Checklist of the Kenya birds seen on our January tour.

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List of the Kenyan birds seen on our January tour

This tour covered the regions of Nairobi (=NRB), Mount Kenya (=MtK), Naro Moru (=NARO), Shaba (=SHA), Aberdare Country Club (=ABER), Baringo (=BAR), Bogoria (=BOG), Kakamega Forest (=KAK), Kisumu (=KIS), Lake Nakuru (=NKR), Lake Naivasha (=NVS), and Masai Mara (=MAS).

Ostriches Common Ostrich BOG NKR NVS MAS Grebes Little Grebe NKR NVS Black-necked Grebe BOG NKR Pelicans Great White Pelican NKR NVS Pink-backed Pelican KIS NVS Cormorants Great Cormorant KIS NVS Long-tailed Cormorant SHA BAR NVS Herons, Egrets and Bitterns Little Bittern MAS Common Squacco Heron SHA BAR BOG Cattle Egret NRB NARO MtK SHA ABER BOG NKR NVS MAS Green-backed Heron SHA BAR BOG Black Heron BAR Little Egret BAR KIS NKR NVS MAS Yellow-billed Egret KIS NVS MAS Great Egret SHA BAR KIS MAS Grey Heron NRB SHA BAR KIS NKR NVS MAS Black-headed Heron MtK SHA BAR BOG NKR NVS MAS Goliath Heron BAR NVS Black-crowned Night Heron SHA BAR
Hamerkop SHA BAR BOG KAK KIS NKR NVS MAS Storks Yellow-billed Stork NARO SHA BAR BOG KIS NKR NVS MAS Black Stork SHA White Stork SHA NKR Marabou Stork NRB SHA BAR BOG KIS NKR NVS MAS African Open-billed Stork SHA KIS Ibises and Spoonbills Sacred Ibis NRB NARO SHA BAR BOG KAK KIS NKR NVS MAS Glossy Ibis BAR NKR NVS Hadada Ibis NRB NARO SHA ABER BOG KAK NKR NVS MAS African Spoonbill KIS NKR NVS
Flamingos Greater Flamingo BOG NKR NVS Lesser Flamingo BOG NKR NVS Ducks and Geese Fulvous Whistling Duck BAR White-faced Whistling Duck BAR Egyptian Goose SHA BAR KIS NKR NVS MAS Knob-billed Duck BAR Cape Teal BOG NVS Yellow-billed Duck NKR NVS Northern Pintail NVS Red-billed Teal NVS Hottentot Teal NVS Garganey NVS Northern Shoveler NVS Southern Pochard NVS Secretary Bird MAS
Vultures, Eagles, Hawks, Kites and allies Black-shouldered Kite MtK SHA BOG KAK MAS Black Kite NRB NARO SHA ABER KAK KIS NKR African Fish Eagle SHA BAR BOG KIS NKR NVS Hooded Vulture SHA African White-backed Vulture SHA MAS Rüppell's Griffon Vulture SHA NVS MAS Lappet-faced Vulture NVS MAS Palm-nut Vulture SHA Black-chested Snake Eagle BAR Bateleur SHA MAS African Harrier-Hawk NARO BAR BOG NVS Eurasian Marsh Harrier NARO SHA BAR KIS NKR African Marsh Harrier BAR BOG Pallid Harrier NARO SHA MAS Montagu's Harrier NARO SHA NKR MAS Eastern Pale Chanting Goshawk SHA MAS Gabar Goshawk BAR Shikra BAR KIS Little Sparrowhawk BAR NVS Common (Steppe) Buzzard NRB Lesser Spotted Eagle MtK SHA ABER NKR NVS Greater Spotted Eagle NKR Tawny Eagle SHA MAS Steppe Eagle BOG NKR NVS MAS Imperial Eagle SHA Verreaux's Eagle NVS African Hawk-Eagle NVS Booted Eagle SHA Ayres's Hawk-Eagle MtK Long-crested Eagle NRB NARO MtK SHA BOG NVS Martial Eagle SHA
Falcons Pygmy Falcon SHA BAR Lesser Kestrel MAS Common Kestrel NARO SHA ABER BAR KAK NKR NVS MAS Sooty Falcon SHA BAR Quails and Francolins Coqui Francolin NKR MAS Crested Francolin SHA BOG Hildebrandt's Francolin NVS Scaly Francolin MtK Red-necked Spurfowl MtK MAS Yellow-necked Spurfowl SHA ABER Guineafowl Helmeted Guineafowl SHA NKR NVS MAS Rails and relatives Black Crake SHA BAR BOG KIS MAS Common Moorhen KIS NVS Purple Swamphen KIS Red-knobbed Coot NVS
Cranes Grey Crowned Crane NRB SHA KAK Bustards Kori Bustard NVS MAS White-bellied Bustard SHA MAS Black-bellied Bustard SHA MAS Jacanas African Jacana NARO BAR KIS Stilts and Avocets Black-winged Stilt BOG KIS NKR NVS Pied Avocet BOG NKR NVS Thick-knees Water Thick-knee SHA BAR Spotted Thick-knee BAR Eurasian Thick-knee MAS Egyptian-plover, coursers and pratincoles Two-banded Courser MAS Heuglin's Courser BAR Rock Pratincole KAK
Plovers Ringed Plover SHA BOG KIS NKR NVS MAS Three-banded Plover NARO MtK SHA NVS MAS Caspian Plover MAS African Wattled Plover MAS Blacksmith Plover NARO NKR NVS Spur-winged Plover SHA BAR BOG KIS NVS MAS Senegal Plover MAS Crowned Plover NARO SHA NKR NVS MAS Long-toed Plover BAR Sandpipers and relatives Common Snipe MAS Black-tailed Godwit KIS NVS Marsh Sandpiper SHA KIS NKR NVS Common Greenshank SHA BAR KIS NKR NVS Green Sandpiper KAK NKR MAS Wood Sandpiper NARO SHA BOG KAK KIS MAS Common Sandpiper SHA BAR BOG KAK KIS NKR NVS MAS Little Stint BOG KIS NKR NVS Ruff BOG KIS NKR NVS
Gulls and Terns Lesser Black-backed Gull KIS NVS Grey-headed Gull KIS NKR NVS Gull-billed Tern KIS NKR NVS Caspian Tern KIS Sandwich Tern KIS Whiskered Tern BAR BOG KIS NKR NVS African Skimmer KIS Sandgrouses Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse SHA Black-faced Sandgrouse SHA Lichtenstein's Sandgrouse BAR Yellow-throated Sandgrouse MAS Pigeons and Doves Feral Pigeon NVS Speckled Pigeon NARO SHA ABER BAR KIS NVS Laughing Dove SHA BAR BOG NKR NVS MAS African Mourning Dove SHA BOG Ring-necked Dove NARO ABER BAR KIS NVS Red-eyed Dove NRB NARO SHA KIS NKR Emerald-spotted Wood Dove SHA BOG KAK KIS MAS Blue-spotted Wood Dove KAK Tambourine Dove KAK Namaqua Dove SHA BAR BOG KIS NVS African Green Pigeon NVS MAS
Parrots and Lovebirds Red-fronted Parrot NARO African Orange-bellied Parrot SHA Brown Parrot KIS Fisher's Lovebird SHA NVS Turacos Schalow's Turaco MAS Hartlaub's Turaco MtK ABER Bare-faced Go-away-Bird MAS White-bellied Go-away-Bird SHA BAR BOG Great Blue Turaco KAK Cuckoos and Coucals Black-and-White (Jacobin) Cuckoo NARO Diederik Cuckoo NARO NVS White-browed Coucal SHA BAR BOG MAS Typical Owls White-faced Scops Owl BAR Spotted Eagle-Owl BAR Verreaux's Eagle-Owl BAR NVS MAS
Nightjars Slender-tailed Nightjar BAR Swifts African Palm Swift SHA Mottled Swift MtK NVS MAS Nyanza Swift NARO MtK BOG KIS NVS MAS Little Swift ABER BOG KAK NVS MAS Mousebirds Speckled Mousebird NRB NARO MtK ABER BAR BOG KAK KIS NKR NVS MAS Blue-naped Mousebird SHA BAR BOG MAS White-headed Mousebird SHA Kingfishers Malachite Kingfisher BAR BOG KIS NKR African Pygmy Kingfisher MAS Grey-headed Kingfisher SHA BAR BOG NKR Woodland Kingfisher BAR BOG KIS MAS Striped Kingfisher NKR Giant Kingfisher SHA NVS Pied Kingfisher BAR KIS NKR NVS MAS
Bee-eaters Little Bee-eater SHA BOG MAS Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater NRB NARO MtK ABER KAK NKR White-fronted Bee-eater NKR NVS White-throated Bee-eater SHA KAK KIS Eurasian Bee-eater NRB NARO SHA BAR BOG Blue-headed Bee-eater KAK Somali Bee-eater SHA Rollers Lilac-breasted Roller NRB SHA BAR BOG NKR NVS MAS Rufous-crowned Roller ABER NKR Hoopoe SHA BAR NKR NVS Wood-hoopoes Green Wood-hoopoe SHA BOG NKR NVS White-headed Wood-hoopoe MtK KAK Common Scimitarbill NARO Abyssinian Scimitarbill SHA NVS
Hornbills Hemprich's Hornbill BAR Red-billed Hornbill SHA BAR Von Der Decken's Hornbill SHA Jackson's Hornbill BAR BOG Crowned Hornbill NARO SHA African Grey Hornbill SHA BOG NVS Eastern Yellow-billed Hornbill SHA BAR Black & white-casqued Hornbill KAK Southern Ground Hornbill MAS Barbets and Tinkerbirds Grey-throated Barbet KAK White-eared Barbet ABER Red-fronted Tinkerbird NRB NARO BAR BOG MAS Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird KAK Yellow-spotted Barbet KAK Hairy-breasted Barbet KAK Spot-flanked Barbet KIS MAS Red-fronted Barbet NRB NARO ABER BAR Black-throated Barbet SHA BAR BOG White-headed Barbet NKR NVS MAS Double-toothed Barbet KAK Red-and-Yellow Barbet SHA BAR D'arnaud's Barbet BAR BOG
Honeyguides Greater (Black-Thr.) Honeyguide NKR NVS MAS Lesser Honeyguide SHA BAR NVS MAS Wrynecks and Woodpeckers Nubian Woodpecker NARO SHA BAR BOG NVS MAS Cardinal Woodpecker SHA ABER BAR BOG KAK Bearded Woodpecker SHA BAR NVS Yellow-crested Woodpecker KAK Grey Woodpecker NRB KIS NVS Larks Singing Bush Lark SHA MAS Williams's Lark SHA Rufous-naped Lark SHA NKR Red-winged Lark NVS Fawn-coloured Lark MAS Pink-breasted Lark SHA Red-capped Lark SHA NKR NVS MAS Fischer's Sparrow-Lark SHA MAS
Swallows and Martins Sand Martin MtK NVS Plain (African Sand) Martin NARO ABER KAK MAS Banded Martin MAS Mosque Swallow MAS Lesser Striped Swallow KAK Red-rumped Swallow NRB NARO MtK ABER Rock Martin SHA ABER NKR NVS Wire-tailed Swallow NARO Barn Swallow NARO MtK BAR KAK KIS NKR NVS Common House Martin MtK BOG Black Saw-Wing NARO MtK ABER White-headed Saw-Wing KAK NVS MAS Wagtails, Pipits and Longclaws Yellow Wagtail SHA ABER BOG KIS NKR NVS White Wagtail NRB BOG Grey Wagtail NRB KAK NVS Mountain Wagtail NARO African Pied Wagtail NARO SHA ABER BAR BOG KAK MAS Golden Pipit SHA Grassland Pipit ABER NKR NVS MAS Plain-backed Pipit SHA NVS MAS Tree Pipit KAK Red-throated Pipit KIS Yellow-throated Longclaw NARO SHA ABER NKR MAS Rosy-breasted Longclaw MAS
Bulbuls Mountain Greenbul NRB MtK KAK Little Grey Greenbul KAK Ansorge's Greenbul KAK Yellow-whiskered Greenbul KAK Toro Olive Greenbul KAK Honeyguide Greenbul KAK Joyful Greenbul KAK Common Bulbul NRB NARO MtK SHA ABER BAR BOG KAK KIS NVS MAS Red-tailed Bristlebill KAK Babblers, Chatterers and Illadopses Brown Babbler BAR Black-lored Babbler NVS Arrow-Marked Babbler NKR MAS Rufous Chatterer NARO SHA ABER BAR
Thrushes, chats and relatives Common Rock Thrush NARO BAR BOG NVS Little Rock Thrush ABER Olive Thrush NRB MtK ABER African Thrush KAK KIS NKR Equatorial Akalat KAK Grey-winged Robin KAK Cape Robin-Chat MtK MAS Rüppell's Robin-Chat NRB NARO MtK White-browed Robin-Chat NRB NARO KIS NKR MAS Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat KAK Snowy-headed Robin-Chat KAK Brown-chested Alethe KAK White-tailed Ant Thrush KAK Spotted Morning Thrush SHA BAR BOG White-browed Scrub Robin NVS MAS Rufous Bush Chat SHA Common Stonechat NARO MtK SHA KAK Whinchat NARO NVS Northern Wheatear SHA NVS MAS Pied Wheatear SHA NKR NVS Schalow's Wheatear NVS Capped Wheatear NVS Isabelline Wheatear SHA BOG NKR NVS MAS Northern Anteater Chat SHA NKR NVS MAS Sooty Chat MAS White-shouldered Cliff Chat NKR
Old World Flycatchers African Grey Flycatcher SHA NVS MAS Pale Flycatcher NARO ABER BAR NKR NVS MAS Silverbird BAR White-Eyed Slaty Flycatcher NARO MtK ABER KAK NKR NVS Southern Black Flycatcher SHA Northern Black Flycatcher BOG KAK Spotted Flycatcher SHA BOG Gambaga Flycatcher SHA Swamp Flycatcher KIS African Dusky Flycatcher NARO MtK KAK NKR NVS
Old World Warblers Black-faced Rufous Warbler KAK Sedge Warbler BAR Basra Reed Warbler SHA Olivaceous Warbler KAK Upcher’s Warbler SHA Icterine Warbler NVS Olive-tree Warbler BAR Dark-capped Yellow Warbler KAK Mountain Yellow Warbler MtK Yellow-vented Eremomela SHA BAR Red-faced Crombec NKR NVS Northern Crombec SHA BAR BOG Willow Warbler NARO ABER KAK NKR NVS Brown Woodland Warbler MtK Blackcap ABER KAK Chubb's Cisticola KAK Carruthers's Cisticola KIS Zitting Cisticola NKR Desert Cisticola NKR NVS MAS Ashy Cisticola SHA Rattling Cisticola MtK ABER NVS MAS Red-faced Cisticola MAS Singing Cisticola NARO MtK Hunter's Cisticola NARO MtK Winding Cisticola NVS Tawny-flanked Prinia ABER NKR White-chinned Prinia KAK Pale Prinia SHA MAS Buff-Bellied Warbler NVS Buff-throated Apalis KAK Yellow-Breasted Apalis NARO BAR NVS Grey Apalis MtK SHA ABER Grey-backed Camaroptera NRB ABER KIS NKR NVS MAS Olive-green Camaroptera KAK Grey Wren-Warbler SHA BAR Grey-Capped Warbler ABER KAK NKR MAS
White-eyes Yellow White-eye NRB MtK KAK NVS MAS Tits Northern Grey Tit BAR White-Bellied Tit NRB NKR NVS MAS Penduline Tits Mouse-Coloured Penduline Tit SHA Monarch Flycatchers African Blue Flycatcher KAK African Paradise Flycatcher NRB NARO MtK ABER BAR BOG KAK NKR NVS MAS Batises, Wattle-eyes and relatives Chin-spot Batis NRB NARO ABER BAR BOG NVS MAS Common Wattle-eye KAK MAS Helmet-shrikes White-crested Helmet-shrike NKR Northern White-crowned Shrike SHA BAR BOG
Shrikes Red-backed Shrike NKR Isabelline (Red-tailed) Shrike SHA BAR NKR NVS Grey-backed Fiscal BAR BOG NKR NVS Taita Fiscal SHA Somali Fiscal SHA Common Fiscal NRB NARO MtK SHA ABER BOG KIS NKR NVS MAS Bush-shrikes Brubru SHA BAR BOG Black-backed Puffback ABER Northern Puffback NARO ABER MAS Three-streaked Tchagra SHA Brown-crowned Tchagra NARO ABER NVS Rosy-patched Bush-shrike SHA Tropical Boubou NARO NKR NVS Black-headed Gonolek KIS Slate-coloured Boubou SHA MAS Sulphur-breasted Bush-shrike NKR NVS Grey-headed Bush-shrike SHA NKR NVS Bocage's Bush-shrike KAK
Cuckoo-shrikes Red-shouldered Cuckoo-shrike NVS Drongos Common Drongo NRB SHA ABER BAR BOG NKR NVS MAS Square-tailed Drongo KAK Orioles Black-headed Oriole BAR BOG NKR NVS MAS Montane Oriole NARO MtK ABER Crows and allies Pied Crow NRB NARO ABER KIS NKR NVS MAS Cape Rook NARO MtK SHA BAR NVS Fan-tailed Raven SHA BAR BOG
Starlings and Oxpeckers Stuhlmann's Starling KAK Red-winged Starling ABER NVS Bristle-crowned Starling SHA BAR Greater Blue-eared Starling MtK SHA ABER NKR NVS MAS Rüppell's Long-tailed Starling BAR BOG NKR MAS Superb Starling NARO SHA BAR BOG NKR NVS MAS Hildebrandt's Starling MAS Fischer's Starling SHA Magpie Starling SHA Golden-breasted Starling SHA Violet-backed Starling ABER MAS Wattled Starling SHA BAR BOG NKR Yellow-billed Oxpecker MAS Red-billed Oxpecker SHA BOG NKR NVS
Sunbirds Eastern Violet-Backed Sunbird SHA BOG Collared Sunbird NRB KAK Green-Headed Sunbird NARO ABER Amethyst Sunbird NRB NARO ABER NVS Scarlet-Chested Sunbird NARO NKR MAS Hunter's Sunbird SHA BAR BOG NVS Variable Sunbird NRB NARO ABER NVS MAS Northern Double-Collared Sunbird NARO KAK Eastern Double-Collared Sunbird MtK Marico Sunbird MAS Purple-banded Sunbird MAS Violet-breasted Sunbird SHA Red-chested Sunbird KIS Shining Sunbird SHA Beautiful Sunbird BAR BOG Bronze Sunbird NRB NARO ABER KAK NVS Golden-winged Sunbird NVS
Sparrows and Petronias House Sparrow SHA BOG NVS MAS Rufous Sparrow NARO MtK SHA NKR NVS MAS Grey-headed Sparrow SHA ABER KAK KIS MAS Chestnut Sparrow NVS MAS Yellow-spotted Petronia SHA ABER BAR NVS MAS Weavers and relatives White-billed Buffalo-weaver BAR BOG Red-billed Buffalo-weaver SHA White-headed Buffalo-weaver SHA BOG Speckle-fronted Weaver MAS Grosbeak Weaver NRB KAK Donaldson-Smith's Sparrow-weaver SHA
White-browed Sparrow-weaver SHA BAR BOG Grey-capped Social-weaver MAS Compact Weaver KAK Baglafecht Weaver NRB NARO MtK ABER KIS NKR NVS MAS Slender-billed Weaver KIS Little Weaver BAR BOG Black-necked Weaver KAK Spectacled Weaver NRB NARO KIS NVS MAS Black-billed Weaver KAK Vieillot's Black Weaver KAK Dark-backed Weaver KAK Brown-capped Weaver ABER KAK Lesser Masked Weaver NARO NVS Vitelline Masked Weaver BAR Speke's Weaver MAS Black-headed (Village) Weaver BAR MAS Red-headed Malimbe KAK Red-headed Weaver SHA ABER NKR NVS Red-billed Quelea MtK SHA BOG Yellow Bishop SHA ABER MAS White-winged Widowbird KAK KIS Red-collared Widowbird MtK Long-tailed Widowbird NARO ABER NKR Jackson's Widowbird MtK

Waxbills
Grey-headed Negrofinch KAK
Green-winged Pytilia  MAS
Abyssinian Crimsonwing MtK MAS
Red-headed Bluebill KAK
Red-billed Firefinch  MAS
African Firefinch  SHA ABER BAR
Yellow-bellied Waxbill MtK ABER
Crimson-rumped Waxbill  BAR
Common Waxbill  MAS
Black-headed Waxbill KAK
Black-crowned Waxbill  MtK
Red-cheeked Cordonbleu  NARO SHA ABER BOG KIS NKR NVS
Purple Grenadier  NARO ABER NVS
Bronze Mannikin  MtK ABER
Black-and-White Mannikin  MtK KAK KIS
Cut-throat Finch  SHA

Indigobirds and Whydahs
Paradise Whydah  SHA

Red-billed Firefinch

Seedeaters, Canaries, relatives
African Citril  NRB NARO KAK NVS
Yellow-rumped Seedeater  NARO BOG NVS
Yellow-fronted Canary  MAS
White-bellied Canary  BAR MAS
Brimstone Canary  SHA NVS
Streaky Seedeater  NARO ABER NKR NVS
Thick-billed Canary  NARO MtK

Old World Buntings
Cinnamon-breasted Rock Bunting ABER
Somali Golden-breasted Bunting SHA
Golden-breasted Bunting  NARO

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