During the most recent Fundamentals of Ornithology course run by Ornithology 
Dept, NMK and NatureKenya, we had a field trip to Kieni Forest. Despite major 
and extensive and depressing damage and removal of trees that has happened over 
the 6 years that we've been going there for the course, we had some great 
birding - best birds being Bar-tailed Trogon and Abyssinian Ground Thrush. But 
also Black-fronted Bush Shrike, Fine-banded Woodpecker, Montane Oriole, and 
crippling views of Black-throated Apalis. For about the 4th year running 
though, we've not even heard Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo for which the site was 
well known. A good site to visit, whatever - and the more birders visiting 
there, the better... (and you can always pick up one of our endemics, Sharpe's 
Longclaw, in the fields by the road on the way out to the fly over en route 
home...)

Colin Jackson

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Colin Jackson
Mwamba Bird Observatory & Field Study Centre
A Rocha Kenya
PO Box 383, 
Watamu
Kenya

Tel (O): +254-(0)122-32023
    (H): +254-(0)122-32037
Mobile: 0722-842366
e: colin.jackson@bigfoot.com
website: http://www.arocha.org