A sample of my bird photos, in no particular order. I photographed and have identified at least 137 species (a few are yet to be confirmed and/or added), 17 of which are new to my Uganda life-time list of 336 species. However, to put that into perspective, there are currently 1088 species listed as of February 2023, so I have seen only a third of the birds! If you want to see more bird photos from previous visits, go to my Flickr album of Birds of Uganda for more species although I didn’t start taking photos of them until about 20 years ago.
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- African Fish Eagle
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- Shikra
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- African Jacana (aka Lily Trotter)
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- African Darter
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- Long-tailed Cormorant
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- Long-tailed Cormorant
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- Shoebill
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- Shoebill
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- Grey Crowned Crane (it used to be called the Golden Crested Crane)
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- Grey Crowned Crane
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- Grey Crowned Cranes renewing their bonds
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- Pairs mate for life
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- Sacred Ibis
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- Hadada Ibis
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- Black-&-white Shrike-Flycatcher (f)
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- Black-&-white Shrike-Flycatcher (m)
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- Pied Kingfisher
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- Grey-headed Kingfisher
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- Giant Kingfisher (17″ tall!)
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- Woodland Kingfisher
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- Abyssinian Roller
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- Abyssinian Roller
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- White-tailed Blue-Flycatcher
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- Broad-billed Roller
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- Northern Double-collared Sunbird
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- Regal Sunbird (photo by Patrick)
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- Variable Sunbird
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- Variable Sunbird
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- Variable Sunbird
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- Variable Sunbird
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- Bronze Sunbird
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- Green-headed Sunbird
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- White-browed Robin-Chat
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- Cape Robin-Chat
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- Speckled Pigeons
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- Red-eyed Doves
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- African Mourning Dove
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- Laughing Dove
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- Barn (European) Swallow
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- Barn (European) Swallow
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- Wire-tailed Swallow
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- Lesser Striped Swallow
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- Long-crested Eagle
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- Brown Snake-Eagle
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- Grey-backed Fiscal (Shrike)
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- MacKinnon’s Fiscal (Shrike)
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- Red-necked Spurfowl
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- Rüppell’s Long-tailed Starling
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- Spot-flanked Barbet
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- Crested Barbet
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- Brown-backed Scrub-Robin
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- Double-toothed Barbet
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- Grey-headed Sparrow
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- Swamp Flycatcher
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- European Bee-eater
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- European Bee-eater
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- Red-throated Bee-eater
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- Red-throated Bee-eaters
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- Red-throated Bee-eaters at their nesting site
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- Little Bee-eater
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- Cinnamon-chested Bee-eaters
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- Cinnamon-chested Bee-eaters – two adults were feeding two young ones
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- Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater
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- Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater
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- Baglafecht’s Weaver
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- Yellow-throated Longclaw
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- Black-headed Weaver
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- Black-headed Weaver weaving its nest
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- African Skimmers
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- African Skimmers
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- African Skimmers
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- Ross’s Turaco
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- African Grey Hornbill
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- African Grey Hornbill
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- Crowned Hornbill
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- Hamerkop
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- African Wattled Lapwing
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- Spur-winged Lapwing
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- Long-toed Lapwing
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- Arrow-marked Babbler
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- Speckled Mousebird
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- Bare-faced Go-away-bird
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- African Firefinch
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- African Paradise-Flycatcher
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- Fan-tailed Widowbird
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- Black Bishop
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- Cattle Egret (non-breeding plumage)
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- Great Egret
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- Intermediate Egret standing on a hippo
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- Black-headed Heron
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- Woolly-necked Stork
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- African Open-billed Stork
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- Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl
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- Dark Chanting-Goshawk
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- Ruff
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- Trilling Cisticola
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- Common Stonechat
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- Slender-billed Weaver
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- Yellow White-eye
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- Still to be identified
Wonderful photos; excellent for bird identification that can be used by others. Don’t know what jaw-dropping word the Shoebill had for you!! Thank you for sharing so many. What a range from a wide range of habitats across Uganda. You did well to take these given the pressure of your itinerary.
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Thank you! The Shoebill is extraordinary isn’t it?!
Hi Margaret Greetings. Thanks for the bird fotos. You have such a big library. It is raining now and Mbarara is very cold. All the best. Alex B Nganwa-Bagumah
Simply amazing beautiful photos, wh
Thank you!
Margaret, these are fantastic as always. You should enter some of them into a competition! Thanks for sharing.
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Thank you!
Great collection!
Thank you!