The Bird life at Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, Kenya

Elephant are a regular sight on Lewa Wildlife Conservancy.




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Birdlife on Lewa NOTES: (PM) = Palearctic migrant (R) = Red list

OSTRICHES Somali Ostrich GREBES Little Grebe Great creasted Grebe PELICANS Great White Pelican Pinked-backed Pelican CORMORANT Great Cormorant Long tailed Cormorant African Darter HERONS & EGRETS Little Bittern Dwarf Bittern Cattle Egret Great(white)Egret Yellow billed Egret Black Heron Black Headed Heron Greenbacked Heron Great White Heron Grey Heron Little Egret Squaco Heron Madagascar Squacco Green-Backed Heron Purple Heron Goliath Heron Black Crowned Night Heron HAMERKOP Hamerkop STORKS White Stork Black Stork(PM) Abdim Stork(AM) Wooly-Necked Stork Saddle-billed Stork Marabou Stork Open-billed Stork Yellow billed Stork African Open-billed Stork IBISES AND SPOONBILLS Sacred Ibis Hadada Ibis Glossy Ibis African Spoonbill FLAMINGO Lesser Flamingo DUCKS AND GEESE Spur winged Goose Egyptian Goose Northern Pintail European Pintail Northern Shoveler Yellow billed Duck African Black Duck Maccoa Duck Fulvous Whistling Tree Duck White-Faced whistling Duck Knob billed Duck White Backed Duck Tufted Duck Maccoa Duck Garganey Red billed Teal Hotentot Teal Common Teal Cape Teal Eurasian Wigeon Southern Pochard SECRETARY BIRD Secretary bird VULTURES, EAGLES etc African white backed Vulture Rupell’s Vulture Lappet-faced Vulture Palm-nut Vulture Egyptian Vulture White Headed Vulture Hooded Vulture African Harrier Hawk African Cuckoo-Hawk Palid Harrier (PM) Montagu Harrier (PM) African-marsh Harrier Eurasian Marsh Harrier Gabar Goshawk Eastern Pale chanting Goshawk African Goshawk Little Sparrow Hawk Rufous-Brested Sparrow Hawk Great Sparrow Hawk Common Buzzard Mountain Buzzard Augur Buzzard Brown Snake Egle African Fish Eagle Bateleur Eagle Black Chested Snake Eagle African Hawk Eagle Tawny Eagle Steppe Eagle Lesser Spotted Eagle Verraux’s Eagle Long crested Eagle Martial Eagle Wahlberg’s Eagle Booted Eagle African Crowned Eagle Black-shouldered Kite Black Kite African Swallow-Tailed Kite Osprey Eurasian Hobby	FALCONS Pygmy Falcon Peregrine Falcon Lanner Falcon Grey Kestrel Greater Kestrel Lesser Kestrel Common Kestrel QUAILS AND FRANCOLINS Harlequin Quail Common Quail Stone Partridge Shelly’s Francolin Crested Francolin Hildebrandt’s Francolin Yellow necked Spurfowl GUINEAFOWL Vulturine Guineafowl Helmented Guineafowl RAILS etc African Crake Black Crake Common Moorhen Red Knobbed Coot African Water Rail Purple Swamp Hen African Jacana CRANES Grey Crowned Crane BUSTARDS Kori Bustard White bellied Bustard Hartlaub’s Bustard STILTS & AVOCETS Pied Avocet Black Winged Stilt THICKNEE Spotted Thicknee Water Thicknee Spotted Thicknee COURSERS Heuglin’s Courser Somali Courser Two Banded Courser Temminick’s Courser PLOVERS Little ringed Plover Three banded Plover Blacksmith Plover Spur-winged Plover Crowned Plover Black-Winged Plover Ringed Plover Senegal Plover SANDPIPERS etc Little Stint Temminck’s Stint African Snipe Common Snipe Common Greenshank Common Sandpiper Wood Sandpiper Green Sandpiper Curlew Sandpiper Marsh Sandpiper Ruff GULLS AND TERNS Lesser Black Head Gull Grey Headed Gull Whiskered Tern Gull-billed Tern White Winged Tern SANDGROUSES Chestnut bellied Sandgrouse Black faced Sandgrouse Lichtenstein Sandgrouse PIGEONS AND DOVES Emerald- spotted wood Dove Namaqua Dove Red eyed Dove Ring necked Dove Dusky turtle Dove Laughing Dove African Green Pigeon Eastern Bronze Naped Pigeon Speckled Pigeon Olive Pigeon WIDOW BIRDS Yellow Bishop White Winged Widowbird Long tailed Widowbird WAXBILLS Green-Winged Pytilia Red billed Firefinch Red- Cheeked Cordon Bleu Purpel Grenadier Quail-Finch African Silverbill Grey Headed Silverbill Yellow Bellied Waxbill Black-cheeked Waxbill Common Waxbill Crimson rumped Waxbill Cut throat Finch Bronze Manikin Black-And-White Manikin Village Indigo Bird WHYDAH etc Pin Tailed Whydah Straw Tailed Whydah Jacksons Widow Bird	SEEDEATERS & CANARIES Brimstone Canary Yellow rumped Seedeater Streaky Seadeater African Citril White-Bellied Canary BUNTINGS Golden-breasted Bunting Cinnamon Breasted rock Bunting Cut throat Finch STARLINGS & OXPECKERS Red Winged-Starling Bristle-Crowned Starling Greater Blue-eared Starling Hildebrandt’s Starling Ruppell’s Long Tailed Glossy Starling Superb Starling Golden Breasted Starling Wattled Starling Magpie Starling Red Billed Oxpecker Yellow-billed Oxpecker SUNBIRDS Hunter’s Sunbird Variable Sunbird Marico Sunbird Collarded Sunbird Amethyst Sunbird Golden-winged Sunbird Scarlet-chested Sunbird Shining Sunbird Eastern Vlt-backed Sunbird SPARROWS & PETRONIAS Rufous Sparrow Chestnut Sparrow Grey-headed Sparrow Speckle-fronted Weaver Yellow spotted Petronia WEAVERS etc White headed buffalo Weaver Black -headed Weaver White Browed Sparrow Weaver Red-billed Buffalo Weaver Donaldson-Smith’s Sparrow Weaver Vitelline Masked Weaver Grey capped social Weaver Black-capped social Weaver Baglafecht Weaver Spekes Weaver Chestnut Weaver Red headed Weaver African Golden Weaver Lesser Masked Weaver Red billed Quelia Cardinal Quelea PARROTS & LOVEBIRDS Brown Parrot African orange bellied Parrot Feral Lovebird TURACOS Hartlaub’s Turaco White bellied Go-away-Bird CUCKOOS AND COUCALS Black and white Cuckoo Black Cuckoo Red chested Cuckoo African Cuckoo Klaa’s Cuckoo Diedrick Cuckoo Great Spotted Cockoo Common Cuckoo African Emerald Cuckoo White-browed Coucal OWLS African scops Owl Spotted Eagle Owl Verreaux’s Eagle Owl Barn Owl Marsh Owl Pearl-spotted Owlet NIGHTJARS Dusky Nightjar Plain Nightjar Abyssinian Nightjar Eurasian Nightjar SWIFTS Mottled Swift Little Swift White-rumped Swift Alpine Swift Nyanza Swift African Palm Swift Horus Swift MOUSE BIRDS Speckled Mousebird Blue-naped Mousebird TROGONS Narina Trogon KINGFISHERS Striped Kingfisher Grey-headed Kingfisher Malachite Kingfisher Giant Kingfisher Pied Kingfisher Woodland Kingfisher

BEE-EATERS Eurasian Bee-eater White throated Bee-eater Little Bee-eater Cinnamon-chested Bee eater Blue-cheeked Bee-eater ROLLERS Lilac- breasted Roller Rufous-crowned Roller Eurasian Roller HOOPOES & SCIMITARBILLS Hoopoe Green wood Hoopoe Common Scimitarbill Abyssinian Scimitarbill HORNBILLS Crowned Hornbill Red- billed Hornbill Eastern yellow-billed Hornbill Von der Decken’s Hornbill African grey Hornbill BARBETS & TINKER BIRDS Red fronted Barbet Spotted- flanked Barbet Red and Yellow Barbet White headed Barbet D’Arnaud’s Barbet Red-fronted Tinkerbird HONEY GUIDE Greater Honeyguide Lesser Honeyguide Scaly-Throated Honeyguide Pallid Honeyguide Wahlberg’s Honeyguide WOODPECKERS Nubian Woodpecker Bearded Woodpecker Grey Woodpecker Cardinal Woodpecker	FLYCATCHERS Spotted Flycatcher (pm) White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher Pale Flycatcher African Dusky Flycatcher Southern Black Flycatcher African Grey Flycatcher Gambuga Flycatcher African Paradise Flycatcher BATIS Chin-Spot Batis WARBLERS Tawny flanked Prinia Pale Prinia Yellow-breasted Apalis Grey backed Camaroptera Yellow bellied Eremomela Banded Parisoma Pectoral patch Cisticola Rattling Cisticola Boran Cisticola Singing Cisticola Winding Cisticola Stout Cisticola Desert Cisticola Siffling Cisticola Ashy Cisticola Tiny Cisticola Grey Wren Warbler Willow Warbler Great Reed Warbler Eurasian Reed Warbler Marsh Warbler Garden Warbler Willow Warbler Olivaceous Warbler African Moustached Warbler Northern Crombec LARKS Flappet Lark White tailed Lark Red-Winged Lark Rufous-naped Lark Fawn-coloured Lark Fischer’s sparrow-Lark Red-Capped Lark Chestnut Backed Sparrow-Lark	SWALLOWS & MARTINS Wire-tailed Swallow Ethiopian Swalow Red-rumped Swallow Lesser Striped Swallow Grey-Rumped Swallow Eurasian Swallow Mosque Swallow Angolan Swallow Barn Swallow Black Saw-Wing Sand Martin Plain Martin African Rock Martin WAGTAILS, PIPITS etc. African pied Wagtail Mountain Wagtail Yellow Wagtail (pm) Tree Pipit Long billed Pipit Plain backed Pipit Golden Pipit Grassland (Richard’s) Pipit Pangani Longclaw Yellow-Throated Longclaw Rosy-Brested Longclaw BULBULS, GREENBULS etc Common Bulbuls Northern Brownbul Yellow whiskered Greenbul Zanzibar Sombre Greenbul BABLERS & CHATTERERS Black lored Babbler Northern Pied Babbler Rufous Chatterer THRUSHES, CHATS etc White browed robin Chat Brown-tailed Rock Chat Spotted morning Thrush Northern Wheatear (pm) Isabelline Wheatear (pm) Capped Wheatear (R) Pied Wheatear (pm) Common rock Thrush Little Rock Thrush Ant Eater Chat Cliff Chat Northern Olive Thrush White Browed Scrub Robin

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