Uganda and Kenya Birds 3-18 Jan 2009
Note: We used mostly "Birds of East Africa" by Stevenson and Fanshawe, and follow their taxonomy. Page numbers are to this book. This page contains most of the decent photos I was able to get during the three weeks, but I included a few that aren't as good because the bird was so interesting. We had about 400 species of birds, but I only got photos of the ones here. Good reason to go back!
Common Ostrich p.2
Somali Ostrich p.2
Great White Pelican p.14
  Pink-backed Pelican p.14
Great Cormorant p.16
  Long-tailed Cormorant p.16
African Finfoot p.16
Goliath Heron p.24
  Purple Heron p.24
  Black-headed Heron p.24
Hammerkop p.26
 
Yellow-billed Stork p.26
Woolly-necked Stork p.28
  Saddle-billed Stork p.30
Shoebill p.30
Sacred Ibis p.32
  Hadada Ibis p.32
African Spoonbill p.34
  Egyptian Goose p.36
Yellow-billed Duck p.42
Secretary Bird p.48
African Fish Eagle p.50
Lizard Buzzard p.60
Shikra p.62
  Wahlberg's Eagle p.72
Long-crested Eagle p.78
Martial Eagle p.80

This is a BIG eagle...
Helmeted Guineafowl p.92
  Yellow-necked Spurfowl p.100
  Black Crake p.108
African Jacana p.110
Grey Crowned Crane p.112
Black-bellied Bustard p.116
Greater Painted-Snipe p.116

We had poor light this day, but it was a great bird...
 
Spotted Thick-knee p.120
Spur-winged Lapwing p.126
Long toed Lapwing p.126
African Wattled Lapwing p.126
Crowned Lapwing p.128

Note the chick in the right hand image.
 
Senegal Lapwing p.128
Three-banded Plover p.130
 
Common Sandpiper p.136
Wood Sandpiper p.136

 

Many other species of shorebirds at:

http://www.giffbeaton.com/shorebirds.htm

 
  Grey-headed Gull p.150
African Skimmer p.160
  Lichtenstein's Sandgrouse p.164
Yellow-throated Sandgrouse p.164
  African Green-Pigeon p.166
  Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove p.170
Namaqua Dove p.170
Great Blue Turaco p.182
Ross's Turaco p.182
Eastern Grey Plantain-Eater p.186
White-bellied Go-away-bird p.186

With a point-and-shoot...
Levaillant's Cuckoo p.188
White-browed Coucal p.196
  African Wood Owl p.198
  Pearl-spotted Owlet p.204
Speckled Mousebird p.220
Pied Kingfisher p.222

As you can see at the bottom, they will use anything that provides a good perch...

Grey-headed Kingfisher p.222
  Giant Kingfisher p.222
  Woodland Kingfisher p.224
Malachite Kingfisher p.226
African Pygmy Kingfisher p.226
Little Bee-eater p.228
Blue-breasted Bee-eater p.228
  White-throated Bee-eater p.230
Madagascar Bee-eater p.232
 
Lilac-breasted Roller p.236
Red-billed Hornbill p.242
  Crowned Hornbill p.244
Black-and-white Casqued Hornbill p.248
 
Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird p.252
Red-fronted Tinkerbird p.256
  Double-toothed Barbet p.260
  d/Arnaud's Barbet p.262
  Yellow-billed Barbet p.262
Nubian Woodpecker p.272
Rufous-naped Lark p.280
  Red-winged Lark p.280
Fawn-coloured Lark p.282
  Sand Martin (Bank Swallow) p.290
  Wire-tailed Swallow p.294
  Yellow-throated Longclaw p.302
  Grassland Pipit p.304
Plain-backed Pipit p.306
Common Bulbul p.312
  Slender-billed Greenbul p.312
  African Thrush p.336
Sooty Chat p.344
Rattling Cisticola p.386
  Trilling Cisticola p.392
African Dusky Flycatcher p.414
Swamp Flycatcher p.414
Cassin's Grey Flycatcher p.416
  Brown-throated Wattle-eye p.422
  White-tailed Blue-flycatcher p.428
Yellow White-eye p.440
Green Sunbird p.450
  Taita Fiscal p.462
  Long-tailed Fiscal p.462
Grey-backed Fiscal p.464
  Black-headed Gonolek p.468

Poor photo of a stunning bird.
  Northern White-crowned Shrike p.480
White-crested Helmet-shrike p.480
  Fork-tailed Drongo p.482
Yellow-billed Oxpecker p.488

Note the very top of the legs on the giraffes at lower right... those dark blobs are oxpeckers trying to stay out of the rain.

I'm not certain of the ID of the one at top right.
Red-billed Oxpecker p.488
  Greater Blue-eared Starling p.494
Ruppell's Long-tailed Starling p.496
Superb Starling p.500
Wattled Starling p.500
White-browed Sparrow-Weaver p.506
  White-headed Buffalo-Weaver p.508
  Slender-billed Weaver p.516
  Vieillot's BlackWeaver p.524
Grey-headed Negrofinch p.538
Red-cheeked Cordon-Bleu p.548
  Pin-tailed Whydah p.560
African Citril p.566
For more African birds, from Tanzania, click on the photo at left.
     
Note- If you are interested in the date or location of a particular bird, the file name of each image contains the date, which can be cross-checked against the itinerary on the main page.
   
   
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