Bird Check List of Kenya

Bird Check List of Kenya : Kenya is a beautiful country and one of the most rewarding birding safari destinations on the African continent, the country is situated in the East African region hosting some of the best sites to do birding in Africa and the world at large.

Birding is one of the key safari activities offered in this magical country providing tourists with an opportunity to spot various species of colourful birds, birds in Kenya include endangered species, threatened species, near – endemic species, endemics species, migratory species among others.

Some of the best birding spots in Kenya include

Maasai Mara national reserve
Samburu national reserve
Amboseli national reserve
Lake Baringo, Lake Naivasha
Lake Nakuru national park among others.

Below is the check list for birds in Kenya.

Ostriches

Common ostrich
Somali ostrich

Bird Check List of Kenya — Somali ostrich

Ducks, geese, and waterfowl

White-faced whistling-duck
Fulvous whistling-duck
White-backed duck
Knob-billed duck
Egyptian goose
Ruddy shelduck
Spur-winged goose
African pygmy-goose
Garganey
Hottentot teal
Northern shoveler
Gadwall
Eurasian wigeon
African black duck
Yellow-billed duck
Mallard
Cape teal
Red-billed duck
Northern pintail
Green-winged teal
Southern pochard
Common pochard
Ferruginous duck
Tufted duck
Maccoa duck

Guineafowl

Helmeted guineafowl
Vulturine guineafowl
Crested guineafowl

New World quail

Stone partridge

Pheasants, grouse, and allies

Blue quail
Common quail
Harlequin quail
Black-fronted francolin
Scaly francolin
Hildebrandt’s francolin
Jackson’s francolin
Yellow-necked francolin
Red-necked francolin
Crested francolin
Coqui francolin
Red-winged francolin
Ring-necked francolin
Orange River francolin
Moorland francolin
Shelley’s francolin

Flamingos

Greater flamingo
Lesser flamingo

Grebes

Little grebe
Great crested grebe
Eared grebe

Pigeons and doves

Rock pigeon
Speckled pigeon
Rameron pigeon
Delegorgue’s pigeon
Lemon dove
European turtle-dove
Dusky turtle-dove
White-winged collared-dove
Mourning collared-dove
Red-eyed dove
Ring-necked dove
Laughing dove
Emerald-spotted wood-dove
Blue-spotted wood-dove
Tambourine dove
Namaqua dove
Bruce’s green-pigeon
African green-pigeon

Sandgrouse

Chestnut-bellied sandgrouse
Yellow-throated sandgrouse
Black-faced sandgrouse
Lichtenstein’s sandgrouse
Four-banded sandgrouse

Bustards

Kori bustard
Denham’s bustard
Heuglin’s bustard
White-bellied bustard
Buff-crested bustard
Black-bellied bustard
Hartlaub’s bustard

Turacos

Great blue turaco
Schalow’s turaco
Black-billed turaco
White-crested turaco
Fischer’s turaco
Hartlaub’s turaco
Purple-crested turaco
Ross’s turaco
Bare-faced go-away-bird
White-bellied go-away-bird
Eastern plantain-eater

Cuckoos

Senegal coucal
Blue-headed coucal
White-browed coucal
Black coucal
Blue malkoha
Green malkoha
Great spotted cuckoo
Levaillant’s cuckoo
Pied cuckoo
Thick-billed cuckoo
Dideric cuckoo
Klaas’s cuckoo
African emerald cuckoo
Barred long-tailed cuckoo
Black cuckoo
Red-chested cuckoo
Lesser cuckoo
African cuckoo
Madagascar cuckoo
Common cuckoo

Nightjars and allies

Pennant-winged nightjar
Standard-winged nightjar
Eurasian nightjar
Sombre nightjar
Nubian nightjar
Donaldson-Smith’s nightjar
Black-shouldered nightjar
Fiery-necked nightjar
Abyssinian nightjar
Swamp nightjar
Plain nightjar
Star-spotted nightjar
Freckled nightjar
Long-tailed nightjar
Slender-tailed nightjar
Square-tailed nightjar

Swifts

Mottled spinetail
Sabine’s spinetail
Bat-like spinetail
Scarce swift
Alpine swift
Mottled swift
Common swift
Nyanza swift
Pallid swift
African swift
Forbes-Watson’s swift
Little swift
Horus swift
White-rumped swift
African palm-swift

Flufftails

White-spotted flufftail
Buff-spotted flufftail
Red-chested flufftail
Streaky-breasted flufftail
Striped flufftail

Rails, gallinules, and coots

African rail
Corn crake
African crake
Spotted crake
Lesser moorhen
Eurasian moorhen
Red-knobbed coot
Allen’s gallinule
African swamphen
Striped crake
Black crake
Little crake
Baillon’s crake

Finfoots

African finfoot

Cranes

Gray crowned-crane
Black crowned-crane
Demoiselle crane
Common crane

Thick-knees

Water thick-knee
Eurasian thick-knee
Senegal thick-knee
Spotted thick-knee

Egyptian plover

The Egyptian plover is found across equatorial Africa and along the Nile River.

Egyptian plover

Stilts and avocets

Black-winged stilt
Pied avocet

Oystercatchers

Eurasian oystercatcher

Plovers and lapwings

Black-bellied plover
Pacific golden-plover
Northern lapwing
Long-toed lapwing
Blacksmith lapwing
Spur-winged lapwing
Black-headed lapwing
Senegal lapwing
Black-winged lapwing
Crowned lapwing
Wattled lapwing
Brown-chested lapwing
Lesser sand-plover
Greater sand-plover
Caspian plover
Kittlitz’s plover
Kentish plover
Common ringed plover
Little ringed plover
Three-banded plover
White-fronted plover
Chestnut-banded plover

Painted-snipes

Greater painted-snipe

Jacanas

Lesser jacana
African jacana

Sandpipers and allies

Whimbrel
Eurasian curlew
Bar-tailed godwit
Black-tailed godwit
Ruddy turnstone
Red knot
Ruff
Broad-billed sandpiper
Curlew sandpiper
Temminck’s stint
Long-toed stint
Red-necked stint
Sanderling
Dunlin
Little stint
Buff-breasted sandpiper
Pectoral sandpiper
Jack snipe
Great snipe
Common snipe
Pin-tailed snipe
African snipe
Terek sandpiper
Red-necked phalarope
Red phalarope
Common sandpiper
Spotted sandpiper
Green sandpiper
Spotted redshank
Common greenshank
Marsh sandpiper
Wood sandpiper
Common redshank

Buttonquails

Small buttonquail
Black-rumped buttonquail
Quail-plover

Crab-plover

Crab-plover

Pratincoles and coursers

Cream-colored courser
Somali courser
Temminck’s courser
Double-banded courser
Three-banded courser
Bronze-winged courser
Collared pratincole
Black-winged pratincole
Madagascar pratincole
Rock pratincole

Skuas and jaegers

Brown skua
Pomarine jaeger
Parasitic jaeger
Long-tailed jaeger

Gulls, terns, and skimmers

Slender-billed gull
Gray-hooded gull
Black-headed gull
Mediterranean gull
White-eyed gull
Sooty gull
Pallas’s gull
Lesser black-backed gull
Kelp gull
Brown noddy
Lesser noddy
Sooty tern
Bridled tern
Little tern
Saunders’s tern
Gull-billed tern
Caspian tern
Black tern
White-winged tern
Whiskered tern
Roseate tern
Common tern
White-cheeked tern
Great crested tern
Sandwich tern
Lesser crested tern
African skimmer

Tropicbirds

White-tailed tropicbird
Red-tailed tropicbird

Albatrosses

White-capped albatross

Southern storm-petrels

Wilson’s storm-petrel

Northern storm-petrels

Black-bellied storm-petrel
Leach’s storm-petrel
Matsudaira’s storm-petrel

Shearwaters and petrels

Southern giant-petrel
Cape petrel
Antarctic prion
Slender-billed prion
Jouanin’s petrel
White-chinned petrel
Wedge-tailed shearwater
Sooty shearwater
Persian shearwater

Storks

African openbill
Black stork
Abdim’s stork
Woolly-necked stork
White stork
Saddle-billed stork
Marabou stork
Yellow-billed stork

Frigatebirds

Lesser frigatebird
Great frigatebird

Boobies and gannets

Masked booby
Brown booby
Red-footed booby

Anhingas

African darter

Cormorants and shags

Long-tailed cormorant
Great cormorant

Pelicans

Great white pelican
Pink-backed pelican

Shoebill

Hamerkop

Herons, egrets, and bitterns

Great bittern
Little bittern
Dwarf bittern
Gray heron
Black-headed heron
Goliath heron
Purple heron
Great egret
Intermediate egret
Little egret
Western reef-heron
Black heron
Cattle egret
Squacco heron
Madagascar pond-heron
Rufous-bellied heron
Striated heron
Black-crowned night-heron
White-backed night-heron

Ibises and spoonbills

Glossy ibis
African sacred ibis
Olive ibis
Hadada ibis
Eurasian spoonbill
African spoonbill

Secretarybird

Secretarybird

Osprey .

Osprey

Hawks, eagles, and kites

Black-winged kite
Scissor-tailed kite
African harrier-hawk
Palm-nut vulture
Bearded vulture
Egyptian vulture
European honey-buzzard
African cuckoo-hawk
White-headed vulture
Lappet-faced vulture
Hooded vulture
White-backed vulture
Rüppell’s griffon
Eurasian griffon
Bateleur
Short-toed snake-eagle
Beaudouin’s snake-eagle
Black-chested snake-eagle
Brown snake-eagle
Fasciated snake-eagle
Banded snake-eagle
Bat hawk
Crowned eagle
Martial eagle
Long-crested eagle
Lesser spotted eagle
Greater spotted eagle
Wahlberg’s eagle
Booted eagle
Ayres’s hawk-eagle
Tawny eagle
Steppe eagle
Imperial eagle
Cassin’s hawk-eagle
Verreaux’s eagle
African hawk-eagle
Lizard buzzard
Dark chanting-goshawk
Eastern chanting-goshawk
Gabar goshawk
Grasshopper buzzard
Eurasian marsh-harrier
African marsh-harrier
Pallid harrier
Montagu’s harrier
African goshawk
Shikra
Levant sparrowhawk
Little sparrowhawk
Ovambo sparrowhawk
Eurasian sparrowhawk
Rufous-breasted sparrowhawk
Black goshawk
Black kite
African fish-eagle
Common buzzard
Mountain buzzard
Long-legged buzzard
Augur buzzard

Barn-owls, Bird Check List of Kenya

African grass-owl
Barn owl

Owls

Sokoke scops-owl
Eurasian scops-owl
African scops-owl
Northern white-faced owl
Southern white-faced owl
Cape eagle-owl
Spotted eagle-owl
Grayish eagle-owl
Verreaux’s eagle-owl
Pel’s fishing-owl
Pearl-spotted owlet
Red-chested owlet
African barred owlet
African wood-owl
Abyssinian owl
Short-eared owl
Marsh owl

Mousebirds

Speckled mousebird
White-headed mousebird
Blue-naped mousebird

Trogons

Narina trogon
Bar-tailed trogon

Hoopoes

Eurasian hoopoe

Woodhoopoes and scimitarbills

Green woodhoopoe
Violet woodhoopoe
Black-billed woodhoopoe
White-headed woodhoopoe
Forest woodhoopoe
Common scimitarbill
Abyssinian scimitarbill

Ground-hornbills

Abyssinian ground-hornbill
Southern ground-hornbill

Hornbills

Crowned hornbill
Hemprich’s hornbill
African gray hornbill
Eastern yellow-billed hornbill
Jackson’s hornbill
Von der Decken’s hornbill
Northern red-billed hornbill
Silvery-cheeked hornbill
Black-and-white-casqued hornbill
Trumpeter hornbill

Kingfishers

Half-collared kingfisher
Shining-blue kingfisher
Malachite kingfisher
African pygmy-kingfisher
Gray-headed kingfisher
Woodland kingfisher
Mangrove kingfisher
Blue-breasted kingfisher
Brown-hooded kingfisher
Striped kingfisher
Giant kingfisher
Pied kingfisher

Bee-eaters

Blue-headed bee-eater
White-fronted bee-eater
Little bee-eater
Blue-breasted bee-eater
Cinnamon-chested bee-eater
Swallow-tailed bee-eater
Somali bee-eater
White-throated bee-eater
Green bee-eater
Blue-cheeked bee-eater
Madagascar bee-eater
European bee-eater
Northern carmine bee-eater
Southern carmine bee-eater

Rollers

European roller
Abyssinian roller
Lilac-breasted roller
Rufous-crowned roller
Broad-billed roller

African barbets

Yellow-billed barbet
Red-and-yellow barbet
D’Arnaud’s barbet
Gray-throated barbet
White-eared barbet
Green barbet
Speckled tinkerbird
Green tinkerbird
Moustached tinkerbird
Yellow-rumped tinkerbird
Red-fronted tinkerbird
Yellow-fronted tinkerbird
Yellow-spotted barbet
Hairy-breasted barbet
Red-fronted barbet
Spot-flanked barbet
Black-throated barbet
White-headed barbet
Black-billed barbet
Black-collared barbet
Brown-breasted barbet
Double-toothed barbet

Honeyguides, Bird Check List of Kenya

Cassin’s honeyguide
Green-backed honeyguide
Wahlberg’s honeyguide
Pallid honeyguide
Least honeyguide
Thick-billed honeyguide
Lesser honeyguide
Scaly-throated honeyguide
Greater honeyguide

Woodpeckers

Eurasian wryneck
Rufous-necked wryneck
Speckle-breasted woodpecker
Cardinal woodpecker
Bearded woodpecker
Golden-crowned woodpecker
Brown-backed woodpecker
African gray woodpecker
Mountain gray woodpecker
Brown-eared woodpecker
Buff-spotted woodpecker
Tullberg’s woodpecker
Green-backed woodpecker
Nubian woodpecker
Golden-tailed woodpecker
Mombasa woodpecker

Falcons and caracaras

Pygmy falcon
Lesser kestrel
Eurasian kestrel
Rock kestrel
Greater kestrel
Fox kestrel
Gray kestrel
Dickinson’s kestrel
Red-necked falcon
Red-footed falcon
Amur falcon
Eleonora’s falcon
Sooty falcon
Eurasian hobby
African hobby
Lanner falcon
Saker falcon
Peregrine falcon
Taita falcon

Old World parrots

Red-headed lovebird
Fischer’s lovebird
Yellow-collared lovebird

African and New World parrots

Gray parrot
Red-fronted parrot
Meyer’s parrot
Brown-headed parrot
Red-bellied parrot

African and green broadbills

African broadbill

Pittas

African pitta

Cuckooshrikes

Gray cuckooshrike
White-breasted cuckooshrike
Black cuckooshrike
Petit’s cuckooshrike
Red-shouldered cuckooshrike
Purple-throated cuckooshrike

Old World orioles

Eurasian golden oriole
African golden oriole
Green-headed oriole
Western black-headed oriole
African black-headed oriole
Black-tailed oriole

Wattle-eyes and batises

Brown-throated wattle-eye
Black-throated wattle-eye
Chestnut wattle-eye
Jameson’s wattle-eye
Yellow-bellied wattle-eye
Short-tailed batis
Chinspot batis
Pale batis
Gray-headed batis
Western black-headed batis
Eastern black-headed batis
Pygmy batis

Vangas, helmetshrikes, and allies

White helmetshrike
Gray-crested helmetshrike
Retz’s helmetshrike
Chestnut-fronted helmetshrike
African shrike-flycatcher
Black-and-white shrike-flycatcher

Bushshrikes and allies, Bird Check List of Kenya

Brubru
Northern puffback
Pringle’s puffback
Black-backed puffback
Pink-footed puffback
Marsh tchagra
Black-crowned tchagra
Brown-crowned tchagra
Three-streaked tchagra
Red-naped bushshrike
Coastal boubou
Lühder’s bushshrike
Ethiopian boubou
Tropical boubou
Zanzibar boubou
Black-headed gonolek
Papyrus gonolek
Slate-colored boubou
Lowland sooty boubou
Rosy-patched bushshrike
Gray-green bushshrike
Sulphur-breasted bushshrike
Black-fronted bushshrike
Four-colored bushshrike
Doherty’s bushshrike
Gray-headed bushshrike

Drongos

Sharpe’s drongo
Common square-tailed drongo
Fork-tailed drongo
Glossy-backed drongo
Velvet-mantled drongo

Monarch flycatchers

African crested-flycatcher
Black-headed paradise-flycatcher
African paradise-flycatcher

Shrikes

Red-backed shrike
Red-tailed shrike
Isabelline shrike
Brown shrike
Lesser gray shrike
Gray-backed fiscal
Long-tailed fiscal
Taita fiscal
Somali fiscal
Mackinnon’s shrike
Northern fiscal
Masked shrike
Woodchat shrike
Yellow-billed shrike
Magpie shrike
White-rumped shrike

Crows, jays, and ravens

Piapiac
House crow
Cape crow
Pied crow
Brown-necked raven
Somali crow
Fan-tailed raven
White-necked raven

Hyliotas

Yellow-bellied hyliota
Southern hyliota

Fairy flycatchers

African blue flycatcher
Dusky crested-flycatcher
White-tailed crested-flycatcher

Tit, chickadees, and titmice

White-shouldered black-tit
White-winged black-tit
White-bellied tit
Dusky tit
Somali tit
Red-throated tit

Penduline-tits

Mouse-colored penduline-tit
African penduline-tit

Larks

Chestnut-backed sparrow-lark
Chestnut-headed sparrow-lark
Fischer’s sparrow-lark
Pink-breasted lark
Foxy lark
Collared lark
Red-winged lark
Rufous-naped lark
Flappet lark
Williams’s lark
Friedmann’s lark
White-tailed lark
Singing bushlark
Gillett’s lark
Red-capped lark
Somali short-toed lark
Short-tailed lark
Masked lark
Thekla’s lark
Crested lark

Nicators

Western nicator
Eastern nicator

African warblers

Green crombec
White-browed crombec
Northern crombec
Red-faced crombec
Somali crombec
Moustached grass-warbler
Green hylia

Cisticolas and allies

Yellow-vented eremomela
Yellow-bellied eremomela
Green-backed eremomela
Greencap eremomela
Turner’s eremomela
White-chinned prinia
Black-collared apalis
Miombo wren-warbler
Gray wren-warbler
Green-backed camaroptera
Olive-green camaroptera
Buff-bellied warbler
Bar-throated apalis
Taita apalis
Black-throated apalis
White-winged apalis
Yellow-breasted apalis
Buff-throated apalis
Chestnut-throated apalis
Black-headed apalis
Gray apalis
Brown-headed apalis
Karamoja apalis
Tawny-flanked prinia
Pale prinia
River prinia
Banded prinia
Red-winged prinia
Red-fronted prinia
Black-faced rufous warbler
Gray-capped warbler
Red-faced cisticola
Singing cisticola
Whistling cisticola
Trilling cisticola
Chubb’s cisticola
Hunter’s cisticola
Rock-loving cisticola
Boran cisticola
Rattling cisticola
Ashy cisticola
Red-pate cisticola
Wailing cisticola
Tana River cisticola
Winding cisticola
Coastal cisticola
Carruthers’s cisticola
Levaillant’s cisticola
Stout cisticola
Croaking cisticola
Aberdare cisticola
Tabora cisticola
Siffling cisticola
Foxy cisticola
Tiny cisticola
Zitting cisticola
Desert cisticola
Black-backed cisticola
Pectoral-patch cisticola
Wing-snapping cisticola

Reed warblers and allies

Papyrus yellow-warbler
Eastern olivaceous warbler
African yellow-warbler
Mountain yellow-warbler
Upcher’s warbler
Olive-tree warbler
Melodious warbler
Icterine warbler
Sedge warbler
Marsh warbler
Eurasian reed warbler
African reed warbler
Basra reed warbler
Lesser swamp warbler
Greater swamp warbler
Great reed warbler

Grassbirds and allies

Fan-tailed grassbird
Evergreen-forest warbler
Cinnamon bracken-warbler
Little rush-warbler
White-winged swamp warbler
River warbler
Savi’s warbler
Common grasshopper-warbler

Swallows

Plain martin
Bank swallow
Banded martin
Mascarene martin
Rock martin
Barn swallow
Ethiopian swallow
Angola swallow
Wire-tailed swallow
Montane blue swallow
Red-rumped swallow
Lesser striped swallow
Rufous-chested swallow
Mosque swallow
South African swallow
Common house-martin
White-headed sawwing
Black sawwing
Gray-rumped swallow

Bulbuls

Sombre greenbul
Slender-billed greenbul
Red-tailed bristlebill
Shelley’s greenbul
Eastern mountain greenbul
Stripe-cheeked greenbul
Yellow-bellied greenbul
Joyful greenbul
Honeyguide greenbul
Yellow-throated greenbul
Gray greenbul
Ansorge’s greenbul
Plain greenbul
Yellow-whiskered bulbul
Little greenbul
Terrestrial brownbul
Northern brownbul
Gray-olive greenbul
Toro olive-greenbul
Fischer’s greenbul
Cabanis’s greenbul
White-throated greenbul
Yellow-streaked bulbul
Tiny greenbul
Common bulbul

Leaf warblers

Wood warbler
Willow warbler
Common chiffchaff
Brown woodland-warbler
Yellow-throated woodland-warbler
Uganda woodland-warbler

Bush warblers and allies

Yellow flycatcher

Sylviid warblers, parrotbills, and allies

African hill babbler
Eurasian blackcap
Garden warbler
Barred warbler
Banded parisoma
Lesser whitethroat
Brown parisoma
Greater whitethroat

White-eyes, yuhinas, and allies, Bird Check List of Kenya

Mbulu white-eye
Pale white-eye
Taita white-eye
Heuglin’s white-eye
Kikuyu white-eye
African yellow white-eye

Ground babblers and allies

Brown illadopsis
Pale-breasted illadopsis
Mountain illadopsis
Scaly-breasted illadopsis

Laughingthrushes and allies

Scaly chatterer
Rufous chatterer
Black-lored babbler
Scaly babbler
Northern pied-babbler
Hinde’s pied-babbler
Brown babbler
Arrow-marked babbler

Treecreepers

African spotted creeper

Oxpeckers

Red-billed oxpecker
Yellow-billed oxpecker

Starlings

Wattled starling
Violet-backed starling
Slender-billed starling
Red-winged starling
Waller’s starling
Bristle-crowned starling
Magpie starling
Sharpe’s starling
Abbott’s starling
Stuhlmann’s starling
Kenrick’s starling
Black-bellied starling
Purple-headed starling
Hildebrandt’s starling
Shelley’s starling
Rüppell’s starling
Ashy starling
Splendid starling
Golden-breasted starling
Superb starling
White-crowned starling
Fischer’s starling
Lesser blue-eared starling
Greater blue-eared starling
Purple starling
Bronze-tailed starling

Thrushes and allies

Red-tailed ant-thrush
White-tailed ant-thrush
Spotted ground-thrush
Abyssinian ground-thrush
Orange ground-thrush
Abyssinian thrush
Taita thrush
African bare-eyed thrush
African thrush

Old World flycatchers

African dusky flycatcher
Spotted flycatcher
Gambaga flycatcher
Swamp flycatcher
African gray flycatcher
Pale flycatcher
Gray tit-flycatcher
Chapin’s flycatcher
Ashy flycatcher
Silverbird
Northern black-flycatcher
Southern black-flycatcher
White-eyed slaty-flycatcher
Bearded scrub-robin
Rufous-tailed scrub-robin
Brown-backed scrub-robin
Red-backed scrub-robin
Cape robin-chat
Blue-shouldered robin-chat
Gray-winged robin-chat
Rüppell’s robin-chat
White-browed robin-chat
Red-capped robin-chat
Snowy-crowned robin-chat
Collared palm-thrush
Spotted morning-thrush
White-starred robin
Brown-chested alethe
Forest robin
Equatorial akalat
East coast akalat
White-throated robin
Thrush nightingale
Common nightingale
Semicollared flycatcher
European pied flycatcher
Collared flycatcher
Common redstart
Little rock-thrush
Rufous-tailed rock-thrush
Whinchat
African stonechat
Moorland chat
Mocking cliff-chat
Sooty chat
Northern anteater-chat
Northern wheatear
Capped wheatear
Isabelline wheatear
Heuglin’s wheatear
Desert wheatear
Pied wheatear
Black-eared wheatear
Familiar chat
Brown-tailed chat
Abyssinian wheatear
Mourning wheatear

Dapple-throat and allies, Bird Check List of Kenya

Gray-chested babbler

Sunbirds and spiderhunters

Plain-backed sunbird
Western violet-backed sunbird
Eastern violet-backed sunbird
Uluguru violet-backed sunbird
Green sunbird
Collared sunbird
Pygmy sunbird
Amani sunbird
Green-headed sunbird
Blue-throated brown sunbird
Olive sunbird
Mouse-colored sunbird
Green-throated sunbird
Amethyst sunbird
Scarlet-chested sunbird
Hunter’s sunbird
Tacazze sunbird
Bronze sunbird
Malachite sunbird
Red-tufted sunbird
Golden-winged sunbird
Olive-bellied sunbird
Northern double-collared sunbird
Eastern double-collared sunbird
Usambara double-collared sunbird
Beautiful sunbird
Mariqua sunbird
Red-chested sunbird
Black-bellied sunbird
Purple-banded sunbird
Tsavo sunbird
Violet-breasted sunbird
Orange-tufted sunbird
Shining sunbird
Superb sunbird
Variable sunbird
Copper sunbird

Weavers and allies

White-billed buffalo-weaver
Red-billed buffalo-weaver
White-headed buffalo-weaver
Speckle-fronted weaver
White-browed sparrow-weaver
Chestnut-crowned sparrow-weaver
Donaldson-Smith’s sparrow-weaver
Rufous-tailed weaver
Gray-headed social-weaver
Black-capped social-weaver
Red-headed malimbe
Red-headed weaver
Baglafecht weaver
Little weaver
Slender-billed weaver
Black-necked weaver
Spectacled weaver
Black-billed weaver
African golden-weaver
Holub’s golden-weaver
Orange weaver
Golden palm weaver
Taveta golden-weaver
Northern brown-throated weaver
Northern masked-weaver
Lesser masked-weaver
Vitelline masked-weaver
Heuglin’s masked-weaver
Rüppell’s weaver
Speke’s weaver
Vieillot’s weaver
Village weaver
Clarke’s weaver
Salvadori’s weaver
Black-headed weaver
Golden-backed weaver
Chestnut weaver
Yellow-mantled weaver
Forest weaver
Brown-capped weaver
Compact weaver
Cardinal quelea
Red-headed quelea
Red-billed quelea
Northern red bishop
Southern red bishop
Zanzibar red bishop
Black-winged bishop
Black bishop
Yellow-crowned bishop
Fire-fronted bishop
Yellow bishop
White-winged widowbird
Yellow-mantled widowbird
Red-collared widowbird
Fan-tailed widowbird
Marsh widowbird
Long-tailed widowbird
Jackson’s widowbird
Grosbeak weaver

Waxbills and allies, Bird Check List of Kenya

Gray-headed nigrita
White-breasted nigrita
Yellow-bellied waxbill
Green-backed twinspot
Abyssinian crimsonwing
Fawn-breasted waxbill
Crimson-rumped waxbill
Black-rumped waxbill
Common waxbill
Black-crowned waxbill
Kandt’s Waxbill
Black-faced waxbill
Black-cheeked waxbill
Red-headed bluebill
Black-bellied seedcracker
Red-cheeked cordonbleu
Blue-capped cordonbleu
Purple grenadier
Peters’s twinspot
Brown twinspot
Green-winged pytilia
Orange-winged pytilia
Red-billed firefinch
Bar-breasted firefinch
Black-bellied firefinch
African firefinch
Jameson’s firefinch
Cut-throat
Zebra waxbill
Quailfinch
Locustfinch
Gray-headed silverbill
Bronze mannikin
Black-and-white mannikin
Magpie mannikin
Indian Silverbill
African silverbill

Indigobirds

Pin-tailed whydah
Broad-tailed paradise-whydah
Eastern paradise-whydah
Steel-blue whydah
Straw-tailed whydah
Village indigobird
Variable indigobird
Purple indigobird
Parasitic weaver

Old World sparrow

House sparrow
Somali sparrow
Kenya rufous sparrow
Shelley’s rufous sparrow
Northern gray-headed sparrow
Swainson’s sparrow
Parrot-billed sparrow
Swahili sparrow
Chestnut sparrow
Yellow-spotted bush sparrow

Wagtails and pipits

Cape wagtail
Mountain wagtail
Gray wagtail
Western yellow wagtail
African pied wagtail
White wagtail
African pipit
Long-billed pipit
Tawny pipit
Plain-backed pipit
Buffy pipit
Malindi pipit
Striped pipit
Tree pipit
Red-throated pipit
Bush pipit
Sokoke pipit
Golden pipit
Sharpe’s longclaw
Yellow-throated longclaw
Pangani longclaw
Rosy-throated longclaw

Finches, euphonias, and allies, Bird Check List of Kenya

Oriole finch
Yellow-fronted canary
African citril
Western citril
Southern citril
Papyrus canary
Black-throated canary
Reichenow’s seedeater
White-bellied canary
Northern grosbeak-canary
Southern grosbeak-canary
Brimstone canary
Streaky seedeater
Thick-billed seedeater
West African seedeater
Reichard’s seedeater
Yellow-crowned canary

Old World buntings

Brown-rumped bunting
Ortolan bunting
Golden-breasted bunting
Somali bunting
Striolated bunting