Birdlist In Tsavo West National Park

Birdlist In Tsavo West National Park : Tsavo East National Park is the third largest national park in Kenya covering an area of 7,065 square kilometers, the park is found along the Kenyan Coast adjacent to the Indian Ocean.

 Tsavo West National Park is home to abundant birdlife with over 400 bird species that is why it is recognized among the best Kenya birding safari destinations.

Here is the bird checklist for Tsavo West National Park.

STRUTHIONIFORMES: Struthionida

  • Common Ostrich
  • Somali Ostrich

ANSERIFORMES: Anatidae

  • White-faced Whistling-Duck
  • Fulvous Whistling-Duck
  • Knob-billed Duck
  • Egyptian Goose
  • Spur-winged Goose
  • Red-billed Duck
  • Southern Pochard

GALLIFORMES: Numididae

  • Helmeted Guineafowl
  • Vulturine Guineafowl
  • Eastern Crested Guineafowl

GALLIFORMES: Phasianidae

  • Crested Francolin
  • Coqui Francolin
  • Shelley’s Francolin
  • Blue Quail
  • Common Quail
  • Harlequin Quail
  • Hildebrandt’s Spurfowl
  • Scaly Spurfowl
  • Yellow-necked Spurfowl
  • Red-necked Spurfowl

 

PHOENICOPTERIFORMES: Phoenicopteridae

  • Greater Flamingo

PODICIPEDIFORMES: Podicipedidae

  • Little Grebe

COLUMBIFORMES: Columbidae

  • Rock Pigeon
  • Speckled Pigeon
  • Mourning Collared-Dove
  • Red-eyed Dove
  • Ring-necked Dove
  • Laughing Dove
  • Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove
  • Tambourine Dove
  • Namaqua Dove
  • African Green-Pigeon

PTEROCLIFORMES: Pteroclidae

  • Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse
  • Yellow-throated Sandgrouse
  • Black-faced Sandgrouse

OTIDIFORMES: Otididae

  • Kori Bustard
  • Heuglin’s Bustard
  • White-bellied Bustard
  • Buff-crested Bustard
  • Black-bellied Bustard
  • Hartlaub’s Bustard

MUSOPHAGIFORMES: Musophagidae

  • Purple-crested Turaco
  • White-bellied Go-away-bird

CUCULIFORMES: Cuculidae

  • White-browed Coucal
  • Green Malkoha
  • Great Spotted Cuckoo
  • Levaillant’s Cuckoo
  • Pied Cuckoo
  • Dideric Cuckoo
  • Klaas’s Cuckoo
  • African Emerald Cuckoo
  • Black Cuckoo
  • Red-chested Cuckoo
  • Lesser Cuckoo
  • African Cuckoo
  • Common Cuckoo
Birdlist In Tsavo West National Park
Common Cuckoo

CAPRIMULGIFORMES: Caprimulgidae

  • Eurasian Nightjar
  • Sombre Nightjar
  • Nubian Nightjar
  • Donaldson-Smith’s Nightjar
  • Plain Nightjar
  • Freckled Nightjar
  • Slender-tailed Nightjar
  • Square-tailed Nightjar

CAPRIMULGIFORMES: Apodidae

  • Mottled Spinetail
  • Bat-like Spinetail
  • Alpine Swift
  • Mottled Swift
  • Common Swift
  • Nyanza Swift
  • African Swift
  • Little Swift
  • White-rumped Swift
  • African Palm Swift

GRUIFORMES: Rallida

  • African Crake
  • Lesser Moorhen
  • Eurasian Moorhen
  • Red-knobbed Coot
  • African Swamphen
  • Black Crake

GRUIFORMES: Heliornithidae

  • African Finfoot

GRUIFORMES: Gruidae

  • Gray Crowned-Crane

CHARADRIIFORMES: Burhinidae

  • Water Thick-knee
  • Spotted Thick-knee

CHARADRIIFORMES: Recurvirostridae

  • Black-winged Stilt

CHARADRIIFORMES: Charadriidae

  • Long-toed Lapwing
  • Blacksmith Lapwing
  • Spur-winged Lapwing
  • Black-headed Lapwing
  • Senegal Lapwing
  • Crowned Lapwing
  • Wattled Lapwing
  • Kittlitz’s Plover
  • Common Ringed Plover
  • Three-banded Plover

CHARADRIIFORMES: Rostratulidae

  • Greater Painted-Snipe

CHARADRIIFORMES: Jacanidae

  • African Jacana

CHARADRIIFORMES: Scolopacidae

  • Ruff
  • Curlew Sandpiper
  • Little Stint
  • Great Snipe
  • Common Snipe
  • Common Sandpiper
  • Green Sandpiper
  • Spotted Redshank
  • Common Greenshank
  • Marsh Sandpiper
  • Wood Sandpiper

CHARADRIIFORMES: Turnicidae

  • Small Buttonquail
  • Quail-plover

CHARADRIIFORMES: Glareolidae

  • Somali Courser
  • Temminck’s Courser
  • Double-banded Courser
  • Three-banded Courser
  • Collared Pratincole

CHARADRIIFORMES: Laridae

  • Gull-billed Tern
  • White-winged Tern
  • Whiskered Tern

CICONIIFORMES: Ciconiidae

  • African Openbill
  • Black Stork
  • Abdim’s Stork
  • African Woolly-necked Stork
  • White Stork
  • Saddle-billed Stork
  • Marabou Stork
  • Yellow-billed Stork

SULIFORMES: Anhingidae

  • African Darter

SULIFORMES: Phalacrocoracidae

  • Long-tailed Cormorant
  • Great Cormorant

  • PELECANIFORMES: Pelecanidae
  • Great White Pelican
  • Pink-backed Pelican

PELECANIFORMES: Scopidae

  • Hamerkop

PELECANIFORMES: Ardeidae

  • Little Bittern
  • Dwarf Bittern
  • Gray Heron
  • Black-headed Heron
  • Goliath Heron
  • Purple Heron
  • Great Egret     Ardea alba
  • Intermediate Egret    Ardea intermedia
  • Little Egret      Egretta garzetta
  • Black Heron   Egretta ardesiaca
  • Cattle Egret    Bubulcus ibis
  • Squacco Heron            Ardeola ralloides
  • Striated Heron            Butorides striata
  • Black-crowned Night-Heron Nycticorax nycticorax

  • PELECANIFORMES: Threskiornithidae

  • Glossy Ibis      Plegadis falcinellus
  • African Sacred Ibis     Threskiornis aethiopicus
  • Hadada Ibis    Bostrychia hagedash
  • African Spoonbill       Platalea alba

  • ACCIPITRIFORMES: Sagittariidae

  • Secretarybird Sagittarius serpentarius

  • ACCIPITRIFORMES: Accipitridae

  • Black-winged Kite      Elanus caeruleus
  • African Harrier-Hawk              Polyboroides typus
  • Palm-nut Vulture        Gypohierax angolensis
  • Bearded Vulture         Gypaetus barbatus
  • Egyptian Vulture        Neophron percnopterus
  • European Honey-buzzard     Pernis apivorus
  • White-headed Vulture              Trigonoceps occipitalis
  • Lappet-faced Vulture Torgos tracheliotos
  • Hooded Vulture          Necrosyrtes monachus
  • White-backed Vulture            Gyps africanus
  • Rüppell’s Griffon        Gyps rueppelli
  • Bateleur          Terathopius ecaudatus
  • Black-chested Snake-Eagle   Circaetus pectoralis
  • Brown Snake-Eagle   Circaetus cinereus
  • Bat Hawk         Macheiramphus alcinus
  • Crowned Eagle            Stephanoaetus coronatus
  • Martial Eagle  Polemaetus bellicosus
  • Long-crested Eagle    Lophaetus occipitalis
  • Lesser Spotted Eagle Clanga pomarina
  • Wahlberg’s Eagle        Hieraaetus wahlbergi
  • Booted Eagle  Hieraaetus pennatus
  • Ayres’s Hawk-Eagle   Hieraaetus ayresii
  • Tawny Eagle   Aquila rapax
  • Steppe Eagle  Aquila nipalensis
  • Verreaux’s Eagle         Aquila verreauxii
  • African Hawk-Eagle   Aquila spilogaster
  • Lizard Buzzard           Kaupifalco monogrammicus
  • Eastern Chanting-Goshawk  Melierax poliopterus
  • Gabar Goshawk           Micronisus gabar
  • Grasshopper Buzzard             Butastur rufipennis
  • Eurasian Marsh-Harrier        Circus aeruginosus
  • Pallid Harrier Circus macrourus
  • Montagu’s Harrier     Circus pygargus
  • African Goshawk        Accipiter tachiro
  • Shikra Accipiter badius
  • Levant Sparrowhawk             Accipiter brevipes          Rare/Accidental
  • Little Sparrowhawk   Accipiter minullus
  • Ovambo Sparrowhawk          Accipiter ovampensis
  • Eurasian Sparrowhawk         Accipiter nisus   Rare/Accidental
  • Black Goshawk            Accipiter melanoleucus
  • Black Kite        Milvus migrans
  • African Fish-Eagle     Haliaeetus vocifer
  • Common Buzzard      Buteo buteo
  • Long-legged Buzzard Buteo rufinus
  • Augur Buzzard            Buteo augur

  • STRIGIFORMES: Tytonidae

  • Barn Owl         Tyto alba

  • STRIGIFORMES: Strigidae

  • Eurasian Scops-Owl  Otus scops
  • African Scops-Owl     Otus senegalensis
  • Spotted Eagle-Owl     Bubo africanus
  • Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl             Ketupa lacteus
  • Pearl-spotted Owlet  Glaucidium perlatum
  • African Wood-Owl     Strix woodfordii
  • Marsh Owl      Asio capensis

  • COLIIFORMES: Coliidae

  • Speckled Mousebird Colius striatus
  • White-headed Mousebird     Colius leucocephalus
  • Blue-naped Mousebird          Urocolius macrourus

  • TROGONIFORMES: Trogonidae

  • Narina Trogon             Apaloderma narina

  • BUCEROTIFORMES: Upupidae

  • Eurasian Hoopoe        Upupa epops

  • BUCEROTIFORMES: Phoeniculidae

  • Green Woodhoopoe  Phoeniculus purpureus
  • Violet Woodhoopoe   Phoeniculus damarensis
  • Common Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus cyanomelas
  • Abyssinian Scimitarbill              Rhinopomastus minor

  • BUCEROTIFORMES: Bucorvidae

  • Southern Ground-Hornbill   Bucorvus leadbeateri

  • BUCEROTIFORMES: Bucerotidae

  • Crowned Hornbill      Lophoceros alboterminatus
  • African Gray Hornbill             Lophoceros nasutus
  • Eastern Yellow-billed Hornbill              Tockus flavirostris
  • Von der Decken’s Hornbill    Tockus deckeni
  • Northern Red-billed Hornbill              Tockus erythrorhynchus
  • Trumpeter Hornbill   Bycanistes bucinator

  • CORACIIFORMES: Alcedinidae

  • Half-collared Kingfisher        Alcedo semitorquata
  • Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus
  • African Pygmy Kingfisher     Ispidina picta
  • Gray-headed Kingfisher        Halcyon leucocephala
  • Mangrove Kingfisher Halcyon senegaloides
  • Brown-hooded Kingfisher    Halcyon albiventris
  • Striped Kingfisher     Halcyon chelicuti
  • Giant Kingfisher         Megaceryle maxima
  • Pied Kingfisher           Ceryle rudis

  • CORACIIFORMES: Meropidae

  • White-fronted Bee-eater       Merops bullockoides
  • Little Bee-eater           Merops pusillus
  • Somali Bee-eater        Merops revoilii
  • White-throated Bee-eater     Merops albicollis
  • Blue-cheeked Bee-eater        Merops persicus
  • Madagascar Bee-eater           Merops superciliosus
  • European Bee-eater  Merops apiaster
  • Northern Carmine Bee-eater              Merops nubicus

  • CORACIIFORMES: Coraciidae

  • European Roller         Coracias garrulus
  • Lilac-breasted Roller Coracias caudatus
  • Rufous-crowned Roller          Coracias naevius
  • Broad-billed Roller    Eurystomus glaucurus

  • PICIFORMES: Lybiidae

  • Red-and-yellow Barbet              Trachyphonus erythrocephalus
  • D’Arnaud’s Barbet      Trachyphonus darnaudii
  • White-eared Barbet  Stactolaema leucotis
  • Red-fronted Tinkerbird         Pogoniulus pusillus
  • Red-fronted Barbet   Tricholaema diademata
  • Spot-flanked Barbet  Tricholaema lacrymosa
  • Black-throated Barbet              Tricholaema melanocephala
  • White-headed Barbet             Lybius leucocephalus
  • Brown-breasted Barbet         Lybius melanopterus

 

PICIFORMES: Indicatoridae

  • Wahlberg’s Honeyguide        Prodotiscus regulus
  • Lesser Honeyguide    Indicator minor
  • Greater Honeyguide  Indicator indicator

PICIFORMES: Picidae

  • Eurasian Wryneck     Jynx torquilla
  • Cardinal Woodpecker             Chloropicus fuscescens
  • Bearded Woodpecker             Chloropicus namaquus
  • Nubian Woodpecker Campethera nubica

FALCONIFORMES: Falconidae

  • Pygmy Falcon Polihierax semitorquatus
  • Lesser Kestrel             Falco naumanni
  • Eurasian Kestrel         Falco tinnunculus
  • Amur Falcon  Falco amurensis
  • Eleonora’s Falcon       Falco eleonorae
  • Sooty Falcon   Falco concolor
  • Eurasian Hobby          Falco subbuteo
  • African Hobby             Falco cuvierii
  • Lanner Falcon             Falco biarmicus
  • Peregrine Falcon        Falco peregrinus
  • Taita Falcon    Falco fasciinucha

PSITTACIFORMES: Psittacidae

  • Red-bellied Parrot     Poicephalus rufiventris

PASSERIFORMES: Pittidae

  • African Pitta   Pitta angolensis

  • PASSERIFORMES: Campephagidae

  • Black Cuckooshrike   Campephaga flava

  • PASSERIFORMES: Oriolidae

  • Eurasian Golden Oriole          Oriolus oriolus
  • African Golden Oriole             Oriolus auratus
  • African Black-headed Oriole Oriolus larvatus

PASSERIFORMES: Platysteiridae

  • Chinspot Batis             Batis molitor
  • Eastern Black-headed Batis  Batis minor
  • Pygmy Batis   Batis perkeo

PASSERIFORMES: Vangidae

  • White Helmetshrike  Prionops plumatus
  • Retz’s Helmetshrike  Prionops retzii

PASSERIFORMES: Malaconotidae

  • Brubru             Nilaus afer
  • Pringle’s Puffback      Dryoscopus pringlii
  • Black-backed Puffback           Dryoscopus cubla
  • Black-crowned Tchagra         Tchagra senegalus
  • Brown-crowned Tchagra       Tchagra australis
  • Three-streaked Tchagra        Tchagra jamesi
  • Red-naped Bushshrike          Laniarius ruficeps
  • Tropical Boubou         Laniarius major
  • Slate-colored Boubou             Laniarius funebris
  • Rosy-patched Bushshrike              Rhodophoneus cruentus
  • Sulphur-breasted Bushshrike              Telophorus sulfureopectus
  • Gray-headed Bushshrike              Malaconotus blanchoti

PASSERIFORMES: Dicruridae

  • Fork-tailed Drongo    Dicrurus adsimilis

PASSERIFORMES: Monarchidae

  • African Paradise-Flycatcher              Terpsiphone viridis

PASSERIFORMES: Laniidae

  • Red-backed Shrike     Lanius collurio
  • Red-tailed Shrike       Lanius phoenicuroides
  • Isabelline Shrike         Lanius isabellinus              Rare/Accidental
  • Lesser Gray Shrike     Lanius minor
  • Long-tailed Fiscal       Lanius cabanisi
  • Taita Fiscal     Lanius dorsalis
  • Northern Fiscal           Lanius humeralis
  • White-rumped Shrike              Eurocephalus ruppelli

PASSERIFORMES: Corvidae

  • House Crow    Corvus splendens
  • Pied Crow       Corvus albus
  • White-necked Raven Corvus albicollis

 

PASSERIFORMES: Paridae

  • White-bellied Tit        Melaniparus albiventris
  • Somali Tit        Melaniparus thruppi

PASSERIFORMES: Remizidae

  • Mouse-colored Penduline-Tit              Anthoscopus musculus

PASSERIFORMES: Alaudidae

  • Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark              Eremopterix leucotis
  • Chestnut-headed Sparrow-Lark              Eremopterix signatus
  • Fischer’s Sparrow-Lark              Eremopterix leucopareia
  • Pink-breasted Lark    Calendulauda poecilosterna
  • Fawn-colored Lark    Calendulauda africanoides
  • Red-winged Lark        Mirafra hypermetra
  • Rufous-naped Lark    Mirafra africana
  • Flappet Lark   Mirafra rufocinnamomea
  • Friedmann’s Lark       Mirafra pulpa
  • Horsfield’s Bushlark Mirafra javanica
  • Short-tailed Lark        Spizocorys fremantlii

PASSERIFORMES: Nicatoridae

  • Eastern Nicator           Nicator gularis

PASSERIFORMES: Macrosphenidae

  • Northern Crombec    Sylvietta brachyura
  • Red-faced Crombec   Sylvietta whytii
  • Somali Crombec         Sylvietta isabellina
  • Moustached Grass-Warbler  Melocichla mentalis

PASSERIFORMES: Cisticolidae

  • Yellow-vented Eremomela    Eremomela flavicrissalis
  • Yellow-bellied Eremomela    Eremomela icteropygialis
  • Gray Wren-Warbler   Calamonastes simplex
  • Green-backed Camaroptera              Camaroptera brachyura
  • Buff-bellied Warbler Phyllolais pulchella
  • Yellow-breasted Apalis          Apalis flavida
  • Tawny-flanked Prinia             Prinia subflava
  • Pale Prinia      Prinia somalica
  • Red-fronted Prinia     Prinia rufifrons
  • Rattling Cisticola        Cisticola chiniana
  • Ashy Cisticola Cisticola cinereolus
  • Winding Cisticola       Cisticola marginatus
  • Croaking Cisticola      Cisticola natalensis
  • Siffling Cisticola          Cisticola brachypterus
  • Tiny Cisticola Cisticola nana
  • Zitting Cisticola           Cisticola juncidis
  • Desert Cisticola           Cisticola aridulus

PASSERIFORMES: Acrocephalidae

  • Eastern Olivaceous Warbler Iduna pallida
  • Upcher’s Warbler       Hippolais languida
  • Olive-tree Warbler     Hippolais olivetorum
  • Icterine Warbler         Hippolais icterina
  • Sedge Warbler            Acrocephalus schoenobaenus
  • Marsh Warbler            Acrocephalus palustris
  • Common Reed Warbler              Acrocephalus scirpaceus
  • Basra Reed Warbler  Acrocephalus griseldis
  • Lesser Swamp Warbler              Acrocephalus gracilirostris
  • Great Reed Warbler   Acrocephalus arundinaceus

PASSERIFORMES: Locustellidae

  • River Warbler Locustella fluviatilis
  • Savi’s Warbler             Locustella luscinioides    Rare/Accidental
  • Little Rush Warbler   Bradypterus baboecala

PASSERIFORMES: Hirundinida

  • Plain Martin   Riparia paludicola
  • Bank Swallow Riparia riparia
  • Banded Martin            Neophedina cincta
  • Rock Martin    Ptyonoprogne fuligula
  • Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
  • Wire-tailed Swallow Hirundo smithii
  • Red-rumped Swallow             Cecropis daurica
  • Lesser Striped Swallow         Cecropis abyssinica
  • Mosque Swallow        Cecropis senegalensis
  • Common House-Martin         Delichon urbicum
  • White-headed Sawwing              Psalidoprocne albiceps
  • Black Sawwing            Psalidoprocne pristoptera

PASSERIFORMES: Pycnonotidae

  • Sombre Greenbul       Andropadus importunus
  • Yellow-bellied Greenbul              Chlorocichla flaviventris
  • Northern Brownbul  Phyllastrephus strepitans
  • Gray-olive Greenbul  Phyllastrephus cerviniventris
  • Common Bulbul         Pycnonotus barbatus

PASSERIFORMES: Phylloscopidae

  • Willow Warbler          Phylloscopus trochilus
  • Common Chiffchaff    Phylloscopus collybita

PASSERIFORMES: Sylviidae

  • Eurasian Blackcap     Sylvia atricapilla
  • Garden Warbler          Sylvia borin
  • Barred Warbler          Curruca nisoria
  • Banded Parisoma       Curruca boehmi
  • Greater Whitethroat Curruca communis

PASSERIFORMES: Zosteropidae

  • Pale White-eye            Zosterops flavilateralis

PASSERIFORMES: Leiothrichidae

  • Rufous Chatterer        Argya rubiginosa
  • Scaly Chatterer           Argya aylmeri
  • Northern Pied-Babbler          Turdoides hypoleuca

PASSERIFORMES: Buphagidae

  • Red-billed Oxpecker  Buphagus erythrorynchus
  • Yellow-billed Oxpecker          Buphagus africanus

PASSERIFORMES: Sturnidae

  • Wattled Starling         Creatophora cinerea
  • Violet-backed Starling              Cinnyricinclus leucogaster
  • Red-winged Starling Onychognathus morio
  • Magpie Starling          Speculipastor bicolor
  • Black-bellied Starling             Notopholia corusca
  • Hildebrandt’s Starling              Lamprotornis hildebrandti
  • Shelley’s Starling        Lamprotornis shelleyi
  • Rüppell’s Starling       Lamprotornis purpuroptera
  • Golden-breasted Starling              Lamprotornis regius
  • Superb Starling           Lamprotornis superbus
  • Fischer’s Starling       Lamprotornis fischeri
  • Greater Blue-eared Starling              Lamprotornis chalybaeus

PASSERIFORMES: Turdidae

  • African Bare-eyed Thrush     Turdus tephronotus

PASSERIFORMES: Muscicapidae

  • Spotted Flycatcher     Muscicapa striata
  • Gambaga Flycatcher  Muscicapa gambagae
  • African Gray Flycatcher         Bradornis microrhynchus
  • Gray Tit-Flycatcher   Fraseria plumbea
  • Ashy Flycatcher          Fraseria caerulescens
  • Silverbird        Melaenornis semipartitus
  • Southern Black-Flycatcher              Melaenornis pammelaina
  • Rufous-tailed Scrub-Robin              Cercotrichas galactotes
  • Red-backed Scrub-Robin              Cercotrichas leucophrys
  • White-browed Robin-Chat   Cossypha heuglini
  • Red-capped Robin-Chat         Cossypha natalensis
  • Spotted Morning-Thrush       Cichladusa guttata
  • White-throated Robin            Irania gutturalis
  • Thrush Nightingale   Luscinia luscinia
  • Common Nightingale Luscinia megarhynchos
  • Common Redstart      Phoenicurus phoenicurus
  • Rufous-tailed Rock-Thrush   Monticola saxatilis
  • Whinchat        Saxicola rubetra
  • Mocking Cliff-Chat     Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris
  • Northern Wheatear   Oenanthe oenanthe
  • Capped Wheatear      Oenanthe pileata
  • Isabelline Wheatear  Oenanthe isabellina
  • Eastern Black-eared Wheatear              Oenanthe melanoleuca              Rare/Accidental
  • Pied Wheatear            Oenanthe pleschanka

PASSERIFORMES: Nectariniidae

  • Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird              Anthreptes orientalis
  • Collared Sunbird        Hedydipna collaris
  • Olive Sunbird Cyanomitra olivacea
  • Amethyst Sunbird      Chalcomitra amethystina
  • Scarlet-chested Sunbird        Chalcomitra senegalensis
  • Hunter’s Sunbird        Chalcomitra hunteri
  • Bronze Sunbird           Nectarinia kilimensis
  • Beautiful Sunbird       Cinnyris pulchellus
  • Mariqua Sunbird        Cinnyris mariquensis
  • Black-bellied Sunbird             Cinnyris nectarinioides
  • Tsavo Sunbird             Cinnyris tsavoensis
  • Variable Sunbird        Cinnyris venustus

PASSERIFORMES: Ploceidae

  • Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver   Bubalornis niger
  • White-headed Buffalo-Weaver              Dinemellia dinemelli
  • Speckle-fronted Weaver        Sporopipes frontalis
  • White-browed Sparrow-Weaver              Plocepasser mahali
  • Gray-headed Social-Weaver              Pseudonigrita arnaudi
  • Black-capped Social-Weaver              Pseudonigrita cabanisi
  • Red-headed Weaver  Anaplectes rubriceps
  • Baglafecht Weaver     Ploceus baglafecht
  • Black-necked Weaver             Ploceus nigricollis
  • Spectacled Weaver    Ploceus ocularis
  • African Golden-Weaver         Ploceus subaureus
  • Golden Palm Weaver Ploceus bojeri
  • Taveta Golden-Weaver           Ploceus castaneiceps
  • Lesser Masked-Weaver          Ploceus intermedius
  • Vitelline Masked-Weaver      Ploceus vitellinus
  • Village Weaver            Ploceus cucullatus
  • Golden-backed Weaver          Ploceus jacksoni
  • Chestnut Weaver        Ploceus rubiginosus
  • Cardinal Quelea          Quelea cardinalis
  • Red-billed Quelea      Quelea quelea
  • Southern Red Bishop Euplectes orix
  • Zanzibar Red Bishop Euplectes nigroventris
  • Black-winged Bishop Euplectes hordeaceus
  • Fire-fronted Bishop   Euplectes diadematus
  • Yellow Bishop Euplectes capensis
  • White-winged Widowbird    Euplectes albonotatus
  • Grosbeak Weaver       Amblyospiza albifrons

PASSERIFORMES: Estrildidae

  • Gray-headed Silverbill           Spermestes griseicapilla
  • Bronze Mannikin        Spermestes cucullata
  • Magpie Mannikin       Spermestes fringilloides    Rare/Accidental
  • African Silverbill        Euodice cantans
  • Green-backed Twinspot        Mandingoa nitidula
  • Black-faced Waxbill   Brunhilda erythronotos
  • Black-cheeked Waxbill           Brunhilda charmosyna
  • Common Waxbill        Estrilda astrild
  • Crimson-rumped Waxbill     Estrilda rhodopyga
  • Cut-throat       Amadina fasciata
  • Purple Grenadier       Granatina ianthinogaster
  • Red-cheeked Cordonbleu      Uraeginthus bengalus
  • Blue-capped Cordonbleu      Uraeginthus cyanocephalus
  • Green-winged Pytilia Pytilia melba
  • Orange-winged Pytilia           Pytilia afra
  • Peters’s Twinspot      Hypargos niveoguttatus
  • Red-billed Firefinch  Lagonosticta senegala
  • African Firefinch        Lagonosticta rubricata
  • Jameson’s Firefinch   Lagonosticta rhodopareia

PASSERIFORMES: Viduidae

  • Pin-tailed Whydah     Vidua macroura
  • Eastern Paradise-Whydah    Vidua paradisaea
  • Steel-blue Whydah    Vidua hypocherina
  • Straw-tailed Whydah Vidua fischeri
  • Village Indigobird      Vidua chalybeata
  • Purple Indigobird      Vidua purpurascens

PASSERIFORMES: Passeridae

  • House Sparrow           Passer domesticus              Introduced species
  • Kenya Rufous Sparrow           Passer rufocinctus
  • Northern Gray-headed Sparrow              Passer griseus
  • Parrot-billed Sparrow            Passer gongonensis
  • Chestnut Sparrow      Passer eminibey
  • Yellow-spotted Bush Sparrow              Gymnoris pyrgita

PASSERIFORMES: Motacillidae

  • Mountain Wagtail      Motacilla clara
  • Western Yellow Wagtail         Motacilla flava
  • African Pied Wagtail Motacilla aguimp
  • African Pipit   Anthus cinnamomeus
  • Striped Pipit   Anthus lineiventris
  • Tree Pipit        Anthus trivialis
  • Red-throated Pipit     Anthus cervinus
  • Golden Pipit   Tmetothylacus tenellus
  • Yellow-throated Longclaw    Macronyx croceus
  • Pangani Longclaw      Macronyx aurantiigula

PASSERIFORMES: Fringillidae

  • Reichenow’s Seedeater          Crithagra reichenowi
  • White-bellied Canary             Crithagra dorsostriata
  • Southern Grosbeak-Canary  Crithagra buchanani

PASSERIFORMES: Emberizidae

  • Ortolan Bunting          Emberiza hortulana        Rare/Accidental
  • Golden-breasted Bunting      Emberiza flaviventris
  • Somali Bunting           Emberiza poliopleura
  • Cinnamon-breasted Bunting              Emberiza tahapisi
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