From: patrick lhoir <patricklhoir@yahoo.fr>
Date: 2010-08-20 16:05
Subject: Bogoria and Tugen Hills

Dear all,
 
Johan and I spent three days in Bogoria these last days. We also decided to explore Tugen Hills. We spent 2 hours and honestly, the site need more exploration. We spotted birds normally found more in the West (Grey-throated Barbet).
 
Please find hereunder the list of Bogoria and the list of Tugen Hills.
 
Bogoria
 
Grey-headed Gull
Yellow-billed Stork
Grey-crowned Crane
Marabou Stork
Hadada Ibis
Sacred Ibis
Greater Flamingo
Lesser Flamingo
Black-headed Heron
Grey Heron
Hamerkop
Dwarf Bittern
Little Bittern
Squacco Heron
Great Egret
Cattle Egret
White-faced Whistling Duck
Egyptian Goose
Blacksmith Plover
Crowned Plover
African Wattled Plover
Spur-winged Plover
Long toed Plover
Three-banded Plover
Common Sandpiper
Greater painted Snipe
Wood Sandpiper
Black Crake
African Jacana
Red-knob Coot
Common Ostrich
Brown Snake-Eagle
African Fish Eagle
Dark Chanting Goshawk
black-winged Kite
Yellow-billed Kite
Long-crested Eagle
Meyer's Parrot
Laughing Dove
African Mourning Dove
Namaqua Dove
Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove
White-bellied Go-away Bird
Klaas's Cuckoo
Diederic Cuckoo
Red-chested Cuckoo
White-browed Coucal
Verrreaux Eagle-Owl
Little Swift
White-rumped Swift
Mottled Swift
Speckled Mousebird
Blue-naped Mousebird
African Pygmy Kingfisher
Woodland Kingfisher
Grey-headed Kingfisher
Giant Kingfisher
Pied Kingfisher
Little Bee-eater
Madagascar Bee-eater
White-throated Bee-eater
Lilac-breasted Roller
Rufous-crowned Roller
African Hoopoe
Green Woodhoopoe
Jackson's Hornbill
Red-billed Hornbill
African Grey Hornbill
Black-throated Barbet
Spot-flanked Barbet
Red-and-yellow Barbet
D'arnaud's Barbet
Red-fronted Tinkerbird
Bearded Woodpecker
Nubian Woodpecker
Lesser Honeyguide
Scaly-throated Honeyguide
Greater Honeyguide
African Pied Wagtail
African Pipit
Plain-backed Pipit
Lesser-striped Swallow
Barn Swallow
Dark-capped Bulbul
Superb Starling
Rüppell's Long-tailed Starling
Grater Blue-eared Starling
Violet-backed Starling
Magpie Starling
Wattled Starling
Red-billed Oxpecker
Black-headed Oriole
Pied Crow
Fork-tailed Drongo
Brubru
Northern Puffback
Slate coloured Boubou
Sulfur-breasted Bushshrike
Three-streaked Tchagra
Grey-backed Fiscal
Northern White-crowned Shrike
Pygmy Batis
Silverbird
African Grey Flycatcher
African Paradise Flycatcher
Rufous Chatterer
Arrow-marked Babbler
White-browed Scrub-Robin
Spotted Morning Thrush
Lesser Swamp Warbler
Winding Cisticola
Yellow-breasted Apalis
Buff-bellied Warbler
Grey Wren Warbler
Red-faced Crombec
Northern Crombec
Beautiful Sunbird
Eastern violet-backed Sunbird
Grey-headed Sparrow
Yellow-spotted Petronia
White-browed Sparrow-weaver
White-headed Buffalo-Weaver
White-billed Buffalo-Weaver
Northern Red bishop
Golden-backed Weaver
Little Weaver
Lesser-masked Weaver
Vitteline-masked Weaver
Grosbeak Weaver
Red-cheeked Cordonbleu
Green-winged Pytilia
Red-billed Firefinch
African Citril
 
Tugen Hills
 
Augur Buzzard
Little Sparrowhawk
Speckled Pigeon
Hartlaub's Turaco
White-crested Turaco
Speckled Mousebird
Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater
Green Woodhoopoe
Grey-throated Barbet
Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird
Lesser Honeyguide
Mosque Swallow
Lesser-striped Swallow
Black Sawwing
Yellow-whiskered Greenbul
Slender-billed Greenbul
Red-winged Starling
Purple-throated Cuckoo-shrike
Common Drongo
Northern Puffback
Common Fiscal
Chinspot Batis
African dusky Flycatcher
White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher
White-browed Robin-Chat
Brown woodland Warbler
Grey Apalis
Chestnut-throated Apalis
Yellow White-eye
Grey-backed Camaroptera
White-bellied Tit
Bronze Sunbird
Hunter's Sunbird
Collared Sunbird
Eastern double-collared Sunbird
Black-billed Weaver
Spectacled Weaver
 
Best to all,
 
Patrick