Kenya Birding Safaris                                                                                  -- Duma Africa Treks

Birding Adventures in Kenya, Kenya Bird watching

Kenya has one of the richest avifaunas in Africa with around 1090 bird species recorded. At least six of these are national endemics. Around 170 species of Kenya's birds species are Palearctic migrants (11 species of them with a local breeding population too), mainly from eastern Europe, Russia, the middle East and Siberia. Another 60 species migrate regularly within the Afrotropics or from Madagascar. Some 335 species are found in forest; 230 species are entirely forest dependent and 110 species are "forest specialists" requiring intact, undisturbed habitat and Forty species of global conservation concern are known to occur in Kenya. Four of these are critically Endangered, two Endangered and 16 species are Vulnerable.