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Encounter Mara Camp, Masai Mara ENCOUNTER MARA CAMP, MASAI MARA 1. White stork 53. Hooded vulture 2. Yellow-billed stork 54. Rüppel’s vulture 3. Woolly-necked stork 55. African white-backed vulture 4. Black Stork 56. White-headed vulture 5. Abdim’s stork 57. Lappet-faced vulture 6. Marabou stork 58. Tawny eagle 7. Grey crowned crane 59. Steppe eagle 8. Black-headed heron 60. Wahlberg’s eagle 9. Goliath Heron 61. Augur buzzard 10. Grey heron 62. European Honey Buzzard 11. Hamerkop 63. Martial eagle 12. Dwarf bittern 64. Brown snake eagle 13. Common squacco heron 65. Black-chested snake eagle 14. Striated heron 66. African fish eagle 15. Cattle egret 67. Bateleur 16. Yellow-billed egret 68. African goshawk 17. Sacred ibis 69. Dark chanting goshawk 18. Hadada ibis 70. Eastern pale chanting goshawk 19. Pink-backed pelican 71. African cuckoo-hawk 20. Comb duck 72. Ayre’s hawk eagle 21. Egyptian goose 73. African hawk-eagle 22. Temminck’s courser 74. Gabar goshawk 23. Spotted thick-knee 75. Black-shouldered kite 24. Water thick-knee 76. Black kite 25. Black-winged lapwing 77. African harrier-hawk 26. Senegal lapwing 78. Pallid harrier 27. Blacksmith lapwing 79. Montagu’s harrier 28. Crowned lapwing 80. Long-crested eagle 29. African wattled lapwing 81. Common buzzard 30. Three-banded plover 82. Lanner falcon 31. Caspian plover 83. Lesser kestrel 32. Kittlitz’s plover 84. Common kestrel 33. Common greenshank 85. Grey kestrel 34. Wood sandpiper 86. Pygmy falcon 35. Common sandpiper 87. Brown parrot 36. Green sandpiper 88. Black-faced sandgrouse 37. Black crake 89. Yellow-throated sandgrouse 38. Harlequin quail 90. Laughing dove 39. Common button-quail 91. Ring-necked dove 40. Crested francolin 92. Red-eyed dove 41. Hildebrandt’s francolin 93. Olive pigeon 42. Coqui francolin 94. Speckled pigeon 43. Red-necked spurfowl 95. Namaqua dove 44. Yellow-necked spurfowl 96. Emerald-spotted wood dove 45. Helmeted guineafowl 97. Bare-faced go-away-bird 46. White-bellied bustard 98. Diederik cuckoo 47. Black-bellied bustard 99. Klaas’s cuckoo 48. Denham’s bustard 100. Black cuckoo 49. Kori bustard 101. Madagascar lesser cuckoo 50. Southern ground hornbill 102. African cuckoo 51. Secretary bird 53. Hooded vulture 52. Common ostrich 54. Rüppel’s vulture ENCOUNTER MARA CAMP, MASAI MARA 103. African emerald cuckoo 161. Wire-tailed swallow 219. Grey-backed camaroptera 104. Great spotted cuckoo 162. White-headed saw-wing 220. White-bellied tit 105. Levaillant’s cuckoo 163. Common bulbul 221. Red-throated tit 106. White-browed coucal 164. Rüppel’s long-tailed starling 222. Collared sunbird 107. Montane nightjar 165. Hildebrandt’s starling 223. Variable sunbird 108. Freckled nightjar 166. Superb starling 224. Marico sunbird 109. Dusky nightjar 167. Greater blue-eared starling 225. Amethyst sunbird 110. Pennant-winged nightjar 168. Violet-backed starling 226. Scarlet-chested sunbird 111. Spotted eagle-owl 169. Wattled starling 227. Chestnut sparrow 112. Verreaux’s owl 170. Red-billed oxpecker 228. Rufous sparrow 113. African scops owl 171. Yellow-billed oxpecker 229. Grey-headed sparrow 114. Pearl-spotted owlet 172. Black-headed oriole 230. Yellow-spotted petronia 115. Little swift 173. Pied crow 231. Speckle-fronted weaver 116. White-rumped swift 174. Black cuckoo-shrike 232. Grey-capped social weaver 117. African palm swift 175. Common drongo 233. Holub’s golden weaver 118. Blue-naped mousebird 176. Brubru 234. Red-headed weaver 119. Speckled mousebird 177. Brown-crowned tchagra 235. White-headed buffalo-weaver 120. African pygmy kingfisher 178. Black-crowned tchagra 236. Red-billed buffalo weaver 121. Woodland kingfisher 179. Slate-coloured boubou 237. Pin-tailed whydah 122. Striped kingfisher 180. Black-backed puffback 238. Straw-tailed whydah 123. Grey-headed kingfisher 181. Sulphur-breasted bush-shrike 239. Steel-blue whydah 124. Pied kingfisher 182. Magpie shrike 240. Village indigobird 125. Little bee-eater 183. Long-tailed fiscal 241. Yellow bishop 126. White-throated bee-eater 184. Grey-backed fiscal 242. Jackson’s widowbird 127. Eurasian bee-eater 185. Common fiscal 243. Red-collared bishop 128. Broad-billed roller 186. Northern white-crowned shrike 244. White-winged widowbird 129. Eurasian roller 187. Chin-spot batis 245. Little weaver 130. Lilac-brested roller 188. Silverbird 246. Baglafecht weaver 131. Rufous-crowned roller 189. African grey flycatcher 247. Black-headed weaver 132. African Hoopoe 190. African dusky flycatcher 248. Lesser masked weaver 133. Green wood-hoopoe 191. African paradise flycatcher 249. Vitelline masked weaver 134. Abyssinian scimtarbill 192. Pale flycatcher 250. Chestnut weaver 135. Von der decken’s hornbill 193. Brown-throated wattle-eye 251. Red-billed quelea 136. African grey hornbill 194. Arrow-marked babbler 252. Common waxbill 137. White-headed barbet 195. Sooty chat 253. Black-faced waxbill 138. Red-fronted barbet 196. Northern anteater chat 254. Red-cheeked cordon-bleu 139. Spot-flanked barbet 197. Common rock thrush 255. Purple grenadier 140. Usambiro barbet 198. White-browed scrub-robin 256. Green-winged pytilia 141. Red-fronted tinkerbird 199. White-browed robin-chat 257. African firefinch 142. Cardinal woodpecker 200. Whinchat 258. Red-billed firefinch 143. Grey woodpecker 201. Isabelline wheatear 259. African quail-finch 144. Nubian woodpecker 202. Northern wheatear 260. Bronze manikin 145. Greater honeyguide 203. Capped wheatear 261. African citril 146. Golden pipit 204. Blackcap 262. Yellow-fronted canary 147. Yellow-throated longclaw 205. Rattling cisticola 263. White-bellied canary 148. African pied wagtail 206. Desert cisticola 264. Yellow-rumped seedeater 149. Bush pipit 207. Siffling cisticola 265. Cinnamon-breasted rock bunting 150. Grassland pipit 208. Winding cisticola 266. Golden-breasted bunting 151. Long-billed pipit 209. Pectoral-patch cisticola 152. Fischer’s sparrow-lark 210. Zitting cisticola 153. Red-capped lark 211. Yellow-breasted apalis 154. Rufous-naped lark 212. Buff-bellied warbler 155. Rock martin 213. Banded parisoma 156. Banded martin 214. Tawny-flanked prinia 157. Plain martin 215. Miombo wren-warbler 158. Red-rumped swallow 216. Grey-capped warbler 159. Mosque swallow 217. Yellow-bellied eremomela 160. Lesser striped swallow 218. Red-faced crombec .
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