Bird AlbumKenya · Eastern Province
Buffalo Springs NR
425 species and 40,773 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: January–February, April, August and November, with up to 235 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Yellow-necked SpurfowlPternistis leucoscepus
White-browed Sparrow-WeaverPlocepasser mahali
Superb StarlingLamprotornis superbus
Northern Red-billed HornbillTockus erythrorhynchus
White-headed Buffalo WeaverDinemellia dinemelli
Fork-tailed DrongoDicrurus adsimilis
Donaldson Smith's Sparrow-WeaverPlocepasser donaldsoni
Helmeted GuineafowlNumida meleagris
Parrot-billed SparrowPasser gongonensis
Vulturine GuineafowlAcryllium vulturinum
Pink-breasted LarkCalendulauda poecilosterna
Laughing DoveSpilopelia senegalensis
Ring-necked DoveStreptopelia capicola
Lilac-breasted RollerCoracias caudatusSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Buffalo Springs NR – Samburu Simba Lodge3 km305 species
- Buffalo Springs NR / Samburu NR6 km391 species
- Samburu NR9 km447 species
- Shaba NR22 km381 species
- Lewa Wildlife Conservancy44 km458 species
All 425 species recorded here
- White-browed Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser mahali
- Superb Starling Lamprotornis superbus
- Northern Red-billed Hornbill Tockus erythrorhynchus
- White-headed Buffalo Weaver Dinemellia dinemelli
- Yellow-necked Spurfowl Pternistis leucoscepus
- Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis
- Donaldson Smith's Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser donaldsoni
- Vulturine Guineafowl Acryllium vulturinum
- Little Bee-eater Merops pusillus
- Parrot-billed Sparrow Passer gongonensis
- Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis
- Pink-breasted Lark Calendulauda poecilosterna
- Somali Ostrich Struthio molybdophanes
- Black-faced Sandgrouse Pterocles decoratus
- Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris
- Ring-necked Dove Streptopelia capicola
- Mourning Collared Dove Streptopelia decipiens
- Bateleur Terathopius ecaudatus
- Namaqua Dove Oena capensis
- Lilac-breasted Roller Coracias caudatus
- Crowned Lapwing Vanellus coronatus
- Taita Fiscal Lanius dorsalis
- White-throated Bee-eater Merops albicollis
- Tawny Eagle Aquila rapax
- Spur-winged Lapwing Vanellus spinosus
- African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus
- White-bellied Go-away-bird Crinifer leucogaster
- Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse Pterocles exustus
- Eastern Chanting Goshawk Melierax poliopterus
- Grey-headed Kingfisher Halcyon leucocephala
- Marabou Stork Leptoptilos crumenifer
- Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
- Rosy-patched Bushshrike Rhodophoneus cruentus
- Northern White-crowned Shrike Eurocephalus ruppelli
- Red-billed Buffalo Weaver Bubalornis niger
- Slate-colored Boubou Laniarius funebris
- Blue-naped Mousebird Urocolius macrourus
- Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird Anthreptes orientalis
- Brubru Nilaus afer
- Red-bellied Parrot Poicephalus rufiventris
- Spotted Palm Thrush Cichladusa guttata
- African Grey Flycatcher Bradornis microrhynchus
- Fischer's Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix leucopareia
- Egyptian Goose Alopochen aegyptiaca
- Red-billed Oxpecker Buphagus erythroryncha
- Secretarybird Sagittarius serpentarius
- Crested Francolin Ortygornis sephaena
- Buff-crested Bustard Lophotis gindiana
- Grey Wren-Warbler Calamonastes simplex
- Nubian Woodpecker Campethera nubica
- Emerald-spotted Wood Dove Turtur chalcospilos
- Pygmy Falcon Polihierax semitorquatus
- White-bellied Bustard Eupodotis senegalensis
- White-headed Mousebird Colius leucocephalus
- Martial Eagle Polemaetus bellicosus
- Red-billed Quelea Quelea quelea
- Wattled Starling Creatophora cinerea
- Chestnut Weaver Ploceus rubiginosus
- Common Hoopoe Upupa epops
- Abyssinian Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus minor
- Little Swift Apus affinis
- Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala
- Somali Courser Cursorius somalensis
- Northern Crombec Sylvietta brachyura
- Fawn-colored Lark Calendulauda africanoides
- Cardinal Woodpecker Dendropicos fuscescens
- Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
- Cut-throat Finch Amadina fasciata
- Golden Pipit Tmetothylacus tenellus
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Kori Bustard Ardeotis kori
- Golden Palm Weaver Ploceus bojeri
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Hadada Ibis Bostrychia hagedash
- White-browed Coucal Centropus superciliosus
- White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus
- Yellow-billed Stork Mycteria ibis
- Black-capped Social Weaver Pseudonigrita cabanisi
- Hunter's Sunbird Chalcomitra hunteri
- Yellow-spotted Bush Sparrow Gymnoris pyrgita
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- Pale Prinia Prinia somalica
- Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea
- Isabelline Wheatear Oenanthe isabellina
- Hamerkop Scopus umbretta
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Gabar Goshawk Micronisus gabar
- Chestnut Sparrow Passer eminibey
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- Von der Decken's Hornbill Tockus deckeni
- Rufous Chatterer Argya rubiginosa
- Golden-breasted Starling Lamprotornis regius
- Pied Wheatear Oenanthe pleschanka
- Black-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris nectarinioides
- White-bellied Canary Crithagra dorsostriata
- Fan-tailed Raven Corvus rhipidurus
- Marico Sunbird Cinnyris mariquensis
- Three-banded Plover Thinornis tricollaris
- African Hawk-Eagle Aquila spilogaster
- Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala
- African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- Lichtenstein's Sandgrouse Pterocles lichtensteinii
- Red-and-yellow Barbet Trachyphonus erythrocephalus
- Pygmy Batis Batis perkeo
- Rüppell's Vulture Gyps rueppelli
- Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis
- Black-throated Barbet Tricholaema melanocephala
- Eastern Yellow-billed Hornbill Tockus flavirostris
- Grey Crowned Crane Balearica regulorum
- African Grey Hornbill Lophoceros nasutus
- Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus
- Lesser Masked Weaver Ploceus intermedius
- Rattling Cisticola Cisticola chiniana
- Northern Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe
- Violet Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus damarensis
- Slender-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus clarus
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus
- African Silverbill Euodice cantans
- Wire-tailed Swallow Hirundo smithii
- Brown Snake Eagle Circaetus cinereus
- Red-winged Lark Corypha hypermetra
- Yellow-bellied Eremomela Eremomela icteropygialis
- Pearl-spotted Owlet Glaucidium perlatum
- Somali Bee-eater Merops revoilii
- Green Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus purpureus
- Long-crested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis
- Acacia Tit Melaniparus thruppi
- Goliath Heron Ardea goliath
- Ashy Cisticola Cisticola cinereolus
- Bearded Woodpecker Chloropicus namaquus
- Water Thick-knee Burhinus vermiculatus
- Southern Black Flycatcher Melaenornis pammelaina
- Banded Parisoma Curruca boehmi
- Red-headed Weaver Anaplectes rubriceps
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Yellow-breasted Apalis Apalis flavida
- Fischer's Starling Lamprotornis fischeri
- Diederik Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius
- Crimson-rumped Waxbill Estrilda rhodopyga
- D'Arnaud's Barbet Trachyphonus darnaudii
- Somali Bunting Emberiza poliopleura
- Black Crake Zapornia flavirostra
- Vitelline Masked Weaver Ploceus vitellinus
- Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
- Lappet-faced Vulture Torgos tracheliotos
- Chestnut-headed Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix signatus
- African Spoonbill Platalea alba
- Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis
- Desert Cisticola Cisticola aridulus
- African Sacred Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus
- Eastern Olivaceous Warbler Iduna pallida
- Spotted Thick-knee Burhinus capensis
- Mottled Swift Tachymarptis aequatorialis
- Purple Roller Coracias naevius
- Verreaux's Eagle-Owl Ketupa lactea
- Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides
- African Pied Wagtail Motacilla aguimp
- Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
- Augur Buzzard Buteo augur
- Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata
- Magpie Starling Speculipastor bicolor
- Red-tailed Shrike Lanius phoenicuroides
- Singing Bush Lark Mirafra javanica
- Three-banded Courser Rhinoptilus cinctus
- Mouse-colored Penduline Tit Anthoscopus musculus
- African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus
- Northern Brownbul Phyllastrephus strepitans
- Yellow-vented Eremomela Eremomela flavicrissalis
- Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura
- Jacobin Cuckoo Clamator jacobinus
- Harlequin Quail Coturnix delegorguei
- Palm-nut Vulture Gypohierax angolensis
- Speckled Mousebird Colius striatus
- Black-necked Weaver Ploceus nigricollis
- Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio
- Striped Kingfisher Halcyon chelicuti
- Bristle-crowned Starling Onychognathus salvadorii
- European Roller Coracias garrulus
- African Cuckoo Cuculus gularis
- Cinnamon-breasted Bunting Emberiza tahapisi
- Black-cheeked Waxbill Brunhilda charmosyna
- Bare-eyed Thrush Turdus tephronotus
- Isabelline Shrike Lanius isabellinus
- Black-chested Snake Eagle Circaetus pectoralis
- Pied Crow Corvus albus
- Pallid Harrier Circus macrourus
- Three-streaked Tchagra Tchagra jamesi
- African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis
- Lesser Honeyguide Indicator minor
- Wahlberg's Eagle Hieraaetus wahlbergi
- Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus
- African Jacana Actophilornis africanus
- Yellow-billed Egret Ardea brachyrhyncha
- Little Stint Calidris minuta
- Lesser Grey Shrike Lanius minor
- Northern Fiscal Lanius humeralis
- Nyanza Swift Apus niansae
- White-winged Widowbird Euplectes albonotatus
- Pale Flycatcher Agricola pallidus
- Montagu's Harrier Circus pygargus
- African Pipit Anthus cinnamomeus
- Greater Honeyguide Indicator indicator
- White-rumped Swift Apus caffer
- Lesser Striped Swallow Cecropis abyssinica
- Black-headed Oriole Oriolus larvatus
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Speckle-fronted Weaver Sporopipes frontalis
- Red-fronted Barbet Tricholaema diademata
- Reed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus
- Common Rock Thrush Monticola saxatilis
- Yellow-billed Oxpecker Buphagus africanus
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- Blacksmith Lapwing Vanellus armatus
- Eastern Grey Woodpecker Dendropicos spodocephalus
- Purple Heron Ardea purpurea
- Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura
- Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu Uraeginthus bengalus
- Greater Painted-snipe Rostratula benghalensis
- Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus
- White-headed Vulture Trigonoceps occipitalis
- Purple Grenadier Granatina ianthinogaster
- Northern Puffback Dryoscopus gambensis
- Lesser Kestrel Falco naumanni
- Kenya Sparrow Passer rufocinctus
- Common Swift Apus apus
- Red-necked Falcon Falco chicquera
- Klaas's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas
- Steel-blue Whydah Vidua hypocherina
- Straw-tailed Whydah Vidua fischeri
- African Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis melanocrissus
- Reichenow's Seedeater Crithagra reichenowi
- Ethiopian Swallow Hirundo aethiopica
- Great Spotted Cuckoo Clamator glandarius
- Donaldson Smith's Nightjar Caprimulgus donaldsoni
- Red-throated Rock Martin Ptyonoprogne rufigula
- Greater Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chalybaeus
- African Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia microscelis
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- White-crested Helmetshrike Prionops plumatus
- Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix leucotis
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- African Pygmy Kingfisher Ispidina picta
- Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula
- Hildebrandt's Starling Lamprotornis hildebrandti
- Rüppell's Starling Lamprotornis purpuroptera
- African Scops Owl Otus senegalensis
- Common Buzzard Buteo buteo
- Red-chested Cuckoo Cuculus solitarius
- Grey-capped Social Weaver Pseudonigrita arnaudi
- Long-tailed Paradise Whydah Vidua paradisaea
- Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo
- Speke's Weaver Ploceus spekei
- Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava
- Common Whitethroat Curruca communis
- Black-bellied Bustard Lissotis melanogaster
- Gambaga Flycatcher Muscicapa gambagae
- Blue-capped Cordon-bleu Uraeginthus cyanocephalus
- Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
- Upcher's Warbler Hippolais languida
- Green-winged Pytilia Pytilia melba
- Abyssinian Sunbird Cinnyris habessinicus
- Quailfinch Ortygospiza atricollis
- Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
- Winding Cisticola Cisticola marginatus
- Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
- Booted Eagle Hieraaetus pennatus
- Western Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava
- Ruff Calidris pugnax
- Shikra Tachyspiza badia
- European Nightjar Caprimulgus europaeus
- Variable Sunbird Cinnyris venustus
- Brown-backed Honeybird Prodotiscus regulus
- Red-faced Crombec Sylvietta whytii
- Village Indigobird Vidua chalybeata
- Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus
- Baglafecht Weaver Ploceus baglafecht
- Barred Warbler Curruca nisoria
- Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild
- Tropical Boubou Laniarius major
- Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater Merops oreobates
- Common Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus cyanomelas
- Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis
- Verreaux's Eagle Aquila verreauxii
- Chinspot Batis Batis molitor
- Fire-fronted Bishop Euplectes diadematus
- Cardinal Quelea Quelea cardinalis
- Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago
- White-throated Robin Irania gutturalis
- Saddle-billed Stork Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis
- Eastern Golden Weaver Ploceus subaureus
- Pink-backed Pelican Pelecanus rufescens
- Eurasian Golden Oriole Oriolus oriolus
- European Bee-eater Merops apiaster
- Brown-tailed Rock Chat Oenanthe scotocerca
- Common Ostrich Struthio camelus
- White-browed Robin-Chat Cossypha heuglini
- Golden-breasted Bunting Emberiza flaviventris
- Meyer's Parrot Poicephalus meyeri
- Corn Crake Crex crex
- Violet-backed Starling Cinnyricinclus leucogaster
- Scissor-tailed Kite Chelictinia riocourii
- Pringle's Puffback Dryoscopus pringlii
- Grey-headed Bushshrike Malaconotus blanchoti
- Southern Red-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus pusillus
- Orange-breasted Bushshrike Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus
- Cape Crow Corvus capensis
- Little Ringed Plover Thinornis dubius
- Dusky Turtle Dove Streptopelia lugens
- Friedmann's Lark Mirafra pulpa
- Common Buttonquail Turnix sylvaticus
- Sedge Warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus
- Horus Swift Apus horus
- Red-winged Starling Onychognathus morio
- Lizard Buzzard Kaupifalco monogrammicus
- White-bellied Tit Melaniparus albiventris
- Dark Chanting Goshawk Melierax metabates
- Abdim's Stork Ciconia abdimii
- Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
- African Black Swift Apus barbatus
- Common Nightingale Luscinia megarhynchos
- Alpine Swift Tachymarptis melba
- Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus
- Amur Falcon Falco amurensis
- Black Cuckooshrike Campephaga flava
- Temminck's Courser Cursorius temminckii
- Thrush Nightingale Luscinia luscinia
- Somali Sparrow Passer castanopterus
- Abyssinian White-eye Zosterops abyssinicus
- Long-billed Pipit Anthus similis
- African Darter Anhinga rufa
- Lesser Spotted Eagle Clanga pomarina
- Grasshopper Buzzard Butastur rufipennis
- Caspian Plover Anarhynchus asiaticus
- Western House Martin Delichon urbicum
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Merops persicus
- Bronze Sunbird Nectarinia kilimensis
- Brown Babbler Turdoides plebejus
- Little Bittern Botaurus minutus
- African Openbill Anastomus lamelligerus
- Williams's Lark Mirafra williamsi
- Northern Grosbeak-Canary Crithagra donaldsoni
- Brimstone Canary Crithagra sulphurata
- Black Cuckoo Cuculus clamosus
- Dwarf Bittern Botaurus sturmii
- Bat Hawk Macheiramphus alcinus
- Hartlaub's Bustard Lissotis hartlaubii
- Capped Wheatear Oenanthe pileata
- Brown-throated Martin Riparia paludicola
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Yellow-billed Duck Anas undulata
- Mosque Swallow Cecropis senegalensis
- Eurasian Blackcap Sylvia atricapilla
- Brown-crowned Tchagra Tchagra australis
- Black Saw-wing Psalidoprocne pristoptera
- Northern White-faced Owl Ptilopsis leucotis
- Black-crowned Tchagra Tchagra senegalus
- Kittlitz's Plover Anarhynchus pecuarius
- Black-winged Lapwing Vanellus melanopterus
- Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
- Tiny Cisticola Cisticola nana
- Somali Crombec Sylvietta isabellina
- Buff-bellied Warbler Phyllolais pulchella
- Plain-backed Pipit Anthus leucophrys
- African Snipe Gallinago nigripennis
- Olive-tree Warbler Hippolais olivetorum
- Northern Carmine Bee-eater Merops nubicus
- Western Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus
- African Black Duck Anas sparsa
- Sombre Nightjar Caprimulgus fraenatus
- White-necked Raven Corvus albicollis
- Somali Crow Corvus edithae
- African Grey Woodpecker Dendropicos goertae
- Quail-plover Ortyxelos meiffrenii
- Grey-capped Warbler Eminia lepida
- Common Quail Coturnix coturnix
- African Hobby Falco cuvierii
- Tree Pipit Anthus trivialis
- African Emerald Cuckoo Chrysococcyx cupreus
- Temminck's Stint Calidris temminckii
- White-faced Whistling Duck Dendrocygna viduata
- Tsavo Sunbird Cinnyris tsavoensis
- Knob-billed Duck Sarkidiornis melanotos
- Red-billed Teal Anas erythrorhyncha
- Crested Lark Galerida cristata
- Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus bilineatus
- Tawny Pipit Anthus campestris
- Black Heron Egretta ardesiaca
- Red-knobbed Coot Fulica cristata
- Greater Kestrel Falco rupicoloides
- Whinchat Saxicola rubetra
- Great Reed Warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus
- Lesser Swamp Warbler Acrocephalus gracilirostris
- Banded Martin Neophedina cincta
- Golden-winged Sunbird Drepanorhynchus reichenowi
- Broad-billed Roller Eurystomus glaucurus
- Eastern Nicator Nicator gularis
- Purple Indigobird Vidua purpurascens
- Red-capped Lark Calandrella cinerea
- Heuglin's Bustard Neotis heuglinii
- Thick-billed Weaver Amblyospiza albifrons
- Lesser Moorhen Paragallinula angulata
- Red-collared Widowbird Euplectes ardens
- Somali Short-toed Lark Alaudala somalica
- Flappet Lark Amirafra rufocinnamomea
- Hildebrandt's Spurfowl Pternistis hildebrandti
- Yellow Bishop Euplectes capensis
- Cape Wagtail Motacilla capensis
- Spot-flanked Barbet Tricholaema lacrymosa
- African Marsh Harrier Circus ranivorus
- Scaly Chatterer Argya aylmeri
- Lesser Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chloropterus
- Grey Wagtail Motacilla cinerea
- Garden Warbler Sylvia borin
- African Citril Crithagra citrinelloides
- Angola Swallow Hirundo angolensis
- African Stonechat Saxicola torquatus
- Levant Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza brevipes
- Somali Fiscal Lanius somalicus
- Giant Kingfisher Megaceryle maxima
- Grey-rumped Swallow Pseudhirundo griseopyga
- Plain Nightjar Caprimulgus inornatus
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Buffalo Springs NR?
January–February, April, August and November. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 235 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Buffalo Springs NR?
425 species, from 40,773 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Buffalo Springs NR in November?
The most recorded in November: Yellow-necked Spurfowl, White-browed Sparrow-Weaver, Superb Starling, Northern Red-billed Hornbill and White-headed Buffalo Weaver.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.