Nyungwe Forest National Park, 27&28 January 2024

 

Silver Monkey*!

2 day bird fest in Nyungwe Forest, see lists below, to be clear the sightings and id are entirely due to our excellent guides, Jacques & Jonas and Oppo. 

* photos by Oppo. 

 

Bar-tailed trogon

Yellow-eyed black flycatcher

Grey-headed nigrita

Great blue turaco

Wild orchids 

More orchids

Fawn-breasted waxbill on tea leaves.

Orchids

Wild spider

Baglafecht weaver*

Northern yellow (or green#) White-eye *
# for non-birders the names of birds are frequently changed. Why? I don't know, but who decides to change yellow to green?

*

Mountain oriole *

 

Red-faced alethe

*

Yes not a bird but what a sweetie.
Mountain Monkey.*

Also spotted the solitary and rare red tailed monkey.

Black-crowned Waxbill *

Cammoflaged Cicada very noisy *

Northern double-collarded*

For birders only

Here are Jaques and Oppo's lists for the 2 days. We definitely dipped on many of them and there is still lots of homework ahead but this gives an idea of what is on offer. 

Also check out the distribution maps of these beauties!!!  We are in the rift Valley with serial extinction episodes. See this interesting article (thanks Jeroen).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Kivu

*Birding of 27 January 2024 in Nyungwe park, Ndambarare trail:*

 1.Great Blue Turaco 

2. Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird 

5. Black-tailed Oriole 

6. Chinspot Batis 

7. Northern Puffback 

8. Lühder's Bushshrike 

9. White-chinned Prinia 

10. Black-faced Apalis 

11. Gray Apalis 

12. Banded Prinia

13.Black-faced Rufous-Warbler 

14. Chubb's Cisticola 

15. Cinnamon Bracken-Warbler  

16. Black Sawwing  

17. Barn Swallow 

18. Shelley's Greenbul 

19. Eastern Mountain Greenbul

20. Yellow-whiskered Greenbul 

21. Common Bulbul 

22. Red-faced Woodland-Warbler 

23. Green White-eye 

24. Waller's Starling 

25. Abyssinian Thrush

26. African Dusky Flycatcher 

27. Yellow-eyed Black-Flycatcher 

28. White-eyed Slaty-Flycatcher 

29. African Stonechat 

30. Collared Sunbird 

31. Blue-headed Sunbird 

32. Northern Double-collared Sunbird 

33. Regal Sunbird 

34. Baglafecht Weaver 

35. Black-billed Weaver 

36. Strange Weaver 

37. Red-faced Crimsonwing 

 38. Gray-headed Nigrita

39. Black-crowned Waxbill 

40. Fawn-breasted Waxbill 

41. Northern Gray-headed Sparrow 

42.Streaky Seedeater

Pindura- Munazi Hotel

Jan 28, 2024

3:04 PM

Traveling

5.69 km

143 minutes

All birds reported? Yes

Comments:

3 Black-billed Turaco

1 Blue Malkoha

2 Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater

1 Gray Cuckooshrike

1 Northern Puffback -- Male

1 Albertine Boubou -- Endemic

1 Stripe-breasted Tit -- Endemic

1 Rwenzori Apalis -- Endemic

2 Black-faced Apalis -- Endemic

1 Chubb's Cisticola

1 Grauer's Warbler -- Endemic

1 Red-faced Woodland-Warbler -- Endemic

2 Green White-eye

1 African Dusky Flycatcher

1 Archer's Robin-Chat -- Endemic

1 Northern Double-collared Sunbird -- Male

1 Regal Sunbird -- Endemic Male

1 Dusky Crimsonwing -- Endemic

2 Black-crowned Waxbill

1 Western Citril

Number of Taxa: 20