Udzungwa Mountains National Park birds checklist: Udzungwa Mountains National Park is rich in forested rea, thus a rich bird habituation area and indeed the best and richest bird watching area in Tanzania. Udzungwa Mountains National Park is among the top three Africa mainland bird watching destinations, and this is one of the various Important Birding Area in Tanzania. For an avid bird watcher, Udzungwa Mountains is a must see and visit whilst on your Tanzania birding safari.
There are over 370 bird species in Udzungwa Mountains. Below is a comprehensive Udzungwa mountains national park birds checklist.
Egyptian Goose
African Black Duck
Helmeted Guineafowl
Eastern Crested Guineafowl
Udzungwa Partridge
Crested Francolin
Harlequin Quail
Scaly Spurfowl
Red-necked Spurfowl
Little Grebe
Rameron Pigeon
Delegorgue’s 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
African Green-Pigeon
Livingstone’s Turaco
Schalow’s Turaco
Hartlaub’s Turaco
Purple-crested Turaco
White-browed Coucal
Black Coucal
Blue Malkoha
Green Malkoha
Levaillant’s Cuckoo
Dideric Cuckoo
Klaas’s Cuckoo
African Emerald Cuckoo
Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo
Red-chested Cuckoo
Pennant-winged Nightjar
Fiery-necked Nightjar
Montane Nightjar
Mottled Spinetail
Bat-like Spinetail
Mottled Swift
African Swift
Little Swift
Horus Swift
White-rumped Swift
African Palm Swift
Black Crake
Water Thick-knee
Three-banded Plover
Long-toed Lapwing
Spur-winged Lapwing
Common Sandpiper
Marsh Sandpiper
Little Stint
Small Buttonquail
African Skimmer
African Openbill
African Woolly-necked Stork
Saddle-billed Stork
Marabou Stork
Long-tailed Cormorant
Hamerkop
Black-crowned Night Heron
Striated Heron
Rufous-bellied Heron
Squacco Heron
Western Cattle Egret
Purple Heron
Black-headed Heron
Goliath Heron
Hadada Ibis
Black-winged Kite
African Harrier-Hawk
Palm-nut Vulture
African Cuckoo-Hawk
White-backed Vulture
Bateleur
Brown Snake-Eagle
Fasciated Snake-Eagle
Bat Hawk
Crowned Eagle
Martial Eagle
Long-crested Eagle
Wahlberg’s Eagle
Ayres’s Hawk-Eagle
Verreaux’s Eagle
African Hawk-Eagle
Lizard Buzzard
Grasshopper Buzzard
African Goshawk
Shikra
Little Sparrowhawk
Black Goshawk
Black Kite
Common Buzzard
Mountain Buzzard
Barn Owl
Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl
Pel’s Fishing-Owl
African Barred Owlet
African Wood-Owl
Speckled Mousebird
Blue-naped Mousebird
Narina Trogon
Bar-tailed Trogon
Eurasian Hoopoe
Green Woodhoopoe
Common Scimitarbill
Southern Ground-Hornbill
Crowned Hornbill
African Gray Hornbill
Pale-billed Hornbill
Von der Decken’s Hornbill
Tanzanian Red-billed Hornbill
Silvery-cheeked Hornbill
Trumpeter Hornbill
Half-collared Kingfisher
Malachite Kingfisher
African Pygmy Kingfisher
Gray-headed Kingfisher
Woodland Kingfisher
Brown-hooded Kingfisher
Striped Kingfisher
Giant Kingfisher
Pied Kingfisher
White-fronted Bee-eater
Little Bee-eater
White-throated Bee-eater
Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
European Bee-eater
Northern Carmine Bee-eater
European Roller
Lilac-breasted Roller
Rufous-crowned Roller
Broad-billed Roller
Green Barbet
White-eared Barbet
Green Tinkerbird
Moustached Tinkerbird
Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird
Spot-flanked Barbet
Black-collared Barbet
Brown-breasted Barbet
Lesser Honeyguide
Scaly-throated Honeyguide
Greater Honeyguide
Cardinal Woodpecker
Olive Woodpecker
Green-backed Woodpecker
Nubian Woodpecker
Golden-tailed Woodpecker
Eurasian Kestrel
Gray Kestrel
Dickinson’s Kestrel
Eleonora’s Falcon
Eurasian Hobby
African Hobby
Lanner Falcon
Peregrine Falcon
Brown-necked Parrot
Meyer’s Parrot
African Broadbill
Gray Cuckooshrike
Black Cuckooshrike
African Golden Oriole
Green-headed Oriole
African Black-headed Oriole
Black-throated Wattle-eye
Short-tailed Batis
Dark Batis
Chinspot Batis
Pale Batis
White Helmetshrike
Retz’s Helmetshrike
Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher
Brubru
Black-backed Puffback
Black-crowned Tchagra
Brown-crowned Tchagra
Tropical Boubou
Zanzibar Boubou
Slate-colored Boubou
Fülleborn’s Boubou
Sulphur-breasted Bushshrike
Black-fronted Bushshrike
Gray-headed Bushshrike
Square-tailed Drongo
Fork-tailed Drongo
African Crested Flycatcher
African Paradise-Flycatcher
Long-tailed Fiscal
Northern Fiscal
White-rumped Shrike
House Crow
Pied Crow
White-necked Raven
White-tailed Blue Flycatcher
White-tailed Crested Flycatcher
White-bellied Tit
African Penduline-Tit
Eastern Nicator
Red-faced Crombec
Moustached Grass-Warbler
Kretschmer’s Longbill
African Tailorbird
Green-backed Camaroptera
Bar-throated Apalis
White-winged Apalis
Masked Apalis
Yellow-breasted Apalis
Chapin’s Apalis
Black-headed Apalis
Gray Apalis
Brown-headed Apalis
Tawny-flanked Prinia
Red-winged Prinia
Red-faced Cisticola
Black-lored Cisticola
Kilombero Cisticola
Rattling Cisticola
Churring Cisticola
White-tailed Cisticola
Winding Cisticola
Croaking Cisticola
Siffling Cisticola
Tiny Cisticola
Zitting Cisticola
Mountain Yellow-Warbler
Marsh Warbler
Common Reed Warbler
Lesser Swamp Warbler
Greater Swamp Warbler
Evergreen-forest Warbler
Cinnamon Bracken-Warbler
Black Sawwing
Rock Martin
Barn Swallow
Angola Swallow
Wire-tailed Swallow
Western House-Martin
Red-rumped Swallow
Lesser Striped Swallow
Mosque Swallow
Sombre Greenbul
Yellow-bellied Greenbul
Shelley’s Greenbul
Stripe-cheeked Greenbul
Yellow-throated Mountain Greenbul
Little Greenbul
Yellow-streaked Greenbul
Terrestrial Brownbul
Gray-olive Greenbul
Cabanis’s Greenbul
Common Bulbul
Willow Warbler
Yellow-throated Woodland-Warbler
Yellow Flycatcher
Livingstone’s Flycatcher
African Hill Babbler
Banded Parisoma
Brown Parisoma
Pale White-eye
Southern Yellow White-eye
Pale-breasted Illadopsis
Tanzanian Illadopsis
Arrow-marked Babbler
African Spotted Creeper
Violet-backed Starling
Slender-billed Starling
Red-winged Starling
Waller’s Starling
Kenrick’s Starling
Black-bellied Starling
Ashy Starling
Superb Starling
Lesser Blue-eared Starling
Greater Blue-eared Starling
Orange Ground-Thrush
Groundscraper Thrush
Kurrichane Thrush
African Dusky Flycatcher
Spotted Flycatcher
African Gray Flycatcher
Pale Flycatcher
Gray Tit-Flycatcher
Ashy Flycatcher
Southern Black-Flycatcher
White-eyed Slaty-Flycatcher
Bearded Scrub-Robin
Red-backed Scrub-Robin
Olive-flanked Robin-Chat
Cape Robin-Chat
White-browed Robin-Chat
Red-capped Robin-Chat
Collared Palm-Thrush
Spotted Morning-Thrush
White-starred Robin
Swynnerton’s Robin
White-chested Alethe
Sharpe’s Akalat
Iringa Akalat
Thrush Nightingale
Common Nightingale
African Stonechat
Northern Wheatear
Spot-throat
Dapple-throat
Western Violet-backed Sunbird
Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird
Uluguru Violet-backed Sunbird
Banded Sunbird
Collared Sunbird
Green-headed Sunbird
Olive Sunbird
Amethyst Sunbird
Scarlet-chested Sunbird
Bronze Sunbird
Malachite Sunbird
Montane Double-collared Sunbird
Forest Double-collared Sunbird
Moreau’s Sunbird
Beautiful Sunbird
Marico Sunbird
Shelley’s Sunbird
Red-chested Sunbird
Purple-banded Sunbird
Rufous-winged Sunbird
Variable Sunbird
White-browed Sparrow-Weaver
Bertram’s Weaver
Black-necked Weaver
Spectacled Weaver
African Golden-Weaver
Southern Brown-throated Weaver
Lesser Masked-Weaver
Village Weaver
Golden-backed Weaver
Forest Weaver
Usambara Weaver
Cardinal Quelea
Southern Red Bishop
Zanzibar Red Bishop
Black-winged Bishop
Yellow Bishop
White-winged Widowbird
Yellow-mantled Widowbird
Red-collared Widowbird
Fan-tailed Widowbird
Marsh Widowbird
Grosbeak Weaver
Bronze Mannikin
Magpie Mannikin
Black-and-white Mannikin
Yellow-bellied Waxbill
Red-faced Crimsonwing
Fawn-breasted Waxbill
Common Waxbill
Crimson-rumped Waxbill
Zebra Waxbill
Southern Cordonbleu
Red-cheeked Cordonbleu
Blue-capped Cordonbleu
Lesser Seedcracker
Green-winged Pytilia
Peters’s Twinspot
Red-billed Firefinch
African Firefinch
Jameson’s Firefinch
Pin-tailed Whydah
Village Indigobird
House Sparrow
Northern Gray-headed Sparrow
Swahili Sparrow
Southern Gray-headed Sparrow
Mountain Wagtail
Western Yellow Wagtail
African Pied Wagtail
Richard’s Pipit
African Pipit
Woodland Pipit
Yellow-fronted Canary
Black-throated Canary
Reichenow’s Seedeater
Brimstone Canary
Streaky Seedeater
Tanzania Seedeater
Golden-breasted Bunting
