Dear all,

 

My wife Fabienne offered me a two days trip to the Taita area. It was a rewardable trip with 7 lifers for Johan and myself.

 

We explored the Taita conservancy and spent 3 hours (not enough) in the Taita hills.

 

Please find hereunder the list of the birds seen both in the conservancy an the Taita hills.

 

PS: don't forget a quick look through my website www.bird-picture.eu

 

Wooly-necked Stork
Marabou Stork
Sacred Ibis
Cattle Egret
Egyptian Goose
Spur-winged Goose
Crowned Lapwing
Spur-winged Lapwing
Common Sandpiper
Crested Francolin
Yellow-necked Spurfowl
Helmeted Guineafowl
Harlaub's Bustard
Southern Ground-Hornbill
Secretary Bird
Kori Bustard
Common Ostrich
Rüppell's Vulture
White-headed Vulture
Tawny Eagle
Steppe Eagle
Augur Buzzard
Martial Eagle
Brown Snake-Eagle
African Fish-Eagle
Bateleur
Eastern Pale Chanting-Goshawk
African Hawk-Eagle
Lizard Buzzard
African Harrier-Hawk
Pallid Harrier
Eurasian Hobby
African Orange-bellied Parrot
Laughing Dove
Ring-necked Dove
Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove
White-bellied Go-away-Bird
Common Cuckoo
White-browed Coucal
Eurasian Nightjar
Verreaux Eagle-Owl
Pearl-spotted Owlet
Little Swift
Alpine Swift
Speckled Mousebird
Grey-headed Kingfisher
Little Bee-eater
Lilac-breasted Roller
Rufous-crowned Roller
African Hoopoe
Green Woodhoopoe
Von der Decken's Hornbill
Red-billed Hornbill
African Grey Hornbill
Red-and-Yellow Barbet
D'Arnaud's Barbet
Nubian Woodpecker
Pangani Longclaw
Golden Pipit
Yellow Wagtail
African Pied Wagtail
Red-winged Lark
Pink-breasted Lark
Barn Swallow
Yellow-vented Bulbul
Hildebrandt's Starling
Superb Starling
Greater Blue-eared Starling
Violet-backed Starling
Yellow-billed Oxpecker
Eurasian Golden Oriole
Black-headed Oriole
Pied Crow
Fork-tailed Drongo
Three-streaked Tchagra
Slate-coloured Boubou
Long-tailed Fiscal
Common Fiscal
White-crested Helmetshrike
Retz's Helmetshrike
Northern White-crowned Shrike
Black-headed Batis
African Dusky Flycatcher
Spotted Flycatcher
African Paradise Flycatcher
White-browed scrub-Robin
Nightingale
Desert Cisticola
Zitting Cisticola
Yellow-breasted Apalis
Grey Wren Warbler
Abyssinian White-eye
Red-faced Crombec
Northern Crombec
White-bellied Tit
Variable Sunbird
Marico Sunbird
Tsavo Sunbird
Hunter's Sunbird
Amethyst Sunbird
Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird
Parrot-billed Sparrow
Yellow-spotted Petronia
White-browed Sparrow-Weaver
White-headed Buffalo-Weaver
Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver
Red-billed Quelea
Village Weaver
Chestnut Weaver
Crimson-rumped Waxbill
Cut-throat Finch
Purple Grenadier

 

Crowned Eagle
African Goshawk
Cinnamon-breasted Bee-eater
White-eared Barbet
Spot-flanked Barbet
Striped Pipit
Barn Swallow
Striped-cheeked Greenbul
Cabanis's Greenbul
Fork-tailed Drongo
African Dusky Flycatcher
African Paradise Flycatcher
Taita Thrush
Cape Robin-Chat
Common Stonechat
White-starred Robin
Evergreen Forest Warbler
Yellow-throated Woodland Warbler
Taita Apalis
Taita White-eye
Collared Sunbird
Variable Sunbird
Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird

 

Best to all,

 

Patrick