…and our final day. A quick walk around the hotel grounds
revealed two unexpectedly familiar birds – Tree Pipit and Common Whitethroat, I
couldn’t get terribly excited about either!
Our final morning involved a brief drive to the wonderful
Gibb’s Farm where we could get in a final stint of birdwatching before the trip
ended. The prime bird was the wonderful White-tailed Blue-flycatcher which was
seen distantly within a few minutes of our arrival but refused to get close
enough for photos. Bronze, Green-headed and Variable Sunbirds were all added to
my list along with a long awaited Dusky Turtle Dove.
Green-headed Sunbird
Variable Sunbird
The
final tick of all was the rather underwhelming Thick-billed Seedeater.
Lists
Birds:
1 Ostrich
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Ostrich |
2 Black-necked Grebe
3 Little Grebe
4 Great White Pelican
5 Pink-backed Pelican
6 Great Cormorant
7 Long-tailed Cormorant
8 Grey Heron
9 Black-headed Heron
10 Goliath Heron
11 Black Heron
12 Little Egret
13 Squacco Heron
14 Cattle Egret
15 Striated Heron
16 Black-crowned Night Heron
17 Hamerkop
18 Yellow-billed Stork
19 Black Stork
20 Eurasian White Stork
21 Marabou Stork
22 Sacred Ibis
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Yellow-billed Stork |
23 Hadada Ibis
24 Glossy Ibis
25 African Spoonbill
26 Greater Flamingo
27 Lesser Flamingo
28 White-faced Whistling-duck
29 White-backed Duck
30 Egyptian Goose
31 Cape Teal
32 Red-billed Duck
33 Hottentot Teal
34 Northern Shoveler
35 Southern Pochard
36 Black-shouldered Kite
37 Yellow-billed Kite
|
Lappet-faced Vulture |
38 African Fish-eagle
39 Palm-nut Vulture
40 Hooded Vulture
41 White-backed Vulture
42 Rueppell's Griffon
43 Lappet-faced Vulture
44 Black-breasted Snake-eagle
45 Bateleur
46 Eurasian Marsh Harrier
47 Pallid Harrier
48 Montagu's Harrier
49 Dark Chanting-goshawk
50 Common Buzzard
51 Mountain Buzzard
52 Augur Buzzard
53 Tawny Eagle
54 African Hawk-eagle
|
Secretary Bird |
55 Martial Eagle
56 Long-crested Eagle
57 Crowned Hawk-eagle
58 Secretary-bird
59 Lesser Kestrel
60 Common Kestrel
61 Grey Kestrel
62 Eurasian Hobby
63 Coqui Francolin
64 Crested Francolin
65 Hildebrandt's Francolin
66 Yellow-necked Francolin
67 Grey-breasted Francolin
68 Red-necked Francolin
69 Helmeted Guineafowl
70 Grey Crowned-crane
|
Kori Bustard |
71 African Rail
72 Black Crake
73 Common Moorhen
74 Red-knobbed Coot
75 Kori Bustard
76 White-bellied Bustard
77 Black-bellied Bustard
78 African Jacana
79 Greater Painted-snipe
80 Black-winged Stilt
81 Pied Avocet
82 Water Thick-knee
83 Temminck's Courser
84 Double-banded Courser
85 Collared Pratincole
86 Long-toed Lapwing
87 Blacksmith Lapwing
|
Black-bellied Bustard |
88 Spur-winged Lapwing
89 Black-winged Lapwing
90 Crowned Lapwing
91 Wattled Lapwing
92 Ringed Plover
93 Kittlitz's Plover
94 Three-banded Plover
95 Chestnut-banded Plover
96 Common Snipe
97 Whimbrel
98 Marsh Sandpiper
99 Common Greenshank
100 Green Sandpiper
101 Wood Sandpiper
102 Common Sandpiper
103 Little Stint
104 Curlew Sandpiper
105 Ruff
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Emerald-spotted Wood-dove |
106 Whiskered Tern
107 Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse
108 Yellow-throated Sandgrouse
109 Speckled Pigeon
110 Dusky Turtle-dove
111 African Mourning Dove
112 Red-eyed Dove
113 Ring-necked Dove
114 Laughing Dove
115 Emerald-spotted Wood-dove
116 Blue-spotted Wood Dove
117 Namaqua Dove
118 African Green-pigeon
119 Fischer's Lovebird
120 Yellow-collared Lovebird
121 Meyer's Parrot
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Striped Kingfisher |
122 Red-bellied Parrot
123 Bare-faced Go-away-bird
124 White-bellied Go-away-bird
125 Red-chested Cuckoo
126 White-browed Coucal
127 Pearl-spotted Owlet
128 African Palm-swift
129 Alpine Swift
130 Nyanza Swift
131 Little Swift
132 Scarce Swift
133 Speckled Mousebird
134 Malachite Kingfisher
135 Grey-headed Kingfisher
136 Brown-hooded Kingfisher
137 Striped Kingfisher
138 White-fronted Bee-eater
139 Little Bee-eater
|
Little Bee-eater |
140 Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater
141 European Bee-eater
142 White-throated Bee-eater
143 European Roller
144 Lilac-breasted Roller
145 Rufous-crowned Roller
146 African Hoopoe
147 Green Woodhoopoe
148 Red-billed Hornbill
149 Von Der Decken's Hornbill
150 Crowned Hornbill
151 Silvery-cheeked Hornbill
152 Southern Ground-hornbill
153 White-eared Barbet
154 Spot-flanked Barbet
155 White-headed Barbet
|
Golden-tailed Woodpecker |
156 Brown-breasted Barbet
157 Red-and-yellow Barbet
158 D'arnaud's Barbet
159 Wahlberg's Honeybird
160 Nubian Woodpecker
161 Bearded Woodpecker
162 Grey Woodpecker
163 Golden-tailed Woodpecker
164 Rufous-naped Lark
165 Fischer's Sparrow-lark
166 Red-capped Lark
167 Sand Martin
168 Plain Martin
169 Banded Martin
170 Rock Martin
171 Barn Swallow
172 Wire-tailed Swallow
173 Red-rumped Swallow
|
Winding Cisticola |
174 Black Sawwing
175 African Pied Wagtail
176 Yellow Wagtail
177 Pangani Longclaw
178 Plain-backed Pipit
179 Common Bulbul
180 Olive Thrush
181 Trilling Cisticola
182 Hunter's Cisticola
183 Rattling Cisticola
184 Winding Cisticola
185 Tawny-flanked Prinia
186 Yellow-breasted Apalis
187 Black-headed Apalis
188 Green-backed Camaroptera
189 Moustached Grass-warbler
190 Lesser Swamp-warbler
191 Red-faced Crombec
|
White-browed Robin-chat |
192 Willow Warbler
193 Common Whitethroat
194 Silverbird
195 African Grey Flycatcher
196 White-eyed Slaty-flycatcher
197 Spotted Flycatcher
198 African Dusky Flycatcher
199 Cape Robin-chat
200 White-browed Robin-chat
201 Spotted Morning-thrush
202 White-browed Scrub-robin
203 Whinchat
204 African Stonechat
205 Northern Wheatear
206 Capped Wheatear
207 Schalow's Wheatear
|
Paradise Flycatcher |
208 Northern Anteater-chat
209 Sooty Chat
210 Mocking Cliff-chat
211 White-tailed Blue-flycatcher
212 African Paradise-flycatcher
213 Black-lored Babbler
214 Northern Pied-babbler
215 Arrow-marked Babbler
216 Collared Sunbird
217 Amethyst Sunbird
218 Scarlet-chested Sunbird
219 Tacazze Sunbird
220 Bronze Sunbird
221 Green-headed Sunbird
222 Golden-winged Sunbird
223 Eastern Double-collared Sunbird
224 Variable Sunbird
225 Marico Sunbird
|
Eastern Double-collared Sunbird |
226 African Yellow White-eye
227 Montane White-eye
228 African Black-headed Oriole
229 Red-backed Shrike
230 Grey-backed Fiscal
231 Long-tailed Fiscal
232 Common Fiscal
233 Magpie Shrike
234 Northern White-crowned Shrike
235 Brubru
236 Black-backed Puffback
237 Black-crowned Tchagra
238 Brown-crowned Tchagra
239 Tropical Boubou
240 Slate-coloured Boubou
241 Sulphur-breasted Bushshrike
242 Fork-tailed Drongo
|
Ruppell's Glossy Starling |
243 Cape Crow
244 Pied Crow
245 White-necked Raven
246 Wattled Starling
247 Gtr Blue-eared Glossy-starling
248 Ruppell's Glossy-starling
249 Superb Starling
250 Hildebrandt's Starling
251 Ashy Starling
252 Red-winged Starling
253 Red-billed Oxpecker
254 Yellow-billed Oxpecker
255 House Sparrow
256 Kenya Rufous-sparrow
257 Grey-headed Sparrow
258 Chestnut Sparrow
|
Hildebrandt's Starling |
259 Red-billed Buffalo-weaver
260 White-headed Buffalo-weaver
261 Speckle-fronted Weaver
262 Rufous-tailed Weaver
263 Grey-headed Social-weaver
264 Baglafecht Weaver
265 Holub's Golden-weaver
266 Vitelline Masked-weaver
267 Speke's Weaver
268 Black-necked Weaver
269 Red-headed Weaver
270 Red-billed Quelea
271 Black Bishop
272 Yellow Bishop
273 Fan-tailed Widowbird
274 Red-collared Widowbird
|
Thick-billed Seedeater |
275 Green-winged Pytilia
276 Red-billed Firefinch
277 Red-cheeked Cordonbleu
278 Blue-capped Cordonbleu
279 Common Waxbill
280 Black-faced Waxbill
281 Bronze Mannikin
282 Cut-throat Amadina fasciata
283 Straw-tailed Whydah
284 Thick-billed Seedeater
285 White-bellied Canary
286 Brimstone Canary
287 Streaky Seedeater
288 Cinnamon-breasted Bunting
Animals:
1 Warthog
|
Warthog |
2 Hippopotamus
3 Masai Giraffe
4 Kirk's Dik-Dik
5 Klipspringer
6 Bushbuck
7 Eland
8 Common Waterbuck
9 Defassa Waterbuck
10 Bohor Reedbuck
11 Topi
12 Coke's Hartebeeste
13 Blue Wildebeest
14 Impala
15 Grant's Gazelle
16 Thomson's Gazelle
17 Red Duiker
18 Steinbok
|
Topi |
19 African Buffalo
20 Plains Zebra Equus quagga
21 Black Rhinoceros
22 Rock Hyrax
23 Yellow-spotted Rock Hyrax
24 African Elephant
25 Unstriped Ground Squirrel
26 Ochre Bush Squirrel
27 African Hare
28 African Grass Rat
29 Black-backed Jackal
30 Golden (Common) Jackal
31 Bat-eared Fox
32 Slender Mongoose
33 Banded Mongoose
34 Eastern Dwarf Mongoose
|
Great Plated Lizard |
35 Spotted Hyena
36 Lion
37 Leopard
38 Cheetah
39 Olive Baboon
40 Blue Monkey
41 Vervet Monkey
42 Guereza Colobus
43 Small-eared Greater Galago
44 African Wild Dog
45 Cotton's Oribi
46 Nile Crocodile
47 Agama Lizard
48 Great Plated Lizard