Birds of the Masai Mara

89 Pied Kingfisher 89 African Pied Wagtail 90 Moustached Grass Warbler 90 Common Waxbill 91 BIRDS OF WOODLAND, SCRUB & GARDEN Long-crested Eagle 92 Brown Snake Eagle 92 African Hawk Eagle 93 Scaly Francolin 94 Red-necked Spurfowl 94 Hildebrandt's Francolin 95 Coqui Francolin 96 Helmeted Guineafowl 96 Crested Francolin 97 Laughing Dove 98 Red-eyed Dove 98 Ring-necked Dove 99 Speckled Pigeon 100 African Green Pigeon 101 Emerald-spotted Wood Dove 101 Speckled Mousebird 102 African Grey Hornbill 102 Meyer's Parrot 103 White-browed Coucal 104 Bare-faced Go-away-bird 104 Red-chested Cuckoo 105 Diederik Cuckoo 107 Klaas's Cuckoo 107 Little Bee-eater 107 Striped Kingfisher 108 Woodland Kingfisher 108 Grey-headed Kingfisher 109 Common Scimitarbill 110 Green Wood-hoopoe 111 Hoopoe 111 Greater Honeyguide 112 D'Arnaud's Barbet 113 Lesser Honeyguide 113 Nubian Woodpecker 114 Cardinal Woodpecker 114 Green-backed Woodpecker 115 Black-headed Oriole 116 Tropical Boubou 116 Grey-headed Bushshrike 117 Brown-throated Wattle-eye 118 Chin-spot Batis 118 Black-backed Puffback 119 Grey-backed Fiscal 120 Northern White-crowned Shrike 121 Common Fiscal 121 Common Drongo 122 Northern Black Flycatcher 123 Slate-coloured Boubou 123 Common Bulbul 124 Arrow-marked Babbler 125 Brown-crowned Tchagra 125 African Paradise Flycatcher 126 White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher 127 African Blue Flycatcher 127 Rattling Cisticola 128 Red-faced Crombec 129 Tawny-flanked Prinia 129 Grey-capped Warbler 130 Grey-backed Camaroptera 131 Yellow-breasted Apalis 131 Scarlet-chested Sunbird 132 Collared Sunbird 133 Variable Sunbird 133 White-browed Robin Chat . 134 Ruppell's Starling 134 Greater Blue-eared Starling 135 Hildebrandt's Starling 136 Violet-backed Starling 137 Superb Starling 137 Baglafecht Weaver 138 Village Weaver 138 Spectacled Weaver 138 Purple Grenadier 140 Bronze Mannikin 141 Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu 141 Golden-breasted Bunting 142 Yellow-fronted Canary 142 Pin-tailed Whydah 143 BIRDS OF ACACIA SCRUB Blue-naped Mousebird 144 Abyssinian Scimitarbill 144 Von der Decken's Hornbill 145 African Grey Flycatcher 146 Silverbird 147 White-bellied Canary 147 Grey-capped Social Weaver 148 Speckle-fronted Weaver 148 Vitelline Masked Weaver 149 VILLAGE BIRDS Grey-headed Sparrow 150 Kenya Rufous Sparrow 150 House Sparrow 151 Red-billed Firefinch 152 Village Indigobird 152 Pied Crow 153 FOREST BIRDS Schalow's Turaco 154 Narina Trogon 155 Ross's Turaco 155 Grey-throated Barbet 156 Double-toothed Barbet 156 Black-and-white Casqued Hornbill 157 BIRDS OF THE AIR White-headed Saw-wing 158 Black Saw-wing 158 Eurasian Bee-eater 159 Barn Swallow 160 Wire-tailed Swallow 160 Plain Martin 161 Lesser Striped Swallow 161 Little Swift 162 White-rumped Swift 162 Nyanza Swift 163 Common Swift 163 African Palm Swift 163 NIGHT BIRDS Pearl-spotted Owlet 164 Slender-tailed Nightjar 164 Verreaux's Eagle Owl 165 References and useful resources 166 Acknowledgements and photographic credits 167 List of scientific names 168 Index 171 Short Index inside back cover