Some good counts of waterbirds here...

Colin Jackson

Manguo Pond, Limuru, 1 June 2002

Little Grebe - 10
Common Squacco Heron - 1
Yellow-billed Egret - 2
Grey Heron - 1
Black-headed Heron - 2
Sacred Ibis - 11
Hadada Ibis - 2
Fulvous Whistling Duck - 6
White-faced Whistling Duck - 11
White-backed Duck - 21
Egyptian Goose - 1
Yellow-billed Duck - 16
Red-billed Teal - 14
Southern Pochard - 30
Maccoa Duck - 34
Common Moorhen - 3
Red-knobbed Coot - 358; 2 nests being built
Blacksmith Plover - 2
Whiskered Tern - 54 birds, 17 nests - birds apparently incubating


Lake Oloidien, Naivasha, 2 June 2002, 7:00a.m.
(Southern edge: S 00 deg, 47 mins, 44.4 secs; E 36 deg, 16 mins, 36.1 secs)

Little Grebe - 20
Greater Flamingo - c.1,000
Lesser Flamingo - c.80
Cape Teal - 8
Hottentot Teal - 3
Southern Pochard - 1,335
Maccoa Duck - 82

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

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