MANGUO SWAMP & LIST

KENYA


Region (Nairobi-Naivasha highway), (N)

Lat:00o00´S/00o00´W ha m, swamp

Protected/registered status


Best Time for visit (time visited), entry fees are similar to other reserves, and are charged separately

Birding Site Guide

This swamp lies north of Nairobi-Naivasha highway. It is a freshwater swamp where you get to see some of the palearctic passage migrants like Northern Shoveler (Oct-April), Garganey (Oct-April), Eurasian Marsh Harrier (Sept-April) and Yellow Wagtails (Sept-May). Here, you also get to see like White-backed / Maccoa / White-faced Whistling / Yellow-billed Ducks, Red-knobbed Coots, Common Moorhen, African Jacana, Long-tailed Cormorant, Grey / Black-headed Heron, Yellow-billed / Great White Egret, Grey-crowned Cranes, Egyptian Goose and Whiskered Terns. 


Red-knobbed Coots (Shailesh Kumar Patel)


























 
 

  • Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
  • Long-tailed Cormorant Phalacrocorax africanus
  • Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis
  • Little Egret Egretta garzetta
  • Common Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides
  • Yellow-billed Egret Mesophoyx intermedia
  • Great Egret Casmerodius albus
  • Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
  • Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala
  • Hamerkop Scopus umbretta
  • Yellow-billed Stork Mycteria ibis
  • Sacred Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus
  • Hadada Ibis Bostrychia hagedash
  • Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus
  • Fulvous Whistling Duck Dendrocygna bicolor
  • White-faced Whistling Duck Dendrocygna viduata
  • White-backed Duck Thalassornis leuconotus
  • Spur-winged Goose Plectropterus gambensis
  • Egyptian Goose Alopochen aegyptiacus
  • Garganey Anas querquedula Oct-April
  • Yellow-billed Duck Anas undulata
  • Red-billed Teal Anas erythrorhyncha
  • Hottentot Teal Anas hottentota
  • Northern Shoveler Anas clypeata Oct-April
  • Southern Pochard Netta erythrophthalma. from Southern Africa. Oct-March
  • Maccoa Duck Oxyura maccoa
  • Eurasian Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus Sept-April
  • African Goshawk Accipiter tachiro
  • Augur Buzzard Buteo augur
  • Grey Crowned Crane Balearica regulorum
  • Purple Swamphen Porphyrio porphyrio
  • Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
  • Red-knobbed Coot Fulica cristata
  • African Jacana Actophilornis africanus
  • Greater Painted-snipe Rostratula benghalensis
  • Blacksmith Plover Vanellus armatus
  • Little Stint Calidris minuta Aug-May
  • Ruff Aug-May
  • Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis Aug-April
  • Common Greenshank Sept-April
  • Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos July-May
  • Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
  • Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybrida
  • Speckled Mousebird Colius striatus
  • Plain Martin Riparia paludicola
  • Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica Aug-April
  • Red-rumped Swallow Hirundo daurica
  • Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava Sept-May
  • Grassland Pipit Anthus cinnamomeus
  • Common Fiscal Lanius collaris
  • Cape Robin-Chat Cossypha caffra
  • Hunter's Cisticola Cisticola hunteri
  • Variable Sunbird Nectarinia venusta
  • Northern Double-collared Sunbird Nectarinia preussi
  • Malachite Sunbird Nectarinia famosa
  • Yellow-crowned Canary Serinus canicollis
  • Streaky Seedeater Serinus striolatus
  • Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild
  • Purple Grenadier Uraeginthus ianthinogaster
  • Rufous Sparrow Passer rufocinctus
  • Baglafecht Weaver Ploceus baglafecht
  • Pied Crow Corvus albus
  • Cape Rook Corvus capensis

crowned Cranes, Egyptian Goose and Whiskered Terns. 

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