Kenya Endemic Species

Kenya Endemics

Tanzania Endemics

Uganda Endemics

Endemics and Specialities in Kenya

 

Information on endemics and specialities is derived from Sibley & Monroe checklists and bird distribution lists in Thayer's Birder's Diary - Version 2.05, supplemented by material found in Where to Watch Birds in Africa - by Nigel Wheatley. African speciality birds, while not endemic, are those that can only be found in three or less countries of Africa. Information on endangered birds is derived from the IUCN Red List, Birdlife International, and supporting data bases developed by Ian Patton, of Merlin Species Watcher. The endemic, endangered and speciality birds may be uncommon, extremely rare vagrants, may be extirpated in the country now or may only be present in migration. However, documented sightings of each species noted below have been made in Kenya.

 

Endemics in Kenya
(for more info on endemic birds in Kenya, see Paul and Helen Harris' website)
Aberdare Cisticola Clarke's Weaver Hinde's Pied-Babbler	Sharpe's Pipit Sokoke Scops-Owl Taita Thrush Kulal White-eye	Taita White-eye Tana River Cisticola William's Lark
Endangered Birds in Kenya
(endemics are printed in bold italic)
Breeding Birds		Non-Breeding Birds
Abbott's Starling Amani Sunbird Chapin's Flycatcher Clarke's Weaver East Coast Akalat Grey-crested Helmetshrike Hinde's Pied-Babbler Kulal White-eye	Sokoke Scops-Owl Taita Apalis Taita Falcon Taita Thrush Taita White-eye Tana River Cisticola Thin-billed Flycatcher-Warbler Turner's Eremomela White-winged Apalis	Blue Swallow Christmas Island Frigatebird Corn Crake Greater Spotted-Eagle Lesser Kestrel Spotted Ground-Thrush White-eyed Gull Sokoke Pipit
Other Near-Endemic Birds in Tanzania
(adapted from Where to Watch Birds in Africa - by Nigel Wheatley.)
Abbott's Starling Abyssinian Grosbeak-Canary Amani Sunbird Athi Short-toed Lark Black-billed Wood-hoopoe Boran Cisticola Broad-winged White-eye Brown-tailed Apalis Buff-bellied Penduline-Tit Chapin's Flycatcher Chestnut-naped Francolin Chubb's Cisticola Collared Lark Doherty's Bushshrike Donaldson Smith's Sparrow Weaver East Coast Akalat Fire-fronted Bishop _ Fischer's Greenbul Fischer's Starling Fischer's Turaco Friedmann's Lark Gillett's Lark Red-naped Bushshrike	Hartlaub's Turaco Heuglin's Bustard Hildebrande's Starling Hunter's Cisticola Jackson's Francolin Jackson's Hornbill Jackson's Widowbird Kenrick's Starling Kenya Grosbeak-Canary Long-tailed Fiscal Lyne's Cisticola Malindi Pipit Masked Lark Mombassa Woodpecker Moorland Chat Moorland Francolin Northern Pied-Babbler Pale Batis Pangani Long-claw Papyrus Canary Papyrus Gonolek Papyrus Yellow Warbler Plain-backed Sunbird	Red-throated Tit Salvadori's Weaver Scaly Babbler Scaly Chatterer Scheffler's Owlet Sharpe's Pied-Babbler Short-tailed Batis Sokoke Pipit Somali Bee-eater Somali Crombec Somali Sparrow Stripe-cheeked Bulbul Swahili Sparrow Swainson's Sparrow Taveta Golden-weaver Tiny Greenbul Turner's Eremomela Uganda Wood-warbler Uluguru Violet-backed Sunbird Usambiro Barbet White-browed Cronbec White-headed Mousebird White-winged Collared Dove Yellow Flycatcher Zanzibar Bishop Golden Palm Weaver Golden-winged Sunbird