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 | |
TARGET BIRD LIST
List of target species we particularly want to see at this site because we have limited or no chance of seeing them elsewhere on tour, because they are range-restricted or endemic, or because they're rarely seen anywhere but are possible at the site.*
| 1 | Great Blue Turaco | Corythaeola cristata | SS |
| 2 | Black-billed Turaco | Tauraco schuettii | RS |
| 3 | Eastern Plantain-eater | Crinifer zonurus | SS |
| 4 | White-spotted Flufftail | Sarothrura pulchra | RS |
| 5 | Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill | Bycanistes subcylindrica | US |
| 6 | Blue-headed Bee-eater | Merops muelleri | SS |
| 7 | Yellow-billed Barbet | Trachyphonus purpuratus | SS |
| 8 | Gray-throated Barbet | Gymnobucco bonapartei | US |
| 9 | Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird | Pogoniulus bilineatus | US |
| 10 | Yellow-spotted Barbet | Buccanodon duchaillui | US |
| 11 | Hairy-breasted Barbet | Tricholaema hirsuta | OS |
| 12 | Cassin's Honeyguide | Prodotiscus insignis | OS |
| 13 | Least Honeyguide | Indicator exilis | SS |
| 14 | Speckle-breasted Woodpecker | Chloropicus poecilolaemus | RS |
| 15 | Golden-crowned Woodpecker | Chloropicus xantholophus | SS |
| 16 | Brown-eared Woodpecker | Campethera caroli | US |
| 17 | Buff-spotted Woodpecker | Campethera nivosa | OS |
| 18 | Gray Parrot | Psittacus erithacus | RS |
| 19 | African Broadbill | Smithornis capensis | SS |
| 20 | Petit's Cuckooshrike | Campephaga petiti | US |
| 21 | Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike | Campephaga phoenicea | RS |
| 22 | Western Black-headed Oriole | Oriolus brachyrhynchus | US |
| 23 | Brown-throated Wattle-eye | Platysteira cyanea | US |
| 24 | Chestnut Wattle-eye | Platysteira castanea | SS |
| 25 | Jameson's Wattle-eye | Platysteira jamesoni | SS |
| 26 | Yellow-bellied Wattle-eye | Platysteira concreta | OS |
| 27 | African Shrike-flycatcher | Megabyas flammulatus | SS |
| 28 | Pink-footed Puffback | Dryoscopus angolensis | US |
| 29 | Luehder's Bushshrike | Laniarius luehderi | US |
| 30 | Gray-green Bushshrike | Telophorus bocagei | US |
| 31 | Black-headed Paradise-Flycatcher | Terpsiphone rufiventer | SS |
| 32 | Mackinnon's Shrike | Lanius mackinnoni | SS |
| 33 | Dusky Crested-Flycatcher | Elminia nigromitrata | SS |
| 34 | Dusky Tit | Melaniparus funereus | US |
| 35 | Green Hylia | Hylia prasina | SS |
| 36 | Turner's Eremomela | Eremomela turneri | US |
| 37 | White-chinned Prinia | Schistolais leucopogon | US |
| 38 | Olive-green Camaroptera | Camaroptera chloronota | US |
| 39 | Buff-throated Apalis | Apalis rufogularis | SS |
| 40 | Banded Prinia | Prinia bairdii | RS |
| 41 | Black-faced Rufous-Warbler | Bathmocercus rufus | SS |
| 42 | Chubb's Cisticola | Cisticola chubbi | SS |
| 43 | Red-tailed Bristlebill | Bleda syndactylus | SS |
| 44 | Shelley's Greenbul | Arizelocichla masukuensis | SS |
| 45 | Joyful Greenbul | Chlorocichla laetissima | US |
| 46 | Honeyguide Greenbul | Baeopogon indicator | OS |
| 47 | Gray Greenbul | Eurillas gracilis | OS |
| 48 | Ansorge's Greenbul | Eurillas ansorgei | US |
| 49 | Plain Greenbul | Eurillas curvirostris | SS |
| 50 | Little Greenbul | Eurillas virens | SS |
| 51 | Toro Olive-Greenbul | Phyllastrephus hypochloris | OS |
| 52 | Uganda Woodland-Warbler | Phylloscopus budongoensis | US |
| 53 | Brown Illadopsis | Illadopsis fulvescens | SS |
| 54 | Pale-breasted Illadopsis | Illadopsis rufipennis | OS |
| 55 | Scaly-breasted Illadopsis | Illadopsis albipectus | SS |
| 56 | Stuhlmann's Starling | Poeoptera stuhlmanni | US |
| 57 | White-tailed Ant-Thrush | Neocossyphus poensis | OS |
| 58 | Chapin's Flycatcher | Fraseria lendu | OS |
| 59 | Northern Black-Flycatcher | Melaenornis edolioides | US |
| 60 | Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat | Cossypha cyanocampter | OS |
| 61 | Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat | Cossypha niveicapilla | OS |
| 62 | Brown-chested Alethe | Chamaetylas poliocephala | US |
| 63 | Gray-winged Robin-Chat | Sheppardia polioptera | OS |
| 64 | Equatorial Akalat | Sheppardia aequatorialis | OS |
| 65 | Green Sunbird | Anthreptes rectirostris | SS |
| 66 | Olive-bellied Sunbird | Cinnyris chloropygius | US |
| 67 | Orange-tufted Sunbird | Cinnyris bouvieri | RS |
| 68 | Red-headed Malimbe | Malimbus rubricollis | SS |
| 69 | Vieillot's Black Weaver | Ploceus nigerrimus | US |
| 70 | Forest Weaver | Ploceus bicolor | US |
| 71 | White-breasted Negrita | Nigrita fusconotus | US |
| 72 | Black-crowned Waxbill | Estrilda nonnula | SS |
| 73 | Fawn-breasted Waxbill | Estrilda paludicola | SS |
| 74 | Red-headed Bluebill | Spermophaga ruficapilla | US |
| 75 | Gray-chested Babbler | Kakamega poliothorax | SS |
*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.
LIKELIHOOD CODES
| Code | Description | ## |
| AS | Always Seen | 0 |
| US | Usually Seen | 26 |
| SS | Sometimes Seen | 28 |
| OS | Occasionally Seen | 14 |
| RS | Rarely Seen | 7 |