Update History

26/10/02 Added: New page on interesting sightings, Trip report for our September 2002 visit, Silverbird, Joyful Greenbul, African Thrush, Bare-eyed Thrush, article on bird ringing at Ngulia, 2000 and 2001.

2/10/02 Added: New article on birding at Ewaso Narok, Male Garganey and Rufous morph African Paradise Flycatcher; improved shots of Maccoa Duck, Mallard, Tacazze Sunbird and Pied Crow.

14/05/02 Added: Garganey, Bateleur, African Jacana.

16/03/02 Added: Woolly-necked Stork, Madagascar Bee-eater and Somali Bee-eater

28/01/02 Added: Info on Lake Victoria and past 20% of all species recorded in Kenya with Great Sparrowhawk, Yellow-throated Sandgrouse, Grey-headed Kingfisher, Malachite Kingfisher.

01/01/02 Added: Speckled Pigeon, Ring-necked Dove, Brown Babbler, Fischer's Starling.

25/11/01 Added: Spur-winged Goose, Black-headed Gull, Black-bellied Bustard, Pangani Longclaw, Grassland Pipit, House Sparrow.

7/11/01 Added: Black-crowned Night-Heron, Southern Pochard, Red-billed Oxpecker, Rufous-crowned Roller, Yellow-whiskered Greenbul, Black-throated Barbet.

21/10/01 Finally broken the 200 mark for species.
Added: Jackson's Golden-backed Weaver, Red-billed Quelea, Little Weaver, Northern Masked Weaver, Speke's Weaver, Vitelline Masked Weaver, Jackson's Widowbird, Donaldson-Smith's Sparrow-Weaver, Yellow-crowned Bishop......
..... and that takes the total number of species featured to 203!

19/10/01 Update to checklists: Spotted Eagle-Owl Bubo africanus split into Spotted-Eagle Owl Bubo africanus and Greyish Eagle-Owl Bubo cinnerascens; White faced Scops-Owl Otus leucotis split into Northern White-faced Owl Otus leucotis and Southern White-faced Owl Otus granti. Added: Long-tailed Fiscal, Taita Fiscal, Tropical Boubou.

18/10/01 Added: Coqui Francolin, Hildebrandt's Francolin, Red-necked Spurfowl, Spotted Thick-knee, Sooty Chat, Northern Anteater Chat, Brown-tailed Rock Chat, Abyssinian Ground Thrush.

10/10/01 Added: African Grey Flycatcher, African Orange-bellied Parrot, Hunter's Cisticola.

29/09/01 Kenya Checklist updated, with addition of Cassin's Hawk-Eagle.
Added Collared Pratincole, Two-banded Courser, Lappet-faced Vulture, White-headed Vulture, Hooded Vulture, Palm-nut Vulture.

23/09/01 Added Trip report for August 2001, Blue-naped Mousebird, Hadada Ibis, White-winged Tern and Narina Trogon.
New/updated photos for Pink-backed Pelican, African Mourning Dove, Von der Decken's Hornbill.

09/09/01 Added Black-winged Stilt, Hamerkop, Thick-billed Seedeater. New/updated photos for Long-toed Plover, Pale morph Gabar Goshawk, Common Sandpiper, Namaqua Dove, White-headed Mousebird, Little Bee-eater, Spotted Morning Thrush, Hunter's Sunbird, Tacazze Sunbird Yellow-spotted Petronia, White-headed Buffalo Weaver.

05/09/01 Added a French Checklist - Liste française des oiseaux du Kenya. New/updated photos for Fisher's Sparrow-Lark, D'Arnaud's Barbet, Jackson's Hornbill, Red-and-yellow Barbet and Pied Kingfisher.

28/05/01 New page on Kenya's Important Bird Areas (IBAs) and added Comb Duck, Fulvous Whistling-Duck, Zitting Cisticola, Crowned Plover, Common Fiscal, Tacazze Sunbird, Northern Shoveler, Common Pochard, Tufted Duck, Common Moorhen, Maccoa Duck, Ferruginous Duck.

13/05/01 Added Spur-winged Plover and started a new site, Kenya Beasts to show some of Kenya's other wildlife.

22/04/01 Added Trip Report courtesy of Randy Vernon, plus the following species pages; Great White Pelican, Glossy Ibis, Northern Pintail, Mallard, Hottentot Teal, Eurasian Wigeon, Gadwall, Black-chested Snake Eagle, Tawny Eagle, Red-rumped Swallow, Barn Swallow, White-browed Robin-Chat, Blue-eared Starling, Grey-headed Sparrow, Black-capped Social-Weaver, Yellow-mantled Widowbird.

08/04/01 Added Great Egret, Jackson's Hornbill.

02/04/01 Added Common Ostrich, Cattle Egret, Yellow-billed Oxpecker, Yellow-spotted Petronia.

26/03/01 Added Great Spotted Cuckoo.

22/03/01 Added a number of East African specialities to the Endemics page.

18/03/01 Added White-bellied Canary, Red-billed Firefinch, Common Bulbul, Striped Kingfisher, African Pygmy Kingfisher, Grey-backed Camaroptera, Red-winged Lark, Rufous-naped Lark, Fischers Sparrow-Lark and the Yellow-throated Longclaw. We've also added a search facility and updated the checklists to include some information identifying vagrants, migrants, endemics and extirpated species.

11/03/01 Added Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver, Helmeted Guineafowl, Rufous Chatterer, Speckled Mousebird, White-billed Buffalo-Weaver, Pied Kingfisher, Information on the Kakamega region and a Kakamega check list.

25/02/01 Added Northern White-crowned Shrike, Dark Chanting Goshawk , Three-banded Plover, Golden Pipit, Marsh Sandpiper, African Pied Wagtail, Bare-faced Go-away-bird, Pied Crow.

21/02/01 Added Grey Heron, Marabou Stork, Southern Ground Hornbill, Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove. We've also added a map showing the rough locations of places mentioned in the pages.

17/02/01 Now past 100 species with the addition of Red-knobbed Coot, Common Sandpiper, African Dusky Flycatcher, White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher, Purple Grenadier, African Paradise Flycatcher, Grey-headed Gull, Spotted Morning Thrush, Hunter's Sunbird; new/improved pictures of Egyptian Goose, Giant Kingfisher, White-bellied Go-away-bird, D'Arnaud's Barbet.

12/02/01 Added Cut-throat Finch, Brown Snake Eagle, Juvenile Fish Eagle; amended/updated check lists for Baringo, Amboseli and Nakuru; new/improved pictures of Little Egret, Yellow-billed Stork, Martial Eagle, Pygmy Falcon, Little Bee-eater, Nubian Woodpecker.

06/02/01 Added Grey Kestrel, Lesser Kestrel, Shikra, Gabar Goshawk and added an improved photo of a Wattled Plover.

7/11/00 Added Red-billed Teal and a new article on birding in Embu.

28/10/00 Added Pink-backed Pelican, White-browed Coucal, African Black Duck and new articles on bird ringing at Ngulia and birding in Koru and Ndara Ranch.

08/10/00 Added Yellow-necked Spurfowl, Crested Francolin, Vulturine Guineafowl.

02/10/00 Added Cape Teal, Hartlaub's Bustard, White-bellied Bustard, Giant Kingfisher, Wattled Starling, Olive Thrush; retitled Mt. Kenya page to Highlands and added some info on the Aberdares.

24/09/00 Added Grey-headed Bush-shrike, White-fronted Bee-eater, Little Egret, African Spoonbill; info on Elementeita and Magadi added to Soda Lakes

17/09/00 Added Sacred Ibis, Green Wood-hoopoe, Village Weaver, Red-cheeked Cordon Bleu, Lesser Flamingo, Greater Flamingo, White-faced Whistling Duck. Links page expanded/updated.

22/08/00 Added Kittlitz's Plover, Rüppell's Griffon Vulture

09/07/00 Added Lichtenstein's Sandgrouse, Red-and-yellow Barbet and D'Arnaud's Barbet

20/06/00 All checklists updated: typos removed errors corrected, with thanks to Alan Control for his assistance

04/06/00 Added Yellow-billed Duck and Long-toed Plover. Updated Black-headed Heron, Goliath Heron, Crowned Crane, Great Cormorant, Stone Curlew, Nubian Woodpecker

30/05/00 Added Meru NP, Saddle-billed Stork, Slender-tailed Nightjar, Pygmy Falcon, Eastern Pale Chanting Goshawk and African Mourning Dove. Some additional pictures have been added to the Common Drongo pages. Some species pages updated with world and Kenyan distribution information

07/03/00 Amboseli check lists updated/corrected, added Red-headed Weaver and Eastern Bronze-naped Pigeon. Improved pictures of Squacco Heron and Verreaux's Eagle-owl