BiRDS CHECKLIST Birding at ol pejeta conservancy

Ol Pejeta Conservancy conserves 90,000 acres of rangeland. Situated between the critically important Aberdare Range and Mount , the key found include open Themeda , riverine vegetation along the Ngobit and Ewaso ‘Ngiro rivers and extensive stands of drepanolobium all of which provide habitats for a wide range of , including resident species and an ever increasing number of migrants, nomads and visitors. Seeing the iridescent alongside the majestic Kori or hearing the iconic call of the African are some of the great bird experiences to be had.

Birding in the camps is always very productive as many of the are easily approachable, but try and visit various sites and on the conservancy to increase your chances of seeing different birds.

** This checklist uses the bird names recognized by the IOC World Bird Names (2013).

** Endemic African Bird families are marked with asterisk. These are birds belonging to families found ONLY in

** Globally are indicated and were identified as such by Birdlife International in ‘Threatened Birds of the World’. This checklist is also available for download on our website at www.olpejetaconservancy.org/plan-your-visit/study-and- adventure/birds-list/ resources to use: • Birds of Kenya and Northern - Zimmerman Turner and Pearson • Field Guide to the Birds of – Terry Stevenson & John Fanshawe • Birds of Africa South of the – Ian Sinclair & Peter Ryan • Important Bird Areas in Kenya – Leon Bennun and Peter Njoroge, RSPB & NatureKenya what to do with your checklist Keep it for yourself, but please consider submitting your records to improve the overall monitoring of the environment at Ol Pejeta. * You may submit your records to the Ol Pejeta Ecological Monitoring Team including any photos of birds with rings on their legs [email protected] * Submit them online at either www.worldbirds.org/v3/kenya.php or at www.ebird.org/content/ebird.

Have fun and enjoy the wonderful birdlife whilst you are looking for the lions! CONSERVATION GENERAL Common Name Scientific Name Status STATUS

OSTRICHES** STRUTHIONIFORMES:

Common Ostrich Struthio camelus Resident

GUINEAFOWLS** : Numididae Helmeted Numida meleagris Resident

Vulturine Guineafowl Acryllium vulturinum Visitor

FRANCOLINS, & SPURFOWLS GALLIFORMES:

Shelley's Scleroptila shelleyi Resident

Dendroperdix Resident sephaena

Scaly Francolin squamatus Resident

Yellow-necked Pternistis leucoscepus Resident Spurfowl

Common coturnix Migrant

Harlequin Quail Coturnix delegorguei Migrant

DUCKS & GEESE :

Knob-billed melanotos Visitor

Egyptian aegyptiaca Resident

OL PEJETA CONSERVANCY 3 sparsa Resident

Yellow-billed Duck Anas undulata Resident

Red-billed Teal Anas erythrorhyncha Resident

Hottentot Teal Anas hottentota Visitor

Near- Oxyura maccoa Visitor threatened Plectropterus Spur-winged Goose Resident gambensis

Northern Anas Clypeata Migrant

GREBES PODICIPEDIFORMES: Podicipedidae

Little Tachybaptus ruficollis Resident

STORKS CICONIIFORMES: Ciconiidae

Yellow-billed Mycteria Resident

African Open-billed Anastomus Visitor Stork lamelligerus

Abdim's Stork Ciconia abdimii Migrant

Black Stork Ciconia nigra Migrant

White Stork Ciconia ciconia Migrant

Ephippiorhynchus Saddle-billed Stork Resident senegalensis

Marabou Stork Leptoptilos crumenifer Resident

4 BIRD’S CHECKLIST & : Resident aethiopicus

Hadada Ibis hagedash Resident

Glossy Ibis falcinellus Visitor

African Platalea alba Resident

HERONS & PELECANIFORMES: Ardeidae

Striated striata Resident

Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides Visitor

Western Cattle ibis Resident

Grey Heron cinerea Resident

Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala Resident

Great Egret Ardea alba Resident

Intermediate Egret intermedia Visitor

Little Egret Egretta garzetta Visitor

Black-crowned Night- nycticorax Visitor Heron

HAMERKOP** PELECANIFORMES: Scopidae

Hamerkop Scopus umbretta Resident

OL PEJETA CONSERVANCY 5 PELECANIFORMES: Pelecanidae

Great Pelecanus onocrotalus Resident

Pink-backed Pelican Pelicanus rufescens Visitor

CORMORANTS : Phalacrocoracidae Reed (Long-tailed) Microcarbo africanus Resident White-breasted Phalacrocorax lucidus Visitor Cormorant

DARTERS SULIFORMES: Anhingidae

African rufa Visitor

SECRETARYBIRD** : Sagittarius Vulnerable Resident serpentarius

EAGLES, , , BUZZARDS, HARRIERS & KITES ACCIPITRIFORMES: Black-winged Elanus caeruleus Resident (-shouldered)

Scissor-tailed Kite Chelictinia riocourii Migrant

African - Polyboroides typus Migrant

Hooded Necrosyrtes monachus Endangered Migrant

6 BIRD’S CHECKLIST White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus Endangered Resident

Rüppell's Vulture Gyps rueppelli Endangered Resident

Lappet-faced Vulture Torgos tracheliotos Resident

Black-chested Circaetus pectoralis Resident Eagle Near- Terathopius ecaudatus Resident threatened Near- Polemaetus bellicosus Resident threatened

Long-crested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis Migrant

Tawny Eagle Aquila rapax Resident

Steppe Eagle Aquila nipalensis Migrant

African Hawk-Eagle Aquila spilogaster Resident

Gabar Goshawk Micronisus gabar Resident

Eastern Chanting Melierax poliopterus Resident Goshawk

African Goshawk tachiro Migrant

Shikra Accipiter badius Migrant

Eurasian Marsh Circus aeruginosus Migrant Harrier Near- Circus macrourus Migrant threatened

Montagu's Harrier Circus pygargus Migrant

Black Kite Milvus migrans Migrant

OL PEJETA CONSERVANCY 7 Haliaeetus vocifer Resident

Common Buzzard buteo Migrant

Augur Buzzard Buteo augur Resident

FALCONS & KESTRELS :

Lesser Kestrel Falco naumanni Migrant

Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus Migrant

Greater Kestrel Falco rupicoloides Resident

Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo Migrant

Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus Migrant

BUSTARDS OTIDIFORMES: Otididae

Kori Bustard Ardeotis kori Resident

Eupodotis White-bellied Bustard Resident senegalensis

Buff-crested Bustard Lophotis gindiana Resident

Black-bellied Bustard Lissotis melanogaster Resident

FINFOOTS :

African Finfoot Podica senegalensis Resident

8 BIRD’S CHECKLIST CRAKES & RAILS GRUIFORMES: Rallidae

Black Crake Amaurornis flavirostra Resident

Common Gallinula chloropus Resident

Red-knobbed Fulica cristata Resident

CRANES GRUIFORMES: Gruidae Grey Crowned regulorum Endangered Resident

BUTTONQUAILS : Turnicidae Common Turnix sylvaticus Migrant

THICK-KNEES CHARADRIIFORMES: Burhinidae

Spotted Thick-knee Burhinus capensis Resident

STILTS & CHARADRIIFORMES: Himantopus Black-winged Migrant himantopus

Pied Recurvirostra avosetta Migrant

JACANA CHARADRIIFORMES:

African Jacana africanus Visitor

OL PEJETA CONSERVANCY 9 & CHARADRIIFORMES:

Blacksmith armatus Resident

Senegal Lapwing Vanellus lugubris Resident

Black-winged Lapwing Vanellus melanopterus Resident

Crowned Lapwing Vanellus coronatus Resident

Caspian Charadrius asiaticus Migrant

Kittlitz's Plover Charadrius pecuarius Resident

Three-banded Plover Charadrius tricollaris Resident

PAINTED- CHARADRIIFORMES: Rostratulidae Rostratula Greater Painted- Migrant benghalensis

SANDPIPERS & SNIPES CHARADRIIFORMES: Scolopacidae

African Snipe nigripennis Migrant

Common Redshank totanus Migrant

Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia Migrant

Green Tringa ochropus Migrant

Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola Migrant

Common Sandpiper hypoleucos Migrant

10 BIRD’S CHECKLIST Philomachus pugnax Migrant

Little Stint minuta Migrant

COURSERS & CHARADRIIFORMES:

Temminck's Cursorius temminckii Migrant

Heuglin’s Courser Rhinoptilus cinctus Migrant

Collared Glareola pratincola Visitor

GULLS & CHARADRIIFORMES: Chroicocephalus Grey-headed Migrant cirrocephalus

White-winged Chlidonias leucopterus Migrant

DOVES & PIGEONS COLUMBIFORMES:

Speckled Pigeon Resident

African Mourning decipiens Resident Dove

Dusky Turtle Dove Streptopelia lugens Resident

Namaqua Dove Oena capensis Visitor

Streptopelia Red-eyed Dove Resident semitorquata

Ring-necked Dove Streptopelia capicola Resident

OL PEJETA CONSERVANCY 11 Resident senegalensis Emerald-spotted Wood chalcospilos Resident Dove

African Treron calvus Migrant

PARROTS & LOVEBIRDS PSITTACIFORMES: Psittacidae Meyer's (Brown) Poicephalus meyeri Resident

TURACOS & GO-AWAY-BIRDS** MUSOPHAGIFORMES: Musophagidae White-bellied Corythaixoides Resident Go-away-bird leucogaster

CUCKOOS & CUCULIFORMES: Cuculidae Centropus White-browed Resident superciliosus

Great Spotted glandarius Migrant

Levaillant's Cuckoo Clamator levaillantii Migrant

Jacobin (Black-and- Clamator jacobinus Migrant white) Cuckoo

Diederik Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius Resident

Klaas's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas Resident

Black Cuckoo Cuculus clamosus Migrant

Red-chested Cuckoo Cuculus solitarius Resident

12 BIRD’S CHECKLIST Cuculus gularis Resident

GRASS STRIGIFORMES: Tytonidae

African Grass capensis Migrant

OWLS STRIGIFORMES: Strigidae

African Scops Owl Otus senegalensis Resident

Spotted Eagle-Owl Bubo africanus Migrant

Verreaux's Eagle-Owl Bubo lacteus Resident

Pearl-spotted Owlet Glaucidium perlatum Resident

Marsh Owl Asio capensis Migrant

NIGHTJARS : Caprimulgidae Sombre (Dusky) Caprimulgus fraenatus Resident Montane (Abyssinian) Caprimulgus Resident Nightjar poliocephalus Square-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus fossii Migrant Pennant-winged Macrodipteryx Resident Nightjar vexillarius

SWIFTS & SPINETAILS : Apodidae

Alpine Tachymarptis melba Resident

OL PEJETA CONSERVANCY 13 Tachymarptis Mottled Swift Migrant aequatorialis

Common Swift apus Migrant

Nyanza Swift Apus niansae Migrant

Little Swift Apus affinis Resident

White-rumped Swift Apus caffer Migrant

MOUSEBIRDS** COLIIFORMES: Coliidae

Speckled Colius striatus Resident

Blue-naped Mousebird Urocolius macrourus Resident

ROLLERS : Purple (Rufous- Coracias naevius Migrant crowned) Roller

Lilac-breasted Roller Coracias caudatus Resident

Near- Coracias garrulus Migrant threatened

KINGFISHERS CORACIIFORMES: Alcedinidae Grey-headed Halcyon leucocephala Resident

Striped Kingfisher Halcyon chelicuti Resident

Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus Resident

14 BIRD’S CHECKLIST Megaceryle maxima Migrant

Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis Resident

BEE-EATERS CORACIIFORMES: Meropidae

Little Bee-eater Merops pusillus Resident

Cinnamon-chested Merops oreobates Resident Bee-eater White-throated Merops albicollis Migrant Bee-eater

European Bee-eater Merops apiaster Migrant

HOOPOES : Upupidae

African Upupa africana Resident

Eurasian Hoopoe Upupa epops Migrant

WOOD & SCIMITARBILLS** BUCEROTIFORMES: Phoeniculidae Green purpureus Resident Rhinopomastus Common Resident cyanomelas Rhinopomastus minor Resident

HORNBILLS BUCEROTIFORMES: Bucerotidae

Crowned alboterminatus Visitor

OL PEJETA CONSERVANCY 15 Northern Red-billed Tockus Visitor Hornbill erythrorhynchus Von der Decken's Tockus deckeni Visitor Hornbill

AFRICAN BARBETS** : Lybiidae

Red-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus pusillus Resident

Red-fronted Barbet Tricholaema diademata Resident

Spot-flanked Barbet Tricholaema lacrymosa Resident

Trachyphonus D'Arnaud's Barbet Resident darnaudii

HONEYGUIDES PICIFORMES: Indicatoridae

Lesser Indicator minor Resident

Greater Honeyguide Indicator indicator Resident

WOODPECKERS & WRYNECKS PICIFORMES: Picidae

Nubian nubica Resident

Dendropicos Resident fuscescens Dendropicos Migrant namaquus African Grey Dendropicos goertae Resident Woodpecker

16 BIRD’S CHECKLIST BATISES & -EYES** PASSERIFORMES: Platysteiridae

Chinspot Batis molitor Resident

HELMETSHRIKES** PASSERIFORMES: Prionopidae White-crested Prionops plumatus Migrant

BUSHSHRIKES** PASSERIFORMES: Malaconotidae Grey-headed Malaconotus blanchoti Visitor Sulphur-breasted Chlorophoneus Resident Bushshrike sulfureopectus Brown-crowned Tchagra australis Visitor Tchagra Black-crowned Tchagra senegalus Visitor Tchagra

Black-backed Puffback Dryoscopus cubla Visitor

Slate-colored Boubou funebris Resident

Tropical Boubou Laniarius major Resident

Brubru Nilaus afer Resident

CUCKOOSHRIKES PASSERIFORMES: Campephagidae

Black flava Visitor

OL PEJETA CONSERVANCY 17 TRUE PASSERIFORMES: Laniidae Northern White- ruppelli Resident crowned

Red-tailed Shrike phoenicuroides Visitor

Lesser Grey Shrike Lanius minor Visitor

Grey-backed Fiscal Lanius excubitoroides Resident

Taita Fiscal Lanius dorsalis Resident

Northern (Common) Lanius humeralis Resident Fiscal

ORIOLES PASSERIFORMES: Oriolidae

Black-headed Oriole Oriolus larvatus Resident

Eurasian Golden Oriolus Oriolus Migrant Oriole

DRONGOS PASSERIFORMES: Dicruridae

Fork-tailed Dicrurus adsimilis Resident

MONARCH FLYCATCHERS PASSERIFORMES: Monarchidae African Paradise Terpsiphone viridis Resident Flycatcher

CROWS & PASSERIFORMES:

Cape capensis Visitor 18 BIRD’S CHECKLIST Pied Corvus albus Resident

Fan-tailed Corvus rhipidurus Visitor

TITS PASSERIFORMES: Paridae White-bellied Melaniparus albiventris Resident

PENDULINE TITS PASSERIFORMES: Remizidae

Grey Anthoscopus caroli Visitor

LARKS PASSERIFORMES: Alaudidae

Singing Bush Mirafra cantillans Resident

Rufous-naped Lark Mirafra africana Resident

Red-capped Lark Calandrella cinerea Visitor

Fischer's Sparrow- Eremopterix Resident Lark leucopareia

Fawn-coloured Lark Mirafra africanoides Resident

BULBULS, BROWNBULS & GREENBULS PASSERIFORMES: Pycnonotidae

Common Pycnonotus barbatus Resident

OL PEJETA CONSERVANCY 19 & MARTINS PASSERIFORMES: Hirundinidae Psalidoprocne Black Saw-wing Resident pristoptera Plain (Brown-throated) paludicola Resident Martin

Sand Martin Riparia riparia Migrant

Banded Martin Riparia cincta Migrant

Barn rustica Migrant

Ethiopian Swallow Hirundo aethiopica Migrant

Wire-tailed Swallow Hirundo smithii Resident

Rock Martin Ptyonoprogne fuligula Resident

Lesser Striped abyssinica Resident Swallow

Mosque Swallow Cecropis senegalensis Migrant

Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis daurica Resident

CROMBECS** PASSERIFORMES:

Northern Sylvietta brachyura Resident

Red-faced Crombec Sylvietta whytii Resident

WARBLERS (PHYLLOSCOPUS) PASSERIFORMES: Phylloscopidae

Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus Migrant

20 BIRD’S CHECKLIST WARBLERS (ACROCEPHALUS) PASSERIFORMES: Acrocephalus Migrant schoenobaenus

Olive-tree Warbler Hippolais olivetorum Migrant

CISTICOLAS, & APALISES PASSERIFORMES:

Rattling Cisticola chiniana Resident

Stout Cisticola Cisticola robustus Resident

Croaking Cisticola Cisticola natalensis Resident

Short-winged/Siffling Cisticola brachypterus Resident Cisticola

Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis Resident

Pectoral-patch Cisticola brunnescens Resident Cisticola

Tawny-flanked Prinia subflava Resident

Yellow-breasted Apalis Apalis flavida Resident

Grey-capped Warbler Eminia lepida Resident

Grey-backed Camaroptera Resident Camaroptera brevicaudata Yellow-bellied Resident Eremomela icteropygialis

BABBLERS PASSERIFORMES: Leiothrichidae

Rufous Chatterer rubiginosa Resident

OL PEJETA CONSERVANCY 21 Black-lored Babbler Turdoides sharpei Resident

WARBLERS (SYLVID) PASSERIFORMES:

Eurasian Blackcap Sylvia atricapilla Migrant

Common Whitethroat Sylvia communis Migrant

WHITE-EYES PASSERIFORMES: Zosteropidae African Yellow White- Zosterops Resident eye senegalensis

STARLINGS PASSERIFORMES: Sturnidae

Wattled Creatophora cinerea Resident

Greater Blue-eared Lamprotornis Resident Starling chalybaeus Lamprotornis Rüppell's Starling Resident purpuroptera

Superb Starling Lamprotornis superbus Resident

Lamprotornis Hildebrandt's Starling Visitor hildebrandti Cinnyricinclus Violet-backed Starling Resident leucogaster

Red-winged Starling Onychognathus morio Resident

OXPECKERS** PASSERIFORMES: Buphagidae Yellow-billed Buphagus africanus Resident

22 BIRD’S CHECKLIST Buphagus Red-billed Oxpecker Resident erythrorhynchus

THRUSHES PASSERIFORMES: Turdidae

African Turdus pelios Visitor

FLYCATCHERS, ROBIN-CHATS & PASSERIFORMES: Muscicapidae Luscinia Visitor megarhynchos White-browed Robin- Cossypha heuglini Resident White-browed Scrub Erythropygia Resident Robin leucophrys Phoenicurus Migrant phoenicurus

Capped Oenanthe pileata Migrant

Isabelline Wheatear Oenanthe isabellina Migrant

Northern Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe Migrant

Pied Wheatear Oenanthe pleschanka Migrant

Myrmecocichla Anteater Chat Resident aethiops

Common Monticola saxatilis Migrant

White-eyed Slaty Dioptrornis fischeri Resident Flycatcher Southern Black Melaenornis Resident Flycatcher pammelaina

Pale Flycatcher Bradornis pallidus Resident

OL PEJETA CONSERVANCY 23 African Grey Bradornis Resident Flycatcher microrhynchus African Dusky Muscicapa adusta Resident Flycatcher

SUNBIRDS PASSERIFORMES: Nectariniidae

Collared Hedydipna collaris Visitor

Chalcomitra Visitor amethystina Scarlet-chested Resident Sunbird senegalensis

Hunter's Sunbird Chalcomitra hunteri Resident

Bronzy Sunbird kilimensis Resident

Malachite Sunbird Nectarinia famosa Resident

Golden-winged Drepanorhynchus Visitor Sunbird reichenowi

Marico Sunbird Cinnyris mariquensis Resident

Variable Sunbird Cinnyris venustus Resident

SPARROWS PASSERIFORMES: Passeridae White-browed Plocepasser mahali Resident Sparrow-Weaver Grey-capped Social arnaudi Resident Weaver Kenya (Rufous-) rufocinctus Resident Sparrow

Chestnut Sparrow Passer eminibey Resident

24 BIRD’S CHECKLIST Yellow-spotted pyrgita Resident Petronia

WEAVERS PASSERIFORMES:

Baglafecht Weaver baglafecht Resident

Spectacled Weaver Ploceus ocularis Resident

Holub's Golden Ploceus xanthops Resident Weaver

Speke's Weaver Ploceus spekei Resident

Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus Resident

Chestnut Weaver Ploceus rubiginosus Visitor

Red-headed Weaver Anaplectes rubriceps Resident

Vitelline Masked Ploceus velatus Resident Weaver

Cardinal Quelea cardinalis Visitor

Red-billed Quelea Quelea quelea Visitor

Yellow Bishop capensis Visitor

Yellow-mantled Euplectes macroura Visitor Widowbird White-winged Euplectes albonotatus Visitor Widowbird Red-collared Euplectes ardens Resident Widowbird

Long-tailed Widowbird Euplectes Visitor

OL PEJETA CONSERVANCY 25 Near- Jackson's Widowbird Euplectes jacksoni Resident threatened

WAXBILLS, MANNIINS & PASSERIFORMES:

Red-billed Lagonosticta senegala Resident

Red-cheeked Cordon- bengalus Resident bleu Uraeginthus Resident ianthinogaster

Common Waxbill astrild Resident

(African) Ortygospiza atricollis Resident

Bronze Mannikin cucullata Visitor

WHYDAHS & INDIGOBIRDS** PASSERIFORMES:

Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura Resident

WAGTAILS, LONGCLAWS & PIPITS PASSERIFORMES:

Yellow Motacilla flava Migrant

African Pied Wagtail Motacilla aguimp Resident

Yellow-throated Macronyx croceus Resident Longclaw Rosy-throated Macronyx ameliae Visitor Longclaw

Grassland Pipit Anthus cinnamomeus Resident

26 BIRD’S CHECKLIST Plain-backed Pipit Anthus leucophrys Resident

Tree Pipit Anthus trivialis Migrant

CANARIES & SEEDEATERS PASSERIFORMES: Fringillidae Yellow-rumped Crithagra reichenowi Resident Seedeater

Yellow-fronted Canary Crithagra mozambica Resident

Brimstone Canary Crithagra sulphurata Resident

Streaky Seedeater Crithagra striolata Resident

BUNTINGS PASSERIFORMES: Emberizidae Golden-breasted Emberiza flaviventris Resident INFO ANd BOOKINGS: Email us on [email protected]

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