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Option one: Nairobi National Park
Option Two: Olorgesaille (near Lake Magadi)
Option Three: Gatamaiyu Forest & Manguo Ponds
Detailed
Itinerary
Nairobi National Park
Located between two ecological zones (dry forest to the
north and the grasslands to the south).
The Park, only 7km off the cosmopolitan city has one of the
greatest avifauna with a record of 517 species in an area of
117kmē. It offers a good birding introduction to the bird
families to expect during the safari. With a good assemblage
of the birds of prey, pipits, cisticolas, including
waterbirds. Specialties includes the Long-tailed Fiscal,
Red-throated Tit, Jackson's Widowbird, among many more.
 We
hope to see the Bateleur, Ostrich, White-bellied Busturd,
Red-billed Oxpecker, Rufous-naped Lark, Yellow- throated
Longclaw, Lilac-breasted Roller among many others.
The
park is full of big game such as the Buffalo, Burchell's
Zebra, Hippo, Giraffe, Coke's Hartebeest, Vervet and the
Syke's Monkey, both the Black and the White Rhino.
Olorgesaille
This
is a dry, arid, scrub country about 75 km south of Nairobi
(on the way to Lake Magadi) and makes an excellent whole day
birding. All the way down the rift valley, stops along the
way is a distinctive change in habitat and species. Recorded
species includes the Cut Throat, Blue-capped Cordon-bleu,
Northern Crombec, Banded Parisoma, White Bellied Canary,
Crimson-rumped Waxbill, Grey Wren Warbler, Taita Fiscal, Von
der Decken's Hornbill, Fischer's Sparrow-Lark, Grey-headed
Silverbill, Grey-capped Social-Weaver, Red-fronted
Tinkerbird, Straw-tailed Wydah, Tiny Cisticola etc.
Gatamaiyu Forest & Manguo Ponds
The
forest located about 50-km n.w. of Nairobi stretches through
the Kieni forest (part of the central highland) and boost
many montane species includes the Chestnut-throated, Grey,
Black-collared, Black-throated Apalis, Montane Oriole,
Narina & Bar-tailed Trogon, Black-fronted Bush-shrike,
Yellow-rumped, Mustached Green Tinkerbird, Scarce Swift,
White-browed Crombec, while Abbott's Starling and the
Sharpe's Starling have been recorded, among others.
While
Manguo Ponds makes an excellent birding spot en-route to the
forest. It boost a wide variety of waterfowls such as the
Yellow-billed Ducks, Little Grebe, Red-billed Teal,
Red-knobbed Coot, while Maccoa Ducks are regularly recorded,
Grey, Black-headed Heron, African Spoonbill, White-faced
Whistling Duck, Hottentot Teal, while sometimes waders occur
in large numbers such as the Greenshanks, Sandpipers,
Plovers, etc
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