Bird-watching in Kenya

   In Kenya, I picked up the hobby of bird watching. There are one thousand sixty five species of birds in Kenya. There are birds everywhere you look; on the ground, in bushes, on fences and flying in the sky. So pretty much in Kenya you can never get away from birds.

So far on this trip I have seen and identified eleven birds; some big, some small. Some big ones were Ostriches (2 to 2.5 M), Hadeda Ibis (76 cm) and the Steppe Eagle (75cm). My favorite of these birds is the Hadeda Ibis. An adult is mostly brown with a curved black and red beak and a metalic blue spot on its wing. There are also the smaller birds such as the Helmeted Guinea Fowl (51-56 cm). the Speckeled Mousebird (33cm), Nubian Woodpecker (18cm), African Black-headed oriole (23cm), African Pied Crow (46cm), Coromon Bulbul (18 cm), African pied wagtail(which I like to call the tuxedo bird) (20cm), Supurb Starling (18cm) and the Marico Sunbird (13 cm). My favorite of these if the Superb Starling because it is so colorful. It has a black head and tail, a red breast, blue wings with black spots and a white rear end. The favorite bird that I've seen in my backyard is called Fisher's Lovebird. It has a black crown, red face, dark green wings and light green belly and breast. Here are some pictures of the birds I've seen: