Lolldaiga Hills Ranch Bird List Reaches 421 Species

Written by Yvonne de Jong on January 25, 2021. Posted in All News, News, Uncategorized

By Tom Butynski and Yvonne de Jong

The taxonomy and vernacular names for the Birds of Lolldaiga Hills Ranch have been up-dated using the new (2019) Checklist of the Birds of Kenya (fifth edition). This checklist was compiled by the Bird Committee of Nature Kenya/East Africa Natural History Society. The new Birds of Lolldaiga Hills Ranch lists 421 species. Thus, Lolldaiga Hills Ranch (c. 200 km2) holds no less than 37% of Kenya’s 1,113 species of bird.

Download the Lolldaiga Hills Ranch Bird List here.

We thank Lorna Depew for undertaking this revision.

Lilac-breasted roller *Coracias caudata*. Photograph by Yvonne de Jong & Tom Butynski.

Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu *Uraeginthus b. bengalus*. Photograph by Heather Wall.

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Kerry Outram

July 29, 2020 | #

Hello, based in Mogotio Kenya where we have a healthy population of maned rats and after an unusual poisoning case in some dogs here we would like to know if a maned rat eaten by dogs would have sufficient poison to kill them?

Many thanks
Kerry
Jumah Barack

May 23, 2020 | #

Thank you very much.The information is much valued
Ben Mugambi

April 2, 2020 | #

Thanks guys for putting together this birdlist. Indeed, Lolldaiga has always been wonderful for birds and overtime it has proved to be such an important hub to the migratory species…the Red-throated Pipit is getting harder to see nowadays, so it is a fabulous record among those other species!
Ben Mugambi

April 2, 2020 | #

Very interesting and impressive findings. It is awesome to hear that you can possibly see them at Lolldaiga. The only very first one I have ever seen almost 15 years ago was at Hopcraft Ranch.
Sylvia Ruetten

April 28, 2018 | #

nice lion shots ..