Birds to See in Rwanda in May
28 species listed for May · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
28 bird species on our list for Rwanda are recorded regularly in May. Of these, the most often recorded are Pied Crow, Grey Heron, Lesser Striped Swallow, Cattle Egret and Fork-tailed Drongo. New this month: Glossy Ibis, Crowned Eagle and Hoopoe.
Residents
(23)Recorded all year
Pied Crow
Corvus albusLC
Recorded all year
Grey Heron
Ardea cinereaLC
Recorded all year
Lesser Striped Swallow
Cecropis abyssinicaLC
Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year
Fork-tailed Drongo
Dicrurus adsimilisLC
Recorded all year
Little Egret
Egretta garzettaLC
Recorded all year
African Jacana
Actophilornis africanusLC
Recorded all year
House Sparrow
Passer domesticusLC
Recorded all year
Great Cormorant
Phalacrocorax carboLC
Recorded all year
Kestrel
Falco tinnunculusLC
Recorded all year
Spur-winged Goose
Plectropterus gambensisLC
Recorded all year
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
Moorhen
Gallinula chloropusLC
Recorded all year
Egyptian Goose
Alopochen aegyptiacaLC
Recorded all year
African Marsh Harrier
Circus ranivorusLC
Regularly Nov–Sep
Blue-naped Mousebird
Urocolius macrourusLC
Recorded all year
Little Grebe
Tachybaptus ruficollisLC
Recorded all year
Squacco Heron
Ardeola ralloidesLC
Recorded all year
Helmeted Guineafowl
Numida meleagrisLC
Recorded all year
Purple Heron
Ardea purpureaLC
Recorded all year
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Recorded all year
Common Reed-warbler
Acrocephalus scirpaceusLC
Recorded all year
Glossy Ibis
Plegadis falcinellusLC
Regularly May–Mar
Summer visitors
(2)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Winter visitors
(2)Present outside the breeding season
Passage migrants
(1)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