KENYA BIRDING TRIP REPORT

TRIP REPORT
KENYA
Start: | 12/10/2012 |
End: | 12/29/2012 |
Duration: | 20 days |
#Species: | 517 |
#Endemics: | 18 |
#Heard Only: | 21 |
2012 Kenya Birding & Mammal Safari
CHECKLIST OF MAMMALS SEEN ON TOUR
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1 | Yellow-spotted Rock Hyrax | Heterohyrax brucei | LB |
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2 | African Bush Elephant | Loxodonta africana | MM |
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3 | Syke's Monkey | Cercopithecus albogularis | KE,KF,NNP |
4 | Red-tailed Monkey | Cercopithecus ascanius | KF |
5 | Vervet Monkey | Chlorocebus pygerythrus | GF,KF,LNAI LNK,NNP |
6 | Olive Baboon | Papio anubis | KML,LNK,MM NNP |
7 | Mantled Guereza | Colobus guereza | GF,KF,LNAI |
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8 | Ochre Bush Squirrel | Paraxerus ochraceus | GF,NNP |
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9 | Cape Hare | Lepus capensis | KML,LB |
10 | Scrub Hare | Lepus saxatilis | KE |
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11 | African Straw-colored Fruit Bat | Eidolon helvum | XFER1 |
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12 | Cheetah | Acinonyx jubatus | MM |
13 | Lion | Panthera leo | LNK,MM,NNP |
14 | Leopard | Panthera pardus | KML,MM |
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15 | Common Genet | Genetta genetta | KE |
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16 | Egyptian Mongoose | Herpestes ichneumon | KE |
17 | Banded Mongoose | Mungos mungo | MM |
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18 | Spotted Hyena | Crocuta crocuta | KABER,MM |
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19 | Black-backed Jackal | Canis mesomelas | MM |
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20 | Plains Zebra | Equus quagga | GF,KABER,LNK MM,NNP |
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21 | White Rhinoceros | Ceratotherium simum | LNK |
22 | Black Rhinoceros | Diceros bicornis | LNK,MM,NNP |
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23 | Common Warthog | Phacochoerus africanus | KE,MM,NNP |
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24 | Common Hippopotamus | Hippopotamus amphibius | KML,LNAI,MM NNP,XFER2 |
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25 | Giraffe | Giraffa camelopardalis | KABER,KML LNAI,LNK,MM NNP |
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26 | Impala | Aepyceros melampus | KABER,LNK,MG MM,NNP |
27 | Hartebeest | Alcelaphus buselaphus | MM,NNP |
28 | Blue Wildebeest | Connochaetes taurinus | MM |
29 | Topi | Damaliscus korrigum | MM |
30 | Thomson's Gazelle | Eudorcas thomsonii | MM,NNP |
31 | Grant's Gazelle | Nanger granti | LNAI,LNK,MM NNP |
32 | Steenbok | Raphicerus campestris | NNP |
33 | African Buffalo | Syncerus caffer | KE,MM,NNP |
34 | Common Eland | Taurotragus oryx | MM,NNP |
35 | Bushbuck | Tragelaphus scriptus | KE,MM,NNP |
36 | Sitatunga | Tragelaphus spekii | SS |
37 | Red Duiker | Cephalophus natalensis | KE |
38 | Bush Duiker | Sylvicapra grimmia | KE |
39 | Waterbuck | Kobus ellipsiprymnus | LNK,MM,NNP |
BIRDING LOCALES