Bird life in Lake Naivasha National Park; Lake Naivasha National Park is one of the stopping destination for birding on Kenya birding safari, located in the Great Rift Valley in a distance of 90 kilometers northwest of Nairobi. More so, Lake Naivasha is a top birding destination that ranks with over 400 bird species which inhabits the park’s shores of the lake. However, bird species in Lake Naivasha National Park is comprised of; Globally threatened species, rare species, endangered species, migratory species near threatened, endangered and critically endangered which follows as.
Ducks species
The duck species include; Maccoa, Tufted duck, Southern Pochard, Northern pintail, Red-billed duck, Yellow-billed duck, Hottentot teal, Garganey, Egyptian duck, White-backed duck ,Fulvous Whistling duck .
Guinea fowl species
The Guinea fowl species includes; Helmeted Guinea fowl.
Pheasant, Grouse and Allies
The pheasant species include; Common Quill, Coqui Francolin
Flamingos species
The Flamingos species includes; Greater flamingo and Lesser Flamingo
Grebes species
The grebes species includes; Little Grebe
Pigeons and Doves
The pigeons and doves species includes; Namaqua dove, Emerald spotted wood dove , Laughing dove ,Ring-necked dove ,Red-necked dove ,Red-necked dove ,Mourning Collared dove , Speckled pigeon among others.
Cuckoos species
The Cuckoo species include; Dideric Cuckoo, Klaas’s Cuckoo, Great Spotted cuckoo, White-browed coucal, Red-chested cuckoo, Black cuckoo.
Nightjars and Allies species
The Nightjars species includes; Nightjar.
Swift Species
The Swift species includes; Common Swiff, Nyanza Swift, Horus Swift, Bird life in Lake Naivasha National Park
Rail, Gallinules and Coots
The Rail, Gallinules and coots species includes; Striped crake, Black crake, African Swamp hen, Red-knobbed coot, Eurasian Moorhen, Lesser Moorhen, African Crake ,African Rail.
Cranes
The Crane species include; Gray Crowned –crane
Thick-knees
The Thick-knees species include; Eurasian thick-knee
Stilts and Avocets
The stilts and Avocets species include; Black-winged stilt and Pied Avocet
Plovers and Lapwings
The plovers and Lapwings species include; Three-banded plover, Little Ringed Plover, Common Ringed plover, Kittlitz’s plover ,Caspian plover ,Greater Sand-plover ,Lesser sand plover ,Crowned Lapwing, Senegal Lapwing ,Spur-winged Lapwing, Blacksmith Lapwing ,Long-toed Lapwing ,Black –bellied plover .
Jacanas
The Jacanas species include; African Jacana
Sandpipers and Allies
The sandpipers and Allies species includes; Common snipe, Great snipe, Terek sandpiper ,Little stint ,Sanderling ,Temminck’s stint , Curlew sandpiper ,Ruff Ruddy Turnstone ,Black-tailed Godwit ,Bar-tailed Godwit ,Whimbrel ,Common Redshank ,Wood Sandpiper ,Marsh Sandpiper , Common Greenshank ,African snipe, Common Snipe.
Gulls, Tern and Skimmers
The Gulls, tern and skimmers species includes; Gray-hooded Gull , African skimmer ,Whiskered Tern , White-winged Tern ,Gull-billed Tern , Black-headed Gull.
Storks
The storks species includes; Yellow-billed stork ,Marabou stork ,Saddle-billed stork ,White stork ,Black stork ,African Open bill.
Cormorants and shags
The Cormorants and shags species includes; Long –tailed Cormorant, Great Cormorant
Pelicans
The pelicans species includes; Great white pelican and pink-backed pelican
Hamerkop
The Hamerkop species includes; Hamerkop
Heron, Egrets and Bitterns
The Heron, Egret and Bitterns species includes; Little Egret, Intermediate Egret, Great Egret ,Purple Heron ,Gray Heron , Black-headed Heron , Goliath Heron ,Black-crowned Night-Helon,Striated Heron ,Squacco Heron ,Cattle Egret ,Black Heron among others.
Ibises and Spoonbills
The Ibises and spoonbills species includes; Eurasian Spoonbill, Hadads Ibis, African Sacred Ibis, Glossy Ibis .
Secretary bird
The secretary bird species includes; Secretary bird
Osprey
The Osprey species include Osprey
Hawks, Eagles and Kites
The Hawks, Eagles and Kites species includes; Booted Eagle, Wahlberg’s Eagle, Great spotted Eagle , Black-winged kite ,European Honey-buzzard, Long-crested Eagle ,Pernis ,Black kite , Black Goshawk ,Little sparrow hawk , African Marsh-Harrier ,Eurasian Marsh- Harrier ,Imperial Eagle ,Steppe Eagle ,Grasshopper Buzzard among others.
Owls
The owl species include; Verreaux’s Eagle –Owl.
Mouse birds
The Mouse birds’ species include; Speckled mouse bird.
Hoopoes
The Hoopoes species include; African Hoopoe
Woodchoppoe and Scimitar bills
The Woodchoppoe and scimitar bills species includes; Green Wood hoopoe, Common Scimitar bill, Violet wood hoopoe.
Hornbills
The Hornbill species includes; Crowned Hornbill and African Gray Hornbill
Kingfishers
The Kingfishers species includes; Pied kingfishers, Giant kingfisher, Gray –headed kingfisher , Malachite king fisher.
Bee-eaters
The Bee-eaters species include; Northern carmine Bee-eater, European Bee-eater ,White-fronted Bee-eater ,White-throated Bee-eater.
Rollers
The Roller species includes; European Roller and Lilac –breasted Roller
African Barbets
The African Barbets species includes; White-headed Barbet
Honeyguides
The Honeyguides species includes; Green –backed Honeyguide, Lesser Honeyguide, Greater Honeyguide, Wahlberg’s Honeyguide, Bird life in Lake Naivasha National Park.
Woodpeckers
The Woodpeckers species includes; African Gray woodpecker, Nubian woodpecker, Nubian woodpecker.
Falcons and Caracaras
The Falcons and Caracaras species includes; Falcon, Saker, Lesser Kestrel, Eurasian Kestrel, Amur Falcon, Eleonora’s Falcon, Sooty Falcon among others.
Parrots
The parrot species includes; Fischer’s lovebird, yellow-collared Lovebird
Old World Orioles
The Old world oriole’s species includes; Eurasian Golden Oriole and African Black-headed Oriole
Wattle-eyes and Batises
The Wattle eyes and Batises species includes; Chin spot Batis
Bush shrikes
The Bush shrike’s species includes; Brubru and Tropical Boubou, Sulphur-breasted Bush shrike
Drongos
The Drongos species includes; Fork –tailed Drongo
Monarch Flycatchers
The Monarch Flycatcher species includes; African Paradise-Flycatcher.
Shrikes
The shrike’s species includes; Lesser Gray shrike, Isabel line shrike, red backed shrike, Northern Fiscal, Gray-backed Fiscal, Lesser Gray shrike among others.
Crows, Jays and Magpies
The crows, Jays and Magpies species includes; Cape crow and Pied crow
Tits, chickadees and Titmice
The Tits, chickadees and Titmice species includes; White-bellied Tit
Penduline –Tits
The Penduline –tits species includes; Mouse-colored penduline –Tit and African penduline –Tit
Larks
The Larks species includes; Rufous-napped lark and Red-capped Lark
Nicator
The Nicator species includes; Eastern Nicator
African Warbler
The African Warbler species including; Northern Crombec, Red-faced Crombec
Cisticolas and Allies
The Cisticola and Allies species includes; Zitting cisticola, Stout cisticola, winding cisticola, Rattling cisticola, Gray-capped warbler, Yellow-breasted Apalis.
Reed Warbler and Allies
They include Eastern Olivececous Warbler, Lesser Swamp Warbler, Greater swamp warbler, Sedge warbler.
Swallows
The swallows species includes; Common House-Martin, Lesser striped swallow, Red-rumped swallow ,Banded Martin ,Riparia ,Bank swallow ,Plain Martin.
Bulbuls
The Bulbuls species includes; Cabanis’s Greenbul and Common Bulbul
Leaf Warblers
The leaf warbler’s species includes; Willow Warbler and Brown woodland-warbler
Sylviid warblers, parrotbills and Allies
The sylviid warblers, parrotbills and Allies includes; Greater whitethroat, Garden warbler, Eurasin Blackcap, African Bill Babbler
White-eyes, Yuhinas and Allies
The white-eyes, Yuhinas and Allies species includes African Yellow white eye, Kikuyu white-eye, Bird life in Lake Naivasha National Park
Laughing thrushes and Allies
The laughing thrushes and Allies species includes; Black-lored Babbler, Arrow-marked Babbler.
Starlings
The starlings species includes; Greater Blue-eared starling ,Lesser Blue-eared starling , Hildebrandt’s starling ,Waller’s starling ,Red-winged starling ,Wattled starling .
Thrushes and Allies
The thrushes and Allies species includes; Abyssinian Thrush
Old world Flycatchers
The Old world Flycatcher species includes; Common Redstart ,Common Nightingale ,White-browed Robin-chat , Cape Robin-chat ,Rueppell’s Robin-chat ,African Gray Flycatcher ,Spotted Flycatcher , Rufous-tailed Rock –Thrush
Sunbirds and spider hunters
The sunbird and spider hunter species includes; Golden –Wingled sunbird , Scarlet-chested sunbird ,Amethyst sunbird ,Collared sunbird ,Viriable.
Weaver and Allies
They include; Holub’s Golden Weaver, Spectacled weaver, White-browed Sparrow-weaver, White-winged widowbird, Lesser Masked –weaver
Waxbills and Allies
They include; Common waxbill, Purple Grenadier ,African Fire finch
Indigo birds
Pin-tailed Whydah , Village indigo bird
Old world sparrow
They include; Chestnut sparrow, Kenya Rufous sparrow, House Sparrow
Wagtails and pipits
They includes ; African pipit ,Western yellow wagtail ,Cape wagtail, Yellow-throated long claw ,Sharpe’s long claw.
Finches, euphonies and Allies
They includes; Thick billed seedeater, Streaky seedeater, Brimstone Canary, White-bellied Canary ,African Citril
