If you’re a eager birder, then Lake Naivasha in Kenya is one place so as to add to your bucket listing. This text tells of the birds we’ve got seen there and the actions accessible that allow you to see completely different species – boating for water birds, biking for floor birds, and strolling for woodland species.Birds on the Lake
Given it is a big lake, the obvious exercise to do when visiting Naivasha is to get out on a ship. The hippos are often the draw card, however the myriad water fowl species impress even those that suppose they don’t seem to be taken with birds. This is what we’ve got seen whereas out on the lake:
Nice White Pelican
Nice Cormorant
Lengthy-tailed Cormorant
Cattle Egret
Widespread Squacco Heron
Little Egret
Gray Heron
Purple Heron
Black-headed Heron
Hamerkop
Marabou Stork
Yellow-billed Stork
Sacred Ibis
African Spoonbill
Larger Flamingo
Lesser Flamingo
Egyptian Goose
Yellow-billed Duck
African Fish Eagle
Black Crake
Pink-knobbed Coot
African Jacana
Black-winged Stilt
Blacksmith plover
Sandpiper
Gull
Swift
Pied Kingfisher
Birds whereas Strolling
There are a number of Conservancies round Lake Naivasha the place you may get pleasure from a strolling safari and see woodland fowl species. These embody Wileli Conservancy, Inexperienced Crater Lake and Hells Gate Nationwide Park. In Hells Gate you can too rent bicycles to discover extra of the park, and there are additionally locations the place you may journey horses. Whether or not you’re on foot, bike or horse, recognizing birds is less complicated than from a car. This is what we noticed on one stroll in Wileli Conservancy:
Hadada Ibis
Ruppell’s Griffon Vulture
Auger Buzzard
Lengthy-crested Eagle
Topped Plover
Ring-necked Dove
Gray Woodpecker
Plain-backed Pipit
Widespread Bulbul
Cinnamon Bracken Warbler
Rattling Cisticola
Cuckoo-shrike
Widespread Drongo
Black-headed Oriole
Rüppell’s Lengthy-tailed Starling
Excellent Starling
Wattled Starling
Pink-billed Oxpecker
Rufous Sparrow
Baglafecht (Reichenow’s) Weaver
Pink-headed Weaver