Kenya Bird List

February 13 - 25, 2009

Kenya Flag


Kenya Trip Home Page
1. The First Days of our visit - Nairobi
2. Mount Kenya, Serena Mountain Lodge
3. Lake Nakuru National Park and More
4. The Great Rift Valley and Kigio Wildlife Camp
5. Maasi Mara and Siana Springs Intrepids page 1
6. Maasi Mara and Siana Springs Intrepids page 2
7. People of the Great Rift Valley
8. Back to Nairobi Again
9. Amboseli National Park - Page 1
10 Amboseli National Park - Page 2
11 A Maasai Village in Kenya
12. Amboseli National Park - Last Drive to Nairobi
13. List and Many Pictures of the Birds we Saw
14. List of Birds, Animals and Plants


Kenya Trip 2009 - Over 100 New Lifers

Rachel, Benson, Christine and others identified over 100 birds on our visit to Kenya.
Roger took most of the pictures.

* There are no pictures for birds listed on the left.

There are a few more bird pictures that will be put up.

ostrich....three ostrich
Common Ostrich


Great White Pelican
Great Cormorant
Squacco Heron
Cattle Egret


Great Egret . . Great Egret


Yellow-billed Egret
Black Heron
Grey Heron


Black Headed Heron
Black-headed Heron


Hamerkop / nest only


. . Abdim's Stork . . Abdim’s Stork . . Abdim Stork

 

 

Lots of StorksMarabou Stork. . Marabou Storks . .Marabou Stork2


African Spoonbill

flamingos
Greater Flamingos or Lesser Flamingos


Single goose . . Egyptian Goose . .

Two Secretary Birds . . Secretary Birds . . Secretary in Tree
They love to eat snakes


Vulture and Zebra
Ruppell’s Griffon Vultures
and
African White-backed Vultures

 

Lappet-Faced Vulture . . Lappet-faced Vulture . . Lappet-Faced Vulture

 

Bateleur


eagle
Black-chested Snake Eagle


Eastern Pale Chanting Goshawk


Augur Buzzard . . Augur Buzzard


Martial Eagle / immature


Tawny Eagle
Tawny Eagle


Black Kite
Black-shouldered Kite
Osprey

Yellow-necked Spurfowl . . Yellow-necked Spurfowl
Yellow-necked Spurfowl

 


Helmeted Guineafowl . . Helmeted Guineafowl


Grey-crowned Crane
Grey-crowned Crane


Kori Bustard. . Kori Bustard . . Kori Bustard Flying


Black-bellied Bustard . . Black-bellied Bustard


African Jacana


Blacksmith Plover. . Blacksmith Plover

 


Spur-winged Plover . . Spur-winged Plover

AfricanWattledPlover
African Wattled Plover

Wood Sandpiper . . Wood Sandpiper . . wood sandpiper

Black-winged Stilt
African Snipe
Red-eyed Dove
African Mourning Dove
Ring-necked Dove
African Green Pigeon

Blue Capped Corden-bleu
Blue Capped Cordon-bleu
Our thanks to Chris for this one.


Olive Pigeon
Bare-faced Go-away-bird
White-bellied Go-away-bird
Speckled Mousebird
Giant Kingfisher
Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater


Roller . . Lilac-breasted Roller . . Lilac-breasted Roller


Rufus-crowned Roller


Hoopoe
Hoopoe


Green Wood Hoopoe
Red-billed Hornbill
Eastern Yellow-billed Hornbill


Southern Ground Hornbill . . Southern Ground Hornbill


Greater Honeyguide
Rufous-naped Lark
Fischer’s Sparrow Larkblack n white
Rock Martin
Mosque Swallow
African Pied Wagtail
Yellow Wagtail
Yellow-throated Longclaw
Rosy-breasted Longclaw
Common Bulbul
Tropical Boubou
Common Fiscal Shrike
Long Tailed Fiscal Shrike
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grey-backed Fiscal Shrike
Northern Anteater Chat
Sooty Chat
White-browed Robin Chat
African Dusky Flycatcher
White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher
Streaky Seed Eater
Yellow-fronted Canary
Purple Grenadier
Red-billed Finch
Bronze Mannikin


PTWhyah . . Pin-tailed Whydah . . PTWhydah


Reichenow's Weaver . . . . . . . red and white bird
Reichenow’s Weaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Red-headed Weaver


Speke’s Weaver
White-headed Buffalo Weaver
White-browed Sparrow Weaver
Grey-capped Social Weaver
Red-billed Quelea
Superb Starling
Red-billed Oxpicker
Yellow-billed Oxpicker
Pied Crow
White-naped Crow
House Crow

Mystery birds

Bird in nest . . small bird
1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 2.

 

Heron . . Little Bird
3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4. Seen at Serena Mountain Lodge

 

We identified four others. These are the only ones left.

If you can identify any of these four, please let us know. rmcnett@gmail.com (new address)

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