Bird AlbumKenya · Rift Valley Province
Amboseli NP – Ol Tukai Lodge
374 species and 9,861 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: December, with up to 210 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Blacksmith LapwingVanellus armatus
Taveta WeaverPloceus castaneiceps
Long-toed LapwingVanellus crassirostris
White-browed Sparrow-WeaverPlocepasser mahali
Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca
African JacanaActophilornis africanus
African SpoonbillPlatalea alba
Grey Crowned CraneBalearica regulorum
Squacco HeronArdeola ralloides
Spur-winged LapwingVanellus spinosus
Black-winged StiltHimantopus himantopus
Goliath HeronArdea goliath
White-bellied BustardEupodotis senegalensis
Beautiful SunbirdCinnyris pulchellusSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Amboseli NP3 km517 species
- Mandegee Farm51 km284 species
- Big and Small Momela Lakes75 km367 species
- Engikaret Lark Plains76 km400 species
- Hatari Lodge & Hippo Pool78 km283 species
- Engikaret Lark Plains – Acacia Scrub to South79 km312 species
All 374 species recorded here
- Blacksmith Lapwing Vanellus armatus
- Egyptian Goose Alopochen aegyptiaca
- African Jacana Actophilornis africanus
- Grey Crowned Crane Balearica regulorum
- Long-toed Lapwing Vanellus crassirostris
- Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides
- African Sacred Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus
- Crowned Lapwing Vanellus coronatus
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Common Ostrich Struthio camelus
- Spur-winged Lapwing Vanellus spinosus
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- Kittlitz's Plover Anarhynchus pecuarius
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer
- Red-billed Teal Anas erythrorhyncha
- Greater Flamingo Phoenicopterus roseus
- Superb Starling Lamprotornis superbus
- African Spoonbill Platalea alba
- Yellow-necked Spurfowl Pternistis leucoscepus
- White-faced Whistling Duck Dendrocygna viduata
- Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
- White-browed Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser mahali
- Goliath Heron Ardea goliath
- Grey-headed Kingfisher Halcyon leucocephala
- Spotted Palm Thrush Cichladusa guttata
- Taveta Weaver Ploceus castaneiceps
- Lesser Flamingo Phoeniconaias minor
- White-bellied Bustard Eupodotis senegalensis
- African Pied Wagtail Motacilla aguimp
- Beautiful Sunbird Cinnyris pulchellus
- Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala
- Lesser Striped Swallow Cecropis abyssinica
- Lilac-breasted Roller Coracias caudatus
- African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- Hadada Ibis Bostrychia hagedash
- Speckled Mousebird Colius striatus
- African Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis melanocrissus
- Kori Bustard Ardeotis kori
- Collared Pratincole Glareola pratincola
- Fischer's Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix leucopareia
- Double-banded Courser Smutsornis africanus
- Wattled Starling Creatophora cinerea
- Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris
- Tawny Eagle Aquila rapax
- White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus
- African Pipit Anthus cinnamomeus
- Yellow-billed Egret Ardea brachyrhyncha
- Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- Marabou Stork Leptoptilos crumenifer
- Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
- Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis
- Ruff Calidris pugnax
- Blue-billed Teal Spatula hottentota
- Little Bee-eater Merops pusillus
- Ring-necked Dove Streptopelia capicola
- Three-banded Plover Thinornis tricollaris
- Pied Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta
- Wire-tailed Swallow Hirundo smithii
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Winding Cisticola Cisticola marginatus
- Saddle-billed Stork Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis
- Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus
- Mourning Collared Dove Streptopelia decipiens
- Spur-winged Goose Plectropterus gambensis
- Little Swift Apus affinis
- Little Stint Calidris minuta
- Black Crake Zapornia flavirostra
- Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Eastern Grey Woodpecker Dendropicos spodocephalus
- African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis
- Long-tailed Fiscal Lanius cabanisi
- Red-capped Lark Calandrella cinerea
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Common Hoopoe Upupa epops
- Red-knobbed Coot Fulica cristata
- White-browed Coucal Centropus superciliosus
- White-headed Buffalo Weaver Dinemellia dinemelli
- Slate-colored Boubou Laniarius funebris
- Western Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
- Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybrida
- Eastern Chanting Goshawk Melierax poliopterus
- Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata
- Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse Pterocles exustus
- Secretarybird Sagittarius serpentarius
- Nubian Woodpecker Campethera nubica
- Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura
- Diederik Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius
- Red-billed Buffalo Weaver Bubalornis niger
- Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis
- Fan-tailed Widowbird Euplectes axillaris
- Taita Fiscal Lanius dorsalis
- Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis
- White-winged Tern Chlidonias leucopterus
- Lappet-faced Vulture Torgos tracheliotos
- Cardinal Woodpecker Dendropicos fuscescens
- Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis
- White-rumped Swift Apus caffer
- Namaqua Dove Oena capensis
- White-bellied Go-away-bird Crinifer leucogaster
- Cape Teal Anas capensis
- Crimson-rumped Waxbill Estrilda rhodopyga
- Hildebrandt's Starling Lamprotornis hildebrandti
- Pied Crow Corvus albus
- Crested Francolin Ortygornis sephaena
- Water Thick-knee Burhinus vermiculatus
- Rüppell's Vulture Gyps rueppelli
- Pangani Longclaw Macronyx aurantiigula
- Verreaux's Eagle-Owl Ketupa lactea
- Red-billed Quelea Quelea quelea
- Common Nightingale Luscinia megarhynchos
- D'Arnaud's Barbet Trachyphonus darnaudii
- Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula
- Buff-bellied Warbler Phyllolais pulchella
- Knob-billed Duck Sarkidiornis melanotos
- Rattling Cisticola Cisticola chiniana
- Yellow-billed Stork Mycteria ibis
- Red-billed Oxpecker Buphagus erythroryncha
- Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
- Grey Wren-Warbler Calamonastes simplex
- Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago
- Mosque Swallow Cecropis senegalensis
- Black Saw-wing Psalidoprocne pristoptera
- Fulvous Whistling Duck Dendrocygna bicolor
- Reed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus
- Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica
- Greater Painted-snipe Rostratula benghalensis
- Banded Martin Neophedina cincta
- Hamerkop Scopus umbretta
- Yellow-billed Oxpecker Buphagus africanus
- Red-chested Cuckoo Cuculus solitarius
- Northern Fiscal Lanius humeralis
- Red-faced Crombec Sylvietta whytii
- Blue-naped Mousebird Urocolius macrourus
- Black Heron Egretta ardesiaca
- Brubru Nilaus afer
- Rufous Chatterer Argya rubiginosa
- Baglafecht Weaver Ploceus baglafecht
- Pygmy Falcon Polihierax semitorquatus
- Ashy Cisticola Cisticola cinereolus
- Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
- White-backed Duck Thalassornis leuconotus
- African Grey Flycatcher Bradornis microrhynchus
- Grey-capped Social Weaver Pseudonigrita arnaudi
- Brown-throated Martin Riparia paludicola
- Northern White-crowned Shrike Eurocephalus ruppelli
- Isabelline Wheatear Oenanthe isabellina
- Parrot-billed Sparrow Passer gongonensis
- Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis
- Bateleur Terathopius ecaudatus
- Pallid Harrier Circus macrourus
- Fischer's Starling Lamprotornis fischeri
- Lesser Masked Weaver Ploceus intermedius
- Yellow-crowned Bishop Euplectes afer
- Spotted Thick-knee Burhinus capensis
- Northern Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe
- Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
- Speke's Weaver Ploceus spekei
- Rosy-patched Bushshrike Rhodophoneus cruentus
- Sentinel Lark Corypha athi
- Yellow-throated Sandgrouse Pterocles gutturalis
- Purple Heron Ardea purpurea
- Vitelline Masked Weaver Ploceus vitellinus
- Black-headed Oriole Oriolus larvatus
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Pearl-spotted Owlet Glaucidium perlatum
- Black-faced Sandgrouse Pterocles decoratus
- Rosy-throated Longclaw Macronyx ameliae
- Von der Decken's Hornbill Tockus deckeni
- Red-tailed Shrike Lanius phoenicuroides
- Capped Wheatear Oenanthe pileata
- Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
- Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Merops persicus
- Western Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus
- Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa
- Hartlaub's Bustard Lissotis hartlaubii
- Chestnut Sparrow Passer eminibey
- Brown-crowned Tchagra Tchagra australis
- Gabar Goshawk Micronisus gabar
- Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus
- Emerald-spotted Wood Dove Turtur chalcospilos
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Alpine Swift Tachymarptis melba
- Buff-crested Bustard Lophotis gindiana
- White-bellied Canary Crithagra dorsostriata
- Southern Black Flycatcher Melaenornis pammelaina
- Abyssinian Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus minor
- Martial Eagle Polemaetus bellicosus
- Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura
- African Swamphen Porphyrio madagascariensis
- Chestnut Weaver Ploceus rubiginosus
- Black-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris nectarinioides
- Short-tailed Lark Spizocorys fremantlii
- African Marsh Harrier Circus ranivorus
- Variable Sunbird Cinnyris venustus
- Common Swift Apus apus
- Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus
- Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird Chalcomitra senegalensis
- Long-billed Pipit Anthus similis
- African Openbill Anastomus lamelligerus
- Tropical Boubou Laniarius major
- White-winged Widowbird Euplectes albonotatus
- Slender-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus clarus
- African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus
- Kenya Sparrow Passer rufocinctus
- African Darter Anhinga rufa
- Banded Parisoma Curruca boehmi
- African Hawk-Eagle Aquila spilogaster
- Abyssinian White-eye Zosterops abyssinicus
- Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird Anthreptes orientalis
- White-headed Vulture Trigonoceps occipitalis
- Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio
- Lesser Grey Shrike Lanius minor
- Cut-throat Finch Amadina fasciata
- Baillon's Crake Zapornia pusilla
- White-headed Mousebird Colius leucocephalus
- Green-winged Pytilia Pytilia melba
- Chestnut-banded Plover Anarhynchus pallidus
- Pink-breasted Lark Calendulauda poecilosterna
- European Roller Coracias garrulus
- Jacobin Cuckoo Clamator jacobinus
- Isabelline Shrike Lanius isabellinus
- Green Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus purpureus
- Pink-backed Pelican Pelecanus rufescens
- Montagu's Harrier Circus pygargus
- Black-backed Puffback Dryoscopus cubla
- Greater Kestrel Falco rupicoloides
- Pale Flycatcher Agricola pallidus
- Zanzibar Red Bishop Euplectes nigroventris
- Yellow-spotted Bush Sparrow Gymnoris pyrgita
- White-browed Robin-Chat Cossypha heuglini
- Wahlberg's Eagle Hieraaetus wahlbergi
- Thrush Nightingale Luscinia luscinia
- Southern Red-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus pusillus
- African Grey Hornbill Lophoceros nasutus
- Greater Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chalybaeus
- Black-chested Snake Eagle Circaetus pectoralis
- Marico Sunbird Cinnyris mariquensis
- Black-necked Weaver Ploceus nigricollis
- Tiny Cisticola Cisticola nana
- Southern Red Bishop Euplectes orix
- White-necked Raven Corvus albicollis
- Red-and-yellow Barbet Trachyphonus erythrocephalus
- Horus Swift Apus horus
- Somali Short-toed Lark Alaudala somalica
- Orange-breasted Bushshrike Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus
- Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava
- Black Cuckoo Cuculus clamosus
- Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus
- Caspian Plover Anarhynchus asiaticus
- Abdim's Stork Ciconia abdimii
- Spotted Eagle-Owl Bubo africanus
- Singing Bush Lark Mirafra javanica
- Speckle-fronted Weaver Sporopipes frontalis
- Augur Buzzard Buteo augur
- Cardinal Quelea Quelea cardinalis
- Fawn-colored Lark Calendulauda africanoides
- Harlequin Quail Coturnix delegorguei
- Blue-capped Cordon-bleu Uraeginthus cyanocephalus
- Southern Pochard Netta erythrophthalma
- Bearded Woodpecker Chloropicus namaquus
- Yellow-breasted Apalis Apalis flavida
- Red-throated Pipit Anthus cervinus
- Western House Martin Delichon urbicum
- Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater Merops oreobates
- Lesser Jacana Microparra capensis
- Eastern Olivaceous Warbler Iduna pallida
- Northern Red-billed Hornbill Tockus erythrorhynchus
- Northern Shoveler Spatula clypeata
- African Pygmy Kingfisher Ispidina picta
- Golden Pipit Tmetothylacus tenellus
- Three-banded Courser Rhinoptilus cinctus
- Mottled Swift Tachymarptis aequatorialis
- Southern Grosbeak-Canary Crithagra buchanani
- Long-crested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis
- Lesser Moorhen Paragallinula angulata
- Malagasy Pond Heron Ardeola idae
- Little Rush Warbler Bradypterus baboecala
- Temminck's Stint Calidris temminckii
- Red-throated Rock Martin Ptyonoprogne rufigula
- Golden-backed Weaver Ploceus jacksoni
- Quailfinch Ortygospiza atricollis
- Brown Snake Eagle Circaetus cinereus
- Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus
- Sombre Nightjar Caprimulgus fraenatus
- Golden-winged Sunbird Drepanorhynchus reichenowi
- Olive Bee-eater Merops superciliosus
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Cape Robin-Chat Dessonornis caffer
- Black Coucal Centropus grillii
- Reichenow's Seedeater Crithagra reichenowi
- Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica
- Garganey Spatula querquedula
- Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Tree Pipit Anthus trivialis
- Fire-fronted Bishop Euplectes diadematus
- Amur Falcon Falco amurensis
- Common Rock Thrush Monticola saxatilis
- Chinspot Batis Batis molitor
- Yellow-bellied Eremomela Eremomela icteropygialis
- Red-collared Widowbird Euplectes ardens
- Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo
- Sedge Warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus
- European Bee-eater Merops apiaster
- Spectacled Weaver Ploceus ocularis
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- White-crested Helmetshrike Prionops plumatus
- White-fronted Bee-eater Merops bullockoides
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- Klaas's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas
- African Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia microscelis
- Red-capped Robin-Chat Cossypha natalensis
- Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus
- Common Whitethroat Curruca communis
- Pallid Honeyguide Indicator meliphilus
- Eastern Golden Weaver Ploceus subaureus
- Bare-eyed Thrush Turdus tephronotus
- Grey-headed Gull Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus
- Northern Crombec Sylvietta brachyura
- Temminck's Courser Cursorius temminckii
- River Warbler Locustella fluviatilis
- Hunter's Sunbird Chalcomitra hunteri
- Golden-breasted Bunting Emberiza flaviventris
- Grey-headed Bushshrike Malaconotus blanchoti
- Northern Pied Babbler Turdoides hypoleuca
- Bronze Mannikin Spermestes cucullata
- Green Malkoha Ceuthmochares australis
- Bronze Sunbird Nectarinia kilimensis
- Abyssinian Wheatear Oenanthe lugubris
- Long-tailed Paradise Whydah Vidua paradisaea
- Steel-blue Whydah Vidua hypocherina
- Great Reed Warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus
- Little Bittern Botaurus minutus
- Dwarf Bittern Botaurus sturmii
- Black Sparrowhawk Astur melanoleucus
- Little Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza minulla
- White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher Melaenornis fischeri
- African Rail Rallus caerulescens
- Swahili Sparrow Passer suahelicus
- Black-rumped Buttonquail Turnix nanus
- Thick-billed Weaver Amblyospiza albifrons
- Greater Honeyguide Indicator indicator
- Hildebrandt's Spurfowl Pternistis hildebrandti
- Black-throated Wattle-eye Platysteira peltata
- Black-throated Barbet Tricholaema melanocephala
- Violet-backed Starling Cinnyricinclus leucogaster
- Purple Grenadier Granatina ianthinogaster
- Black Cuckooshrike Campephaga flava
- Square-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus fossii
- African Olive Pigeon Columba arquatrix
- Abyssinian Thrush Turdus abyssinicus
- Western Barn Owl Tyto alba
- Black-headed Lapwing Vanellus tectus
- Yellow-billed Duck Anas undulata
- Red-headed Weaver Anaplectes rubriceps
- Sanderling Calidris alba
- Tambourine Dove Turtur tympanistria
- Yellow Bishop Euplectes capensis
- Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus
- African Black Duck Anas sparsa
- European Nightjar Caprimulgus europaeus
- Pennant-winged Nightjar Caprimulgus vexillarius
- Red-necked Spurfowl Pternistis afer
- Eurasian Blackcap Sylvia atricapilla
- Sombre Greenbul Andropadus importunus
- Chestnut-headed Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix signatus
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Amboseli NP – Ol Tukai Lodge?
December. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 210 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Amboseli NP – Ol Tukai Lodge?
374 species, from 9,861 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Amboseli NP – Ol Tukai Lodge in November?
The most recorded in November: Blacksmith Lapwing, Taveta Weaver, Long-toed Lapwing, White-browed Sparrow-Weaver and Egyptian Goose.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.