Red rocks bird watching

19/09/2022

Grey-crowned crane

23/04/2022

Black-headed gonolek

31/03/2022

Sacred ibis ( threskiornis aethiopicus 82cm)
Can easily get spotted 1000meters away from red rocks at river mukungwa.

22/01/2022

common waxbill

20/01/2022

Pied crow

17/01/2022

Fan-tailed widowbird
Scientific name: euplectes axillaris
Which can easily be spotted nearby red rocks cultural center at mukungwa swamp

06/01/2022

African harrier-hawk. One of the raptors(birds of prey) that can be easily spotted at red rocks and nearby environment.
Size:66cm,26''
Scientific name:Polyboroides typus
Habitat: singles and pairs are widespread but local residents of forest edge, riverine woodland, well-wooded grassland and cultivation, from sea-level to 3000m.

25/04/2021

15/03/2021

Checklist of birding excursion took place at ruhondo lake and mukungwa river source.
Date: 14/03/2021
Number of participants: 3 ( roger, greg, amos)
Duration:4 hours
Number of species recorded: 33
1.grey-crowned crane
2.pin-tailed whydah
3. Intermediate egret
4. Arrow-marked babblery
5. Hadada ibis
6. Malachite kingfisher
7.mackinnon's fiscal
8.sacred ibis
9. Common fiscal
10. Black-crowned waxbill
11. Cape wagtail
12. Little egret
13. Great cormorant
14. Common sandpiper
15. Hammerkop
16. Pied kingfisher
17. Black-headed heron
18. Great egret
19. Long-tailed cormorant
20. Grey heron
21. Pink-backed pelican
22. African-pygm kingfisher
23. Pied wagtail
24. African citril
25. Red-billed firefinch
26. Variable sunbird
27. Bronze sunbird
28. Yellow-billed kite
29. Ring-necked dove
30. Little grebe
31. Tropical boubou
32. Yellow bishop
33. White-headed sawing

08/02/2021

Checklist of the birding excursion took place at red rocks and nearby at mukungwa river.
Number of participants: 2
Names of participants: roger and Ferdinand
Duration of excursion: 2 hours
Time frame: 15:00-17:15
Date: 05/02/2021
Number of observation: 21 species

1. African citril
2. Streaky seedeater
3.tropical boubou
4.bronze sunbird
5.yellow bishop
6.common fiscal
7.Dark-capped bulbul
8.pied crow
9.Common waxbill
10. Red-eyed dove
12. Northern Grey-headed sparrow
13. Black-crowned waxbill
14.white-tailed blue flycatcher
15. Swamp flycatcher
16. Black-headed heron
17. Sacred ibis
18.african-paradise flycatcher
19.cape wagtail
20.spectacled weaver
21. Village weaver