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| This was a wonderful safari including Samburu, Treetops, Lake Nakuru, Lake Naivasha and the Masai Mara. Though it was primarily a game viewing trip, our driver was a bird expert and, without binoculars, was able to identify species at great distances. The holiday was marred by the fact that our rooms were burgled at the famous Treetops hotel (allegedly the first burglary ever committed there!) and we then had to survive a few days with minimal possessions and clothes. We returned to the fancy hotel in Nairobi with our few remaining items in carrier bags and drew some funny looks from hotel guests and staff! Having lost my electric razor, I went to a barber in the city and subjected myself to a shave with a cut-throat razor - the only one of my life. This number of birds is the largest seen on any of our holidays. | ||
| African firefinch | grey headed sparrow | red headed weaver |
| African pied wagtail | grey heron | red rumped swallow |
| African sand martin | grey woodpecker | red winged starling |
| augur buzzard | hadada ibis | Reichenow's weaver |
| banded martin | hammerkop | Richard's pipit |
| bare eyed thrush | harrier hawk | ring necked dove |
| bateleur | helmeted guineafowl | rufous chatterer |
| black backed puffback | Hildebrandt's starling | rufous sparrow |
| black chested harrier eagle | hooded vulture | Ruppell's long tailed starling |
| black crake | hoopoe | Ruppell's robin chat |
| black headed heron | Hottentot teal | Ruppell's vulture |
| black kite | kikuyu white-eye | sacred ibis |
| black rough winged swallow | Kittlitz's plover | scrub robin |
| black shouldered kite | Kori bustard | secretary bird |
| black tailed godwit | laughing dove | Somali bee eater |
| black winged stilt | lesser flamingo | spectacled mousebird |
| blacksmith plover | lilac breasted roller | spectacled pigeon |
| blue eared glossy starling | little egret | Speke's weaver |
| bronze sunbird | little swift | spotted morning warbler |
| cattle egret | long crested eagle | spur winged plover |
| chestnut weaver | maribou stork | striped kingfisher |
| common shrike | martial eagle | striped swallow |
| coot | moorhen | superb starling |
| crested francolin | mosque swallow | tawny eagle |
| crowned plover | mourning dove | Van der Decken's hornbill |
| crowned crane | nightjar | variable sunbird |
| dabchick | Nubian vulture | Verreaux's eagle |
| D'Arnaud's barbet | Nubian woodpecker | wattled starling |
| drongo | olive thrush | whie browed coucal |
| Eastern double collared sunbird | orange bellied parrot | whiskered tern |
| Egyptian goose | osprey | white backed vulture |
| emerald spotted wood dove | ostrich | white bellied go-away bird |
| fiscal shrike | pale chanting goshawk | white browed robin chat |
| Fischer's lovebird | palm nut vulture | white browed sparrow weaver |
| fish eagle | palm swift | white headed buffalo weaver |
| giant kingfisher | paradise flycatcher | white necked cormorant |
| golden breasted starling | paradise whydah | white pelican |
| golden palm weaver | pied crow | white throated bee eater |
| great white egret | pied kingfisher | white winged black tern |
| green backed heron | pied starling | winding cisticola |
| green wood hoopoe | pink backed pelican | yellow billed duck |
| grey backed camaraptora | purple heron | yellow billed egret |
| grey backed fiscal shrike | pygmy falcon | yellow billed stork |
| grey headed bush shrike | red billed hornbill | yellow bishop |
| grey headed gull | red billed oxpecker | yellow neck spurfowl |
| grey headed kingfisher | red breasted cuckoo | yellow vented bulbul |
| grey headed social weaver | red collared widow-bird | TOTAL: 140 |
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| Page last updated 04.03.04 | ||