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Hooded Vulture

 

African White-Backed Vulture

Lappet-Faced Vulture

 

Rüppell's Griffon Vulture

Towering above the vultures at the kill, the undertaker bird (Marabou Stork)

 

The king at the killl, the Lappet-Faced Vulture (or Nubian Vulture)

Tawny Eagle

 

Augur Buzzard (Buteo augur)

Tawny Eagle

 

Rüppell's Griffon Vulture, with yellow eyes

Hadeda Ibis

 

Sacred Ibis

Grey Heron

 

Egyptian Goose

Goliath Heron, the worlds largest heron

 

African Golden-Weaver

White-Faced Whistling Duck

 

White-Bellied Bustard

Helmeted Guineafowl

 

Speckled Mousebird

Lake Nakuru Flamingo's. Mainly Lesser Flamingo

 

Flamingo's, Nakuru National Park

Lesser Flamingo

 

Greater Flamingo

Female Somali Ostrich (Struthio molybdophanes), Tsavo East NP. Two species of African ostriches are now recoqnized by most birding organizations

 

Male Somali Ostrich (Struthio molybdophanes), Tsavo East NP. Notice the bluish thighs and neck. The Somali Ostich was identified as a distinct species in 2014 based on mitochondrial DNA haplotype identification

Masai Ostrich (Struthio camelus ssp. massaicus), Amboseli NP. Notice the pinkish thighs and neck. Three living subspecies of Common Ostrich are recoqnized today, the North African, the South African and the Masai Ostrich

 

Red-Billed Hornbill

Secretary Bird

 

White-Browed Coucal

Pied Kingfisher

 

Malachite Kingfisher

Suburb Starling

 

African Hoopoe

Weaver colony - Speke's Weaver (Ploceus spekei)

 


Black-Headed Weaver (Ploceus cucullatus)

Common or Dark-Capped Bulbul

 

Dark-Capped Bulbul

African Grey Flycatcher

 

Mocking Cliff-Chat (baboon cliff, Lake Nakuru National Park)

Fischer's Sparrow-Lark

 

Water Thick-Knee

Kori Bustard

 

Grey-Crowned Crane

Ground Hornbill

 

Rufous-Naped Lark

Taita Fiscal

 

White-Browed Sparrow-Weaver

Unknown spescies

 

I think this might be an immature Amethyst Sunbird

White-bellied Go-Away-Bird

 

African Jacana

Red-Fronted Barbet

 

Speckled Pigeon

Common Sandpiper

 

Yellow-Necked Spurfowl

House Crow

 

 

Great White Pelican

 

Number
Species Latin 
1

Common Ostrich

Struthio camelus
  Somali Ostrich Struthio molybdophanes
2
Great White Pelican Pelecanus onocrotalus
3
Pinked-Backed Pelican Pelecanus rufescens
4
Goliath Heron Ardea goliath
5
Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis
6
Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides
7
Little Egret Egretta garzetta
8
Great Egret Ardea alba
9
Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
10
Purple Heron Ardea purpurea
11
Hamerkop Scopus umbretta
12
Marabou Stork Leptoptilos crumenifer
13
African Sacred Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus
14
Hadada Ibis Bostrychia hagedash
15
Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus
16
Greater Flamingo Phoenicopterus roseus
17
Lesser Flamingo Phoeniconaias minor
18
Spur-Winged Goose Plectropterus gambensis
19
Egyptian Goose Alopochen aegyptiaca
20
Red-Billed Duck Anas erythrorhyncha
21
Maccoa Duck Oxyura maccoa
22
White-Faced Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna viduata
23
Southern Pochard Netta erythrophthalma
24
Black Kkite Milvus migrans
25
Secretary Bird Sagittarius serpentarius
26
African Fish Eagle Haliaeetus vocifer
27
Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus
28
African White-Backed Vulture Gyps africanus
29
Ruppell's Griffon Vulture Gyps rueppelli
30
Lappet-Faceed Vulture Torgos tracheliotos
31
Augur Buzzard Buteo augur
32
Tawny Eagle Aquila rapax
33
Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris
34
Yellow-Necked Spurfowl Pternistis leucoscepus
35
Red-Knobbed Coot Fulica cristata
36
African Jacana Actophilornis africanus
37
Grey-Crowned Crane Balearica regulorum
38
Kori Bustard Ardeotis kori
39
White-Bellied Bustard Eupodotis senegalensis
40
Black-Winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
41
Pied Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta
42
Water Thick-Knee Burhinus vermiculatus
43
Long-Toed Lapwing Vanellus crassirostris
44
Blacksmith Lapwing Vanellus armatus
45
Crowned Lapwing Vanellus coronatus
46
Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
47
Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
48
Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula
49
Little Stint Calidris minuta
50
Grey-hooded Gull Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus
51
White-winged Tern Chlidonias leucopterus
52
Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybrida
53
Laughing Dove Streptopelia senegalensis
54
Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea
55
Red-Eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
56
Verreaux's Eagle-Owl Bubo lacteus
57
White-bellied Go-away-bird Corythaixoides leucogaster
58
White-Browed Coucal Centropus superciliosus
59
Specled Mousebird Colius striatus
60
Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis
61
African Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus
62
Sunbird species
63
Lilac-Breasted Roller Coracias caudatus
64
African Hoopoe Upupa africana
65
Red-Billed Hornbill Tockus erythrorhynchus
66
Southern Gound-hornbill Bucorvus leadbeateri
67
White-Rumped Swift Apus caffer
68
Rufous-Naped Lark Mirafra africana
69
Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
70
Dark-Capped Bulbul Pycnonotus tricolor
71
Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
72
African Grey Flycatcher Bradornis microrhynchus
73
African Pied Wagtail Motacilla aguimp
74
Red-Fronted Barbet Tricholaema diademata
75
Fischer's Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix leucopareia
76
Mocking Cliff-Chat Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris
77
White-Browed Robin-Chat Cossypha heuglini
78
Spotted Morning-Thrush Cichladusa guttata
79
Taita Fiscal Lanius dorsalis
80
Pied Crow Corvus albus
81
House Crow Corvus splendens
82
Yellow-Billed Oxpecker Buphagus africanus
83
Red-Billed Oxpecker Buphagus erythrorhynchus
84
Wattled Starling Creatophora cinerea
85
Superb Starling Lamprotornis superbus
86
Hildebrandt's Starling Lamprotornis hildebrandti
87
African Golden-Weaver Ploceus subaureus
88
Black-Headed Weaver Ploceus melanocephalus
89
Speke's Weaver Ploceus spekei
90
White-Browed Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser mahali