KENYA BIRDING TRIP REPORT

TRIP REPORT
KENYA
Start: | 12/10/2012 |
End: | 12/29/2012 |
Duration: | 20 days |
#Species: | 517 |
#Endemics: | 15 |
#Heard Only: | 21 |
2012 Kenya Birding & Mammal Safari
TARGET BIRDS FOR TOUR
List of target birds for locations visited on this tour along with which target species were acually seen. Target birds are those we can see only at one or two sites or are range-restricted, endemic, or near endemic in the country. The location column indicates where species was seen on the tour. If blank, the species wasn't seen. A separate target list can be viewed for each location by clicking its sidebar link.*
1 | White-backed Duck | Thalassornis leuconotus | SS | MG,MP |
2 | Maccoa Duck | Oxyura maccoa | SS | MG |
3 | Elgon Francolin | Scleroptera elgonensis | OS | |
4 | Shelley's Francolin | Scleroptera shelleyi | OS | |
5 | Jackson's Spurfowl | Pternistis jacksoni | US | KABER |
6 | Red-necked Spurfowl | Pternistis afer | SS | MM |
7 | Great Crested Grebe | Podiceps cristatus | OS | MG |
8 | Yellow-throated Sandgrouse | Pterocles gutturalis | US | |
9 | Lichtenstein's Sandgrouse | Pterocles lichtensteinii | SS | |
10 | Denham's Bustard | Neotis denhami | RS | |
11 | Great Blue Turaco | Corythaeola cristata | SS | KF |
12 | Schalow's Turaco | Tauraco schalowi | SS | |
13 | Black-billed Turaco | Tauraco schuettii | RS | |
14 | White-crested Turaco | Tauraco leucolophus | US | KV |
15 | Eastern Plantain-eater | Crinifer zonurus | US | |
16 | Blue-headed Coucal | Centropus monachus | US | BG,KV,LV |
17 | Senegal Coucal | Centropus senegalensis | SS | |
18 | \Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo\ | Cercococcyx montanus | RS | |
19 | Montane Nightjar | Caprimulgus poliocephalus | SS | |
20 | Scarce Swift | Schoutedenapus myoptilus | US | KCRL |
21 | White-spotted Flufftail | Sarothrura pulchra | RS | |
22 | Double-banded Courser | Smutsornis africanus | OS | MM |
23 | Rock Pratincole | Glareola nuchalis | SS | BG |
24 | Rufous-bellied Heron | Ardeola rufiventris | US | |
25 | Olive Ibis | Bostrychia olivacea | RS | |
26 | Hemprich's Hornbill | Lophoceros hemprichii | US | |
27 | Jackson's Hornbill | Tockus jacksoni | AS | LB |
28 | Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill | Bycanistes subcylindrica | US | KF,KIT,SS |
29 | Blue-headed Bee-eater | Merops muelleri | SS | |
30 | Blue-breasted Bee-eater | Merops variegatus | SS | |
31 | Yellow-billed Barbet | Trachyphonus purpuratus | SS | KF,SS |
32 | Gray-throated Barbet | Gymnobucco bonapartei | US | KF,MM |
33 | Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird | Pogoniulus bilineatus | US | GF,KCRL,KF,MM |
34 | Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird | Pogoniulus chrysoconus | OS | BG |
35 | Yellow-spotted Barbet | Buccanodon duchaillui | US | KF |
36 | Hairy-breasted Barbet | Tricholaema hirsuta | OS | |
37 | Black-billed Barbet | Lybius guifsobalito | US | LV |
38 | Cassin's Honeyguide | Prodotiscus insignis | OS | |
39 | Green-backed Honeyguide | Prodotiscus zambesiae | OS | |
40 | Least Honeyguide | Indicator exilis | SS | KF |
41 | Rufous-necked Wryneck | Jynx ruficollis | US | MM |
42 | Speckle-breasted Woodpecker | Chloropicus poecilolaemus | RS | KF |
43 | Golden-crowned Woodpecker | Chloropicus xantholophus | SS | |
44 | African Gray Woodpecker | Chloropicus goertae | SS | KV,NNP,SS |
45 | Brown-eared Woodpecker | Campethera caroli | US | |
46 | Buff-spotted Woodpecker | Campethera nivosa | OS | |
47 | Green-backed Woodpecker | Campethera cailliautii | OS | |
48 | Golden-tailed Woodpecker | Campethera abingoni | RS | |
49 | Fox Kestrel | Falco alopex | SS | |
50 | Red-headed Lovebird | Agapornis pullarius | SS | BG |
51 | Fischer's Lovebird | Agapornis fischeri | SS | NNP |
52 | Yellow-collared Lovebird | Agapornis personatus | OS | |
53 | Gray Parrot | Psittacus erithacus | RS | |
54 | Red-fronted Parrot | Poicephalus gulielmi | US | KCRL,MK |
55 | African Broadbill | Smithornis capensis | SS | KF |
56 | Petit's Cuckooshrike | Campephaga petiti | US | KF |
57 | Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike | Campephaga phoenicea | RS | |
58 | Western Black-headed Oriole | Oriolus brachyrhynchus | US | |
59 | Black-tailed Oriole | Oriolus percivali | US | GF,KCRL |
60 | Brown-throated Wattle-eye | Platysteira cyanea | US | BG,KF |
61 | Chestnut Wattle-eye | Platysteira castanea | SS | |
62 | Jameson's Wattle-eye | Platysteira jamesoni | SS | KF |
63 | Yellow-bellied Wattle-eye | Platysteira concreta | OS | |
64 | Gray-crested Helmetshrike | Prionops poliolophus | US | |
65 | African Shrike-flycatcher | Megabyas flammulatus | SS | |
66 | Pink-footed Puffback | Dryoscopus angolensis | US | KF |
67 | Luehder's Bushshrike | Laniarius luehderi | US | KF,SS |
68 | Papyrus Gonolek | Laniarius mufumbiri | US | LV |
69 | Gray-green Bushshrike | Telophorus bocagei | US | KF |
70 | Black-headed Paradise-Flycatcher | Terpsiphone rufiventer | SS | |
71 | Magpie Shrike | Lanius melanoleuca | OS | |
72 | Somali Fiscal | Lanius somalicus | OS | |
73 | Mackinnon's Shrike | Lanius mackinnoni | SS | KF |
74 | Fan-tailed Raven | Corvus rhipidurus | US | KV,LB |
75 | Yellow-bellied Hyliota | Hyliota flavigaster | OS | |
76 | Dusky Crested-Flycatcher | Elminia nigromitrata | SS | |
77 | Dusky Tit | Melaniparus funereus | US | KF |
78 | Red-throated Tit | Melaniparus fringillinus | US | |
79 | Somali Short-toed Lark | Alaudala somalica | OS | |
80 | Eastern Nicator | Nicator gularis | RS | |
81 | Green Crombec | Sylvietta virens | SS | |
82 | Moustached Grass-Warbler | Melocichla mentalis | SS | NNP |
83 | Green Hylia | Hylia prasina | SS | KF |
84 | Turner's Eremomela | Eremomela turneri | US | |
85 | White-chinned Prinia | Schistolais leucopogon | US | KF |
86 | Miombo Wren-Warbler | Calamonastes undosus | OS | |
87 | Olive-green Camaroptera | Camaroptera chloronota | US | |
88 | Brown-tailed Apalis** | Apalis viridiceps | US | |
89 | Buff-throated Apalis | Apalis rufogularis | SS | KF |
90 | Black-headed Apalis | Apalis melanocephala | RS | |
91 | Karamoja Apalis | Apalis karamojae | RS | |
92 | Banded Prinia | Prinia bairdii | RS | |
93 | Red-winged Prinia | Prinia erythroptera | OS | |
94 | Black-faced Rufous-Warbler | Bathmocercus rufus | SS | KF |
95 | Whistling Cisticola | Cisticola lateralis | US | |
96 | Chubb's Cisticola | Cisticola chubbi | SS | KF |
97 | Hunter's Cisticola | Cisticola hunteri | AS | KABER,KCRL,KP |
98 | Rock-loving Cisticola | Cisticola aberrans | RS | |
99 | Boran Cisticola | Cisticola bodessa | OS | |
100 | Carruthers's Cisticola | Cisticola carruthersi | US | |
101 | Levaillant's Cisticola | Cisticola tinniens | SS | KV,MG,SS |
102 | Aberdare Cisticola | Cisticola aberdare | US | MG |
103 | Tabora Cisticola | Cisticola angusticauda | RS | |
104 | Wing-snapping Cisticola | Cisticola ayresii | SS | MG |
105 | Papyrus Yellow-Warbler | Calamonastides gracilirostris | RS | |
106 | Greater Swamp Warbler | Acrocephalus rufescens | US | LV |
107 | Evergreen-forest Warbler | Bradypterus lopezi | RS | |
108 | /Montane Blue Swallow/ | Hirundo atrocaerulea | SS | |
109 | Red-tailed Bristlebill | Bleda syndactylus | SS | |
110 | Shelley's Greenbul | Arizelocichla masukuensis | SS | KF |
111 | Joyful Greenbul | Chlorocichla laetissima | US | KF |
112 | Honeyguide Greenbul | Baeopogon indicator | OS | |
113 | Yellow-throated Greenbul | Atimastillas flavicollis | SS | XFER1 |
114 | Gray Greenbul | Eurillas gracilis | OS | |
115 | Ansorge's Greenbul | Eurillas ansorgei | US | |
116 | Plain Greenbul | Eurillas curvirostris | SS | |
117 | Little Greenbul | Eurillas virens | SS | KF |
118 | Toro Olive-Greenbul | Phyllastrephus hypochloris | OS | |
119 | Uganda Woodland-Warbler | Phylloscopus budongoensis | US | KF |
120 | Brown Illadopsis | Illadopsis fulvescens | SS | |
121 | Pale-breasted Illadopsis | Illadopsis rufipennis | OS | |
122 | Scaly-breasted Illadopsis | Illadopsis albipectus | SS | |
123 | Brown Babbler | Turdoides plebejus | US | LB |
124 | Northern Pied-Babbler | Turdoides hypoleuca | US | NNP,XFER2 |
125 | Bristle-crowned Starling | Onychognathus salvadorii | US | LB |
126 | Abbott's Starling | Poeoptera femoralis | SS | KCRL |
127 | Stuhlmann's Starling | Poeoptera stuhlmanni | US | KF |
128 | Kenrick's Starling | Poeoptera kenricki | SS | KCRL |
129 | Hildebrandt's Starling | Lamprotornis hildebrandti | SS | MM,NNP |
130 | Splendid Starling | Lamprotornis splendidus | SS | |
131 | Lesser Blue-eared Starling | Lamprotornis chloropterus | SS | |
132 | White-tailed Ant-Thrush | Neocossyphus poensis | OS | KF |
133 | Orange Ground-Thrush | Geokichla gurneyi | SS | |
134 | Swamp Flycatcher | Muscicapa aquatica | US | |
135 | Gray Tit-Flycatcher | Fraseria plumbeus | RS | |
136 | Chapin's Flycatcher | Fraseria lendu | OS | KF |
137 | Northern Black-Flycatcher | Melaenornis edolioides | US | KF,KIT,MM |
138 | Brown-backed Scrub-Robin | Cercotrichas hartlaubi | SS | |
139 | Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat | Cossypha cyanocampter | OS | KF |
140 | Rueppell's Robin-Chat | Cossypha semirufa | OS | NNP |
141 | Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat | Cossypha niveicapilla | OS | KF |
142 | Brown-chested Alethe | Chamaetylas poliocephala | US | KF |
143 | Gray-winged Robin-Chat | Sheppardia polioptera | OS | KF |
144 | Equatorial Akalat | Sheppardia aequatorialis | OS | KF |
145 | Moorland Chat | Pinarochroa sordida | SS | |
146 | Sooty Chat | Myrmecocichla nigra | AS | MM |
147 | Familiar Chat | Oenanthe familiaris | SS | |
148 | Brown-tailed Chat | Oenanthe scotocerca | US | LB |
149 | Abyssinian Wheatear | Oenanthe lugubris | SS | KABER |
150 | Green Sunbird | Anthreptes rectirostris | SS | KF |
151 | Green-throated Sunbird | Chalcomitra rubescens | SS | KF |
152 | Malachite Sunbird | Nectarinia famosa | SS | KABER,MG |
153 | Olive-bellied Sunbird | Cinnyris chloropygius | US | |
154 | Orange-tufted Sunbird | Cinnyris bouvieri | RS | |
155 | White-billed Buffalo-Weaver | Bubalornis albirostris | AS | KV,LB |
156 | Red-headed Malimbe | Malimbus rubricollis | SS | KF |
157 | Little Weaver | Ploceus luteolus | US | LB |
158 | Slender-billed Weaver | Ploceus pelzelni | US | LV |
159 | Northern Brown-throated Weaver | Ploceus castanops | US | SS |
160 | Northern Masked-Weaver | Ploceus taeniopterus | AS | LB |
161 | Heuglin's Masked-Weaver | Ploceus heuglini | OS | |
162 | Vieillot's Black Weaver | Ploceus nigerrimus | US | KF |
163 | Forest Weaver | Ploceus bicolor | US | KF |
164 | Compact Weaver | Pachyphantes superciliosus | US | |
165 | Northern Red Bishop | Euplectes franciscanus | OS | |
166 | Black Bishop | Euplectes gierowii | SS | |
167 | Marsh Widowbird | Euplectes hartlaubi | SS | |
168 | Long-tailed Widowbird | Euplectes progne | US | GF |
169 | Zebra Waxbill | Amandava subflava | OS | |
170 | White-breasted Negrita | Nigrita fusconotus | US | |
171 | Black-faced Waxbill | Brunhilda erythronotos | OS | |
172 | Black-cheeked Waxbill | Brunhilda charmosyna | OS | |
173 | Black-crowned Waxbill | Estrilda nonnula | US | KF |
174 | Fawn-breasted Waxbill | Estrilda paludicola | US | |
175 | Black-rumped Waxbill | Estrilda troglodytes | SS | |
176 | <Cut-throat> | Amadina fasciata | SS | |
177 | Red-headed Bluebill | Spermophaga ruficapilla | US | KF,LV |
178 | Brown Twinspot | Clytospiza monteiri | SS | |
179 | Black-bellied Firefinch | Lagonosticta rara | SS | |
180 | Bar-breasted Firefinch | Lagonosticta rufopicta | US | BG |
181 | Parrot-billed Sparrow | Passer gongonensis | US | KV,LB |
182 | Swahili Sparrow | Passer suahelicus | SS | |
183 | Cape Wagtail | Motacilla capensis | US | MG,MK,MP |
184 | Sharpe's Longclaw | Macronyx sharpei | SS | KP,MG |
185 | Pangani Longclaw | Macronyx aurantiigula | OS | NNP |
186 | Papyrus Canary | Crithagra koliensis | SS | |
187 | 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.
BIRDING LOCALES
PRESENCE CODES
Code | Description | ## |
// | Boreal Visitor | 0 |
\\ | Austral Visitor | 0 |
|| | Transient | 0 |
## | Non-breeding Dispersal | 0 |
<> | Erratic/Irregular | 0 |
() | Breeding Season Only | 0 |
{} | Casual/Vagrant | 0 |
[] | Accidental | 0 |
LIKELIHOOD CODES
FOR SPECIES SEEN
Code | Description | ## |
AS | Always Seen | 5 |
US | Usually Seen | 46 |
SS | Sometimes Seen | 36 |
OS | Occasionally Seen | 13 |
RS | Rarely Seen | 4 |
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.