Friday, February 02, 2007

Animals We've Seen

I'm sure I'm going to miss something, but I'm going to try to list them all from my journal:

First, the mammals:

  1. Topi
  2. Rothschild Giraffe
  3. Reticulated Giraffe
  4. Maasai Giraffe
  5. Grevy Zebra
  6. Plains Zebra
  7. Baboon
  8. Warthog
  9. Impala
  10. Waterbuck
  11. Spotted Hyena
  12. Striped Hyena
  13. Elephant
  14. Cape Buffalo
  15. Lion
  16. Gerenuk
  17. Leopard
  18. Dik Dik
  19. Grant's Gazelle
  20. Thompson's Gazelle
  21. Blue Sykes Monkey
  22. Eland
  23. Wildebeest
  24. Black Backed Jackal
  25. Golden backed Jackal
  26. Hippo
  27. Hartabeest
  28. Steinbok
  29. African Wildcat
  30. Bat-Eared Fox
  31. Rat

I'm POSITIVE I'm missing a lot of mammals........

And now for the birds (birders, please excuse the bad spelling, I think some words were lost in translation...)

  1. Scared ibis
  2. cattle eagret
  3. marabou stork
  4. black kyte
  5. white-something kyte (that divebombed me!)
  6. helmeted guinea fowl
  7. vulturine guinea fowl
  8. yellow necked spur fowl
  9. white browed sparrow weaver
  10. black faced sand grouse
  11. white beared buffalo weaver
  12. speckled mouse bird
  13. yellow-billed hornbill
  14. red-billed hornbill
  15. secretary bird
  16. abdomen stork
  17. 4 kinds of vultures
  18. greater flamingo
  19. lesser flamingo
  20. warblers
  21. hoopoe's
  22. blacksmith plover
  23. snake eagle
  24. donald's barbet (kind of looked like donald trump... bad hair day)
  25. 2 banded courser
  26. abyssynian roller
  27. lilac breasted roller
  28. other rollers
  29. starlings
  30. black wingled stilt
  31. kestrel
  32. ostrich
  33. buzzard
  34. morning dove
  35. lark
  36. cory bustard
  37. fisher's lovebird
  38. european stork
  39. lappet-faced vulture
  40. bateleur
  41. marshall eagle
  42. superb starling
  43. dark chanting goshawk
  44. eurasian roller

WOW. I know I've missed lots of birds, but those are all I could remember by the time I got back to my accommodations.

We saw quite a few lizards as well, but I don't know my lizards. Oh! We saw 2 green mamba's, too.

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