🇰🇪Animals recorded in Kenya

Which animals have been recorded in Kenya? 127,594 occurrence records cover 1,200+ species. The most-recorded are listed below, with what the record pattern says about each one. 131 is the most-recorded animal class; the leading species records include Common Bulbul, Little Free-tailed Bat, Fork-tailed Drongo.

• 127,594 records
• 1,200+ species
• 51 classes

Country evidence passport

The most-recorded species in this dataset include Common Bulbul, Little Free-tailed Bat, Fork-tailed Drongo. Use the country list as evidence of recorded wildlife, then open a species to compare its records across other countries and months. It is not a complete habitat or population census.

Most-recorded animals in Kenya

	Animal	Group	Records
	Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus	Aves Pycnonotidae	1,179
	Little Free-tailed Bat Chaerephon pumilus	Mammalia Molossidae	1,099
	Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis	Aves Dicruridae	994
	Zena's Brush-furred Rat Lophuromys zena	Mammalia Muridae	842
	House Crow Corvus splendens	Aves Corvidae	841
	Jackson's Praomys Praomys jacksoni	Mammalia Muridae	840
	Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus	Aves Ploceidae	828
	Black-crowned Tchagra Tchagra senegalus	Aves Malaconotidae	805
	Ring-necked Dove Streptopelia capicola	Aves Columbidae	802
	Round Winged Orange Tip Colotis euippe	Insecta Pieridae	799
	Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava	Aves Cisticolidae	775
	Vine Leaf Vagrant Eronia cleodora	Insecta Pieridae	763
	Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove Turtur chalcospilos	Aves Columbidae	719
	African Palm-Swift Cypsiurus parvus	Aves Apodidae	707
	Plain Orange Tip Colotis eucharis	Insecta Pieridae	688
	White-browed Coucal Centropus superciliosus	Aves Cuculidae	673
	Sombre Greenbul Andropadus importunus	Aves Pycnonotidae	662
	African Pied Wagtail Motacilla aguimp	Aves Motacillidae	652
	Speckled Mousebird Colius striatus	Aves Coliidae	638
	Bushveld Purple Tip Colotis ione	Insecta Pieridae	635
	Black-bellied Starling Notopholia corrusca	Aves Sturnidae	624
	Yellow-fronted Canary Crithagra mozambica	Aves Fringillidae	620
	Olive Sunbird Cyanomitra olivacea	Aves Nectariniidae	593
	Black-backed Puffback Dryoscopus cubla	Aves Malaconotidae	589
	Amethyst Sunbird Chalcomitra amethystina	Aves Nectariniidae	539
	Plain Reed Frog Hyperolius viridiflavus	Amphibia Hyperoliidae	532
	Painted Dwarf Gecko Lygodactylus picturatus	Squamata Gekkonidae	526
	Mahnert's Ridged Frog Ptychadena mahnerti	Amphibia Ptychadenidae	520
	Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata	Aves Columbidae	517
	Common Hairstreak Hypolycaena philippus	Insecta Lycaenidae	503
	Small Salmon Arab Colotis amata	Insecta Pieridae	498
	Striped Kingfisher Halcyon chelicuti	Aves Alcedinidae	473
	African Black-headed Oriole Oriolus larvatus	Aves Oriolidae	472
	Red-cheeked Cordonbleu Uraeginthus bengalus	Aves Estrildidae	458
	Sundevall's Roundleaf Bat Hipposideros caffer	Mammalia Hipposideridae	446
	Hadada Ibis Bostrychia hagedash	Aves Threskiornithidae	443
	Zanzibar Boubou Laniarius sublacteus	Aves Malaconotidae	439
	Buquet's Vagrant Nepheronia buquetii	Insecta Pieridae	425
	Axiocerses perion	Insecta Lycaenidae	417
	Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura	Aves Cisticolidae	411
	Lizard Buzzard Kaupifalco monogrammicus	Aves Accipitridae	410
	Purple-banded Sunbird Cinnyris bifasciatus	Aves Nectariniidae	401
	Northern Brownbul Phyllastrephus strepitans	Aves Pycnonotidae	400
	Gold-banded Forester Euphaedra neophron	Insecta Nymphalidae	392
	Aruba Dam Reed Frog Hyperolius glandicolor	Amphibia Hyperoliidae	391
	Gray-headed Bushshrike Malaconotus blanchoti	Aves Malaconotidae	390
	Wahlberg's Striped Skink Trachylepis wahlbergii	Squamata Scincidae	387
	Christmas Butterfly Papilio demodocus	Insecta Papilionidae	381
	Eurasian Golden Oriole Oriolus oriolus	Aves Oriolidae	379
	Blue Spotted Arab Colotis phisadia	Insecta Pieridae	374
	Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica	Aves Hirundinidae	363
	Benguella Grassland Frog Ptychadena anchietae	Amphibia Ptychadenidae	359
	Wahlberg's epauletted fruit bat Epomophorus wahlbergi	Mammalia Pteropodidae	341
	Mediterranean fruit fly Ceratitis capitata	Insecta Tephritidae	341
	Angolan free-tailed bat Mops condylurus	Mammalia Molossidae	338
	White-browed Robin-Chat Cossypha heuglini	Aves Muscicapidae	328
	High-casqued Chameleon Trioceros hoehnelii	Squamata Chamaeleonidae	325
	Bronze mannikin Lonchura cucullata	Aves Estrildidae	317
	Gray-headed Kingfisher Halcyon leucocephala	Aves Alcedinidae	317
	Subdesert Toad Sclerophrys xeros	Amphibia Bufonidae	313