SAIWA SWAMP NATIONAL PARK
KENYA
LOCALE
| Area (SqKm): | 3 |
| Altitude (m): | 1820-1880 |
| # Species*: | 137 |
| # Excl Vagrants*: | 137 |
| # Endemics*: | 0 |
| # Near Endemics*: | 1 |
| Species/100 SqKm*: | 4724.1 |
| *Based on partial or incomplete data. | |
| Habitat: Swamp, grassland, riverine forest | |
BIRD CHECKLIST
The table below lists species recorded at this locale but does not indicate frequency of occurrence there. It does indicate whether each species is globally threatened or endangered according to the IUCN and also whether it is migratory, very rare, or accidental in the country. The list is based on available data and may be incomplete.*
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| 1 | /Eurasian Wigeon/ | Mareca penelope | |
| 2 | Yellow-billed Duck | Anas undulata | |
| 3 | \Southern Pochard\ | Netta erythrophthalma | |
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| 4 | Crested Guineafowl | Guttera pucherani | |
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| 5 | Little Grebe | Tachybaptus ruficollis | |
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| 6 | Speckled Pigeon | Columba guinea | |
| 7 | Ring-necked Dove | Streptopelia capicola | |
| 8 | Blue-spotted Wood-Dove | Turtur afer | |
| 9 | Tambourine Dove | Turtur tympanistria | |
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| 10 | Ross's Turaco | Musophaga rossae | |
| 11 | Eastern Plantain-eater | Crinifer zonurus | |
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| 12 | African Cuckoo | Cuculus gularis | |
| 13 | Blue-headed Coucal | Centropus monachus | |
| 14 | Senegal Coucal | Centropus senegalensis | |
| 15 | Pied Cuckoo | Clamator jacobinus | |
| 16 | Klaas's Cuckoo | Chrysococcyx klaas | |
| 17 | African Emerald Cuckoo | Chrysococcyx cupreus | |
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| 18 | African Rail | Rallus caerulescens | |
| 19 | Eurasian Moorhen | Gallinula chloropus | |
| 20 | Black Crake | Zapornia flavirostra | |
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| 21 | Gray Crowned-Crane | Balearica regulorum | |
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| 22 | Spur-winged Lapwing | Vanellus spinosus | |
| 23 | Wattled Lapwing | Vanellus senegallus | |
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| 24 | /Common Snipe/ | Gallinago gallinago | |
| 25 | /Common Sandpiper/ | Actitis hypoleucos | |
| 26 | /Wood Sandpiper/ | Tringa glareola | |
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| 27 | Yellow-billed Stork | Mycteria ibis | |
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| 28 | Long-tailed Cormorant | Microcarbo africanus | |
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| 29 | Hamerkop | Scopus umbretta | |
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| 30 | Little Bittern | Ixobrychus minutus | |
| 31 | Gray Heron | Ardea cinerea | |
| 32 | Black-headed Heron | Ardea melanocephala | |
| 33 | Goliath Heron | Ardea goliath | |
| 34 | Intermediate Egret | Ardea intermedia | |
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| 35 | African Sacred Ibis | Threskiornis aethiopicus | |
| 36 | Hadada Ibis | Bostrychia hagedash | |
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| 37 | Long-crested Eagle | Lophaetus occipitalis | |
| 38 | Wahlberg's Eagle | Hieraaetus wahlbergi | |
| 39 | African Hawk-Eagle | Aquila spilogaster | |
| 40 | African Marsh-Harrier | Circus ranivorus | |
| 41 | Black Goshawk | Accipiter melanoleucus | |
| 42 | /Black Kite/ | Milvus migrans | |
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| 43 | Speckled Mousebird | Colius striatus | |
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| 44 | Narina Trogon | Apaloderma narina | |
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| 45 | Green Woodhoopoe | Phoeniculus purpureus | |
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| 46 | Crowned Hornbill | Lophoceros alboterminatus | |
| 47 | Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill | Bycanistes subcylindrica | |
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| 48 | Malachite Kingfisher | Corythornis cristatus | |
| 49 | Woodland Kingfisher | Halcyon senegalensis | |
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| 50 | |European Bee-eater| | Merops apiaster | |
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| 51 | Lilac-breasted Roller | Coracias caudatus | |
| 52 | Broad-billed Roller | Eurystomus glaucurus | |
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| 53 | Yellow-billed Barbet | Trachyphonus purpuratus | |
| 54 | Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird | Pogoniulus bilineatus | |
| 55 | Double-toothed Barbet | Lybius bidentatus | |
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| 56 | Lesser Honeyguide | Indicator minor | |
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| 57 | African Gray Woodpecker | Chloropicus goertae | |
| 58 | Tullberg's Woodpecker | Campethera tullbergi | |
| 59 | Golden-tailed Woodpecker | Campethera abingoni | |
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| 60 | Gray Cuckooshrike | Coracina caesia | |
| 61 | Black Cuckooshrike | Campephaga flava | |
| 62 | Purple-throated Cuckooshrike | Campephaga quiscalina | |
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| 63 | /Eurasian Golden Oriole/ | Oriolus oriolus | |
| 64 | African Black-headed Oriole | Oriolus larvatus | |
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| 65 | Brown-throated Wattle-eye | Platysteira cyanea | |
| 66 | Black-throated Wattle-eye | Platysteira peltata | |
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| 67 | Northern Puffback | Dryoscopus gambensis | |
| 68 | Pringle's Puffback | Dryoscopus pringlii | |
| 69 | Marsh Tchagra | Tchagra minutus | |
| 70 | Luehder's Bushshrike | Laniarius luehderi | |
| 71 | Tropical Boubou | Laniarius major | |
| 72 | Sulphur-breasted Bushshrike | Telophorus sulfureopectus | |
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| 73 | Fork-tailed Drongo | Dicrurus adsimilis | |
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| 74 | African Paradise-Flycatcher | Terpsiphone viridis | |
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| 75 | Pied Crow | Corvus albus | |
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| 76 | African Blue Flycatcher | Elminia longicauda | |
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| 77 | White-bellied Tit | Melaniparus albiventris | |
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| 78 | Black-collared Apalis | Oreolais pulcher | |
| 79 | Gray-backed Camaroptera** | Camaroptera brevicaudata | |
| 80 | Gray Apalis | Apalis cinerea | |
| 81 | Tawny-flanked Prinia | Prinia subflava | |
| 82 | Gray-capped Warbler | Eminia lepida | |
| 83 | Chubb's Cisticola | Cisticola chubbi | |
| 84 | Levaillant's Cisticola | Cisticola tinniens | |
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| 85 | African Yellow-Warbler | Iduna natalensis | |
| 86 | Greater Swamp Warbler | Acrocephalus rufescens | |
| 87 | /Great Reed Warbler/ | Acrocephalus arundinaceus | |
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| 88 | Cinnamon Bracken-Warbler | Bradypterus cinnamomeus | |
| 89 | Highland Rush Warbler | Bradypterus centralis | |
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| 90 | Angola Swallow | Hirundo angolensis | |
| 91 | Red-rumped Swallow | Cecropis daurica | |
| 92 | Mosque Swallow | Cecropis senegalensis | |
| 93 | White-headed Sawwing | Psalidoprocne albiceps | |
| 94 | Gray-rumped Swallow | Pseudhirundo griseopyga | |
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| 95 | Joyful Greenbul | Chlorocichla laetissima | |
| 96 | Yellow-whiskered Greenbul | Eurillas latirostris | |
| 97 | Cabanis's Greenbul | Phyllastrephus cabanisi | |
| 98 | Common Bulbul | Pycnonotus barbatus | |
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| 99 | /Eurasian Blackcap/ | Sylvia atricapilla | |
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| 100 | Green White-eye | Zosterops stuhlmanni | |
| 101 | Northern Yellow White-eye | Zosterops senegalensis | |
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| 102 | Splendid Starling | Lamprotornis splendidus | |
| 103 | Lesser Blue-eared Starling | Lamprotornis chloropterus | |
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| 104 | African Thrush | Turdus pelios | |
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| 105 | African Dusky Flycatcher | Muscicapa adusta | |
| 106 | Swamp Flycatcher | Muscicapa aquatica | |
| 107 | White-eyed Slaty-Flycatcher | Melaenornis fischeri | |
| 108 | Gray-winged Robin-Chat | Cossypha polioptera | |
| 109 | White-browed Robin-Chat | Cossypha heuglini | |
| 110 | Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat | Cossypha niveicapilla | |
| 111 | White-starred Robin | Pogonocichla stellata | |
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| 112 | Collared Sunbird | Hedydipna collaris | |
| 113 | Green-headed Sunbird | Cyanomitra verticalis | |
| 114 | Green-throated Sunbird | Chalcomitra rubescens | |
| 115 | Northern Double-collared Sunbird | Cinnyris reichenowi | |
| 116 | Variable Sunbird | Cinnyris venustus | |
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| 117 | Baglafecht Weaver | Ploceus baglafecht | |
| 118 | Spectacled Weaver | Ploceus ocularis | |
| 119 | Black-billed Weaver | Ploceus melanogaster | |
| 120 | Holub's Golden-Weaver | Ploceus xanthops | |
| 121 | Northern Brown-throated Weaver | Ploceus castanops | |
| 122 | Brown-capped Weaver | Ploceus insignis | |
| 123 | Yellow Bishop | Euplectes capensis | |
| 124 | Yellow-mantled Widowbird | Euplectes macroura | |
| 125 | Fan-tailed Widowbird | Euplectes axillaris | |
| 126 | Grosbeak Weaver | Amblyospiza albifrons | |
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| 127 | Gray-headed Negrita | Nigrita canicapillus | |
| 128 | Black-crowned Waxbill | Estrilda nonnula | |
| 129 | Common Waxbill | Estrilda astrild | |
| 130 | Quailfinch | Ortygospiza atricollis | |
| 131 | African Firefinch | Lagonosticta rubricata | |
| 132 | Black-bellied Firefinch | Lagonosticta rara | |
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| 133 | Pin-tailed Whydah | Vidua macroura | |
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| 134 | Northern Gray-headed Sparrow | Passer griseus | |
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| 135 | Cape Wagtail | Motacilla capensis | |
| 136 | African Pied Wagtail | Motacilla aguimp | |
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| 137 | Thick-billed Seedeater | Crithagra burtoni | |
* 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.
OTHER LOCALES
PRESENCE CODES
| // | Boreal Visitor |
| \\ | Austral Visitor |
| || | Transient |
| ## | Non-breeding Dispersal |
| <> | Erratic/Irregular |
| () | Breeding Season Only |
| {} | Casual/Vagrant |
| [] | Accidental |