Helm Field Guide to Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania by Dale A. Zimmerman

Finch Hattons Camp
(And Close Vicinity)
Compiled by Bob Barber 1998-2002

Common names according to Helm Field Guide to Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania by Dale A. Zimmerman, Donald A. Turner, David J. Pearson

Common Name	Month Observed (Note- not always recorded, though present)
Yellow-billed Stork	07
Wooly-necked Stork	07
Saddle-billed Stork	07
Marabou Stork	04, 06, 07
Grey Crowned Crane	04
Hadada Ibis	04,06,08,10,12
Sacred Ibis	06,07,12
Black-headed Heron	06
Hammerkop	06,08,12
Squacco Heron	06,07,08,12
Green-backed or Striated Heron	02,04,06,07,08,10,12
Yellow-billed or Intermediate Egret	08
Cattle Egret	07,12
Little Egret	07,08,10,12
Long-tailed Cormorant	08
African Darter	06,08,12
Egyptian Goose	02,04,06,07,08,10,12
Water Thick-knee	04,06,10,12
Blacksmith Plover	06,08
Greater Painted-snipe	04
Black Crake	04.06,10
African Jacana	04,06,07,10,12
Helmeted Guineafowl	06
Kori Bustard	12
Brown-hooded Kingfisher	04,06,07,08,12
Giant Kingfisher	04,06,07,08,10
Pied Kingfisher	02,04,06,07,08,10,12
Little Bee-eater	06
Blue-cheeked Bee-eater	02,12
Lilac-breasted Roller	02,04,06,07,08,10,12
Eurasian Roller	02,04,12
Green Wood-hoopoe	07,12
Violet Wood-hoopoe	02,07,08
Common Scimitarbill	02,07
Von Der Decken's Hornbill	02,04,06,07,08,10,12
Zanzibar Sombre Greenbul	07
Stripe-cheeked Greenbul	06,08
Yellow-bellied Greenbul	10
Northern Brownbul	04
Retz's Helmet-shrike	07,08
Northern White-crowned Shrike	02,06,07,08
Black-headed Batis	08
PaleFlycatcher	02,04,08,12
Ashy Flycatcher	06,07,10
African Paradise Flycatcher	02,04,06,07,08,10,12
Nightingale	12
Variable Sunbird	06,08,12
Purple-banded Sunbird	12
Hunter's Sunbird	02,04,06,07,08,10,12
Amethyst Sunbird	02,04,06,07,08,10,12
African Golden Weaver	04,07,08,10,12
Jackson's Golden-backed Weaver	12
Black-headed or Village Weaver	04,12
Lesser Masked Weaver	04
Chestnut Weaver	04,12
Common Waxbill	10
Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu	06,07,12
Blue-capped Cordon-bleu	06
African Silverbill	02,04
Grey-headed Silverbill	12
Black-faced Waxbill	08
Bronze Mannikin	07

Common Name	Month Observed (Note- not always recorded, though present)
African Harrier-hawk	12
African Crowned Eagle	02,04,06,07,08,10,12
Martial Eagle	06
African Fish Eagle	02,04,06,07,08,10,12
Bateleur	06
Pallid Harrier	04
Ovambo Sparrowhawk	02
Taita Falcon	04
African Orange-bellied Parrot	12
Black-faced Sandgrouse	06
Laughing Dove	08
Red-eyed Dove	04,08,12
African Green Pigeon	06
Emerald-spotted Wood Dove	02,04,06,07,08,10,12
White-bellied Go-away Bird	02,04,06,12
Eurasian or Common Cuckoo	04
White-browed Coucal	06,07,08,12
Mottled Swift	04,06
Blue-naped Mousebird	06,08
Speckled Mousebird	12
Malachite Kingfisher	02,04,06,07,08,10,12
Striped Kingfisher	08,10
Grey-headed Kingfisher	02,04,06,07,08,10,12
Red-billed Hornbill	07,10,12
African Grey Hornbill	02,04,06,07,08,10,12
Spot-flanked Barbet	04,06,07,08,10
D'Arnaud's Barbet	06
Cardinal Woodpecker	01,04,07,12
African Pied Wagtail	02,04,06,07,08,10,12
Lesser Striped Swallow	04,12
Wire-tailed Swallow	07,12
Common House Martin	12
Common Bulbul	06,07,12
Superb Starling	06,07
Black-headed Oriole	07
Common Drongo	06,07
Black-crowned Tchagra	08
Sulphur-breasted Bush-shrike	06
Grey-headed Bush-shrike	06,08,10
Red-tailed or Isabelline Shrike	07
White-crested Helmet-shrike	06
Abyssinian White-eye	06,07,08,12
Northern Crombec	06,12
Grey-backed Camaroptera	06,10
African Penduline Tit	06
Beautiful Sunbird	06
Black-bellied Sunbird	02,04,06,07,08,10,12
Collared Sunbird	06,07
Scarlet-chested Sunbird	06,12
Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird	12
Grey-headed Sparrow	04,06
Red-billed Buffalo-weaver	04,12
Village or Common Indigobird	04
Red-billed Quelea	07,10,12
Crimson-rumped Waxbill	04,07,08
Yellow-bellied Waxbill	08
Jameson's Firefinch	04
Red-billed Firefinch	04,06,07,08,12

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