The Birds











The basic bird list shown below for the area within 50km of Maralal Safari Lodge was compiled by the Ornithological Subcommittee, EAST AFRICAN NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY and SAMBURU TRAILS TREKKING SAFARIS, P.0. Box 40, MARALAL. Birds thathave been recorded by guests to Maralal Safari Lodge as visiting the lodge and Maralal Game Reservehave been added.

1. Common Ostrich

2. Dwarf Bittern 3. Black-Headed Heron 4. Cattle Egret

5. Hamerkop

6. Hadada Ibis

7. Egyptian Goose 8. African Black Duck 9. Yellow-Billed Duck 10. Knob-Billed Duck

11. White-Backed Vulture 12. Ruppell's Vulture 13. Egyptian Vulture 14. White-Headed Vulture 15. Pallid Harrier 16. Montagu's Harrier 17. Harrier Hawk 18. Bateleur 19. Great Sparrow Hawk 20. Little Sparrow Hawk 21. Steppe Eagle 22. Lesser Spotted Eagle 23. Tawny Eagle

24. Marsh Sandpiper 25. African Snipe 26. Curlew Sandpiper 27. Little Stint 28. Black-Winged Stilt

29. Spotted Thick-Knee 30. Heuglin's Courser

31. Lemon Dove 32. Olive Pigeon 33. Bronze-Naped Pigeon 34. Speckled Pigeon 35. Namaqua Dove 36. Ring-Necked Dove 37. Dusky Turtle Dove 38. Red-Eyed Dove 39. Laughing Dove 40. Emerald-Spotted Wood Dove 41. Tambourine Dove

42. Red-Fronted Parrot

43. White-Bellied Go-Away-Bird 44. Hartlaub's Turaco 45. Didric Cuckoo 46. Emerald Cuckoo 47. Klaas's Cuckoo 48. Black Cuckoo 49. Red-Chested Cuckoo

50. Verreaux's Eagle 51. Augur Buzzard 52. Common Buzzard 53. Mountain Buzzard 54. Long-Crested Eagle 55. Martial Eagle 56. Black Kite 57. Black Shouldered Kite

58. Lesser Kestrel 59. Greater Kestrel 60. Common Kestrel

61. Common Quail 62. Hildebrandt's Francolin 63. Crested Francolin 64. Shelley's Francolin 65. Scaly Francolin 66. Yellow-Necked Spurfowl 67. Scarce Swift 68. Helmeted Guineafowl

69. Crowned Crane

70. Buff-Spotted Pygmy Crake

71. White-Bellied Bustard 72. Denham's Bustard 73. Kori Bustard

74. Painted Snipe

75. Caspian Plover 76. Ringed Plover 77. Kittlitz's Sandplover 78. Blacksmith Plover 79. Crowned Plover 80. Black-Winged Plover

81. Hoopoe 82. White-Headed Wood Hoopoe 83. Scimitarbill 84. Green Wood Hoopoe

85. Silvery-Cheeked Hornbill 86. Crowned Hornbill 87. Red Billed Hornbill 88. Yellow Billed Hornbill

89. Red-Fronted Barbet 90. Yellow-Rumped Tinkerbird 91. Moustached Green Tinkerbird 92. Red-Fronted Tinerbird 93. Darnaud's Barbet

94. Greater Honeyguide 95. Scaly-Throated Honeyguide

96. African Marsh Owl 97. Verreaux's Eagle Owl 98. African Wood Owl 99. African Long-Eared Owl 100. Pearl-Spotted Owlet 101. African Scops Owl

102. Montane Night Jar

103. Mottled Swift 104. Eurasian Swift 105. African Black Swift 106. Alpine Swift 107. Nyanza Swift

108. White-Headed Mousebird 109. Speckled Mousebird 110. Blue-Naped Mousebird

111. Narina Trogon

112. Striped Kingfisher

113. White-Throated Bee-Eater 114. Eurasian Bee-Eater 115. Cinnamon-Chested Bee-Eater 116. Little Bee-Eater

117. Lilac-Breasted Roller 118. Rufous - Crowned Roller

119. lsabelline Wheatear 120. Northern Wheatear 121. Capped Wheatear 122. Pied Wheatear 123. Northern Olive Thrush 124. Abyssinian Ground Thrush

125. Marsh Warbler 126. Grey Apalis 127. Yellow-Breasted Apalis 128. Chestnut-Throated Apalis 129. Cinnamon Bracken Warbler 130. Grey-Backed Comaroptera 131. Mountain Yellow Warbler 132. Boran Cisticola 133. Pectoral-Patch Cisticola 134. Rattling Cisticola 135. Lynes's Cisticola 136. Yellow-Bellied Eremomela 137. Buff-Bellied Warbler 138. Willow Warbler 139. Brown Woodland Warbler 140. Tawny-Flanked Prinia 141. Blackcap 142. Common Whitethroat 143. Red-Faced Crombec

144. Red-Throated Wryneck 145. Nubian Woodpecker 146. Grey Woodpecker 147. Brown-Backed Woodpecker 148. Bearded Woodpecker

149. Red-Capped Lark 150. Rufous Short-Toed Lark 151. Fischer's Sparrowlark 152. Rufous-Naped Lark 153. Fawn-Coloured Lark

154. House Martin 155. Red-Rumped Swallow 156. African Rock Martin 157. Eurasian Swallow 158. Mosque Swallow 159. Wire-Tailed Swallow 160. Black Rough-Wing Swallow 161. Eurasian Sand Martin

162. Drongo

163. Black-Headed Oriole

164. White-Necked Raven 165. Pied Crow 166. Cape Rook 167. Fan-Tailed Raven 168. Brown-Necked Raven 169. White-Bellied Tit 170. African Hill Babbler 171. Black-Lored Babbler 172. Brown Babbler

173. Black Cuckoo-Shrike 174. Purple-Throated Cuckoo-Shrike 175. Grey Cuckoo-Shrike

176. Yellow-Whiskered Greenbul 177. Nicator 178. Cabanis's Greenbul (race Placidus) 179. Common Bulbul

180. Cape Robin Chat 181. White-Browed Robin Chat 182. White-Starred Forest Robin 183. Eurasian Rock Thrush 184. Anteater Chat

185. Grey-Headed Sparrow 186. Rufous Sparrow 187. Pin-Tailed Whydah

188. Grey Flycatcher 189. Pole Flycatcher 190. White-Eyed Slaty Flycatcher 191. Dusky Flycatcher

192. Chin-Spot Batis

193. Paradise Flycatcher 194. Red-Throated Pipit 195. Plain-Backed Pipit 196. Richard's (Grassland) Pipit 197. Tree Pipit 198. Rosy-Breasted Longclaw 199. Yellow-Throated Longclaw 200. African Pied Wagtail 201. White Wagtail 202. Yellow Wagtail 203. Golden Pipit

204. Northern Puffback 205. Tropical Boubou 206. Grey-Headed Bush Shrike 207. Grey-Green Bush Shrike 208. Sulphur-Breasted Bush Shrike 209. Brubru 210. Rosy-Patched Shrike 211. Brown-Headed Tchagra 212. Black-Headed Tchagra

213. Common Fiscal 214. Taita Fiscal

215. White-Crowned Shrike 216. Violet-Backed Starling 217. Wattled Starling 218. Blue-Eared Glossy Starling 219. Slender-Billed Starling 220. Hildebrandt's Starling 221. Superb Starling

222. Yellow Spotted Petronia 223. Yellow-Bellied Waxbill

224. African Firefinch 225. Quailfinch 226. Red-Cheeked Cordon-Bleu 227. Purple Grenadier 228. Abyssinian Crimsonwing 229. Golden-Breasted Bunting 230. Cinnamon- Breasted Rock Bunting 231. White-Bellied Canary 232. Brimstone Canary 233. Yellow-Crowned Canary 234. Golden-Breasted Bunting 235. Streaky Seedeater 236. Thick-Billed Seedeater 237. Yellow-Rumped Seedeater 238. Yellow-Billed Oxpecker 239. Red-Billed Oxpecker

240. Amethyst Sunbird 241. Bronze Sunbird 242. Collared Sunbird 243. Eastern Double-Collared Sunbird 244. Golden-Winged Sunbird 245. Malachite Sunbird 246. Mariqua Sunbird 247. Northern Double-Collared Sunbird 248. Variable Sunbird

249. Red-Headed Weaver 250. Yellow Bishop 251. Black-Billed Weaver 252. Brown-Capped Weaver 253. Chestnut Weaver 254. Reichenow's Weaver 255. Speke's Weaver 256. Vitelline Masked Weaver 257. White-Browed Sparrow Weaver 258. Red-Billed Buffalo Weaver 259. Grey-Capped Social Weaver 260. Yellow White-Eye 261. Chestnut Sparrow

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