Bird Checklist for Mabira Forest: As part of your safari experience in Uganda, visiting Mabira forest will give you a rewarding adventure because of its rich biodiversity and activities that you can participate in to explore the hidden gem that is most times explored as a stopover for travelers making their way to the source of the River Nile in Jinja. The forest boasts about 312 tree species, which act as a habitat for the bird species that can be seen by travelers interested in birding in Uganda. Some of the different bird species that can be seen in the forest include;

Bird Checklist for Mabira Forest
1 Nahan’s Partridge Ptilopachus nahani
2 Sabine’s Spinetail Rhaphidura sabini
3 Cassin’s Spinetail Neafrapus cassini
4 Gray Crowned-Crane Balearica regulorum
5 African Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia microscelis
6 Shoebill Balaeniceps rex
7 #Egyptian Vulture# Neophron percnopterus
8 Lappet-faced Vulture Torgos tracheliotos
9 Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus
10 White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus
11 Crowned Eagle Stephanoaetus coronatus
12 Martial Eagle Polemaetus bellicosus
13 Tawny Eagle Aquila rapax
14 Forest Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus castaneiceps
15 /European Bee-eater/ Merops apiaster
16 Red-necked Falcon Falco chicquera
17 Gray Parrot Psittacus erithacus
18 Lowland Sooty Boubou Laniarius leucorhynchus
19 Yellow Longbill Macrosphenus flavicans
20 Gray Longbill Macrosphenus concolor
21 Tabora Cisticola Cisticola angusticauda
22 African Yellow-Warbler Iduna natalensis
23 Yellow-streaked Greenbul Phyllastrephus flavostriatus
24 Uganda Woodland-Warbler Phylloscopus budongoensis
25 Tit-hylia Pholidornis rushiae
26 Red-tailed Ant-Thrush Neocossyphus rufus
27 Superb Sunbird Cinnyris superbus
28 Orange Weaver Ploceus aurantius
29 Marsh Widowbird Euplectes hartlaubi
30 Magpie Mannikin Spermestes fringilloides

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