjar

CAPRIMULGIFORMES: Apodidae

• Alpine Swift
• Mottled Swift
• Common Swift
• African Swift
• Little Swift
• Horus Swift
• White-rumped Swift
• African Palm-Swift
• GRUIFORMES: Sarothruridae
• Red-chested Flufftail

GRUIFORMES: Rallidae

• African Rail
• Corn Crake
• African Crake
• Lesser Moorhen
• Eurasian Moorhen
• Red-knobbed Coot
• Red-knobbed Coot<
• African Swamphen
• Striped Crake
• Black Crake
• Baillon’s Crake

GRUIFORMES: Heliornithidae

• African Finfoot

GRUIFORMES: Gruidae

• Gray Crowned-Crane

CHARADRIIFORMES: Burhinidae

• Water Thick-knee

CHARADRIIFORMES: Recurvirostridae

• Black-winged Stilt

CHARADRIIFORMES: Charadriidae

• Black-bellied Plover
• Long-toed Lapwing
• Spur-winged Lapwing
• Senegal Lapwing
• Crowned Lapwing
• Wattled Lapwing
• Brown-chested Lapwing
• Kittlitz’s Plover
• Common Ringed Plover
• Three-banded Plover
• Forbes’s Plover

CHARADRIIFORMES: Rostratulidae

• Greater Painted-Snipe

CHARADRIIFORMES: Jacanidae

• Lesser Jacana
• African Jacana

CHARADRIIFORMES: Scolopacidae

• Ruff
• Curlew Sandpiper
• Little Stint
• Common Snipe
• Common Sandpiper
• Green Sandpiper
• Spotted Redshank
• Common Greenshank
• Marsh Sandpiper
• Wood Sandpiper

CHARADRIIFORMES: Turnicidae

• Small Buttonquail

CHARADRIIFORMES: Glareolidae

• Temminck’s Courser
• Bronze-winged Courser
• Collared Pratincole

CHARADRIIFORMES: Laridae

• Lesser Black-backed Gull
• Gull-billed Tern
• White-winged Tern

CICONIIFORMES: Ciconiidae

• African Openbill
• Abdim’s Stork
• Woolly-necked Stork
• White Stork
• Saddle-billed Stork
• Marabou Stork
• Yellow-billed Stork

SULIFORMES: Anhingidae

• African Darter

SULIFORMES: Phalacrocoracidae

• Long-tailed Cormorant
• Great Cormorant

PELECANIFORMES: Pelecanidae

• Great White Pelican
• Pink-backed Pelican

PELECANIFORMES: Balaenicipitidae

• Shoebill

PELECANIFORMES: Scopidae

• Hamerkop

PELECANIFORMES: Ardeidae

•  Little Bittern
• Dwarf Bittern
• Gray Heron
• Black-headed Heron
• Goliath Heron
• Purple Heron
• Great Egret
• Intermediate Egret
• Little Egret
• Black Heron
• Cattle Egret
• Squacco Heron
• Malagasy Pond-Heron
• Rufous-bellied Heron
• Striated Heron
• Black-crowned Night-Heron
• White-backed Night-Heron

PELECANIFORMES: Threskiornithidae

• Glossy Ibis
• African Sacred Ibis
• Hadada Ibis
• African Spoonbill

ACCIPITRIFORMES: Sagittariidae

• Secretarybird

ACCIPITRIFORMES: Pandionidae

• Osprey

ACCIPITRIFORMES: Accipitridae

•  Black-winged Kite
• African Harrier-Hawk
• Palm-nut Vulture
• European Honey-buzzard
• African Cuckoo-Hawk
• White-headed Vulture
• Lappet-faced Vulture
• Hooded Vulture
• White-backed Vulture
• Rüppell’s Griffon
• Bateleur
• Beaudouin’s Snake-Eagle
• Black-chested Snake-Eagle
• Brown Snake-Eagle
• Banded Snake-Eagle
• Bat Hawk
• Crowned Eagle
• Martial Eagle
• Long-crested Eagle
• Lesser Spotted Eagle
• Wahlberg’s Eagle
• Booted Eagle
• Ayres’s Hawk-Eagle
• Tawny Eagle
• Steppe Eagle
• African Hawk-Eagle
• Lizard Buzzard
• Dark Chanting-Goshawk
• Gabar Goshawk
• Eurasian Marsh-Harrier
• African Marsh-Harrier
• Pallid Harrier
• Montagu’s Harrier
• African Goshawk
• Shikra
• Little Sparrowhawk
• Ovambo Sparrowhawk
• Black Goshawk
• Black Kite
• African Fish-Eagle
• Common Buzzard
• Augur Buzzard

STRIGIFORMES: Tytonidae

• Barn Owl

STRIGIFORMES: Strigidae

• African Scops-Owl
• Southern White-faced Owl
• Spotted Eagle-Owl
• Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl
• Pearl-spotted Owlet
• African Wood-Owl
• Marsh Owl

COLIIFORMES: Coliidae

• Speckled Mousebird
• Blue-naped Mousebird

TROGONIFORMES: Trogonidae

• Narina Trogon

BUCEROTIFORMES: Upupidae

• Eurasian Hoopoe

BUCEROTIFORMES: Phoeniculidae

• Green Woodhoopoe
• Common Scimitarbill

BUCEROTIFORMES: Bucerotidae

• Crowned Hornbill
• African Gray Hornbill

CORACIIFORMES: Alcedinidae

• Half-collared Kingfisher
• Shining-blue Kingfisher
• Malachite Kingfisher
• African Pygmy Kingfisher
• Gray-headed Kingfisher
• Woodland Kingfisher
• Striped Kingfisher
• Giant Kingfisher
• Pied Kingfisher

CORACIIFORMES: Meropidae

• Little Bee-eater
• Blue-breasted Bee-eater
• Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater
• White-throated Bee-eater
• Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
• Madagascar Bee-eater
• European Bee-eater
• Southern Carmine Bee-eater

CORACIIFORMES: Coraciidae

• European Roller
• Lilac-breasted Roller
• Rufous-crowned Roller
• Broad-billed Roller

PICIFORMES: Lybiidae

• Crested Barbet
• Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird
• Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird
• Spot-flanked Barbet
• White-headed Barbet
• Red-faced Barbet
• Black-collared Barbet
• Double-toothed Barbet

PICIFORMES: Indicatoridae

• Lesser Honeyguide
• Scaly-throated Honeyguide
• Greater Honeyguide

PICIFORMES: Picidae

• Rufous-necked Wryneck
• Cardinal Woodpecker
• Bearded Woodpecker
• African Gray Woodpecker
• Green-backed Woodpecker
• Nubian Woodpecker
• Bennett’s Woodpecker
• Golden-tailed Woodpecker

FALCONIFORMES: Falconidae

• Lesser Kestrel
• Eurasian Kestrel
• Gray Kestrel
• Red-necked Falcon
• Amur Falcon
• Sooty Falcon
• Eurasian Hobby
• African Hobby
• Lanner Falcon
• Peregrine Falcon

PSITTACIFORMES: Psittaculidae

• Red-headed Lovebird

PSITTACIFORMES: Psittacidae

• Meyer’s Parrot

PASSERIFORMES: Campephagidae

• Black Cuckooshrike

PASSERIFORMES: Oriolidae

• Eurasian Golden Oriole
• African Golden Oriole
• African Black-headed Oriole

PASSERIFORMES: Platysteiridae

• Brown-throated Wattle-eye
• Chinspot Batis

PASSERIFORMES: Vangidae

• White Helmetshrike

PASSERIFORMES: Malaconotidae

•  Brubru
• Northern Puffback
• Black-backed Puffback
• Marsh Tchagra
• Black-crowned Tchagra
• Brown-crowned Tchagra
• Lühder’s Bushshrike
• Tropical Boubou
• Black-headed Gonolek
• Papyrus Gonolek
• Slate-colored Boubou
• Sulphur-breasted Bushshrike
• Gray-headed Bushshrike

PASSERIFORMES: Dicruridae

• Fork-tailed Drongo

PASSERIFORMES: Monarchidae

• African Crested-Flycatcher
• African Paradise-Flycatcher

PASSERIFORMES: Laniidae

• Red-backed Shrike
• Lesser Gray Shrike
• Gray-backed Fiscal
• Mackinnon’s Shrike
• Northern Fiscal
• Souza’s Shrike

PASSERIFORMES: Corvidae

• Piapiac
• Pied Crow
• White-necked Raven

PASSERIFORMES: Stenostiridae

• White-tailed Blue Flycatcher

PASSERIFORMES: Paridae

• White-winged Black-Tit

PASSERIFORMES: Remizidae

• African Penduline-Tit

PASSERIFORMES: Alaudidae

• Rufous-naped Lark
• Flappet Lark
• Red-capped Lark

PASSERIFORMES: Macrosphenidae

• Red-faced Crombec
• Moustached Grass-Warbler

PASSERIFORMES: Cisticolidae

•  Yellow-bellied Eremomela
• Green-backed Eremomela
• Greencap Eremomela
• White-chinned Prinia
• Miombo Wren-Warbler
• Green-backed Camaroptera
• Buff-bellied Warbler
• Yellow-breasted Apalis
• Gray Apalis
• Tawny-flanked Prinia
• Gray-capped Warbler
• Red-faced Cisticola
• Singing Cisticola
• Trilling Cisticola
• Chubb’s Cisticola
• Winding Cisticola
• Carruthers’s Cisticola
• Stout Cisticola
• Croaking Cisticola
• Tabora Cisticola
• Siffling Cisticola
• Zitting Cisticola
• Wing-snapping Cisticola

PASSERIFORMES: Acrocephalidae

• Eastern Olivaceous Warbler
• African Yellow-Warbler
• Icterine Warbler
• Sedge Warbler
• Eurasian Reed Warbler
• African Reed Warbler
• Lesser Swamp Warbler
• Greater Swamp Warbler
• Great Reed Warbler

PASSERIFORMES: Locustellidae

• Fan-tailed Grassbird
• White-winged Swamp Warbler
• Highland Rush Warbler

PASSERIFORMES: Hirundinidae

•  Bank Swallow
• Banded Martin
• Rock Martin
• Barn Swallow
• Angola Swallow
• Wire-tailed Swallow
• Red-rumped Swallow
• Lesser Striped Swallow
• Rufous-chested Swallow
• Mosque Swallow
• Common House-Martin
• White-headed Sawwing
• Gray-rumped Swallow

PASSERIFORMES: Pycnonotidae

• Shelley’s Greenbul
• Yellow-throated Greenbul
• Cabanis’s Greenbul
• Common Bulbul

PASSERIFORMES: Phylloscopidae

• Wood Warbler
• Willow Warbler

PASSERIFORMES: Sylviidae

• Eurasian Blackcap
• Garden Warbler
• Greater Whitethroat

PASSERIFORMES: Zosteropidae

• Green White-eye

PASSERIFORMES: Leiothrichidae

• Arrow-marked Babbler
• Black-lored Babbler

PASSERIFORMES: Buphagidae

• Red-billed Oxpecker
• Yellow-billed Oxpecker

PASSERIFORMES: Sturnidae

• Wattled Starling
• Violet-backed Starling
• Rüppell’s Starling
• Splendid Starling
• Greater Blue-eared Starling

PASSERIFORMES: Turdidae

• African Thrush

PASSERIFORMES: Muscicapidae

•  African Dusky Flycatcher
• Spotted Flycatcher
• Swamp Flycatcher
• Pale Flycatcher
• Gray Tit-Flycatcher
• Ashy Flycatcher
• Southern Black-Flycatcher
• White-eyed Slaty-Flycatcher
• Brown-backed Scrub-Robin
• Red-backed Scrub-Robin
• Gray-winged Robin-Chat
• White-browed Robin-Chat
• Red-capped Robin-Chat
• Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat
• Semicollared Flycatcher
• Collared Flycatcher
• Common Redstart
• Rufous-tailed Rock-Thrush
• Whinchat
• African Stonechat
• Mocking Cliff-Chat
• Sooty Chat
• Ruaha Chat
• Northern Wheatear
• Capped Wheatear
• Isabelline Wheatear
• Familiar Chat

PASSERIFORMES: Nectariniidae

• Collared Sunbird
• Green-headed Sunbird
• Scarlet-chested Sunbird
• Bronze Sunbird
• Olive-bellied Sunbird
• Mariqua Sunbird
• Red-chested Sunbird
• Purple-banded Sunbird
• Variable Sunbird
• Copper Sunbird

PASSERIFORMES: Ploceidae

•  Red-headed Weaver
• Baglafecht Weaver
• Slender-billed Weaver
• Black-necked Weaver
• Spectacled Weaver
• Black-billed Weaver
• Holub’s Golden-Weaver
• Northern Brown-throated Weaver
• Lesser Masked-Weaver
• Vieillot’s Weaver
• Village Weaver
• Black-headed Weaver
• Compact Weaver
• Cardinal Quelea
• Red-headed Quelea
• Red-billed Quelea
• Southern Red Bishop
• Black-winged Bishop
• Yellow Bishop
• White-winged Widowbird
• Red-collared Widowbird
• Fan-tailed Widowbird
• Grosbeak Weaver

PASSERIFORMES: Estrildidae

• Bronze Mannikin
• Black-and-white Mannikin
• Green-backed Twinspot
• Gray-headed Nigrita
• Black-faced Waxbill
• Black-crowned Waxbill
• Fawn-breasted Waxbill
• Common Waxbill
• Crimson-rumped Waxbill
• Quailfinch
• Zebra Waxbill
• Red-cheeked Cordonbleu
• Red-headed Bluebill
• Green-winged Pytilia
• Orange-winged Pytilia
• Peters’s Twinspot
• Red-billed Firefinch
• African Firefinch

PASSERIFORMES: Viduidae

• Pin-tailed Whydah
• Broad-tailed Paradise-Whydah
• Eastern Paradise-Whydah
• Village Indigobird
• Parasitic Weave

PASSERIFORMES: Passeridae

• House Sparrow
• Northern Gray-headed Sparrow

PASSERIFORMES: Motacillidae

• Cape Wagtail
• Western Yellow Wagtail
• African Pied Wagtail
• African Pipit
• Long-billed Pipit
• Plain-backed Pipit
• Striped Pipit
• Tree Pipit
• Yellow-throated Longclaw

PASSERIFORMES: Fringillidae

• Yellow-fronted Canary
• Western Citril
• Papyrus Canary
• Black-throated Canary
• Brimstone Canary
• Streaky Seedeater
• Thick-billed Seedeater

PASSERIFORMES: Emberizidae

• Cabanis’s Bunting
• Golden-breasted Bunting
• Cinnamon-breasted Bunting