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| Birding in Kenya | The Rift Valley boasts of the Common Stonechat, Yellow-rumped Seedeater, Cinnamon-breasted Rock Bunting, Yellow Bishop, Yellow-mantled Widowbird, Northern Anteater chat, White-fronted Bee-eater and Shallow's Wheatear. Lake Nakuru is famous for its thousands of Lesser Flamingos - the Greater Flamingoes will be easily distinguishable by their height, here you may also encounter the Great White and Pink-backed Pelican and Black-winged Stilt.
Here you may look for Avocets, Storks, Ibises, Ducks, Cormorants, Herons, and Terns. There is a chance to see the White-browed Coucal, Broad-billed Roller, Arrow-marked Babbler and the Narina Trogon in the wooded acacias.
Lake Baringo boasts of over 400 species of birds recorded. The lake woodlands are home to White-browed Sparrow-Weavers, Jackson's and Red-billed Hornbills, Bristle-crowned Starlings, and the rare Northern Masked Weavers, there are several Hamerkops along the lakeshore. There you’ll have a chance to observe Spotted Eagle-owls, and Sunbirds such as the Beautiful, Hunter's and the Violet-breasted. Here you may also explore the escarpment and surrounding countryside for Hemprich's and Eastern Yellow-billed Hornbill, White-crested Turaco, Madagascar Bee-eater, Rufous-crowned Roller, Gabar Goshawk, Cliff Chat and Verreaux's Eagle which feeds on the Rock Hyrax.
Kakamega Forest, in the heart of an intensively cultivated agricultural area, is a superb remainder of virgin tropical rainforest and is of course the home to a wide range of specialty birds, many which are not found anywhere else in Kenya, and is only home to the rare De Brazza's monkey (only found in Kakamega Forest), but also to the Hammer-headed Fruit Bat, Flying Squirrel, 400 species of butterflies and no less than 330 species of birds. Birding in a forest has its fair share of difficulties but this is easily forgotten when you view the impressive Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill, Ross' and the Great Blue Turaco.
Hell's Gate boasts of the Verreaux's or Black Eagle, Common Ostrich, Black-shouldered Kite, White-fronted Bee-eater, Grassland and Long-billed Pipit, Northern and Schalow's Wheatear, Lilac-breasted Roller, as well as Yellow, Grey and African Pied Wagtail, Red-cheeked Cordonbleu, Purple Grenadier, Common Drongo, Superb Starling, Brimstone Canary, Common Waxbill, White-browed Robin-Chat.
At the famous Masai Mara National Reserve you may encounter about 450 species with Elephants; the large Cats - Lion, Leopard, and Cheetah; the herd animals - Zebra, Wildebeest, Thompson's and Grant's Gazelles; and specialties like the Hartebeest and the Topi. And birdwatching will please with the highly conspicuous Common Ostrich, the small but still conspicuous Cardinal Quelea, Sooty Chat, Ground Hornbill, Open-billed Stork, Temminck's Courser, Yellow-throated Sandgrouse, Denham's Bustard and Lilac-breasted Rollers, as well as six species of vultures all dining together: Egyptian, Hooded, Griffon, Lappet-faced, White-backed and White-headed.
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