August 27 – September 4, 2012
Guide: Joe Aengwo
Group size: 4 Pax
Bird Species Recorded: 412
Other Wildlife: 28
ITINERARY
August 27 Nairobi to Hell’s Gate National Park, Naivasha
August 28 Nakuru National Park, Molo Grassland and Kisumu
August 29 Kakamega Forest
August 30 Kakamega forest
August 31 Kerio Valley, Tugen Hills and Lake Baringo
September 1 Lake Baringo, Lake Bogoria and Thomson’s Falls Nyahururu
September 2 Nyahururu and Mukuruweini Valley
September 3 Aberdare National Park, Kinangop grassland and Nairobi
September 4 Transfer to the Airport for the flight back home
When Marton Kelemen and his group send me their bird list of species they were expecting to see in their 8 days western Kenya birding trip which was schedule to take place in late August and early September 2012, I was a little a bit baffle by their expectation! Somehow, I told myself perhaps I should let them know that their expectation is a bit too high, as some species in their list were so rare and hard to come by!!!In fact some of my previous birding trips missed those species and we had learned to live with it!, then I said to myself, it wasn’t a crime after all to be optimistic!.
August 27, We started our trip slightly after mid-day and we went straight to Hells National Park where we spend the rest of the afternoon there. Hell’s Gate is probably the best place to observe swifts, among those we recorded included, Little, Horus, white-rumped, African Black , Nyanza and Mottled Swift. We saw a roosting group of Rupples’ Griffon and White-backed Vulture, Lanner Falcon, Augur Buzzard, Verreaux’s Eagle, Northern Ant-eater Chat, Common Fiscal, White-fronted Bee-eater, Grassland Pipit and Pectoral-patch Cisticola among others.
It was then getting late for us and we had planned to travel all the way to Nakuru so that we were close to our next destination the next day. We stayed at Punda Millias camp in Soysambu conservancy . As we checked in at the camp, we were greeted by several calls of Montane Nightjar who spend the all night calling!!Amazing
August 28, We got up really early for our breakfast as we wanted to beat the traffic jam mostly witnessed at Lake Nakuru National Park main gate where clients have to wait for more than 40 minutes as their trip leaders clear with the Kenya wildlife service’s officials. We spend the morning at Lake Nakuru, world famous for its vast flock of flamingos, pelicans, and a wealth of other waterbirds. In the acacia woodland around the lake, we managed to pocket few species like Arrow-marked and Black-lored Babbler, Red-billed and African Firefinch, Black Cuckoo-Shrike,Hildebrandt’s Francolin, Violet-backed and Greater Blue-eared Starling, Golden-winged, Bronze, Green-headed and Scarlet-chested Sunbird, Cliff Chat, Long-crested and Martial, Greater Painted Snipe and Long-tailed Widowbird . Other than the bird we also saw Deffasa Waterbuck, White Rhino, Buffalo, Thomson’s and Grant,s gazelle, Impala,Olive Baboon and Vetvet monkey. Since, we still have a long way to go we exited the park and head straight to Kisumu, stopping briefly for lunch at the base of Mau summit, around Londiani where we were lucky to record Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater, Hunters Cisticola and Chesnut-throated Apalis. Things got a little bit hard due to the road construction that was ongoing , the road to Kisumu was diverted and this made us arrive to Kisumu two hours late than we had earlier plan, we went straight to Hippo point where we were met by our local guide/boat man by the name Titus. An hour boat ride provided species like Swamp Flycatcher, Red-chested Sunbird, Carruther’s Cisticola, Yellow-backed,Brown-throated, Slender-billed and Black-headed Weaver ,Papyrus Canary and White-browed Coucal. We were however, Unlucky with the Papyrus Gonoleck, and the best we had was its call.
We left Kisumu for Kakamega and we arrived at Blue-shouldred Cottages which own and run by our guide to be Smith.
29 and 30 August, 2012. Kakamega Forest
Birds
As mentioned above our local bird guide Smith has an excellent knowledge of the forest specials and where they can be found. Specials that we recorded are indicated below:
Great Blue and Black-billed Turaco, Blue-headed Bee-eater, Black and White Casqued Hornbill, Brown-eared, Buff-spotted and Yellow-crested Woodpecker, African Blue and Dusky
crested Flycatcher, Common, Jameson’s and Chestnut Wattle-eye. Black-billed, Dark-capped and Brown-backed Weaver, Red-headed Malimbe, Pink-footed Puffback, Square-tailed Drongo, White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher, Grey-headed Negrofinch, Double-toothed Barbet (breeding near Rondo Retreat), Yellow-spotted Barbet, Yellow-billed Barbet, Stuhlmann’s Starling, Luhder’s Bush-shrike, Grey-green or Bocage’s Bush-shrike, Green, Green-throated and Green-headed Sunbird, Dusky Tit, Yellowbill, Brown-chested Alethe, White-headed Wood-hoepoe, Western Black-headed Oriole , White-spotted Flufftail . Ansorge’s, Slender-billed, Joyful and Shelley’s Greenbul Red-headed Bluebill, Black-billed Turaco Yellow-throated Leaf-love (plantation edge at boom-gate where you turn left to Isecheno guest house) , Uganda Woodland Warbler, Green Hylia, White-chinned Prinia, White-throated Bee-eater, Black-billed Turaco African Crowned Eagle, Red-tailed Bristlebill, Brown Illadopsis, Equatorial Akalat, Black-faced Rufous Warbler, Chubb’s Cisticola, Black-collared Apalis, Grey-throated Barbet and Broadbill
31 August,2012. Kerio Valley, Tugen Hills and Lake Baringo
Today we left Kakamega forest for Lake Baringo, where we stopped briefly for lunch at Kerio View lodge. We had an impressive view of the Kerio Valley. From our hotel we spotted white-rumped swift and Rock Martin flying by before we were interrupted by excellent flight view of Lanner Falcon and Fan-tailed Raven. Down the valley we missed both our target species of Borana Cisticola and Chestnut-crowned Sparrow Weaver. Turning our visit in the valley more scenic with great view of Cheblouch gorge from above.
We ascended the Tugen hills where we made several stops as we started descending the eastern side of the hills.In our first stop, we saw without much effort the Mountain Wagtail. Surprisingly, our last stopped was impressively productive where we saw three species of Turacos . Ross’s, Hartlaub’s and White-crested Turaco. We arrived at Robert’s Campsite at around 7 pm where we were met by two giant Hippos grazing close to our Bandas. The water levels at the Lake was incredibly high and most of the cottages were in the lake!!!!.Just before we had our Dinner at the Thirsty Goat restaurant unexpected visitor just landed few meters from our Table!!African Scops Owl it was!!we went to bed satisfied of our day achievement knowing we had more to expect tomorrow.
1st September,2012. By six were up and we visited the western cliff nearby we recorded Little and Vitalline Masked Weaver, Black-throated and D’Arnauds Barbet, Slender-tailed Nightjar, Heuglin’s Courser,Spotted Thick-knee, Jackson’s weaver , Bristle-crowned Starling, Jackson’s Weaver, Mouse-coloured penduline-tit, Brown-tailed Rock Chat and Greyish Eagle Owl.
On a boat ride along the shores we saw Northen Masked, Jackson’s Golded-backed and Lesser Masked Weaver, Madagascar and Blue-cheeked Bee-eater, Straited , Little, Purple and Goliath Heron, Yellow-crowned Bishop, Little Bittern, and Allens Galinule.
After an early lunch we departed for Thomson’s Falls Nyahururu via Lake Bogoria National Park for the few Lesser Flamingo which were missing in Lake Nakuru. We also recorded Silverbird, Steel Blue Whydah, Black-headed Lapwing and Pygmy Falcon. At a round, 8 pm, we cheeked in our hotel, T-falls Lodge.The hotel was very spacious, but clearly its better days were behind it!!
2nd September, 2012. Today, we had plans to do the area around T-falls, and fresh water dam in the western part of the town, before we could leave for Mukuruweini Valley in Nyeri. In the hotel grounds we saw Slender-billed Starling, Red-winged Starling and Sharpe’s Starling, Mountain Buzzard, Cinnamon-bracken Warbler, cape Robin Chat, Red-collared Widowbird .
In Mukuruweini Valley, our guide Kariuki managed to show us the elusive Hinde’s Babbler after a long search. Other than that we also recorded Red-faced and Singing Cisticola. Overnight stay at Green Hills Hotel, Nyeri.
3rd September,2012. We were at the Treetops gate of Aberdare National Park at 6:30 a.m. After clearing with the park official, we headed into Aberdare Mountains, where a good road took us above tree line into moorland habitat. As we ascend through mixed woodland, we saw Jackson’s Francolins along the road, and the songs of Brown Woodland Warbler was frequently heard. We also pocketed Doherty’s Bush Shrike,Grey Apalis, Kenrick’s Starling,Hartlaub’s Turaco, African-Hill Babbler, African Goshawk, Mountain White-eye. We stop at the end of the road in moorland habitat above 10,000 feet. Alpine Chats were very common here and easily seen, and our search for patches of giant lobelias for our main specialty, Scarlet-tufted Malachite Sunbird, was all in vain. We exited the park on the western part through Mtambio Gate. Where drove to Kinangop Grassland for the search of the endemic Sharpe’s Longclaw which we also missed, but we saw Levaillant’s Cisticola, African quail Finch, Common quail and Rufous-naped Lark. It was getting cloudy and late. So we decided to call it day and we drove to Nairobi where we arrived at round 8 pm. We had a farewell dinner, and some few beers to quench our thirsty before we drove Jomo Kenyatta Airport at around 00:30 a.m for the outbound flight home.
| Species of Birds Seen during the August-September 2012 Western Kenya Birding Trip | ||||||||||
| No | Common Name | Scientific Name | ||||||||
| 1 | Common Ostrich | Struthio camelus | ||||||||
| 2 | White-faced Whistling Duck | Dendrocygna bicolor | ||||||||
| 3 | Egyptian Goose | Alopchen aegyptiaca | ||||||||
| 4 | Spur-winged Goose | Plectropterus gambensis | ||||||||
| 5 | Hottentot Teal | Anas hottentota | ||||||||
| 6 | Red-billed Teal | Anas erythrorhyncha | ||||||||
| 7 | Helmeted Guineafowl | Numida meleagris | ||||||||
| 8 | Crested Francolin | Francolinus sephaena | ||||||||
| 9 | Shelley’s Francolin | Francolinus shelleyi | ||||||||
| 10 | Scaly Francolin | Francolinus S. maranensis | ||||||||
| 11 | Hilderbrandt’s Francolin | Francolinus hildebrandti | ||||||||
| 12 | Jackson’s Francolin | Francolinus jacksoni | ||||||||
| 13 | Common Quil | Coturnix cuturnix | ||||||||
| 14 | White-spotted Flufftail | Sarothrura pulchra | ||||||||
| 15 | Greater Flamingo | Phoenicopterus roseus | ||||||||
| 16 | Lesser Flamingo | Phoenicopterus minor | ||||||||
| 19 | Yellow-billed Stork | Mycteria ibis | ||||||||
| 20 | Woolly-necked Stork | Ciconia episcopus | ||||||||
| 21 | Saddle-billed Stork | Ephippiorhynchus senegalensisi | ||||||||
| 22 | Marabou Strok | Leptoptilos crumeniferus | ||||||||
| 23 | Long-tailed Commorant | Phalacrocorax africanus | ||||||||
| 24 | White Pelican | Pelicanus onocrotalus | ||||||||
| 25 | Pink-backed Pelican | Pelicanus rufescens | ||||||||
| 26 | Hammerkop | Scopus umbretta | ||||||||
| 27 | Grey Heron | Ardea cinerea | ||||||||
| 28 | Black-headed Heron | Ardea melacocephala | ||||||||
| 29 | Goliath Heron | Ardea goliath | ||||||||
| 30 | Purple Heron | Ardea purpurea | ||||||||
| 31 | Great Egret | Ardea alba | ||||||||
| 32 | Intermediate Egret | Mesophoyx intermedia | ||||||||
| 33 | Little Egret | Egretta garzetta | ||||||||
| 34 | Cattle Egret | Bubulcus ibis | ||||||||
| 35 | Black Heron | Egretta ardesiaca | ||||||||
| 36 | Squacco Heron | Ardeola ralloides | ||||||||
| 37 | Malagasy Pond Heron | Ardeola idea | ||||||||
| 38 | Striated Heron | Butorides striata | ||||||||
| 39 | Little Bittern | Ixobrychus minutus | ||||||||
| 40 | Black-crowned Night Heron | Nycticorax n. nycticorax | ||||||||
| 41 | Glossy Ibis | Plegadis falcinellus | ||||||||
| 42 | Sacred Ibis | Threskiornis aethiopicus | ||||||||
| 43 | Hadada Ibis | Bostrychia hagedash | ||||||||
| 44 | African Spoonbill | Platalea alba | ||||||||
| 45 | Black-shouldered Kite | Elanus caeruleus | ||||||||
| 46 | Black Kite | Milvus migrans | ||||||||
| 47 | African Fish Eagle | Haliaeetus vocifer | ||||||||
| 48 | White-backed Vulture | Gyps africanus | ||||||||
| 49 | Ruppell’s Griffon Vulture | Gyps rueppelli | ||||||||
| 50 | Brown Snake-eagle | Circaetus cinereus | ||||||||
| 51 | African Harrier-Hawk | Polyboroides typus | ||||||||
| 52 | Dark Chanting Goshawk | Melierax m.metabates | ||||||||
| 53 | Gabar Goshawk | Micronisus gabar | ||||||||
| 54 | African Goshawk | Accipiter tachiro | ||||||||
| 55 | Great Sparrowhawk | Accipiter m.melanoleucus | ||||||||
| 56 | Augur Buzzard | Buteo augur | ||||||||
| 57 | Mountain Buzzard | Buteo oreophilus | ||||||||
| 58 | Tawny Eagle | Aquila rapax | ||||||||
| 59 | Verreauxs’s Eagle | Aquila verreauxii | ||||||||
| 60 | Martial Eagle | Polemaetus bellicosus | ||||||||
| 61 | Crowned Eagle | Stephanoaetus coronatus | ||||||||
| 62 | Long-crested Eagle | Lophaetus occipitalis | ||||||||
| 63 | Common Buzzard | Buteo Buteo | ||||||||
| 64 | Ayre’s Hawk-Eagle | Hieraaetus ayresii | ||||||||
| 65 | Secretary Bird | Sagittarius serpentarius | ||||||||
| 66 | Pygmy Falcon | Polihierax semitorquatus | ||||||||
| 67 | Common Kestrel | Falco tinnunculus | ||||||||
| 68 | Lanner Falcon | Falco biarmicus | ||||||||
| 69 | Peregrine Falcon | Falco perigrinus | ||||||||
| 70 | Kori Bustard | Ardeotis kori | ||||||||
| 71 | Black Crake | Amaurornis flavirostra | ||||||||
| 72 | Common Moorhen | Gallinula chloropus | ||||||||
| 73 | Allen’s Gallinule | Porphyrio alleni | ||||||||
| 74 | Red-knobbed Coot | Fulica cristata | ||||||||
| 75 | Grey-crowned Crane | Balearica regulorum | ||||||||
| 76 | Water Thick-knee | Burhinus vermiculatus | ||||||||
| 77 | Spotted Thick-knee | Burhimus capensis | ||||||||
| 78 | Blacksmith Lapwing | Vanellus armatus | ||||||||
| 79 | Crowned Lapwing | Vanellus coronatus | ||||||||
| 80 | Black-headed Lapwing | Vanellus tectus | ||||||||
| 81 | Spur-winged Lapwing | Vanellus spinosus | ||||||||
| 82 | Black-winged Lapwing | Vanellus melanopterus | ||||||||
| 83 | Crowned Lapwing | Vanellus coroatus | ||||||||
| 84 | Long-toed Lapwing | Vanellus crassirostris | ||||||||
| 85 | Common Ringed Plover | Charadrius hiaticula | ||||||||
| 86 | Three-banded Plover | Charadrius tricollaris | ||||||||
| 87 | Kittlitz’s Plover | Charadrius pecuarius | ||||||||
| 88 | Black-winged Stilt | Himantopus himantopus | ||||||||
| 89 | African Jacana | Actophilornis africanus | ||||||||
| 90 | Common Sandpiper | Actitis hypoleucos | ||||||||
| 91 | Common Greenshank | Tringa nebularia | ||||||||
| 92 | Wood Sandpiper | Tringa glareola | ||||||||
| 93 | Ruff | Philomachus pugnax | ||||||||
| 94 | Three-banded Courser | Rhinoptilus cinctus | ||||||||
| 95 | Grey-headed Gull | Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus | ||||||||
| 96 | Gull-billed Tern | Gelochelidon nilotica | ||||||||
| 97 | Whiskered Tern | Chlidonias hybrida | ||||||||
| 98 | White-winged Tern | Chlidonias leucopterus | ||||||||
| 99 | Speckled Pigion | Pigeon | Columba guinea | |||||||
| 100 | African Mourning Dove | Streptopelia decioiens | ||||||||
| 101 | Red-eyed Dove | Streptopelia semitorquata | ||||||||
| 102 | Dusky Turtle-Dove | Streptopelia lugens | ||||||||
| 103 | Ringed-necked Dove | streptopelia capicola | ||||||||
| 104 | Laughing Dove | Streptopelia senegalensis | ||||||||
| 105 | Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove | Turtur chalcospilos | ||||||||
| 106 | Blue-spotted Wood-Dove | Turtur afer | ||||||||
| 107 | Namaqua Dove | Oena capensis | ||||||||
| 108 | African Green-Pigeon | Treron calvus | ||||||||
| 109 | Fischer’s Lovebird | Agapornis fischeri | ||||||||
| 110 | Hartlaub’s Turaco | Tauraco hartlaubi | ||||||||
| 111 | Great Blue Turaco | Corythaeola cristata | ||||||||
| 112 | Black-billed Turaco | Tauraco schuetti | ||||||||
| 113 | Ross’s Turaco | Tauraco rossae | ||||||||
| 114 | White-crested Turaco | Tauraco tauraco leucolophus | ||||||||
| 115 | White-bellied Go-Away Bird | Corythaixoides leucogaster | ||||||||
| 116 | Black-and-white Cuckoo | Oxylophus jacobinus | ||||||||
| 117 | Red-chested Cuckoo | Cuculus solitarius | ||||||||
| 118 | Dideric Cuckoo | Chrysococcyx cuprius | ||||||||
| 119 | White-browed Coucal | Centropus superciliosus | ||||||||
| 120 | Blue Malkoha (Yellowbill) | Ceuthmochares aereus | ||||||||
| 121 | Greyish Eagle Owl | Bubo cinerascens | ||||||||
| 122 | African Scops Owl | Otus senegalensis | ||||||||
| 123 | Pearl-spotted Owlet | Glaucidium perlatum | ||||||||
| 124 | Slender-tailed Nightjar | Caprimulgus clarus | ||||||||
| 125 | Montane Nightjar | Caprimulgus poliocephalus | ||||||||
| 126 | Scarce Swift | Schoutedenapusmyoptilus | ||||||||
| 127 | Nyanza Swift | Apus niansae | ||||||||
| 128 | Little Swift | Apus affinis | ||||||||
| 129 | Horus Swift | Apus Horus | ||||||||
| 130 | White-rumped Swift | Apus caffer | ||||||||
| 131 | African Black Swift | Apus barbatus | ||||||||
| 132 | Mottled Swift | Trachymarptis aequatorialis | ||||||||
| 133 | Speckled Mousebird | Colius striatus | ||||||||
| 134 | Blue-naped Mousebird | Urocolius macrourus | ||||||||
| 135 | Malachite Kingfisher | Corythornis cristatus | ||||||||
| 136 | African Pygmy-kingfisher | Ispidina picta | ||||||||
| 137 | Grey-headed Kingfisher | Halcyon leucocephala | ||||||||
| 138 | Woodland Kingfisher | Halcyon senegalensis | ||||||||
| 139 | Striped Kingfisher | Halcyon chelicuti | ||||||||
| 140 | Pied Kingfisher | Ceryle rudis | ||||||||
| 141 | Little Bee-eater | Merops pusillus | ||||||||
| 142 | White-throated Bee-eater | Merops albicollis | ||||||||
| 143 | Madagascar Bee-eater | Merops superciliosus | ||||||||
| 144 | Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater | Merops oeobates | ||||||||
| 145 | Blue-headed Bee-eater | Merops muelleri | ||||||||
| 146 | Lilac-breasted Roller | Coracias caudatus | ||||||||
| 147 | Rufous-crowned Roller | Coracias naevus | ||||||||
| 148 | African Hoopoe | Upupa africana | ||||||||
| 149 | Green Woodhoopoe | Phoeniculus purpureus | ||||||||
| 150 | Violet Woodhoopoe | Phoeniculus granti | ||||||||
| 151 | White-headed Woodhoopoe | Phoeniculus bollei | ||||||||
| 152 | Northern Red-billed Hornbill | Tockus erythrorhynchus | ||||||||
| 153 | Crowned Hornbill | Tockus alboterminatus | ||||||||
| 154 | African Grey Hornbill | Tockus nasutus | ||||||||
| 155 | Jackson’s Hornbill | Tockus jacksoni | ||||||||
| 156 | Hemprich’s Hornbill | Tockus hemprichii | ||||||||
| 157 | Silvery-cheeked Hornbill | Bycanistes brevis | ||||||||
| 158 | Black-and-white-Casqued Hornbill | Bycanistes subcylindricus | ||||||||
| 159 | Grey-throated Barbet | Gymnobicco bonapartei | ||||||||
| 160 | Yellow-spotted Barbet | Buccanodon duchaillui | ||||||||
| 161 | Hairy-breasted Barbet | Tricholaema hirsuta | ||||||||
| 162 | Yellow-billed Barbet | Trachyphonus purpuratus | ||||||||
| 163 | Red-and-Yellow Barbet | Trachyphonus erythrocephalus | ||||||||
| 164 | D’Arnaud’s Barbet | Trachyphonus darnaudii | ||||||||
| 165 | Red-fronted Barbet | Tricholaema diademata | ||||||||
| 166 | Spot-flanked Barbet | Tricholaema lacrymosa | ||||||||
| 167 | Black-throated Barbet | Tricholaema melanocephala | ||||||||
| 168 | Red-fronted Tinkerbird | pogoniulus pusillus | ||||||||
| 169 | Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird | pogoniulus bilineatus | ||||||||
| 170 | Double-thoothed Barbet | Lybius bidentatus | ||||||||
| 171 | Lesser Honeyguide | Indicator minor | ||||||||
| 172 | Greater Honeyguide | Indicator indicator | ||||||||
| 173 | Nubian Woodpecker | Campethera nubica | ||||||||
| 174 | Cardinal Woodpecker | Dendropicus fuscescens | ||||||||
| 175 | Bearded Woodpecker | Dendropicus namaquus | ||||||||
| 176 | Grey Woodpecker | Dendropicus goertae | ||||||||
| 177 | Buff-spotted Woodpecker | Campethera nivosa | ||||||||
| 178 | Brown-eared Woodpecker | Campethera caroli | ||||||||
| 179 | Yellow-crested Woodpecker | Dendropicus xantholophus | ||||||||
| 180 | African Broadbill | Smithornis capensis | ||||||||
| 181 | Rufouse-naped Lark | Mirafra africana | ||||||||
| 182 | Pink-breasted Lark | Calendulauda poecilosterna | ||||||||
| 183 | Fisher’s Sparrow-Lark | Eremopterix leucopareia | ||||||||
| 184 | Black Sawwing | Psalidoprocne pristoptera | ||||||||
| 185 | White-headed Sawwing | Psalidoprocne albiceps | ||||||||
| 186 | Plain Martin | Riparia paludicola | ||||||||
| 187 | Common Sand Martin | Riparia riparia | ||||||||
| 188 | Banded Martin | Riparia cincta | ||||||||
| 189 | Rock Martin | Ptyonoprogne fuligulia | ||||||||
| 190 | Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | ||||||||
| 191 | Wire-tailed Swallow | Hirundo smithii | ||||||||
| 192 | Red-rumped Swallow | Cecropis daurica | ||||||||
| 193 | Lesser-striped Swallow | Cecropis abyssinica | ||||||||
| 194 | African Pied Wagtail | Motacilla aguimp | ||||||||
| 195 | Yellow Wagtail | Motacilla flava | ||||||||
| 196 | Cape Wagtail | Motacilla capensis | ||||||||
| 197 | Mountain Wagtail | Motacilla clara | ||||||||
| 198 | African Pipit | Anthus cinnamomeus | ||||||||
| 199 | Plain-backed Pipit | Anthus leucophrys | ||||||||
| 200 | Yellow-throated Longclaw | Macronyx croceus | ||||||||
| 201 | Black-cuckoo Shrike | Campephaga flava | ||||||||
| 202 | Petit’s Cuckoo-Shrike | Campephaga petiti | ||||||||
| 203 | Purple-throated Cuckoo-Shrike | Campephaga quiscalina | ||||||||
| 204 | Shelley’s Greenbul | Andropadus masukuensis | ||||||||
| 205 | Yellow-wiskered Greenbul | Andropadus latirostris | ||||||||
| 206 | Joyful Greenbul | Chlorocichla laetissima | ||||||||
| 207 | Little-grey Greenbul | Andropadus gracillis | ||||||||
| 208 | Slender-billed Greenbul | Andropadus gracilirostris | ||||||||
| 209 | Cabanis Greenbul | Phyllastrephus cabanisi | ||||||||
| 210 | Ansorge’s Greenbul | Andropadus ansorgei | ||||||||
| 211 | Red-tailed Bristlebill | Bleda syndactylus | ||||||||
| 212 | Common Bulbul | Pycnonotus barbatus | ||||||||
| 213 | Equatorial Akalat | Sheppardia aequatorialis | ||||||||
| 214 | Cape Robin-Chat | Cossypha caffra | ||||||||
| 215 | Grey-winged Robin-Chat | Cossypha polioptera | ||||||||
| 216 | White-browed Robin-Chat | Cossypha heuglini | ||||||||
| 217 | Snowy-headed Robin-Chat | Cossypha niveicapilla | ||||||||
| 218 | Spotted Palm Thrush | Cichladusa guttata | ||||||||
| 219 | White-browed Scrub Robin | Cercotrichas leucophrys | ||||||||
| 220 | Common Stone Chat | Saxicola torquatus | ||||||||
| 221 | Northern Anteater Chat | Myrmecocichla aethiops | ||||||||
| 222 | Schalow’s Wheatear | Oenanthe schalowi | ||||||||
| 223 | Brown-tailed Rock Chat | Cercomela scotocerca | ||||||||
| 224 | Alpine Chat | Cercomela sordida ernesti | ||||||||
| 225 | Mocking Cliff Chat | Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris | ||||||||
| 226 | Brown-chested Alethe | Alethe poliocephala | ||||||||
| 227 | White-tailed Ant Thrush | Neocossyphus poensis | ||||||||
| 228 | Olive Thrush | Turdus olivaceus | ||||||||
| 229 | African Thrush | Turdus pelios | ||||||||
| 230 | Evergreen Forest Warbler | Bradypterus lopezi | ||||||||
| 231 | Cinnamon Bracken Warbler | Bradypterus cinnamomeus | ||||||||
| 232 | Black-faced Rufous Warbler | Bathmocercus rufus | ||||||||
| 233 | Lesser Swamp Warbler | Acrocephalus gracilirostris | ||||||||
| 234 | Mountain Yellow Warbler | Chloropeta similis | ||||||||
| 235 | Eastern Olivaceous Warbler | Hippolais pallida | ||||||||
| 236 | Yellow-bellied Eremomela | Eremomela icteropygialis | ||||||||
| 237 | Turner’s Eremomela | Eremomela turneri | ||||||||
| 238 | Northern Crombec | Sylvietta brachyura | ||||||||
| 239 | Red-faced Crombec | Sylvietta whytii | ||||||||
| 240 | White-browed Crombec | Sylvietta leucophrys | ||||||||
| 241 | Brown Woodland Warbler | Phylloscopus umbrovirens | ||||||||
| 242 | Uganda Woodland Warbler | Phylloscopus budongoensis | ||||||||
| 243 | Southern Hyliota | Hyliota australis | ||||||||
| 244 | Green Hylia | Hylia prasina | ||||||||
| 245 | Red-faced Cisticola | Cisticola erythrops | ||||||||
| 246 | Singing Cisticola | Cisticola cantans | ||||||||
| 247 | Rattling Cisticola | Cisticola chiniana | ||||||||
| 248 | Winding Cisticola | Cisticola galactotes | ||||||||
| 249 | Carruthers’s Cisticola | Cisticola carruthersi | ||||||||
| 250 | Chubb’s Cisticola | Cisticola chubbi | ||||||||
| 251 | Hunter’s Cisticola | Cisticola hunteri | ||||||||
| 252 | Zitting Cisticola | Cisticola juncidis | ||||||||
| 253 | Pectral-patched Cisticola | Cisticola brunnescens | ||||||||
| 254 | Stout Cisticola | Cisticola robustus | ||||||||
| 255 | Buff-bellied Warbler | Phyllolais pulchella | ||||||||
| 256 | Tawny-flanked Prinia | Prinia subflava | ||||||||
| 257 | Pale Prinia | Prinia somalica | ||||||||
| 258 | Banded Prinia | Prinia bairdii | ||||||||
| 259 | White-chinned Prinia | Schistolais leucopogon | ||||||||
| 260 | Red-fronted Warbler | Urorhipis rufifrons | ||||||||
| 261 | Buff-throated Apalis | Apalis rufogularis | ||||||||
| 262 | Grey Apalis | Apalis cinerea | ||||||||
| 263 | Black-collared Apalis | Apalis pulchra | ||||||||
| 264 | Yellow-breasted Apalis | Apalis flavida | ||||||||
| 265 | Grey-backed Camaroptera | Camaroptera Branchyura brevicaudata | ||||||||
| 266 | Olive -green Camaroptera | Camaroptera chloronota | ||||||||
| 267 | Grey Wren-warbler | Calamonastes simplex | ||||||||
| 268 | Grey-capped Warbler | Eminia lepida | ||||||||
| 269 | White-eyed slaty Flycatcher | Melaenornis fischeri | ||||||||
| 270 | Northern Black Flycatcher | Melaenornis edolioides | ||||||||
| 271 | African Dusky Flycatcher | Muscicapa adusta | ||||||||
| 272 | African Grey Flycatcher | Bradornis microrhynchus | ||||||||
| 273 | Silverbird | Empidornis semipartitus | ||||||||
| 274 | Swamp Flycatcher | Muscicapa aquatica | ||||||||
| 275 | Chapin’s Flycatcher | Muscicapa lendu | ||||||||
| 276 | African Paradise Flycatcher | Terpsiphone viridis | ||||||||
| 277 | Red-bellied Flycatcher | Terpsiphone rufiventer | ||||||||
| 278 | Chesnut Wattle-eye | Dyaphorophyia castanea | ||||||||
| 279 | Jameson’s Wattle-eye | Dyaphorophyia jamesoni | ||||||||
| 280 | Brown-throated Wattle-eye | Platysteria cyanea | ||||||||
| 281 | Chinspot Batis | Batis molitor | ||||||||
| 282 | Pygmy Batis | Batis perkeo | ||||||||
| 283 | Pale-breasted Illadopsis | Illadopsis rufipennis | ||||||||
| 284 | Brown Illadopsis | Illadopsis fulvescenes | ||||||||
| 285 | African Hill Babbler | Pseudoalcippe abyssinica | ||||||||
| 286 | Brown Babbler | Turdoides plebejus | ||||||||
| 287 | Arrow-marked Babbler | Turdoides jardineii | ||||||||
| 288 | Hinde’s Babbler | Turdoides hindei | ||||||||
| 289 | Black-lored Babbler | Turdoides sharpei | ||||||||
| 290 | Rufous Chatterer | Turdoides rubiginosa | ||||||||
| 291 | Norhthern Grey Tit | Parus thruppi barakae | ||||||||
| 292 | Dusky Tit | Parus funereus | ||||||||
| 293 | White-bellied Tit | Parus albiventris | ||||||||
| 294 | Mouse-coloured Penduline-Tit | Anthoscopus musculus | ||||||||
| 295 | Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird | Anthreptes orientalis | ||||||||
| 296 | Green Sunbird | Anthreptes rectirostris | ||||||||
| 297 | Green-headed Sunbird | Cyanomitra verticalis | ||||||||
| 298 | Eastern Olive Sunbird | Cyanomitra olivacea | ||||||||
| 299 | Green-throated Sunbird | Chalcomitra rubescens | ||||||||
| 300 | Amathyst Sunbird | Chalcomitra amethystina | ||||||||
| 301 | Scarlet-chested Sunbird | Chalcomitra senegalensis | ||||||||
| 302 | Hunter’s Sunbird | Chalcomitra hunteri | ||||||||
| 303 | Golden-winged Sunbird | Drepanorhynchus reichnowi | ||||||||
| 304 | Tacazze Sunbird | Nectarinia tacazze | ||||||||
| 305 | Bronze Sunbird | Nectarinia kilimensis | ||||||||
| 306 | Collared Sunbird | Hedydipna collaris | ||||||||
| 307 | Northern-double Collared Sunbird | Cinnyris reichenowi | ||||||||
| 308 | Easthern-double Callared Sunbird | Cinnyris mediocris | ||||||||
| 309 | Beautiful Sunbird | Cinnyris pulchellus | ||||||||
| 310 | Red-chested Sunbird | Cinnyris erythrocercus | ||||||||
| 311 | Shinning Sunbird | Cinnyris habessinicus turkanae | ||||||||
| 312 | Variable Sunbird | Cinnyris venustus | ||||||||
| 313 | Yellow White-eye | Zosterops senegalensis | ||||||||
| 314 | Montane White-eye | Zosterops poliogaster | ||||||||
| 315 | Common Fiscal | Lanius collaris | ||||||||
| 316 | Mackinnon’s Fiscal | Lanius mackinnoni | ||||||||
| 317 | Grey-backed Fiscal | Lanius excubitorius | ||||||||
| 318 | Norther White-crowned Shrike | Eurocephalus rueppelli | ||||||||
| 319 | Grey-headed Bush-Shrike | Malacanotus blanchoti | ||||||||
| 320 | Grey-green Bush-Shrike | Telophorus bocagei | ||||||||
| 321 | Doherty’s Bush-Shrike | Telephorus dohertyi | ||||||||
| 322 | Brown-crowned Tchagra | Tchagra australis | ||||||||
| 323 | Tree-streaked Tchagra | Tchagra jamesi | ||||||||
| 324 | Blacked-backed Puffback | Dryoscopus culba | ||||||||
| 325 | Pink-footed Puffback | Dryoscopus angolensis | ||||||||
| 326 | Slate-coloured Boubou | Laniarius funebris | ||||||||
| 327 | Luhder’s Bush-Shrike | Laniarius luehderi | ||||||||
| 328 | Tropical Boubou | Laniarius aethiopicus | ||||||||
| 329 | Brubru | Nilaus afer | ||||||||
| 330 | Western Black-headed Oriole | Oriolus brachyrhynchus | ||||||||
| 331 | Eastern Black-headed Oriole | Oriolus larvatus | ||||||||
| 332 | Square-tailed Drongo | Dicrurus ludwigii | ||||||||
| 333 | Fork-tailed Drongo | Dicrurus adsimilis | ||||||||
| 334 | Pied Crow | Corvus albus | ||||||||
| 335 | Fan-tailed Raven | Corvus rhipidurus | ||||||||
| 336 | Stuhlmann’s Starling | Poeoptera stuhlmanni | ||||||||
| 337 | Kenrick’s Starling | Poeoptera kenricki | ||||||||
| 338 | Waller’s Starling | Onychognathus walleri | ||||||||
| 339 | Red-winged Starling | Onychognathus morio | ||||||||
| 340 | Bristle-crowned Starling | Onychognathus salvadorii | ||||||||
| 241 | Slender-billed Starling | Onychognathus tenuirostris | ||||||||
| 342 | Greater Blue-eared Starling | Lamprotornis chalybaeus | ||||||||
| 343 | Ruppell’s Starling | Lamprotornis purpuroptera | ||||||||
| 344 | Hilderbrandt’s Starling | Lamprotornis hildebrandti | ||||||||
| 345 | Superb Starling | Lamprotornis superbus | ||||||||
| 346 | Magpie Starling | Speculipastor bicolor | ||||||||
| 347 | Sharpe’s Starling | Pholia sharpii | ||||||||
| 348 | Violet-backed Starling | Cinnyricinclus leucogaster | ||||||||
| 349 | Wattled Starling | Creatophora cinerea | ||||||||
| 350 | Red-billed Oxpecker | Buphagus erythrorhynchus | ||||||||
| 351 | House Sparrow | Passer domesticus | ||||||||
| 352 | Kenya Rufous Sparrow | Passer rufocinctus | ||||||||
| 353 | Grey-headed Sparrow | Passer griseus | ||||||||
| 354 | Parrot-billed Sparrow | Passer gongonensis | ||||||||
| 355 | Chestnut Sparrow | Passer eminibey | ||||||||
| 356 | Yellow-spotted Petronia | Petronia pyrgita | ||||||||
| 357 | White-headed Buffalo Weaver | Dinemellia dinemelli | ||||||||
| 358 | Speckled-fronted Weaver | Sporopipes frontalis | ||||||||
| 359 | White-browed Sparrow Weaver | Plocepasser mahali | ||||||||
| 360 | Red-headed Malimbe | Malimbus rubricollis | ||||||||
| 361 | Red-headed Weaver | Anaplectes rubriceps | ||||||||
| 362 | Baglafecht Weaver | Ploceus baglafecht | ||||||||
| 363 | Little Weaver | Ploceus luteolus | ||||||||
| 364 | Slender-billed Weaver | Ploceus pelzelni | ||||||||
| 365 | Black-necked Weaver | Ploceus nigricollis | ||||||||
| 366 | Spectacled Weaver | Ploceus ocularis | ||||||||
| 367 | Black-billed Weaver | Ploceus melanogaster | ||||||||
| 368 | Holub’s Golden Weaver | Ploceus xanthops | ||||||||
| 369 | Northern Brown-throated Weaver | Ploceus castanops | ||||||||
| 370 | Northern Masked Weaver | Ploceus taeniopterus | ||||||||
| 371 | Lesser-masked Weaver | Ploceus intermedius | ||||||||
| 372 | Vittaline-masked Weaver | Ploceus vitellinus | ||||||||
| 373 | Black-headed Weaver | Ploceus cucullatus | ||||||||
| 374 | Speke’s Weaver | Ploceus spekei | ||||||||
| 375 | Yellow-backed Weaver | Ploceus fischeri | ||||||||
| 376 | Jackson’s Golden-backed Weaver | Ploceus jacksoni | ||||||||
| 377 | Dark-backed Weaver | Ploceus bicolor | ||||||||
| 378 | Chestnut Weaver | Ploceus rubiginosus | ||||||||
| 379 | Brown-capped Weaver | Ploceus insignis | ||||||||
| 380 | Red-billed Quelea | Quelea quelea | ||||||||
| 381 | Yellow-crowned Bishop | Euplectes afer | ||||||||
| 382 | Yellow Bishop | Euplectes capensis | ||||||||
| 383 | Red-collared Widowbird | Euplectes ardens | ||||||||
| 384 | Long-tailed Widowbird | Euplectes progne | ||||||||
| 385 | Yellow-mantled Widowbird | Euplectes macroura | ||||||||
| 386 | Grey-headed Negrofinch | Nigrita canicapillus | ||||||||
| 387 | White-breasted Negrofinch | Nigrita fusconotus | ||||||||
| 388 | Yellow-bellied Waxbill | Coccopygia quartinia | ||||||||
| 389 | Crimson-rumped Waxbill | Estrilda rhodophyga | ||||||||
| 390 | Common Waxbill | Estrilda astrild | ||||||||
| 391 | Black-faced Waxbill | Estrilda erythronotus | ||||||||
| 392 | Red-headed Bluebill | Spermophaga ruficapilla | ||||||||
| 393 | Red-cheeked Cordonblue | Uraeginthus bengalus | ||||||||
| 394 | Blue-capped Cordonblue | Uraeginthus cyanocephalus | ||||||||
| 395 | Purple Grenadier | Granatina ianthinogaster | ||||||||
| 396 | Green-winged Pytilia | Pytilia melba | ||||||||
| 397 | Red-billed Firefinch | Lagonosticta senegala | ||||||||
| 398 | African Firefinch | Logonosticta rubricata | ||||||||
| 399 | Cut-throat | Amadina fasciata | ||||||||
| 400 | African Quail Finch | Ortygospiza fuscocrissa | ||||||||
| 401 | Grey-headed Silverbill | Odontospiza griseicapilla | ||||||||
| 402 | Bronze Mannikin | Lonchura cucullata | ||||||||
| 403 | Black-and-Whited Mannikin | Lonchura bicolor | ||||||||
| 404 | Pin-tailed Whydah | Vidua macroura | ||||||||
| 405 | Steel-blue Whydah | Vidua hypocherina | ||||||||
| 406 | Yellow-fronted Canary | Serinus mozambicus | ||||||||
| 407 | African Citril | Serinus citrinelloids | ||||||||
| 408 | White-bellied Canary | Serinus dorsostriatus | ||||||||
| 409 | Brimestone Canary | Serinus sulphuratus | ||||||||
| 410 | Yellow-crowned Canary | Serinus flavivertex | ||||||||
| 411 | Streaky Seedeater | Serinus striolatus | ||||||||
| 412 | Golden-breasted Bunting | Emberiza flaviventris | ||||||||
| Species of Animals and Reptiles seen on the Trip | ||||||||||
| 1 | Olive Baboon | Papio anubis | ||||||||
| 2 | Syke’s Monkey | Cercoithecus albogularis | ||||||||
| 3 | Black and White Colobus | Colobus guereza | ||||||||
| 4 | Vervet Monkey | Cercopithecus aethiops | ||||||||
| 5 | Blue Monkey | Cercopithecus mitis | ||||||||
| 6 | Red-tailed Monkey | Cercopithecus ascaniu | ||||||||
| 7 | Common Hippopotamus | Hippopotamus amphibius | ||||||||
| 8 | Common Warthog | Phacochoerus africanus | ||||||||
| 9 | Maasai Giraffe | Giraffa c. tippelskirchi | ||||||||
| 10 | Common Zebra | Equus burchellii | ||||||||
| 11 | Baringo Giraffe | Girafa c. rothschildi | ||||||||
| 12 | Savanna Buffalo | Syncerus caffer | ||||||||
| 13 | Common Eland | Tragelaphus oryx | ||||||||
| 14 | Defassa Waterbuck | kobus e. deffasa | ||||||||
| 15 | White Rhino | ceratotherium simum | ||||||||
| 16 | Grant’s Gazelle | gazella granti | ||||||||
| 17 | Thomson’s Gazelle | gazella thomsoni | ||||||||
| 18 | African Elephants | Lexodonta africana | ||||||||
| 19 | Impala | aepyceros melampus | ||||||||
| 20 | Rock Hyraxes | procavia capensis | ||||||||
| 21 | Cape Hare | lepus capensis | ||||||||
| 22 | Plain Ground Squirrels | xerus rutilus | ||||||||
| 23 | Nile Crocodile | crocodylus niloticus | ||||||||
| 24 | Nile Monitor | Varannus niloticus | ||||||||
| 25 | Leopard Tortoise | testudo pardalis | ||||||||
| 26 | Rock Red-headed Agama | agama agama | ||||||||
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