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Rwanda

Bird photos, sound recordings and videos from Rwanda in eBird's Macaulay Library, week by week.

Updated every SundayCounts media, not birds

Rwanda, week of 1 Nov 2026

25 Oct to 1 Nov 2026 · the latest week

The archive gained 308 photos, sounds and videos from Rwanda in the week, 6% of East Africa's total. Of the 308 items added, 308 were photographed or recorded in the 30 days before.

Net change in media
+308
Week before: +467
Photos
+101
Week before: +303
Sounds
+198
Week before: +161
Videos
+9
Week before: +3
New species
+1
Week before: 0

Who added the most (11)

New sound recordings from Rwanda, by person
ContributorSounds added
ITWITAHO Ennice34 species+44
Esther IRADUKUNDA30 species+42
Ndayishima Barugahe Aphrodice15 species+20
SIBOMANA Florent17 species+20
Niyomugabo Evariste13 species+17

A name opens that person's newest uploads on eBird.

1–5 of 11 recordists

New species (1)

First photo, sound or video from Rwanda
SpeciesMedia added
Lesser Black-backed Gull (fuscus)Larus fuscus fuscus+22 photos

The archive held nothing of this entry from Rwanda before this week. Subspecies and hybrids are listed as their own entries. A name opens the newest media from there on eBird.

Week by week (9)

Net change for Rwanda in each week on record
Week ofMediaSounds
Showing+308+198
+467+161
+544+157
+670+157
+48+31
+91+50
+32+32
+42+23
1–8 of 9 weeks

All time

Everything in the archive from Rwanda up to 1 Nov 2026. These figures stay the same whichever week is chosen above.

Media in the archive
40,284
#5 of 9 in East Africa
Photos
34,314
85.2% of the archive
Sound recordings
5,723
12.4% of East Africa's sounds
Videos
247
0.6% of the archive
Species with media
643
Birds and bats

Species counts on this page include subspecies, forms, hybrids and unidentified entries such as "gull sp." as separate entries, so they are higher than the true number of species. We are correcting this.

Media archive over time

Cumulative catalog metadata by observation year
Rwanda
Earliest dated record from 1980. Busiest completed year: 2024 (8,815 media).

Top sound recordists of all time (20)

Most sound recordings from Rwanda in the archive
ContributorSounds
Harerimana Joachim180 species1,145
izabayo pierre131 species560
Niyomugabo Evariste91 species490
Jemima Umukunzi93 species341
MBONIGABA Jean de Dieu Remy151 species303

A name opens that person's newest sound recordings on eBird.

1–5 of 20 recordists

eBird & Macaulay Library · collected 1 Nov 2026 · 40,284 media from Rwanda

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