Birds to See in Kenya in June
60 species listed for June · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
60 bird species on our list for Kenya are recorded regularly in June. Of these, the most often recorded are Egyptian Goose, Fork-tailed Drongo, Pied Crow, Cattle Egret and Helmeted Guineafowl. New this month: Bar-tailed Godwit, Roseate Tern, Black-necked Grebe and Lesser Noddy.
Leaving after last month25
- Common Sandpiper
- Willow Warbler
- Wood Sandpiper
- European Bee-eater
- Yellow Wagtail
- Little Stint
- Ringed Plover
- Ruff
- Hobby
- Golden Oriole
- Western Marsh-harrier
- Cuckoo
- House Martin
- Sand Martin
- Common Swift
- Garden Warbler
- Sedge Warbler
- Black-headed Gull
- Sanderling
- Curlew
- Little Tern
- European Honey-buzzard
- Egyptian Vulture
- Eurasian Oystercatcher
- Grey Parrot
Residents
(53)Recorded all year
Egyptian Goose
Alopochen aegyptiacaLC
Recorded all year
Fork-tailed Drongo
Dicrurus adsimilisLC
Recorded all year
Pied Crow
Corvus albusLC
Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year
Helmeted Guineafowl
Numida meleagrisLC
Recorded all year
Grey Heron
Ardea cinereaLC
Recorded all year
Lesser Striped Swallow
Cecropis abyssinicaLC
Recorded all year
Common Ostrich
Struthio camelusLC
Recorded all year
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
Purple Grenadier
Granatina ianthinogasterLC
Recorded all year
African Jacana
Actophilornis africanusLC
Recorded all year
Blue-naped Mousebird
Urocolius macrourusLC
Recorded all year
Hoopoe
Upupa epopsLC
Recorded all year
Little Egret
Egretta garzettaLC
Recorded all year
House Sparrow
Passer domesticusLC
Recorded all year
Secretarybird
Sagittarius serpentariusEN
Recorded all year
White-bellied Bustard
Eupodotis senegalensisLC
Recorded all year
Great Cormorant
Phalacrocorax carboLC
Recorded all year
Little Grebe
Tachybaptus ruficollisLC
Recorded all year
Glossy Ibis
Plegadis falcinellusLC
Recorded all year
Greater Flamingo
Phoenicopterus roseusLC
Recorded all year
Squacco Heron
Ardeola ralloidesLC
Recorded all year
Moorhen
Gallinula chloropusLC
Recorded all year
Red-and-yellow Barbet
Trachyphonus erythrocephalusLC
Recorded all year
African Pygmy-falcon
Polihierax semitorquatusLC
Recorded all year
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Recorded all year
Somali Ostrich
Struthio molybdophanesVU
Recorded all year
Crowned Eagle
Stephanoaetus coronatusNT
Recorded all year
Gull-billed Tern
Gelochelidon niloticaLC
Recorded all year
Little Weaver
Ploceus luteolusLC
Recorded all year
Spur-winged Goose
Plectropterus gambensisLC
Recorded all year
Avocet
Recurvirostra avosettaLC
Recorded all year
Purple Heron
Ardea purpureaLC
Recorded all year
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Recorded all year
Lanner Falcon
Falco biarmicusLC
Recorded all year
Greenshank
Tringa nebulariaLC
Recorded all year
White-winged Tern
Chlidonias leucopterusLC
Recorded all year
Fulvous Whistling-Duck
Dendrocygna bicolorLC
Recorded all year
Little Bittern
Ixobrychus minutusLC
Recorded all year
Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopusLC
Recorded all year
Curlew Sandpiper
Calidris ferrugineaNT
Recorded all year
Peregrine Falcon
Falco peregrinusLC
Recorded all year
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Recorded all year
Barn Owl
Tyto albaLC
Recorded all year
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Recorded all year
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Larus fuscusLC
Recorded all year
Magpie Shrike
Urolestes melanoleucusLC
Recorded all year
Senegal Thick-knee
Burhinus senegalensisLC
Regularly Apr–Feb
Common Tern
Sterna hirundoLC
Recorded all year
African Marsh Harrier
Circus ranivorusLC
Recorded all year
Alpine Swift
Tachymarptis melbaLC
Recorded all year
Common Quail
Coturnix coturnixLC
Regularly Apr–Jan
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Recorded all year
Summer visitors
(4)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Winter visitors
(1)Present outside the breeding season
Passage migrants
(2)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
Data: EOD – eBird Observation Dataset (Cornell Lab of Ornithology), accessed via GBIF.org, CC BY 4.0. Records from 2019–2024, aggregated and filtered by Birdfact. How these lists are made