While bird watching tourism is very popular in other parts of Kenya, Kisumu seems to be lugging behind with avian tourism and Kisumu safari companies aren’t keen enough to promote birdwatching in Kisumu in spite of organizations like Nature Kenya and other nature conservation partners who have even offered training courses for the community tour guides at Dunga.
Bird watching on Lake Victoria is a very rewarding experience to birders considering that most of the Lake Victoria biome restricted bird species are found here. With its so many varied habitats. The most notable one being the papyrus swamps along the shores of Lake Victoria. This is home to several birds not easily found anywhere else. Your birding safari in Kisumu and on Lake Victoria will make you to spot some species like the
During this trip, we’ll explore the lakeshore for its wide variety of species before we contiue to the Ahero Rice Fields for waders and a few grassland birds. We’ll then proceed to the Nyabondo escarpment so far, it’s the home to the Red-winged Prinia in Kenya. While on this sector, we will also look for the Bare-faced Go-away-bird in on the plain of Kavirondo that is dotted with balanite trees. By the end of the day, we’re likey to have spotted about 148 bird species.
Here are some of the key highlight species; Blue-headed Coucal, Red-chested Sunbird, Purple-banded Sunbird, Eastern Grey Plantain-eater, Rufous-chested Swallow, Beaudouin’s Snake-Eagle, Swamp Flycatcher, Greater Swamp Warbler, White-winged Swamp Warbler, Papyrus Yellow Warbler, Papyrus Gonolek, Black-headed Gonolek, Papyrus Canary, Woodland Kingfisher, Slender-billed Weaver, Northern Brown-throated Weaver, Long-toed Lapwing, Double-toothed Barbet, Black-billed Barbet, African Marsh-Harrier, Carruther’s Cisticola, Winding Cisticola, Red-faced Cisticola, Water Thick-knee, Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird, Red-winged Prinia, and many more.
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