eBird Field Checklist
Aberdare NP--The Ark
, Central, KE
ebird.org/hotspot/L961290
298 species (+14 other taxa) - Year-round, All years
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Waterfowl
White-faced Whistling-Duck
White-backed Duck
Egyptian Goose
Spur-winged Goose
Garganey
Blue-billed Teal
African Black Duck
Yellow-billed Duck
Red-billed Duck
Southern Pochard
Grouse, Quail, and Allies
Helmeted Guineafowl
Eastern Crested Guineafowl
Jackson's Spurfowl
Scaly Spurfowl
francolin/spurfowl sp.
Grebes
Little Grebe
Pigeons and Doves
Speckled Pigeon
Rameron Pigeon
Delegorgue's Pigeon
Lemon Dove
Dusky Turtle-Dove
Red-eyed Dove
Ring-necked Dove
Laughing Dove
Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove
Tambourine Dove
African Green-Pigeon
Turacos
Hartlaub's Turaco
Cuckoos
Blue-headed Coucal
White-browed Coucal
Klaas's Cuckoo
African Emerald Cuckoo
Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo
Red-chested Cuckoo
African Cuckoo
Nightjars
Pennant-winged Nightjar
Sombre Nightjar
Montane Nightjar
Swifts
Scarce Swift
Alpine Swift
Mottled Swift
Common Swift
Nyanza Swift
African Swift
Little Swift
Horus Swift
White-rumped Swift
African Palm Swift
swift sp.
Rails, Gallinules, and Allies
African Rail
Eurasian Moorhen
Red-knobbed Coot
African Swamphen
Black Crake
Cranes
Gray Crowned-Crane
Shorebirds
Black-winged Stilt
Common Ringed Plover
Three-banded Plover
Blacksmith Lapwing
Black-winged Lapwing
Crowned Lapwing
Greater Painted-Snipe
Lesser Jacana
African Jacana
African Snipe
Common Snipe
Common Sandpiper
Green Sandpiper
Marsh Sandpiper
Wood Sandpiper
Common Greenshank
Little Stint
Small Buttonquail
shorebird sp.
Storks
African Openbill
Black Stork
African Woolly-necked Stork
White Stork
Marabou Stork
Yellow-billed Stork
Shoebill and Hammerkop
Hamerkop
Herons, Ibis, and Allies
Dwarf Bittern
Little Egret
Squacco Heron
Malagasy Pond-Heron
Western Cattle Egret
Great Egret
Yellow-billed Egret
Gray Heron
Purple Heron
Black-headed Heron
Glossy Ibis
African Sacred Ibis
Hadada Ibis
African Spoonbill
Vultures, Hawks, and Allies
Secretarybird
Black-winged Kite
African Harrier-Hawk
African Cuckoo-Hawk
White-backed Vulture
Rüppell's Griffon
Bateleur
Black-chested Snake-Eagle
Crowned Eagle
Martial Eagle
Long-crested Eagle
Ayres's Hawk-Eagle
Tawny Eagle
Steppe Eagle
Gabar Goshawk
Western Marsh Harrier
African Marsh Harrier
African Goshawk
Rufous-breasted Sparrowhawk
Black Goshawk
Black Kite
African Fish-Eagle
Common Buzzard
Mountain Buzzard
Augur Buzzard
hawk sp.
eagle sp.
Owls
African Wood-Owl
Mousebirds
Speckled Mousebird
Hoopoes
Eurasian Hoopoe
Woodhoopoes and Scimitarbills
Common Scimitarbill
Hornbills
Crowned Hornbill
Silvery-cheeked Hornbill
Kingfishers
Gray-headed Kingfisher
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Bee-eaters, Rollers, and Allies
Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater
European Bee-eater
European Roller
Barbets and Toucans
Moustached Tinkerbird
Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird
Red-fronted Tinkerbird
Spot-flanked Barbet
Honeyguides
Green-backed Honeyguide
Greater Honeyguide
Woodpeckers
Rufous-necked Wryneck
Cardinal Woodpecker
Brown-backed Woodpecker
Fine-banded Woodpecker
woodpecker sp.
Falcons and Caracaras
Eurasian Kestrel
Eurasian Hobby
Lanner Falcon
Parrots, Parakeets, and Allies
Red-fronted Parrot
Cuckooshrikes
Gray Cuckooshrike
Black Cuckooshrike
Purple-throated Cuckooshrike
Old World Orioles
Eurasian Golden Oriole
African Black-headed Oriole
Black-tailed Oriole
Wattle-eyes and Batises
Chinspot Batis
Bushshrikes and Allies
Black-backed Puffback
Brown-crowned Tchagra
Tropical Boubou
Doherty's Bushshrike
Drongos
Fork-tailed Drongo
Monarch Flycatchers
African Paradise-Flycatcher
Shrikes
Red-backed Shrike
Northern Fiscal
Jays, Magpies, Crows, and Ravens
Cape Crow
Pied Crow
Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice
White-bellied Tit
Larks
Red-capped Lark
Crombecs, Longbills, and Allies
White-browed Crombec
Cisticolas and Allies
Black-collared Apalis
Green-backed Camaroptera
Black-throated Apalis
Yellow-breasted Apalis
Chestnut-throated Apalis
Black-headed Apalis
Gray Apalis
Tawny-flanked Prinia
Gray-capped Warbler
Singing Cisticola
Hunter's Cisticola
Rattling Cisticola
Levaillant's Cisticola
Aberdare Cisticola
cisticola sp.
Reed Warblers and Allies
Eastern Olivaceous Warbler
Mountain Yellow-Warbler
Sedge Warbler
Lesser Swamp Warbler
Grassbirds and Allies
Evergreen-forest Warbler
Cinnamon Bracken-Warbler
Martins and Swallows
Black Sawwing
Plain Martin
Bank Swallow
Rock Martin
Barn Swallow
Angola Swallow
Wire-tailed Swallow
Western House-Martin
Red-rumped Swallow
Lesser Striped Swallow
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Mosque Swallow
swallow sp.
Bulbuls
Slender-billed Greenbul
Eastern Mountain Greenbul
Yellow-whiskered Greenbul
Cabanis's Greenbul
greenbul sp.
Common Bulbul
Leaf Warblers
Willow Warbler
Brown Woodland-Warbler
Sylviid Warblers
Eurasian Blackcap
African Hill Babbler
Greater Whitethroat
White-eyes, Yuhinas, and Allies
Kikuyu White-eye
Northern Yellow White-eye
Laughingthrushes and Allies
Northern Pied-Babbler
Oxpeckers
Red-billed Oxpecker
Yellow-billed Oxpecker
Starlings and Mynas
Wattled Starling
Violet-backed Starling
Slender-billed Starling
Red-winged Starling
Sharpe's Starling
Abbott's Starling
Superb Starling
Greater Blue-eared Starling
myna/starling sp.
Thrushes
Abyssinian Ground-Thrush
Abyssinian Thrush
Old World Flycatchers
African Dusky Flycatcher
Spotted Flycatcher
Pale Flycatcher
White-eyed Slaty-Flycatcher
Brown-backed Scrub-Robin
Cape Robin-Chat
Rüppell's Robin-Chat
White-starred Robin
Brown-chested Alethe
Common Nightingale
Little Rock-Thrush
Whinchat
African Stonechat
Moorland Chat
Northern Anteater-Chat
Northern Wheatear
Capped Wheatear
Isabelline Wheatear
Abyssinian Wheatear
Sunbirds and Spiderhunters
Collared Sunbird
Green-headed Sunbird
Olive Sunbird
Amethyst Sunbird
Scarlet-chested Sunbird
Tacazze Sunbird
Bronze Sunbird
Malachite Sunbird
Red-tufted Sunbird
Golden-winged Sunbird
Northern Double-collared Sunbird
Eastern Double-collared Sunbird
Variable Sunbird
Cinnyris sp.
sunbird sp.
Weavers and Allies
White-browed Sparrow-Weaver
Red-headed Weaver
Baglafecht Weaver
Spectacled Weaver
Black-billed Weaver
Holub's Golden-Weaver
Speke's Weaver
Village Weaver
Chestnut Weaver
Brown-capped Weaver
Ploceus sp.
Cardinal Quelea
Red-billed Quelea
Yellow Bishop
White-winged Widowbird
Red-cowled Widowbird
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Long-tailed Widowbird
Jackson's Widowbird
Grosbeak Weaver
Estrildids
Bronze Mannikin
Black-and-white Mannikin
Yellow-bellied Waxbill
Gray-headed Nigrita
Kandt's Waxbill
Common Waxbill
Purple Grenadier
Red-cheeked Cordonbleu
Red-billed Firefinch
African Firefinch
Indigobirds and Whydahs
Pin-tailed Whydah
Village Indigobird
Old World Sparrows
House Sparrow
Kenya Rufous Sparrow
Parrot-billed Sparrow
Wagtails and Pipits
Cape Wagtail
Mountain Wagtail
Gray Wagtail
Western Yellow Wagtail
African Pied Wagtail
African Pipit
Tree Pipit
Sharpe's Longclaw
Yellow-throated Longclaw
Finches, Euphonias, and Allies
African Citril
Reichenow's Seedeater
Brimstone Canary
Streaky Seedeater
Thick-billed Seedeater
Yellow-crowned Canary
Old World Buntings
Golden-breasted Bunting
Others
passerine sp.
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