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View, download or print reports, checklists from Kenya Birdfinder
The Kenya Birdfinder is part of an internet-based network of databases for the collection of bird observation worldwide.
Kenya Birdfinder seeks to record bird observations as a source of information to help us understand birds on a local, national and international scale. The database will enable you to store and manage your own observations, view, download or print reports, checklists or maps of your choice and make a contribution to bird conservation in Kenya by submitting your records.
Join the system and submit your bird observation online. All you need to do is to log on to www.worldbirds.org/kenya and register your personal details to gain access to all the sites, pages and range of tools as provided in the system
The system will enable you to explore different locations around Kenya and find out what birds have been seen and when and where they were recorded. As well as contributing your own observations you will be able to view other people’s records, which may influence your next birding trip.
The records that you add to the Kenya Birdfinder will provide a comprehensive picture on what is happening to Kenya’s avifauna in terms of their abundance trends and distribution.
Kenya Birdfinder is coordinated by Nature Kenya, the Ornithology Department of the National Museums of Kenya, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB, in UK) and BirdLife International.
For any further information please contact office@naturekenya.org
Bird-ringing
Nature Kenya coordinates bird-ringing (banding) programmes in East Africa. Birds are carefully caught in fine mist-nets, measured, weighed, and fitted with a lightweight aluminium ring bearing a number and an address. The birds are then released.
Birds ringed in Nairobi gardens have been observed for up to ten years. Birds migrating from Europe and Asia to Africa each year have been recovered from as far away as Siberia.
There is also an active ringing group in Nairobi, training young Kenyans in this important ornithological skill.
Contacts: Bernard Amakobe <scopumbre@yahoo.com>
What is birdwatching?
Birdwatching is part science, part sport, part art.
People have always enjoyed birds’ songs, colours and power of flight.
Bird-watchers are people who enjoy looking at birds, or hearing them, without hunting or catching them.
Birders, as bird-watchers are usually referred to, want to know the names of the birds, and how to tell them apart, they admire the beauty of birds and observe their habits.
Experienced birders use binoculars to see birds high in the trees or out on the water, and books such as ‘Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania’ by Zimmerman, Turner and Pearson to identify them. More and more Kenyans are becoming keen birdwatchers, and all over the world bird-watching is a fastgrowing hobby.
