Report Details

Kenya Birding & Wildlife Photography Tour (18-25 August 2025)


🌿🌿 Destination: Kenya

📅Date: 18-25 August 2025

đŸ‘„ Number of clients: 4

🚙 Number of vehicle(Land cruisers): 1

Areas Covered: 

1. Ambosseli National Park

2. Lake Nakuru National Park

3. Lake Naivasha National Park

4. Masaimara National Park

Mammals have been photographed during the trip: 

1. ⁠Serval - A Rarity

2. Kirk’s dik-dik – A Rarity

3. Two different female Leopard, one was Fulao and other one unknown

4. Two different individual Cheetah

5. Lions – Atleast 40 individuals Male, Female, Sub-adults and very small cubs from TOPI pride, RONGAI pride & VICTORY pride

6. ⁠Bat eared Fox

7. ⁠Silver backed Jackal

8. ⁠Atleast 100 of African elephants

9. Reed buck

10. Thousands of Wildebeest along with the GREAT MIGRATION of River crossing

11. Two Horned Rhinoceros both White and Black

12. Cape buffalo

13. ⁠Masai Giraffe

14. Rothchild’s giraffe in Lake Nakuru, the Endangered species

15. Zebra

16. African Spotted hyena, with Wildebeest’s head, legs on their mouth

17. Antelope

18. Banded mongoose

19. ⁠Impala

20. Olive baboons

21. Topi

22. Thomson’s gazelle

23. Warthogs

24. Thomson’s gazelle

25. Grant’s gazelle

26. Coke’s hartebeest

Birds have been photographed during the trip:

1. Common ostrich

2. Egyptian goose

3. Red billed duck

4. Helmeted guineafowl

5. Crested francolin

6. Scaly spurfowl

7. Yellow necked spurfowl

8. Mourning collared dove

9. Red eyed dove

10. Ring necked dove

11. Laughing dove

12. Namaqua dove

13. Yellow throated sandgrouse

14. Kori bustard

15. White bellied bustard

16. Black bellied bustard

17. Bare faced go away bird

18. White browed coucal

19. Sombre nightjar

20. African palm swift

21. Red knobbed coot

22. Black crake

23. Gray crowned crane

24. Water thick knee

25. Black winged stilt 

26. Three banded plover

27. Long toed lapwing

28. Blacksmith lapwing 

29. Black winged lapwing

30. Crowned lapwing

31. Kittlitz’s plover

32. African jacana

33. Double banded courser

34. Collared pratincole

35. Gray hooded gull

36. White winged tern

37. Greater flamingo

38. Lesser flamingo

39. Marabou stork

40. Yellow billed stork

41. Reed cormorant 

42. Great cormorant

43. Glossy ibis

44. African sacred ibis

45. Hadada ibis

46. African spoonbill

47. Squacco heron

48. Black headed heron

49. Goliath heron

50. Hamerkop

51. Great white pelican

52. Pink backed pelican

53. Secretarybird 

54. Black winged kite

55. Lappet faced vulture

56. White backed vulture

57. Bateleur 

58. Black chested snake eagle 

59. Brown snake eagle

60. Martial eagle

61. Long crested eagle

62. Tawny eagle

63. African marsh harrier

64. African fish eagle

65. Augur buzzard

66. Spotted eagle owl

67. Speckled mousebird

68. Green woodhoopoe 

69. Southern ground hornbill

70. African gray hornbill

71. White fronted bee eater

72. Little bee eater

73. Malachite kingfisher

74. Woodland kingfisher

75. Giant kingfisher

76. Lilac breasted roller

77. Broad billed roller

78. D’Arnaud’s barbet

79. Gray kestrel

80. Meyer’s parrot 

81. Tropical boubou

82. Fork tailed drongo

83. African paradise flycatcher

84. Long tailed fiscal

85. Pied crow

86. White necked raven

87. Fischer’s sparrow lark

88. Rattling cisticola

89. Winding cisticola

90. Zitting cisticola

91. Plain martin

92. African red rumped swallow

93. Common bulbul

94. Arrow marked babbler

95. Red billed oxpecker

96. Yellow billed oxpecker

97. Wattled starling 

98. Ruppells starling 

99. Superb starling

100. Greater blue eared starling 

101. White browed scrub robin

102. White browed robin chat

103. Sooty chat

104. Northern anteater chat

105. Red billed buffalo weaver

106. White headed buffalo weaver

107. White browed sparrow weaver

108. Lesser masked weaver

109. Baglafecht weaver

110. Speke’s weaver

111. Yellow crowned bishop

112. Yellow bishop

113. Fan tailed widowbird

114. Gray headed silverbill

115. Crimson rumped waxbill

116. Red cheeked cordonbleu 

117. Blue capped cordonbleu 

118. Red billed firefinch

119. Parrot billed sparrow

120. Chestnut sparrow

121. Yellow spotted bush sparrow

122. African pied wagtail

123. African pipit

124. Plain backed pipit

125. Yellow throated longclaw

126. Rosy throated longclaw

127. White bellied canary

128. Red capped lark

129. Yellow fronted canary

eBird Trip Report: https://ebird.org/tripreport/405657

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