Birds to See in Rwanda in January
44 species listed for January · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
44 bird species on our list for Rwanda are recorded regularly in January. Of these, the most often recorded are Pied Crow, Common Sandpiper, Spur-winged Goose, Cattle Egret and Barn Swallow. New this month: Hobby, Cuckoo and White-winged Tern.
New in January3
Leaving after last month8
Residents
(23)Recorded all year
Pied Crow
Corvus albusLC
Recorded all year
Spur-winged Goose
Plectropterus gambensisLC
Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year
Grey Heron
Ardea cinereaLC
Recorded all year
Lesser Striped Swallow
Cecropis abyssinicaLC
Recorded all year
Fork-tailed Drongo
Dicrurus adsimilisLC
Recorded all year
Little Egret
Egretta garzettaLC
Recorded all year
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
Great Cormorant
Phalacrocorax carboLC
Recorded all year
African Jacana
Actophilornis africanusLC
Recorded all year
Helmeted Guineafowl
Numida meleagrisLC
Recorded all year
Blue-naped Mousebird
Urocolius macrourusLC
Recorded all year
Moorhen
Gallinula chloropusLC
Recorded all year
Egyptian Goose
Alopochen aegyptiacaLC
Recorded all year
Squacco Heron
Ardeola ralloidesLC
Recorded all year
Purple Heron
Ardea purpureaLC
Recorded all year
House Sparrow
Passer domesticusLC
Recorded all year
Little Grebe
Tachybaptus ruficollisLC
Recorded all year
African Marsh Harrier
Circus ranivorusLC
Regularly Nov–Sep
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Recorded all year
Kestrel
Falco tinnunculusLC
Recorded all year
Common Reed-warbler
Acrocephalus scirpaceusLC
Recorded all year
Glossy Ibis
Plegadis falcinellusLC
Regularly May–Mar
Summer visitors
(16)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Common Sandpiper
Actitis hypoleucosLC
Regularly Jul–Apr
Barn Swallow
Hirundo rusticaLC
Regularly Aug–May
European Bee-eater
Merops apiasterLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
Willow Warbler
Phylloscopus trochilusLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
Yellow Wagtail
Motacilla flavaLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Wood Sandpiper
Tringa glareolaLC
Regularly Jul–Apr
Green Sandpiper
Tringa ochropusLC
Regularly Sep–Mar
Spotted Flycatcher
Muscicapa striataLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
Greenshank
Tringa nebulariaLC
Regularly Jul–Mar
Buzzard
Buteo buteoLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
Common Swift
Apus apusLC
Regularly Aug–Mar
Fulvous Whistling-Duck
Dendrocygna bicolorLC
Regularly Apr–Jan
Sand Martin
Riparia ripariaLC
Regularly Sep–Mar
Whinchat
Saxicola rubetraLC
Regularly Nov–Apr
Garden Warbler
Sylvia borinLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Hoopoe
Upupa epopsLC
Regularly Oct–Jul
Passage migrants
(5)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
Data: EOD – eBird Observation Dataset (Cornell Lab of Ornithology), accessed via GBIF.org, CC BY 4.0. Records from 2019–2024, aggregated and filtered by Birdfact. How these lists are made