Birding Trip Reports

I’ve been updating the blog with new sections, including Birding Hotspots in Kenya and East Africa, which I will be updating throughout this week, as well as Birding Trip Reports. Below is the most recently added report from a non-birding tour I hosted over the holidays. Enjoy the Birds! Kenya may have turned my guests into birders!

On my recent trip with  two Canadians, which took  us to Maasai Mara National Reserve, Lake Baringo, Kaptagat Forest and Diani Beach, we managed to see 155 species, though they were not really serious birders as such. It was more of a Christmas holiday. I was however impressed of how many species came our way!!! Kenyan birdlife is impressive!!! Have a great birding new year. The photos were taken during this trip.

Species seen during the tour:

1. Sooty Gull
2. White Stork
3. Yellow-Billed Stork

   

   Yellow-Billed Stork in the Maasai Mara

4. Woolly-necked Stork

   

5. Saddle-billed Stork
6. Black Stork
7. African open-billed Stork

   

   African Open-billed Stork in Maasai Mara

8. Grey crowned Crane
9. Marabou Stork
10. Glossy Ibis
11. Sacred Ibis
12. Hadada Ibis

    

    Hadada Ibis at Lake Baringo

13. Lesser Flamingo

    

    Lesser Flamingo Lake Bogoria

14. Greater Flamingo

    

    Greater Flamingo, Lake Bogoria

15. Goliath Heron

    

    Goliath Heron, Maasai Mara

16. Black-headed Heron
17. Hammerkop

    

    Hammerkop, Maasai Mara

18. Little Bittern
19. Squacco Heron

    

    Squacco Heron, Lake Baringo

20. Rufous-bellied Heron
21. Green-backed Heron
22. Great Egret
23. Little Egret
24. Cattle Egret
25. Dimorphic Egret
26. Long-tailed Cormorant

    

    Long-tailed Cormorant, Lake Baringo

27. African Darter

    

28. White-faced whistling Duck
29. Knob-billed Duck
30. Water Thick-knee
31. Temminck’s Courser
32. Black-winged Plover
33. Senegal Plover
34. Crowned Plover
35. Blacksmith Plover
36. Spur-winged Plover
37. African wattled Plover
38. Little ringed plover
39. Common ringed plover
40. Little Stint
41. Temmink’s Stint
42. Broad-billed Sandpiper
43. Common Greenshank
44. Mash Sandpiper
45. Wood Sandpiper
46. Green Sandpiper
47. Whembrel
48. Black-winged  Stilt
49. African Jacana

    

    African Jacana, Maasai Mara

50. Helmeted Guineafowl
51. White-bellied Bustard
52. Black-bellied Bustard
53. Southern Ground Hornbill

    

    Southern Ground Hornbill, Maasai Mara

54. Secretary Bird

    

    Secretary Bird, Maasai Mara

55. Common Ostrich
56. Ruppell’s Griffon Vulture
57. African white-backed Vulture
58. White-headed Vulture
59. Lappet-faced Vulture
60. Imperial Eagle
61. Tawny Eagle
62. Common Buzzard
63. Augur Buzzard
64. Osprey
65. Martial Eagle
66. Brown Snake Eagle
67. African Fish Eagle
68. Little Sparrowhawk
69. Shikra
70. Great Sparrowhawk
71. Lizard Buzzard
72. Long-crested Eagle
73. Lanner Falcon
74. Pygmy Falcon
75. African Green Pigeon

    

    African Green Pigeon, Maasai Mara

76. Namaqua Dove
77. African Mourning Dove
78. Laughing Dove
79. Emerald-spotted wood Dove
80. White-bellied Go Away Bird

    

    White-bellied Go Away Bird, Lake Baringo

81. Hartlaub’s Turaco
82. Klaas’s Cuckoo
83. Diedrik Cuckoo
84. Black and white Cuckoo
85. Blue-headed Coucal
86. Slender-tailed Nightjar
87. Blue-naped Mousebird
88. Speckled Mousebird
89. Malachite Kingfisher

    

    Malachite Kingfisher, Lake Baringo

90. Woodland Kingfisher
91. Pied Kingfisher

    

    Pied Kingfisher, Lake Baringo

92. Little Bee-eater
93. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
94. Lilac-breasted Roller

    

    Lilac-Breasted Roller, Maasai Mara

95. African Hoopoe
96. Green Wood-Hoopoe
97. Jackson’s Hornbill

    

    Jackson’s Hornbill, Lake Baringo

98. Red-billed Hornbill
99. Green Barbet
100. White-eared Barbet
101. Red-fronted Barbet
102. Black-throated Barbet
103. Red and Yellow Barbet

     

     Red and Yellow Barbet, Lake Baringo

104. Grey Woodpecker
105. Nubian Woodpecker
106. Lesser Honey guide
107. Rosy-breasted Longclaw
108. Yellow-throated Longclaw
109. Grassland Pipit
110. Rufous-naped Lark
111. Common Bulbul
112. Ruppell’s Long-tailed Starling
113. Superb Starling
114. Bristle-crowned Starling
115. Black-headed Oriole
116. Pied Crow
117. House Crow
118. Brubru
119. Three-streaked Tchagra
120. Northern Puffback
121. Grey-headed Bush-shrike
122. Northern-white crowned Shrike
123. Pygmy Batis
124. African-grey Flycatcher
125. African Paradise Flycatcher
126. Brown Babbler
127. White-Browed Scrub Robin
128. Winding Cisticola
129. Rattling Cisticola
130. Siffling  Cisticola
131. Zitting Cisticola
132. Yellow-breasted Apalis
133. Red-fronted Warbler
134. Grey Wren Warbler
135. Beautiful Sunbird
136. Hunters Sunbird
137. Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird
138. Grey-headed Sparrow
139. White-billed Buffalo-Weaver
140. White-headed Buffalo-Weaver
141. Pin-tailed Whydah
142. Hartlaub’s Mash Widowbird
143. Fan-tailed Widowbird
144. Jackson’s Golden-backed Weaver
145. Northern-masked Weaver
146. Lesser-Masked Weaver
147. Red-cheeked Cordon-Blue
148. Purple Grenadier
149. Green-winged Pytilia
150. Red-billed Firefinch

     

     Red-billed Firefinch, Lake Baringo

151. African Citril
152. White-bellied Canary
153. Yellow-crowned Canary
154. Dark Chanting Goshawk

     

155. Spotted morning Thrush