Special thanks to co-leaders Steve Bird and Steven Easley for an excellent tour!

Tour Highlights
This tour saw all of the possible weavers and crombecs of Kenya, 17 species of Cisticola (and you thought sparrows were a challenge!), Great Blue Turaco, Black-billed Turaco, White-crested Turaco, Hartlaub's Turaco, 5 species of Wattle-eye (Common, Black-throated, Chestnut, Jameson's, and Yellow-bellied), and much more.  Below are some of the highlights!

Nairobi National Park
Masai Ostrich, Saddle-billed Stork, Short-tailed Lark, African Moustached Warbler, Brown Parisoma, Banded Parisoma, Black Rhinocerus, Masai Giraffe

Lake Navaisha
(enroute & at lake)
Black-fronted Bush-shrike, Sharpe's Longclaw, Black-winged Plover, Grey Cuckoo-shrike, Montane White-eye, White-tailed Crested Flycatcher, Abysinnian Crimson-wing, Hippos feeding on the grounds of the lodge

Lake Baringo
(enroute & at lake)
Dark Chanting Goshawk, Hemprich's Hornbill, Lead-colored Flycatcher, Brown-crowned Tchagra, Violet-backed Starling, Somali Golden-breasted Bunting, Black-bellied Bustard, Heuglin's Courser, Ross's Turaco, Red-faced Cisicola, Levaillant's Cisticola, Black-headed Gonolek

Kakamega Rainforest Reserve
White-spotted Flufftail, African Orange-bellied Parrot, African Emerald Cuckoo, Blue-headed Bee-eater, African Broadbill, African Blue Flycatcher, Slender-billed Weaver, Mackinnon's Fiscal

Lake Victoria area
Papyrus Canary, Rock Pratincole, Debrazza's Monkey

Lake Nakuru area
African Black Duck, Tawny Eagle, Mackinder's Eagle Owl, Black-billed Barbet, White-crested Helmet-shrike, Lesser Flamingo, Leopard, Rothschild's Giraffe, Eland

Mount Kenya area
Rufous-chested Sparrowhawk, Red-necked Falcon, Jackson's Francolin, Evergreen Forest Warbler, Brown-backed Scrub-robin, Donaldson-Smith's Sparrow-weaver, Orange-winged Pytilia, Black-headed Waxbill, Abyssinian Ground Thrush

Samburu Game Reserve/
Buffalo Springs Reserve
Somali Ostrich, Golden-breasted Starling, Rosy-patched Bushshrike, Verreaux's Eagle Owl, Verreaux's Eagle, African Pygmy Falcon, Somali Courser, Vulturine Guineafowl, Leopard, Cheetah, Lion

Also
Bat Hawk, Hinde's Babbler,
Long-toed Plover, African Savannah Elephant, African Forest Elephant, Vultures, Hornbills, Bustards, Zebras, etc.

For more information about this
and future Kenya tours,
contact Gina Nichol at [email protected] or 203.453.6724