Have an early morning breakfast and drive to Lake Naivasha via Limuru ponds to spot birds like; Maccoa duck, herons, Southern pochard, egrets, Northern shoveller, Red-knobbed coot, Moorhen, and more others.
Lake Naivasha national park is a great scenic national park located in the great rift valley; just 90kms away northwest of Nairobi. The park is one of the best birding sites in Kenya with over 400 bird species including globally threatened species, endangered species, rare species, migratory species, near threatened, endangered and critically endangered birds.
Below is a list of bird species found in Lake Naivasha national park; Yellow-billed Duck, Little Grebe, Red-billed Duck, Northern Pintail, Southern Pochard, Greater Flamingo, Tufted Duck, Coqui Francolin, Maccoa Duck, Laughing Dove, Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove, Namaqua Dove, Nightjar, Lesser Moorhen, Eurasian Moorhen, Red-chested Cuckoo, Black Cuckoo, Common Cuckoo, Common Swift, African Crake, Nyanza Swift, Gray Crowned-Crane, Black-winged Stilt, Senegal Lapwing, Black-bellied Plover, Long-toed Lapwing, Crowned Lapwing, Lesser Sand-Plover, African Jacana, Greater Sand-Plover, Whimbrel, Bar-tailed Godwit, Common Snipe, Common Greenshank, African Snipe, Black-tailed Godwit, Ruddy Turnstone, Gray-hooded Gull, Whiskered Tern, Black-headed Gull, African Skimmer, African Openbill, Yellow-billed Stork, Black Stork, Long-tailed Cormorant, Glossy Ibis, African Sacred Ibis, Hadada Ibis, Secretary bird, Eurasian Spoonbill, Osprey, African Spoonbill, Steppe Eagle, Imperial Eagle, Verreaux’s Eagle, African Fish-Eagle, Augur Buzzard, Grasshopper Buzzard, Crowned Hornbill, Malachite Kingfisher, Madagascar Bee-eater, European Bee-eater, African Pygmy-Kingfisher, Eurasian Marsh-Harrier among others.
After a birding trip to this amazing rift valley lake, drive to your lodge for dinner and overnight stay.
