A Checklist of the Birds of the Masai Mara Adam Scott Kennedy Princeton Univeristy Press / WILDGuides

☐ (Maasai) Ostrich ☐ Black-chested Snake Eagle ☐ African Water Rail ☐ Little Grebe ☐ Beaudouin's Snake Eagle ☐ Baillon's Crake ☐ White Pelican ☐ Brown Snake Eagle ☐ Spotted Crake ☐ Pink-backed Pelican ☐ Western Banded Snake Eagle ☐ Black Crake ☐ Reed (or Long-tailed) Cormorant ☐ Bateleur ☐ Allen's Gallinule ☐ African Darter ☐ African Harrier Hawk ☐ Purple Swamphen ☐ Shoebill ☐ Pallid Harrier ☐ Common Moorhen ☐ Little Bittern ☐ Montagu's Harrier ☐ Lesser Moorhen ☐ Dwarf Bittern ☐ African Marsh Harrier ☐ Red-knobbed Coot ☐ White-backed Night Heron ☐ Eurasian Marsh Harrier ☐ Grey Crowned Crane ☐ Black-crowned Night Heron ☐ Gabar Goshawk ☐ African Finfoot ☐ Cattle Egret ☐ Dark Chanting Goshawk ☐ Denham's Bustard ☐ Little Egret ☐ Eastern Chanting Goshawk ☐ Kori Bustard ☐ Black Heron ☐ African Goshawk ☐ White-bellied Bustard ☐ Common Squacco Heron ☐ Shikra ☐ Black-bellied Bustard ☐ Madagascar Pond Heron ☐ Little Sparrowhawk ☐ African Jacana ☐ Rufous-bellied Heron ☐ Ovambo Sparrowhawk ☐ Greater Painted-snipe ☐ Striated (or Green-backed) Heron ☐ Great (or Black) Sparrowhawk ☐ Pied Avocet ☐ Yellow-billed Egret ☐ Grasshopper Buzzard ☐ Black-winged Stilt ☐ Great White Egret ☐ Lizard Buzzard ☐ Water Thick-knee ☐ Grey Heron ☐ Common (or Steppe) Buzzard ☐ Spotted Thick-knee ☐ Purple Heron ☐ Long-legged Buzzard ☐ Two-banded Courser ☐ Goliath Heron ☐ Augur Buzzard ☐ Heuglin's Courser ☐ Black-headed Heron ☐ African Fish Eagle ☐ Violet-tipped Courser ☐ Hamerkop ☐ Palm-nut Vulture ☐ Temminck's Courser ☐ White Stork ☐ Lesser Spotted Eagle ☐ Collared (or Common) Pratincole ☐ Black Stork ☐ Tawny Eagle ☐ Black-winged Pratincole ☐ Abdim's Stork ☐ Steppe Eagle ☐ Ringed Plover ☐ Woolly-necked Stork ☐ Imperial Eagle ☐ Little Ringed Plover ☐ Saddle-billed Stork ☐ Wahlberg's Eagle ☐ Kittlitz's Sandplover ☐ Marabou Stork ☐ Verreaux's Eagle ☐ Three-banded Plover ☐ African Open-billed Stork ☐ African Hawk-Eagle ☐ Lesser (or Mongolian) Sandplover ☐ Yellow-billed Stork ☐ Booted Eagle ☐ Caspian Plover ☐ Sacred Ibis ☐ Ayres's Hawk-Eagle ☐ Grey Plover ☐ Glossy Ibis ☐ Long-crested Eagle ☐ Long-toed Plover ☐ Hadada Ibis ☐ African Crowned Eagle ☐ Blacksmith Plover ☐ African Spoonbill ☐ Martial Eagle ☐ Spur-winged Plover ☐ Greater Flamingo ☐ Pygmy Falcon ☐ Senegal Plover ☐ Fulvous Whistling Duck ☐ Lanner Falcon ☐ Black-winged Plover ☐ White-faced Whistling Duck ☐ Peregrine Falcon ☐ Crowned Plover ☐ Spur-winged Goose ☐ Eurasian Hobby ☐ African Wattled Plover ☐ Egyptian Goose ☐ African Hobby ☐ Little Stint ☐ Knob-billed Duck ☐ Amur (or Eastern Red-footed) Falcon ☐ Temminck's Stint ☐ African Black Duck ☐ Eleonora's Falcon ☐ Curlew Sandpiper ☐ Eurasian (or Common) Teal ☐ Sooty Falcon ☐ Ruff ☐ Garganey ☐ Grey Kestrel ☐ Common Snipe ☐ Yellow-billed Duck ☐ Lesser Kestrel ☐ African Snipe ☐ Northern Pintail ☐ Common Kestrel ☐ Great Snipe ☐ Red-billed Teal ☐ Blue Quail ☐ Spotted Redshank ☐ Hottentot Teal ☐ Harlequin Quail ☐ Marsh Sandpiper ☐ Northern Shoveler ☐ Coqui Francolin ☐ Common Greenshank ☐ Secretarybird ☐ Red-winged Francolin ☐ Green Sandpiper ☐ African Cuckoo Hawk ☐ Crested Francolin ☐ Wood Sandpiper ☐ Eurasian Honey Buzzard ☐ Hildebrandt's Francolin ☐ Common Sandpiper ☐ Bat Hawk ☐ Scaly Francolin ☐ Ruddy Turnstone ☐ African Black-shouldered Kite ☐ Yellow-necked Spurfowl ☐ Grey-headed Gull ☐ Black Kite ☐ Red-necked Spurfowl ☐ Gull-billed Tern ☐ Egyptian Vulture ☐ Crested Guineafowl ☐ White-winged (Black) Tern ☐ Hooded Vulture ☐ Helmeted Guineafowl ☐ Black-faced Sandgrouse ☐ White-backed Vulture ☐ Common Button-quail ☐ Yellow-throated Sandgrouse ☐ Rüppell's Vulture ☐ Buff-spotted Flufftail ☐ African Green Pigeon ☐ Lappet-faced Vulture ☐ African Crake ☐ Tambourine Dove ☐ White-headed Vulture ☐ Comcrake ☐ Blue-spotted Wood Dove ☐ Emerald-spotted Wood Dove ☐ Giant Kingfisher ☐ Lesser Striped Swallow ☐ Namaqua Dove ☐ Pied Kingfisher ☐ Rock Martin ☐ African Olive Pigeon ☐ Eurasian Bee-eater ☐ Common House Martin ☐ Speckled Pigeon ☐ Blue-cheeked Bee-eater ☐ White-headed Saw-wing ☐ Lemon Dove ☐ Madagascar Bee-eater ☐ Black Saw-wing ☐ Red-eyed Dove ☐ White-throated Bee-eater ☐ African Pied Wagtail ☐ Ring-necked Dove ☐ White-fronted Bee-eater ☐ Grey Wagtail ☐ Dusky Turtle Dove ☐ Little Bee-eater ☐ Mountain Wagtail ☐ Laughing Dove ☐ Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater ☐ Cape Wagtail ☐ Brown Parrot ☐ Eurasian Roller ☐ Yellow Wagtail ☐ Ross's Turaco ☐ Abyssinian Roller ☐ Grassland (African) Pipit ☐ Schalow's Turaco ☐ Lilac-breasted Roller ☐ Long-billed Pipit ☐ Bare-faced Go-away-bird ☐ Rufous-crowned Roller ☐ Plain-backed Pipit ☐ Eastern Grey Plantain-eater ☐ Racket-tailed Roller ☐ Bush Pipit ☐ Black-and-white Cuckoo ☐ Broad-billed Roller ☐ Tree Pipit ☐ Levaillant's Cuckoo ☐ Hoopoe ☐ Red-throated Pipit ☐ Great Spotted Cuckoo ☐ White-headed Wood-hoopoe ☐ Yellow-throated Longclaw ☐ Black Cuckoo ☐ Green Wood-hoopoe ☐ Pangani Longclaw ☐ Red-chested Cuckoo ☐ Common Scimitarbill ☐ Rosy-breasted Longclaw ☐ Eurasian Cuckoo ☐ Abyssinian Scimitarbill ☐ Little Greenbul ☐ African Cuckoo ☐ Southern Ground Hornbill ☐ Yellow-whiskered Greenbul ☐ African Emerald Cuckoo ☐ Von der Decken's Hornbill ☐ Slender-billed Greenbul ☐ Klaas's Cuckoo ☐ Crowned Hornbill ☐ Cabanis's Greenbul ☐ Diederik Cuckoo ☐ African Grey Hornbill ☐ Joyful Greenbul ☐ Yellowbill ☐ Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill ☐ Yellow-throated Leaflove ☐ White-browed Coucal ☐ Grey-throated Barbet ☐ Common (Yellow-vented) Bulbul ☐ Black Coucal ☐ Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird ☐ African Hill Babbler ☐ Blue-headed Coucal ☐ Red-fronted Tinkerbird ☐ Black-lored Babbler ☐ African Grass Owl ☐ Red-fronted Barbet ☐ Arrow-marked Babbler ☐ Barn Owl ☐ Spot-flanked Barbet ☐ Grey-winged Robin ☐ African Scops Owl ☐ White-headed Barbet ☐ Cape Robin-Chat ☐ Southern White-faced (Scops) Owl ☐ Double-toothed Barbet ☐ Red-capped Robin-Chat ☐ Spotted Eagle-Owl ☐ Usambiro (or D'Arnaud's) Barbet ☐ White-browed Robin-Chat ☐ Verreaux's Eagle-Owl ☐ Scaly-throated Honeyguide ☐ Snowy-headed Robin-Chat ☐ Pel's Fishing Owl ☐ Greater (Black-throated) Honeyguide ☐ Spotted Morning Thrush (Spotted Palm Thrush) ☐ Pearl-spotted Owlet ☐ Lesser Honeyguide ☐ (Common) Nightingale ☐ African Wood Owl ☐ Thick-billed Honeyguide ☐ Sprosser (or Thrush Nightingale) ☐ Marsh Owl ☐ Eastern Honeybird ☐ White-browed Scrub Robin ☐ Montane Nightjar ☐ Wahlberg's Honeybird ☐ Brown-backed Scrub Robin ☐ Plain Nightjar ☐ Red-throated Wryneck ☐ Irania ☐ Dusky Nightjar ☐ Nubian Woodpecker ☐ Common Redstart ☐ Eurasian Nightjar ☐ Golden-tailed Woodpecker ☐ Common Stonechat ☐ Gabon Nightjar ☐ Green-backed (Little Spotted) Woodpecker ☐ Whinchat ☐ Slender-tailed Nightjar ☐ Fine-banded Woodpecker ☐ Northern Wheatear ☐ Pennant-winged Nightjar ☐ Cardinal Woodpecker ☐ Pied Wheatear ☐ Scarce Swift ☐ Bearded Woodpecker ☐ Isabelline Wheatear ☐ African Palm Swift ☐ (African) Grey Woodpecker ☐ Capped Wheatear ☐ Eurasian Swift ☐ White-tailed Lark ☐ Familiar (Red-tailed) Chat ☐ African Black Swift ☐ Rufous-naped Lark ☐ (Northern) Anteater Chat ☐ Nyanza Swift ☐ Flappet Lark ☐ Sooty Chat ☐ Pallid Swift ☐ Fawn-coloured Lark ☐ Mocking Cliff Chat ☐ Mottled Swift ☐ Red-capped Lark ☐ Common (or Eurasian) Rock Thrush ☐ Alpine Swift ☐ Somali ( Athi) Short-toed Lark ☐ Little Rock Thrush ☐ White-rumped Swift ☐ Fischer's Sparrow-Lark ☐ Olive Thrush ☐ Horus Swift ☐ Banded Martin ☐ African Thrush ☐ Little Swift ☐ Plain (Brown-throated Sand) Martin ☐ Spotted Flycatcher ☐ Speckled Mousebird ☐ Sand Martin ☐ African Dusky Flycatcher ☐ Blue-naped Mousebird ☐ Grey-rumped Swallow ☐ Swamp Flycatcher ☐ Narina Trogon ☐ Wire-tailed Swallow ☐ Ashy Flycatcher ☐ Bar-tailed Trogon ☐ Barn Swallow ☐ White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher ☐ Grey-headed Kingfisher ☐ Angola Swallow ☐ Northern Black Flycatcher ☐ Woodland Kingfisher ☐ Blue Swallow ☐ African Grey Flycatcher ☐ Striped Kingfisher ☐ Red-rumped Swallow ☐ Pale Flycatcher ☐ Malachite Kingfisher ☐ Mosque Swallow ☐ Silverbird ☐ African Pygmy Kingfisher ☐ Rufous-chested Swallow ☐ Semi-collared Flycatcher ☐ Sedge Warbler ☐ Brubru ☐ Red-headed Weaver ☐ Great Reed Warbler ☐ Black-crowned Tchagra ☐ Red-billed Quelea ☐ Eurasian Reed Warbler ☐ Brown-crowned Tchagra ☐ Cardinal Quelea ☐ African Reed Warbler ☐ Marsh Tchagra ☐ Yellow Bishop ☐ Marsh Warbler ☐ Sulphur-breasted Bush-Shrike ☐ Fan-tailed Widowbird ☐ Lesser Swamp Warbler ☐ Grey-headed Bush-Shrike ☐ Yellow-mantled Widowbird ☐ Olivaceous Warbler ☐ Lühder's Bush-Shrike ☐ White-winged Widowbird ☐ Olive Tree Warbler ☐ Tropical Boubou ☐ Red-collared Widowbird ☐ Icterine Warbler ☐ Black-headed Gonolek ☐ Jackson's Widowbird ☐ Common Whitethroat ☐ Slate-coloured Boubou ☐ Parasitic Weaver ☐ Garden Warbler ☐ Black-backed Puffback ☐ Grey-headed Negrofinch ☐ Blackcap ☐ Black Cuckoo-shrike ☐ Green-winged Pytilia ☐ Wood Warbler ☐ Purple-throated Cuckoo-shrike ☐ Red-headed Bluebill ☐ Willow Warbler ☐ Grey Cuckoo-shrike ☐ Green-backed Twinspot ☐ Little Rush Warbler ☐ Common (Fork-tailed) Drongo ☐ Red-billed Firefinch ☐ African Moustached Warbler ☐ Eurasian Golden Oriole ☐ African Firefinch ☐ Broad-tailed Warbler (aka Fan-tailed Grassbird) ☐ African Golden Oriole ☐ Yellow-bellied Waxbill ☐ Dark-capped Yellow Warbler ☐ Black-headed Oriole ☐ Fawn-breasted Waxbill ☐ Red-faced Cisticola ☐ Pied Crow ☐ Crimson-rumped Waxbill ☐ Rock Cisticola ☐ White-naped Raven ☐ Common Waxbill ☐ Trilling Cisticola ☐ Red-winged Starling ☐ Black-crowned Waxbill ☐ Long-tailed (Tabora) Cisticola ☐ Splendid Starling ☐ Black-faced Waxbill ☐ Winding Cisticola ☐ Greater Blue-eared Starling ☐ Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu ☐ Stout Cisticola ☐ Rüppell's Starling ☐ Purple Grenadier ☐ Croaking Cisticola ☐ Hildebrandt's Starling ☐ Quail-Finch ☐ Rattling Cisticola ☐ Superb Starling ☐ Grey-headed Silverbill ☐ Siffling Cisticola ☐ Violet-backed Starling ☐ Bronze Mannikin ☐ Zitting Cisticola ☐ Sharpe's Starling ☐ Black and White Mannikin ☐ Desert Cisticola ☐ Wattled Starling ☐ Village Indigobird ☐ Pectoral-patch Cisticola ☐ Red-billed Oxpecker ☐ Pin-tailed Whydah ☐ Black-backed Cisticola ☐ Yellow-billed Oxpecker ☐ Straw-tailed Whydah ☐ Tawny-flanked Prinia ☐ Collared Sunbird ☐ African Citril ☐ White-chinned Prinia ☐ Olive Sunbird ☐ Yellow-fronted Canary ☐ Pale Wren Warbler ☐ Green-headed Sunbird ☐ White-bellied Canary ☐ Grey-backed Camaroptera ☐ Amethyst Sunbird ☐ Brimstone Canary ☐ Yellow-breasted Apalis ☐ Scarlet-chested Sunbird ☐ Southern Grosbeak Canary ☐ Grey Apalis ☐ Variable Sunbird ☐ Streaky Seedeater ☐ Black-throated Apalis ☐ Northern Double-collared Sunbird ☐ Thick-billed Seedeater ☐ Karamoja Apalis ☐ Marico Sunbird ☐ Yellow-rumped Seedeater ☐ Grey-capped Warbler ☐ Purple-banded Sunbird ☐ Cinnamon-breasted Bunting ☐ Red-faced Crombec ☐ Beautiful Sunbird ☐ Golden-breasted Bunting ☐ Yellow-bellied Eremomela ☐ Bronze Sunbird ☐ Green-capped Eremomela ☐ Golden-winged Sunbird ☐ Buff-bellied Warbler ☐ Malachite Sunbird ☐ Brown Parisoma ☐ House Sparrow ☐ Banded Parisoma ☐ Kenya Rufous Sparrow ☐ Yellow-bellied Hyliota ☐ Swahili (Grey-headed) Sparrow ☐ Yellow White-eye ☐ Chestnut Sparrow ☐ White-bellied Tit ☐ Yellow-spotted Petronia ☐ Red-throated Tit ☐ Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver ☐ African (Buff-bellied) Penduline Tit ☐ White-headed Buffalo Weaver ☐ African Blue Flycatcher ☐ White-browed Sparrow Weaver ☐ African Paradise Flycatcher ☐ Grey-capped Social Weaver ☐ Chin-spot Batis ☐ Speckle-fronted Weaver ☐ Brown-throated (Common) Wattle-eye ☐ Grosbeak Weaver ☐ Grey-crested Helmet-shrike ☐ Baglafecht Weaver ☐ Northern White-crowned Shrike ☐ Little Weaver ☐ Magpie Shrike ☐ Black-necked Weaver ☐ Red-backed Shrike ☐ Spectacled Weaver ☐ Red-tailed (Isabelline) Shrike ☐ Holub's Golden Weaver ☐ Lesser Grey Shrike ☐ Vitelline Masked Weaver ☐ Mackinnon's Fiscal ☐ Lesser Masked Weaver ☐ Grey-backed Fiscal ☐ Speke's Weaver ☐ Taita Fiscal ☐ Village Weaver ☐ Common Fiscal ☐ Brown-capped Weaver