Lists of species seen














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Mammals

African Hare

Kirk's Dik-dik
Thomson's Gazelle
Grant's Gazelle
Gerenuk
Waterbuck
Oryx
Hartebeest
Topi
Common Wildebeest
Impala
Bushbuck
Common Eland
Cape Buffalo

Giraffe

Common Warthog

Hippopotamus

White Rhinoceros

Burchell's Zebra

African Elephant

White-tailed Mongoose
Banded Mongoose

Spotted Hyena

Cheetah
Lion

Black-backed Jackal

Sykes Monkey
Vervet
Savanna Baboon
Black and White Colobus






Birds

Indented names are families; those in bold were new to me. Species names in italics were not new to me. Those with (P) after them I didn't identify; Wikipedia user JMK did from photographs.


          Pelecanidae
Great White Pelican

          Phalacrocoracidae
Great Cormorant


          Ardeidae
Gray Heron
Black-headed Heron
Goliath Heron
Cattle Egret
Squacco Heron
Little Egret

          Scopidae
Hammerkop

          Ciconiidae
Yellow-billed Stork
African Open-billed Stork
Abdim's Stork
Saddle-billed Stork
Marabou Stork

          Threskiornithidae
Sacred Ibis
Hadada Ibis
Glossy Ibis

          Phoenicopteridae
Lesser Flamingo


          Anatidae
Egyptian Goose
Red-billed Teal


          Accipitridae
Black-shouldered Kite
Black Kite
African Fish-Eagle
White-backed Vulture
Rüppell's Griffon Vulture
Lappet-faced Vulture
White-headed Vulture
Gabar Goshawk (P)
Eastern Chanting Goshawk
Augur Buzzard
Tawny Eagle

          Sagitariidae
Secretary Bird

          Falconidae
Pygmy Falcon


          Phasianidae
Yellow-necked Francolin
Red-necked Francolin

          Numididae
Helmeted Guineafowl


          Gruidae
Gray Crowned Crane

          Rallidae
Black Crake

          Otididae
Kori Bustard
White-bellied Bustard
Hartlaub's Bustard (P)


          Jacanidae
African Jacana

          Recurvirostridae
Black-winged Stilt

          Burhinidae
Spotted Thick-knee

          Glareolidae
Two-banded Courser
Collared Pratincole

          Charadriidae
Long-toed Lapwing
Spur-winged Lapwing
Crowned Lapwing
Kittlitz's Plover
Chestnut-banded Plover

          Laridae
Gray-headed Gull


          Columbidae
Speckled Pigeon
Red-eyed Dove
Ring-necked Dove
Emerald-Spotted Wood Dove


          Psittacidae
Red-fronted Parrot


          Musophagidae
Bare-faced Go-away-bird
White-bellied Go-away-bird

          Cuculidae
White-browed Coucal


          Strigidae
Verreaux's Eagle-Owl


          Apodidae
Little Swift


          Coliidae
Speckled Mousebird


          Trogonidae
Bar-tailed Trogon


          Alcedinidae
Striped Kingfisher

          Cerylidae
Pied Kingfisher

          Meropidae
Little Bee-eater

          Coraciidae
Lilac-breasted Roller

          Phoeniculidae
Green Woodhoopoe

          Bucerotidae
Red-billed Hornbill
Von der Decken's Hornbill
Crowned Hornbill
Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill
Southern Ground Hornbill


          Alaudidae
Singing Bush Lark
Rufous-naped Lark (P)
Somali Short-toed Lark

          Hirundinidae
Plain Martin
Ethiopian Swallow
Wire-tailed Swallow
Lesser Striped Swallow

          Motacillidae
African Pied Wagtail
Yellow-throated Longclaw
African Pipit

          Pycnonotidae
Common Bulbul
Mountain Greenbul

          Turdidae
Olive Thrush

          Cisticolidae
Winding Cisticola (P)
Pectoral-patch Cisticola
Buff-throated Apalis
Gray Apalis (heard only)

          Muscicapidae
White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher
Northern Black Flycatcher (P)
Pale Flycatcher (P)
White-starred Robin
African Stonechat
Abyssinian Black Wheatear
White-browed Robin-chat
Northern Anteater Chat
Sooty Chat

          Monarchidae
African Paradise Flycatcher

          Timaliidae
Black-lored Babbler

          Paridae
White-bellied Tit

          Nectariniidae
Eastern Double-collared Sunbird

          Laniidae
Gray-backed Fiscal
Long-tailed Fiscal
Taita Fiscal
Common Fiscal
Northern White-crowned Shrike

          Malaconotidae
Brubru
Tropical Boubou
Sulphur-breasted Bush-shrike

          Dicruridae
Common Drongo

          Corvidae
Cape Crow
Pied Crow

          Sturnidae
Wattled Starling
Greater Blue-eared Starling
Hildebrandt's Starling (P)
Superb Starling
Red-billed Oxpecker
Yellow-billed Oxpecker

          Ploceidae
White-headed Buffalo-Weaver
Gray-capped Social Weaver
Baglafecht Weaver
Village Weaver
Long-tailed Widowbird

          Estrildidae
Red-billed Firefinch
Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu
Purple Grenadier
Common Waxbill

          Viduidae
Pin-tailed Whydah

          Fringillidae
Yellow-rumped Seedeater
Yellow-fronted Canary
Brimstone Canary

          Passeridae
House Sparrow
Rufous Sparrow
Swahili (or Gray-headed) Sparrow