Birds in Lake Nakuru national Park
BIRDS IN LAKE NAKURU NATIONAL PARK
Birds in Lake Nakuru national Park : Lake Nakuru national is of the major and greatest birding destinations in Kenya famed for being a haven to over 1 million of greater and lesser flamingoes, Lake Nakuru national park is located on the floor of the Great Rift Valley near Nakuru Town about 157 kilometers from Nairobi city.
Lake Nakuru national park is an ecologically diverse area comprising of Lake Nakuru a swallow and strongly alkaline lake surrounded by woodlands and grassland set in a picturesque landscape. The name Nakuru is a Maasai word meaning Dust or Dusty Place.
Lake Nakuru national park is a Ramsar Site boosting up to 450 species of bird species including 1,496,000 water birds, 5 globally threatened species and migratory species.
Birds in Lake Nakuru national park include
| ANSERIFORMES: Anatidae | |
| White-faced Whistling Duck | |
| Fulvous Whistling Duck | |
| Maccoa Duck | |
| Egyptian Goose | |
| Southern Pochard | |
| Garganey | |
| Hottentot Teal | |
| Northern Shoveler | |
| Eurasian Wigeon | |
| African Black Duck | |
| Yellow-billed Duck | |
| Cape Teal | |
| Red-billed Teal | |
| Northern Pintail | |
| Common Teal | |
| White-backed Duck | |
| Spur-winged Goose | |
| Comb Duck | |
| African Pygmy Goose | |
| Harlequin Quail | |
| Hildebrandt’s Francolin | |
| Scaly Francolin | |
| Yellow-necked Spurfowl | |
| Crested Francolin | |
| Coqui Francolin | |
| Moorland Francolin | |
| Shelley’s Francolin | |
| Greater Flamingo | |
| Lesser Flamingo | |
| PHOENICOPTERIFORMES: Podicipedidae | |
| Little Grebe | |
| Great Crested Grebe | |
| Black-necked Grebe | |
| COLUMBIFORMES: Columbidae | |
| Speckled Pigeon | |
| African Olive Pigeon | |
| Lemon Dove | |
| Dusky Turtle Dove | |
| Mourning Collared Dove | |
| Red-eyed Dove | |
| Ring-necked Dove | |
| Laughing Dove | |
| African Green Pigeon | |
| Emerald-spotted Wood Dove | |
| Blue-spotted Wood Dove | |
| Tambourine Dove | |
| Namaqua Dove | |
| CAPRIMULGIFORMES: Caprimulgidae | |
| European Nightjar | |
| Sombre Nightjar | |
| Montane Nightjar | |
| Freckled Nightjar | |
| Slender-tailed Nightjar | |
| African Palm Swift | |
| Mottled Swift | |
| White-rumped Swift | |
| Horus Swift | |
| Little Swift | |
| Nyanza Swift | |
| African Swift | |
| Common Swift | |
| White-browed Coucal | |
| Jacobin Cuckoo | |
| Levaillant’s Cuckoo | |
| Great Spotted Cuckoo | |
| Thick-billed Cuckoo | |
| Klaas’s Cuckoo | |
| African Emerald Cuckoo | |
| Diederick Cuckoo | |
| Red-chested Cuckoo | |
| Black Cuckoo | |
| Common Cuckoo | |
| African Cuckoo | |
| GRUIFORMES: Rallidae | |
| African Rail | |
| African Crake | |
| Black Crake | |
| Purple Swamphen | |
| Common Moorhen | |
| Lesser Moorhen | |
| Red-knobbed Coot | |
| GRUIFORMES: Gruidae | |
| Grey Crowned Crane | |
| OTIDIFORMES: Otididae | |
| Black-bellied Bustard | |
| Kori Bustard | |
| White-bellied Bustard | |
| MUSOPHAGIFORMES: Musophagidae | |
| White-bellied Go-away-bird | |
| Bare-faced Go-away-bird | |
| Hartlaub’s Turaco | |
| PELECANIFORMES: Ciconiidae | |
| Marabou | |
| Yellow-billed Stork | |
| African Openbill | |
| Black Stork | |
| Abdim’s Stork | |
| Woolly-necked Stork | |
| European White Stork | |
| Saddle-bill Stork | |
| PELECANIFORMES: Pelecanidae | |
| Great White Pelican | |
| Pink-backed Pelican | |
| PELECANIFORMES: Scopidae | |
| Hamerkop | |
| PELECANIFORMES: Ardeidae | |
| Little Bittern | |
| Dwarf Bittern | |
| Black-crowned Night Heron | |
| Striated Heron | |
| Squacco Heron | |
| Madagascar Pond Heron | |
| Cattle Egret | |
| Grey Heron | |
| Black-headed Heron | |
| Goliath Heron | |
| Purple Heron | |
| Great Egret | |
| Intermediate Egret | |
| Black Heron | |
| Little Egret | |
| Western Reef Egret | |
| PELECANIFORMES: Threskiornithidae | |
| African Sacred Ibis | |
| African Spoonbill | |
| Hadada Ibis | |
| Glossy Ibis | |
| PELECANIFORMES: Phalacrocoracidae | |
| Long-tailed Cormorant | |
| Great Cormorant | |
| PELECANIFORMES: Anhingidae | |
| African Darter | |
| CHARADRIIFORMES: Burhinidae | |
| Eurasian Thick-knee | |
| Water Thick-knee | |
| Spotted Thick-knee | |
| CHARADRIIFORMES: Recurvirostridae | |
| Pied Avocet | |
| Black-winged Stilt | |
| CHARADRIIFORMES: Charadriidae | |
| Grey Plover | |
| Pacific Golden Plover | |
| Common Ringed Plover | |
| Little Ringed Plover | |
| Kittlitz’s Plover | |
| Three-banded Plover | |
| Kentish Plover | |
| Chestnut-banded Plover | |
| Lesser Sand Plover | |
| Greater Sand Plover | |
| Caspian Plover | |
| Long-toed Lapwing | |
| Blacksmith Lapwing | |
| Spur-winged Lapwing | |
| Black-winged Lapwing | |
| Crowned Lapwing | |
| African Wattled Lapwing | |
| CHARADRIIFORMES: Rostratulidae | |
| Greater Painted-snipe | |
| CHARADRIIFORMES: Jacanidae | |
| African Jacana | |
| Lesser Jacana | |
| CHARADRIIFORMES: Scolopacidae | |
| Whimbrel | |
| Eurasian Curlew | |
| Bar-tailed Godwit | |
| Black-tailed Godwit | |
| Ruddy Turnstone | |
| Ruff | |
| Curlew Sandpiper | |
| Temminck’s Stint | |
| Sanderling | |
| Dunlin | |
| Little Stint | |
| African Snipe | |
| Common Snipe | |
| Terek Sandpiper | |
| Common Sandpiper | |
| Green Sandpiper | |
| Spotted Redshank | |
| Common Greenshank | |
| Common Redshank | |
| Wood Sandpiper | |
| Marsh Sandpiper | |
| Red-necked Phalarope | |
| CHARADRIIFORMES: Turnicidae | |
| Common Buttonquail | |
| CHARADRIIFORMES: Glareolidae | |
| Double-banded Courser | |
| Temminck’s Courser | |
| Collared Pratincole | |
| CHARADRIIFORMES: Laridae | |
| African Skimmer | |
| Slender-billed Gull | |
| Black-headed Gull | |
| Gray-hooded Gull | |
| Lesser Black-backed Gull | |
| Saunders’s Tern | |
| Gull-billed Tern | |
| Caspian Tern | |
| Whiskered Tern | |
| White-winged Tern | |
| ACCIPITRIFORMES: Sagittariidae | |
| Secretary-bird | |
| ACCIPITRIFORMES: Pandionidae | |
| Osprey | |
| ACCIPITRIFORMES: Accipitridae | |
| Black-winged Kite | |
| Scissor-tailed Kite | |
| European Honey Buzzard | |
| African Cuckoo Hawk | |
| African Harrier Hawk | |
| Palm-nut Vulture | |
| Egyptian Vulture | |
| Bateleur | |
| Black-chested Snake Eagle | |
| Brown Snake Eagle | |
| Western Banded Snake Eagle | |
| White-headed Vulture | |
| Hooded Vulture | |
| White-backed Vulture | |
| Rüppell’s Vulture | |
| Lappet-faced Vulture | |
| Bat Hawk | |
| Crowned Eagle | |
| Martial Eagle | |
| Long-crested Eagle | |
| Lesser Spotted Eagle | |
| Greater Spotted Eagle | |
| Tawny Eagle | |
| Steppe Eagle | |
| Verreaux’s Eagle | |
| African Hawk Eagle | |
| Wahlberg’s Eagle | |
| Booted Eagle | |
| Dark Chanting Goshawk | |
| Eastern Chanting Goshawk | |
| Gabar Goshawk | |
| Western Marsh Harrier | |
| African Marsh Harrier | |
| Pallid Harrier | |
| Montagu’s Harrier | |
| African Goshawk | |
| Shikra | |
| Levant Sparrowhawk | |
| Little Sparrowhawk | |
| Ovambo Sparrowhawk | |
| Black Sparrowhawk | |
| African Fish Eagle | |
| Black Kite | |
| Grasshopper Buzzard | |
| Augur Buzzard | |
| Eurasian Buzzard | |
| Mountain Buzzard | |
| Long-legged Buzzard | |
| STRIGIFORMES: Tytonidae | |
| African Grass Owl | |
| Common Barn Owl | |
| STRIGIFORMES: Strigidae | |
| Pearl-spotted Owlet | |
| Eurasian Scops Owl | |
| Marsh Owl | |
| Cape Eagle Owl | |
| Spotted Eagle Owl | |
| Verreaux’s Eagle Owl | |
| COLIIFORMES: Coliidae | |
| Speckled Mousebird | |
| White-headed Mousebird | |
| Blue-naped Mousebird | |
| TROGONIFORMES: Trogonidae | |
| Narina’s Trogon | |
| BUCEROTIFORMES: Bucerotidae | |
| Southern Ground Hornbill | |
| Crowned Hornbill | |
| Hemprich’s Hornbill | |
| African Grey Hornbill | |
| Red-billed Hornbill | |
| Von der Decken’s Hornbill | |
| BUCEROTIFORMES: Upupidae | |
| Common Hoopoe | |
| BUCEROTIFORMES: Phoeniculidae | |
| Green Wood-hoopoe | |
| White-headed Wood-hoopoe | |
| Common Scimitarbill | |
| Abyssinian Scimitarbill | |
| PICIFORMES: Indicatoridae | |
| Wahlberg’s Honeybird | |
| Pallid Honeyguide | |
| Lesser Honeyguide | |
| Scaly-throated Honeyguide | |
| Greater Honeyguide | |
| PICIFORMES: Picidae | |
| Northern Wryneck | |
| Rufous-breasted Wryneck | |
| Nubian Woodpecker | |
| Cardinal Woodpecker | |
| Bearded Woodpecker | |
| Grey Woodpecker | |
| Brown-backed Woodpecker | |
| PICIFORMES: Ramphastidae | |
| Red-and-yellow Barbet | |
| D’Arnaud’s Barbet | |
| Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird | |
| Red-fronted Tinkerbird | |
| Red-fronted Barbet | |
| Spot-flanked Barbet | |
| White-headed Barbet | |
| CORACIIFORMES: Meropidae | |
| White-fronted Bee-eater | |
| White-throated Bee-eater | |
| Northern Carmine Bee-eater | |
| Olive Bee-eater | |
| European Bee-eater | |
| Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater | |
| Little Bee-eater | |
| CORACIIFORMES: Coraciidae | |
| Rufous-crowned Roller | |
| Lilac-breasted Roller | |
| European Roller | |
| Broad-billed Roller | |
| CORACIIFORMES: Alcedinidae | |
| African Pygmy Kingfisher | |
| African Malachite Kingfisher | |
| Giant Kingfisher | |
| Pied Kingfisher | |
| Grey-headed Kingfisher | |
| Striped Kingfisher | |
| Woodland Kingfisher | |
| FALCONIFORMES: Falconidae | |
| Lesser Kestrel | |
| Common Kestrel | |
| Greater Kestrel | |
| Fox Kestrel | |
| Grey Kestrel | |
| Amur Falcon | |
| Sooty Falcon | |
| Eurasian Hobby | |
| African Hobby | |
| Lanner Falcon | |
| Peregrine Falcon | |
| PSITTACIFORMES: Psittacidae | |
| Red-fronted Parrot | |
| Brown Parrot | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Campephagidae | |
| Grey Cuckooshrike | |
| Black Cuckooshrike | |
| Purple-throated Cuckooshrike | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Oriolidae | |
| Eastern Black-headed Oriole | |
| Eurasian Golden Oriole | |
| African Golden Oriole | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Platysteiridae | |
| Chinspot Batis | |
| Von Erlanger’s Batis | |
| Black-throated Wattle-eye | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Vangidae | |
| White-crested Helmet-shrike | |
| Grey-crested Helmet-shrike | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Malaconotidae | |
| Grey-headed Bush-shrike | |
| Black-backed Puffback | |
| Northern Puffback | |
| Brown-crowned Tchagra | |
| Black-crowned Tchagra | |
| Brubru | |
| Orange-breasted Bush-shrike | |
| Slate-coloured Boubou | |
| Tropical Boubou | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Dicruridae | |
| Fork-tailed Drongo | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Laniidae | |
| White-rumped Shrike | |
| Red-backed Shrike | |
| Turkestan Shrike | |
| Isabelline Shrike | |
| Lesser Grey Shrike | |
| Grey-backed Fiscal | |
| Long-tailed Fiscal | |
| Taita Fiscal | |
| Northern Fiscal | |
| Woodchat Shrike | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Corvidae | |
| Cape Crow | |
| White-necked Raven | |
| Pied Crow | |
| Fan-tailed Raven | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Monarchidae | |
| African Paradise-flycatcher | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Nectariniidae | |
| Collared Sunbird | |
| Green-headed Sunbird | |
| Amethyst Sunbird | |
| Scarlet-chested Sunbird | |
| Tacazze Sunbird | |
| Bronzy Sunbird | |
| Malachite Sunbird | |
| Golden-winged Sunbird | |
| Northern Double-collared Sunbird | |
| Beautiful Sunbird | |
| Mariqua Sunbird | |
| Variable Sunbird | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Ploceidae | |
| White-billed Buffalo Weaver | |
| White-browed Sparrow Weaver | |
| Speckle-fronted Weaver | |
| Grey-headed Social Weaver | |
| Grosbeak Weaver | |
| Cardinal Quelea | |
| Red-billed Quelea | |
| Yellow-crowned Bishop | |
| Red-collared Widowbird | |
| Yellow Bishop | |
| Fan-tailed Widowbird | |
| White-winged Widowbird | |
| Jackson’s Widowbird | |
| Long-tailed Widowbird | |
| Baglafecht Weaver | |
| Spectacled Weaver | |
| Black-necked Weaver | |
| Holub’s Weaver | |
| Lesser Masked Weaver | |
| Vitelline Masked Weaver | |
| Speke’s Weaver | |
| Village Weaver | |
| Chestnut Weaver | |
| Red-headed Weaver | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Estrildidae | |
| Red-billed Firefinch | |
| African Firefinch | |
| Purple Grenadier | |
| Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu | |
| Blue-capped Cordon-bleu | |
| Crimson-rumped Waxbill | |
| Common Waxbill | |
| Yellow-bellied Waxbill | |
| Cut-throat Finch | |
| Bronze Mannikin | |
| Black-and-white Mannikin | |
| Grey-headed Silverbill | |
| African Silverbill | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Viduidae | |
| Pin-tailed Whydah | |
| Eastern Paradise Whydah | |
| Village Indigobird | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Passeridae | |
| House Sparrow | |
| Kordofan Sparrow | |
| Northern Grey-headed Sparrow | |
| Chestnut Sparrow | |
| Yellow-spotted Bush Sparrow | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Motacillidae | |
| Tree Pipit | |
| Red-throated Pipit | |
| Richard’s Pipit | |
| Plain-backed Pipit | |
| African Pipit | |
| Long-billed Pipit | |
| Yellow-throated Longclaw | |
| Rosy-breasted Longclaw | |
| Mountain Wagtail | |
| Cape Wagtail | |
| Yellow Wagtail | |
| African Wagtail | |
| Grey Wagtail | |
| White Wagtail | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Fringillidae | |
| African Citril | |
| Reichenow’s Canary | |
| White-bellied Canary | |
| Brimstone Canary | |
| Abyssinian Canary | |
| Streaky Canary | |
| Thick-billed Canary | |
| Yellow-crowned Canary | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Emberizidae | |
| Golden-breasted Bunting | |
| Cinnamon-breasted Bunting | |
| Ortolan Bunting | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Paridae | |
| White-bellied Tit | |
| Red-throated Tit | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Remizidae | |
| Grey Penduline Tit | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Alaudidae | |
| Fischer’s Sparrow Lark | |
| Fawn-coloured Lark | |
| Rufous-naped Lark | |
| Flappet Lark | |
| Red-capped Lark | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Macrosphenidae | |
| Red-faced Crombec | |
| Moustached Grass Warbler | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Cisticolidae | |
| Yellow-bellied Eremomela | |
| Yellow-breasted Apalis | |
| Grey Apalis | |
| Buff-bellied Warbler | |
| Grey Wren Warbler | |
| Grey-backed Camaroptera | |
| Grey-capped Warbler | |
| Singing Cisticola | |
| Hunter’s Cisticola | |
| Rattling Cisticola | |
| Wailing Cisticola | |
| Winding Cisticola | |
| Stout Cisticola | |
| Short-winged Cisticola | |
| Zitting Cisticola | |
| Desert Cisticola | |
| Pectoral-patch Cisticola | |
| Tawny-flanked Prinia | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Locustellidae | |
| Eastern Rush Warbler | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Acrocephalidae | |
| Olivaceous Warbler | |
| Dark-capped Yellow Warbler | |
| Sedge Warbler | |
| Common Reed Warbler | |
| Lesser Swamp Warbler | |
| Great Reed Warbler | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Hirundinidae | |
| Grey-rumped Swallow | |
| White-headed Saw-wing | |
| Black Saw-wing | |
| Northern House Martin | |
| Lesser Striped Swallow | |
| Mosque Swallow | |
| Red-rumped Swallow | |
| Wire-tailed Swallow | |
| Barn Swallow | |
| Angolan Swallow | |
| Rock Martin | |
| Banded Martin | |
| Plain Martin | |
| Sand Martin | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Pycnonotidae | |
| Northern Brownbul | |
| Common Bulbul | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Phylloscopidae | |
| Willow Warbler | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Sylviidae | |
| Eurasian Blackcap | |
| Garden Warbler | |
| Banded Parisoma | |
| Brown Parisoma | |
| Common Whitethroat | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Zosteropidae | |
| Abyssinian White-eye | |
| African Yellow White-eye | |
| Broad-ringed White-eye | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Leiothrichidae | |
| Black-lored Babbler | |
| Arrow-marked Babbler | |
| Northern Pied Babbler | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Buphagidae | |
| Red-billed Oxpecker | |
| Yellow-billed Oxpecker | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Sturnidae | |
| Wattled Starling | |
| Slender-billed Starling | |
| Red-winged Starling | |
| Hildebrandt’s Starling | |
| Rüppell’s Glossy Starling | |
| Superb Starling | |
| Greater Blue-eared Starling | |
| Amethyst Starling | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Muscicapidae | |
| White-browed Scrub Robin | |
| Spotted Flycatcher | |
| Ashy Flycatcher | |
| African Dusky Flycatcher | |
| Pale Flycatcher | |
| African Grey Flycatcher | |
| White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher | |
| Southern Black Flycatcher | |
| Silverbird | |
| Cape Robin Chat | |
| White-browed Robin Chat | |
| Spotted Palm Thrush | |
| Thrush Nightingale | |
| Common Nightingale | |
| Little Rock Thrush | |
| Common Rock Thrush | |
| Whinchat | |
| African Stonechat | |
| Northern Anteater Chat | |
| Northern Wheatear | |
| Capped Wheatear | |
| Isabelline Wheatear | |
| Pied Wheatear | |
| Abyssinian Wheatear | |
| Mocking Cliff Chat | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Turdidae | |
| Ethiopian Thrush | |
| Bare-eyed Thrush | |
| African Thrush |
