From: Kariuki Ndang'ang'a <ndanganga@yahoo.com>

Date: 2008-04-23 22:59

Subject: diani forest destruction

Read details from http://colobus. wildlifedirect. org/ about how parts of forest in Diani, coastal Kenya are being destroyed by a hotel; with obvious impacts on birds  - home to some globally-threatened ones as well. During a 1-hr visit to the forest patch in question in July 2003, I saw the following species. We were  searching for the Spotted Ground Thrush (which we found in an adjacent property named 'Banana Farm')

 

African green pigeon

African Pygmy Kingfisher

Ashy Flycatcher

Black-backed Puffback

Black-bellied Starling

Collared Sunbird

Common Bulbul

Common Drongo

Eastern Bearded Scrub Robin

Fischer's Turaco

Green Barbet

Grey-backed Camaroptera

Hadada Ibis

Little Yellow Flycatcher

Mombasa Woodpecker

Narina Trogon

Northern Brownbul

Olive Sunbird

Red-capped Robin Chat

Red-tailed Ant Thrush

Silvery-cheeked Hornbill

Tropical Boubou

Yellowbill

Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird

Kariuki