4248 Tawny eagle awaits its turn on a kill
4249 Marabou often rest in this position
4250 The Eastern (pale) chanting goshawk is a very common raptor throughout dry or arid areas of Kenya and Tanzania
4251 The year round resident Egyptian goose grazes on land and in water
4262 A marabou manages to land on top of an acacia
4253 A speckled mousebird with its amazingly long tail
4254 The superb starling is widespread in semi arid grassland and open woodland in most of Northern East Africa
4255 Hildebrandt's starling is endemic to Central and Southern Kenya and Northen Tanzania. Note the red eye
4256 Ruppell's griffon has more striking markings, and a lighter eye and bill than the white-backed vulture
4257 This scraggy looking specimen is a male Northern wheatear. A winter visitor from Palearctic regions
4258 White-bellied bustards favour open dry grassland, with some tree and bush cover. This is a male
4259 The three-banded plover - one white and two black bands, has a very distinctive red ring around its eyes
4260 The nubian woodpecker. The female, shown here has less red on the head than the male
4261 The aptly named little bee-eater is only six inches long. Common along the rivers and streams in the Mara
4262 Grey flight feathers show this is a female Bataleur. A type of short-tailed eagle which rocks from side to side in flight
4263 The woodland kingfisher is often found far from water. it hunts insects, lizards and frogs from a perch in a tree
4264 The graceful soaring flight of a lappet-faced vulture
4265 The Striped kingfisher eats mostly grasshoppers but also other insects rodents and snakes. It swoops from a perch
4266 Not often seen steppe eagle. The gape extends to the rear edge of dark eye
4267 White-backed vulture landing on a carcass. Note dark eye and dark bill
4268 Lappet-faced vulture. The biggest and strongest able to tear open a carcass
4269 Ruppell's long-tailed starling. Has a white eye. Pretty common in wooded areas
4270 Immature grey-headed kingfisher. The beak will turn red. Another insect eater
4271 Immature white-headed vulture. Widespread but quite scarce large birds