Birders have featured Northeastern Karamoja sub-region as ‘Undiscovered Outback of Uganda‘ and ‘A truly unique birding Environment’ due to the magnificent scenery, remarkable tribal cultures, birds and wildlife that you won’t see elsewhere in Uganda.
Birds of Karamoja, sightings
Birds in Uganda’s Northeastern Karamoja has guaranteed bird sightings including Yellow-necked Spur fowl, Red-winged Lark, Black-throated Barbet, Grey-wren Warbler, Yellow-spotted Petronia and Purple Grenadier.
With luck and the help of our experienced Kara-Tunga birding guides, there’s a chance of viewing the Shoebill, Fox’s Weaver and Karamoja Apalis.
More info about the sightings of Herbert Byaruhanga (Bird Uganda Safaris).
- White-bellied Canary
- White-Headed Buffalo Weaver
- Silverbird
- Superb Starling
- Namaqua Dove
- Morning Collard Dove
- Speckled Pigeon
- Rock Pigeon
- African Palm swift
- African Open-bill
- Pink-backed Pelican
- Long-tailed cormorant
- Marabou Stork
- Black-headed Heron
- Cattle Egret
- Little Egret
- Black-winged Kite
- Long-crested Eagle
- Dark Chanting Goshawk
- Black Kite
- Stripped Kingfisher
- Pied Kingfisher
- Abyssinian Roller
- Red-fronted Barbet
- Nubian Woodpecker
- Fork-tailed Drongo
- Northern Fiscal
- Pied Crow
- Rattling Cisticola
- Bank Swallow
- Dark-capped bulbul
- Rupell’s Starling
- Carruther’s Cisticola
- White-winged Swamp Warbler
- Barn Swallow
- Swamp Flycatcher
- Red-Chested Sunbird
- White-browed Sparrow Weaver
- Little Weaver
- Black-headed Weaver
- Red-cheecked Cordonbleu
- Northern Grey-headed Sparrow
- Ross’s Turaco
- Pia Piac
- Less-blue Eared Starling
- Common Kestrel
More info about the sightings of David Yekutiel on a birding trip with Mamaland Safaris.
- Blue-naped Mousebirds
- Common Fiscal
- Cutthroat Finch
- Fan-tailed Raven
- Karamoja landscape
- Namaqua Doves
- Red-and-yellow Barbet
- Rufous-crowned Roller
- Silverbird, stretching
- Steppe Eagles
- The stunning Green-backed Twinspot
- White-crested Turaco
- Winding Cisticola
- White-crested Helmet-shrike
- The infamous Boran Cisticola
- Peregrine Falcon
- Mocking Cliff-chat
- Little Rock Thrush
- Common Rock Thrush
- African Hill-babbler
- Abyssinian Roller
- Beaudouin’s Snake-eagle
- D’Arnoud’s Barbet
- Dark Chanting Goshawk
- Hemprich’s Hornbill (female)
- Hemprich’s Hornbill (male)
- Long-crested Eagle
- Nubian Woodpecker
- Pied Wheatear
- Pygmy Falcon
- Rufous Chatterers
- Rufous Sparrows
- Tawny Eagle
