KINANGOP GRASSLANDS AND ABERDARE NATIONAL PARK BIRDING TOUR
Our Kinangop Grasslands & Aberdare National Park Birding Tour is one of the most famous birding day tours from Nairobi. This is also a wonderful day tour for birding groups seeking endemic species.
We shall leave early for a day trip visit to this highland region. We shall drive through the Kinangop Plateau to score the many special birds. We shall bird in the grasslands sampling our best selected spots. Local wetlands will also be sampled for the highland water birds. We shall then bird the Aberdare Forest and National Park, for the many species found there. Our tour shall visit the heath and moorland vegetation zone where several endemic species will be seen.
In the afternoon, we drive back to Nairobi with more birding on the way, as we conclude our Kinangop Grasslands & Aberdare National Park Birding Tour.
Highlight birds
Black-winged Plover, Red-throated Wryneck, Common Quail, Aberdare Cisticola, Hunter’s Cisticola, Levaillant’s Cisticola, Wing-snapping Cisticola, Long-tailed Widowbird, Jackson’s Widowbird, Angola Swallow, Montane Nightjar, Sharpe’s Longclaw, Mountain Buzzard, Rufous-breasted Sparrowhawk, Red-throated Pipit, Black-tailed Godwit, African Snipe, Lesser Jacana, Common Stonechat, Mountain Yellow Warbler, Cinnamon Bracken Warbler, Chestnut-throated Apalis, Brown Woodland Warbler, Malachite Sunbird, Golden-winged Sunbird, Tacazze Sunbird, Moorland Chat, Black-fronted Bushshrike, Yellow-crowned Canary, Yellow-bellied Waxbill, Jackson’s Francolin/ Jackson’s Spurfowl
Highlight mammals and others
Bush Duiker, Bushbuck, Black-fronted Duiker, Defassa Waterbuck, African Buffalo, African Elephant, Black-and-white Colobus Monkey, Suni
Habitats covered
Wetlands, Highland Forest, Highland grasslands, Heath and Moorland
Photographic opportunities
Excellent
Special moments
Kenya’s endemic birds
Kindly see our past tour report here.
