Site Report: Kitale - Eldoret Road

Common Bulbul (Pycnonotus barbatus)

Village Weaver (Ploceus cucullatus)

Northern Gray-headed Sparrow (Passer griseus)

European Honey Buzzard (Pernis Apivorus)




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Common Bulbul (Pycnonotus barbatus)

Village Weaver (Ploceus cucullatus)

Northern Gray-headed Sparrow (Passer griseus)

European Honey Buzzard (Pernis Apivorus)
Hotel on the outskirts of Kitale.
Visits
- 2013-11-06: After spending the day fixing the car, it turns out the car was broken again. So, we waited all morning at the hotel to have some new struts installed. I had seen a brand new sign advertising the hotel, so I thought maybe the hotel was new as well. And it was.
Species Seen
Kingdom: Animals (15 records)
Phylum: Chordates
(15 records)
Class: Birds
(15 records)
- Order: Coliiformes
(1 record)
- Family: Mousebirds
- Speckled Mousebird (Colius striatus)
- Order: Hawks, Eagles, Kites, and Allies
(1 record)
- Family: Hawks, Eagles, and Kites
- European Honey-buzzard (Pernis apivorus)
- Order: Musophagiformes
(1 record)
- Family: Turacos
- Ross's Turaco (Tauraco rossae)
- Order: Pelicans
(1 record)
- Family: Ibises and Spoonbills
- Hadada Ibis (Bostrychia hagedash)
- Order: Perching Birds
(11 records)
- Family: Bulbuls
- Common Bulbul (Pycnonotus barbatus)
- Family: Jays and Crows
- Pied Crow (Corvus albus)
- Family: Old World Sparrows
- Northern Gray-headed Sparrow (Passer griseus)
- Village Weaver (Ploceus cucullatus)
- Bronze Mannikin (Spermestes cucullata)
- Family: Prinias and Apalis
- Singing Cisticola (Cisticola cantans)
- Family: Shrikes
- Northern Fiscal (Lanius humeralis)
- Family: Sunbirds
- Bronze Sunbird (Nectarinia kilimensis)
- Family: Thrushes and Allies
- Abyssinian Thrush (Turdus abyssinicus)
- White-eyed Slaty-Flycatcher (Melaenornis fischeri)
- Family: Wagtails and Pipits
- African Pied Wagtail (Motacilla aguimp)