List of Birds in Ol Pejeta Conservancy

List of Birds in Ol Pejeta Conservancy

List of Birds in Ol Pejeta Conservancy: Ol Pejeta conservancy is a great Kenya birding destination located in central Kenya’s Laikipia County, this conservancy is a non- profitable wildlife conservancy covering an area of 360 square kilometers and situated between the foothills of Aberdares and Mount Kenya. Ol Pejeta conservancy is one of the prime sanctuaries of Laikipia plateau famous for being the largest black rhino sanctuary in East Africa, apart from hosting a variety of wildlife including the big five. 

Ol Pejeta conservancy is a great Kenya birding destination boosting over 500 bird species, birds in Ol Pejeta conservancy include resident species, visitor species, migrant species, endangered species and nearly endangered species. This article lists birds found in Ol Pejeta conservancy in their categories.  

List of Birds in Ol Pejeta Conservancy

OSTRICHES

• Common Ostrich 

GUINEAFOWLS

• Helmeted Guineafowl  
• Vulturine Guineafowl  

FRANCOLINS, QUAILS & SPURFOWLS

• Shelley’s Francolin 
• Crested Francolin  
• Scaly Francolin  
• Yellow-necked Spurfowl  
• Common Quail  
• Harlequin Quail  

DUCKS & GEESE

• Knob-billed Duck  
• Egyptian Goose  
• African Black Duck  
• Yellow-billed Duck  
• Red-billed Teal Anas  
• Hottentot Teal Anas  
• Maccoa Duck Oxyura  
• Spur-winged Goose  
• Northern Shoveler Anas  

GREBES

• Little Grebe 

STORKS

• Yellow-billed Stork  
• African Open-billed Stork
• Abdim’s Stork  
• Black Stork  
• White Stork 
• Saddle-billed Stork  
• Marabou Stork  

IBISES & SPOONBILLS

• African Sacred Ibis  
• Hadada Ibis  
• Glossy Ibis  
• African Spoonbill  

HERONS & EGRETS

• Striated Heron  
• Squacco Heron  
• Western Cattle Egret  
• Grey Heron  
• Black-headed Heron  
• Great Egret  
• Intermediate Egret  
• Little Egret  
• Black-crowned Night Heron  

HAMERKOP**

• Hamerkop Scopus 

PELICANS

• Great White Pelican  
• Pink-backed Pelican  

CORMORANTS

• Reed (Long-tailed) Cormorant  
• White-breasted Cormorant  

DARTERS

• African Darter 

SECRETARYBIRD**

• Secretary bird  

EAGLES, VULTURES, HAWKS, BUZZARDS, HARRIERS & KITES

• Black-winged (-shouldered) Kite  
• Scissor-tailed Kite  
• African Harrier-Hawk  
• Hooded Vulture  
• White-backed Vulture  
• Rüppell’s Vulture Gyps  
• Lappet-faced Vulture  
• Black-chested Snake Eagle  
• Bateleur  
• Martial Eagle  
• Long-crested Eagle  
• Tawny Eagle  
• Steppe Eagle  
• African Hawk-Eagle  
• Gabar Goshawk    
• African Goshawk  
• Shikra  
• Eurasian Marsh Harrier  
• Pallid Harrier    
• Montagu’s Harrier 
• Black Kite  
• African Fish Eagle  
• Common Buzzard  
• Augur Buzzard  

FALCONS & KESTRELS

• Lesser Kestrel Falco  
• Common Kestrel Falco  
• Greater Kestrel Falco  
• Eurasian Hobby Falco  
• Lanner Falcon Falco  

BUSTARDS

• Kori Bustard  
• White-bellied Bustard  
• Buff-crested Bustard  
• Black-bellied Bustard  

FINFOOTS

• African Finfoot  

CRAKES & RAILS

• Black Crake  
• Common Moorhen  
• Red-knobbed Coot  

CRANES

• Grey Crowned Crane  

BUTTONQUAILS

• Common Buttonquail  

THICK-KNEES

• Spotted Thick-knee  

STILTS & AVOCETS

• Black-winged Stilt  
• Pied Avocet  

JACANA

• African Jacana  

PLOVERS & LAPWINGS

• Blacksmith Lapwing  
• Senegal Lapwing  
• Black-winged Lapwing  
• Crowned Lapwing  
• Caspian Plover  
• Kittlitz’s Plover  
• Three-banded Plover  

PAINTED-SNIPES

• Greater Painted-snipe  

SANDPIPERS & SNIPES

• African Snipe  
• Common Redshank  
• Common Greenshank  
• Green Sandpiper  
• Wood Sandpiper  
• Common Sandpiper  
• Ruff  
• Little Stint  

COURSERS & PRATINCOLES

• Temminck’s Courser  
• Heuglin’s Courser  
• Collared Pratincole  

GULLS & TERNS

• Grey-headed Gull  
• White-winged Tern  

DOVES & PIGEONS

• Speckled Pigeon  
• African Mourning Dove  
• Dusky Turtle Dove  
• Namaqua Dove  
• Red-eyed Dove  
• Ring-necked Dove  
• Laughing Dove  
• Emerald-spotted Wood Dove  
• African Green Pigeon  

PARROTS & LOVEBIRDS

• Meyer’s (Brown) Parrot  

TURACOS & GO-AWAY-BIRDS**

• White-bellied Go-away-bird

CUCKOOS & COUCALS

• White-browed Coucal  
• Great Spotted Cuckoo  
• Levaillant’s Cuckoo  
• Jacobin (Black-and white) Cuckoo  
• Diederik Cuckoo  
• Klaas’s Cuckoo  
• Black Cuckoo  
• Red-chested Cuckoo  
• African Cuckoo  

GRASS OWLS

• African Grass Owl  

OWLS

• African Scops Owl  
• Spotted Eagle-Owl  
• Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl  
• Pearl-spotted Owlet  
• Marsh Owl  

NIGHTJARS

• Sombre (Dusky) Nightjar  
• Montane (Abyssinian) Nightjar
• Square-tailed Nightjar  
• Pennant-winged Nightjar

SWIFTS & SPINETAILS

• Alpine Swift  
• Mottled Swift  
• Common Swift  
• Nyanza Swift  
• Little Swift  
• White-rumped Swift  

MOUSEBIRDS**

• Speckled Mousebird  
• Blue-naped Mousebird  

ROLLERS

• Purple (Rufouscrowned) Roller  
• Lilac-breasted Roller  
• European Roller 

KINGFISHERS

• Grey-headed Kingfisher  
• Striped Kingfisher  
• Malachite Kingfisher  
• Giant Kingfisher  
• Pied Kingfisher  

BEE-EATERS

• Little Bee-eater  
• Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater  
• White-throated Bee-eater  
• European Bee-eater  

HOOPOES

• African Hoopoe 
• Eurasian Hoopoe 

WOOD HOOPOES & SCIMITARBILLS**

• Green Wood Hoopoe  
• Common Scimitar bill  
• Abyssinian Scimitar bill  

HORNBILLS

• Crowned Hornbill  
• Northern Red-billed Hornbill
• Von der Decken’s Hornbill  

AFRICAN BARBETS**

Red-fronted Tinkerbird  

• Red-fronted Barbet  
• Spot-flanked Barbet  
• D’Arnaud’s Barbet  

HONEYGUIDES

• Lesser Honeyguide  
• Greater Honeyguide  

WOODPECKERS & WRYNECKS

• Nubian Woodpecker  
• Cardinal Woodpecker  
• Bearded Woodpecker  
• African Grey Woodpecker  

BATISES & WATTLE-EYES**

• Chinspot Batis  

HELMETSHRIKES**

• White-crested Helmetshrike  

BUSHSHRIKES**

• Grey-headed Bushshrike    
• Sulphur-breasted Bushshrike
• Brown-crowned Tchagra  
• Black-crowned Tchagra  
• Black-backed Puffback  
• Slate-colored Boubou  
• Tropical Boubou  
• Brubru  

CUCKOOSHRIKES

• Black Cuckooshrike  

TRUE SHRIKES

• Northern White crowned Shrike  
• Red-tailed Shrike  
• Grey-backed Fiscal   Resident
• Taita Fiscal  
• Northern (Common) Fiscal  

ORIOLES

• Black-headed Oriole  
• Eurasian Golden Oriole  

DRONGOS

• Fork-tailed Drongo  

MONARCH FLYCATCHERS

• African Paradise
• Flycatcher  

CROWS & RAVENS

• Cape Rook  
• Pied Crow  
• Fan-tailed Raven  

TITS

• White-bellied Tit  

PENDULINETITS

• Grey Penduline Tit  

LARKS

• Singing Bush Lark  
• Rufous-naped Lark  
• Red-capped Lark  
• Fischer’s Sparrow Lark
• Fawn-coloured Lark  

BULBULS, BROWNBULS & GREENBULS

• Common Bulbul   

SWALLOWS & MARTINS

• Black Saw-wing  
• Plain (Brown-throated) Martin  
• Sand Martin  
• Banded Martin  
• Barn Swallow  
• Ethiopian Swallow  
• Wire-tailed Swallow  
• Rock Martin  
• Lesser Striped Swallow  
• Mosque Swallow  
• Red-rumped Swallow  

CROMBECS**

• Northern Crombec Sylvietta  
• Red-faced Crombec Sylvietta  

WARBLERS  

• Willow Warbler  

WARBLERS  

• Sedge Warbler  
• Olive-tree Warbler  

CISTICOLAS, PRINIAS & APALISES

• Rattling Cisticola  
• Stout Cisticola  
• Croaking Cisticola  
• Short-winged/Siffling Cisticola  
• Zitting Cisticola  
• Pectoral-patch Cisticola  
• Tawny-flanked Prinia  
• Yellow-breasted Apalis  
• Grey-capped Warbler  
• Grey-backed Camaroptera
• Yellow-bellied Eremomela

BABBLERS

• Rufous Chatterer  
• Black-lored Babbler  

WARBLERS (SYLVID)

• Eurasian Blackcap Sylvia  
• Common Whitethroat Sylvia  

WHITE-EYES

• African Yellow White eye

STARLINGS

• Wattled Starling  
• Greater Blue-eared Starling
• Rüppell’s Starling  
• Superb Starling  
• Hildebrandt’s Starling 
• Violet-backed Starling 
• Red-winged Starling 

OXPECKERS**

• Yellow-billed Oxpecker  

• Red-billed Oxpecker  

THRUSHES

• African Thrush  

FLYCATCHERS, ROBIN-CHATS & WHEATEARS

• Common Nightingale  
• White-browed Robin Chat  
• White-browed Scrub Robin
• Common Redstart  
• Capped Wheatear  
• Isabelline Wheatear  
• Northern Wheatear  
• Pied Wheatear  
• Anteater Chat  
• Common Rock Thrush  
• White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher  
• Southern Black Flycatcher
• Pale Flycatcher  
• African Grey Flycatcher
• African Dusky Flycatcher  

SUNBIRDS

• Collared Sunbird  
• Amethyst Sunbird 
• Scarlet-chested Sunbird
• Hunter’s Sunbird 
• Bronzy Sunbird 
• Malachite Sunbird 
• Golden-winged Sunbird
• Marico Sunbird  
• Variable Sunbird  

SPARROWS

• White-browed Sparrow-Weaver  
• Grey-capped Social Weaver  
• Kenya (Rufous-) Sparrow Passer  
• Chestnut Sparrow Passer  
• Yellow-spotted Petronia  

WEAVERS

• Baglafecht Weaver 
• Spectacled Weaver 
• Holub’s Golden Weaver  
• Speke’s Weaver  
• Village Weaver  
• Chestnut Weaver  
• Red-headed Weaver  
• Vitelline Masked Weaver  
• Cardinal Quelea  
• Red-billed Quelea  
• Yellow Bishop  
• Yellow-mantled Widowbird  
• White-winged Widowbird  
• Red-collared Widowbird  
• Long-tailed Widowbird  
• Jackson’s Widowbird  

WAXBILLS, MANNIINS & FIREFINCHES

• • Red-billed Fire finch  
  • Red-cheeked Cordonbleu  
  • Purple Grenadier 
  • Common Waxbill 
  • (African) Quail finch 

• Bronze Mannikin 

WHYDAHS & INDIGOBIRDS

• Pin-tailed Whydah  

WAGTAILS, LONGCLAWS & PIPITS

• Yellow Wagtail 
• African Pied Wagtail 
• Yellow-throated Longclaw
• Rosy-throated Longclaw  
• Grassland Pipit  
• Plain-backed Pipit  
• Tree Pipit  

CANARIES & SEEDEATERS

• Yellow-rumped Seedeater 
• Yellow-fronted Canary  
• Brimstone Canary 
• Streaky Seedeater  

BUNTINGS

• Golden-breasted Bunting