KAKAMEGA FOREST
KENYA
LOCALE
| Area (ha): | 24,000 |
| Altitude (m): | 1500-1600 |
| # Species: | 372 |
| # Excl Vagrants: | 361 |
| # Endemics: | 0 |
| # Near Endemics: | 1 |
| 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 excluding vagrants and accidentals. 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 | Montane 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 | African Woolly-necked Stork | Ciconia microscelis | NT | |
| 11 | Hooded Vulture | Necrosyrtes monachus | CR | |
| 12 | Bateleur | Terathopius ecaudatus | EN | |
| 13 | Crowned Eagle | Stephanoaetus coronatus | NT | |
| 14 | Ayres's Hawk-Eagle | Hieraaetus ayresii | LC | |
| 15 | /Steppe Eagle/ | Aquila nipalensis | EN | |
| 16 | /Pallid Harrier/ | Circus macrourus | NT | |
| 17 | Mountain Buzzard | Buteo oreophilus | NT | |
| 18 | African Grass-Owl | Tyto capensis | LC | |
| 19 | Northern White-faced Owl | Ptilopsis leucotis | LC | |
| 20 | Red-chested Owlet | Glaucidium tephronotum | RR | |
| 21 | Southern Ground-Hornbill | Bucorvus leadbeateri | V | |
| 22 | Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill | Bycanistes subcylindrica | RR | |
| 23 | Blue-headed Bee-eater | Merops muelleri | RR | |
| 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 | Speckle-breasted Woodpecker | Chloropicus poecilolaemus | RR | |
| 34 | Golden-crowned Woodpecker | Chloropicus xantholophus | RR | |
| 35 | African Gray Woodpecker | Chloropicus goertae | RR | |
| 36 | Brown-eared Woodpecker | Campethera caroli | RR | |
| 37 | Buff-spotted Woodpecker | Campethera nivosa | RR | |
| 38 | Tullberg's Woodpecker | Campethera tullbergi | RR | |
| 39 | Green-backed Woodpecker | Campethera cailliautii | RR | |
| 40 | Golden-tailed Woodpecker | Campethera abingoni | RR | |
| 41 | Red-headed Lovebird | Agapornis pullarius | RR | |
| 42 | Gray Parrot | Psittacus erithacus | RR | EN |
| 43 | African Broadbill | Smithornis capensis | RR | |
| 44 | Petit's Cuckooshrike | Campephaga petiti | RR | |
| 45 | Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike | Campephaga phoenicea | RR | |
| 46 | Western Black-headed Oriole | Oriolus brachyrhynchus | RR | |
| 47 | Brown-throated Wattle-eye | Platysteira cyanea | RR | |
| 48 | Chestnut Wattle-eye | Platysteira castanea | RR | |
| 49 | Jameson's Wattle-eye | Platysteira jamesoni | RR | |
| 50 | Yellow-bellied Wattle-eye | Platysteira concreta | RR | |
| 51 | Western Black-headed Batis | Batis erlangeri | RR | |
| 52 | African Shrike-flycatcher | Megabyas flammulatus | RR | |
| 53 | Northern Puffback | Dryoscopus gambensis | RR | |
| 54 | Pink-footed Puffback | Dryoscopus angolensis | RR | |
| 55 | Luehder's Bushshrike | Laniarius luehderi | RR | |
| 56 | Gray-green Bushshrike | Telophorus bocagei | RR | |
| 57 | Doherty's Bushshrike | Telophorus dohertyi | RR | |
| 58 | Common Square-tailed Drongo | Dicrurus ludwigii | RR | |
| 59 | Black-headed Paradise-Flycatcher | Terpsiphone rufiventer | RR | |
| 60 | Mackinnon's Shrike | Lanius mackinnoni | RR | |
| 61 | Southern Hyliota | Hyliota australis | RR | |
| 62 | African Blue Flycatcher | Elminia longicauda | RR | |
| 63 | Dusky Crested-Flycatcher | Elminia nigromitrata | RR | |
| 64 | Dusky Tit | Melaniparus funereus | RR | |
| 65 | Green Crombec | Sylvietta virens | RR | |
| 66 | Moustached Grass-Warbler | Melocichla mentalis | RR | |
| 67 | Green Hylia | Hylia prasina | RR | |
| 68 | Turner's Eremomela | Eremomela turneri | RR | NT |
| 69 | White-chinned Prinia | Schistolais leucopogon | RR | |
| 70 | Olive-green Camaroptera | Camaroptera chloronota | RR | |
| 71 | Buff-throated Apalis | Apalis rufogularis | RR | |
| 72 | Banded Prinia | Prinia bairdii | RR | |
| 73 | Black-faced Rufous-Warbler | Bathmocercus rufus | RR | |
| 74 | Whistling Cisticola | Cisticola lateralis | LC | |
| 75 | Chubb's Cisticola | Cisticola chubbi | RR | |
| 76 | Rufous-chested Swallow | Cecropis semirufa | RR | |
| 77 | Slender-billed Greenbul | Stelgidillas gracilirostris | RR | |
| 78 | Red-tailed Bristlebill | Bleda syndactylus | RR | |
| 79 | Shelley's Greenbul | Arizelocichla masukuensis | RR | |
| 80 | Joyful Greenbul | Chlorocichla laetissima | RR | |
| 81 | Honeyguide Greenbul | Baeopogon indicator | RR | |
| 82 | Gray Greenbul | Eurillas gracilis | RR | |
| 83 | Ansorge's Greenbul | Eurillas ansorgei | RR | |
| 84 | Plain Greenbul | Eurillas curvirostris | RR | |
| 85 | Little Greenbul | Eurillas virens | RR | |
| 86 | Toro Olive-Greenbul | Phyllastrephus hypochloris | RR | |
| 87 | /Wood Warbler/ | Phylloscopus sibilatrix | RR | |
| 88 | Uganda Woodland-Warbler | Phylloscopus budongoensis | RR | |
| 89 | Brown Illadopsis | Illadopsis fulvescens | RR | |
| 90 | Pale-breasted Illadopsis | Illadopsis rufipennis | RR | |
| 91 | Mountain Illadopsis | Illadopsis pyrrhoptera | RR | |
| 92 | Scaly-breasted Illadopsis | Illadopsis albipectus | RR | |
| 93 | African Spotted Creeper | Salpornis salvadori | RR | |
| 94 | Slender-billed Starling | Onychognathus tenuirostris | RR | |
| 95 | Stuhlmann's Starling | Poeoptera stuhlmanni | RR | |
| 96 | Splendid Starling | Lamprotornis splendidus | RR | |
| 97 | White-tailed Ant-Thrush | Neocossyphus poensis | RR | |
| 98 | Chapin's Flycatcher | Fraseria lendu | NE | V |
| 99 | Brown-backed Scrub-Robin | Cercotrichas hartlaubi | RR | |
| 100 | Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat | Cossypha cyanocampter | RR | |
| 101 | Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat | Cossypha niveicapilla | RR | |
| 102 | Brown-chested Alethe | Chamaetylas poliocephala | RR | |
| 103 | Gray-winged Robin-Chat | Sheppardia polioptera | LC | |
| 104 | Equatorial Akalat | Sheppardia aequatorialis | RR | |
| 105 | Northern Anteater-Chat | Myrmecocichla aethiops | RR | |
| 106 | Green Sunbird | Anthreptes rectirostris | RR | |
| 107 | Green-throated Sunbird | Chalcomitra rubescens | RR | |
| 108 | Olive-bellied Sunbird | Cinnyris chloropygius | RR | |
| 109 | Red-chested Sunbird | Cinnyris erythrocercus | RR | |
| 110 | Orange-tufted Sunbird | Cinnyris bouvieri | RR | |
| 111 | Superb Sunbird | Cinnyris superbus | RR | |
| 112 | Red-headed Malimbe | Malimbus rubricollis | RR | |
| 113 | Vieillot's Black Weaver | Ploceus nigerrimus | RR | |
| 114 | Forest Weaver | Ploceus bicolor | RR | |
| 115 | Compact Weaver | Pachyphantes superciliosus | RR | |
| 116 | Black Bishop | Euplectes gierowii | LC | |
| 117 | Marsh Widowbird | Euplectes hartlaubi | RR | |
| 118 | Zebra Waxbill | Amandava subflava | RR | |
| 119 | White-breasted Negrita | Nigrita fusconotus | RR | |
| 120 | Black-crowned Waxbill | Estrilda nonnula | RR | |
| 121 | Fawn-breasted Waxbill | Estrilda paludicola | RR | |
| 122 | Red-headed Bluebill | Spermophaga ruficapilla | RR | |
| 123 | Black-bellied Firefinch | Lagonosticta rara | RR | |
| 124 | Rosy-throated Longclaw | Macronyx ameliae | RR | |
| 125 | Oriole Finch | Linurgus olivaceus | RR | |
| 126 | Yellow-fronted Canary | Crithagra mozambicus | RR | |
| 127 | Black-throated Canary | Crithagra atrogularis | RR | |
| 128 | Brimstone Canary | Crithagra sulphuratus | RR | |
| 129 | Gray-chested Babbler | Kakamega poliothorax | RR |
*Nomenclature and taxonomic affinities are based on Clements 6th Edition published 2007 with updates through 2021 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
| Code | Description | ## |
| // | Boreal Visitor | 3 |
| \\ | Austral Visitor | 0 |
| || | Transient | 0 |
| ## | Non-breeding Dispersal | 0 |
| <> | Erratic/Irregular | 0 |
| () | Breeding Season Only | 0 |
| {} | Casual/Vagrant | 0 |
| [] | Accidental | 0 |
DISTRIBUTION CODES
| Code | Description | ## |
| E | Endemic | 0 |
| LC | Local | 6 |
| NE | Near Endemic | 1 |
| RR | Restricted Range | 114 |
STATUS CODES
| Code | Description | ## |
| NT | Near Threatened | 5 |
| V | Vulnerable | 3 |
| EN | Endangered | 3 |
| CR | Critically Endangered | 1 |
Species counts in code tables depend on completeness of the data. For some countries or locales, data may not include all species or information on species presence may be incomplete.