Birds of Kenya


Gabar Goshawk

Red-billed Spurfowl

Groundscraper Thrush

Black Crake

Bateleur

Northern Black Korhaan

Double-banded Coursier

Cape Glossy Starling

Pririt Batis

Short-tailed Rock Thrush

White-tailed Shrike

Kelp Gull and Hartlaub's Gull

Cape Bunting

Pale-winged Starling

Gray's Lark

Tractrac Chat

Sociable Weaver

Scaley-feathered Finch

Red-eyed Bulbul


Laughing Dove


Sociable Finches

Namaqua Sandgrouse

Tawny-flanked Prinia


Southern Cordon Bleu








Green-headed Sunbird

Golden-winged Sunbird

Cape Robin-Chat

Tacazze Sunbird

Hunter's Cisticola

Spotted Eagle-Owl
Eurasian Hoopoe

White-fronted Bee-eater

Grey-capped Warbler

Fischer's Lovebird

Immature Bustard, perhaps Black-bellied Bustard

Fan-tailed Widowbird

Woolly-necked Stork

Eurasian Roller

Lilac-breasted Roller

Southern Ground Hornbill


Striated or Squacco Heron

White Stork

Pin-tailed Whydah
Pied Crows

Melba Finch (Green-winged Pytilia)

Yellow-bellied Waxbill
Barn Swallow

White-faced Whistling Ducks

Black-winged Stilt

White-bellied Bustard

Ovambo Sparrowhawk

Hartlaub's Turaco
Purple Grenadier
Vulturine Guineafowl



















Scarlet-turfted Malachite Sunbird




Whtie browed Coucal

Lesser striped Swallow

Open billed Stork

Long-crested Eagle

Red-necked Spurfowl

Sacred Ibis

Great Blue Turaco

African Blue Flycatcher

Collared Sunbird

Griffon Vulture

Palm nut Vulture

Black headed Weaver


Weaverbird; we couldn't decide what kind this was

Bustard in the grass, probably a female Black-bellied Bustard

Lesser Kestrels


African Grey Hornbill

Helmeted Guineafowl

Yellow Wagtail

Tawny Eagle?

Saddlebilled Stork

Secretarybird

Go-Away Bird

Kori Bustard

Kori Bustard

Marabou Stork

Eastern Double-collared Sunbird; one of many sunbirds we've seen, but always hard to photograph!

Black Kite hunting on our lawn

African paradise-flycatcher

Abdim's Stork

Fan-tailed Widowbird, female

Fan-tailed Widowbird, male 
Kori Bustard, largest flying bird in Africa

Black Kite in action


Helmeted Guineafowl

Some kind of helmet shrike

Drongo silhouette

Pied kingfishers at Lake Nakuru

Bird

Lilac breasted roller on some kind of acacia

Hammerkop at Lake Nakuru

Red-billed oxpecker on a fuzzy zebra

Ruppel's long-tailed starling

Augar buzzard

Grey crowned cranes at Lake Nakuru 

African spoonbill

African fish eagle looking hungry at Lake Bogoria

Another bird

Black-winged Stilt at Lake Bogoria

Long-tailed cormorant at Lake Baringo

Goliath heron at Lake Baringo

Striated heron at Lake Baringo

Woodland kingfisher at Lake Baringo

Lots of weavers

Black-headed Weaver
Nubian woodpecker at Lake Baringo

Jackson's hornbill

Jackson's Hornbill

White-beliied go-away bird

Ruppell's starling

Hunter's sunbird

Red-headed weaver

Red cheeked Cordon-bleu

Black and white casqued hornbill at Kakamega forest

Jackson's Francolin, in the Aberdares, a high altitude bird restricted to areas of Kenya


Grey Heron

Common Moorhen

Blacksmith Lapwing

Secretary Bird (from a long distance, but a very cool bird!)

Red-billed Teel

Sacred Ibis, Yellow billed Stork, and African Spoonbill

Black-winged Stilt and African Black Duck

Red-billed Oxpeckers (immature)

Little Bee-eater

Spot-flanked Barbet

Marabou Stork

Ostriches with chicks

White-headed Vultures (by water), Marabou Stork, and possible Egyptian Vulture (at top)

Egyptian Goose

Egyptian Geese and Speckled Pigeon

Red-billed Firefinch

Cinnamon-chested bee-eater


Narina Trogon

Montane White-eye

Mountain Wagtail
Cape Robin Chat


Red-winged Starling

Yellow-necked Spurfowl

White-bellied Go-Away-Bird

Ostrich (Common, Somali or hybrid - not sure)

Crowned Lapwing

Southern Black Flycatcher

Southern Black Flycatcher

White-browed Sparrow Weaver

White-browed Sparrow Weaver

Long-tailed Fiscal Shrike


Yellow-casqued Hornbill

Yellow-casqued Hornbill

Superb Starling


Bronze Mannakin


Variable Sunbird

Variable Sunbird


Olive Thrush



Hababa Ibis - very common in the area, there is a nest high in the tree by us


African Dusky Flycatcher? (hard to identify...)
African Dusky Flycatcher chick and parent


Speckled Mousebirds - common in the guava tree outside our windows
Speckled Mousebird




Baglafecht Weaver, male

Grey crowned Social Weaver

Baglafecht Weaver, female

Black Kite - very common, they are quite bold and known to steal food from people

Common Bulbul

Variable Sunbird

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