The bird species found in Masai Mara North Conservancy

What are the bird species found in Masai Mara North Conservancy? Masai Mara North conservancy is one of the best spot in Masai Mara National Reserve where most of the bird species are found. It is found out that over 400 species of birds are found within the Mara North Conservancy. Masai Mara North Conservancy is the biggest conservancy in Masai Mara National Reserve with over 30000 hectares making 21% of the whole conservancy in the Northeastern part of the whole National Reserve.

The Masai Mara North conservancy is the most populated part with the largest population of animals and very many bird species and thus this becomes one of the exciting and favorites conservancies that is visited by most of the tourists’ species which is so interesting

Bird species in Masai Mara North Conservancy goes to over 400 bird species which are grouped as passerines and non-passerines and the list of the bird species in the Masai Mara North Conservancy include the following;

One of the bird species in the Masai Mara North Conservancy include the ostriches and the ostriches here include the common ostriches

There are also Grebes bird species in Masai Mara North Conservancy which include little grebe or Dabchick

Other species in Masai Mara North Conservancy include long-crested eagle, lizard buzzard, Wahlberg’s eagle, African Cuckoo Hawk, Egyptian Eagle, black-crested Snake Eagle, African Goshawk, Shikra, African Marsh harrier, Pallid harrier, Augur Buzzard, Verreaux’s Eagle, Martial Eagle, banded snake eagle, African Fish eagle, Tawny eagle, Brown Snake Eagle, Ruppella Griffen Vulture, Hooded Vulture, Bat Hawk, Black Kite, Egyptian Vulture, Black Kite, Nubian Vulture, Egret White-Headed Vulture, African White- Backed Vulture, steppe Eagle, Eurasian Honey Buzzard. These are some of the eagles, hawks, kites, Vultures, and Allies.

The Masai Mara North Conservancy also involves various storks and these include the following yellow-billed stork, black stork, and saddle – Billed stork, white Stork, African open billed stork, and white stork, Abdims, Maraboostork, and wooly-Necked stork among others.

Cormorants are also present in Masai Mara North Conservancy which include reed cormorant and long-tailed cormorant. Others include sparrows and Petronia and these include African Drongo, yellow spotted Petronia, Grey-headed Sparrow, rufous Sparrow chestnut sparrow, pied crow, and the white napped raven. Other species include black-headed Oriole, Eurasian Golden Oriole, African Drongo, Eurasian Golden Oriole, and orioles Superb Starling.

The Masai Mara North Conservancy also houses the starlings and oxpeckers which include Hildebrandt’s starling, greater Blue-eared starling, red-billed Oxpecker, wattled starling, repels long-tailed starling, violet backed starling, and whydahs and Indigo birds, and these include slender-billed greenbul, Cabasnis greenbul, pin-tailed Whydah, yellow-throated leaf love paradise whydah, and Dark-capped bulbul among others.

There are also other bird species which include tree pipit and red-throated pipit, yellow wagtail, African pied wagtail, Yellow-throated Long Claw, Long-billed Pipit, Mountain Wagtail, Bush Pipit, Rosy-breasted Longclaw, Cape Wagtail, Bronze Manikin, cut Throat Finch, Common Waxbill, Melba Finch, grey-Headed Silver, Purple Grenadier, Red-Cheeked Cordon-Blue, yellow Bishop, Fan-tailed widowbird, Mosque Swallow, Common House Martin, Rock Martin, White-headed Saw-wing Barn swallow, Banden Martin Carinal Quelea, Sand Martin, White-headed Saw-Wing, Wired –Tailed swallow Africa, white-browed sparrow Weaver, red-billed buffalo weaver, Speke’s weaver, Chestnut weaver, Vitelline Masked Weaver, Red-billed buffalo-Weaver, Somali short-toed lark among others.

Therefore based on the above, it is good that you choose Masai Mara North Conservancy for the best birding safaris which so interesting