KENYA BIRD CHECKLIST
Remote Species
AFRICA
KENYA
| Area (SqMi): | 224,962 |
| # Species: | 1126 |
| # Excl Vagrants: | 1071 |
| # Endemics: | 10 |
| # Near Endemics: | 35 |
| Species/1000 SqMi: | 4.8 |
OTHER COUNTRIES
IN AFRICA
BIRDING LOCALES
STATUS CODES
| Code | Description | ## |
| NT | Near Threatened | 12 |
| V | Vulnerable | 2 |
| EN | Endangered | 6 |
| CR | Critically Endangered | 1 |
Species counts in code tables depend on completeness of the data. For some countries or locales, data may not include all species or information on species presence may be incomplete.
List of species in the country occurring in remote locales not typically visited by birding tours. Table indicates whether each species is globally threatened or endangered according to the IUCN and also whether it is migratory, very rare, or accidental in the country. See sidebar for meaning of location codes and symbols associated with common names.*
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| 1 | Ring-necked Francolin | Scleroptera streptophorus | ||
| 2 | Orange River Francolin | Scleroptera levaillantoides | ||
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| 3 | White-winged Collared-Dove | Streptopelia reichenowi | ||
| 4 | Bruce's Green-Pigeon | Treron waalia | ||
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| 5 | Four-banded Sandgrouse | Pterocles quadricinctus | ||
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| 6 | Arabian Bustard | Ardeotis arabs | ||
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| 7 | Fischer's Turaco | Tauraco fischeri | ||
| 8 | Purple-crested Turaco | Gallirex porphyreolophus | ||
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| 9 | /Lesser Cuckoo/ | Cuculus poliocephalus | ||
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| 10 | #Long-tailed Nightjar# | Caprimulgus climacurus | ||
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| 11 | Mottled Spinetail | Telacanthura ussheri | ||
| 12 | Bat-like Spinetail | Neafrapus boehmi | ||
| 13 | /Forbes-Watson's Swift/ | Apus berliozi | ||
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| 14 | Striped Flufftail | Sarothrura affinis | ||
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| 15 | /Eurasian Oystercatcher/ | Haematopus ostralegus | ||
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| 16 | Black-rumped Buttonquail | Turnix nanus | ||
| 17 | Quail-plover | Ortyxelos meiffrenii | ||
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| 18 | Crab-Plover | Dromas ardeola | ||
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| 19 | \Madagascar Pratincole\ | Glareola ocularis | ||
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| 20 | Beaudouin's Snake-Eagle | Circaetus beaudouini | ||
| 21 | Fasciated Snake-Eagle | Circaetus fasciolatus | ||
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| 22 | Sokoke Scops-Owl | Otus ireneae | ||
| 23 | Southern White-faced Owl | Ptilopsis granti | ||
| 24 | African Barred Owlet | Glaucidium capense | ||
| 25 | Abyssinian Owl | Asio abyssinicus | ||
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| 26 | Black-billed Woodhoopoe | Phoeniculus somaliensis | ||
| 27 | Forest Scimitarbill | Rhinopomastus castaneiceps | ||
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| 28 | Half-collared Kingfisher | Alcedo semitorquata | ||
| 29 | Shining-blue Kingfisher | Alcedo quadribrachys | ||
| 30 | Mangrove Kingfisher | Halcyon senegaloides | ||
| 31 | Blue-breasted Kingfisher | Halcyon malimbica | ||
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| 32 | Green Barbet | Cryptolybia olivacea | ||
| 33 | White-eared Barbet | Stactolaema leucotis | ||
| 34 | Green Tinkerbird | Pogoniulus simplex | ||
| 35 | Black-collared Barbet | Lybius torquatus | ||
| 36 | Brown-breasted Barbet | Pogonornis melanopterus | ||
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| 37 | Mombasa Woodpecker | Campethera mombassica | ||
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| 38 | #Dickinson's Kestrel# | Falco dickinsoni | ||
| 39 | /Barbary Falcon**/ | Falco pelegrinoides | ||
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| 40 | Brown-headed Parrot | Poicephalus cryptoxanthus | ||
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| 41 | Green-headed Oriole | Oriolus chlorocephalus | ||
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| 42 | Short-tailed Batis | Batis mixta | ||
| 43 | Pale Batis | Batis soror | ||
| 44 | Eastern Black-headed Batis | Batis minor | ||
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| 45 | Retz's Helmetshrike | Prionops retzii | ||
| 46 | Chestnut-fronted Helmetshrike | Prionops scopifrons | ||
| 47 | Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher | Bias musicus | ||
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| 48 | Red-naped Bushshrike | Laniarius ruficeps | ||
| 49 | Zanzibar Boubou | Laniarius sublacteus | ||
| 50 | Four-colored Bushshrike | Telophorus viridis | ||
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| 51 | African Crested Flycatcher | Trochocercus cyanomelas | ||
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| 52 | House Crow | Corvus splendens | ||
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| 53 | White-shouldered Black-Tit | Melaniparus guineensis | ||
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| 54 | <Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark> | Eremopterix leucotis | ||
| 55 | Collared Lark | Mirafra collaris | ||
| 56 | Gillett's Lark | Mirafra gilletti | ||
| 57 | Masked Lark | Spizocorys personata | ||
| 58 | Crested Lark | Galerida cristata | ||
| 59 | Thekla's Lark | Galerida theklae | ||
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| 60 | Kretschmer's Longbill | Macrosphenus kretschmeri | ||
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| 61 | Green-backed Eremomela | Eremomela canescens | ||
| 62 | Bar-throated Apalis | Apalis thoracica | ||
| 63 | Taita Apalis | Apalis fuscigularis | ||
| 64 | White-winged Apalis | Apalis chariessa | ||
| 65 | Brown-headed Apalis | Apalis alticola | ||
| 66 | Red-pate Cisticola | Cisticola ruficeps | ||
| 67 | Tana River Cisticola | Cisticola restrictus | ||
| 68 | Coastal Cisticola | Cisticola haematocephala | ||
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| 69 | Little Rush Warbler | Bradypterus baboecala | ||
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| 70 | \Mascarene Martin\ | Phedina borbonica | ||
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| 71 | Stripe-cheeked Greenbul | Arizelocichla milanjensis | ||
| 72 | Tiny Greenbul | Phyllastrephus debilis | ||
| 73 | Placid Greenbul** | Phyllastrephus placidus | ||
| 74 | Yellow-streaked Greenbul | Phyllastrephus flavostriatus | ||
| 75 | Terrestrial Brownbul | Phyllastrephus terrestris | ||
| 76 | Fischer's Greenbul | Phyllastrephus fischeri | ||
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| 77 | Yellow-throated Woodland-Warbler | Phylloscopus ruficapilla | ||
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| 78 | Yellow Flycatcher | Erythrocercus holochlorus | ||
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| 79 | Mbulu White-eye | Zosterops mbuluensis | ||
| 80 | Taita White-eye | Zosterops silvarnus | ||
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| 81 | Tanzanian Illadopsis | Illadopsis distans | ||
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| 82 | Scaly Babbler | Turdoides squamulata | ||
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| 83 | Kenrick's Starling | Poeoptera kenricki | ||
| 84 | <Shelley's Starling> | Lamprotornis shelleyi | ||
| 85 | White-crowned Starling | Lamprotornis albicapillus | ||
| 86 | Bronze-tailed Starling | Lamprotornis chalcurus | ||
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| 87 | Red-tailed Ant-Thrush | Neocossyphus rufus | ||
| 88 | \Spotted Ground-Thrush\ | Geokichla guttata | ||
| 89 | Taita Thrush | Turdus helleri | ||
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| 90 | Bearded Scrub-Robin | Cercotrichas quadrivirgata | ||
| 91 | Collared Palm-Thrush | Cichladusa arquata | ||
| 92 | East Coast Akalat | Sheppardia gunningi | ||
| 93 | <Heuglin's Wheatear> | Oenanthe heuglinii | ||
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| 94 | Plain-backed Sunbird | Anthreptes reichenowi | ||
| 95 | Uluguru Violet-backed Sunbird | Anthreptes neglectus | ||
| 96 | Amani Sunbird | Hedydipna pallidigaster | ||
| 97 | Mouse-colored Sunbird | Cyanomitra veroxii | ||
| 98 | Usambara Double-collared Sunbird | Cinnyris usambaricus | ||
| 99 | Tsavo Sunbird | Cinnyris tsavoensis | ||
| 100 | Violet-breasted Sunbird | Cinnyris chalcomelas | ||
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| 101 | Red Weaver | Anaplectes jubaensis | ||
| 102 | African Golden-Weaver | Ploceus subaureus | ||
| 103 | Orange Weaver | Ploceus aurantius | ||
| 104 | Taveta Golden-Weaver | Ploceus castaneiceps | ||
| 105 | Heuglin's Masked-Weaver | Ploceus heuglini | ||
| 106 | <Rueppell's Weaver> | Ploceus galbula | ||
| 107 | Clarke's Weaver | Ploceus golandi | ||
| 108 | Salvadori's Weaver | Ploceus dichrocephalus | ||
| 109 | Zanzibar Red Bishop | Euplectes nigroventris | ||
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| 110 | Magpie Mannikin | Spermestes fringilloides | ||
| 111 | Locustfinch | Paludipasser locustella | ||
| 112 | Black-bellied Seedcracker | Pyrenestes ostrinus | ||
| 113 | Peters's Twinspot | Hypargos niveoguttatus | ||
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| 114 | Broad-tailed Paradise-Whydah | Vidua obtusa | ||
| 115 | Variable Indigobird | Vidua funerea | ||
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| 116 | Shelley's Rufous Sparrow | Passer shelleyi | ||
| 117 | Swainson's Sparrow | Passer swainsonii | ||
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| 118 | Malindi Pipit | Anthus melindae | ||
| 119 | Striped Pipit | Anthus lineiventris | ||
| 120 | Sokoke Pipit | Anthus sokokensis | ||
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| 121 | West African Seedeater | Crithagra canicapilla | ||
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| 122 | Striolated Bunting | Emberiza striolata | ||
*Nomenclature and taxonomic affinities are based on Clements 6th Edition published 2007 with updates through 2021 maintained by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, which relies largely on the AOU and SACC nomenclature committees. IUCN status may reflect splits not currently recognized by Clements.
**Species not accepted by Clements, AOU, or SACC that we recognize based on the IOC, field observations along with geographical separation, consensus opinions of field guide authors, and other sources. These species are potential splits in future Clements updates.