The global bird watching weekend October 2021
The second annual competition of the global bird watching activity of 2021 was participated on 9th/Oct to 11th /Oct. This epic and astonishing activity unites the world’s most popular birders to tick the checklists of all birds around there destinations just to update of how the conservation gear really is.
Who represented Uganda?
Team Uganda was represented with many bird watching teams with different destinations of the pearl and Uganda being one of the most popular bird watching destination in the world, with almost half of Africa’s bird species from the Albertine rift endemics to the forest dwellers and down through to the rare Shoebill stork.
EBS Tours and safaris representative
Ebs Tours & Safaris was represented by Shafic Buyondo who joined the team of other nature conservationists and wildlife guides to search for special bird species of Lutembe Bay.
On 9th/Oct/2021 and just as you could imagine how special Lutembe is, it really never disappoints when it comes to birds, from residents to Pale-arctic winter visitors and this unique destination rewarded us with more than 120 bird species just in a single day.
Here are some of the species we ticked:
1.Meyers parrot
2.Grey Eastern plantain eaters
3.African thrush
4.Common bulbul
5.Red eyed dove
6.Red billed fire finch
7.Red cheeked cordon bleu
8.African Yellow white eye
9.Green headed sunbird
10.Scarlet chested sunbird
11.Marico sunbird
12.African grey parrot
13.Double toothed barbet
14.Hadada ibis
15.African goshawk
16.Speckled mouse bird
17.Village weaver
18.Nubian wood pecker (dots on the belly)
19.Red headed love bird
20.Northern black flycatcher
21.Golden backed weaver
22.Northern puff back
23.Copper sunbird
24.Viollett’s weaver
25.Grey crowned cranes
26.Winding cisticola
27.Black and white manikins
28.Black headed weaver
29.Bronze manikins
30.Black headed gonolek
31.Long crested eagle
32.Little egret
33.Red chested sunbird
34.Black headed heron
35.Grey backed fiscal
36.White throated bee eater
37.Great blue turaco
38.Pin tailed whydah
39.Sooty chat
40.African fish eagle
41.Marabou stork
42.Little bee eater
43.Spur wing lapwing
44.Grey back warbler
45.Rüpels starling
46.Rufous napped lark
47.Yellow throated greenbul
48.Yellow throated long claw
49.Plain backed pipit
50.African palm swift
51.Barn swallow
52.Fawn waxbill
53.Yellow wagtails
54.Scarce swift
55.Yellow fronted canary
56.Lizard buzzard
57.Red backed Scrub robbin
58.Willow warbler
59.Yellow billed stork
60.Brimstone canary
61.Yellow throated greenbul
62.Common buzzard
63.White browned robin chat
64.Brown crowned tchagra
65.African pipit (laccum sub species)
66.Yellow wattled lapwing
67.African jacana
68.Blue cheeked bee eater
69.Long toed lapwing
70.Cracking cisticola
71.Diedrick’s cuckoo
72.Cattle egret
73.Fan tailed widow bird
74.White -faced whistling duck
75.Yellow billed duck
76.Speckled pigeon
77.Black crake
78.Malachite kingfisher
79.Blue breasted bee eater
80.Pied kingfisher
81.Common sand piper
82.Klass’ cuckoo
83.Grosbeak weaver
84.African blue fly catcher
85.African paradise fly catcher
86.Slender billed weaver
87.Grey backed camaroptera
88.Black and white shrike fly catcher
89.Palm nut voluture
90.Broad billed roller
91.Pigmy kingfisher
92.Common waxbill
93.white browed cucal
94.Tawny flanked prinia
95.Brown throated wattle eye
96.Woodland kingfisher
97.Papyrus gonolek
98.Great cormorant
99.Northern Brown throated Weaver
100.Purple heron
101.Great egret
102.Grey heron
103.Mash sand piper
104.Ross’ turaco
- temminck’s stint
106.Gul billed tarn
107.kittlitz’s plover
108.common winged plover
109.Green shank
110.Black winged tarns
111.Glossy ibis
112.Wood sand piper
113.little stint
114.White winged tarn
115.collared pranticole
116.Open billed stork
117.Angola swallow
118.Blue headed coucal
119.Swamp flycatcher
120.Mash tchagra
121.African green pigeon
122.Yellow breasted apalis
123.Golden breasted bunting
124.Levillian cuckoo
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