KAKAMEGA FOREST
KENYA
LOCALE
| Area (ha): | 24,000 |
| Altitude (m): | 1500-1600 |
| # Species: | 373 |
| # Excl Vagrants: | 362 |
| # Endemics: | 0 |
| # Near Endemics: | 0 |
| Species/100 ha: | 1.5 |
| Habitat: Equatorial Rainforest, grassland, bush | |
SPECIALTY BIRDS LIST
List of species at this locale that are endemic (E), near endemic (NE), have restricted ranges in the country (RR), or that occur only locally (LC) in the country. Table also shows species with globally threatened or endangered status according to the IUCN.*
| 1 | Blue-spotted Wood-Dove | Turtur afer | RR | |
| 2 | Great Blue Turaco | Corythaeola cristata | RR | |
| 3 | Black-billed Turaco | Tauraco schuettii | RR | |
| 4 | Eastern Plantain-eater | Crinifer zonurus | RR | |
| 5 | Blue-headed Coucal | Centropus monachus | RR | |
| 6 | Abyssinian Nightjar | Caprimulgus poliocephalus | RR | |
| 7 | Swamp Nightjar | Caprimulgus natalensis | RR | |
| 8 | White-spotted Flufftail | Sarothrura pulchra | RR | |
| 9 | Black Crowned-Crane | Balearica pavonina | RR | V |
| 10 | Woolly-necked Stork | Ciconia episcopus | V | |
| 11 | Hooded Vulture | Necrosyrtes monachus | EN | |
| 12 | Bateleur | Terathopius ecaudatus | NT | |
| 13 | Crowned Eagle | Stephanoaetus coronatus | NT | |
| 14 | Ayres's Hawk-Eagle | Hieraaetus ayresii | LC | |
| 15 | Pallid Harrier | Circus macrourus | NT | |
| 16 | Mountain Buzzard | Buteo oreophilus | NT | |
| 17 | African Grass-Owl | Tyto capensis | LC | |
| 18 | Northern White-faced Owl | Ptilopsis leucotis | LC | |
| 19 | Red-chested Owlet | Glaucidium tephronotum | RR | |
| 20 | Southern Ground-Hornbill | Bucorvus leadbeateri | V | |
| 21 | Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill | Bycanistes subcylindrica | RR | |
| 22 | Blue-headed Bee-eater | Merops muelleri | RR | |
| 23 | European Roller | Coracias garrulus | NT | |
| 24 | Yellow-billed Barbet | Trachyphonus purpuratus | RR | |
| 25 | Gray-throated Barbet | Gymnobucco bonapartei | RR | |
| 26 | Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird | Pogoniulus bilineatus | RR | |
| 27 | Yellow-spotted Barbet | Buccanodon duchaillui | RR | |
| 28 | Hairy-breasted Barbet | Tricholaema hirsuta | RR | |
| 29 | Black-billed Barbet | Lybius guifsobalito | RR | |
| 30 | Double-toothed Barbet | Lybius bidentatus | RR | |
| 31 | Cassin's Honeyguide | Prodotiscus insignis | RR | |
| 32 | Least Honeyguide | Indicator exilis | RR | |
| 33 | Thick-billed Honeyguide | Indicator conirostris | RR | |
| 34 | Speckle-breasted Woodpecker | Chloropicus poecilolaemus | RR | |
| 35 | Golden-crowned Woodpecker | Chloropicus xantholophus | RR | |
| 36 | African Gray Woodpecker | Chloropicus goertae | RR | |
| 37 | Brown-eared Woodpecker | Campethera caroli | RR | |
| 38 | Buff-spotted Woodpecker | Campethera nivosa | RR | |
| 39 | Tullberg's Woodpecker | Campethera tullbergi | RR | |
| 40 | Green-backed Woodpecker | Campethera cailliautii | RR | |
| 41 | Golden-tailed Woodpecker | Campethera abingoni | RR | |
| 42 | Red-headed Lovebird | Agapornis pullarius | RR | |
| 43 | Gray Parrot | Psittacus erithacus | RR | V |
| 44 | African Broadbill | Smithornis capensis | RR | |
| 45 | Brown-throated Wattle-eye | Platysteira cyanea | RR | |
| 46 | Chestnut Wattle-eye | Platysteira castanea | RR | |
| 47 | Jameson's Wattle-eye | Platysteira jamesoni | RR | |
| 48 | Yellow-bellied Wattle-eye | Platysteira concreta | RR | |
| 49 | Black-headed Batis | Batis minor | RR | |
| 50 | African Shrike-flycatcher | Megabyas flammulatus | RR | |
| 51 | Northern Puffback | Dryoscopus gambensis | RR | |
| 52 | Pink-footed Puffback | Dryoscopus angolensis | RR | |
| 53 | Luehder's Bushshrike | Laniarius luehderi | RR | |
| 54 | Gray-green Bushshrike | Telophorus bocagei | RR | |
| 55 | Doherty's Bushshrike | Telophorus dohertyi | RR | |
| 56 | Petit's Cuckooshrike | Campephaga petiti | RR | |
| 57 | Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike | Campephaga phoenicea | RR | |
| 58 | Mackinnon's Shrike | Lanius mackinnoni | RR | |
| 59 | Western Black-headed Oriole | Oriolus brachyrhynchus | RR | |
| 60 | Square-tailed Drongo | Dicrurus ludwigii | RR | |
| 61 | Black-headed Paradise-Flycatcher | Terpsiphone rufiventer | RR | |
| 62 | Rufous-chested Swallow | Cecropis semirufa | RR | |
| 63 | African Blue Flycatcher | Elminia longicauda | RR | |
| 64 | Dusky Crested-Flycatcher | Elminia nigromitrata | RR | |
| 65 | Dusky Tit | Melaniparus funereus | RR | |
| 66 | African Spotted Creeper | Salpornis salvadori | RR | |
| 67 | Slender-billed Greenbul | Stelgidillas gracilirostris | RR | |
| 68 | Red-tailed Bristlebill | Bleda syndactylus | RR | |
| 69 | Shelley's Greenbul | Arizelocichla masukuensis | RR | |
| 70 | Joyful Greenbul | Chlorocichla laetissima | RR | |
| 71 | Honeyguide Greenbul | Baeopogon indicator | RR | |
| 72 | Gray Greenbul | Eurillas gracilis | RR | |
| 73 | Ansorge's Greenbul | Eurillas ansorgei | RR | |
| 74 | Plain Greenbul | Eurillas curvirostris | RR | |
| 75 | Little Greenbul | Eurillas virens | RR | |
| 76 | Toro Olive-Greenbul | Phyllastrephus hypochloris | RR | |
| 77 | Green Crombec | Sylvietta virens | RR | |
| 78 | Moustached Grass-Warbler | Melocichla mentalis | RR | |
| 79 | Green Hylia | Hylia prasina | RR | |
| 80 | Wood Warbler | Phylloscopus sibilatrix | RR | |
| 81 | Uganda Woodland-Warbler | Phylloscopus budongoensis | RR | |
| 82 | Turner's Eremomela | Eremomela turneri | RR | EN |
| 83 | White-chinned Prinia | Schistolais leucopogon | RR | |
| 84 | Olive-green Camaroptera | Camaroptera chloronota | RR | |
| 85 | Buff-throated Apalis | Apalis rufogularis | RR | |
| 86 | Banded Prinia | Prinia bairdii | RR | |
| 87 | Black-capped Rufous-Warbler | Bathmocercus cerviniventris | NT | |
| 88 | Black-faced Rufous-Warbler | Bathmocercus rufus | RR | |
| 89 | Whistling Cisticola | Cisticola lateralis | LC | |
| 90 | Chubb's Cisticola | Cisticola chubbi | RR | |
| 91 | Brown Illadopsis | Illadopsis fulvescens | RR | |
| 92 | Pale-breasted Illadopsis | Illadopsis rufipennis | RR | |
| 93 | Mountain Illadopsis | Illadopsis pyrrhoptera | RR | |
| 94 | Scaly-breasted Illadopsis | Illadopsis albipectus | RR | |
| 95 | Southern Hyliota | Hyliota australis | RR | |
| 96 | Chapin's Flycatcher | Fraseria lendu | RR | V |
| 97 | Brown-backed Scrub-Robin | Cercotrichas hartlaubi | RR | |
| 98 | Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat | Cossypha cyanocampter | RR | |
| 99 | Gray-winged Robin-Chat | Cossypha polioptera | LC | |
| 100 | Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat | Cossypha niveicapilla | RR | |
| 101 | Brown-chested Alethe | Chamaetylas poliocephala | RR | |
| 102 | Equatorial Akalat | Sheppardia aequatorialis | RR | |
| 103 | Northern Anteater-Chat | Myrmecocichla aethiops | RR | |
| 104 | White-tailed Ant-Thrush | Neocossyphus poensis | RR | |
| 105 | Abyssinian Thrush | Turdus abyssinicus | V | |
| 106 | Slender-billed Starling | Onychognathus tenuirostris | RR | |
| 107 | Stuhlmann's Starling | Poeoptera stuhlmanni | RR | |
| 108 | Splendid Starling | Lamprotornis splendidus | RR | |
| 109 | Green Sunbird | Anthreptes rectirostris | RR | |
| 110 | Green-throated Sunbird | Chalcomitra rubescens | RR | |
| 111 | Olive-bellied Sunbird | Cinnyris chloropygius | RR | |
| 112 | Red-chested Sunbird | Cinnyris erythrocercus | RR | |
| 113 | Orange-tufted Sunbird | Cinnyris bouvieri | RR | |
| 114 | Superb Sunbird | Cinnyris superbus | RR | |
| 115 | Rosy-throated Longclaw | Macronyx ameliae | RR | |
| 116 | Oriole Finch | Linurgus olivaceus | RR | |
| 117 | Yellow-fronted Canary | Crithagra mozambicus | RR | |
| 118 | Black-throated Canary | Crithagra atrogularis | RR | |
| 119 | Brimstone Canary | Crithagra sulphuratus | RR | |
| 120 | Gray-chested Babbler | Kakamega poliothorax | RR | |
| 121 | Red-headed Malimbe | Malimbus rubricollis | RR | |
| 122 | Vieillot's Weaver | Ploceus nigerrimus | RR | |
| 123 | Dark-backed Weaver (Forest Weaver) | Ploceus bicolor | RR | |
| 124 | Compact Weaver | Pachyphantes superciliosus | RR | |
| 125 | Black Bishop | Euplectes gierowii | LC | |
| 126 | Marsh Widowbird | Euplectes hartlaubi | RR | |
| 127 | White-breasted Negrita | Nigrita fusconotus | RR | |
| 128 | Fawn-breasted Waxbill | Estrilda paludicola | RR | |
| 129 | Black-crowned Waxbill | Estrilda nonnula | RR | |
| 130 | Red-headed Bluebill | Spermophaga ruficapilla | RR | |
| 131 | Black-bellied Firefinch | Lagonosticta rara | RR | |
| 132 | Zebra Waxbill | Sporaeginthus subflavus | RR |
* Nomenclature and taxonomic affinities are based on Clements 6th Edition published 2007 with updates through September 2014 maintained by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, which relies largely on the AOU and SACC nomenclature committees. IUCN status may reflect splits not currently recognized by Clements.
** Species not accepted by Clements, AOU, or SACC that we recognize based on the IOC, field observations along with geographical separation, consensus opinions of field guide authors, and other sources. These species are potential splits in future Clements updates.
PRESENCE CODES
| // | Boreal Visitor |
| \\ | Austral Visitor |
| || | Transient |
| ## | Non-breeding Dispersal |
| <> | Erratic/Irregular |
| () | Breeding Season Only |
| {} | Casual/Vagrant |
| [] | Accidental |
DISTRIBUTION CODES
| E | Endemic |
| LC | Local |
| NE | Near Endemic |
| RR | Range Restricted |
STATUS CODES
| NT | Near Threatened |
| V | Vulnerable |
| EN | Endangered |
| CR | Critically Endangered |