11 Days Kenya Sunbird Birding Holiday Safari

11 Days Kenya Sunbird Birding Holiday Safari, 11 Days Kenya Sunbird Birding Holiday Safari adventures starts from Nairobi, Kenya’s economic capital city. 11 Days Kenya Sunbird Birding Holiday Safari adventures starts with a brief transect through the city. Depending on your hotel location, you will enjoy the rising of Nairobi, and our guides will help you identify some key buildings and sites within the city. Bird-watching is rewarding everywhere in Kenya. For dedicated birdwatchers, a well-planned two-week itinerary is likely to result in a trip list of 350–400 species, a figure that compares favorably with anywhere in the world. This exciting 11 Days Kenya Birding Safari Tour allows you to enjoy the Western Kenya Circuit as you pick the rare birds that inhabit this region. We begin in Nairobi and loop West in an exciting route that is aimed at maximizing each habitat.Kenya is a paradise for birdwatchers Kenya has one of the richest avifauna’s in Africa with around 1090 bird species recorded. At least eight of these are national endemics. Around 170 species of Kenya’s birds species are Pale arctic migrants (11 species of them with a local breeding population too), mainly from Eastern Europe, Russia, the Middle East and Siberia. Another 60 species migrate regularly within the Afro tropics or from Madagascar. Some 335 species are found in forest; 230 species are entirely forest dependent and 110 species are “forest specialists” requiring intact, undisturbed habitat and forty species of global conservation concern are known to occur in Kenya. Four of these are critically endangered, two Endangered and 16 species are Vulnerable.Kenya is a paradise for birdwatchers Highlight Highlight birds expected include Jameson’s Wattle-eye, Yellow-bellied Wattle-eye, Three-banded Courser, Spotted Thick-knee, Slender-tailed Nightjar, Nyanza Swift, Blue-headed Bee-eater, Plain-backed Pipit, Red-headed Malimbe, White-billed Buffalo Weaver, Black-necked Weaver, Northern Masked Weaver, Vieillot’s Black Weaver, Green Sunbird, Beautiful Sunbird, Green-throated Sunbird, Mackinnon’s Fiscal, Kakamega Greenbul, Ansorge’s Greenbul, Red-headed Bluebill, Oriole Finch, Brown Babbler, Brown-tailed Rock-Chat, Crowned Eagle, Dark Chanting Goshawk, Verreaux’s Eagle, Gambaga Flycatcher, Chapin’s Flycatcher, Black-faced Rufous Warbler, Uganda Woodland Warbler, Pale Prinia, White-chinned Prinia, Turner’s Eremomela, Yellow-bellied Hyliota, Yellow-shouldered (-mantled) Widowbird, Great Blue Turaco, Sharpe’s Drongo, African Broadbill, Petit’s Cuckooshrike, Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat, White-spotted Flufftail, Acacia/Northern Grey Tit, Bocage’s Bush-Shrike, Doherty’s Bush-Shrike, Luhder’s Bush-Shrike, Bar-tailed Trogon, Yellow-crested Woodpecker, White-headed Wood-Hoopoe, Jackson’s Hornbill, Hemprich’s Hornbill, Equatorial Akalat, White-tailed Ant-Thrush, Greyish Eagle-Owl and Northern White-faced Scops-Owl