Bird Catalog

For those of you interested in such things, here is the listing of the birds that I saw while on my trip. I will start with the ones for which I was able to get usable pictures. However, my photography skills being what they are, most were only seen, so I have just inserted Wikipedia links so you can see what they really look like!

Ol Pajeta

African Grey Woodpecker

Kori Bustard

White Crowned Shrike

Abyssinian Scimitar Bill

Grey Crowned Crane with Babies (National bird of Uganda)

Saddle-billed stork (it is an illusion that it looks like he has a stubby yellow bill in the picture)

Superb Starling

Lilac Breasted Roller (one of the birds in the running to be Kenya’ national bird)

Yellow Billed Ox Pecker (with Cattle Egret in flight)

Helmeted Guineafowl

Birds that I got a good look at but not a usable picture of:

African Paradise Flycatcher

Rüppell’s Starling

African Hoopoe (Spectacular!!)

Little Swift

Southern Black Flycatcher

Speckled Mousebird

Malachite Sunbird only saw him in the shade so he wasn’t quite this spectacular, but still pretty cool!

Fork Tailed Drongo

Sulfur Breasted Bush Shrike

White Browed sparrow weavers (they would not hold still but here are their nests which the males build, the females reject, the males build another, the females reject, repeat and then the females choose one that was already built!)