One for the listers

A female Baglafecht Weaver

It's been a long time coming but I've finally managed to compile the list of birds that I managed to remember seeing in Nairobi. It's such an amazing city for urban birding. With over 600 on its official list you can easily see over 200 species in a couple of days.

I managed nearly 300 in 5 days. Nairobi is well worth a gander.

Common Ostrich

Pink-backed Pelican

Great Cormorant

Long-tailed Cormorant

African Darter

Black-crowned Night Heron

Cattle Egret

Squacco Heron

Madagascar Squacco Heron

Little Egret

Yellow-billed Egret

Great Egret

Goliath Heron

Grey Heron

Black-headed Heron

Hammerkop

Yellow-billed Stork

Black Stork

Saddle-billed Stork

Marabou

Sacred Ibis

Hadada Ibis

Glossy Ibis

African Spoonbill

Egyptian Goose

White-faced Whistling Duck

Maccoa Duck

Red-billed Teal

Hottentot Teal

White-backed Duck

Yellow-billed Duck

African Black Duck

Southern Pochard

Black Kite

Black-shouldered Kite

Secretary Bird

African Fish Eagle

African White-backed Vulture

Ruppell’s Griffon Vulture

Brown Snake Eagle

Montagu’s Harrier

Pallid Harrier

Eastern Chanting Goshawk

Gabar Goshawk

Little Sparrowhawk

Great Sparrowhawk

African Harrier Hawk

Augar Buzzard

Common Buzzard (and Steppe Buzzard)

Tawny Eagle

Steppe Eagle

Greater Spotted Eagle

Booted Eagle

Bateleur

Long-crested Eagle

Martial Eagle

Eurasian Hobby

Eleonora’s Falcon

Helmeted Guineafowl

Crested Guineafowl

Yellow-necked Spurfowl

Harlequin Quail

Black Crake

Purple Swamphen

Red-knobbed Coot

Common Moorhen

African Jacana

Grey Crowned Crane

Kori Bustard

White-bellied Bustard

Black-bellied Bustard

Black-winged Stilt

Spotted Thick-knee

Blacksmith Lapwing

Spur-winged Lapwing

Crowned Lapwing

Kittlitz’s Plover

Three-banded Plover

Ruff

Common Sandpiper

Wood Sandpiper

Green Sandpiper

Greenshank

Marsh Sandpiper

Little Stint

Grey-headed Gull

Gull-billed Tern

Whiskered Tern

Speckled Pigeon

Emerald-spotted Wood Dove

Namaqua Dove

Ring-necked Dove

Red-eyed Dove

African Mourning Dove

Laughing Dove

Dusky Turtle Dove

Brown Parrot

Purple-crested Turaco

Hartlaub’s Turaco

Jacobin Cuckoo

Red-chested Cuckoo

Diederik Cuckoo

Klaas’ Cuckoo

White-browed Coucal

Little Swift

White-rumped Swift

Mottled Swift

Nyanza Swift

African Palm Swift

Speckled Mousebird

Blue-naped Mousebird

Narina Trogan

Pied Kingfisher

Striped Kingfisher

Giant Kingfisher

Malachite Kingfisher

Little Bee-eater

Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater

European Bee-eater

White-fronted Bee-eater

Von der Decken’s Hornbill

African Grey Hornbill

Spot-flanked Barbet

Black-throated Barbet

White-headed Barbet

d’Arnaud’s Barbet

Red-and-yellow Barbet

Wahlberg’s Honeybird

Red-throated Wryneck

Cardinal Woodpecker

Grey Woodpecker

Rufous-naped Lark

Fawn-coloured Lark

Red-capped Lark

Fischer’s Sparrow Lark

Rock Martin

Plain Martin

Banded Martin

Red-rumped Swallow

Lesser Striped Swallow

Barn Swallow

Wire-tailed Swallow

Black Saw-wing

African Pied Wagtail

Mountain Wagtail

Cape Wagtail

Yellow Wagtail

Yellow-throated Longclaw

Sharpe’s Longclaw

Rosy-breasted Longclaw

Grassland Pipit

Black Cuckoo-shrike

Common Bulbul

Yellow-whiskered Bulbul

Cabanis’ Greenbul

White-starred Robin

Cape Robin Chat

White-browed Robin Chat

Ruppell’s Robin Chat

Olive Thrush

Common Rock Thrush

Northern Anteater Chat

Common Stonechat

Whinchat

Northern Wheatear

Isabelline Wheatear

Nightingale

White-browed Scrub-Robin

Spotted Morning Thrush

Dark-capped Yellow Warbler

Garden Warbler

Blackcap

Buff-bellied Warbler

Willow Warbler

Red-faced Crombec

Brown Parisoma

African Moustached Warbler

Zitting Cisticola

Desert Cisticola

Tiny Cisticola

Stout Cisticola

Rattling Cisticola

Winding Cisticola

Levaillant’s Cisticola

Singing Cisticola

Red-faced Cisticola

Hunter’s Cisticola

Whistling Cisticola

Siffling Cisticola

Tawny-flanked Prinia

Grey-backed Camaroptera

Grey Wren Warbler

Yellow-breasted Apalis

White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher

African Grey Flycatcher

Pale Flycatcher

Spotted Flycatcher

African Paradise Flycatcher

Northern Pied Babbler

White-bellied Tit

Red-throated Tit

Abyssinian White-eye

Bronze Sunbird

Tacazze Sunbird 

Eastern Double-collared Sunbird 

Amethyst Sunbird

Scarlet-chested Sunbird

Beautiful Sunbird

Variable Sunbird

Collared Sunbird

Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird

Common Fiscal

Long-tailed Fiscal

Grey-backed Fiscal

Isabelline Shrike

Red-backed Shrike

Tropical Boubou

Slate-coloured Boubou

Brubru

Black-backed Puffback

Rosy-patched Bush-shrike

Northern White-crowned Shrike

Fork-tailed Drongo

Pied Crow

Cape Rook

African Black-headed Oriole

Yellow-billed Oxpecker

Red-billed Oxpecker

Greater Blue-eared Starling

Superb Starling

Hildebrandt’s Starling

Wattled Starling

Rufous Sparrow

House Sparrow

Chestnut Sparrow

Grey-headed Sparrow

Yellow-spotted Petronia

Speckle-fronted Weaver

White-browed Sparrow Weaver

Grey-capped Social Weaver

Black-headed Weaver

Vitelline Masked Weaver

Spectacled Weaver

Speke’s Weaver

Baglafecht Weaver

Grosbeak Weaver

Holub’s Golden Weaver

Red-billed Quelea

Jackson’s Widowbird

Red-collared Widowbird

Yellow Bishop

White-winged Widowbird

Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu

Purple Grenadier

Red-billed Firefinch

Yellow-bellied Waxbill

Common Waxbill

Bronze Mannikin

Black-and-white Mannikin

Pin-tailed Whydah

Brimstone Canary

White-bellied Canary

Yellow-crowned Canary

African Citril

Yellow-rumped Seedeater

Streaky Seedeater

Cinnamon-breasted Rock Bunting

Somali Golden-breasted Bunting

268 species

103 lifers