Nairobi National Park Birding Day Tour

NAIROBI NATIONAL PARK BIRDING DAY TOUR

Trip duration

1 day

DAY 1: NAIROBI NATIONAL PARK 

We shall start the Nairobi National Park Birding Day Tour from your hotel or house. Our guide shall pick you up and drive to the park’s entrance gate. You may spot some few roadside birds during the drive to the national park. Enjoy the culture and rhythm of Nairobi City, as you drive along.

Our main birding adventure will then commence as we sample the various habitats within the park. Most of the birding will be done from the vehicle, but some designated picnic areas allow birdwatching on foot. 

During our birdwatching drive, we shall enjoy many different roads, across the savannah grasslands, around local wetlands and also inside the park’s forest. We shall also visit the famous ivory burning site, a spot that is quite popular on our Nairobi National Park Birding Day Tours.

Nairobi National Park is one of the best birdwatching destinations in the world. The park and the neighbouring areas have a birds checklist of over 500 species. This is spiced up by a huge array of mammals and reptiles, which we shall enjoy during the birding tour. Nairobi National Park is also famous for being the only national park within a capital city. The park is located just 7 kilometres from the city centre, making it a superb urban park. It covers an area of about 117 square kilometres.  

We shall then drop you off back to your hotel or other desired spot within the city. This marks the end to our exciting Nairobi National Park Birding Day Tour. 

Highlight birds

Hartlaub’s Turaco, Kikuyu White-eye, Pale White-eye, Northern Pied Babbler, Crested Francolin, Shelley’s Francolin, Hartlaub’s Bustard, White-bellied Bustard, Martial Eagle, Long-crested Eagle, Ruppell’s Griffon Vulture, White-backed Vulture, Red-billed Teal/ Duck, African Water Rail, Malachite Kingfisher, Striped Kingfisher, Kittlitz’s Plover, Three-banded Plover, Long-toed Lapwing, Spur-winged Lapwing, Pangani Longclaw, Long-billed Pipit, Sentinel Lark, Brown-backed Woodpecker, White-headed Barbet (Snowy Barbet), Spot-flanked Barbet, Highland Rush Warbler, Lesser Swamp Warbler, Moustached Grass Warbler, Banded Parisoma, Siffling Cisticola, Winding Cisticola, Singing Cisticola, Red-faced Cisticola, Pectoral-patch Cisticola, Croaking Cisticola, Cinnamon-breasted Bunting, White-winged Widowbird, Jackson’s Widowbird, Red-cowled Widowbird, Yellow-crowned Bishop, African Quailfinch, Spotted Thick-knee, African Openbill, Yellow-billed Stork, Hamerkop, African Darter, Dusky Turtle Dove, Green-backed Honeybird, Pallid Honeyguide, Red-throated Tit, White-bellied Tit, Banded Martin, Kenya Rufous Sparrow

Highlight mammals

Maasai Giraffe, Common Hippopotamus, Common Warthog, Common Zebra, Grant’s Gazelle, Thomson’s Gazelle, Bohor Reedbuck, Mountain Reedbuck, Coke’s Hartebeest, Common Waterbuck, Defassa Waterbuck, Common Wildebeest, Common Impala, Common Eland, Bushbuck, Suni, African Buffalo, Olive Baboon, Vervet Monkey, Mt. Kenya Kolb’s Monkey/ Sykes’s Monkey, Cheetah, Leopard, African Lion, Serval, Spotted Hyena, Black-backed Jackal, Slender Mongoose, Bush Hyrax, Southern Tree Hyrax, Ochre Bush Squirrel, Wahlberg’s Epauletted Fruit Bat, White Rhino, Black Rhino

Highlight reptiles and amphibians 

Nile Crocodile, Leopard Tortoise, Serrated Hinged Terrapin, Marsh Terrapin, Common Striped Skink, Kenya Red-headed Rock Agama, Gregory’s Blue-headed Tree Agama, Jackson’s Chameleon, Puff Adder, Black-necked Spitting Cobra, Egyptian Cobra, Battersby’s Green Snake, Nile Rocket Frog, Anchieta’s Rocket Frog, Guttural Toad, Senegal Kassina, Plimpton’s Caco, Scheffler’s Puddle Frog

Habitats covered

Savannah, Dry Upland Forest, Wetlands

Photographic opportunities

Excellent

Special moments

Kenya’s endemic birds, Visit to the historic Ivory Burning Site, African Big 5 mammals