Birds to See in Rwanda in July
33 species listed for July · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
33 bird species on our list for Rwanda are recorded regularly in July. Of these, the most often recorded are Pied Crow, Fork-tailed Drongo, Grey Heron, Spur-winged Goose and African Jacana. New this month: Common Sandpiper, Wood Sandpiper, Greenshank and Lanner Falcon and 2 more.
Leaving after last month
No departures — all species from last month remain.
Residents
(23)Recorded all year
Pied Crow
Corvus albusLC
Recorded all year

Fork-tailed Drongo
Dicrurus adsimilisLC
Recorded all year

Grey Heron
Ardea cinereaLC
Recorded all year

Spur-winged Goose
Plectropterus gambensisLC
Recorded all year

African Jacana
Actophilornis africanusLC
Recorded all year

Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year

Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year

Lesser Striped Swallow
Cecropis abyssinicaLC
Recorded all year

Little Egret
Egretta garzettaLC
Recorded all year

Moorhen
Gallinula chloropusLC
Recorded all year

Great Cormorant
Phalacrocorax carboLC
Recorded all year

Egyptian Goose
Alopochen aegyptiacaLC
Recorded all year

Little Grebe
Tachybaptus ruficollisLC
Recorded all year

Squacco Heron
Ardeola ralloidesLC
Recorded all year

Blue-naped Mousebird
Urocolius macrourusLC
Recorded all year

Kestrel
Falco tinnunculusLC
Recorded all year

Glossy Ibis
Plegadis falcinellusLC
Regularly May–Mar

African Marsh Harrier
Circus ranivorusLC
Regularly Nov–Sep

Helmeted Guineafowl
Numida meleagrisLC
Recorded all year

Purple Heron
Ardea purpureaLC
Recorded all year

House Sparrow
Passer domesticusLC
Recorded all year

Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Recorded all year

Common Reed-warbler
Acrocephalus scirpaceusLC
Recorded all year
Summer visitors
(5)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winterWinter visitors
(2)Present outside the breeding seasonPassage migrants
(3)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migrationData: 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









