Birds of Laikipia

Birds of Laikipia

As home to some 400 of Kenya’s estimated 1,100 bird species, Laikipia is a birder’s paradise. Because the district is less travelled than other parts of Kenya and has hosted little ornithological research, 400 species is probably an underestimate.

List of Birds

• Crested Francolins ‘East Africa’s alarm clock’
• White-browed Sparrow Weavers
• Spotted Palm Thrush
• Skulking Slate-coloured Boubous
• Red-chested Cuckoo
• Hartlaub’s Turaco
• Doves – African Mourning, Red-eyed and Ring-necked, Dusky Turtle and Laughing stocky Speckled Pigeon
• Common Ostrich.
• Bustard: Black-bellied, White-bellied, Hartlaub’s, Buff-crested and Kori
• Raptors: Tawny and Crowned Eagles, Secretary Bird
• Seasonal raptors; Pallid Harriers, Sooty and Red-footed Falcons and Lesser Kestrels.
• Helmeted and Vulturine Guineafowl.
• Hornbill species: Von der Decken’s, Red-billed, Eastern Yellow-Billed, African Grey and Crowned Hornbills, Silvery-cheeked Hornbill
• Martial and Verreaux’s Eagles, and the Bateleur
• Vultures: White-faced, White-backed, Lappet-faced, Rüppell’s and Egyptian.
• African Fish Eagle
• Grey and Black-headed Herons
• Kingfishers:Giant, Pied and Malachite
• Hamerkop
• African Finfoot
• Sandgrouse: Black-faced, Four-banded and Lichtenstein’s
• Nightjars: Donaldson-Smith’s, Freckled, Dusky and Slender-tailed, Montane Nightjar
• Owls: Verreaux’s Eagle Owl, Northern White-faced Scops Owls, Pearl-spotted Owlet
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