Kenya Birds

Kenya, August 2001

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Scientific	Common	Kilaguni	Amboseli	Mt. Kenya	Samburu	Baringo	Nakuru	Maasai Mara	Other
Struthio camelus	Common Ostrich	X	X			X		X
Struthio molybdophanes	Somali Ostrich		X
Tachybaptus ruficollis capensis	Little Grebe		X			X
Pelecanus onocrotalus	Great White Pelican		X			X	X
Pelecanus rufescens	Pink-backed Pelican		X			X
Phalacrocorax africanus africanus	Long-tailed Cormorant		X
Phalacrocorax carbo lucidus	Great Cormorant		X				X
Anhinga rufa	African Darter		X
Ixobrychus minutus	Little Bittern					X
Ixobrychus sturmii	Dwarf Bittern					X
Bubulcus ibis ibis	Cattle Egret		X		X	X	X
Egretta garzetta garzetta	Little Egret		X			X	X
Nycticorax nycticorax nycticorax	Black-crowned Night Heron		X		X
Ardeola ralloides	Squacco Heron		X			X		X
Egretta ardesiaca	Black Heron		X
Butorides striatus atricapillus	Green-backed Heron				X	X
Mesophoyx intermedia branchyrhyncha	Yellow-billed Egret		X			X
Ardea cinerea cinerea	Grey Heron		X			X	X	X
Ardea goliath	Goliath Heron		X			X		X
Ardea purpurea purpurea	Purple Heron		X
Casmerodius albus melanorhynchos	Great Egret		X			X	X	X
Ardea melanocephala	Black-headed Heron		X					X
Scopus umbretta umbretta	Hamerkop			X		X	X	X
Ciconia episcopus microscelis	Woolly-necked Stork	X				X		X
Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis	Saddle-billed Stork		X					X
Mycteria ibis	Yellow-billed Stork	X				X	X	X
Leptoptilos crumeniferus	Marabou Stork	X	X		X	X	X	X
Bostrychia hagedash brevirostris	Hadada Ibis	X	X	X	X		X	X
Threskiornis aethiopicus aethiopicus	Sacred Ibis		X	X		X	X	X
Phoenicopterus roseus	Greater Flamingo		X				X
Platalea alba	African Spoonbill		X			X	X
Plegadis falcinellus falcinellus	Glossy Ibis		X			X
Dendrocygna bicolor	Fulvous Whistling Duck		X					X
Phoeniconaias minor	Lesser Flamingo		X				X
Alopochen aegyptiacus	Egyptian Goose	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Dendrocygna viduata	White-faced Whistling Duck		X					X
Plectropterus gambensis gambensis	Spur-winged Goose		X			X		X
Sarkidiornis melanotos melanotos	Knob-billed Duck		X	X				X
Anas capensis	Cape Teal		X				X
Anas undulata undulata	Yellow-billed Duck						X
Anas erythrorhyncha	Red-billed Teal		X
Anas hottentota	Hottentot Teal		X
Netta erythrophthalma brunnea	Southern Pochard		X
Sagittarius serpentarius	Secretary Bird	X	X					X
Elanus caeruleus caeruleus	Black-shouldered Kite					X		X
Milvus migrans	Black Kite							X
Necrosyrtes monachus pileatus	Hooded Vulture		X		X			X
Gyps africanus	African White-backed Vulture				X			X
Gyps rueppellii ruppellii	Rüppell's Griffon Vulture							X
Torgos tracheliotus tracheliotus	Lappet-faced Vulture							X
Circaetus pectoralis	Black-chested Snake Eagle	X	X					X
Trigonoceps occipitalis	White-headed Vulture		X					X
Circaetus cinereus	Brown Snake Eagle		X
Polyboroides typus typus	African Harrier-Hawk			X	X
Terathopius ecaudatus	Bateleur	X			X			X
Circus ranivorus	African Marsh-Harrier							X
Melierax metabates metabates	Dark Chanting Goshawk					X		X
Melierax poliopterus	Eastern Pale Chanting Goshawk	X			X
Micronisus gabar aequatorius	Gabar Goshawk	X				X
Accipiter minullus minullus	Little Sparrowhawk			X
Accipiter melanoleucus melanoleucus	Great Sparrowhawk						X
Buteo augur augur	Augur Buzzard			X			X	X
Gypohierax angolensis	Palm-nut Vulture		X		X
Haliaeetus vocifer	African Fish Eagle		X			X	X	X
Aquila nipalensis orientalis	Steppe Eagle		X
Aquila rapax rapax	Tawny Eagle	X	X					X
Aquila verreauxii	Verreaux's Eagle				X
Aquila wahlbergi	Wahlberg's Eagle				X
Hieraaetus spilogaster	African Hawk-Eagle				X
Lophaetus occipitalis	Long-crested Eagle						X
Polemaetus bellicosus	Martial Eagle	X			X			X
Falco biarmicus biarmicus	Lanner Falcon	X				X
Polihierax semitorquatus castanonotus	Pygmy Falcon	X			X	X
Falco peregrinus minor	Peregrine Falcon				X
Falco ardosiacus	Grey Kestrel					X		X
Falco tinnunculus tinnunculus	Common Kestrel					X
Coturnix delegorguei delegorguei	Harlequin Quail							X
Francolinus coqui	Coqui Francolin							X
Francolinus sephaena	Crested Francolin	X			X
Francolinus afer	Red-necked Spurfowl							X
Francolinus hildebrandti	Hildebrandt's Francolin						X
Francolinus leucoscepus	Yellow-necked Spurfowl	X	X		X
Acryllium vulturinum	Vulturine Guineafowl				X
Numida meleagris	Helmeted Guineafowl	X	X		X		X	X
Turnix sylvatica lepurana	Common Button-quail							X
Amaurornis flavirostris	Black Crake		X					X
Gallinula angulata	Lesser Moorhen		X
Gallinula chloropus meridionalis	Common Moorhen		X
Balearica regulorum gibbericeps	Grey Crowned Crane		X				X
Fulica cristata	Red-knobbed Coot		X
Ardeotis kori struthiunculus	Kori Bustard		X
Eupodotis ruficrista gindiana	Crested Bustard	X
Eupodotis hartlaubii	Hartlaub's Bustard	X	X
Eupodotis melanogaster melanogaster	Black-bellied Bustard							X
Actophilornis africanus	African Jacana		X			X		X
Himantopus himantopus himantopus	Black-winged Stilt		X				X
Burhinus senegalensis inornatus	Senegal Thick-knee					X
Burhinus vermiculatus vermiculatus	Water Thick-knee		X		X	X
Burhinus capensis	Spotted Thick-knee				X	X
Rhinoptilus africanus gracilis	Two-banded Courser		X
Rhinoptilus cinctus	Heuglin's Courser					X
Glareola pratincola fuelleborni	Collared Pratincole		X
Vanellus armatus	Blacksmith Plover		X				X	X
Vanellus crassirostris crassirostris	Long-toed Plover		X
Vanellus spinosus	Spur-winged Plover		X		X	X		X
Vanellus coronatus coronatus	Crowned Plover	X	X			X		X
Vanellus senegallus lateralis	African Wattled Plover							X
Charadrius pecuarius	Kittlitz's Plover		X				X
Charadrius tricollaris tricollaris	Three-banded Plover	X	X
Calidris minuta	Little Stint		X
Calidris ferruginea	Curlew Sandpiper		X
Philomachus pugnax	Ruff		X
Tringa nebularia	Common Greenshank		X				X
Tringa stagnatilis	Marsh Sandpiper		X				X
Actitis hypoleucos	Common Sandpiper		X		X	X	X	X
Tringa glareola	Wood Sandpiper		X
Tringa ochropus	Green Sandpiper							X
Larus cirrocephalus poiocephalus	Grey-headed Gull						X
Sterna nilotica nilotica	Gull-billed Tern						X
Chlidonias hybridus delalandii	Whiskered Tern		X
Chlidonias leucopterus	White-winged Tern		X			X	X
Pterocles decoratus	Black-faced Sandgrouse	X			X
Pterocles gutturalis saturatior	Yellow-throated Sandgrouse							X
Oena capensis capensis	Namaqua Dove		X		X	X
Turtur chalcospilos	Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove	X		X	X	X		X
Columba guinea guinea	Speckled Pigeon			X	X	X	X
Streptopelia decipiens	African Mourning Dove				X	X
Streptopelia semitorquata	Red-eyed Dove			X			X
Streptopelia capicola somalica	Ring-necked Dove	X	X	X			X	X
Streptopelia lugens lugens	Dusky Turtle-Dove						X
Streptopelia senegalensis senegalensis	Laughing Dove	X	X		X	X	X
Poicephalus gulielmi massaicus	Red-fronted Parrot			X
Poicephalus meyeri	Brown Parrot					X
Poicephalus rufiventris rufiventris	African Orange-bellied Parrot	X			X
Tauraco hartlaubi	Hartlaub's Turaco			X
Criniferoides leucogaster	White-bellied Go-away-bird	X			X	X
Corythaixoides personatus leopoldi	Bare-faced Go-away-bird							X
Chrysococcyx caprius	Diederik Cuckoo					X	X
Centropus grillii	Black Coucal							X
Centropus superciliosus superciliosus	White-browed Coucal	X	X			X	X	X
Tyto alba affinis	Barn Owl							X
Otus leucotis	Northern White-faced Owl					X
Bubo cinnerascens	Greyish Eagle-Owl					X
Bubo lacteus	Verreaux's Eagle-Owl	X			X	X	X
Glaucidium perlatum licua	Pearl-spotted Owlet	X			X
Caprimulgus clarus apatelius	Slender-tailed Nightjar					X
Apus aequatorialis aequatorialis	Mottled Swift				X
Apus affinis affinis	Little Swift					X		X
Colius leucocephalus turneri	White-headed Mousebird				X
Colius striatus kikuyuensis	Speckled Mousebird		X	X	X	X	X	X
Urocolius macrourus pulcher	Blue-naped Mousebird	X			X	X		X
Apaloderma narina narina	Narina Trogon			X
Halcyon leucocephala leucocephala	Grey-headed Kingfisher	X	X		X	X
Halcyon chelicuti chelicuti	Striped Kingfisher							X
Halcyon senegalensis senegalensis	Woodland Kingfisher					X		X
Alcedo cristata galerita	Malachite Kingfisher		X			X		X
Ispidina picta picta	African Pygmy Kingfisher					X
Ceryle rudis rudis	Pied Kingfisher		X			X
Megaceryle maxima maxima	Giant Kingfisher			X
Merops superciliosus superciliosus	Madagascar Bee-eater					X
Merops oreobates	Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater			X
Merops pusillus cyanostictus	Little Bee-eater	X	X		X	X		X
Merops revoilii	Somali Bee-eater				X
Coracias caudata	Lilac-breasted Roller	X	X		X	X	X	X
Coracias naevia naevia	Rufous-crowned Roller	X				X
Upupa epops	Hoopoe	X	X			X
Phoeniculus bollei jacksoni	White-headed Wood-hoopoe			X
Phoeniculus purpureus	Green Wood-hoopoe	X		X	X	X	X
Rhinopomastus minor cabanisi	Abyssinian Scimitarbill	X			X
Bucorvus leadbeateri	Southern Ground Hornbill	X						X
Tockus erythrorhynchus erythrorhynchus	Red-billed Hornbill	X			X	X
Tockus deckeni	Von der Decken's Hornbill	X			X
Tockus flavirostris	Eastern Yellow-billed Hornbill				X	X
Tockus jacksoni	Jackson's Hornbill					X
Tockus alboterminatus geloensis	Crowned Hornbill			X				X
Tockus hemprichii	Hemprich's Hornbill					X
Tockus nasutus	African Grey Hornbill	X
Pogoniulus pusillus affinis	Red-fronted Tinkerbird	X				X
Tricholaema diademata	Red-fronted Barbet					X
Tricholaema lacrymosa radcliffei	Spot-flanked Barbet	X
Tricholaema melanocephala stigmatothorax	Black-throated Barbet	X			X	X
Trachyphonus darnaudii	D'Arnaud's Barbet	X			X	X
Trachyphonus erythrocephalus	Red-and-yellow Barbet				X	X
Indicator indicator	Greater Honeyguide				X
Indicator minor teitensis	Lesser Honeyguide			X	X	X
Campethera nubica	Nubian Woodpecker	X			X	X
Dendropicos fuscescens	Cardinal Woodpecker	X				X
Dendropicos namaquus schoensis	Bearded Woodpecker				X	X
Dendropicos goertae rhodeogaster	Grey Woodpecker				X
Mirafra africana	Rufous-naped Lark							X
Mirafra hypermetra hypermetra	Red-winged Lark	X			X
Mirafra africanoides intercedens	Fawn-colored Lark				X
Mirafra poecilosterna	Pink-breasted Lark	X			X
Calandrella cinerea	Red-capped Lark		X
Eremopterix leucopareia	Fischer's Sparrow-Lark		X
Motacilla aguimp vidua	African Pied Wagtail	X	X	X	X	X		X
Motacilla clara torrentium	Mountain Wagtail			X
Anthus cinnamomeus lacuum	Grassland Pipit		X			X		X
Anthus leucophrys	Plain-backed Pipit							X
Anthus caffer blayneyi	Bush Pipit							X
Macronyx aurantiigula	Pangani Longclaw	X	X
Macronyx croceus croceus	Yellow-throated Longclaw				X			X
Tmetothylacus tenellus	Golden Pipit	X			X
Riparia cincta suahelica	Banded Martin		X					X
Riparia paludicola ducis	Plain Martin							X
Hirundo rustica rustica	Barn Swallow		X
Hirundo smithii smithii	Wire-tailed Swallow	X	X		X		X
Hirundo daurica emini	Red-rumped Swallow					X
Hirundo abyssinica unitatis	Lesser Striped Swallow		X			X		X
Hirundo fuligula fusciventris	Rock Martin					X
Psalidoprocne holomelas massaicus	Black Roughwing		X	X
Andropadus latirostris latirostris	Yellow-whiskered Greenbul			X
Pycnonotus barbatus	Common Bulbul	X	X	X	X	X		X
Turdoides jardineii emini	Arrow-marked Babbler						X	X
Turdoides plebejus cinereus	Brown Babbler					X
Turdoides rubiginosus rubiginosus	Rufous Chatterer		X		X	X
Cossypha heuglini heuglini	White-browed Robin-Chat			X			X	X
Cichladusa guttata	Spotted Morning Thrush	X				X
Saxicola torquata axillaris	Common Stonechat								X
Cercomela scotocerca turkana	Brown-tailed Rock Chat					X
Cercomela sordida	Alpine Chat			X
Myrmecocichla aethiops cryptoleuca	Northern Anteater Chat						X	X
Myrmecocichla nigra	Sooty Chat							X
Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris subrufipennis	White-shouldered Cliff Chat					X
Zoothera piaggiae kilimensis	Abyssinian Ground Thrush			X
Turdus olivaceus abyssinicus	Olive Thrush			X
Muscicapa adusta interposita	African Dusky Flycatcher			X
Melaenornis edolioides	Northern Black Flycatcher							X
Melaenornis fischeri	White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher			X			X
Bradornis microrhynchus	African Grey Flycatcher	X			X	X
Bradornis pallidus	Pale Flycatcher							X
Melaenornis pammelaina	Southern Black Flycatcher				X
Empidornis semipartitus	Silverbird								X
Cisticola hunteri	Hunter's Cisticola			X
Cisticola nanus	Tiny Cisticola	X
Cisticola chinianus	Rattling Cisticola	X
Cisticola cinereolus	Ashy Cisticola	X
Cisticola juncidis uropygialis	Zitting Cisticola		X					X
Cisticola brunnescens	Pectoral-patch Cisticola							X
Prinia subflava melanorhyncha	Tawny-flanked Prinia							X
Calamonastes simplex	Grey Wren Warbler	X			X
Apalis cinerea cinerea	Grey Apalis			X
Eminia lepida	Grey-capped Warbler						X
Spiloptila rufifrons	Red-fronted Warbler				X
Sylvietta brachyura	Northern Crombec	X			X
Sylvietta whytii	Red-faced Crombec	X				X
Eremomela flavicrissalis	Yellow-vented Eremomela				X
Eremomela icteropygialis	Yellow-bellied Eremomela	X				X
Phyllolais pulchella	Buff-bellied Warbler					X
Zosterops poliogaster	Montane White-eye			X
Parus thruppi barakae	Northern Grey Tit					X
Parus albiventris	White-bellied Tit			X			X
Terpsiphone viridis	African Paradise Flycatcher	X	X	X		X		X
Batis molitor	Chin-spot Batis	X		X	X
Batis perkeo	Pygmy Batis				X	X
Prionops plumatus	White-crested Helmet-shrike	X
Eurocephalus rueppellii	Northern White-crowned Shrike	X			X	X
Lanius cabanisi	Long-tailed Fiscal	X
Lanius excubitoroides	Grey-backed Fiscal					X	X	X
Lanius collaris humeralis	Common Fiscal			X				X
Lanius dorsalis	Taita Fiscal	X	X		X
Nilaus afer	Brubru	X			X	X
Tchagra jamesi jamesi	Three-streaked Tchagra	X
Tchagra senegala senegala	Black-crowned Tchagra	X					X
Malaconotus sulphureopectus similis	Sulphur-breasted Bush-shrike			X
Rhodophoneus cruentus	Rosy-patched Bush-shrike	X			X
Malaconotus blanchoti	Grey-headed Bush-shrike	X
Laniarius aethiopicus	Tropical Boubou			X			X	X
Laniarius funebris	Slate-coloured Boubou	X	X		X			X
Dryoscopus cubla	Black-backed Puffback			X				X
Dryoscopus pringlii	Pringle's Puffback	X
Dicrurus adsimilis	Common Drongo	X	X		X	X	X	X
Oriolus larvatus rolleti	Black-headed Oriole				X	X	X
Corvus albicollis	White-necked Raven							X
Corvus albus	Pied Crow			X
Corvus rhipidurus	Fan-tailed Raven				X	X
Onychognathus salvadorii	Bristle-crowned Starling					X
Lamprotornis chalybaeus	Greater Blue-eared Starling	X			X	X	X	X
Lamprotornis hildebrandti	Hildebrandt's Starling	X	X
Lamprotornis purpuropterus	Rüppell's Long-tailed Starling					X	X	X
Cosmopsarus regius	Golden-breasted Starling	X			X
Lamprotornis superbus	Superb Starling	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Cinnyricinclus leucogaster	Violet-backed Starling							X
Spreo fischeri	Fischer's Starling	X			X
Buphagus africanus africanus	Yellow-billed Oxpecker	X	X		X			X
Buphagus erythrorhynchus	Red-billed Oxpecker	X
Creatophora cinerea	Wattled Starling		X		X	X		X
Anthreptes orientalis	Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird				X	X
Nectarinia senegalensis	Scarlet-chested Sunbird		X					X
Nectarinia hunteri	Hunter's Sunbird	X			X	X
Nectarinia venusta	Variable Sunbird							X
Nectarinia mediocris	Eastern Double-collared Sunbird			X
Nectarinia kilimensis kilimensis	Bronze Sunbird			X
Nectarinia tacazze jacksoni	Tacazze Sunbird			X
Nectarinia nectarinioides	Black-bellied Sunbird				X
Nectarinia pulchella	Beautiful Sunbird					X
Passer griseus	Grey-headed Sparrow	X	X	X	X	X		X
Passer domesticus indicus	House Sparrow	X	X
Passer eminibey	Chestnut Sparrow				X
Petronia pyrgita	Yellow-spotted Petronia	X			X
Bubalornis niger intermedius	Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver	X			X
Dinemellia dinemelli	White-headed Buffalo-Weaver	X			X	X		X
Bubalornis albirostris	White-billed Buffalo-Weaver					X
Plocepasser donaldsoni	Donaldson-Smith's Sparrow-Weaver				X
Plocepasser mahali melanorhynchus	White-browed Sparrow-Weaver	X			X	X
Pseudonigrita cabanisi	Black-capped Social-Weaver				X
Sporopipes frontalis emini	Speckle-fronted Weaver				X
Ploceus baglafecht	Baglafecht Weaver			X			X	X
Ploceus luteolus	Little Weaver					X
Ploceus ocularis	Spectacled Weaver			X				X
Ploceus castaneiceps	Taveta Golden Weaver		X
Ploceus jacksoni	Jackson's Golden-backed Weaver					X
Ploceus velatus uluensis	Vitelline Masked Weaver					X
Ploceus intermedius	Lesser Masked Weaver				X
Ploceus spekei	Speke's Weaver						X
Ploceus taeniopterus taeniopterus	Northern Masked Weaver					X
Ploceus cucullatus	Black-headed Weaver	X				X
Ploceus rubiginosus rubiginosus	Chestnut Weaver				X	X		X
Anaplectes rubriceps	Red-headed Weaver				X	X
Euplectes afer ladoensis	Yellow-crowned Bishop					X
Quelea quelea aethiopica	Red-billed Quelea	X	X			X
Euplectes capensis crassirostris	Yellow Bishop							X
Euplectes franciscanus	Northern Red Bishop					X
Euplectes jacksoni	Jackson's Widowbird							X
Pytilia melba	Green-winged Pytilia					X
Lagonosticta senegala ruberrima	Red-billed Firefinch		X	X	X
Uraeginthus bengalus	Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu			X		X	X
Uraeginthus ianthinogaster	Purple Grenadier							X
Estrilda rhodopyga centralis	Crimson-rumped Waxbill		X
Estrilda charmosyna	Black-cheeked Waxbill				X
Lonchura cucullata	Bronze Mannikin			X
Vidua fischeri	Straw-tailed Whydah					X
Serinus reichenowi	Yellow-rumped Seedeater	X						X
Serinus striolatus striolatus	Streaky Seedeater			X
Serinus burtoni	Thick-billed Seedeater			X
Serinus mozambicus	Yellow-fronted Canary							X
Serinus dorsostriatus	White-bellied Canary					X
Emberiza tahapisi tahapisi	Cinnamon-breasted Rock Bunting	X
Emberiza flaviventris kalaharica	Golden-breasted Bunting			X
Emberiza poliopleura	Somali Golden-breasted Bunting	X
Passer rufocinctus	Rufous Sparrow						X
Apalis flavida	Yellow-breasted Apalis	X				X
Camaroptera brachyura	Grey-backed Camaroptera	X	X	X		X		X
Cercotrichas leucophrys	White-browed Scrub Robin				X	X
Cisticola galactotes	Winding Cisticola		X				X