Bird AlbumKenya · Central Province
Manguo Swamp
264 species and 15,824 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: January, September and November, with up to 112 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Red-knobbed CootFulica cristata
Yellow-billed DuckAnas undulata
African Sacred IbisThreskiornis aethiopicus
White-faced Whistling DuckDendrocygna viduata
Grey HeronArdea cinerea
Western Yellow WagtailMotacilla flava
Blue-billed TealSpatula hottentota
Blacksmith LapwingVanellus armatus
Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis
Red-billed TealAnas erythrorhyncha
Wood SandpiperTringa glareola
Black KiteMilvus migrans
Brown-throated MartinRiparia paludicola
Hadada IbisBostrychia hagedashSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Gatamaiyu Forest17 km224 species
- Ngong Road Forest Sanctuary27 km264 species
- Karura Forest27 km255 species
- Windsor Golf Hotel and Country Club, Marurui27 km249 species
- Nairobi River @ National Museums of Kenya28 km241 species
- Nairobi NP35 km508 species
All 264 species recorded here
- Red-knobbed Coot Fulica cristata
- Yellow-billed Duck Anas undulata
- African Sacred Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus
- Blacksmith Lapwing Vanellus armatus
- Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
- White-faced Whistling Duck Dendrocygna viduata
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- Egyptian Goose Alopochen aegyptiaca
- Yellow-billed Egret Ardea brachyrhyncha
- Red-billed Teal Anas erythrorhyncha
- African Jacana Actophilornis africanus
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Hadada Ibis Bostrychia hagedash
- Brown-throated Martin Riparia paludicola
- White-backed Duck Thalassornis leuconotus
- Blue-billed Teal Spatula hottentota
- Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala
- Hunter's Cisticola Cisticola hunteri
- Streaky Seedeater Crithagra striolata
- Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
- Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura
- Western Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava
- Reed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus
- Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Grey Crowned Crane Balearica regulorum
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- Hamerkop Scopus umbretta
- African Spoonbill Platalea alba
- African Pied Wagtail Motacilla aguimp
- African Swamphen Porphyrio madagascariensis
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild
- Baglafecht Weaver Ploceus baglafecht
- African Stonechat Saxicola torquatus
- Pied Crow Corvus albus
- Variable Sunbird Cinnyris venustus
- Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
- Fulvous Whistling Duck Dendrocygna bicolor
- Augur Buzzard Buteo augur
- Yellow-billed Stork Mycteria ibis
- African Citril Crithagra citrinelloides
- Cape Robin-Chat Dessonornis caffer
- Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybrida
- African Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis melanocrissus
- Lesser Swamp Warbler Acrocephalus gracilirostris
- Maccoa Duck Oxyura maccoa
- Bronze Sunbird Nectarinia kilimensis
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Southern Pochard Netta erythrophthalma
- Black Crake Zapornia flavirostra
- Ruff Calidris pugnax
- Abyssinian Thrush Turdus abyssinicus
- Three-banded Plover Thinornis tricollaris
- Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater Merops oreobates
- Golden-winged Sunbird Drepanorhynchus reichenowi
- Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides
- Cape Wagtail Motacilla capensis
- Malachite Sunbird Nectarinia famosa
- Speckled Mousebird Colius striatus
- African Pipit Anthus cinnamomeus
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Western Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus
- Kenya Sparrow Passer rufocinctus
- Eastern Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris mediocris
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- Red-throated Rock Martin Ptyonoprogne rufigula
- Cape Crow Corvus capensis
- Northern Fiscal Lanius humeralis
- Red-throated Pipit Anthus cervinus
- Purple Heron Ardea purpurea
- Little Swift Apus affinis
- Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus
- Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
- Northern Shoveler Spatula clypeata
- Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus
- Black Saw-wing Psalidoprocne pristoptera
- African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus
- Highland Rush Warbler Bradypterus centralis
- Speke's Weaver Ploceus spekei
- Marabou Stork Leptoptilos crumenifer
- Holub's Golden Weaver Ploceus xanthops
- Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis
- Winding Cisticola Cisticola marginatus
- Garganey Spatula querquedula
- Little Stint Calidris minuta
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
- Pink-backed Pelican Pelecanus rufescens
- Knob-billed Duck Sarkidiornis melanotos
- White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher Melaenornis fischeri
- Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea
- African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus
- Yellow-crowned Canary Serinus flavivertex
- Northern Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris reichenowi
- Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
- Kikuyu White-eye Zosterops kikuyuensis
- Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Singing Cisticola Cisticola cantans
- African Dusky Flycatcher Muscicapa adusta
- White-winged Tern Chlidonias leucopterus
- Bronze Mannikin Spermestes cucullata
- African Marsh Harrier Circus ranivorus
- African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer
- Red-billed Quelea Quelea quelea
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Collared Sunbird Hedydipna collaris
- African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis
- African Black Duck Anas sparsa
- Amethyst Sunbird Chalcomitra amethystina
- Grey-capped Warbler Eminia lepida
- Little Bittern Botaurus minutus
- Black Sparrowhawk Astur melanoleucus
- Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala
- Tropical Boubou Laniarius major
- Eurasian Blackcap Sylvia atricapilla
- Spur-winged Goose Plectropterus gambensis
- Sedge Warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus
- Cape Teal Anas capensis
- Thick-billed Weaver Amblyospiza albifrons
- Superb Starling Lamprotornis superbus
- Lesser Striped Swallow Cecropis abyssinica
- Wire-tailed Swallow Hirundo smithii
- Tacazze Sunbird Nectarinia tacazze
- Spectacled Weaver Ploceus ocularis
- Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
- Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis
- African Snipe Gallinago nigripennis
- Yellow-bellied Waxbill Coccopygia quartinia
- Purple Grenadier Granatina ianthinogaster
- Spur-winged Lapwing Vanellus spinosus
- Yellow-breasted Apalis Apalis flavida
- Cinnamon Bracken Warbler Bradypterus cinnamomeus
- African Openbill Anastomus lamelligerus
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird Chalcomitra senegalensis
- Reichenow's Seedeater Crithagra reichenowi
- Common Buzzard Buteo buteo
- African Firefinch Lagonosticta rubricata
- Northern Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe
- Brimstone Canary Crithagra sulphurata
- Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura
- Red-faced Cisticola Cisticola erythrops
- Black-headed Oriole Oriolus larvatus
- Common Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus
- African Goshawk Aerospiza tachiro
- Rüppell's Robin-Chat Cossypha semirufa
- Red-winged Starling Onychognathus morio
- Rattling Cisticola Cisticola chiniana
- Lesser Moorhen Paragallinula angulata
- Greater Painted-snipe Rostratula benghalensis
- Anteater Chat Myrmecocichla aethiops
- Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava
- Chinspot Batis Batis molitor
- Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis
- Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu Uraeginthus bengalus
- Black-winged Lapwing Vanellus melanopterus
- Northern Pintail Anas acuta
- White-rumped Swift Apus caffer
- Isabelline Wheatear Oenanthe isabellina
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Malagasy Pond Heron Ardeola idae
- Crowned Lapwing Vanellus coronatus
- Black Cuckooshrike Campephaga flava
- Cardinal Woodpecker Dendropicos fuscescens
- Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata
- Black-necked Grebe Podiceps nigricollis
- White-browed Coucal Centropus superciliosus
- Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus
- Mosque Swallow Cecropis senegalensis
- Stout Cisticola Cisticola robustus
- Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio
- Red-collared Widowbird Euplectes ardens
- Mountain Wagtail Motacilla clara
- Black-headed Gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus
- Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus
- Hartlaub's Turaco Tauraco hartlaubi
- Nyanza Swift Apus niansae
- Whinchat Saxicola rubetra
- Mountain Buzzard Buteo oreophilus
- Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula
- Long-crested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis
- African Hobby Falco cuvierii
- Lesser Grey Shrike Lanius minor
- Lesser Jacana Microparra capensis
- Long-toed Lapwing Vanellus crassirostris
- White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus
- Ayres's Hawk-Eagle Hieraaetus ayresii
- Emerald-spotted Wood Dove Turtur chalcospilos
- Ring-necked Dove Streptopelia capicola
- African Rail Rallus caerulescens
- Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis
- Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus bilineatus
- Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo
- White-bellied Tit Melaniparus albiventris
- White-browed Crombec Sylvietta leucophrys
- Chestnut-throated Apalis Apalis porphyrolaema
- Green-headed Sunbird Cyanomitra verticalis
- Garden Warbler Sylvia borin
- White-headed Saw-wing Psalidoprocne albiceps
- Jackson's Widowbird Euplectes jacksoni
- Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris
- African Darter Anhinga rufa
- White-winged Widowbird Euplectes albonotatus
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Chestnut Weaver Ploceus rubiginosus
- Dusky Turtle Dove Streptopelia lugens
- Western House Martin Delichon urbicum
- Grey Wagtail Motacilla cinerea
- Quailfinch Ortygospiza atricollis
- Tree Pipit Anthus trivialis
- Diederik Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius
- White Wagtail Motacilla alba
- African Green Pigeon Treron calvus
- Yellow Bishop Euplectes capensis
- Bateleur Terathopius ecaudatus
- White-browed Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser mahali
- Thick-billed Seedeater Crithagra burtoni
- African Olive Pigeon Columba arquatrix
- Pied Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta
- Mottled Swift Tachymarptis aequatorialis
- Lesser Flamingo Phoeniconaias minor
- White-necked Raven Corvus albicollis
- Yellow-whiskered Greenbul Eurillas latirostris
- Red-tailed Shrike Lanius phoenicuroides
- Parrot-billed Sparrow Passer gongonensis
- Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis
- Eurasian Teal Anas crecca
- Hinde's Babbler Turdoides hindei
- Eastern Grey Woodpecker Dendropicos spodocephalus
- Rufous-breasted Sparrowhawk Accipiter rufiventris
- Golden-breasted Bunting Emberiza flaviventris
- Cardinal Quelea Quelea cardinalis
- Common Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus cyanomelas
- Grey-headed Gull Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus
- Lilac-breasted Roller Coracias caudatus
- Grey-headed Kingfisher Halcyon leucocephala
- African Yellow Warbler Iduna natalensis
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- Little Bee-eater Merops pusillus
- Green-backed Honeybird Prodotiscus zambesiae
- Wattled Starling Creatophora cinerea
- Black-collared Apalis Oreolais pulcher
- Horus Swift Apus horus
- Secretarybird Sagittarius serpentarius
- Goliath Heron Ardea goliath
- Dwarf Bittern Botaurus sturmii
- Sharpe's Longclaw Macronyx sharpei
- Silvery-cheeked Hornbill Bycanistes brevis
- Red-chested Cuckoo Cuculus solitarius
- European Bee-eater Merops apiaster
- Rüppell's Vulture Gyps rueppelli
- Greater Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chalybaeus
- Spotted Crake Porzana porzana
- Kittlitz's Plover Anarhynchus pecuarius
- Village Indigobird Vidua chalybeata
- Little Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza minulla
- Ferruginous Duck Aythya nyroca
- Red-capped Lark Calandrella cinerea
- Temminck's Stint Calidris temminckii
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Manguo Swamp?
January, September and November. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 112 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Manguo Swamp?
264 species, from 15,824 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Manguo Swamp in November?
The most recorded in November: Red-knobbed Coot, Yellow-billed Duck, African Sacred Ibis, White-faced Whistling Duck and Grey Heron.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.